Some web projects from the 1990s are preserved here for historical purposes.
They are only partially functional in contemporary browsers and screen resolutions due to their reliance on outdated technologies such as Flash, Real, and VRML, or because they access data from external websites that no longer exist. However, they remain aesthetically and politically intriguing as media art from that era in which I participated.
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Absorber (1996)
absorber (1996, -> browse it, made for Mosaic Netscape & IE + VRML plugin), in coop with Herbert W. Franke
Synopsis: In 1996, I had the privilege of being „Artist in Residence“ at the then MLM-Medienlabor München, an art organization of the Siemens Kulturstiftung under the direction of Austrian artist and filmmaker Manu Luksch.
My project idea was to use the software Mathematica as an aesthetic apparatus to discover formulas whose visualization resists conventional image expectations. These formulas were then to be transformed into 3D models, accessible via the internet using the then-new VRML technology – a transition from mathematical calculus into navigable data space. In addition, these models were to be dynamically enriched with textures drawn from the web sources of friendly art websites, so that the image would never be finished, but held instead in the flux of network logic. The entire project was presented on its own website.
The aim was not to assert the principle of „networking“ underlying the still-young internet of that time, but to demonstrate it experimentally – connection as procedure, not as metaphor.
The formulas were developed in collaboration with the hard science fiction author Herbert W. Franke, who was living and working in Munich at the time.
Credits: „abs or ber“ done by alf altendorf at the MLM-MediaLabMunich, 2-7/96 (artist in residence)
transfered to thing and silverserver after the closedown of Medialab, 3/97
models (marked as ”frank“) are based on mathematical experiments by herbert w. franke
textures are delivered on the fly by silverserver.co.at , thing.at & mlm.extern.lrz-muenchen.de
thanks for good thoughts by ”stalin’s organs” manu luksch & armin medosch
„serveral“ ideas and inputs by max kossatz and oskar obereder
RGP (1996)
rpk (1996, -> browse it, made for Netscape Navigator)
Videonachrichtennetzwerk (Website)
MIT VIDEO ZU ARBEITEN RESULTIERTE AUS DER ENTSCHEIDUNG/IM ÜBERBAU ZU KÄMPFEN UND NICHT/WIE ES VIELE ZU EINEM BESTIMMTEN ZEITPUNKT TATEN/IN DIE FABRIK ZU GEHEN/DAS MAG ERST MAL EINFACHER GEWESEN SEIN/WAR ABER LANGFRISTIG ERGIEBIGER/ZU EINEM ZEITPUNKT/AN DEM ES KEINE WIRKLICHE HOFFNUNG AUF EINEN ZUSAMMENBRUCH DES SYSTEMS DURCH DEN KLASSENKAMPF GIBT/SCHEINT ES UNS SINNVOLLER/DAS SYSTEM ÜBER SEINE DÄCHER/STATT ÜBER SEINE FUNDAMENTE ANZUGREIFEN UND DEN IDEOLOGISCHEN ÜBERBAU/EIN DACH WIE DAS FERNSEHEN ZU SPRENGEN/ HEUTE KANN MAN AUCH EINFACH DURCH DIE TÜR REINGEHEN/76/UPDATE 96
Lokal/Fernsehen statt Pokal/Fernsehen
Artists& INFOS/FEATURES/ANALYSEN/ALFALTENDORF/FATIHAYDOU/
LINDABILDA/CAROLADERTNIG/BARBARADENK/INESDOUJAK/SANDRODROSCHL/MARTINEBNER/
MICHAELFANIZADEL/PETERGRABHER/DANEJEROUS/THOMASMADERSBACHER/
ARIANEMÜLLER/BARBARAREBACH/FERAKUSCHAN/UTV/
Strobe (1998)
STROBE (1998, -> browse it, made for Netscape Navigator & MS Internet Explorer)
Here´s the television production connected to the website (thanks Manu Luksch for archiving)
Rivers & Bridges (1996)
Live Website for the project Rivers & Bridges – ORF Kunstradio & Ars Electronica (1996, offline)
Synopsis: The website functioned as a dynamic online interface to the Rivers & Bridges broadcast, changing continuously in tandem with the transmissions – a live structure rather than a static representation. It was online for 15 hours, from September 4–5, 1996. The site provided background information, additional audio material, etc., but precisely because of this dynamic quality, it resisted archiving and is therefore not to be found in the Internet Archive. Lost in Space 😉
Open Circuit 2 (1995)
Open Circuit 2, proposed Website for the AV & Knowledge- Inventory of Austrian Media Art (for Hilus 1995, offline)
