Zoran Srdić Janežič features seven multiples of his body with a pig’s head, rather dramatically heralding the final statue of a pig’s body with the artist’s head made of fat; the author is intrigued by the material immediacy, whereby fat symbolizes motherhood, fertility and nutrition.

Srdić Janežič utilises the multiplication of his body to challenge the idea of individuality. The latter is not a uniform concept, ready to be presented with a visual depiction of corporeality; contrary to the common notion, individuality is always dissected and disharmonized.

There is also a side-product of creating the piglet in “Maya”, computer graphics software for 3D DIY printing, namely an animated video featuring a virtual pig which sublimates the author’s animalistic nature.

“Every person has his/her own ‘yawp’, stuck between the body and intangible sound, lying beyond the boundaries of linguistics, semantics and logic.”

http://sites.google.com/site/zoransrdic/

http://gulag.si/

Biography

Zoran Srdić Janežič is an academic sculptor, visual artist, video artist, puppeteer and intermedia artist. He is interested in humor, which he uses to emphasize neuralgic points of our daily lives. He often includes methods for making puppets in sculpture and uses them in performances. As a performer, he derives from the topic of public sculptures and their function in the public space, from the body or from public interventions.

Additive technologies are nowadays featuring on the market in the form of three-dimensional 3D printers. These allow us to print a three-dimensional product – a 3D model previously designed in a computer environment.

One of the unique traits of additive technologies lies in their independency from geometric shapes, as it is possible to manufacture any kind of product (an assembled product or a functional mechanism) in only one stage, regardless of the type of product or its purpose; we can create either a study model for operational planning, a dream car prototype, a ring, a cup or a lamp for our living room.

www.ortotip.com

Serendipity deals with the accident of finding something good or useful while not specifically searching for it. This project is about true coincidence. As opposed to Pseudo-Random Number Generators a Zener diode is used to create true random numbers. It is easy to use the diode noise as a source of true randomness and inexpensive to construct. The data collection is equally simple through a computer sound-card http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalanche_diode. All output (texts, images, sounds) of this project is based on true random numbers. According to the random numbers, the sound, the colour of the sound and the volume of the sound are varied. Thus, an improvised piece of music is created. The sound installation refers to the concept of aleatory music, based on aspects of chance and improvisation, as used by John Cage, Pierre Boulez, and Iannis Xenakis.

http://jeron.org/happy-accident/

Dingliebe (Love of Things) is about reflection, perception and the competition between two languages mediating complexity. One is science. The other one is the language of art which has to understand science but doesn‘t want to become it. The idea of what good science is or should be, the images of science and scientificity, are difficult to grasp but no less significant for it.
According to the materials used, the sound, the colour of the sound and the volume of the sound are varied. Thus, an improvised piece of music is created from the most simple parts. The sound installation refers to the concept of aleatory music, based on aspects of chance and improvisation, as used by John Cage, Pierre Boulez, and Iannis Xenakis.

Description of the project and images: http://jeron.org/dingliebe/

Guttenberg’s printing machine invention is perceived as a cornerstone of the subsequent development of Linguistics and Grammar. A printer soon becomes a reproductive medium for spreading knowledge; it fosters the development of reading and writing cultures and also lays foundations for primary school education.
Today’s New Age reproductive machine is the invention of computer technology; it permits access to a genuine bilateral communication while integrating not only linguistic but also imaging information. Additional complexity then arises at every subsequent dimensional level.
The author first came in contact with computer in the Eighties and ventured into the world of expressive and animated drawing and painting. Variations on the theme of polygonized surfaces which at the time were spatially modulated in a minimalistic manner were another one of his interests.
After three decades, however, the polygonized surface has gained a completely new meaning and spatial perspective. In the author’s case, it came about as a reaction to a 3D model of his own body and was further interpreted as an inner landscape: a stroll around interiority or exteriority of one’s own body.

Biography

Vojko Pogačar graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. He is a member of the Association of Fine Artists Maribor (DLUM) and ZDSLU (Union of Slovene Fine Arts Associations), Association of Fine Artists Paris – Belleville and a member of art groups 3H30 (Paris – Bordeaux) and Antarctica (1997). In 2010, he has become a president of SZB – Slovenian Association for color and in the following year, he has set up a D.COMP – Design Center of Excellence within RAZ:UM with his colleagues. As an adjunct professor, he teaches Engineering Design at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maribor.

Headbang Hero is a satirical rhythm videogame using a wireless, motion-sensing wig to detect the player’s performance as he/she violently shakes her head in appreciation of Heavy Metal music.
Headbang Hero is a videogame for testing your headbanging prowess with heroic disregard for your own health. Wearing a special motion-sensing wig, you are awarded points for vigor and timing while you headbang to the powerful chords of heavier-than-metal music.
When the game is over, a personal report is printed out for you, including data about your performance, the amount of real damage you sustained during play and some dubious but friendly advice.

http://cargocollective.com/tiagomartins/Headbang-Hero

Tiago Martins continues his education at the Faculty of Science and Technology of the New University of Lisbon as a researcher at the Center for Informatics and Information Technology (CITI). Simultaneously, he is enrolled in doctoral studies in the field of Interface Culture at the University of Art and Industrial Design in Linz, where he is also a lecturer in the Master’s program. He is a software engineer for the project Quell.Code – Media arts as a management system.

Ricardo O’Nascimento is an artist and researcher in the field of new media and interactive art. He investigates body-environment relations focused on interface development for worn devices, interactive installations and hybrid environments.

Andreas Zingerle is an Austrian artist and designer. He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Arts and Industrial Design, Linz/Austria, where he also graduated at the Interface Cultures Department. His works have been exhibited in several venues around the world, and he is behind the kairus.org project together with Linda Kronman.

A set of three short and interconnected narratives are delivered through an imaginary device inspired by the tin can radio. Participants are led on the exploration of an indoor space to find hotspots where the device can be used. At each of the hotspots participants may use the device in order to listen to pieces of three different stories which evolve and intersect throughout the location, as if they were memories of the space itself.

Tripo populates an empty, destitute space with an immersive and intimate experience. Evoking a design based on media archaeology and the imaginarium of childhood, it prompts the participant to experience new perspectives on the meaning of the physical space itself.Tripo populates an empty, destitute space with an immersive and intimate experience. Evoking a design based on media archaeology and the imaginarium of childhood, it prompts the participant to experience new perspectives on the meaning of the physical space itself.

http://cargocollective.com/tiagomartins/Tripo

Vesela Mihaylova is a media artist and designer currently based in Linz, Austria. She holds a MA degree from Interface Cultures at the University of Art and Design in Linz. She has often collaborated with artists of diverse nationalities and her creations have been exhibited internationally. Several of her more recent works put an emphasis on food as a medium for emotions.

What will life look like hundred years from now? Will we be communicating via transfer of thoughts? Will computers be storing our memories? Will we be travelling into space by space elevators? Will the whole world be governed just by one world government? All these or nothing at all or much more than that… The possibilities are countless, limited only by our vision. Thus, the right question to ask is what is our vision? It can be realistic, cautious, daring, dreamy, utopian… The video Message in a circuit in a visual dialogue of contemporary Buenos Aires and Ancient Roman Brijuni emphasizes the importance of perspective in our world of complexities. It depends from our perspective how we perceive the world around us, what we remember from the past and what we see in the future.

The project’s baseline is set as the concept of a unifying interaction, striving to express itself in a digital medium. Apparatus Monolith functions on the principles of manipulation, digitalization, activation and networking. The key process is the interaction between an individual and the Monolith, while installation’s user tools are being created on the spot. Technological production contains a development component: when we eliminate the element of time from the process and re-expose it as an isolated item, we address the mystical dimension of alienation which reveals the magical component of a digital procedure. Repression of individualistic thinking is transformed into fluid networks; consequently, user’s digital image may become subject to its permanent manipulation.

The concepts of time and space are both being modified due to the development of communication technologies and the overriding principle of digitalization. Apparatus Monolith provides modern technological paradigms with a new meaning and, through human reinterpretation, narrates about underlying pitfalls of contemporaneity.

http://www.masajazbec.si/?page_id=69

This generative sound-light installation embodies complex systems theories based on concepts and processes such as emergency and self-organization. The installation bases on models taken from various fields of science, philosophy, biology, computer science and the study of artificial intelligence (cellular automata, neural networks, cybernetics…) The installation explores the sonic and compositional possibilities of these concepts, using a network of “modules-particles” that interact with each other and the environment. Each “module-particle” follows simple individual rules, but is able to generate more complex and sophisticated patterns when combined with the others.

Project developed with the support of Phonos-IUA grant and with the collaboration of Interaction Lab – HANGAR.ORG

http://noconventions.mobi/noish/hotglue/?RdEs_eng/