The Visual Collider Nina Czegledy and Marcus Neustetter
09.09.2011, 19:00h
MACHFELD | Studio - Vienna
Destination: Vienna
Following its first cycle of exhibitions in Vela Luka, New York and Banff, The Visual Collider continues its journey starting in Dalcrombie, Scotland and reappearing in Budapest, Bratislava, Vienna and Istanbul in the second half of 2011.
In May 1, 2011, the Large Hadron Collider in France – according to a press release- had uncovered the much sought-after subatomic particle. The God particle is the pet name for the Higgs boson. Leading up to this event, on November 29, 2009, billions of subatomic particles were smashed together in nano-seconds inside the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, designed to mimic the first moments of the Big Bang, “bringing new understanding of the primordial universe”. Thousands of scientists worked for decades to achieve this scientific spectacle, “challenging those who seek confirmation of established knowledge, and those who dare to dream beyond the paradigm.” Inspired and intrigued by the Large Hadron Collider mega project, Nina Czegledy and Marcus Neustetter set out to create a visual collider for the images and impressions they produce individually.
At the actual Collider every function including research, development and production, is based on principles and systems. In contrast our method is spontaneous, immediate and intentionally unsystematic. Nevertheless there are significant junctures. LHC is an immense scientific mission – paralleling our deep interest in the intersection of arts, science and technology. While in the sciences it is prudent to build on fundamental facts with analytical precision, in reality these investigations are often permeated with the exploration of the unknown, reaching unexpected revelations. “In our practice working with the bizarre, traveling towards unpredictable destinations is a regular pursuit. In science a negative experimental result might become as valid as an expected outcome.” These unexpected results including happy accidents often lead to significant alternate solutions or theories. The adjacent images presented in this exhibition reveal unconventional interpretations frequently through unforeseen collisions.
By employing a personal approach to the Visual Collider we challenge mega-projects such as the actual LHC, asking atypical questions concerning the experimental smashing together of information whether in the form of photographic light or protons.
NORMAN T. WHITE arist in residence | MACHFELD - Studio
preparing his installation
for the exhibition ars magna lucis et umbrae
(in cooperation with Sabine Maier and Michael Mastrototaro)
at the ESC, Graz, December 2011
Norman T. White
Machine Behavior and Robotics
13.08.2011, 16 Uhr
FLUSS - NÖ Initiative für Foto- und Medienkunst,
Schlossplatz 2, A-2120 Wolkersdorf - Phone: +43-2245-5455
I'm fascinated by the idea of physical devices which have unpredictable “lives of their own”... sets of internal rules and cycles which give them autonomous and surprising behaviors. Since 1966, I have been building kinetic artworks that have deliberately minimal visual appeal, yet a strong behavioral dimension. Their behavior derives partly from the materials that I employ... functioning electronic components, motors, and mechanical parts.
This focus on machine behavior combined with a desire for broadened public access has led me to robotics. Having arrived at this focus, I'm amazed to discover its many parallels with painting, drawing, sculpture, and performance. Robotics is, above all, a kind of abstract portraiture, rife with myriad possibilities of introspection, irony, drama, farce, and social commentary.
Norman T. White is a Texas-born Canadian New Media artist and pioneer of using electronics and robotics in art.
a hypothetical holiday of the art calendar - celebrated once every four years. a party almost on the mars....
its cold on mars.
a back-up holiday for a hypothetical but necessary colonization of mars. in the future the celebration day (date) will be replaced by the actual landing-date on the planet.
an interaction between two planets....
ELFFRIEDE:INTERDISZIPLINÄRE:AUFZEICHNENSYSTEME + DJ ZEMMLER / unterbrechungen: hannes p. fishy wurm c/o dasschaufenster.at präsentieren: DAS ERSTE INTERNATIONALE BIBERBAUMAGAZIN
ein statement zur situation des individuums
Do., 29. Oktober 2009, 19.30 Uhr (pünktlich)
MACHFELD/Studio, Max-Winter-Platz 21/1, A-1020 Wien
es wurden stimmen gegen die biber laut. nachdem bereits im jahre 2005 "das erste internationale eulenzeichnenmagazin. ein magazin zur erhebung des individuums" (vergriffen) von elffriede.interdisziplinäre.aufzeichnensysteme erwirkt wurde, entschloss sich elffriede.interdisziplinäre.aufzeichnensysteme erneut, stellung zu beziehen mit dem "ersten internationalen biberbaumagazin", entstanden im "gelben haus" bellevue/linz, mit beiträgen von sabine maier, domi li bacher, jörg piringer, gertrude moser-wagner, fritz widhalm, helga köcher, michael mastrototaro, eSeL, steffi, raimund vogtenhuber, judith kästner, ben cunningham, malte borsdorf, edda strobl, rené, peter fattinger, brooke picket, muzak, ilse kilic, fishy c/o das schaufenster, jörg zemmler, august black, helmut kaplan, brandstifter, charlotte zott, die kunstapotheke, günter vallaster, thekla rickert, ben-ole grabler, und was wissen wir nicht wie sie alle heissen...)
"one two" unplugged live
29.09.2009, 2 a.m. BOB check the sound before playing the streaming-gig for Todd Rohal´s screening in Austin, Texas. As part of the 2009 North American Tour at machfeld - studio.
The Machfeld Affair
Jack Hauser (A)
Project / Exhibition / Screening / Streaming 23.07. - 11.08.2007
Der Name. Die Hülle. Das Abenteuer.
Since 1999, Jack Hauser has been creating performative, subcultural interventions which he calls choreographic operations. THE MACHFELD AFFAIR is a transmedia exhibition in the rooms of the MACHFELD | Studio and references the motion picture The Thomas Crown Affair. Here and there are parallel concurrent strands which are showing the coherence of one work. The Thomas Crown Affair assisted by the Split-Screen-Technique the perfect planing of a bank-robbery. The movie contains the longest Kiss (55 Seconds) in film history. Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway needed 8 hours - over 3 days for the shooting.
By “The Machfeld Affair” Jack Hauser shows at the first - and the same - time the Panel-Series BILDER AUS DER WOHNUNG MIRYAM VAN DOREN, BANDITENGESÄNGE and the work of the “Fictionauts” PAUL SERINE & MISS COOCHIE.
Auto_face/facing - Nonentity_art
Michael Pinter-Koschell (A/NL)
Exhibition
20.04. - 04.05.2007
Kunst reagiert auf den Wandel kultureller Rahmenkonstellationen der Kategorien Raum, Kunst[werk] und Öffentlichkeit respektive Realität und kreiert neue Handlungs- und Diskursfelder. Insbesondere Medienkunst als sich ständig generierender, performativer Interaktionismus.
Art radio Transmission on| http://kunstradio.at
Broadcasting live from the installation CROSS TALK in all its components
depicting the basis material for further CROSSOVER from the Ö1
- Kunstradio transmission studio.
AKKUMULATION | Virtual Mail Art
LIVE - Streaming Performance
20.11.2006
As a performativ act, the organizers (machfeld
& elffriede)
create within a 9 hours microcosmic studio situation a unique book from
the accumulated material.
All participants will be part of the book “MACHWERK”.
Salon TV
Experimental Internet TV Streaming Project
6.10.2006 - 8.10.2006
ltnc (lady tigers night club)
as part of IMA Salons bei City of Woman, Ljubljana
DIVANOVA 06, Bettina Fabian, Sol Haring, Anita Hofer, Reini Hofmüller,
Ursula Kiesling, Peter Mörth, Andrea Schlemmer, Maki Stolberg, Eva
Ursprung