THE EXHIBITION / Reithalle

disnovation.org (F)

Artist-group initiated by Maria Roszkowska, Poland/France, Nicolas Maigret, France

DISNOVATION.ORG is a working group at the intersection of contemporary art, research and hacking. They are among the most important media artists of today. 

They develop situations of disruption, speculation, and debate, in order to question dominant techno-positivist ideologies, and to stimulate post-growth narratives. They edited the pirate book, an anthology on media piracy. Their research includes artworks, curation and publications.

In 2018 they received a design trust grant (Hong Kong) for a research about China‘s Shanzhai culture. They are currently visiting researchers at the University of California, Irvine.

Their work has been presented internationally including: Centre Pompidou (Paris), Transmediale (Berlin), the Museum of Art and Design (New York), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), FILE (Sao Paulo), ZKM (Karlsruhe), Strelka Institute (Moscow), ISEA (Hong Kong), Elektra (Montreal), China Museum of Digital Arts (Beijing), and the Chaos Computer Congress (Hamburg).

Their work has been featured in: Forbes, Vice, Wired, Motherboard, Libération, Die Zeit, Arte TV, Next Nature, Hyperallergic, Le Temps, Neural.it, Digicult, Gizmodo, Seattle Weekly, torrentfreak.com, and Filmmaker Magazine among others.

Artist site: disnovation.org

INSTALLATION PHOTO SHOWS WITH PREDICTIVE ART BOT AND ONLINE CULTURE WARS (VIDEO)

Photo: Giancarlo Cattaneo/fotoSwiss

DISNOVATION.ORG  @ WINDOW OF THE WORlD WITH PREDICTIVE ART BOT, ONLINE CULTURE WARS (WALLPAPER MAP), ONLINE CULTURE WARS (VIDEO)

PREDICTIVE ART BOT

In the age of hyperconnectivity, the perverse implications of media echo chambers are becoming more and more obvious. Groups of similar behaviors are being partitioned in filter bubbles, while the few massively reposted topics tends to monopolize most of the available attention. Such insular echo chambers strongly affect ways of thinking, resulting in increasingly homogeneous imaginaries within groups of like-minded people.

ONLINE CULTURE WARS (WALLPAPER MAP)

The map Online Culture Wars is an overlay of hundreds of politicized memes, along with influential political figures and symbols. It is designed as a discussion starter, intended to visualize and contextualize the ongoing online culture wars, and some of the main political references, actors, and influencers.

From Twitter to Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Gab, or 4chan, one of the by-products of online culture wars is the over-politicization of seemingly mundane 

topics, products, practices, and cultural elements. In recent years, online cultures have been subjected to a growing polarization, politicization, and radicalization, influenced by numerous actors, and magnified by the very features of ubiquitous social networks. This cartography offers a representation of online ideological and political frictions, integrated into the visual system of a Political Compass meme.

ONLINE CULTURE WARS (VIDEO)

Ubiquitous social networks gave rise to new types of practices, new forms of expression, and new means for collective organization of protest and discord. 

In this context, the manipulation of public opinion over social media platforms has emerged as a critical threat to public life.

The video Online Culture Wars focuses on the political instrumentalization of the tools, techniques, and infrastructures of the web, with a particular attention to the social media influence ecosystem, and online manipulation of opinion. 

It exposes some practices broadly used for online propaganda, as well as creative responses that they triggered in the civil society. 

DRIES DEPOORTER (B)

Dries Depoorter handles themes as privacy, artificial intelligence, surveillance & social media. Depoorter creates interactive installations, apps, games.

Depoorter exhibited internationally at the Barbican, MUTEK Festival, Art Basel, Bozar, Para Site Hong Kong, Mozilla – The Glass Room San Francisco, HEK Basel, WIRED, IDFA Doclab, Mundaneum, FOMU, Ars Electronica, Athens Digital Art 

Festival, Art Soutterain, STRP festival, Heidelberger Kunstverein.

Artist site: driesdepoorter.be

INSTALLATION PHOTOS SHOWING SURVEILLANCE SUNSETS

Photos: Giancarlo Cattaneo/fotoSwiss

DRIES DEPOORTER @ WINDOW OF THE WORLD

For WINDOW OF THE WORLD Dries has created a new work with the title SURVEILLANCE SUNSETS. 

It is shown in the riding hall and consists of 2 large video projections showing sunsets at different locations in real time using unprotected surveillance cameras hacked by Dries. The work is a philosophical examination of simultaneity and surveillance of existences.

It shows real time sunset with the use of unprotected surveillance cameras. In the foreground you see an engine with information about the location and camera.

STUDIO MONIKER (NL)

Studio Moniker is an Amsterdam based interactive design studio by Luna Maurer & Roel Wouters.

With Moniker, which means nickname or pseudonym, they work on commissioned design projects while also investing in projects of an autonomous and experimental nature.The studio works across various media for a diverse range of clients ranging from those in the cultural field to commercial companies. With their projects, they explore the social effects of technology – how to use technology and how it influences our daily lives.

They often ask the public to take part in the development of projects. The resulting projects expand and grow like plants, displaying their inner organisational process.

Studio Moniker shows four Works at WINDOW OF THE WOLRD: PAPERSTORM.IT, RED FOLLOWS YELLOW FOLLOWS BLUE FOLLOWS RED, MY INNER WOLF AND EmojiIsAllWeeHave AT THE DIGITAL VILLAGE

Artist site: studiomoniker.com

INSTALLATION PHOTO STUDIO MONIKER / PAPERSTORM.IT

Photo: Giancarlo Cattaneo/fotoSwiss

RED FOLLOWS YELLOW FOLLOWS BLUE FOLLOWS RED

It is another outcome of Monikers continuing investigations into crowd behaviour and audience participation.

The concert hall becomes the stage, the audience the actors. Each audience member receives a pair of headphones and a red, blue or yellow cape and is asked to follow the instructions.

These instructions invite the participant to move across the stage and interact with other participants in different ways. For example, participants with a red cape are asked to ’follow yellow but avoid blue’, while participants with a blue cape are asked to ’follow red but avoid yellow’.

The combined reactions of the participants to the ever changing instructions leads to constantly transforming formations and patterns.

Red Follows Yellow Follows Blue Follows Red, we play with the possibilities and pitfalls of organizing groups of people. We explore the different attributes of the crowd and the role the individual plays within it. The performance oscillates between order and chaos, the wish to belong and the need for individuality.

Screenshots of “Red Follows Yellow Follows Blue Follows Red”

PAPERSTORM.IT

The idea to drop leaflets from the air to spread a political message stems from historical methods of leaflet bombs. Filling a bomb with millions of sheets of paper and dropping them from the air so that big regions on the ground get covered with these leaflets and the messages get spread.

Today campaigning is not bound to physical restrictions anymore, with digital tools one can reach nearly every single soul on the planet. With paperstorm we cover the virtual surface of planet earth with sheets of printed paper.

When opening the website Paperstorm.it you find yourself floating above an iconic structure or building somewhere on the planet. On the bottom of the screen you have an endless pile of leaflets on your disposal.

With every click a leaflet is falling to the ground. Watching the leaflets tumbling down is pleasantly satisfying. While you are dropping leaflets, other people are dropping leaflets too.

On the top of the screen a countdown is showing how many sheets still need to be dropped. Together the paperstormers make themselves heard with an impactful loud voice.

Historical “paperstorms”

MY INNER WOLF

It‘s a one minute animated collage, an endlessly repeating loop of an involuntary transition from a friendly domestic space to our deepest, darkest fears. The loop is art-directed by the photography of our visitors, and every iteration of the loop new submissions are used to make up the imagery.

If you feel like creating a personal version of ‘My Inner Wolf’ with only your own photography there is a prominent button to start with an empty loop. This will also function as a tool for doctors and experience experts to be able to discuss the nature of an absence seizure.

Since people keep contributing more and more photographs, more and more versions of My Inner Wolf are coming to life. The longer you watch the more 

Inner Wolfs you will see. Its nice to see that some contributions really change the whole vibe of the film.

Screenshot of “My Inner Wolf”

MARC LEE (CH)

Marc Lee is perhaps the most renowned media artist in Switzerland.

He creates network-oriented and interactive art projects: interactive installations, media art, internet art, performance art, video art, augmented reality (AR) art, virtual reality (VR) art and mobile art. He experiments with information and com-munication technologies and locates clusters of themes which contain creative, cultural, social, economic and political aspects.

His work has been exhibited in major museums and media art exhibitions, such as ZKM Karlsruhe, New Museum New York, Transmediale Berlin, Ars Electronica Linz, HMKV Dortmund, HeK Basel, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Read_Me Festival 

Moscow, CeC Dehli, MoMA Shanghai, ICC Tokyo, Nam June Paik Art Center, Media Art Biennale and MMCA Seoul.

Marc Lee has received many awards and recognitions. For example the „Interaction“ and „Software“ Awards of Transmediale Berlin and the Social Media Art Award of Phaenomenale Wolfsburg. His art projects are in private and public collections such as the Federal Office of Culture in Bern, the HeK Basel, the Fotomuseum Winthertur and the ZKM Karlsruhe.

MARC LEE @ WINDOW OF THE WORLD: TIME TO NIST - TIME TO MIGRATE, SWISS UNFILTERED AND CORONA TV BOT AT THE DIGITAL VILLAGE

Artist website: marclee.io

INSTALLATION PHOTOS TIME TO NIST AND SWISS UNFILTERED

Photos: Giancarlo Cattaneo/fotoSwiss

TIME TO NIST - TIME TO MIGRATE

Marc Lee in collaboration with Birgit Kempker and Shervin Saremi (Sound)

With this 360° Mobile VR App Time to Nist Time to Migrate you fly through your own inner world. What happens in there? 
Bacteria, cells, fungi, parasites, phages, protists, prions, viruses communicate. Do they determine what we are? 
Not scientific, but rather fake scientific, philosophical and emergency poetically. (We know that we know nothing, we know). 
A little dance of life and death. The Mobile App can be download (for free): marclee.io/en/time-to-nist-time-to-migrate 

SWISS UNFILTERED / Tiktok and the Emerging Face of Culture

With unprecedented and ever increasing access to mobile phones and the internet, digital hierarchies are being broken. Platforms like TikTok are the new town hall, with ‘influence’ no longer restricted to the urban elite. 

What have been the missing voices within mainstream narratives in Switzerland? Can their messages truly help shape an inclusive, socially conscious future? What impact does this content have on its audience? 

Swiss Unfiltered poses these questions, and more, through the diverse voices of TikTok.