The works of the six Share Prize 2007 finalists will be exhibited in the Accademia
Albertina exhibition rooms. The works that have been selected for the final
phase are:
Stanza (UK)
Sensity is made from real time data that is collected across the
city in real time and visualized as a dynamic public installation which is
also viewable online. Sensity visualizes the patterns we make, the forces we
weave, which are all being networked into retrievable data structures that
can be re-imagined as artworks. These patterns all disclose new ways of seeing
the world.
The artist is attempting to move on towards a point where the landscape is a
hybridized audio visual representation of the space. That is an audio visual
experience based on the sounds and sights of the city pollutions, noise, traffic
data , that are captured via sensor network. In other words sensors are used
to environmentally monitor the city and the data output is used to create a public
domain artwork describing the city data space.
How we understand and value information is of great importance. It seems reasonable
to suggest that visual metaphors might simplify our understanding of data in
space.
UBERMORGEN.COM, Paolo Cirio, Alessandro Ludovico (AT, USA, IT)
The Bad Guys (The Amazon Noir Crew: Cirio, Lizvlx, Ludovico, Bernhard) steal
copyrighted books from Amazon.com - by using sophisticated robot-perversion-technology
coded by supervillain Paolo Cirio. A massive media fight and a brutal legal
fight escalates into an online Showdown with the heist at the center of the
story. Lizvlx from UBERMORGEN.COM has daily shoot outs with the global massmedia,
Ludovico and Bernhard hardly resist kickback-bribes from powerful Amazon.com
and Cirio violently pushes the boundary of copyright. Betrayal, blasphemy and
pessimism splits the gang of bad guys. In the end the good guys (Amazon.com)
win and drive off with the beautiful and seductive femme fatale (the massmedia).
Gregory Shakar (USA)
The Analog Color Field Computer is an interactive video and sound
installation. It's sculptural computers produce surging pulses of colours and
tones, conveying a symphony of sonic texture and luminescent patterns into
the sparsely lit exhibition space. Each ACFC provides controls for users to
adjust its hues, pitches and rhythms.
Moodvector from Gregory Shakar is a beautiful landscape of computers and screens
displaying basic colours and sounds. The work points to the earlier artworks
researching the relationship between sound and color (Skriabin). It involves
public on the level of manipulation of both sound and color in this installation.
Simple, beautiful, elegant, easy.
5VOLTCORE (Emanuel Andel - Christian Guetzer) (AT)
Shockbot Corejulio creates aesthetic information out of disfunction
in the form of audio and visual output.
Shockbot Corejulio is built out of three main parts: 1st the programme that controls
the shockbot, 2nd the controlling circuit board, that operates, via relays, the
(3rd) motors that then move the shockbot.
Essential for the piece is the circular process between the computer and the
shockbot. The computer sends impulses to the robot that subsequently moves on
it's tracks targeting random points within the computer hardware.
Christophe Bruno (Francia)
A human being embodies the World Wide Web, the sum of all the speeches of
mankind. Human Browser is a series of Wi-Fi performances based on a Google
Hack, where the usual technological interface is replaced with the oldest interface
we know: the human being.
Thanks to its headset, an actor hears a text-to-speech audio that comes directely
from the Internet in real-time. The actor repeats the text as he hears it. The
textual flow is actually fetched by a programme that hijacks Google, diverting
it from its utilitarian functions. Depending on the context in which the actor
is, keywords are sent to the programme and used as search strings in Google so
that the content of the textual flow is always related to the context.
Mikro Orchestra Project (Jaroslaw Kujda (aka mikrokilla ) leader, Pawel Janicki
- vj, produttore, Mariusz Jura, Agnieszka Kujda, Malgorzata Kujda, Tomasz,Prockow
- vj, programmatore)
The Mikro Orchestra Project is experimental and audiovisual, based on using
the Game Boy command section as a musical instrument. The project designer’s
main goal was to produce new space for sound based on tones from the Game Boy
command section.
The group has been together since 2001 and currently has six performers.This
hi-tech sextet - who can’t even read the simplest scores - wanted to celebrate
being together with the project that they call Mikro Orchestra Project. Top marks
go to the Nintendo Game Boy, transformed for the occasion into a very original
musical instrument.What is amazing about Mikro Orchestra is that they really
seem to be live performances.
The jury is:
Carolyn Christov Bakargiev, curatore capo del Castello di Rivoli
Joasia Krysa, professore Università di Plymouth
Alex Adriaansen, direttore V2 di Rotterdam
Vicente Matallana, direttore La Agencia di Madrid
Gerfried Stocker, direttore Ars Electronica Festival di Linz
