http://codedcultures.org/at Binational Festival Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:16:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Elsy Lahnera (Curator / Austria) Lives and works as curator in Vienna, Austria. Since 2007 and together with Alexandra Grausam managing and artistic director of „das weisse haus“, an exhibition space for progressive young art, Vienna. Since 2008 and together with Georg Russegger managing director of O.F.F. - O-sutoria Freespace Foundation, ... http://codedcultures.org/at/elsy-lahner/ The evening event of the CODED CULTURES  festival in Vienna  is situated at the »Hofstallungen« (MUMOK) of MuseumsQuartier Vienna.   Starting with Pecha Kucha Night, followed by a Live-Performance of Artist-In-Residence Tetsuya Umeda and finally leading to contemporary electronic music featuring a selection of live-acts and DJs from the label Trust Records and the ... http://codedcultures.org/at/coded-cultures-closing-event-party/ AFTER SCHOOL MIDNIGHT  (c) KOO-KI Entertainment / GA Digital Graphics. : net culture space Japan Media Arts Festival Anime Screenings May 27th - June 07th In cooperation with "CODED CULTURES - Exploring Creative Emergences" the excellent animation works, awarded by the 11th Japan Media Arts Festival, will be presented in May 2009. The screening event is ... http://codedcultures.org/at/japan-media-arts-festival/ Photo: Hiroshi Yoshioka, Sendai Mediatheque // Artist: Takamine Tadasu 25.5.-27.5.2009 University of Fine Arts Workshop: Prof. Hiroshi Yoshioka Akbild, Semperdepot, Lehargasse 8, M1 25.5.: 7 p.m. – 8 p.m. 26.5.: 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. 27.5.: 1 p.m. – 4 p.m. The workshop by Hiroshi Yoshioka will focus on contemporary art and media art from Japan and ... http://codedcultures.org/at/workshop-hiroshi-yoshioka-university-of-fine-arts/   26.5.-7.6.2009 University of Applied Arts ca. 2 jo - substitute of common places (Transmedia Arts Department) Opening: 25.5., 19.00 Open daily: 6 a.m. – 6 p.m.    The exhibition was developed within the course of Dr. Georg Russegger at the department of "Transmedia Arts". Related to the context of CODED CULTURES and the »Austria-Japan Year 2009« the aim ... http://codedcultures.org/at/ca-2-jo-substitute-of-common-places/ Koloman Kann (Documentation / Austria) Koloman Kann, born 1977, studied painting in the Masterclass for Arts at the Ortwein-school in Graz. After the final exam in 2003, he enroled at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where he studied at the class for (post)conceptual arts (Marina Grznic), and since 2007, ... http://codedcultures.org/at/koloman-kann/ Anna Rosalia Wahrbichler (Trainee / Austria) Born in 1984 in Graz/Austria, Anna grew up in Athens/Greece and visited the German school of Athens. After gratuading from school in 2004 she moved back to Austria, where she now studies Artistic Sciences, Art Education and Communication at the University for applied arts in ... http://codedcultures.org/at/anna-rosalia-wahrbichler/ Matthias Tarasiewicz (Festival Coordinator / Austria) Matthias Tarasiewicz (a.k.a. parasew) is one of the founders of 5uper.net and CEO of the media prototyping company mutti.jp. Together with Georg Russegger and Michal Wlodkowski he is coordinating “Coded Cultures - Exploring Creative Emergences”. He was curating and producing over 100 Exhibitions and Art-related ... http://codedcultures.org/at/matthias-tarasiewicz/ Michal Wlodkowski (Festival Coordinator / Austria) Michal Wlodkowski is one of the founders of 5uper.net and CEO of Mutti Medien OG, a Software Developing and Prototyping company. Together with Matthias Tarasiewicz and Georg Russegger he is coordinator of the festival “Coded Cultures - Exploring Creative Emergences”. Since the founding of 5uper.net ... http://codedcultures.org/at/michal-wlodkowski/ Kerstin Marth (Trainee / Austria) Born 1985 and living in Vienna, Kerstin is studying communications at the University of Vienna. This year, she's going to finish her master's degree in communications, with a special focus on advertising. Her interest in media, art, culture and society led her to "CODED CULTURES – ... http://codedcultures.org/at/kerstin-marth/ Philip Fischer (Producer / Austria) Philip Fischer, born in Vienna, Austria, is a board member of 5uper.net and project coordinator of daal - digital arts and architecture lab. Together with 5uper.net he produced Symposia, Workshops and Exhibitions in MuseumsQuartier Vienna, Kunsthaus Graz and various Off-Spaces (e.g. "Playfulness", "21st Century Art Practices", ... http://codedcultures.org/at/philip-fischer/ Niko Alm (Public Relations / Austria) Niko Alm is CEO of the Super-Fi Group (advertising, design, web, publishing, software). After a few years as a designer and music journalist he founded Super-Fi (super-fi.eu) in 2001. Over the time other companies ranging from software to publishing were established by or connected with ... http://codedcultures.org/at/niko-alm/ Visualization of several wiki pages related to associated colorspaces defined by semantic terms and automatically produced by software agents. If you combine perception-stretching science and technology with practical futurism, you start to get real-world applications. (Jon Lebkowsky) Therefore, it's pure fun to consider wikis and weblogs as aleatoric devices, as far as ... http://codedcultures.org/at/aleatoric-devices/ Thomas Fürstner (Artist - Scientist / Austria) Participation: Symposium Title: Aleatoric Devices University Professor Thomas Fürstner, born 1964, lives and works in Vienna and Berlin. Economics degree from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, professorship at the Institute of Media Art and Fine Arts at the Vienna University of Applied Arts, ... http://codedcultures.org/at/thomas-fuerstner/ Unveiling the technological process - exonemo The amount of information we receive daily is enormous, and most follows a complex process. This process is almost like an automated program made to satisfy our desire. It is the simulation, which makes the human thought simple as to be easily repeated many times ... http://codedcultures.org/at/unveiling-the-technological-process/ Philip Lammer (Artist / Austria) Participation: Exhibition / Presentation Title: ToyGenoSonic Philip Lammer is (con)fusing digital art, programming, playing games and composing music. Amazed by the vast richness of different space-time concepts throughout game history he tries to incorporate these forms of movement into his digital artworks. The musical score becomes a game-engine, ... http://codedcultures.org/at/philipp-lammer/ Astrid Exner (Trainee / Austria) Born in 1988 and living in Vienna, Austria. After completing the Foundation Course at New Design University St. Pölten, Astrid Exner is currently studying Philosophy, Dutch and Art History at the University of Vienna. She has been working part-time as Assistant E-Marketing for Wienerberger AG since ... http://codedcultures.org/at/astrid-exner/ Sebastian Lessner (Co-Producer Exhibition / Austria) Sebastian Lessner, born 1979, lives in Vienna and is Psychotherapist in training. He studied Photography and Visual Media at the University for Applied Arts in Vienna. Sebastian currently works as Production Manager for national and international events; "Special Task Force" for event and film production ... http://codedcultures.org/at/sebastian-lessner/ Martin Mühl (Press / Austria) Martin Mühl, 29, is chief editor of the austrian printmag The Gap and projectmanager at Monopol GmbH (a part of Super-Fi group). The company publishes the magazines The Gap, TBA and Biorama, does some websites and is working in corporate publishing. His main working areas, beside ... http://codedcultures.org/at/martin-muehl/ eSeL - Lorenz Seidler (Documentation / Austria) The label eSeL (also serving as a nick name for founder Lorenz Seidler) prototypically represents the crossover of the roles of artist, curator, online medium and infrastructure-provider in contemporary artistic practise in the New media genres. For coded cultures eSeL well be involved in ... http://codedcultures.org/at/esel/ Kinga Kapela (Production Assistance / Poland) Kinga Kapela was born in Poland and is a student at the University of Vienna. Her fields of study are communication science and Polish studies. Currently she is working on her diploma thesis and is looking forward to successfully finish her studies. Beside her studies ... http://codedcultures.org/at/kinga-kapela/ Kim Winternitz (Communication Assistance / Austria) Kim Winternitz, born 1982 in Vienna, Austria. Enrolled in Slavic Studies and Philosphy at the University of Vienna in 2001. Lived, worked and studied abroad in Poland and Bulgaria. As a board member of 5uper.net since 2005, she works in the back office as a ... http://codedcultures.org/at/kim-winternitz/ Johanna Stögmüller (Press / Austria) Born in Upper Austria, living, studying, working and creating since 7 years in Vienna. Studied journalism and communication science, focused on sociological aspects of communication and print media. Works for Monopol GmbH (a part of Super-Fi Group) as senior editor of TBA Magazine, editor of The ... http://codedcultures.org/at/johanna-stogmueller/ Georg Russegger (Festival Coordinator / Austria) Georg Russegger is the main-coordinator of the festival "Coded Cultures - Exploring Creative Emergences" in Austria and Japan. Together with Michal Wlodkowski and Matthias Tarasiewicz he is responsible for the conception and organization of the festival. Georg Russegger received a Ph.D. in Media- and Communicationtheory ... http://codedcultures.org/at/georg-russegger/ Georg Lauteren (Co-Producer Evening Event / Austria) Georg Lauteren has been involved in Austria's arts and science communities for many years now as an electronic music activist, media researcher and curator. As DJ Glow he has been active as a pioneering DJ and producer in the fields of techno and electro ... http://codedcultures.org/at/georg-lauteren/ Claudia Moser (Grafic-Design / Austria) Claudia Moser is a multidisciplinary designer based in Vienna, Austria. Originally coming from a background in textile design, she has been working in the media industry for about ten years now and established herself as an innovative art director for selected agencies and international clients. Her ... http://codedcultures.org/at/claudia-moser/ Andrea Lunzer (Production Assistance / Austria) After a break out to London Austrian born Andrea Lunzer returned to Vienna. Not really knowing what to do she got picked up by Patrick Pulsinger and Erdem Tunakan. There at Cheap Records she got to know the Viennese underground style of music. After the ... http://codedcultures.org/at/andrea-lunzer/ Christian Gützer (Artist / Austria) Group: 5VOLTCORE (with Emanuel Andel) Participation: Workshop Title: Toy Bending Workshop Christian Gützers' career began in the metalworking industry, where he trained as a machine tool manufacturer. After this, he studied "visual media design" in Peter Weibel's masterclass at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. He ... http://codedcultures.org/at/christian-guetzer/ Emanuel Andel (Artist / Austria) Group: 5VOLTCORE (with Christian Gützer) Participation: Workshop Title: Toy Bending Workshop 2007 Emanuel Andel graduated at the "Visual Media Design" department at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Peter Weibel) with distinction for his installation "Knife.Hand.Chop.Bot", which received a number of accolades, including nominations for the "Künstlerhalle Wien Award ... http://codedcultures.org/at/emanuel-andel/ Toys, tape-decks and similar objects will be disassembled, inspected and modified. Electronic devices will change their look as well as their funtion. In order to expand their acoustic capabilities they will be turned into sound machines by breaking and redesigning existing electronic circuits. Due to short-circuiting and redirecting the current, ... http://codedcultures.org/at/toy-bending/ "By implementing specific algorithms, software enables many processes to be automated: not only does it allow artists to delegate a significant portion of work to a machine, it also allows them to give up on the element of artistic "intentionality", which is substituted with the random factor much sought after by the avant-garde movements. Instead ... http://codedcultures.org/at/how-to-design-hallucinatory-software-the-generator-tetralogy/ Sta-colla and Nicodama Artist: Ryota Kuwakubo (JP) My common aim is not to finish creating the gadget itself, but to create and share new ideas. In this presentation, I'm going to talk about my two recent projects, Sta-colla and Nicodama, the former is a robot with 4 legs - radio-controlled by 2 ... http://codedcultures.org/at/sta-colla-and-nicodama/ Photo credit: Photo by Michel Dinesen (Kunstmuseum Aros, Denmark) Plays on a metamorphosis of contemporary electronic toys into arts by transforming unique codes attributed to objects and subjects via ubiquitous numerological processes. ToyGenoSonic MAKES THE PLAYERS DISCOVER the invisible heart of commodities in urban space. ToyGenoSonic’s notation consists of the mathematical representation ... http://codedcultures.org/at/toygenosonic/ Toward seamless combination of digital and real. I am interested in designing user interfaces that blend digital and physical properties into seamless interaction experiences. In this talk I review current approaches to combine computing and the real world focusing on two basic approaches. The first is to enhance interaction with physical, ... http://codedcultures.org/at/physical-interfaces-and-programmable-reality/ With ICT, we become active players in the information flows beyond fields. Now we face the shift from "receiver" to "sender" model, welcoming the new emergencies triggered by us. We are heading for the second decade of 21 century. Looking back to the first the decade, we can recognize the drastic ... http://codedcultures.org/at/from-camera-obscura-to-projectors/ Find the Rabbit Hole: ARGs as Advanced Psychogeography To the core of the city? This way, please: Down the Rabbit Hole. Let us explore its hidden structures, its inner guts. And then let us take over the system... This may be the promise. However, meanwhile most of what comes up under the ... http://codedcultures.org/at/urban-playgrounds-alternate-games/ Fashionable Wearables as Aesthetic Interaction Interfaces In my recent book "Fashionable Technology, The Intersection of Design, Fashion, Science, and Technology" I describe fashionable wearables as "designed" garments, accessories, or jewelry that combine aesthetics and style with functional technology. The potential for collaboration between the worlds of fashion and technology has been ... http://codedcultures.org/at/functional-aesthetics/ Stad van Rotterdammers in SecondLife Place and space are notions that have to be renegotiated once territory is claimed in virtual environments. A discourse on locative aspects of virtual environments will have to find new forms of transport and of non-travelling to rediscover place and location in e-space. It is a common ... http://codedcultures.org/at/collapsing-locality-ludic-locations/ Marina Grzinic and Hiroshi Yoshioka Hiroshi Yoshioka argues that tolerating multiple cultures is not enough: we should also find a multitude in our single culture, whether singleness refers to a nation, a religion or any other tradition. One great benefit of the development of media technology is that it has prepared ... http://codedcultures.org/at/designing-complexity-to-develop-a-political-intervention-in-the-digital-realm/ Machiko Kusahara Assembling an aircraft is not a work of art – at least that is what we usually think. But the seagull-shaped M-02J glider is a different case. The elegant looking aircraft shown at the prestigious Spiral Hall in Aoyama, Tokyo in December 2008 is in fact a work by ... http://codedcultures.org/at/assembling-things-device-art/ Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau Human-computer interaction (= HCI) is a discipline concerned with the design, evaluation and implementation of interactive computing systems for human use and includes the study of the major phenomena surrounding this theme. Human-computer interaction pertains to the joint performance of tasks by humans and machines; the ... http://codedcultures.org/at/expanding-locality-the-art-and-science-of-interface-and-interaction-design/ Photo credit: nOtbOt@iMAL force-feedback looped post-interactive sculpture nOtbOt is an automated game-player which is controlled and deranged by reactions to its own virtual environment, caught in a vicious force-feedback loop... The installation consists of a hacked up human-computer interface in which the feedback system, originally intended to provide tangible interaction for a human ... http://codedcultures.org/at/n0tb0t/ Photo credit: Bitman: © Yoshimoto Kogyo Co.,Ltd. / Maywa Denki / Ryota Kuwakubo VideoBulb: © Yoshimoto Kogyo Co.,Ltd. / Maywa Denki / Ryota Kuwakubo R/V: co-production : YCAM (Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media) Ryota Kuwakubo: Selected Works (1998 - 2009) (Bitman, Vomoder, VideoBulb, PLX, R/V, Nicodama) Creating each work as a complete device rather ... http://codedcultures.org/at/ryota-kuwakubo-selected-works/ Bagatelle Concrete Artist: Martin Pichlmair (AT) Bagatelle Concrete is a pinball machine turned musical instrument. It is played for making music rather than achieving a high score. Consequently, the score board was replaced with customized speakers. The more successfully the player interacts with the machine, the more intense the accompanying soundtrack gets. ... http://codedcultures.org/at/bagatelle-concrete/ Photo credit: Photo by Michel Dinesen (Kunstmuseum Aros, Denmark) Plays on a metamorphosis of contemporary electronic toys into arts by transforming unique codes attributed to objects and subjects via ubiquitous numerological processes. ToyGenoSonic MAKES THE PLAYERS DISCOVER the invisible heart of commodities in urban space. ToyGenoSonic’s notation consists of the mathematical representation ... http://codedcultures.org/at/ludic-society-toygenosonic/ Ludic Society Hereby, Margarete Jahrmann, Gordan Savicic and Phillip Lammer, members of the Ludic Society, present ToyGenoSonic (2008-2009), an urban play not concentrated in one single location, but dispersed in the urban space and open to the participation of the citizens. In the weekend of the exhibition opening, the city of ... http://codedcultures.org/at/ludic-society/ Yukiko Shikata (Curator / Japan) Participation: Symposium / Lecture Title: From "Camera Obscura" to "Projectors" Yukiko Shikata is a media art curator & critic based in Tokyo, works as a senior curator of NTT ICC, specially-assigned professor at Tokyo Zokei University, guest professor at Tama Art University. She has been curating many challenging ... http://codedcultures.org/at/yukiko-shikata/ Verina Gfader (Artist - Researcher / Finland) Participation: Presentation Title: I prefer not to use predictable paths* Verina Gfader is an artist and researcher with an interest in the criticality of emerging practices and economies of media art. Her work addresses themes of non-linearity, modes of resistance, and articulations of the democratic, active ... http://codedcultures.org/at/verina-gfader/ Verena Kuni (Scientist / Germany) Participation: Symposium / Lecture Title: Urban Playground, Alternate Games Verena Kuni is professor for Visual Culture at Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main (DE). She publishes widely in international print and online media; since 1997 she runs her own art radio show on radio x ffm. From ... http://codedcultures.org/at/verena-kuni/ Takahiro Kaneshima (Curator / Japan) Participation: Symposium / Presentation Title: Far East Contemporaries Born 1977 in Tokyo. Director at FEC, and PR & Communication manager at ARTiT. Received MA from the Graduate School of Media and Governance at Keio University and worked at NOKIA Research Center (Finland), TOSHIBA Digital Media Company (Japan) and ... http://codedcultures.org/at/takahiro-kaneshima/ Sabine Seymour (Scientist - Producer / Austria) Participation: Symposium / Lecture Title: Functional Aesthetics Sabine Seymour has been described as an innovator, visionary, and trend spotter. She is the Chief Creative Officer of her company Moondial, which develops fashionable wearables and consults on fashionable technology to companies worldwide. Moondial’s work is based on ... http://codedcultures.org/at/sabine-seymour/ Mathias Fuchs (Artist - Critic / Austria) Participation: Symposium / Lecture Title: Collapsing Locality – Ludic Locations Mathias Fuchs has pioneered in the field of artistic use of game engines in various game art installations. He started the first European Masters Programme in Creative Games at the School of Art & Design at ... http://codedcultures.org/at/mathias-fuchs/ Aldo Tolino (Artist - Researcher / Austria) Participation: Presentation Title: beyond play: a taxonomy of ludic artefacts Aldo Tolino is a Viennese artist, researcher and gamer. After studying digital art at the university for applied arts Vienna, he wrote a dissertation on computer games and cultural production. He is lecturer at the Graphische-school ... http://codedcultures.org/at/aldo-tolino/ Marina Grzinic (Artist - Scientist / Slovenia) Participation: Symposium / Keynote Title: Designing Complexity: To develop a political intervention in the digital realm Dr. Marina Grzinic, philosopher, artist and theoretician. She works in Ljubljana and Vienna. Grzinic is Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Institute of Fine Arts, Post Conceptual ... http://codedcultures.org/at/marina-grzinic/ Manfred Faßler (Scientist / Germany) Participation: Symposium / Keynote Title: Creating Proto-Culture: Infogenic Art Manfred Faßler is Professor at the Goethe-University Frankfurt a.M. He has published a variety of books and numerous articles with the focus on Mediatheory, Media and Cognition, Human-Media-Inter(Re)Action, Digital Network, Cybernetics 2nd Order, binary Media and Cultures, Communication, Visualitiy ... http://codedcultures.org/at/manfred-fassler/ Machiko Kusahara (Scientist / Japan) Participation: Symposium / Keynote Title: Assembling Things: Device Art Machiko Kusahara is a Professor for Media Art and Media Studies, at Waseda University Tokyo. She is a media art curator and a scholar in media studies. Since early 80s she has written, curated exhibitions and served as a ... http://codedcultures.org/at/machiko-kusahara/ Laurent Mignonneau (Artist - Scientist / Austria) Participation: Symposium / Keynote Title: Expanding Locality: The Art and Science of Interface and Interaction Design Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau are internationally renowned media artists and researchers, they have jointly created around 20 interactive artworks, which can be found at interface.ufg.ac.at/christa-laurent. These artworks have ... http://codedcultures.org/at/laurent-mignonneau/ Ivan Poupyrev (Scientist / Japan, Russia) Participation: Presentation Title: Physical Interfaces and Programmable Reality Born in USSR, Ivan Poupyrev is a Researcher at Sony Computer Science Labs in Tokyo where he designs user interfaces for future digital living environments. In his research he is particularly interested in creating interfaces and technologies that can ... http://codedcultures.org/at/ivan-poupyrev/ Hisashi Muroi (Scientist / Japan) Participation: Symposium / Lecture Title: Problems of the Body beyond Coded Cultures Philosopher. Born in 1955. Graduated from the Graduate School of Kyoto University. Professor of the course of Multimedia Studies in the Faculty of Education and Human Sciences, Yokohama National University. Publications (extract): 1988a: "PostArt Ron" (On ... http://codedcultures.org/at/hisashi-muroi/ Hiroshi Yoshioka (Scientist / Japan) Participation: Symposium / Professor in Residence/ Keynote Keynote Designing Complexity: Tolerance of Complexity Hiroshi Yoshioka was born in Kyoto, Japan. He studied philosophy and aesthetics at Kyoto University. He teaches aesthetics and art theory at Kyoto University, IAMAS. He is the author of The Present Tense ... http://codedcultures.org/at/hiroshi-yoshioka/ Fumihiko Sumitomo (Curator - Researcher / Japan) Participation: Symposium / Lecture Title: Unveiling the technological process (Lecture) Fumihiko Sumitomo is currently director of the Festival for Arts and Social Technology Yokohama. Before he was a senior curator at Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (MOT), he worked for NTT InterCommunication Center (ICC) in Tokyo. ... http://codedcultures.org/at/fumihiko-sumitomo/ Christa Sommerer (Artist - Scientist / Austria) Participation: Symposium / Keynote Title: The Art and Science of Interface and Interaction Design Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau are internationally renowned media artists and researchers, they have jointly created around 20 interactive artworks, which can be found at interface.ufg.ac.at/christa-laurent. These artworks have been shown in ... http://codedcultures.org/at/christa-sommerer/ Yuko Mohri (Artist / Japan) Participation: Exhibition / Presentation Title: The execution of Mary MOHRI, an artist, was born in 1980. Her main works, shown in Japan and abroad, include "Magnetic Organ" (2003), a three-dimensional piece using powerful magnetism, "Vexations" (2005, joint work with Soichiro Mihara), a sound installation using compositions by ... http://codedcultures.org/at/yuko-mohri-2/ Yuka Shimura (Artist / Japan) Group: SHIMURABROS. (with Kentaro Shimura) Participation: Exhibition / Presentation Title: X-RAY-TRAIN - LUMIÈRE BROS. to SHIMURA BROS. Born in Yokohama, Japan in 1976. 2007 she graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art And Design London, MA Scenography. A Sister/Brother artist duo, Yuka and Kentaro SHIMURABROS. create works of ... http://codedcultures.org/at/yuka-shimura/ Walter Langelaar (Artist / Netherlands) Participation: Exhibition / Artist in Residence Title: nOtbOt Walter Langelaar is a dutch artist currently based in Rotterdam. His work stems from charcoal drawing and multichannel slideshow geekery, to manifold video-editing techniques and crude 3D animations combined with oblivious hardware hacks. Currently working in the field of post-interactive ... http://codedcultures.org/at/walter-langelaar/ Tetsuya Umeda (Artist / Japan) Participation: Exhibition / Artist in Residence Title: INTERLUDE Tetsuya Umeda is an artist currently working in Osaka, Japan. He has done several sound installation projects and performance that generates site-specific soundscape using minimal function of electric circuit/system and simple physical phenomena. Umeda has been performed in Festival Beyond ... http://codedcultures.org/at/tetsuya-umeda/ Soichiro Mihara (Artist / Japan) Participation: Exhibition / Presentation Title: moids 2.0 - acoustic emergence structurewith Kazuki Saita and Hiroko Mugibayashi Artist, developing sound structures with various technology. In his recent moids project he focuses on organic and decentralized acoustic emergence. He also has collaborated with great artists, such as composer Otomo ... http://codedcultures.org/at/soichiro-mihara/ Shiho Fukuhara (Artist / Japan) Group: BCL (with Georg Tremmel) Participation: Exhibition / Presentation Title: Common Flowers/White Out (Bio-hacking and Open-sourcing) Shiho Fukuhara received a BA(Hons) in Fine Art from Central St Martins College of Art and Design in London and continued her studies with an MA in Interaction Design at the Royal College ... http://codedcultures.org/at/shiho-fukuhara/ Saso Sedlacek (Artist / Slovenia) Paricipation: Exhibition Title: Origami Space Race There are always niches in city space, in services, laws or even the outer space that people have forgotten or never have thought about. These niches are exactly what Saso Sedlacek has been looking for. His primary interest seems to be things ... http://codedcultures.org/at/saso-sedlacek/ Kazuki Saita (Artist / Japan) Participation: Exhibition / Presentation Title: moids 2.0 - acoustic emergence structurewith Hiroko Mugibayashi and Soichiro Mihara A geek, a electronic sound enthusiast, who works in a certain electronic musical instruments' manufacturing company in Tokyo as a programmer.He is also known as a DIY musical instruments player. His role ... http://codedcultures.org/at/kazuki-saita/ Ryota Kuwakubo (Artist / Japan) Paricipation: Exhibition / Presentation Titles: Selected Works (Exhibition); Sta-colla and Nicodama (Presentation) Ryota Kuwakubo is a media artist based in Tokyo. Since 1998, after studying contemporary art and media art, he has made art works mainly by means of electronics, focusing topics appear on borders such as analog ... http://codedcultures.org/at/ryota-kuwakubo/ Martin Pichlmair (Artist - Scientist / Austria) Participation: Exhibition / Symposium Titles: Bagatelle Concrete (Exhibition); The Process and the Artefact (Lecture) Martin Pichlmair is a media artist and researcher living and working in Vienna, Austria. Since he received his doctoral degree in informatics he works as assistant professor at the Institute ... http://codedcultures.org/at/martin-pichlmair/ Margarete Jahrmann (Artist / Austria) Co-Founder of: Ludic Society Participation: Exhibition / Presentation Title: ToyGenoSonic Margarete Jahrmann (AT/CH) is an artist who embraces code, language, fashion for her work in fine arts installations and urban games. As co-founder of the Ludic Society (2006), an international affiliation on game arts and play theory (Ludics) she ... http://codedcultures.org/at/margarete-jahrmann/ Mamoru Okuno (Artist / Japan) Participation: Performance / Artist in Residence Title: etude for everyday objects Born in Osaka, 1977. Living in Japan. BFA from City University of New York (2001). In 2003, a sound work "procedure 22:05" was commissioned to be a permanent collection of Izumi City, Japan. In 2005, he toured ... http://codedcultures.org/at/mamoru-okuno/ Kentaro Shimura (Artist / Japan) Group: SHIMURABROS. (with Yuka Shimura) Participation: Exhibition / Presentation Title: X-RAY TRAIN - LUMIÈRE BROS. to SHIMURA BROS. Born in Yokohama, Japan in 1979. 2003 he graduated from Tokyo Polytechnic University, College of Art Department of Cinema. A Sister/Brother artist duo, Yuka and Kentaro SHIMURABROS. create works of motion ... http://codedcultures.org/at/kentaro-shimura/ Hiroko Mugibayashi (Artist - Scientist / Japan) Participation: Exhibition Title: moids 2.0 - acoustic emergence structurewith Kazuki Saita and Soichiro Mihara Interactive media Producer, Science writer, Media artist. CEO of AITIA Corporation of interactive media artcreation, Tokyo, Japan. Graduated from Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS) with a Master's degree in ... http://codedcultures.org/at/hiroko-mugibayashi/ UBERMORGEN.COM (Artists / AT/CH/USA) Members: lizvlx & Hans Bernhard Participation: Presentation Title: How to design hallucinatory software (The Generator Tetralogy) UBERMORGEN.COM is an artist duo created in Vienna, Austria, by lizvlx and Hans Bernhard, a founder of etoy. Behind UBERMORGEN.COM we can find one of the most unmatchable identities – controversial and iconoclast – ... http://codedcultures.org/at/ubermorgencom/ Gottfried Haider (Artist / Austria) Project: Craving (with Bernhard Garnicnig) Participation: Presentation / Associated Event Title: Craving Gottfried Haider studies Digital Arts at the University for Applied Arts Vienna. He is interested in urban sound scape theory and currently researching on the interdependencies of the algorithmic acquisition of space, its coexistent manipulation and numerology. ... http://codedcultures.org/at/gottfried-haider/ Gordan Savicic (Artist / Austria) Member of: Ludic Society Participation: Exhibition / Presentation Title: ToyGenoSonic Gordan Savicic (AT/NL) is an artist using software algorithms, experimental media and fine art for his works which include games, interactive/passive installations and speculative hardware. As a member of the Ludic Society he co-developed 'pataboards, haptic interfaces ... http://codedcultures.org/at/gordan-savicic/ Georg Tremmel (Artist / Austria) Group: BCL (with Shiho Fukuhara) Participation: Exhibition / Presentation Title: Common Flowers / White Out (Bio-hacking and Open-sourcing) Georg Tremmel studied Visual Media Art (Visuelle Mediengestaltung) at the University for Applied Art in Vienna and Interaction Design at the Royal College of Art in London, where he started his ... http://codedcultures.org/at/georg-tremmel/ exonemo (Artists / Japan) Members: Yae Akaiwa & Kensuke Sembo Participation: Exhibition Title: Danmatsu Mouse Artist unit comprising Kensuke Sembo and Yae Akaiwa. Since 1996, exonemo has presented experimental website productions, installations, and live performances by the equipment of its own making, crossing over various media, software/hardware and digital/analog. In 2006, it won Golden ... http://codedcultures.org/at/exonemo/ Bernhard Garnicnig (Artist / Austria) Project: Craving (with Gottfried Haider) Participation: Presentation / Associated Event Title: Craving Bernhard Garnicnig studies Digital Arts at the University of Applied Arts and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He is a founding member and co-curator of c17, an artist-run space in Vienna. His current work ... http://codedcultures.org/at/bernhard-garnicnig/ Exploring media-artefacts from computer gamers, created by their players. Real-world applications. (Jon Lebkowsky) Ludic artefacts are media-objects, which are produced by computer gamers. Speedruns, Machinima-films or paper objects, which imitate game objects, could be given as examples. They may be produced by a single player or in a team of players. ... http://codedcultures.org/at/aldo-tolino-beyond-play/ Reverting genetically modified blue carnations back to its natural white state using open-source DIY bio-bending methods and procedures. "Common Flowers / White Out" reverses the effects of the modification of the petal colour in carnation (Dianthus caryophyllus L.) from white to blue through genetic manipulation. By using a DIY bio-bending approach, ... http://codedcultures.org/at/common-flowers/ A Geo-Spatial Sound Composition for a Listener Moving Freely through Deserted Urban Landscapes Craving is a site specific spatial sound composition set up by the two artists in the public space of Vienna’s Donaucity district. There they arranged musical and spoken sound fragments inspired by the late Sarah Kane’s play "Crave". ... http://codedcultures.org/at/craving/ My "etude" is a study of little sounds that can be generated by everyday objects. The performance is realized with unsynchronized loop-samplers that capture and layer the sound, one by one, forming one image to another. The word "etude" is often used to refer to short musical compositions emphasizing certain aspects ... http://codedcultures.org/at/etude-for-everyday-objects/ Complexity goes beyond imagination of a single element so easily. The boundary between moids 2.0 and the surrounding environment melts down. Finally, it's engulfed our wish of control and moids 2.0 become the existance that is unknown and nameless yet. The presented work moids 2.0 is the second version of our ... http://codedcultures.org/at/moids/ This project was created to challenge one of the historical constraints / codes of film production / motion imagery. All motion imagery taken by camera is 2 dimensional though crucial developments in film have been made since "Arrive d’un train la Ciotat" ("Arrival of a train" 1895, the first film ... http://codedcultures.org/at/shimurabros/ An exploration of the complexities of formulating imaginative processes and some of the risks artistic agency undertakes by strategically taking not yet known paths. These un-formed paths invest a physical or territorial site that is always also a discursive site. I have been travelling a lot this year. The worries and ... http://codedcultures.org/at/verina-gfader-i-prefer-not-to-use-predictable-paths/ Tsumura Kosuke x Kaneuji Teppei, Discharge Mode to Order, 2008 FEC was founded in 2007 to provide the platform for artists who are active in East Asia. All projects are artists' production oriented - FEC supports their activities. The East Asian contemporary art scene becomes rapidly famous all over the world and ... http://codedcultures.org/at/far-east-contemporaries/ Photo credit: Bairdcast Media - A History of Machine Translation (past work) Yuko Mohri uses a scanner as a plate with salad and also a printer with four wheels which runs along a platform...? Everyday machines, such as computer devices for instance, are specifically designed to work with data; on the other ... http://codedcultures.org/at/bairdcast/ Marcel Duchamp is famour for being the first artist to assign artistic value to mass-produced goods like urinals and water glasses, and for being a fore-runner of what would be later referred to as "interactive art" (Huhtamo 2004). The artistic act was assembling and re-framing artefacts. In his shadow, many ... http://codedcultures.org/at/the-process-and-the-artefact/ Manfred Faßler Information as / is Proto-Culture Across computer- and neurosciences, the arts, theories of design, and techno- or media-sciences, a research of the becoming or emergence of form is springing up. Its central question is: how are forms related to the complexity of streams of matter, energy and informations? A kind ... http://codedcultures.org/at/creating-proto-culture-infogenic-art/ The digital civilization is drastically transforming our feeling of "reality". But we must remember the problems of "the body" when we start to think bout new culture. What is forgotten in the current pop culture and digital culture are the problems of the "body". The way of speaking as if the ... http://codedcultures.org/at/problems-of-the-body-beyond-coded-cultures/ Reverting genetically modified blue carnations back to its natural white state using open-source DIY bio-bending methods and procedures. "Common Flowers / White Out" reverses the effects of the modification of the petal colour in carnation (Dianthus caryophyllus L.) from white to blue through genetic manipulation. By using a DIY bio-bending approach, ... http://codedcultures.org/at/bcl/ The desktop has a dying experience!!? Through smashing, cutting, slicing and burning the computer mouse, the movement of the mouse pointer on the desktop shows the screaming of the dying mouse. This is a software art piece showing an image of the connection between material and information. In the moment of destroying ... http://codedcultures.org/at/danmatsumouse/ Complexity goes beyond imagination of a single element so easily. The boundary between moids 2.0 and the surrounding environment melts down. Finally, it's engulfed our wish of control and moids 2.0 become the existance that is unknown and nameless yet. The presented work moids 2.0 is the second version of our ... http://codedcultures.org/at/exhibition-5/ The Project challenges Japanese scientists in the manufacturing of origami space aircrafts. It stimulates and contributes to the future inventions in space technologies by applying open source strategies in space. Origami Space Race is an initiative project for an alternative space program based on open source strategies. It is a race ... http://codedcultures.org/at/origami-space-race/ This project was created to challenge one of the historical constraints / codes of film production / motion imagery. All motion imagery taken by camera is 2 dimensional though crucial developments in film have been made since "Arrive d’un train la Ciotat" ("Arrival of a train" 1895, the first film ... http://codedcultures.org/at/x-ray-train-lumiere-bros-to-shimura-bros/ Photo credit: kazana / Ogaki Biennale 2008, Photo by Ota Ikkoshi (IAMAS) mixed media installation Altering fans, televisions, and other everyday appliances, converting their functions into something utterly diff erent, UMEDA creates objects freed from their original meanings. His works, created to suit the spaces in which they will be installed, use ... http://codedcultures.org/at/interlude/ http://80.109.17.21/?p=173 http://codedcultures.org/at/submission/ Photo credit: Bairdcast Media - A History of Machine Translation (past work) Yuko Mohri uses a scanner as a plate with salad and also a printer with four wheels which runs along a platform...? Everyday machines, such as computer devices for instance, are specifically designed to work with data; on the other ... http://codedcultures.org/at/the-execution-of-mary/