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Out of curiousness and boredom we deconstructed and short circuited the hardware of an old computer, suprisingly the computer generated a beautiful visual output without programming. That was the beginning of 5VOLTCORE six years ago. Meanwhile we built a Robot that generates creative aesthetic information by shortcircuiting himself, a machine that manipulates the natural growth of a plant, a self-fulfilling cybernetic system, that plays with the senses and perceptions of the user and we save information noninvasive, in a living bonsai tree.

In a short performative presentation we will show an overview of our past and future works and our playful access to media art.

5VOLTCORE (Austria)
Ulrich Emanuel Andel was born 1979 in Vienna, Austria. At the age of 22 he started his studies at the University of Applied Arts and focused on “Visual Media Design” under the supervision of Peter Weibel and Tom Fürstner. Also 2005 Emanuel Andel organized a series of events to encourage the culture of VJs in Vienna called “Equaleyes”. From 2005 to 2006 he spent a year squatting in London and studying at the Ravensbourne College of Communication. In 2006 Emanuel was co-founder of the media art documentation platform tagr.tv. He lives and works in Vienna.

Christian Gützer’s career began in the metalworking industry, where he trained as a machine tool manufacturer and qualified at the age of 22. After this, he also studied “Visual Media Design” in Peter Weibel’s class at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. He graduated in 2007 with his work “Grow – Früchte des Kronos” (”grow – fruits of the kronos”) which engages with the question of artificially manipulating the growth of plants and the implications of this. 2003 Emanuel Andel and Christian Gützer founded the art group 5VOLTCORE and created works that deal with the behavior of closed and formal systems and their manipulation. They showed their works at various festivals from Madrid to Tokyo and won the Transmediale Award in 2005.