26 july 02 -- garage -- 19:00
> start a new game - opening of the festival

1.Installations / Games


Low-Tech-Robots (Christian Faubel, Sebastian Noth, Bochum/Halle)


Robots become due to analogue navigation autonomous crawling animals. A robot learns to move with the help of four resistors, four capacitors and four converters. Haptic, light and acoustic sensors control the creatures. The aim is the exploration of the borders between technique and toys.
http://derstrudel.ath.cx


pingpongcountryart (Bijan Dawallu and Richard Kurc)
images and objects from the PPCworld


See our "Country Folks", be our Country-material. Jump around, play and be part of it But watch the rules and stay clean!

Sehen Sie unser "Landvolk", seien Sie unser Landstoff. H¸pfen sie rund und teilen Sie sich mit uns. Aber: Beachte die Regeln und bleib sauber!

Venez et voyez notre peuple campagnard. Soyez notre materiel paysanal. Sauter haut et faites parti de notre jeux! Pourtant faites attention aus rËglement et soyez sobre!

Zie ons landelijke lui, wees ons landsmannenmateriaal. Hup rond, speel en wees deel van het spel. Let op de regels en blijf schoon!
OlÈ, hombre, mira nuestro gente del paÌs, sea nuestro material del campo. Salte alrededor y sea parte del juego. Pero mire las reglas y permanezca limpio!


Atari Noise (Arcangel Constantini, Mexico)
Game as an art object

An old 2600 Atari video computer system is hacked and modified to become an audiovisual noise pattern generator keyboard. An interference made between the ROM (game cartridge) the stella chip (processor) and some other components result in an almost infinite quantity of RANDOM audiovisual noise patterns that can be played in real time. The user of atari-noise, by pressing the keyboard push buttons, generates a deconstruction of the game information. The game's rules and tactics disappear no more - game over or points to make - the project is an immerson into the infinity of the resulting patterns into order / chaos, existenze, zen. The user has no control over the patterns. That's an accident created by interference they can control, by a certain degree, the behavior of this patterns. Interference is a process from nature's code deeply inserted in every entity of the universe. Evolution has thought this process to human kind by shaping our surroundings we are learning to control the code.
http://www.atari-noise.com/


Painstation (playing object by Tilman Reiff and Volker Morawe, Köln) (tbc)


Yes, the painstation does exist. And it's not only a construction, a machine, an automaton. No. It's rather the prophet of a future, not necessarily peaceful, but more-efficency-civilisation. The painstation is an arcade cabinet. The opponents stand facing each other. The duel is based on pong, the well known game of console tennis from the early days. The instructions are easily explained: The player’s right hand uses a knob to control his pad. The left hand has to remain on the PEU (Pain-Execution-Unit), so it creates an electric circuit. The game can start. Moving the paddle vertically the ball must be subtly returned into the opponent’s direction. If a player misses the ball, it’s not only annoying but also painful. This slip causes massive anguish. How massive depends on which PIS (Pain-Inflictor-Symbol) the lost ball hits: heat, lashes or electric shocks all of different duration and combination torment the left hand (the new name of "pang” comes to the authors’ minds). In case one of the competitors lifts his hand off the PEU - either out of painoverload or he blacks out - he loses the duel. And sorry to say, he has to bear the "loser’s brunt”. The winner gets it all: the respect, the booze and the sexual attention. The next time someone urges you politely to choose the weapon, choose the painstation.
http://www.painstation.de


stairway to heaven (Die TonLeiter) (Christopher Bauder. Berlin)


A ladder normally has only one function and that is to extend physical reach. The ladder is only taken out for a short use. After that it's put back in a dark corner again, where it resides, ignored.
If the ladder is extended with a melodic function, it will develop into a real musical instrument. The ordinary ladder transforms into a sound ladder. Stepping on a bar of the ladder creates a sound or tone which is different from rung to rung. So you can create a piece of music by stepping up and down on the ladder. Together with a partner you can even play a duet.
http://www.tonleiter.com


Scooter High Tech (Christian H. Cordes. Berlin)


A toy, a play situation and a playful action. An over dimensional scooter to look at and to use. Scooter racing at your own risk
http://www.architektenrepublik.de/Roller.html


2,3+12 (Installation by Alexej Paryla. Berlin)

Basis is a simple board game. A fixed room contains a gambling table with a board game. Depending on luck and skill the room around the player changes. Every move, every constellation of playing figures changes the parameters of the room. Light and projections, music and sounds are controlled by a computer reacting to the player’s moves.


2. Online / Games


_] [ad] [Dressed in a Skin C.ode_ (mez aka Mary-Anne Breeze. Australien)

The online projects documents selections of writings or, to use the artist's terminology, "wurks" - highly condensed pieces written in "mezangelle", an invented hybrid language, which mixes syntactical snippets of programming languages, network protocols and markup code with the English language. The resulting texts can be read in multiple, often contradictory ways due to their elaborate use of ambiguity and compound ('portmanteau') words noted in rectangular brackets, thus resembling regular and Boolean expressions in commandline programs and programming languages. In contrast to a merely ornamental code chic, this hybrid language is used to expose and deconstruct the epistemological politics engendered into seemingly "ne!utral", technical codes. It is poetically dense, involving and difficult, but also humorous.
http://www.cddc.vt.edu/host/netwurker/


Connex I/0 (Matze Schmidt, Sebastian Stegner, Sascha Pogacar. Berlin/Kassel)

Gaming and collaboration for the open writing space. The collaborators use a text pool, which is filled by them and from which a projected text film is sampled via a game console. An audio reader can also be filled with text material via the console. The samples are then read by a speech synthesizer. The user has access to the text pool both locally and via www. An optoacoustic performance installation
http://www.c-io.de


Footbagmasters (kyokubi.com. Potsdam)


Kyokubi is a world full of little games. Footbagmasters is only the beginning. A homage to the schoolyards of this country.
http://www.kyokubi.com


Hands (Dane. Großbritannien)


Ever worried how you’d communicate if you’d lost your voice? Well, worry no more as the handycom will enable you to communicate silently and efficiently. It is also a handy way of chatting in noisy environments such as warehouse parties. And handycom is only one of many exciting products at handyhands.
http://machinecorporation.com/hands/


I Know Where Bruce Lee Lives (skop.com. Berlin)


"I Know Where Bruce Lee Lives" is an audiovisual online remixer using samples of Bruce Lee-movies. It portrays the legend of Bruce Lee, the invincible Asian warrior, who in his popularity has become a cultural icon. The piece utilizes different visual and acoustical elements of KungFu-movies and allows the user to playfully deconstruct the narratives and myths surrounding the Martial Arts-legend Bruce Lee. Different scenes of the Kung Fu-master and his film-opponents can be triggered, scratched and remixed via mouse and keyboard. Several music-tracks can be chosen as an audio-background while typographic animations support the frantic fight sequences. These animations are actual transcriptions of the various sounds into equivalent Chinese characters. The iconography of these characters fuses with the crude charm of Martial Arts-movies and their dodgy gangster talk dialogues. Users can interact thereby with movie-elements in an experimental way, become a Flash-movie director and create their own KungFu-clip!
http://www.skop.com/brucelee


www.innot.org (innothna artcomm. Spanien)


innothna artcomm. offers a selection of web playgrounds exploring genres, techniques, possibilities of graphic display, narrative structures, programming, user-interfaces, rhythms, strategies, principles and mechanisms of games. Do you want to play with me?
http://www.innot.org


./Logicaland (re-p./m.ash/unrast. Österreich)


./logicaland] is a project study for visualizing our world’s complex economical, political and social systems. [./logicaland] tries to engage people into strategies of raising human sensibility and responsibility within the global networked society. the challenge is to develop ideas, tools and visualizations that fit the requirements of complex correlating systems and our world's complex participative environment. [./logicaland v0.1] participative global simulation [./logicaland] v0.1 is the first attempt of a work in progress to realize a prototype of a global simulation that is to be controlled by a community of unlimited participants.
Based on a scientific global world model of the mid-seventies, modified and hacked to fit our concepts, we developed a tool that facilitates people to take part in a simulation, unlike tools in the scientific field which are neither participative nor public.
The main idea is to provide a public web-based world-simulation within a participative environment, where all users have equal influence on the system. Everyone with internet access should be able to participate in [./logicaland]. One user's influence on the system is minimal since it is a fraction of all participants' actions. only if a lot of users follow similar strategies, serious change can be achieved.
http://www.logicaland.net


Magnus-Opus (Nigel Helyer, Jon Drummond. Australien)


Phone users be warned. Each time you dial a number, you have performed a musical piece and may have infringed the international copyright of the composers. Sound artists Jon Drummond and "Dr Sonique" have done the unthinkable - rubber stamped the "melody" of every possible telephone number combination as their own. Their Magnus-Opus is a playful way of challenging copyright law, which Dr Sonique - better known as artist Dr Nigel Helyer - says often benefits the "corporates" before creators of artistic works. Sixteen two-note chords were thrown into an algorithmic generator, which produced 10 billion melodies. "It is not without reason, therefore, that we claim to be the world's most prolific composers," the site proclaims. Coincidentally, it says, some of the melodies - copyrighted in 1974 in London - correspond to tones used in phones, modems and other Internet devices. Anyone can plug in their number and see if their melody is in use. If so, anyone who dials it is infringing the artists' copyright. The site provides application forms for licence agreements which can be filled out.
The work, Helyer says, "turns the power relationship on its head". "It comes from someone at the bottom of the food chain, speaking from the point of view of someone at the top."
http://www.magnus-opus.com


Possessed (boredom.research. Großbritannien)


Possessed is a web based project exploring our relationship with unexplained digital phenomenon.
Step 1: download a spook generator to create a digital spook
Step 2: follow the instructions in about spook generator to create your spook
Step 3: revisit the site to download an appropriate spook player for your digital spook
Step 4: follow the instructions in about spook player to initiate your spook online
The spook player will enable the playback of the digital entity. Many spooks develop over an extended period of time and periodically call their users to revisit this web site in order to influence and progress their development. This web site is a central resource enabling you to exchange & share your digital spook experiences. Each digital spook produced by the spook generator is unique, having its own characteristics and personality. The digital spooks develop over time in response to your interaction. After the first couple of weeks your spook may start to play pong or other retro computer games.
http://www.possessed.uk.co


soundtoys (stanza. Großbritannien)


In recognition of the pioneering experimental works continually being produced by artists for the internet Soundtoys.net has been established to provide a space for the exhibition of exciting new works by a growing community of audio visual artists, while also providing a forum for discourse around new technologies and the nature of soundtoys. The site is intended to provide a meeting point for this growing community of artists and users, and in addition to the exhibition of audio visual projects, the site contains areas for artists interviews, links to resources, and texts by contributing writers where serious issues around interactive arts, audio visual synthesis, generative art, and a history of interactivity are discussed. Hopefully it is a fun and entertaining site to visit, while also providing valuable information for all parties.
http://www.soundtoys.net


space navigable music (Lab[au]. Belgium)


an online 3D environment interacting with the user through its navigation. This interaction consists in colour recomputation, non-linear image sequences, sound, camera editing. The user creates an acoustic space by drag and dropping sounds into space, editing these sounds, recording its spatial position, and then playing back the recorded positions’ sequence, thus generating a navigable music video clip.
http://www.lab-au.com/space


Webwürfelwerkstatt (akuvido. Berlin)


General idea of the project Web Wuerfel Werkstatt (Web Cube) is the creation of virtual and symbolical space in the Internet and sign reflection of real life. For a basis of navigating system the cube is taken spread out in space on 6 parties. The square is a symbol of a civilization, and the cube is a symbol the Internet of a civilization - virtual space. The surface of a cube is filled links (objects), which are represented as a symbol. Symbol it is the shortest way in understanding of transfer of the information. Reflection of sign system for the people, animals and words, and also association of the visual image with sound. The game, where the user acts in the role of the founder of own music and visual image.
http://www.akuvido.de


3. CD-Rom / Games


Synreal (public netbase. Austria)


"Synreal" means artistic use and diverse workshops, which dealt with the level-editor of the game “Unreal”. The project was realised by Public Netbase together with international artists from the new and participative media within the exhibition "Synworld". Synreal is based upon Unreal, one of the most successful and advanced computer games. With the help of the level editor the artists could create new environments, textures, sounds and bots.
http://synworld.t0.or.at/
http://synreal.netbase.org/


Newton Memory (Nelson Ribeiro Alves. Berlin)


The game is a homage to the town quarter Newton in Sidney. The well known memory game functions as an instrument to recall and reflects playfully memories.


Actionist Respoke (Michael Janoschek, Rüdiger Schlömer. Aachen)


Actionist Respoke is an interactive sound interface, that visualizes the music of “Mouse on Mars” in an unusual way.
http://www.stromgasse.de


anschließend


> phon.o (Shitkatapult. Berlin)


Live-Electronics/DJ-Set +Pixelvideo
http://www.shitkatapult.com


> liveperformances
von skop (I Know Where Bruce Lee Lives) und Connex I/0