news, events & activities

“Subnet” installation & workshop at Lab30

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:03:52 +0200

Lab 30 Media Arts Festival, Augsburg, Germany

Subnet: We live within a vast network of technological devices, attached to the walls of our homes, workplaces, and streets, like living vines and wildflowers. Fuse boxes, alarm panels, telephone cabinets, electricity meters, intercoms, and other mysterious equipment are connected throughout the landscape in a sprawling root system of conduits, cables, and pipes. They communicate and conspire, subconsciously monitoring conditions, exchanging unknown signals and the pure emotional hum of electric power fields. Yet most people pass by them without a second glance or thought. Jeff Mann's electronic installation »Subnet« augments these modest wonders with microcontrollers, sensors, household bric-a-brac, enigmatic mechanisms, and strange sounds, and brings to light the mysterious and enchanted life-energy of this technological ecosystem.

Workshop is taking place on Saturday, Oct 27th, 1.00 till 7.00 p.m., Große Halle

Electric Art Lab at xxxxx research institute

Sat, 16 Jun 2007 22:00:46 +0200

14:00 - xxxxx, pickledfeet, Linienstrasse 54, Berlin 10119 - entrance fee €15,--
http://1010.co.uk/workshop.html
Our ancestors believed that ordinary objects could contain energies, spirits, intelligence, and the spark of life. Today, tens of billions of tiny electronic processors permeate our reality, embedded in phones, watches, appliances, toys, cars, factory equipment, and our entire technological infrastructure. In this workshop, we'll look at the microcontroller - the basic element of this distributed network of intelligent objects. These "computers on a chip" are small, inexpensive, simple, and unlike their desktop/laptop cousins, are designed for interaction with the physical world. How can creative individuals use microcontrollers to produce evocative, compelling objects and experiences that go beyond typical mass-produced consumer products? We'll look at examples and discuss how artists have incorporated embedded intelligence into sculpture, installation, and performance. We'll compare various microcontroller systems, and using the open-source "Arduino" platform, we'll experiment with building activated objects that include sensors, processing, and movement. We'll also look at using the microcontroller as a physical interface for audio/video environments like Pure Data, and for remote interaction over the Internet.

Open Studio at Tesla

Thu, 1 Feb 2007 02:17:13 +0100

I’m currently an artist-in-residence at Tesla in Berlin, developing my “Equipment for Living” project. During the Transmediale, I’m having an open studio - Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, from 6pm - 11pm. Drop by, hang out, chat, and see some of the work-in-progress. My residency continues until the end of March.

LF:TK at 4th Seoul International Media Art Biennale

Thu, 19 Oct 2006 10:21:20 +0200

The LiveForm:Telekinetics project is on display in Korea at the Seoul Museum of Art, October 17 to December 10. The installation includes a documentary video and a display of the “telepresence picnic” objects.

LF:TK at ISEA 2006 San Jose, Aug. 5-13

Tue, 2 May 2006 02:10:24 +0200

Michelle Teran and I travel to San Jose to present LiveForm:Telekinetics, at ISEA 2006, August 5-13.

Equipment for Living

Sat, 1 Apr 2006 02:18:38 +0200

I’m currently in Berlin, working on my latest project called Equipment for Living.

LF:TK at Say It Now, Vooruit, Feb. 17-25

Wed, 15 Feb 2006 02:19:56 +0100

The LiveForm:Telekinetics Laboratory and Test Kitchen takes over the main stage in the café of Vooruit in Ghent, Belgium, for a week of cooking classes and connected picnics.

LF:TK at ARCO Art Fair, Madrid, Feb. 9-13

Wed, 1 Feb 2006 03:28:16 +0100

LiveForm:Telekinetics presents an installation at the ARCO Art Fair in Madrid, Spain. We’re at the Fondacion Telefonica booth along with other winners of the VIDA 8.0 Art and Artificial Life International Competition.

Interactive Installation with Roberto Paci Dalò

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 03:45:03 +0100

I’m working with Italian artist Roberto Paci Dalò to create several interactive works for a multi-room installation entitled “ Greuelmärchen”. I’m doing control software in Max/MSP/SoftVNS, and using my own custom electronics interface boards for sensors and servo motors. In the different rooms you will find: a table you can draw on with chalk, where your gestures will affect a video/sound projection; a clock whose ticking changes speed as you move around the room; a small room full of skinless mechanical cats; a dark room that responds to the light of a pocket lamp with sounds and robotic movement; and various other delights... The work is commissioned by the Internationale Heiner Müller Gesellschaft, and will be installed in an apartment building in Berlin in February.

LF:TK wins at Art & Artificial Life Competition

Tue, 1 Nov 2005 04:42:54 +0100

Michelle Teran and I have won second prize for LiveForm:Telekinetics in the VIDA 8.0 Art and Artificial Life Competition!

The jury for the Vida 8.0 competition in Madrid – Chris Csikszentmihalyi (USA), Daniel García Andújar (Spain), Daniel Canogar (España), José Carlos Mariátegui (Peru), Fiona Raby (UK) and Sally Jane Norman (France / New Zealand) – reviewed 69 artworks that utilise artificial life concepts and techniques, received from 23 countries. The Telefonica Foundation in Spain awarded the 2nd prize of €7000 to LiveForm:Telekinetics.