SELECTION OF EXHIBITIONS & RESEARCH PROJECTS
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+ Elemental Sky [2023]
Elemental Sky is an installation intended to emulate episodes of thunderstorms and tempests in low resolution, and elaborated to be experienced immersively as a sensitive space.
It is part of the series of Environmental Devices developed in continuity by fabric | ch since the 2010s.-
The work has been commissioned by curators Juri Steiner and Anne-Outram Mott and acquired by the Établissement cantonal d'assurance contre les risques naturels (ECA), in the Swiss canton of Vaud.
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On permanent exhibition at ECA's headquarters (Lausanne), since 2023.
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documentation [pdf]
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+ Atomized (re-)Staging [2022/23]
Automated, ever-evolving digital exhibition, dynamically built out of over 200 digitized artworks from two past landmark exhibitions: Iconoclash (2002) at ZKM, and Les immatériaux (1985) at Centre Pompidou. The project is an attempt to re-exhibit past exhibitions and restage/recombine them in a new form, digitally. It has been created in the context of the European research Beyond Matter.
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Atomized (re-)Staging has been commissioned by ZKM (Karlsruhe), and Centre Pompidou (Paris).
With the support of Pro Helvetia, Canton de Vaud, and Ville de Lausanne.
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Exhibition during Matter, Non-Matter, Anti-Matter at the Zentrum für Kunst und Medien | ZKM, 2022/23. Curator: Livia Nolasco-Rozsas, and during Moviment (Chapter 9) exhibition-festival at Centre Pompidou, 2023. Curators: Marcella Lista and Philippe Bettinelli.
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documentation [pdf]
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+ (Re-)Viewing Paik [2022]
Early results of the joint research based on the project A(*)F (standing for Atomized (adj.) Functioning), between fabric | ch, the Nam June Paik Art Center (Yongin, South Korea) and ECAL / University of Art and Design, Lausanne (HES-SO), on "viewing rooms" and "digital exhibitions".
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The research investigates the means of digitally transposing N.J. Paik's works from the museum's collection in order to exhibit them remotely in an automated and immersive manner.
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Lecture by Sang Ae Park (Head of curatorial Dpt., NJPAC), C. Babski (fabric | ch) and P. Keller (ECAL), during the Swiss-Korea Science Club organized by Swissnex Seoul.
With the support of HES-SO and RCDAV.
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documentation [pdf]
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+ Satellite Daylight, 47°33'N [2021]
Light installation acquired by the Haus der Elektronischen Künste (HEK) for its Media and Net Art Collection.
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Satellite Daylight, 47°33'N is an addition to an ongoing series of distinct and unique artworks. It consists in a sample of daylight: one hour of terrestrial illumination, transmitted 'live' from the latitude of 47 degrees and 33 minutes North (47°33'N). Moving at the speed of a virtual satellite (7541m/s), it plays the whole spectrum of light variations in an abstract manner.
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Exhibition during Shaping the Invisible World at the Haus der elektronische Künste (Basel), 2021. Curator: Boris Magrini.
Part of the Haus der Elektronischen Künste (HEK) collection, permanent exhibition at HEK (Basel), since 2021.
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documentation [pdf]
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+ Atomized (curatorial) Functioning [2019]
Software piece for automated spatial and functional exploration of given environmental conditions.
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Part of a serie of works under the name A(*)F (standing for Atomized (adj.) Functioning), that involve machine learning and rule-based autonomous design procedures.
Automated curating and exhibition scenography, based on rules of association and display established by the artworks to be exhibited themselves.
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fabric | ch collection. With the support of Haus der elektronischen Künste, State of Vaud (Switzerland).
Exhibition in the context of Entangled Realities, Living with Artificial Intelligence at the House of Electronic Arts (Basel), 2019 and during Art and Science in the Age of Artificial Intelligence at the National Museum of China (Beijing), 2019.
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documentation [pdf]
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+ Environmental Devices (1997-2017) [2018]
On the occasion of 20 years of activities, fabric | ch presents a solo exhibition on 2000 sqm in a disused factory.
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A selection of installations, "devices", projections and documentary videos that show the studio's interest in creating non-standard living environments over time.
Environment understood as a "(...) set of elements - biotic or abiotic, natural or artificial - that surrounds an individual or a species and some of which contribute directly to its needs." (Wikipedia). In fabric | ch's works, these environments are often abiotic and artificial.
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Solo exhibition at the Kunsthalle Ephémère (Lausanne), 2018.
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documentation [pdf]
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+ Satellite Daylight 66°24'S [2018]
Artificial lighting device, part of the ongoing serie of Satellite Daylights.
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Satellite Daylight, 66°24'S is a sample of daylight: one hour of terrestrial illumination, transmitted directly from latitude 66 degrees and 24 minutes south, at the Antarctic border (66°24'S). Moving at the speed of a virtual satellite (7541m/s), it plays the whole spectrum of light variations along seasons in an abstract way.
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fabric | ch collection. Exhibition at the Kunsthalle Ephémère (Lausanne), 2018.
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documentation [pdf]
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+ Cloud of Cards [2017-2018]
Cloud of Cards (Kit) is the main outcome of the design research Inhabiting & Interfacing the Cloud(s) (2017) led at ECAL. Two books and a website present the results and artifacts (2018).
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Cloud of Cards consists in four artifacts (ABCD):
A) 19" Living Rack is a domestic 19" cabinet, with various combinations of heterogenous functions. B) Processing (CoC) Library is the combination of several librariries dedicated to file storage and manipulation. It was ported in the Processing langugage. C) 5 Folders Cloud is an alternative version of the cloud that demonstrates the use of the Processing (CoC) Library. D) 5 Connected Objects is another exemplary implementation of the library in the form of an Internet of Things (IoT) set of objects.
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Fund: University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Western Switzerland (HES-SO), ECAL (Lausanne).
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Exhibition at the Haus der elektronischen Künste (Basel), 2015 and Centre Culturel Suisse (Paris), 2017.
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documentation [pdf]
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+ White Oblique [2015]
Scenography for the exhibition "Poetics and Politics of Data" at the Haus der elektronische Künste (H3K). In collaboration with Sabine Himmelsbach, curator and director of H3K.
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White Oblique (of curiosities) consists in a long exhibition wall that articulates the "open space" of the museum, and that is expanded to constitute a "third space" inside the "white cube". It thus becomes a passage, so as an archive. This cabinet of curiosities presents the current state of development of the design research Inhabiting and Interfacing the Cloud(s), conducted at ECAL.
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Fund: Haus der elektronische Künste (Basel, Switzerland), ECAL (Lausanne).
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Exhibition at the Haus der elektronischen Künste (Basel), 2015.
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documentation [pdf]
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+ Datadroppers & Studio Station [2015-2016]
Online tool to handle public data (drop and pick functions), in a public way.
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Data commune and potential micronation that comes with its own flag, Datadroppers is an online service that provides the ability to share and use all static or dynamic data, becoming thenceforth public data that are freely accessible.
The service is built around a minimum set of rules, it is "unsocial" and "unprofiled": there are no login and password, no terms of service, no profiling, no "friends", etc.
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Exhibition in the context of "Politics and Politics of Data", H3K (Basel, Switzerland), 2015. Curator: Sabine Himmlesbach.
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documentation [pdf]
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+ Inhabiting and Interfacing the Cloud(s) [2014-2017]
Design research between ECAL, ECAL-EPFL Lab & HEAD-Genève. It is jointly directed between Patrick Keller and Nicolas Nova.
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The aim of the project is to explore "counter-proposals" to the current expression of "cloud computing" and data centers, particularly in their forms intended for private individuals and end users ("Personal Cloud"). The outcome of the research, which will include open-source artifacts, will be published in 2017.
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Exhibition in the context of "Politics and Politics of Data", H3K (Basel, Switzerland), 2015. Curator: Sabine Himmlesbach.
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+ Deterritorialized Daylight [2013]
Evolutionary luminous artefact and artificial daylight based on the Deterritorialized Living open data feeds.
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Deterritorialized Daylight is an abstract, reverse engineered day that develops strange behaviors: daylight is always "on" but at different intensities (continuously oscillating between dusk, dawn, sunny day, cloudy day, etc.), nighttime therefore never occurs. The unique day that takes place within it doesn't have a start, nor an end. It is continuous.
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fabric | ch collection. Exhibition during "Soleils numériques" at the Festival Acces(s) (Pau, France), 2013. Curator: Ewen Chardronnet.
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documentation [pdf]
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+ Deterritorialized Living [2013]
Artificial, "geo-engineered" troposphere (livable part of the atmosphere) delivered in the form of open data feeds. Created during a residency at the Tsinghua University (Beijing).
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Deterritorialized Living is an open source artificial troposphere that reverses our causal relationship to the natural rhythms of day and night, air quality, seasons, time. It is a “man made” environment where the atmosphere is the effect, continuously shaped from the global activities on the networks produced by humans and robots.
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fabric | ch collection. With the support of Pro Helvetia.
Exhibited as an Associated Project during the Lisbon Architecture Triennale - Close, Closer - (Lisbon, Portugal), and the Festival Acces(s) (Pau, France), 2013. Curators: Beatrice Galilee and Ewen Chardronnet.
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documentation [pdf]
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+ Globale Surveillance [2012]
Architectural device created for a theatrical performance premiered at the Comédie de Caen, (France) National Drama Centre (CDN), then at MA Scène Nationale (Montbéliard, France).
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Globale Surveillance is a joint project between French writer and essayist Eric Sadin and fabric | ch. It is a theatrical performance aroud the subjet of contemporary surveillance and the way it transforms society at large.
Actors are Laure Wolf and Gurshad Shaheman.
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With the support of the Swiss Office for Cultural Affairs, Pro Helvetia, the City of Lausanne, the Canton de Vaud and the Dicréam.
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documentation [pdf]
movie on Vimeo (by NOhista)
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+ (Paranoid) Shelter [2012]
(Paranoid) Shelter is an architectural device and installation that reassesses the "myth" of the (architectural) shelter, articulated, determined and shaped by a redundant environment of surveillance and monitoring technologies. The device can be presented either as an autonomous installation of its own or as an environment for a theatrical (Globale Surveillance).
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fabric | ch collection. With the support of the Swiss Office for Cultural Affairs, Pro Helvetia, the City of Lausanne, the Canton de Vaud.
Exhibited at the EPFL-ECAL Lab (Renens, Switzerland) during a residency and in Caen (France) in the context of Eric Sadin's theatrical, Globale Surveillance.
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documentation [pdf]
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+ Arctic Opening [2010]
Light installation created for the MIMI 2010 festival, on the Frioul island (Marseilles, France).
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Arctic Opening is a temporary installation that illuminates a Mediterranean landscape at sunset to extend daylight in an artificial "second day". Software developed for this project analyzes weather data north of the Arctic Circle to allow the twenty LED tubes to reproduce the modulations of the Arctic sun until the dawn of the next day.
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With the support of Marseille-Provence 2013, AMI and Lumens8.
Exhibition at the MIMI Festival (Marseilles), 2010.
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documentation [pdf]
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+ I-Weather Apps [2010]
I-Weather applications for iPhone, iPad and Android mobile phones.
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Mobile artificial climate based on the open-source climate I-Weather. Applications for users permanently or temporarily deterritorialized.
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Exhibition at the 2010 01SJ Biennial (San Francisco).
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documentation [pdf]
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+ I-Weather v. 2009 [2009]
Update of the artificial climate I-Weather, created in collaboration with Philippe Rahm in 2001. New wavelengths spectrum, based on the latest medical research on light therapy and chronobiology.
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Exhibition during the 01SJ Biennial (San Francisco).
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documentation [pdf]
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+ Satellite Daylight, 46°28'N [2007]
Light installation acquired by Nestlé for its contemporary art collection.
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Satellite Daylight, 46°28'N is a sample of daylight: one hour of terrestrial illumination, transmitted 'live' from the latitude of 46 degrees and 28 minutes North (46°28'N). Moving at the speed of a virtual satellite (7541m/s), it plays the whole spectrum of light variations in an abstract way.
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Fund: Nestlé Switzerland (Vevey, Switzerland)
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Exhibition during Sensing Places at the Haus für elektronische Künste (Basel), 2012. Curator: Sabine Himmelsbach.
Part of Nestlé art collection, permanent exhibition at Nestlé's world headquarters (Vevey), since 2007.
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documentation [pdf]
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+ Interférences dimensionnelles [2007]
Created for the exhibition « 70 architect(e)s » (Montreal, 19.09-21.10.2007), this architectural « matrix » combines, at various scales, spatial, temporal and climatic dimensions of a series of virtual and actual places. Athens, Brasilia, Dubai, the intersection of the arctic circle and the date line change, Montreal. Five interconnected referential places to propose new spatial situations.
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fabric | ch collection. With the support of Pro Form
Exhibition at the Design Center of Montreal [2007]
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documentation [pdf]
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+ Perpetual (Tropical) Sunshine [2006-2008]
Installation based on dimensional manipulations
Architectural space informed by a displaced tropical sun, defined by heat, distant place and time zones.
Abstract and never-ending, planetary form of day and of summer, diffused by a "spatial" screen composed of several hundreds of infrared light bulbs.
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fabric | ch collection. With the support of the City of Lyon, the Federal Office of Cultural Affairs (OFC-BAK Switzerland), OSRAM.
Exhibitions at Lyon Lumières Festival (Lyon), 2006, at Festival Emergences (Montpellier), 2007, at Article Biennial (Stavanger), 2007, at the Swiss Art Awards (Basel), 2008; at the Nuits Blanches of Paris, 2008 and Madrid, 2009, at the Transat Festival (Lausanne), 2012, and MAC Créteil (Paris), 2013, etc.
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documentation [pdf]
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+ (Tropical) Software [2006]
Software for the management of the installation Perpetual (Tropical) Sunshine.
Analysis of climate data in real time, independent management of hundreds of electric sources by DMX, control and information interfaces.
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With the support of the City of Lyon and the Federal Office of Cultural Affairs (OFC-BAK Switzerland).
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documentation [pdf]
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+ Rolling Micro-functions [2006-2007]
Research project about variable functionalities of SOHO (Small Office - Home Office) spaces. The project involves robotic micro-spatialities and micro-functions. Workshop at ECAL with EPFL-DISAL research lab.
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documentation [pdf]
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+ Variable Environment [2005-2007]
Leading a design+science research project for ECAL and EPFL about mobility and variable environments.
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Experimentations developed in partnership with EPFL - DISAL (Distributed Intelligent Systems and Algorithms Laboratory), Loop.pH (London), Ben Hooker (London), Philippe Rahm (Paris) and EPFL - MMSPG (Multimedia Signal Processing Institute).
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documentation [pdf]
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+ A.I. vs A.I. [2004]
A.I. vs A.I. // in self-space //. Architecture of "living room" for two artificial intelligences. Spatiality specific to machines defined from their point of view (surveillance camera). Unlimited autonomous dialogue between the two digital identities without human interaction.
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fabric | ch collection. With the support of Pro Helvetia.
Exhibition at Museo Cantonale d'Arte de Lugano (Lugano), 2004 and at Centro Arte Moderna e Contemporanea della Spezia (La Spezia), 2005.
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documentation [pdf]
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+ Electroscape 003 [2004]
Electronic edition of the Cahier d'artiste fabric | ch published by Pro Helvetia.
One reality in place of another and vice versa. The book takes the place of space, but the space is programmed to produce books.
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With the support of Pro Helvetia.
Exibition at the Swiss Art Awards and LISTE Art Fair (Basel, Switzerland).
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documentation [pdf]
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+ Knowscape Mobile [2003-2005]
Extension of the localized physical space by an immersive territory of distributed knowledge and information. Knowspace Mobile is architectured from the browsing data of each user.
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Exhibitions:
MediaRuimte, Brussels [2005, GPS 50° 51' 15" / 004° 21' 7"], DIS2004, Cambridge [2004, GPS 42° 21' 45'' / -071° 05' 11''], HALLE 3.0, Basel [2003, GPS 47° 33' 48'' / 007° 36' 02''], SHARE, Boston [2003, GPS 42° 22' 21'' / -071° 06' 35'']
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documentation [pdf]
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+ Electroscape 002 [2002]
Commission to create the electronic extension of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Geneva (MAMCO). Creation of an hybrid architecture that combines physical and digital spaces.
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Fund: MAMCO (Geneva, Switzerland), with the support of Pro Helvetia.
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Exhibition at MAMCO on the occasion of the Version 2002 biennial (artist: Heimo Zobernig).
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documentation [pdf]
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+ Electroscape 001 [2002]
Performance of shared architecture during Siggraph 2002.
Experimentation with the "screenscape" (1280x1024x768) concept.
Creative space shared between Switzerland, Belgium, Germany and the United States.
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Exhibition at Siggraph (San Antonio), 2002.
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documentation [pdf]
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+ i-Light (v1.0) [2002]
Experimentation between network activity and electric intensity.
Luminous space generated by the flow of data from an information network.
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documentation [pdf]
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+ I-Weather (v1.0) [2001]
Open source electronic climate for screens, mobile phones and other digital territories. I-Weather is the first artificial climate based on human biorhythms.
In collaboration with Décosterd & Rahm for the Museum für Gestaltung in Zurich.
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Exhibition at the Museum fur Gestaltung (Zürich), 2001.
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documentation [pdf]
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+ La Fabrique [1999-2001]
Design of a digital museum/gallery space in a 3D MMOG, the Deuxième Monde (2nd World) of Canal+.
Works of six net artists on the theme "Digital Prosthesis". Workshop with Ba and Ma students about "Recombinant Interiors" at ETHZ (CAAD) and about "Algorithmic Manipulations" at ECAL.
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Fund: Canal+ (Paris, France).
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fabric | ch collection. Exhibition in the 2nd World (Internet), 1999-2000 and at Siggraph (Los Angeles), 2000 & 2010.
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documentation [pdf]