Matthias Klien was born 1977 and graduated in the department Digital Arts at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. His main focus is medialisation, the socioeconomic implications of any technology and its paradigms, and particularly the format simulation, or computergames respectively. He works in Vienna as an artist, but also as programmer, graphic designer, game-designer or interaction designer; like in the project Vireal Rebel Mobilecycle Club, which will be presented at the CODED CULTURES festival.
VRMC - Beta - Vireal Rebel Mobilecycle Club / Urania / 22.09, 15:00
VRMC is a mobile artistic application (mobile app) which focuses on the blending of real and virtual space. Using digital media, data is deposited in local (real) space, creating new virtual contexts in the urban environment. VRMC playfully communicates new forms of applications for urban communication and enables new viewpoints on virtual and real space. In parallel, artistic methods are used to demonstrate the virtual information overflow.
In the first phase of the project in the context of the CODED CULTURES Festival, playful tools and abstract forms of interaction will be presented and communicated through a workshop for approximately 10 people. The cell phone becomes a “joystick”, a “sensor” and a “tool” to deposit “packets” at a specific (virtual / real) location in urban space, to tell collaborative stories, or to destroy unwanted messages. Throughout the “gang wars” for virtual territory, the cell phone becomes a virtual “graffiti spray can” or a virtual hand grenade if you want. The fun for experimentation and atypical use of media and technology with a critical layer of reflection in regards to existing infrastructures and media are the main aim of the project.
Thank you for your participation!
Workshop location:
Urania Eingang Turmstiege, Uraniastrasse 1, 1010 Wien
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In the first phase of the project in the context of the CODED CULTURES Festival, playful tools and abstract forms of interaction will be presented and communicated through a workshop for approximately 10 people. The cell phone becomes a “joystick”, a “sensor” and a “tool” to deposit “packets” at a specific (virtual / real) location in urban space, to tell collaborative stories, or to destroy unwanted messages. Throughout the “gang wars” for virtual territory, the cell phone becomes a virtual “graffiti spray can” or a virtual hand grenade if you want. The fun for experimentation and atypical use of media and technology with a critical layer of reflection in regards to existing infrastructures and media are the main aim of the project.
Thank you for your participation!
Workshop location:
Urania Eingang Turmstiege, Uraniastrasse 1, 1010 Wien
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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. He is co-founder of a-d-a-p-t-e-r.net, a platform for collaborative art and is playing games as musical instruments. He is studying digital arts, currently at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Georg Russegger is the Scientific Manager of the research and development project Ludic Interfaces at the Interface Culture Lab, University of Art and Design Linz. Together with the association 5uper.net he is coordinator of the CODED CULTURES festival in Vienna. Since 1999 he has been active in artistic and scientific fields that investigate new artistic practices, media-integrated knowledge-cultures and their impact on project design as well as individual self-empowerment.
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Urania Wien
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