Thursday, March 16, 2006

Herz Fassen

A bowl is filled with water. By taking hold of it by the handles, it becomes moved by the rhythm of your heart. It starts pulsating with your heartbeat. Your heartbeat is calculated through the handles' measurement of your skin-resistance. The heartbeat is now stored and the water will 'beat' with this rhythm until the pulsation slowly abates.
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Thursday, March 09, 2006

Paintball

The large white billboard measuring about 100 square meters was mounted on the facade of the university of art located on Linz main square. Whenever the number announced in the billboard was called a paintball was being shot from a scaffold set up a short distance away. The ball splattering against the surface of the billboard left a brightly coloured splotch. Every call triggered a paintball so that over the course of seven days the image that was constantly changing, became increasingly colourful.
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Friday, March 03, 2006

Random Screen

“Random Screen” is a mechanical thermo dynamic display which does not rely on any electricity. Each of the 12 by 12 cm pixels is an individual entity. A tee candle lights and controls each pixel. The rising heat of the candle turns a modified beer can which turns the pixel on and off. Each pixel has its own frequence. The more bright a candle shines the faster is the rotaion of the can.
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Pixel Roller

The pixel roller does exactly what it says, it rolls pixels. It can be viewed like a hand printer, the pixel roller can roll out any image, video or text manually, at any speed or diraction, round corners and over surfaces.
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