Category: Projects

EZ Quality Sorter V2

“The good ones go into the pot, the bad ones go into your crop.” – that’s how the story goes in Cinderella. But who actually decides what’s good…

ERBSENZÄHLER

The ERBSENZÄHLER (literally: pea counter; meaning: bean counter, nitpicker) is a system consisting of several installations in which pea seeds are individualized, analyzed, classified, and sorted. The project…

OFFICE PLANTS

Plants might often seem static and object-like to us as our lives play out on different timescales.

THE LONG NOW

A soap bubble usually remains stable for only a few moments – it is a perfectly formed sphere with an iridescent surface that reflects its surroundings. As one…

VANITAS MACHINE

Based on a candle which – by means of technical intervention – burns down very slowly, the installation VANITAS MACHINE addresses the desire for eternal life and the potential of life-prolonging measures.

CELLULAR PERFORMANCE

Skin cells have been manipulated to grow into predefined patterns and recorded via time-lapse imaging techniques. The cells are forming up to legible text fragments and disperse again over time — visualizing terms culled from the advertising language of care products industry.

TRANSDUCERS

An installation composed of several laboratory glass devices that generate audible signals based on a previously encapsuled biological component – a human hair.

ENDO

A black box that records every detail of its surroundings, but only reveals its own speculative presence.

HOLE IN ONE

An abstract miniature golf course becomes the conceptual playground of a philosophical as well as humorous investigation about the nature of thinking.

Fadeaway

A garment´s shimmery surface opens up a view onto a microscopic layer of the human body which usually remains invisible to the eye of the observer.

UMBRELLA BOT

An ordinary umbrella has been turned into a spider-like robotic creature, that´s subsequently moving around in exhibition space fulfilling its new purposes.