Welcome to FeralAIR
Feral Labs Artist in Residence Program at Schmiede Hallein (AT)Welcome to FeralAIR
The Feral Labs Network’s artist in residence program at Schmiede Hallein. Feral Labs Network is an EU initiative to support temporary dislocated hubs for research in art, technology and communities.
Feral Labs Artist in Residence ProgramWhat is FeralAIR?
Feral Labs Network is a European collective of temporary dislocated hubs for research in art, technology and communities. Our project’s activities include various Artist-In-Residence (AIR) initiatives. The aim of these AIR programmes is to enhance and enable projects between the arts and the maker movement. In September 2019, FeralAIR took place in Hallein, in close cooperation with the international program Schmiede Hallein.
Partners & Credits
Thank youPartners & Credits
Feral Labs Network is initiated and coordinated by Projekt Atol Institute (SI) in partnership with Makery ART2M/Digital Art International (FR), Helsingør Kommune (DK), Schmiede Hallein – Verein zur Förderung der digitalen Kultur (AT), Bioart Society (FI) and Udruga za razvoj uradi sam kulture Radiona (HR).
The project is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.
The project is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.
Welcome to FeralAIR 2019
FeralAIR 2019 at Schmiede HalleinMeet the Artists
Antoni Rayzhekov
Artists at FeralAIRAntoni RayzhekovProject: Boreout
Antoni Rayzhekov is a media artist, based in Sofia and Vienna. In his current project Boreout he is researching the field of affective computing. In other words: He is trying to make a computer understand the emotional state of its audience.
"Try to be bored!"How Boreout works
To reveal a blurred out picture, the audience has to get really bored. A computer is measuring their brain activities: if the participants are bored enough, the picture gets clear and the accompanying sounds turn into music.
"There is something very poetic about boredom"Gamifying human affects
For Antoni, boredom has very creative, recreational and even political aspects to it. By participating in the installation, people are creativelly "forced" to defocus and self reflect.
"it's a challenge to make people bored here"About FeralAIR 2019
We asked Antoni about his impressions and experiences at FeralAIR 2019 and how his project developed during the residency.
APNOA & Rohrmoser
Artists at FeralAIR 2019APNOA & RohrmoserProject: Apparatus Solitaire
During their FeralAIR residency Claudia Rohrmoser and the artist duo APNOA (Sebastian Drack & Tobias Feldmeier) worked on a project called Apparatus Solitaire, an audiovisual site-specific installation. It was assembled inside the “Verdampferturm” tower, which is part of the former salt plant.
Creating the magic of the momentApparatus Solitaire
The installation aimed to create sensorially perceivable intersections between the real-manifested and the virtual-latent anthropogenic environments. A machine learning algorithm, trained with concepts of industrial architecture, was slightly transforming the unique industrial surrounding inside the tower.
Before/after view
Transforming spaces
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Combining sound, light & spaceReal-time transformations
The projection surfaces, placed 5 meters above the audience, were visually exposing phases of the algorithm, as they were genetically intertwined with the architecture. On-site sound recordings were creating a stunning 3-dimensional sound perception. Sound, light and space together were transforming the characteristics of the environment in real-time.
About the artistsClaudia Rohrmoser & APNOA
Video Designer Claudia Rohrmoser was born in Salzburg, Austria. She studied Experimental Media Design at Berlin University of the Arts and Multimedia Arts at the FH Salzburg University of Applied Sciences. Focusing on visual music, her works include animation shorts, documentaries and video scenography. Rohrmoser worked several years as a lecturer in experimental animation at FH Salzburg and as a professor of motion design at the BTK and UE University of Applied Sciences in Berlin. Currently she is professor in Digital Media and Experiment at FH Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences.
APNOA is an audiovisual collective, founded by Sebastian Drack and Tobias Feldmeier. The artists aim for forward-thinking ideas and strategies in practice and theory, in order to provide immersive multi-sensory experiences and narratives, presented as audiovisual performances, installations and multimedia productions. Their work is settled in the field of performative interaction and seek for an ambiguous character generating synesthetic correlations whithin the act-theoretical semantics and immediate, aesthetic perception.
APNOA is an audiovisual collective, founded by Sebastian Drack and Tobias Feldmeier. The artists aim for forward-thinking ideas and strategies in practice and theory, in order to provide immersive multi-sensory experiences and narratives, presented as audiovisual performances, installations and multimedia productions. Their work is settled in the field of performative interaction and seek for an ambiguous character generating synesthetic correlations whithin the act-theoretical semantics and immediate, aesthetic perception.
Chun Shao
Artists at FeralAir 2019Chun ShaoProject: Emotive-textiles
In her project, artist Chun Shao explores the relationship between feelings and tactile sensations. Playing with the experience of touch, her project Emotive-textiles presents a series of tangible emotions through a half-traditional and half-digital crafting process.
The idea behind Emotive-textiles
Chun's current project derives from another work called HerFinger. Both projects are investigating the various relations between human feelings, textile materials and movement: To create organically moving textures, traditional embroidery stitches, beading, and fabric manipulation techniques are explored and interweaved with electronic actuators.
"Silicone represents the ideal of the body"Body and Manipulation
Silicon features different degrees of tenderness and forms an uncanny association with the human skin. In her work, Chun reflects on the material and the role it plays in manipulating our own body.
"Wearables become storytellers"Body and Technology
In her work, Chun is interested in the relationship between individual, society and technology. In this context wearables are particularly interesting. They reference to the absence of the human body.
Welcome to FeralAIR 2020
FeralAIR 2020 at Schmiede HalleinMeet the Artists
Fara Peluso & Berhard Hollinger
Artists at FeralAIR 2020 Fara Peluso & Bernhard HollingerProject: Fields
Working
with living organism, the Bioartist and Biodesigner Fara Peluso investigates on
science and methodologies of speculative design. For the project Fields, she teams up with musician, composer, and
visual artist Bernhard Hollinger.
"We can learn a lot from nature"Beyond PCB-plastic
The project Fields explores new possibilities of using self-made
bioplastic in the music industry. We asked Fara and Bernhard, how they came up with the idea of vinyl records made of living organisms.
"We are trying to find a grey zone"Exploring the use of bioplastic
Bringing together DIY, Bioart and Music: This is what Fara and Bernhard are trying to do at FeralAIR 2020.
"I feel like a monk in a monastery"About FeralAIR 2020
We asked Fara and Bernhard why they participated in FeralAIR and what they like about the idea of a residency in general.
Lucie Strecker & Daniel Aschwanden
Artists at FeralAIR 2020Lucie Strecker & Daniel AschwandenProject: DOG_man.2180-a biofiction
As
choreographer and performer Daniel Aschwanden follows transdisciplinary
approaches questioning media from a choreographic perspective. With a background
in hybrid arts, Lucie Strecker conduces a research project on the ‘performativity
of biofacts’ at the university of applied arts in Vienna.
"Can we imagine a world without animals?"Of Dogs and Humans
During the
FeralAIR residency the artists worked on their project DOG_man.2180.a biofiction, dedicating their investigation on notions of the hybrid as well as
transhumanism and micro-performativity.
"Do we want to present an ethical problem or do we confront it?"Tracing the humanimal
Confronting
different theoretical as well as poetic texts, Lucie Strecker and Daniel
Aschwanden discuss several ethical questions like the research on DNY modification and its unpredictable
consequences in the far future regarding the continuous change of paradigms.
"We want to speak a poetic language"About FeralAIR
The aim of
the artists is not to present but to rather face the subject by self-experiment, translated into poetic language. Therefore, FeralAIR provides an exchange with other artists working on similar topics
and having different perspectives.
Stefanie Wuschitz
Artists at FeralAIR 2020Stefanie WuschitzProject: The Women Who Made It
Stefanie Wuschitz works on several artistic research activities like
the ongoing peek project at the academy of fine arts in Vienna. She puts particular focus on
Critical Media Practices like feminist hacking, open source technology, or peer
production and she is part of the collective Mz* Baltazar's Laboratory.
"I am reading a lot of theory first"Building a feminist hackerspace
Founded in 2009 the feminist hackerspace Mz* Baltazars Laboratory encourages technologies that are developped with female perspective. Open source technology is the basis of its philosophy.
"What will tomorrow's hackers look like?"Portraying feminist hackers
For her
Project at Schmiede Hallein, Stefanie Wuschitz portrays feminist artists and hackers. The portraits
are graved into acrylic discs which project the drawings on a wall. Through the
kinetic interactive relation, the faces of the artists are deconstructed and
recombined proposing thereby ‘the new feminist hacker artists from tomorrow’.
"It's my first time at Schmiede Hallein"About FeralAIR
At FeralAIR
Stefanie Wuschitz appreciates the fact of being surrounded by many 'amazing' artists which allows a vital exchange on different subjects of concern.
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Welcome to FeralAIR
Antoni Rayzhekov
How Boreout works
Gamifying human affects
About FeralAIR 2019
APNOA & Rohrmoser
Apparatus Solitaire
Real-time transformations
Claudia Rohrmoser & APNOA
Chun Shao
The idea behind Emotive-textiles
Body and Manipulation
Body and Technology
Meet the Artists
Fara Peluso & Bernhard Hollinger
Beyond PCB-plastic
Exploring the use of bioplastic
About FeralAIR 2020
Lucie Strecker & Daniel Aschwanden
Of Dogs and Humans
Tracing the humanimal
About FeralAIR
Stefanie Wuschitz
Building a feminist hackerspace
Portraying feminist hackers
About FeralAIR