… Eduardo Kac. His project ‘Natural History of the Enigma’ won the Prix Ars Electronica in the category ‘Hybrid Arts’. Fair enough, as he’s been around since some while and made some iconic works before. Now, where did I hear that again, who was trying to create plants with human DNA? Oh right, them. But of course the objectivs, motivation and technique are completely different, so congratulation Eduardo. Well done.
We are also happy to annouce, that Ars is so kind to mention us honorably, specifically for the original Common Flowers project we realised last year at the Nam June Paik Award exhibition in Cologne. Thanks to everyone involved.
Also good to see some friends doing well at this year’s Ars. In no particular order there is Yuri Suzuki’s Physical Value of Sound, doubleNegatives Architecture’s Corpora in Si(gh)te, and the [the next idea] voestalpine Art and Technology Grant
Open_Sailing_Crew’s Open Sailing Project I am particular happy for them, because they are still students at our former course at the RCA. That’s a nice way to present your final work. Well done, guys (and girls).
We are very happy to be able to participate at the fantastic exhibtion Coded Culture in Vienna. Coded Cultures is trying to cross contemporary (Media-) Art practices between Austria and Japan, (This year is the Austria-Japan Friendship year.) resulting in this exhibition in Vienna and another one in autumn in Japan.
We are showing a development of our ComFlow, a project called Common Flowers / White Out. The objective is to remove the “blue gene” of Suntory’s genetically-modified blue carnations, and try to revert them back to their original, untouched, white state.
The project is starting now, hopefully by the time Coded Cultures head to Japan we will know the results.
The opening of the exhibition is on Wednesday, 27th of May, starting at about 19h in the Museumsquartier (aka “Messepalast”). Would be great to see you there. More on the exhibtion on ORF Futurezone: Bio-hacking und Origami-Raumschiffe
This is a pre-announcement for our latest joint project. We have be working away on it for the last couple of months, finally, the prospective release date is in sight. 2009-06-24.
Thank you for your attention, more details to follow in due time.