12.06.2010
This will be a great summer. We will go on a little world tour to present and let the people use our SMSlingshot. For that reason we are busy in redesign the whole thing, from code to solder from graphic interface to the interactive device.
The first show this summer will befrom 26th-31st of july at the FILE festival in Sao Paulo, yes: that SAO PAULO in Brazil. We are invited to help the brazilian people reclaim their city space, though there are no advertising screens anymore. The venue isn´t 100%confirmed yet but it is propably around MASP Museum of modern Art and SESI.
During the festival we will give a talk at the symposium and declare the "Act on Hybrid Estates" the first time! But if that wouldn´t be enough we also will try out something new... a surprise.
Next stop is the International Media Facade Festival Europe, starting of 27th of Augut till 3rd of October. We participate as a joint broadcasting system that enables locals in Berlin / Germany and Liverpool / UK to communicate with the SMSlingshots in real-time over an urban mediascreen. There will be another version of this mass-communication-set up linking Berlin to Linz during the Ars Electronica festival. Finally we end this at MediaLab Prado in Madrid at the 11th of September shooting textmessages at the LED Facade of the lab during the White Nights festival.
Beside this update on our activities we want you to push SMSlingshot in the public vote at the FILE festival. Just vote here (we are listed at page 6):
fileprixlux public vote
28.04.2010
We've been awarded second at the Art of Engineering competition. Yess. Now we can put all the energy and efforts in the redesign and the upcoming events!
02.04.2010
There is a feature of our SMSlingshot to be seen in the new Die Gestalten book "Urban Interventions - personal projects in public space".
In the books chapter "Urban Canvas", our project is in quite prominent neighbourhood, right between the Graffiti Research Lab and Haque design+research. Our articles shows images from the Riga performance and the SMSlingshot itself. We feel very honoured to be part of this publication and thank Matthias Hübner for his consistent help and support.
23.03.2010
Being back from the USA for quite a while we now manage to update the site a bit. We published a paper in the TEI'10 conference proceedings and also put it online in the "about section". Hope you enjoy reading it. The paper clearifies our aims and means in a compact way and offers insights in construction and coding.
12.02.2010
After highlighting the Art of Engineering exhibition with our perfectly arty and absolutely non-engineered SMSlingshot build up, we are invited to the Hannover industry fair. We will be awarded as one of the best in the competition. So if you are interested, come and join the show on monday, 19th of april, Hannover fair in hall 2, stand D36.
05.02.2010
That thrills it all! Due to the massive Transmediale rush Evan Roth from the grafitti research lab is in town and will join our workshop about reclaiming techniques in urban space. The workshop will take place at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. The first part of the event will feature international institutes and art-groups dealing with urban-social topics and the second part is a discussion between economic spokesmen of big urban media agencies (Wall, Megaposter) and media theorists.
Get the workshop program here!
02.02.2010 - 15.02.2010
"IT und Medienkunst"
Some nice people think we might be a good example for combinig information technologies and engineering in an artsy way. That´s very surprising and we are glad for that given opportunity to show the SMSlingshot with 19 other participants in the "Art of Engineering" exhibition at Technikmuseum Berlin during the Transmediale Festival.
26.01.2010
We are very proud to present the SMSlingshot project at the conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI) 2010 at MIT Media Lab, Boston. We have a 15 minutes slot to tell our story so far, our plans for the future and what drives us right now. As far as we know the conference is already sold out, so there are no tickets left. For all of you who are interested in that field of research; there will be a report coming more or less realtime at www.tui.formundzweck.de.
We´ll keep you updated!
01.09.2009
We are happy to announce that VR/URBAN is going to present a new interactive media installation at a contemporary art museum in Riga (Latvia). The installation is called SMSlingshot and is an extended development of last years spread.gun which was made for the media facades festival in Berlin.
So we encourage you to have a look at this site during the next few weeks to get some more impressions of how it works, looks and sounds to shoot digital short messages on public walls.
We also do some re-structuring work of the website, so everything can work much better then.
The dates for the exhibition are:
12th - 13th of September during the night at Kim?
11.10.2008
We would like to invite everybody to the Media Facades Festival 2008 in Berlin.
The opening will be on Friday the 17th for press and sponsors and the opening-party will be on Saturday the 18th of October. For those two dates we will present the project the first time to the broad audience and encourage you to come along to type in some lines of statements to spread them onto the big f****** screen.
The dates are:
Friday 20.00 - 20.30 Friday 22.00 - 22.30 Saturday 19.00 - 20.00 (opening act)