SCHWINDELFREI

Administrator — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:16:49 +0000

“Schwindelfrei” from the album “Umberto Ghetto” by FLIP.
Directed by Joachim Smetschka.
Cast: Silke Silk Grabinger, Philipp Flip Kroll.
Assistant Camera&Light: Helmut Geissler.

Supported by Kunstuniversität Linz, Zeitbasierte und Interaktive Medien // University of Arts Linz, Timebased and Interactive Media.

Thanks to detonationfilms.com

INSTANT (2010)

Administrator — Wed, 12 May 2010 12:09:18 +0000

Acht hochauflösende Digitalphotographien von markanten Gesichtern liefern das Ausgangsmaterial für das Wahrnehmungsexperiment „INSTANT“: Über eine Dauer von 24 Minuten wird anhand von 35992 Zwischenbildern ein zeitbasiertes Portrait generiert, das dem Betrachter vertraute Möglichkeiten der Identifikation, Festlegung und Erinnerung persönlichkeitsbestimmender Merkmale entzieht. Identitäten erscheinen so lediglich als Augenblicke. Sie sind flüchtige, fließende und stets unverfügbare Momente. Auf diese Weise stellt “INSTANT” ein grundlegendes Prinzip zwischenmenschlicher Interaktion in Frage. Das Zusammenspiel von hochauflösender Bildtechnik und radikal entschleunigter Transformation der Einzelportraits ermöglicht eine Irritation des Betrachters, der gleichzeitig mit einer scheinbar unbewegten Darstellung und einer sich merkbar verändernden Physiognomie konfrontiert wird. (Daniela Kuka)

8 minutes excerpt.
Original full length: 24 minutes.
Shown at MODEM Centre for Modern and Contemporary Arts, Debrecen HU in May 2010

Concept (german)
InstallationPlan

please find some images on facebook

any questions? please contact me: lame(at)smetschka.com

unit M

Administrator — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:18:32 +0000

image by Pascal Maresch

“User-sensitive information architecture” – prototype of an interactive building as a networked media art project at the nexus of man, media and machine.

Concept by Gerfried Stocker, Dietmar Offenhuber and Joachim Smetschka for Ars Electronica Futurelab.
Awarded with the Austrian State Prize for Design 2001 (Adolph Loos Staatspreis Design 2001)
Commissioned by WIFI (Austrian Institute for Economic Promotion).

press releases Ars Electronica Futurelab (2000) and WIFI (german)

image by Pascal Maresch

legal information

Administrator — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:41:10 +0000

due to copyright issues most of the commercial clips are not available to be viewed on this page.
please feel free to contact me, in case of dedicated interest.

FACE SHIFT (2004)

Administrator — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:59:37 +0000

Produced for Ars Electronica Festival 2004 “TIMESHIFT”.
Installed as a studio in public space, on the Hauptplatz of Linz, people were asked to face their own future by taking a portrait-photography, which was then software-manipulated to find out how the person could look like in the far future.

LIQUID (2003)

Administrator — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:00:51 +0000

series of stills, photoprints 70×50cm

WIEN KLANG BILD (1999)

Administrator — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:54:38 +0000

Audiovisual journey through 19th and 20th century Vienna with stereoscopic views and multichannel audio.
Produced at the Ars Electronica Futurelab for ORF Klangtheater Vienna.

View press release ORF (german)

TUG OF WAR

Administrator — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:56:44 +0000

Game/Installation – Millennium Dome, London (2000)
Ars Electronica Futurelab for Land Design UK

In Tug of War, the player competes against virtual opponents selected on the basis of the player’s physical strength.
On the Evaluation Level, the player is called upon to pull with all his might on a computer-controlled, pneumatically regulated rope. After solving the entry-task, the player can fight his way up the rankings level by level.
Different characters symbolize the various levels of resistance the player faces. Actors are set within an imaginary landscape; they oppose the player as life-size challengers displayed on a video screen.

`TUG OF WAR` constitutes a successful effort to allow for human-computer interaction in a playful and very direct and natural way.

Concept / Creation:
Gerfried Stocker (AT)
Peter Higgins (UK)
Joachim Smetschka (AT)

Software:
Volker Christian (AT)
Christopher Lindinger (AT)
Gerald Schröcker (AT)
Werner Pötzelberger (AT)
Werner Stadler (AT)
Robert Praxmarer (AT)

Postproduction:
Klaus Taschler (AT)

Sounddesign:
Manfred Schöller (AT)

Image: Land Design UK

THE ESSENCE

Administrator — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:40:20 +0000

Image Film for Daimler Chrylser 1′23” (2002)

SUCCESS OBLIGATES

Administrator — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:32:23 +0000

Image Film for Daimler Chrysler 1′31” (2002)