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 Oh, we gots A Maze Audience Award!  🎉🎉🎉 http://bit.ly/2r7sp9p Better post soon.

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'box with the sound of its own making' (2017) by Jonas Bohatsch and Peter Kollreider is an art classic transfered to the present time.

The initial work of Robert Morris ('box with the sound of its own making',1961) consisted of a wooden box with a built-in loudspeaker. It reproduced the sounds which occured while manufacturing the box. You could thus see a wooden box, which acoustically imparted the course of time of its formation within 3.5 hours, and experience the constructing of the artwork itself. This was a reference to the manual aspects of art production as well as a way to associate the experience of time with the artwork.

Bohatsch/Kollreider recode the work of Morris in the Computer environment in order to illustrate changes in central qualities of our manufacturing practice. Just as in the initial work, the sound of its making is played back to the digital box. In this case its the sound of the computer keyboard which was audible while typing the program. The time of emergence is as a result reduced to nearly 5 minutes.

This brings multiple references into mind: to the changes of processes in production and the craft, to the expanding manifestations of art, to the perception of time, different interpretations of work and effort, etc. The most massive change however is the possibility to implement algorithms. The digital box is controlled by a few lines of code that constantly change its position and color. With every pageload in the internet the algorithm is generated and the question about originality/non-originality is split up in a third entity. The multiple but exclusive generation of the box in one’s own and many other browsers is opposed to an imaginary original value of the artwork. We see ourselves confronted with the paradoxical simultaneity of unicum and replica.

Bohatsch/Kollreider reveal processes of transformation in our technological environment which shape our culture.

boxwiththesoundofitsownmaking.com

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vinylOS is a turntable game console. Find more about it on vinylos.io! you can also follow @agentwell & @peregrinustyss on twitter :-)

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The Vienna based collective SOYBOT is big in DIY Zines and awesome illustrations. As I am fascinated by the lofi aesthetics and cheapness of thermal prints I decided to develop a coin operated printing machine for them. Lena Gold designed and built the enclosure while I was responsible for programming and electronics.

Insert a coin and a very sophisticated algorithm will generate and print out a unique character constructed out of randomly selected parts (head, body, tail) made by Soybot artists.

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just came back from the wonderful madeira island where i spent an amazing month. things i did: djing, giving a workshop on electronic circuits for sounds, exhibiting vinyl+, developing a new installation (more soon), chilling. thanks to the wonderful multimadeira  & pedra sina residence team to make all this happen! 

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Thermobooth by taliaYstudio & Jonas Bohatsch

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Putting the finishing touches on Thermobooth. First public presentation will be at the Vienna Design Week. A promo video will be released soon, too.

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First test setup of the OLED-driver board.

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Working on a funky photobooth project with and for taliaYsebastian, lately also known as taliaSINsebastian.

I experimented with dithering in processing. Quite happy with the look of these!

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the ceiling of a seminar hotel. quite fancy reflections and stuff. testing the blog layout/design/blah…

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bouncing balls with electronics inside, transmitting their bounces to a computer running ableton live. ableton live generates sounds.  Mehrere Kunststoffbälle werden mit Beschleunigungs-Sensoren ausgestattet, die die Bewegung der Bälle registrieren. Ein Computerprogramm analysiert die Bewegungsdaten und erkennt unterschiedliche Abläufe, wie zum Beispiel die Sprung- , Roll- oder Wurfbewegung eines Balles. Daraus werden Impulse generiert, die an die entsprechende Software weitergeleitet, Klang- oder Bild-Events auslösen können. Der Ball wird somit zu einem Interface, wobei sich verschiedene Nutzungsmöglichkeiten auftun. 

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I was showing my installation vinyl+ in Brazil. Had a great time at the File Festival 2010 in SP!

See a flickr-Set of the trip here.

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vinyl+ is an interactive installation, experimenting with the expansion of timecode vinyl.

A white vinyl record acts as a screen, interface and apparent carrier for generative audiovisual software pieces. The combination of turntable, computer and projector results in a new device, oscillating between analog and digital, hard- and software.