ART + COM

ART + COM AG
legal form	Corporation
founding	1988
Seat	Berlin
management	Andreas Wiek (CEO) ; Joachim Sauter (CEO and Head of Design)
Number of employees	80 (as of 2013)
Branch	Design and multimedia
Website	http://www.artcom.de

ART + COM is a German design agency based in Berlin . The company sees itself as a studio for media communication in space and designs interactive installations , media spaces and architectures.

history

The agency was founded in 1988 by artists, designers, scientists and IT specialists from the field of University of the Arts of Berlin and the section Chaos Computer Club as a club to explore the computer as a medium for communication established. Initially, the main research focus was on virtual reality and interface design . The work presented at Ars Electronica in 1992 , the Zerseher , propagated the computer as a new artistic medium and interaction as one of its outstanding properties. The painting Boy with a child's drawing in the hands of Giovanni Francesco Caroto "melted" wherever the viewer was looking. The longer the digital image was viewed, the more abstract it became. The viewer's gaze was tracked by means of eye movement registration and a generative algorithm controlled the change in the image in real time .

From 1991 a planet browser was developed which visualized information based on location and whose technology was registered for a patent in the USA in 1996. In 1994 ART + COM presented the technology at the ITU conference in Kyoto. Terravision (also T-Vision ) combined aerial images, satellite images, altitude and weather data of the earth, through which it was possible to navigate in real time. The system was also used to visualize the planning of the new Berlin city center, which was still in development at the time. After a presentation at SIGGRAPH 1995, the installation was presented in the SGI demonstration center in Mountain View . The then chief developer responsible for SGI graphics libraries Department Michael T. Jones later founded Keyhole Inc. and developed the application Earth Viewer that after the sale to Google in Google Earth has been renamed.

In 1995, the association was founded into a GmbH , which three years later was converted into an unlisted stock corporation.

Otto Bock Science Center in Berlin

In 1999 the Urban Jungle Pack tested by Radio Fritz for the live transmission of images, sounds and texts as part of the Love Parade , a 10 kg 'data backpack', failed due to the inadequate performance of the cellular network at the time. In the years that followed, 3D virtualizations of archaeological research were successfully presented. TrojaVR allowed a tour through the virtual Troy and as part of the EU project The Neanderthal Tools , three-dimensional representations of the previously known and collected Neanderthal finds were made available to researchers worldwide via Nespos using MRT and CT scans .

In 2004, with the installation floating.numbers in the Jewish Museum in Berlin, a multi-touch table was presented for the first time, on which the power of numbers and their meaning was presented. With the design of the Berlin Museum of Natural History and the Jurascopes , digital binoculars that put the dinosaur exhibits in their original surroundings, the exhibition The New Austria in the Belvedere in Vienna in 2005, and numerous showrooms for company and product presentations, the company relocated Focus on interactive installations in space.

The medial design of the BMW Museum in Munich with the mediatecture , an inner space that is filled with more than 1.7 million LEDs on an area of over 700 m² and can react to visitors via camera tracking, and the multiple award-winning kinetic sculpture created using 714 Art + Com realized the creative process in automobile development with individually suspended and controlled metal balls, in cooperation with the architecture office Atelier Brückner . The Level Green exhibition in the Autostadt and the Otto Bock Science Center, for which the interactive exhibits and the media facade were designed and developed, were completed in 2009. The following year, the Boulevard der Stars, designed together with Graft , was opened at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin.

Awards (selection)

Art Directors Club : Kinetic Sculpture (various gold national and international)
Cannes Lion : Kinetic Sculpture , Mediatecture (Gold)
Clio Awards : Kinetic Sculpture (Gold), Mediatecture (Silver)
D&AD Awards: Kinetic Sculpture (Black Pencil, 2 × Yellow Pencil), Duality , Jurascope (each bronze)
red dot design award : u. a. Duality , Jurascope , The Football Experience , floating.numbers
BAFTA Interactive Environment Award: The Famous Grouse Experience
iF Design Award : The New Austria , documenta mobil

literature

Jürgen Christ: The data jugglers . In: Focus . Vol. 3, No. 12 (March 20, 1995), ISSN 0943-7576 , pp. 162-165.
Joachim Sauter, Susanne Jaschko, Jussi Ängeslevä: ART + COM: media, spaces and installations . Die Gestalten Verlag , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-89955-386-4 .

Web links

Official website

Individual evidence

^ Council of Europe (ed.): Digital Culture in Europe: A Selective Inventory of Centers of Innovation in the Arts and New Technologies . Council of Europe Publishing, 1999, ISBN 9287138737 , pp. 47-49 in the Google Book Search.
↑ Joachim Sauter: Designosaurus digitalis , PAGE XXL, anniversary edition 01.2006, p. 34
^ Andy Cameron: The Art of Experimental Interaction Design , 2004, Gingko Press, ISBN 978-9-8897-0658-6
↑ Joachim Sauter, Susanne Jaschko, Jussi Ängeslevä: ART + COM. Media, spaces and installations , p. 13, 2011, Gestalten, ISBN 978-3-89955-386-4
↑ Wolf Lieser (ed.): Digital Art , pp. 258 ff, 2009, Tandem Verlag, ISBN 978-3-8331-5337-2
^ Mayer, et al .: Method and device for pictorial representation of space-related data . United States Patent no. 6,100,897, issued 2000. (August 8 query )
^ Christian Wilk: World in hands , iX - magazine for professional information technology , 12/2005, p. 52
↑ Gerald Jörns: Project Lovescout failed at the Love Parade , July 10, 1999, Telepolis , accessed on: October 5, 2009
↑ Helmut Merschmann: Numbers and Miracles Still Happen , May 9, 2004, Telepolis, accessed on: October 5, 2009
↑ M. Frank Haeuseler: Media Facades - History, Technology, Content , 2009 avedition, ISBN 978-3-89986-107-5

[1] Council of Europe (ed.): Digital Culture in Europe: A Selective Inventory of Centers of Innovation in the Arts and New Technologies . Council of Europe Publishing, 1999, ISBN 9287138737 , pp. 47-49 in the Google Book Search.

[2] Joachim Sauter: Designosaurus digitalis , PAGE XXL, anniversary edition 01.2006, p. 34

[3] Andy Cameron: The Art of Experimental Interaction Design , 2004, Gingko Press, ISBN 978-9-8897-0658-6

[4] Joachim Sauter, Susanne Jaschko, Jussi Ängeslevä: ART + COM. Media, spaces and installations , p. 13, 2011, Gestalten, ISBN 978-3-89955-386-4

[digitalart-5] Wolf Lieser (ed.): Digital Art , pp. 258 ff, 2009, Tandem Verlag, ISBN 978-3-8331-5337-2

[6] Mayer, et al .: Method and device for pictorial representation of space-related data . United States Patent no. 6,100,897, issued 2000. (August 8 query )

[7] Christian Wilk: World in hands , iX - magazine for professional information technology , 12/2005, p. 52

[8] Gerald Jörns: Project Lovescout failed at the Love Parade , July 10, 1999, Telepolis , accessed on: October 5, 2009

[9] Helmut Merschmann: Numbers and Miracles Still Happen , May 9, 2004, Telepolis, accessed on: October 5, 2009

[10] M. Frank Haeuseler: Media Facades - History, Technology, Content , 2009 avedition, ISBN 978-3-89986-107-5