Alien Productions

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Alien Productions: Installation "The Thought Projector"
ARS Electronica 2008, Linz

Alien Productions is an international artist group founded in 1997 by Andrea Sodomka, Martin Breindl, Norbert Math and August Black. Her field of activity includes intermedia performances and installations, electronic music, net art, radio art, interactive art and artistic photography. The members of Alien Productions worked together several times before the group was founded under the collective names "Sodomka / Breindl" and "Sodomka / Breindl / Math".

Alien Productions deal with modern urbanity ("alien city"), everyday life ("the well-tempered kitchen") or the world of work ("work patterns", "transmission"). In many projects, modern technologies of mass communication are used, sometimes pioneering, for example in "State of Transition" (by Sodomka / Breindl / Math, X-space et al., 1994), one of the world's first art projects on the World Wide Web , and "Mobile : Home ", an interactive installation for UMTS telephones (2004).

Many interactive installations from the 1990s involve visitors in the artwork using computer-aided biofeedback . Multifunctional sensors measure the user's body data and control sound and image projections in the room in real time. This feedback loop allows the room to be played like an instrument.

The retro-utopian installation "The Thought Projector" was realized for the first time in autumn 2007 in the Künstlerhaus Graz and has since been shown often in festivals and exhibitions: Ars Electronica Festival 2008, Künstlerhaus Wien ("ZeitRaumZeit") 2008, ICC Tokyo ("LightInSight") 2008 .

Alien Productions are curators of FLUSS - Lower Austrian Initiative for Photo and Media Art.

Exhibitions, performance, intermedia (selection)

  • Transformator, Personal, joint work by Alien Productions, Martin Walch and starsky, Kunstraum Engländerbau, Liechtenstein, (2008)
  • The Thought Projector, Personale, Künstlerhaus Graz, Austria, (2007)
  • Transmission, installation and performance, Museum Walzengravieranstalt Guntramsdorf , Austria, (2007)
  • Crossover III, alien productions and Machfeld , installations, solo exhibition in the photo gallery Vienna, Austria, (2007)
  • The well-tempered kitchen; Cooking performance with the ensemble die reihe; Tulln, Austria, (2005)
  • Zwischenraum, Personal, Galeria Szyperska, Poznań, Poland (2005)
  • Alien City, intermediate performance, installations (2000-08)
  • GATEways, On Line - On Site - On Air Project, Vienna, Melbourne, Beograd, Erfurt / Weimar, Vancouver, (2000)
  • we were just girls, personal, sound and light installation, OK Linz, Austria (1998)

Media Art Festivals (selection)

  • Tiefenrausch, OK Offenes Kulturhaus Linz, Austria (2008)
  • X-tended, Neulengbach (2007)
  • Soinu dimentsioa / Dimension sonora, San Sebastian, Spain (2007)
  • Waves, The Art of the Electromagnetic Society, RIXC Riga (2006) and Hartware Medienkunstverein Dortmund (2008)
  • International Computer Music Conference 2006, New Orleans
  • Altermedium 02, DOM Moscow, and Moussorgski Ural State Conservatory, Yekaterinburg, Russia (2002)
  • hamburger musikfest, Hamburg (2001)
  • Art's Birthday, Art's Birthday Network, various locations (1999–2008)
  • Recycling the Future I - IV, documenta X Kassel, Ars Electronica Linz, L'Arte Del Ascolto Rimini, Radiokulturhaus Wien (1997)
  • Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria (1996-98, 2002)
  • 2000-3 artspace plus interface, Steirischer Herbst Graz, Austria (1997)

Prizes and awards

  • 2005: Artist in Residence at UMAS, Durham, Ontario, Canada
  • 2006: Acknowledgment award from the state of Lower Austria for media art
  • 2019: Lower Austrian Culture Prize - Appreciation Prize in the Media Art category

Discography

  • The Well-Tempered Kitchen, CD pumpkin records, pump10-2004
  • Alien City, DVD, ORF and Zangi Music, ORF DVD 706

swell

  1. ^ Daniel Gilfillan: Broadcast Space as Artistic Space . In: Re-inventing Radio . 2008, p. 273-279 .
  2. ↑ Lucas Gehrmann: Mobile Art Realities . In: Virtual Frame by 3 . 2004, p. 20-29 .
  3. ^ Alien productions: autoregulative spaces . In: Matter, Mind and Consciousness . 2000, p. 165-179 .
  4. ↑ Michaela Fleck: Culture Awards 2019: 24 awards and lots of art from Lower Austria. In: Niederösterreichische Nachrichten . November 5, 2019, accessed November 5, 2019 .

literature

Werner Fenz: Ready Mades in action, in: Artluk, Heft 4 2007, PL, 2007 (in Polish translation) and online: alien.mur.at

Heidi Grundmann et al. (Ed.): Re-inventing Radio. Aspects of Radio as Art. Frankfurt am Main, 2008, Revolver. ISBN 978-3-86588-453-4

Kunsthalle Wien (ed.): Virtual Frame by 3 (exhibition catalog). Vienna, 2004. ISBN 3-85247-051-X

Heinrich Pfusterschmid-Hardtenstein (Ed.): Matter, Spirit and Consciousness. European Forum Alpbach 1999. Vienna, 2000, Iberia. ISBN 3-900436-92-4

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