Work
Zone*Interdite
The project Zone*Interdite (French for: ‘restricted military zone’) emerged from a paradox: It is forbidden to depict or enter military areas, yet these pictures appear in the mass media. www.zone-interdite.net focuses on these images by collecting and localising them. The media Art project questions ones own concepts between power and powerlessness. Zone*Interdite takes a sounding of the restricted terrain through virtual reconstructions. Behind a reflex of right and wrong (Friend or Foe? Patriot or traitor?) appear ideas of sovereign reflections.
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Supported by: Werkleitz Halle
http://www.zone-interdite.net
picidae
picidae (Latin for woodpecker) explores the borders of our individual perception. The Internet becomes at the same time the medium as well as the object of exploration. picidae delivers images of HTML web pages that are clickable themselves. The images circumvent redirects, ranking, rating, filtering and censorship.
Since the release in autumn 2007 picidae has been used in China, in Iran, in Dubai and in North African countries to view web pages. In Europe too, the project has become the touchstone for the increasing control and manipulation of the Internet and as an Art project it makes things visible in a new way.
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“Christoph Wachter/Mathias Jud [...] haben mit ihrem Projekt www.picidae.net ein Instrument geschaffen, mit dem sich die Internetzensur in Ländern wie China umschiffen lässt - eine zeitgemässe Adaption des vielzitierten Klee-Diktums, wonach Kunst nicht das Sichtbare wiedergibt, sondern sichtbar macht.”
Barbara Basting, Kunstkritikerin Zürich in: Art - Das Kunstmagazin
Supported by: Migros Kulturprozent, Werkleitz Halle, Sächsisches Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst
http://www.picidae.net
网吧 Wang-Ba
Chinese for Internet café
Wang-Ba is a multi layered Art installation first shown at the Manchester Art Gallery in Chinatown Manchester.
An Internet café becomes the proving ground for existing networking and for new interconnections: linguistic, visual, communicational, social and technical.
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Artists and visitors explore the Internet together, overcome censorship, or make the routing and filtering in the digital data-net audible by using it as a global experimental sound machine.
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Supported by: Futuresonic Manchester, Manchester Art Gallery, Goetheinstitut Manchester
New Nations
New Nations unveils the power structure of the Internet and extends the existing digital network into a new dimension. It creates new Internet addresses (ccTLD) for unacknowledged groups such as the Tibetans, the Tamils, the Uigurs and others. As a community project, New Nations tests new forms of global togetherness and communicative exchange.
Supported by: Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA - Federal Office of Culture