GLOBAL CONTROL

Center for New Media Culture, Riga, Latvia
Curator: Bernhard Serexhe, Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás
Artists: Artist Collective 3/8 (LV), aaajiao (CN), Hamra Abbas (KW / US), Selma Alaçam (DE), Halil Altındere (TR), Daniel G. Andújar (ES), Zach Blas (US / GB), Osman Bozkurt (TR), James Bridle (GB / GR), Alice Cavoudjian dite Galli (FR / DE), Hasan Elahi (BD / US), Finger Pointing Worker + Kota Takeuchi (JP), Kaspars Groševs (LV), Michael Grudziecki (PL / DE), KIT-KASTEL (DE), Frédéric Krauke (DE), Marc Lee (CH), Virginia Mastrogiannaki (GR), Erik Mátrai (HU), Ruben Pater (NL), Dan Perjovschi (RO), Ma Qiusha (CN), Pēters Riekstiņš (LV), Oliver Ressler (AT), Bernhard Serexhe (DE), Christian Sievers (DE), Alex Wenger (CH / DE) & Max-Gerd Retzlaff (DE)
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Exhibited Artwork

Pic-Me - Fly to the Locations Where Users Send Posts

Online Project for Interactive Media Art Installations

With Pic-Me you can virtually fly to the locations from where users send posts to Instagram. On Google Earth, these are mapped at the exact location where they were photographed. One might describe these posts – images or short videos accompanied by comments, tags and geolocalisation – as a kind of digital small talk or personal conversation. Different than face to face conversations, these more …

Dock18, Zurich

Jimei X Arles, Xiamen

HEK, Basel

SECURITY FIRST

Mixed Media Installation

The installation SECURITY FIRST shows the wonderful world of surveillance technology. On a shelf are cameras in all possible forms: hidden spy cams, surveillance cams, night vision webcams, real-looking dummy cams. As a counter-design to the utopia of total security through camera surveillance, SECURITY FIRST shows the website insecam.org: The visitors of the website have access to the images of more …

ZKM, Karlsruhe

ZKM, Karlsruhe

ZKM, Karlsruhe