Projects & Exhibitions on Christoph Wachter & Mathias Jud

Talk @ TED Global London

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Talk @ TED Global London

about ‘Can You Hear Me’, ‘Hotel Gelem’ and ‘Landing in Australia’

watch TED talk

Can you hear me?

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

“Can you hear me?”

Hello NSA, hello GCHQ. Berlin speaking here.

Antennas on the Academy of Arts in Berlin

Messages can be sent to the intelligence agencies on the frequencies that are intercepted by the NSA and GCHQ. An independent mesh network in Berlin’s Government District recaptured the virtual communication space. A collective conversation space in which all have equal rights has been taking the space of secret wiretapping.

Zone*Interdite

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Zone*Interdite

Zone*Interdite, propaganda material is collected and re-contextualized which allows new perspectives

Zone*Interdite, screenshot of 3D Walkthrough, gate to Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay

Zone*Interdite caused a sensation by uncovering the childrens prison in Guantánamo, the prisoncamp in Bagram or Camp Bucca in Iraq. Zone*Interdite isn’t about world politics or military strategy, but about something that affects us all personally: Our own imagination and our ability to perceive independently.

qaul - قول

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

qaul - قول

tools for the next revolution

qaul.net implements a redundant, open communication principle, in which wireless-enabled computers and mobile devices can directly form a spontaneous network. Chat and twitter functions are possible independent of internet and cellular networks. qaul can spread like a virus, and an Open Source Community can modify it freely.

In a time of communication blackouts in places like Egypt, Burma, and Tibet, and given the large power outages often caused by natural disasters, qaul has taken on the challenge of critically examining existing communication pathways while simultaneously exploring new horizons.

Hotel Gelem

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

HOTEL GELEM

While the majority of people are looking for exotic and adventurous for holidays, the prevailing necessity of mobility and improvisation are a bitter reality for people under precarious living conditions. HOTEL GELEM invites the viewer to participate in extreme living conditions, and invents new forms of exchange, illustration and reflection of the phenomena, which should have happened ’never again’ after the second world war. HOTEL GELEM leads to places in which romantic transfiguration coincides with racial persecution – and it overcomes those new walls in Europe that divide our society dramatically.

Blacklist

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

BLACKLIST

Archaeology of hidden depths

Research project - ongoing

Our undertaking is an archaeology, an examination of hidden depths and censored underground that is considered to be a dangerous pictorial world. We will detect and trace this negative order of images.

Exhibited at: Swiss Art Awards, Basel, Switzerland; Edith Ruß Haus, Oldenburg, Germany; Kunstverein Kassel, Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany;

Supported by: Edith Ruß Haus, foundation of Lower-Saxony for Media Art

网吧 Wang Ba

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

网吧 Wang Ba

Chinese for Internet Cafe

Ausstellungsansicht, Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zürich; Foto: Dominik Landwehr

**Exhibitions:**
Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zürich, Switzerland, 2008
Werkleitz, Halle (Saale), Germany, 2008
Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK, 2008

Supported by: Futuresonic, Manchester Art Gallery, Goethe-Institut Manchester, Digital Brainstorming

Awarded by: Futuresonic

Exhibition view, Kunstraum Walchturm, Zurich, photo: Dominik Landwehr

Wang-Ba, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester Chinatown, UK

FEINDBILD 2.0

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

FEINDBILD 2.0

Exhibition, Community and Discussion Platform on the Production of Images and Meaning in the Digital Age

From killer games and the cartoon conflict all the way to pirate copies and radical democracy & new fronts are emerging in digital space. Attempts to control the flow of information on the internet intensify the conflict because they appear as attacks on the ideals of a free communication society.

New Nations

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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: Swiss Federal Department of Home Affairs EDI - Federal Office of Culture BAK, cynetart Dresden