I’m honoured to announce that my Electronic Instant Camera is part of 2012 Japanese Media Art Festival’s jury selection!

I just returned from Monaco where I’ve been for another edition of the ‘Dancing Machine’ exhibition. This time, it was part of the ‘Monaco Dance Festival’, an annual ballet event which I didn’t knew before.
I’ve taken a few pictures in this maxirich minicountry, to show you the highlights of this trip:

First of all, there’s a casino. That’s maybe the most important institution in Monaco, besides the Grimaldi family. The building looks good, but since I’m not so much of a player, I didn’t go inside. Fellow artist Valère Terrier of Visual System did. He gambled with his per diem and made a couple of hundred Euros in there. Congratulations!

That’s the exhibition venue, the Grimaldi Forum.

At the first night, artist buddy Volker Morawe and me walked to the port. Volker wondered how to invest his artist fee. He considered to buy a superyacht with it.

Next day, I went to the local Ferrari dealer. I borrowed a car for a little test drive on the Formula 1 track. Stuff like this is no problem in Monaco as everyone expects you to be extremely rich.

In the evening we went totally crazy and had a rockstar-like party in my hotel room, where we almost damaged the carpet.

The festival still goes on until the 17th. If you’re in the area, it’s very much worth to visit it!

Victor Vasarely was one of the first pixel artists:

Look, all pixels:

And wireframes?

There’s a Ping! on the Vasarely!

Finally, Ping-Pixel got out of control and damaged the ceiling.

This all happened during the opening of Gamerz-Festival in Aix-en-Provence.
The exhibition still goes on until the 26th.

Check out also WMMNA-Régines article about nice other art at the festival here.

During my stay at La Gaîté Lyrique in Paris, I worked on a light pen which turns any CRT-TV into an audiovisual synthesizer. Learn how it works, build your own and hack it, or watch a video of the device in action after the click.

Here are a few screenshots that I’ve taken when I was playing with it:

Vinciane Verguethen has sent me some beautiful photos that she’s taken during my stay in Paris:

Today and tomorrow, I’ll still take portraits of visitors at La Gaîté Lyrique. Come over to get yours! Here’s a small selection of the >100 photos that I’ve taken so far:

But it’s just for a couple of days. Gaîté Lyrique has invite me for a Hi-Speed residency, so for the moment, here’s my little new place:

I have some sort of a front desk, where people can sit down and talk to me. Like this charming young woman. And I take photos of my visitors with my Electronic Instant Camera.

And then, there’s also PING! installed. On a superbig screen in the entrance area. Glad to see how this young gentleman enjoys the game.

If there’s some time in between all those visits, I work on a new project:

It will be a light pen controlled synthesizer – a little device which turns your old obsolete CRT-TV into an experimantal noise maker. I’ll let you know about the progress here and on Twitter.

Photo credits: La Gaîté Lyrique / Clément Bec-Karkamaz

People in my neighborhood know me and my work very well, as my studio is located in an old shopfront with a big shopwindow facing towards the street. They are always curious about what I do, so at last weekend’s neighborhood street fest I offered them a diy synthesizer to go workshop. They could build their own little electronic devices and find out by themselves with which kind of labor I spend a serious amount of my time.

More photos and a circuit drawing after the click.

Berlin’s Museum Night is only a few sleeps away and here’s already a video of what you can experience upcoming Saturday night in Kreuzberg at the Technikmuseum:
A water powered multichannel sound installation! (And it’s somewhat large scale.)
Here’s a video of last weekend’s test run:

La belle Imira and I teamed up in order to connect the museum’s huge and unused water wheel with a couple of tiny music boxes. They are distributed in the forest that surrounds the old forge and alongside a rail track. The music boxes are all different and play related melodies („Berliner Luft“, „Moonshine Sonata“, „My Way“, … ). A several hundred meter long looped rope connects the music boxes with the water wheel in an expressive zig-zag course.

The installation is part of a group show, curated by Jana Linke, with works of Karl Heinz Jeron, Chris Jeffs, Daniela Kinateder, Jana Linke, Markus Ruff and Juliane Zelwies.

“Wasserklang Modulsystem” will be up and running next Saturday (August, 27th) from 6PM to 2AM at the Technical Museum’s old forge. Imira and me will be there and we’d be glad to welcome you as well!

I’ve just updated the PING!-page. Now, there are the schematics of the game and some further information to build your own!

Ping! closed.

And opened.