Ralf Baecker and Andreas Muxel will be part of the Share Festival 2009 in Torino. “Market Forces” is the theme of the fifth edition of Piemonte Share Festival. They present their projects › Rechnender Raum and › CONNECT.

Both of them are also nominated for the Share Price.

This is an interactive installation in which small parachutes move up and down in the air, as if jellyfish are swimming in the water. The parachutes move away from someone who approaches them. It lets viewers feel invisible air, space, and time.

Andreas Muxel will present his project › CONNECT at the Cyberarts 2009 Exhibition at the ARS Electronica Festival in Linz. The festival is held under the Topic “Human Nature – The Reinvention of Nature”. It also is ARS Electronica’s 30th anniversary and Linz is Europe’s 2009 Capital of Culture.

As part of the Migrating Art Academies, Laboratory III, Lasse Scherffig will briefly introduce the history of the creation of time and space from astronomy to GPS. Then, tools and techniques for watching satellites are introduced and may be experienced in an open lab situation.

“I am scared, but I love…” is an electromechanical instrument. If you focus on your hopes, openEEG (Electroencephalography) detects your hopes. Then a stepper motor and solenoid move and play a kalimba.