Works and experiments created at Lab3 question technologies, their aesthetics and socio-cultural contexts. Behind these works one can find a thorough examination of calculating material, algorithms and interfaces. Open Lab3 presents workshop results and provisional arrangements, allowing a look behind the scenes and onto the technologial “subfaces” of contemporary media art.
The project Paidia Laboratory: feedback is part of transmediale 2012. It is featured in the official exhibition as well as in a special show at Berlin’s Computerspielemuseum (Computer Game Museum, CSM).
The fourth issue (numbered 3) of off topic, magazine for media art is released on Friday, December 9th at the KHM library. The issue is devoted to the topic interruption/repetition (unterbrechen/wiederholen) and among many contributions features the project › rare earth by Lucas Buschfeld and an article on Feedback Machines by › Lasse Scherffig.
Based on the installation › aloop, Aloop Net Tokyo Berlin detects radioactive decay in the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo and the Institut für Raumexperimente Berlin. Connected via the internet, each respective decay triggers a visual event in the other city: a fading from white to black.