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A social-political statement and an ironic comment on current tasks like production and waste of electricity in industrial states, and overweight or lack of fitness of its population. [Since 2006] | |
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Pornographic artworks, like pictures, sculptures, ready-mades and movies, whose aesthetics are influenced by digital media, DIY-communities and censorship. [Since 2009] | |
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Temporary sculptures from prefabricated elements, well known from the construction industry, which change the appearance of landscapes and of existing buildings. [Since 2005] | |
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Interactive installations in public space with changing content.
An experimental test laboratory for performances, sound- and video-installations. [Since 2002] | |
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'Restaurant Transformable' is an umbrella term for artistic positions, which deal with the topic of 'Cooking' as a form of fine arts. In this context cooking performances are combined with architectural elements and fine art. [2006 - 2009] | |
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'Enter Beijing' is an experiment to approximate the city Beijing by using artistic methods and to get a more intense approach to this 'planet'.
'San Lun Che' is the name for typical Chinese three-wheel-cargo-bikes, which Rainer Prohaska uses for his trip across the area of Beijing. [2008 - 2009] | |
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In the course of a 10 week boat journey from Krems/Austria to Ruse/Bulgaria Rainer Prohaska and his crew built a swimming sculpture. The extensions of the boat took place during the trip on the river Danube. All used materials and objects where found, bought or exchanged in the regions along the river banks. [2007 - 2008] | |
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The gazebo at the Stadtpark in Krems was the centre and starting point of the project 'Gazebo Extensions'. The vacant building was equipped with basic interior features by a construction team under the supervision of the artist. In the course of the donaufestival, it was gradually enlarged and took on more functional and aesthetic elements, and also extended into the surrounding park. [2008] | |
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'Unplugged' was the topic of the 'Ars Electronica 2002' in Linz.
As a result of the artistic examination of the topic, the 'Unplugger' was created – an efficient device to prevent most communication and social interaction. In 2007 the 'Unplugger' was taken over by the 'KRFTWRK' institution and embedded into the 'E.S.I. Machines'- division. [2002 - 2006] | |
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'Construction of Hybrid Realities as a non-linear, performative strategy for staging' describes a contemporary performing form of expression besides theatre, film and 'Cultural Performances'. The main focus of the analysis lies on the intersection of 'staged virtuality' and 'practiced reality' (liveness), called 'Hybrid Reality'. [2006] | |
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Shipping down the river 'Danube', together with Prof. Christian Reder and some students of the University for Applied Arts, the theoretic background and concept for the 'Z-Boats'-project was created. Beside that work, a photo-series of interventions on harbour and riverside objects was done. [2005] | |
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'Matratzenlager Cntrcpy' was the title for a social piece of art and lounge during the 'donaufestival' 2005. It was not only an artwork and a place for events. It tuned out to be the festival's communication center, where the audience and the artists came together to discuss, party, and relax. [2005] | |
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Title for cooking performances, before 'Restaurant Transformable' was created. Components like interactivity and audiovisual environment, created by activities during the cooking processes, are still content of the project. 'Local Food' was established in 2001. [2001 - 2005] | |
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This netartproject is a virtual space flight to Mars, accessible to everybody who has a mobile phone and access to the internet.
The target is, to navigate a space ship to Mars as fast as possible and to land there, by using a web interface and a mobile phone. [2002 - 2005] | |
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Video-Feedback-Performance, developed without using prepared audio or visual material. The pictures and sounds of this performance come from the used equipment itself, based on feedback arrays. [2002 - 2004] | |
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Media hack at the Volksoper in Vienna. In 2003 radio FM4 and the Volksoper Vienna organized an Antonin Dvorák Remix-Contest. For this event CNTRCPY[tm] was charged with the staging and visualization. [2003] | |
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Media attack on Christoph Schlingensief's Church Of Fear. [2003] | |
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Live 'visuals' for the viennese band Twinnie. See a videoclip, provided by the lable 'Cheap Records' of Patric Pulsinger. [2002] | |
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'Read_me'-festival 1.2 - software as artistic work and software manipulations. [2002] | |
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This video-installation, installed on 'Schwedenplatz', a public space in the city of Vienna, showed people, filmed in their cars while stuck in a traffic jam. [2000] | |
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B.A.U. means 'Business As Usual', one of the most spoken term of journalists, reporting from political situations after the takeover of the right-wing black and blue coalition of the Austrian government in spring 2000. [2000] |