Routine Pathways

Routine Pathways

Routine Pathways

three women describe their daily routine pathways, giving insight in how personal practice shapes the perception of the city. The interactive diagram juxtaposes their descriptions with “objective” way descriptions from a navigation system. By highlighting the time a person spends talking about a specific section of her path in relation to the sections actual length, the diagram captures the focal points of personal subjective spaces.

The project was developed as part of the EMARE artist in residency at the Werkleitz gesellschaft. It can be viewed here (virtools player necessary)

5 minute places

5 minute places

5 minute places

Starting from a central place, five minutes of movement in all directions with different means of transport are recorded. This project builds upon the work of Masaki Fujihata and Joachim Sauter, who combined GPS and video footage to create a map of the environment. in this case however, the GPS traces are mapped in time-space. using the videotraces, it becomes visible where the traveler interrupted his way …

Link to the project, developed in the course of an Emare Residency at the Werkleitz Gesellschaft in Halle

trajectory

trajectory

trajectory

In collaboration with Maex Decker

Trajectory was a sound installation commissioned by the austrian new media festival “liquid music” which took place in August 2002 in Judenburg, Styria.
the installation uses the realtime position of polar orbiting and geostationary satellites to control shortwave radio receivers, creating a sound environment that reflects the actual movement in the sky over judenburg. In the projection the satellites currently passing the visible sky are displayed, showing their influence contributing to the sound environment. by marking certain satellites the visitor could take influence on the soundscape.

wegzeit

wegzeit

wegzeit

my Thesis in Architecture .pdf  See update

“When you ask someone in Los Angeles how far it is from the beach to downtown, he or she will answer with the number of minutes it generally takes to traverse the distance rather than noting the number of miles. This system of defining and representing distance has recently been codified for use on the California Department of Transportation’s large LED “Freeway Condition” signs, which offer up-to-the-minute projections of estimated drive times: “8 minutes to downtown;” “22 minutes to 605 freeway,” and so on. Intrigued by the shift from the absolute units of distance traditionally used to describe space to the relative space of approximate drive times, Dietmar Offenhuber undertook an investigation of other examples in which data about the city is visualized in relative terms. The result of his work is Wegzeit, which uses six 3-D mapping paradigms – or cartograms – to visualize the city according to a range of conditions and interests.”

from the introduction of Vectors Online Journal

Link to the original Version of the Project

wegzeit project page at medienkunstnetz.de

i continued the work in the Projects 5 minute places and loopcity

LA Billboard Houses

LA Billboard Houses

LA Billboard Houses

During my stay in Los Angeles in 2000, the impressive and sturdy billboard constructions caught my interest. I also liked the way how they interact with the built environment, how they seem to wrap themselves around small houses or reach out into the street scape. I wondered whether it would be possible to use these structures for holding small parasitic houses and made a series of sketches. The houses have the size of a very large trailer home, a balcony, billboard space for paying the bills, and offer an excellent view of Los Angeles traffic, the main attraction of the city.