A multimedia opera with robots and overheard mobile conversations in four acts. “I’m sitting in the train. Where are you?” Everyone has a mobile phone these days and what was once a conversation in closed rooms is nowadays happening in the public sphere. The mindless phone monologues in busses and trains have irritated the German…
BLOWER deals with statistic logfile analysis and data representation. The installation is connected to the internet and automatically determines through a perl script the search terms employed to find a a specific web host.
Karl Heinz Jeron collects carelessly discarded objects while walking through the city. With minimal electronic circuits he makes these objects sound. He has been inspired by the text Supernatural Apparitions and Domestic Life in Japan by Kazuhiko Komatsu.There he describes the concept of Ushirometasa. “Although it has largely been forgotten since disposability became the…
Workshop and participatory installation with DIY audio devices. The circuits are powered and controlled by fruits and vegetables. The participatory and exciting installation of media artist Karl Heinz Jeron draws attention to a further aspect of our dealing with resources: In supermarkets and markets, the artist asks for overripe fruit and vegetables that are usually…
Beuys remake. It combines the following works by Beuys Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee and Auskehren.
Tiny self developed robots play Alla Hornpipe from the Water Music by Georg Friedrich Händel.
I conduct teach-ins for the public. A teach-in is a once popular form of an intensive teaching, discussion and information event, which has fallen into oblivion during recent years. It developed in the context of the political movements of the 1960s and served as an instrument to point out grievances, and to develop possibilities of…
I friended 862 people on Myartspace.com in September 2008 . Then I uploaded a specific picture to Myartspace.com. The following text could be read on the picture: Help me to get rich through art Go to http://blushingsusie.com Click on the Google ads 292 Myartspace users visited the site and clicked 85 times on the ads….
Contribution for the open artistic competition “Glück gehabt” at U-Bahnhof Weinmeisterstraße Berlin. An exhibition project by NGBK
‘Will Work For Food’ is about labour and barter economy. Small robotic vehicles trade their manpower for food.
Horde is an installation, a sculptural object and a technical network. Dozens of vehicles are moving autonomously and erratically on a white, shiny platform. Each vehicle maunders, i.e. vocalises fragments of various specialised texts on information, disinformation and information retrieval. The aim of Horde is to illustrate the chaos of the modern media-generated overload of…
Small robots as actors enact court TV as an absurd theatre. The installation poses the question how the re-telling of the stories, which are enacted in the fictional worlds of television, changes our perception of them. The installation attempts a critique of the idealized self-conception of talk shows in the afternoon TV program and in…
9to5 converts immaterial data to physical representation.
For a long time I would to go to bed early. Sometimes, the candle barely out, my eyes closed so quickly that I did not have the time to tell myself: I’m falling asleep. Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time The performers are reading the machine-code version of Marcel Proust’s novel. During the eight…
The 1st Public White Cube (PWC) is an attempt to produce interaction by economic means. In a series of auctions, the audience will be granted an opportunity to make a material change to an existing work of art and its exhibition situation. The auctions will take place via the Internet auction platform Ebay®. 1st Public…