niki passath

Djinni in a Bottle – Materialisation und Medialität

16. Mai – 30. Juni 2012
3D-Prototyping in der Kunst. Ein Projekt der Lehrenden an der Abteilung Digitale Kunst / Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien:

Wolfgang Fiel mit Sophie-Carolin Wagner, Margarete Jahrmann, Nicolaj Kirisits, Peter Koger, Bernd Kräftner mit Ashley Holwell, Martin Kusch, Jan Lauth, Lydia Lindner, Max Moswitzer, Niki Passath, Tommy Schneider, Ruth Schnell, Veronika Schnell, Franz Schubert, Romana Schuler, Roland Schöny mit Hans Newidal, Stefanie Wuschitz
Ausstellungsarchitektur: Wolfgang Fiel
Grafische Gestaltung: studioelastik.com

Chimere

Mischwesen
Wolpertinger
Monstrum
Ungeheuer
Phantom
Trugbild
Hirngespinst

Diese Chimäre ist ein Mosaiklebewesen welches aus drei verschiedenen Arten hervorgeht. Mit dem Kopf einer Katze, dem Rücken eines Kamels und den Beinen eines Insekts, wahrscheinlich eines Flohs.

During my visit with a robot at Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary I watched a Birds of Prey show, where the interactions between the birds and the humans impressed me very much. Sometimes a very strong connection seems to exist.

Another autonomous robot, running around in the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary, Brisbane, Australia.
The first time that a Zoe robot encounters living animals. Here Koalas, Kangaroos, Waterdragons and a Emu.

zoe in prague is a collaborative project together with vive les robots (http://vivelesrobots-education.dk/) more can be seen on http://www.followtherobots.com/
thanks to Christian Gjørret

Zoe is a series of robots created by the Austrian robotics artist Niki Passath. This video shows one of the robots death, after it had decided to jump into a small lake in Prague on the 12th of November 2011.

Zoe is a series of robots created by the Austrian robotics artist Niki Passath. This video shows one of the robots death, after it had decided to jump into a small lake in Prague on the 12th of November 2011.

Next day another Zoe Robot came to the robot funeral in Prague.

Dancing House is a building in Prague by Frank O Gehry, which can remind you of a robot house.

The notion robot was invented in this house in 1920 by Josef & Karel Capek.

The National Theater in Prague is that place where the word robot was introduced for the first time to an audience in 1921.

Zoe Robot going Down Hill in this video recorded in Prague.

Zoe Robot on a walk in a forest in Prague.

One of the finest pieces of robotics art from the medial ages is The Astronomical Clock in Prague

Rabbi Loew – The creator of Golem is buried The Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague.

Zoe Robot is reading a book in Prague.

Here in this house Karel and Josef Capek lived from 1907-25.

Zoe Robot on a walk in Prague.

Zoe Robot meets some musicians on Charles Bridge in Prague.

Zoe Robot meets John of Nepomuk on Charles Bridge in Prague.

Zoe Robot meets a puppeteer on Charles Bridge in Prague.

Zoe Robot meets Jesus on Charles Bridge in Prague.

Zoe Robot meets Rabbi Loew in Prague.

Zoe Robot on Siroka Street in Prague.

Zoe Robot next to The Old New Synagogue in Prague.

Zoe Robot at The House of the Black Madonna in Prague.

Zoe Robot next to the Sculpture of the two Capek Brothers in Prague.

Zoe Robot next to The Tomb of Karel Capek in Prague.

Zoe Robot next to Theatre Spejbl & Hurvinek in Prague.

Zoe Robot next to Ponrepo in Prague.

Zoe Robot by The Memorial to the victims of Communism in Prague.

Zoe Robot next to the Metronome in Prague.

Zoe Robot next to Embryo in Prague.

Zoe Robot next to Piss sculpture in Prague.

Zoe Robot by 34 yellows light penguins on the river Vltava in Prague.

Zoe Robot at Cross Club in Prague.

photographed during the art residency and conference:
“Field_Notes – Cultivating Grounds”
26.9-2.10 Kilpisjärvi Biological Station Lapland/ Finland
http://bioartsociety.fi/field_notes/

with a little help of a friend

developed for and realized during the art residency and conference:
“Field_Notes – Cultivating Grounds”
26.9-2.10 Kilpisjärvi Biological Station Lapland/ Finland
http://bioartsociety.fi/field_notes/

This autonomous robot is solar powered and has a very simple motion algorithm. I use this robot tourist, as I call
it, to explore the biological milieu by letting it run around in the
surrounding area. Shooting pictures and videos triggers in this combination of artificiality and nature a more
emotional view on the robotic creature and the surrounding environement.

supported by:

M.A.R.I.N.´
cartographies of everyday at sea – art residency

The huge amount of spiders around the art colony inspired me to work on this three spiderweb structures. Because the spiders immediately populate the artificial web, the structure of the network changes continuosly and introduces a different point of view to those omnipresent creatures and engages a coexistence between insects and art.

on site at
nida art colony, Curonian Spit, Lithuania

populated spidernetworks

M.A.R.I.N.
cartographies of everyday at sea – art residency

During the 1 month residency I took around 400 different photos. Out of this pool emerges an hand drawn emotional and subjective map of the three different locations in Norway, Sweden and Lithuania.

at
nida art colony, Curonian Spit, Lithuania

Here we were encouraged to show our works in progress during the open studio event on the 27.8.2011 and the cartography of everyday at sea, as it´s a very long drawing was used as a link between the main community space in the ground floor and the more private first floor area where M.A.R.I.N. residents presented the artpieces.

Details

M.A.R.I.N.
cartographies of everyday at sea – art residency

Atmers are kinetic inflatable objects which try to reflect on the surrounding environment and its health state through repetitive movements which resemble breathing.

developed at Stavanger/Flörli, Norway
realized at
kultivator, art and agriculture, Öland, Sweden

As we were at a farm, the first step was to create a working space. What would be a better place for some artistic-scientific research than a kitchen ? Fortunately Kultivator has a so called Outdoor-Kitchen, which was not in permanent use, so this approved to be the perfect place to feel the environment and to create art. When the weather was bad, or it was to cold, we changed to a not yet finished residency space, where a bed had to take the function of a table.

In a future version of the project, the health state of the inflatable objects will be triggered by sensoric input. In this case I used myself as a sensor, trying to feel the environement and transfer this emotions in the breathing algorithms.

at
nida art colony,  Curonian Spit, Lithuania

Here we were encouraged to show our works in progress during the open studio event on the 27.8.2011  as this was generally an indoor event I placed the Atmers next to one of our sleeping rooms which we converted into studiospaces.

M.A.R.I.N.
cartographies of everyday at sea – art residency

Flørli, Lysefjord, Norway

the marin trackrider experience:
together with Tapio Mäkelä

Already before we arrived to Flörli, there where rumors about the so called “Stairway to heaven”, 4444 wooden stairs, which belong to the old Powerplant.

We had the idea to create some device, which has a camera mounted on it to ride those tracks, next to the wooden stairs, down.

When we climbed those stairs up, which took about two to three hours we were far to exhausted to modify the not really working first prototype, so we came back without success. But after some days the motivation came back and just before we left the beautiful Lysefjord Tapio and I created a second version which actually was kind of successful. Absollutly fun included.

another point of view to that experience can be found at:
http://ecoarte.info/marinetime/tools/trackrider/

mit Cornelia Böhnisch im Rahmen von

PARCOURS II – urban transmedia: lab in performance
(Ein Projekt von dadaX, ImPulsTanz und aspern Seestadt PUBLIK
Idee, Konzept, Workshop: Daniel Aschwanden Dramaturgische Beratung: Ute Burkhardt-Bodenwinkler, Elke Krasny)

all photos by sophia ribeiro

A project in progress by laura beloff (www.realitydisfunction.org ) and niki passath 2011

http://www2.derby.ac.uk/openstudio/digital-hybridity/tags/121/

painting traces 6

painting traces 6 beginning to end of accu

painting traces detail moving