Me, myself and (A)I
2024
in collaboration with
Bernadette Maria Leitner
Flavia Mazzanti
Manuel Bonell
This research project explores the expansive digital landscape of self-expression and identity, from Instagram filters to fully fictional personas. It focuses on empowering marginalized communities, especially those who feel disconnected from their biological bodies, allowing them to express their true selves. Using tracking suits, participants can fuse their physical and digital identities, creating personalized avatars that embody their desired identities and emotions, often enhanced through AI tools.
The project specifically involves performers from transgender, non-binary, and gender-fluid communities, who explore and express their new digital selves. Their movements and emotions are translated into transformative avatars, raising profound questions about the fluidity of identity and the impact of digital self-discovery on reality. The final output will be a video documenting this innovative process, blending the tangible with the digital and sparking reflections on the intersections of technology and identity.
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The project specifically involves performers from transgender, non-binary, and gender-fluid communities, who explore and express their new digital selves. Their movements and emotions are translated into transformative avatars, raising profound questions about the fluidity of identity and the impact of digital self-discovery on reality. The final output will be a video documenting this innovative process, blending the tangible with the digital and sparking reflections on the intersections of technology and identity.
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The only ice in the
future is popsicles
2024
This project, presented at the Zsamm.cc and GAT.news exhibition, features a narrative told by AI-generated voices.
The story is displayed through large posters, styled like advertisements, and placed around the ski region.
Despite the unsnowy landscape, these visuals create a unique experience for festival-goers, blending technology and storytelling in a way that encourages interaction and reflection.
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The story is displayed through large posters, styled like advertisements, and placed around the ski region.
Despite the unsnowy landscape, these visuals create a unique experience for festival-goers, blending technology and storytelling in a way that encourages interaction and reflection.
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CCC
2023
In this project, we delve into a dystopian scenario where a country grapples with a resurgence of soft drinks, leading to a severe public health crisis characterized by diabetes, obesity, and shortened lifespans. Government regulations prove futile as corporations actively promote and profit from sugary beverage consumption, especially targeting infants and children. This narrative underscores the stark contrast between dire health consequences and profit-driven marketing, culminating in the nation's inundation with unhealthy products.
A publication and various objects were crafted during a residency in Merida, Mexico.
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Architectural Utopias
bimonthly published on
GAT.ST
ongoing
Wilhelm Scherübl Jr. was invited by GAT.ST to write architectural utopias at monthly intervals, based on quotations from the current media landscape.
> GAT.ST (German Versions)
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> GAT.ST (German Versions)
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Recollect Space
2015
Recollect Space focuses on people’s memories of their architectural
surroundings. It connects places to stories and experiences which are
shaped by remembered and retold architectural details. Specifically, the
project refers to the memories of refugees who at the moment are not
able to return to places they used to inhabit.
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the defensive appearence
2018
The sun is hot, the inside dark. Shutters are down to keep the heat outside. The buildings become monoliths or obelisks as the facade and openings melt together.
Documenting this sculptural appearance and retouching all openings out of them, they reflect the dilemma of our society. The openness and self portrayal on online platforms vs. the loneliness and seclusion that happens in reality.
They become monuments of our society in the heart of our build environment.
Documenting this sculptural appearance and retouching all openings out of them, they reflect the dilemma of our society. The openness and self portrayal on online platforms vs. the loneliness and seclusion that happens in reality.
They become monuments of our society in the heart of our build environment.
Filed under:
Concept
Concept
placed on hold
Auf Eis gelegt
2018
with Therese Leick
A brightly lit object in the midst of the fairytale snowy landscape attracts the attention of the bypasser. In the next second it is already in the cloud and collects likes. Approaching the scene, a sculpture made of ice becomes visible. A frozen object flashes through it. The ice sculpture enclosing it, denies immediate access to the wrapped object. In contrast to our usual constant accessibility, the object of ice teaches us an exercise of patience. The slow melting releases the interior. Do you return or are you satisfied with a superficial view?
Ice as a material metaphorically reflects the short-lived nature of our media society. Its transience shows that we have no control over the further course of the information provided by us. After the dissolution of the ice, only a remnant of the 21st century and the traces left by our data on the Internet remain in the place of the sculpture.
Ice as a material metaphorically reflects the short-lived nature of our media society. Its transience shows that we have no control over the further course of the information provided by us. After the dissolution of the ice, only a remnant of the 21st century and the traces left by our data on the Internet remain in the place of the sculpture.
behind the scene
2015
with Therese Leick1st Prize
Some locations are so highly renowned that their surroundings consequently lose their relevance, even though they carry an important history of their own. Being overshadowed by the main attraction, these neighbouring areas are mainly used as transitional spaces. As people move between these places, the spaces begin blurring in the background and get less and less noticed until they become non-places.
The modest intervention of angled mirrors restricts the view of the monument and renews the spectators point of interest. By redirecting the visitors’ perception towards the forgotten places around the monument, people are led to rethink their acknowledgement of the spaces “behind” the scene.
The modest intervention of angled mirrors restricts the view of the monument and renews the spectators point of interest. By redirecting the visitors’ perception towards the forgotten places around the monument, people are led to rethink their acknowledgement of the spaces “behind” the scene.
Filed under:
Concept, Architecture
Concept, Architecture
refresh
2016
with Therese Leick1st Prize
Our daily rhytm passes in a 24 hour circulation, divided in 8 hours of capacity, 8 hours of socializing and 8 hours of regeneration. State to state, we are changing from being efficient, to enjoying our leasuretime, to regenerate ourselves for the next day.
Filed under:
Concept, Architecture
Concept, Architecture
