SENSEFACTORY / 2019, Muffatwerk, Munich & Dive Festival, Schauspielhaus, Bochum, DE / is a large-scale performative installation combining architecture, sound, smell, light and AI technology into a immersive multi-sensorial experience. It is inspired by László Moholy-Nagy’s 1924 “Mechanized Eccentric” concept — a new kind of theater for the senses, that would merge machine and organism. With SENSEFACTORY it […]

Bruno Latour:  …there is a disconnect between the science and the size of the threat that people mention about nature, the planet and the climate, and the emotion that this triggers. So we are supposed to be extremely frightened people, but despite that we appear to sleep pretty well. ••. Weather reports are one of […]

New York Times: For a planet to be habitable, it can’t be too hot or too cold. ••  Exoplanets are like organisms in a digital universe, they are new universal devices and icons. They match a reality that appears to us in a state of nuclear velocity, at a time when our own man-made digital world […]

••  Le regard celeste Fridtjof Nansen : Toute la beauté de la vie n’est-elle pas haute, délicate et pure comme cette nuit? Le ciel est une immense coupole bleue au zénith, passant vers l’horizon au vert, puis au lilas et au violet. ••  La coupole désigne une voûte hémisphérique, de profil semi-circulaire et elliptique. C’est […]

Mark petrakis:   In movies there are explosions after explosions. They stun you into submission. There is no escape from adrenaline. And the end is often a series of Explosions as if the movie was exploding itself as a grand finale. In the narrative of modernity, they are spectacular expressions of progress. They are the symbolic […]

Donald Trump:   Nobody builds walls better than me, believe me—and I’ll build them very inexpensively. I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will make Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words.  Ancient traces imply that drawing was the first form of human expression. Dance, music, sounds, and environmental […]

William Gibson Was it Laurie Anderson who said that VR would never look real until they learned how to put some dirt in it?  When on Twitter Trump quotes Mussolini via @ilduce2016  “It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.” he is merely feeding a delirious ongoing […]

Airplanes have lost their mystique and been reduced to mass transportation, they throw each traveler through the grinding gears of security gates, hence pushing us through the dramaturgy of unrealistic tragedies in which we would be either on a suicide mission or aiming for martyrdom. And yet the airplane, whether as bomber or passenger jet, […]