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2007 arbeiten an den BBM-Projekten:
Olaf Arndt, Janneke Schönenbach und

> Martin Hoyer
> Lars Vaupel
> Juan Gil Carrillo / Jose Sanchez Garrido
> BBO - Betreiber blinkender Objekte
> Zsolt Barat
> Stanislav Vajce
> Elle Janssen
> Franziska Schönenbach

new projects

> Flexipix Medienfassaden

in cooperation with

> Foiltec Group

Works for/in museums done by BBM-members

Numerous installations on German history (Third Reich, RAF terrorism etc)

with Rob Moonen, such as "camera silens", "Buna 4" etc in:

Haus der Kunst München

Kulturforum SMPK (The Prussian Cultural Heir) Berlin

ZKM Center for Arts and Media Karlsruhe

Hellerau / Hygienic Museum Dresden

PS 1 New York

Ehrenhof Düsseldorf

+ in diverse cities in Netherlands such as Tilburg, Breda, Hertogenbosch

installation works with Janneke Schönenbach et al.: "Deutschlandbilder" (Pictures of Germany), Martin Gropius Bau Berlin 1997

 

Eleven years of machine performance with BBM
(Observers of Operators of Machines):

1989 -1996

26 performances in Hannover, Kassel, Berlin, Karlsruhe, Essen, München, Leipzig, Halle/Saale, Frankfurt a.M., Bremen, Köln, Stuttgart, Kiel, Hamburg

festivals in Freiburg a. Br. and Osnabrück (European Media Art Festival)

 

including:

1997

"Das künstlerisch Gewollte zum wirtschaftlich Notwendigen in ein vernünftiges Verhältnis setzen" (which means more or less: "You have to put your artistic aim into a reasonable relation to the economical logic of production" and it is a quotation of Berlins cultural senator!), 7 performances on one evening, International Sculptor´s Workshops BHW Berlin

"40 Oil-on Canvas 40 x 40 cm", BBM with "Gruppe M", Galerie 4000, Hamburg

 

1998

artistic outline for the contribution of thematic area "Knowldege" on Expo 2000 world exhibition in Hannover (Arndt), as well as prototype of "autonomous swarm robot" (Vierath/Kippenbroek) and visual - media - storyboards (Schönenbach)

1999

"BBM intelligence", 2 performances, sound- and videoinstallations at EMAF European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück

"Kraftwerk und Kathedrale" ("power station and cathedral"), Galerie Aedes East, Berlin, Hackesche Höfe

"connected intelligence", prototype presentation of swarm robot at Official Exhibition Hall of The German Federal Republic, Bonn

"Tage der kollektiven Intelligenz" (Sessions on Collective Intelligence), Media Theatre of ZKM Center for Arts and Media Karlsruhe:
1st day: "Der Schwarm" (The swarm), video/sound-performance with Hendrik Dorgathen (animations) + Marc Weiser/RechenZentrum (music)
2nd day: "sophisticated building by blind bulldozing", BBM vs. RechenZentrum, machine/videobattle with 10 sensor based autonomous robots with mobile video broadcast stations

 

2000

"sophisticated teaching by blind scratching", BBM vs. RechenZentrum, club transmediale / Berlinale Berlin

"Drill" (The Brig), relais-computer controlled automatic steel door labyrinth, as hommage to Jonas Mekas/Living Theatre and their piece "The Brig",

Roman Art Museum, Pelicaeus Museum Hildesheim

"KnowldegeInformationCommunication—Robots", 6 months installation, World Exhibition Expo 2000 Hannover

Project "Hyperorganismen", video production with 14 artists, hybrid CD-ROM with 120 pics, 40 min videodocumentation, 20 sound extract of the show, 480 pages-book with 30 essays of international authors Ilya Prigogine, Michel Serres, Heinz von Foerster, Hans Moravec, Lynn Margulis, Avital Ronell, Manuel deLanda, Sadie Plant, Bruce Sterling etc.

"knowledge/energy", Institut Francais d´Architecture (IFA) / La Vilette, Paris

 

Publications

books with BBM:

1989: Maschinen, 70 p, Hannover

1990: Bulldozer, 48 p, Hannover

1992: Das Unternehmen/BBM Enterprises, 60 p, Berlin

1994: Dieser Wahnsinn muß ein Ende haben/That kind of madness has to be stopped right now, 164 p, Berlin

1995: Einübungen in den Ausnahmezustand/ lectures in historical exceptions, 80 p; Worpswede

1999/2000: Das Modell einer neuen Gesellschaftsordnung/The model of a future society´s order, 240 p., Hannover

books with Rob Moonen, Janneke Schönenbach et al.

camera silens, Karlsruhe/Hamburg 1994, 220 p. (International Design Price)

Buna 4, Hamburg 1995, 120 p. (International Design Price)

Passage, Berlin 1996, 48 p.

Der Gläserne Block Bd 1: Giftschrank, Berlin 1997, 80 p. (for "Deutschlandbilder")

Hyperorganisms, Hannover 2000, 480 p. and CD—ROM

 

Films

"Blei!" / Contaminated with led! Pepe Danquart, Freiburg 1991 (13 min Beta)

Dieser Wahnsinn muss ein Ende haben/ That kind of madness has to be stopped right now
Paul Rusch, Hannover 1992 (14 min Beta)

"V7 oder Die ganze Kunst der Verdichtung" / V7 or The Art of Compression Sven Meier-Wiedenbach, Hannover 1996 (12 min 16 mm film)

"Telekill" / Telekinetic Overkill, Sven Meier-Wiedenbach, Hannover/Berlin 1997 (6 min 16 mm film)

"Super! 9+1 Filme", compilation out of 10 years show documentations, Hannover 1999 (89 min PAL -VHS)

"72 artefacts", with Carsten Aschmann / Agnieszka Jurek, Hannover 2000 (19 min DV, available as NTSC/Pal VHS or MPEG data files with english or french subtitles