ANNA WATZINGER
“TranZ_
something between space and time,
Prozessgestalt_
moving sculpture,
Binärkörper_
bodyscreen,
Rainbow_
the beauty of fractionizing things. ”
#ARTS-BASED RESEARCH #BIO #BODY #ECOLOGY #DIGITAL #EXISTENTIAL #COMMONS #ELECTRONICS #LANGUAGE #FABULATION #HACKING #INSTALLATION #INTERACTIVE #MULTIMEDIA #ONTOLOGY #PERFORMANCE #SCIENCE #SPACE #SCULPTURE #VIDEO
BIO.
Anna Watzinger, based in Vienna (A), holds a diploma in sculpture from the Vienna Art School and a degree in digital/media art from the University of Applied Arts Vienna and works within various media, subjects and projects, focusing on this liquid space of encounter of different things and phenomenon. She showed her work in many places in Vienna and abroad, including an artist in residency; received an award of KÖR and was/is member of different art collectives. She is one of these artists who lives for art but not living from art ;)
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Anna Watzinger, based in Vienna (A), holds a diploma in sculpture from the Vienna Art School and a degree in digital/media art from the University of Applied Arts Vienna and works within various media, subjects and projects, focusing on this liquid space of encounter of different things and phenomenon. She showed her work in many places in Vienna and abroad, including an artist in residency; received an award of KÖR and was/is member of different art collectives. She is one of these artists who lives for art but not living from art ;)
© Anna Watzinger
www.smartrainbow7punkt0.systems (2021)
Website, 3D home is interactive, in cooperation with Laurus Edelbacher
The source of the smart rainbow 7.0 website www.smartrainbow7punkt0.systems respresents the multimedia installation smart rainbow 7.0. Those links the error display of (older) macOS operating computer systems (“rotating rainbow cursor") with both the meteorological phenomenon of the rainbow and the topic of global warming by using the consisting elements of the rainbow, (frozen, colored) water and (electric) light for „downloading“ the „rotating rainbow error cursor“ via seven ice sculptures into the real, technical upgraded space of a freezer box. In line with the third participation of smart rainbow 7.0 at the exhibition “Καιρός – recall of earth III“ by Sophia Panteliadou at AIL Vienna, the entire installation including all complementary material (in progress), were precisely "smart rainbow 7.0 – conceptually fractionized” "uploaded” into the virtual online space. Hence these 7 rotating error cursors or floating light particles, which function as the seven chapters of the website, represent each a color of the rainbow, assigned to a media category/form of appearance, whereupon related content is successively uploaded on the media specific online platform/cloud in the www, embedded via inline frame on the website or provided via hyperlink if x-frame lock is active.
Semantic visuals of Insomnia 2.0_ © Anna Watzinger
Video frames © Patryk Senwicki & Anna Watzinger incl. editing
Interface of bed motor control © Anna Watzinger
INSOMNIA 2.0_THINGS THINKING DATA DEMONS (2019-20)
Sensory Installation
INSOMNIA 2.0_ is a sensory installation that deals by means of personal (chronic sleep disorders, sleep laboratory), system-critical (24/7 sleepless, monitored 2. 0 society) and atmospheric (#cleanDEEPSkinSCREEN) layers of insomnia, inherent topics (bed-disease-body-functions-monitoring, sleep-dream, object-subject, minimal emotional housing) and possible causes of it (personal/smartphone and collective off-online state/corporate - surveillance) and tries to translate these _ THINGS THINKING DATA DEMONS into a material+technical up to atmospheric adequate appearance of insomnia and surveillance by analyzing the multi-layered sleep laboratory examination. All the excitations of Insomnia 2.0_ are based on the artist's sleep phase curve; these generate the movement of the bed and serve as a template for the overall editing of the 10-channel surveillance monitor video composition of the bed body. The user, lying on the Insomnia 2.0_ bed, literally touches the quality/sleep phases of the artist's sleep.
Download whole content: https://fedora.phaidra.bibliothek.uni-ak.ac.at/fedora/get/o:37287/bdef:Content/get
Photos © Anna Watzinger
THE MALUS DOMESTICA ARCHIVE (2010-ongoing)
Transmedial
THE MALUS DOMESTICA ARCHIVE is a field research and archive in progress on the phenomenon, materiality and topic of the fruit apple. It represents an artistic field of experimentation and work-in-progress laboratory, in which the countless possible forms and levels of meaning of a thing are beeing explored by choosing the example of the apple. The apple as the main actor, material and projection screen of multifaceted processes of investigation and editing becomes the general and particular object of desire. On a meta-level, this approach can be understood as a half serious and ironic search for "the soul of the apple" and in doing so the fundamental question of the being of things ("Das Ding dingt", Martin Heidegger; Sein und Zeit) is raising. The ensoulment of (supposed) things as a way out of the crisis....
In memory of the generality of modernity and the relativism of postmodernity, may one even dare to formulate something truthful about something? Or must one in view of the transhumanism literally become an apple in order to be able to give answers about beeing an apple?
The fictitious goal would be: "all about the apple"! And the apple as a projection screen for enlightenment! (apple zen ;) But in any case, the apple as the r e a l big data…
More info: https://annawatzinger.com/the-malus-domestica-archive/