Room waiting

exhibition
Asifakeil, Quartier 21, Museumsquartier, Vienna
08.07.2010 - 31.07.2010

image from "roadtruckers"

2 Monitors, adhesive foil. Selection of animated films showing empty spaces. Waiting rooms depict a song about the feeling of freedom on the road ("roadtruckers"). Monitors in computer rooms serve as projection screens for screensavers ("intercut", "screensaver/desktop visuals").
In reference to the video "roadtruckers" I covered one of the exhibition space´s glass panels with the grey-white-checked pattern known as the illustration of transparency in photoshop. I left the originally white squares transparent, intending to create a mixture between the "real" and the symbolic transparency.

more:
http://www.mqw.at/de/programm/detail/?event_id=5872






removing transparency

structuring necessity pt. 2

2 diagrams, wall drawings, created for the group exhibition
"How much exchange can you stand?"

06.07.2010 - 17.09.2010

One year after the first visit from England and a presentation in the Bluecoat Gallery in Liverpool, the results of an exchange between Linz and Liverpool are to be shown in the Künstlervereinigung MAERZ and the Atelierhaus Salzamt

Atelierhaus Salzamt


Atelierhaus Salzamt, detail

Künstlervereinigung MAERZ



making of:

watch large version on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XnQrLb7Ly0

remember me pt. 3

performance at the opening of "neu im MAERZ"
25.5.10
Künstlervereinigung MAERZ, Linz/A

remember me pt. 2

performance at the opening of "global studio"
8.4.10
the bluecoat, Liverpool

structuring necessity pt. 1

"global studio"
group exhibition
9.4.10 - 20.6.10
the bluecoat, Liverpool





diagram, 2 x 1,5 m, wall drawing, pencil, textliner

“Structuring Necessity 2” is part of the project “riPOSTe”, a cooperation of female artists from Linz/A and Liverpool/UK. The project aims to create networks among former European Capitals of Culture. Group exhibitions take place in both cities.

My work deals with the topic of networking or the desire for global networking. Since the display of 14 artworks represents the creation of international networks, I decided to connect the artworks with each other too and to search for existing similarities. By doing this I respond to the quest for closer connections, adding another layer to it.

The work consists of a 2 x 1,5m layout of the exhibiton drawn on the wall. It shows term clouds instead of artworks, generated from the texts about the artworks with a tag-cloud software. Due to the reduction the tag clouds seem to combine exemplary keywords from the vocabulary of art, transferable to any other exibition. The works are linked by means of their descriptions. Recurring terms are connected by lines. The resulting diagram shows a compact, hardly legible network. The depiction of connectivity as such outweighs the content.

Tallinna Kivituvid (Tallinn´s stone pigeons)

produced for the group exhibition "Minu kallis paranoia" ("My dear paranoia")
by Estonian Media Artists Union
Vaal gallery, Tallinn
24.11. - 12.12.2009
www.martu.org

Room installation, 97 miniature models, self-hardening modeling clay, adhesive film

Karo Szmit 2009

There is a special feature in the cityscape of the Estonian capital Tallinn: Stone sculptures in the shape of pigeons are scattered all over the city serving as barriers. I decided to create a map of Tallinn displaying the positions of the pigeons.

I made miniature models of a total of 97 pigeons and placed them within a street map of Tallinn, which I applied on a reduced scale on the floor of the entire gallery space. The originally massive and immobile objects again stood in peoples´ way, but now almost invisible and therefore exposed and vulnerable.

The work refers to the exhibition´s topic - paranoid influences in our everyday perceptual structures. Being able to overlook the single groups of pigeons in an alleged relationship to one another one might think of a secret communication, an ominous readiness. The paranoid aspect also affected me as the artist, since most of the pigeon models were moved or destroyed during the exhibition due to their poor visibility.

The original sculptures were made by the Estonian sculptor Simson von Seakyll (also: Seaküla Simson) and istalled in Tallinn successively since 2006.

Remember Me

Performance
Project for GLOBAL CONTAINER IX
12 Nov. 2009, Culture Factory Polymer, Tallinn
www.artcontainer.ee




Performance. Some time ago I started collecting screenshots of the „remember me“ checkboxes which often appear as an option during logging onto webpages. Besides its practical function the phrase reminded me of a desperate entreaty not to be forgotten. The simple possibility to decide to be remembered seems like a trick within the anonymous online world.
I was wondering what or who else one could address with the demand „remember me“. During an art event I performed as a fake doorwoman and gave visitors a stamp with the „remember me“ – checkbox.

emoticonize me - some results

Project for Plektrum Festival
Tallinn 24.09. - 04.10.2009
www.plektrumfestival.ee

emoticonize me

Project for Plektrum Festival
Tallinn 24.09. - 04.10.2009
www.plektrumfestival.ee






"The idea to my project appeared when I discovered that Skype has been developed in Estonia. I decided to transfer a part of the Skype iconography into the physical dimension. I will perform as a street portrait artist, but under the restriction that I will interpret peoples´ faces as Skype emoticons. By doing this I want to compare the questions of individual expression in different fields of interaction. The translation of an original emotion into its symbolic equivalent in the online world also occurs in the portraying process. In the portrait however the emoticon regains an individual touch of uniqueness because of the artist´s handwriting. An interesting point for me is also the play with expectation and disappointment. There will not be any mentionable similarity to the person in the emoticon. But it is a face in the end."

Additionally I am making animated versions of the emoticons and also send them to the portrayed persons:


http://www.youtube.com/user/higherboredom

the maximum possible indifference diagram

Wolkendiagramm/ cloud diagram

Ceiling design for the café in the International Atelierhaus Salzamt, Linz/A.

first sketch








The drawing presents a cloud reaching over the arched roof, as a reference to baroque ceiling painting. Several details overlap the cloud like intersections and turn it into a diagram - clouds in different contexts.
Some images show clouds in the narrower sense, other ones dust and clouds of smoke, contrails, dust bunnies or the internet cloud (the internet is mostly depicted as a cloud in computer network diagrams).

Achtung

Video
L: 05:53 min

Produced for "Filiale Auwiesen" by the Stadtwerkstatt, part of the "Festival of Regions", Linz.

"In 2009, in collaboration with Linz 09 Cultural Capital of Europe, the Festival of Regions will be oriented toward the southern edge of the city of Linz, along the Traun River, with focus on the satellite town of Auwiesen and the residential complexes of solarCity."
(www.fdr.at)

www.filialeauwiesen.at

Hello Gümüşhane

Video
directed by: Stephanie Mold, Karo Szmit
Camera, Editing: Karo Szmit
L: 45 min
A 2009

„The major of Gümüşhane, a town in Eastern Anatolia, visited Lentos Museum of Modern Art in Linz and fell in love with the chairs. I know that because I was working as a museumsguard watching him. Instead of using those chairs as functional accessoires, he was inpsecting them as if they were part of the exhibiton. Then he told me that he was paying a visit to Linz as there is a Turkish community from Gümüşhane living here and that he would like to buy some of the chairs for his town. Unfortunately they were not for sale.
After he left I started to ask myself how Gümüşhane might look like.
So I decided to travel there by bus to Gümüşhane to bring him a chair as a present, tracing back the roots of a part of the Turkish population of Linz. During the trip I was wearing my museumsuniform which put me into the role of a performer. A museumsguard leaving the homogenic museumslandscape going on a more than 50 hours lasting roadtrip - with a chair.“
(Stephanie Mold)

roadtruckers

music clip for folklabor (angelika köhlermann/ vienna)

sound stories part 5

sound stories, a project by feedback & disaster
watch video here:
http://www.feedbackanddisaster.net/article.php?id=1737

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