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"MACH FIELD" is a Austrian artist duo.
It was created 1999 by the medium artists Michael Mastrototaro and Sabine Maier in Vienna. Their fields of activity are net art, short & experimental film, Streamingprojekte, interactive installations as well as work for the public area. Since 2004 MACH FIELD operates an interdisciplinary media art laboratory in Vienna. Projects, exhibitions and installations/Screenings in Europe, Central America and in the USA.
==Projekte (selection) ==
- 1999-2002 (1999)
- Structure of an international Kurzfildatenbank.
THE GAME was a comparative experiment over the social behavior of individuals as a function of medialem context. The comparison as such taken place between material and so-called virtual area: participating itself in the safe role of the art recipient (- consumers), was however in fact investigation objects (like also victims of its own impulses). A play remains a play/is no play.
- Current 01 (2002)
- Current zero one concerns itself with the border course between reality and imagination as experiment.
By means of digital video and Streamingtechnologie different projects will transfer live to www.machfeld.net. At the same time provided Chat gives to the recipient actively the possibility at the happening part to take.
- ) (PIONEER (2003)
- 1. Viennese was Walking Contest with following raster fan dung.
http://www.machfeld.net/pioneer
- UDO & UDO entry
- The net project UDO makes possible to put it the finger on a vein of the Internet and to feel the pulse its. It is a transformation of the apparently anonymous in the rear/underground of running data line contents into the audible and visible spectrum.
A project in the context of Graz 2003, culture capital European HTTP: //udo.mur.at
- VISP (2005)
- VISP understands itself as a creative process, which uses and visualizes computer viruses and Spams artistically. Comparably the project in the course of the artistic argument mutated biological viruses.
The video & net installations resulting from it can be understood thus as mutation examples. http://www.machfeld.net/visp
- IVI (2005)
- In the interactive video installation IVI that becomes by means of pattern recognition
Medium video going by extends that by the complex interaction between video and the human body a new experience-level-develops. The recipient becomes visual part of the seeing and in the same instant interaction instrument, whose collective one is made possible like also individual influence.
Media art festival (selection)
- VIPER, 25 international film, video & new media festival, Basel, Switzerland (2006)
- bac 05! internationally festival OF contemporary kind/Barcelona (2005)
- WRO 05, 11th internationally Media kind Biennale Wroclaw, Poland (2005)
- Framemakers, Choreography as at Aesthetics OF CHANGE, Limerick, Irish country (2005)
- 6th internationally KIND + COMMUNICATION festival, Riga, Latvia (2003)
Screenings/installations (selection)
- The Wormhole Saloon, Whitechapel kind Gallery, London/U.K. (11/05)
- Power, the female, OHO. Upperwaited (10/05)
- kurzfilmfestival emperor route
- PROLOGUE, Cornerhouse - Manchester UK
- OASIS festival, 09/05, Vienna, RK
- FRAMEMAKERS, Limeric/Irish country,
- "coming", house of artists complaint ford, RK out
- NEXT FESTIVAL, Cinema "Lietuva" - Vilnius/Lithuania
- Independent kind festival, Academy OF Fine kind/Sint Niklaas - Belgium
- Diagonal one 05, festival of the Austrian film, Graz Austria
- Galeria medium, Bratislava & dance accomodation Vienna
- Cinema cafe/Bratislava, 19 October 2004, Bratislava/SK
Prices/honors
- "GATE III", nomination for the best experimental video. Internationally Filmfestival, Dahlonega/Atlanta, the USA.
- "Letters between the cultures 2002", Best Lyric, edition exile, Vienna/A.
- "Kupele cent ral", jury & Public Award, cloud 7, Vienna/A. 2005
Literature
- Cyber novel, of Michael Mastrototaro 1999.
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