Drag and Drop

Unser Bild von Virtualität und Digitalität ist trotz ihrer Omnipräsenz im Alltag stark geprägt von Science Fiction Szenarios. Es liegt an uns zu entscheiden welche ethischen und moralischen Werte wir in Bezug auf die Herausforderungen im digitalen Zeitalter setzen wollen, um damit die Zukunft der Beziehung zwischen Mensch und Maschine und deren hybride Formen zu definieren.

Mit den Dialogfeldern eröffnen wir einen öffentlichen künstlerischen Diskursraum für diese Fragen. Zum Thema Digitalität im Stadtraum laden wir in drei Etappen zeitgleich zwei Künstler:innen auf den Chemnitzer Sonnenberg ein. Sie übersetzen ihre Visionen und Phantasien zum Thema in Interventionen im Stadtraum und setzen (scheinbaren) Science Fiction Szenarios im Alltag reale Erlebnis – und Experimentierräume entgegen.
Drag and Drop” ist die intuitivste Form der virtuellen Interaktion. Es verändert, verschiebt, arrangiert, bearbeitet, kopiert und öffnet damit neue Welten und Möglichkeiten.

Unter diesem Titel stellen wir daher die Frage in den (Stadt-)Raum, welche Art von Digitalität den öffentlichen Raum bereichert und welche es eher kritisch zu untersuchen und hinterfragen gilt. Von Augmented Reality über Holographie und Projection Mapping bis hin zu Robotik – wir bitten Künstler:innen diverser Disziplinen ihre Visionen und Versionen von digitaler Teilhabe im Stadtteil Sonnenberg zu realisieren und das Prinzip “Drag and Drop” in den analogen Raum zu übertragen.

 

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  • NIKLAS ROY UND KATI HYYPPÄ

    Niklas Roy lives and works as a freelance artist with a background in film (3D art and visual effects) in Berlin. His work explores art, science and technology through often humorous installations and machines. Following a DIY approach, he largely designs and builds these machines himself, as for him engineering, construction and coding initiate a process of learning and idea generation. He is interested in both the history and potential future scenarios of technologies. Working with various materials and techniques, he develops interactive media through which he shares his novel, sometimes bizarre observations. Together with his partner Kati Hyyppä, he also develops workshop concepts for participants of all ages.

    https://www.niklasroy.com

     

    Kati Hyyppä is a Finnish artist and mediator who works in Berlin at the interface between art and technology. In addition to her work on installations and objects, she also organises courses and workshops. Her practice is rooted in material, craft-based work, through which she explores various media from electronics and code to wood, recycled objects and textiles. Inspired by DIY and hacker culture, Hyyppä's working process is based on curiosity and learning through experimentation. Her projects often include a participatory element, a critical approach and humour as a means of initiating a dialogue with the technical realities that shape our society.

    http://katihyyppa.com

  • Vektor Kollektor

    Vektorkollektor is an interactive installation that lets people draw pictures with a joystick. The machine's mechanism comes from an old plotter from the 1980s, which has been modified and equipped with music and lighting effects. The installation is built in the form of a handcart, which is used in various public places in Chemnitz. Kati and Niklas use the device to collect vectors on site. Everyone is invited to draw pictures through the playful interface and take their creations home with them. However, the coordinates of all lines are also archived in the form of an analogue/digital data set.

    In collaboration with Tortuga e.V., a large-format mural will also be created from the vectors. All vectors drawn on the vector collector will be digitally transferred to: www.vektorkollektor.com.
    Afterwards, all the collected vectors can be viewed animated on the website.

  • NIKLAS ROY UND KATI HYYPPÄ

    Niklas Roy lives and works as a freelance artist with a background in film (3D art and visual effects) in Berlin. His work explores art, science and technology through often humorous installations and machines. Following a DIY approach, he largely designs and builds these machines himself, as for him engineering, construction and coding initiate a process of learning and idea generation. He is interested in both the history and potential future scenarios of technologies. Working with various materials and techniques, he develops interactive media through which he shares his novel, sometimes bizarre observations. Together with his partner Kati Hyyppä, he also develops workshop concepts for participants of all ages.

    https://www.niklasroy.com

     

    Kati Hyyppä is a Finnish artist and mediator who works in Berlin at the interface between art and technology. In addition to her work on installations and objects, she also organises courses and workshops. Her practice is rooted in material, craft-based work, through which she explores various media from electronics and code to wood, recycled objects and textiles. Inspired by DIY and hacker culture, Hyyppä's working process is based on curiosity and learning through experimentation. Her projects often include a participatory element, a critical approach and humour as a means of initiating a dialogue with the technical realities that shape our society.

    http://katihyyppa.com

  • Vektor Kollektor

    Vektorkollektor is an interactive installation that lets people draw pictures with a joystick. The machine's mechanism comes from an old plotter from the 1980s, which has been modified and equipped with music and lighting effects. The installation is built in the form of a handcart, which is used in various public places in Chemnitz. Kati and Niklas use the device to collect vectors on site. Everyone is invited to draw pictures through the playful interface and take their creations home with them. However, the coordinates of all lines are also archived in the form of an analogue/digital data set.

    In collaboration with Tortuga e.V., a large-format mural will also be created from the vectors. All vectors drawn on the vector collector will be digitally transferred to: www.vektorkollektor.com.
    Afterwards, all the collected vectors can be viewed animated on the website.

  • BRIDA

    BridA is a collective consisting of Venice Art Academy graduates Tom Kerševan, Sendi Mango and Jurij Pavlica, founded in 1996 during their studies. The group, which produces artworks in a wide range of contemporary artistic practices, exhibits both locally and internationally and has participated in numerous international residency programmes, workshops and seminars. They have been invited several times to curate the Pixxelpoint Festival in Nova Gorica and the R.o.R. Festival of Contemporary Artistic Practices in Šempas. BridA's works have been purchased for several international collections of contemporary art. In 2015, she received the highest award of the Municipality of Nova Gorica, the France Bevk Prize, in honour of her 20 years of successful work, and in 2018 the international Tesla Award, presented by the Museum of Transitory Art in Ljubljana. It received the Iaspis grant from the Swedish Ministry of Culture and a Culture Bridges grant awarded by the British Council with the support of EU funds.

    BridA's artistic production spans a broad field of interdisciplinary art practices. The artists utilise innovative technological and scientific approaches that create revolutionary new ways of understanding contemporary art. Their interactive projects actively involve the audience in the artistic process, and over the years the audience has become the main actor in their artistic projects.

  • Trackeds & DoItYourself

    Trackeds examines the dynamics of movement and topographical structures in the city. Through photographs of various dynamic locations, a non-linear function is visualised that illustrates the chaotic movements of self-organising structures in selected urban contexts. The artists analyse the construction process of the visual work. They automate the interpretation of the process steps with a mathematical equation.

     

    Do It Yourself is the direct transfer of art into society possible? Can a work be independent of the artist? How is the critical distance between the work and the artist defined during its creation? These questions are the starting point for the reassessment of already solidified artistic creative processes, which are now taken apart and reassembled with a fresh approach. An image is broken down into its pixels; passers-by paint these onto a canvas according to an automated prompt. Square by square, a completely new image is created through human error and collective work.

  • BRIDA

    BridA is a collective consisting of Venice Art Academy graduates Tom Kerševan, Sendi Mango and Jurij Pavlica, founded in 1996 during their studies. The group, which produces artworks in a wide range of contemporary artistic practices, exhibits both locally and internationally and has participated in numerous international residency programmes, workshops and seminars. They have been invited several times to curate the Pixxelpoint Festival in Nova Gorica and the R.o.R. Festival of Contemporary Artistic Practices in Šempas. BridA's works have been purchased for several international collections of contemporary art. In 2015, she received the highest award of the Municipality of Nova Gorica, the France Bevk Prize, in honour of her 20 years of successful work, and in 2018 the international Tesla Award, presented by the Museum of Transitory Art in Ljubljana. It received the Iaspis grant from the Swedish Ministry of Culture and a Culture Bridges grant awarded by the British Council with the support of EU funds.

    BridA's artistic production spans a broad field of interdisciplinary art practices. The artists utilise innovative technological and scientific approaches that create revolutionary new ways of understanding contemporary art. Their interactive projects actively involve the audience in the artistic process, and over the years the audience has become the main actor in their artistic projects.

  • Trackeds & DoItYourself

    Trackeds examines the dynamics of movement and topographical structures in the city. Through photographs of various dynamic locations, a non-linear function is visualised that illustrates the chaotic movements of self-organising structures in selected urban contexts. The artists analyse the construction process of the visual work. They automate the interpretation of the process steps with a mathematical equation.

     

    Do It Yourself is the direct transfer of art into society possible? Can a work be independent of the artist? How is the critical distance between the work and the artist defined during its creation? These questions are the starting point for the reassessment of already solidified artistic creative processes, which are now taken apart and reassembled with a fresh approach. An image is broken down into its pixels; passers-by paint these onto a canvas according to an automated prompt. Square by square, a completely new image is created through human error and collective work.

  • 07.01 ‣THREE QUESTIONS FOR NIKLAS ROY
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    What were your first associations when you heard about “drag & drop”?

    Niklas: “When I heard about drag & drop, I thought: of course – it has something to do with GUIs, with computers, with interface interaction, with dragging and dropping files. On the other hand, it also fits very well with what my partner Kati and I do artistically together. We often work digitally and in public spaces, which means that we take our physical installations with us (“dragging”) and then also where we find an audience (“dropping”).”

    What kind of project have you come up with for this year’s Dialogue Fields?

    Niklas:The project we are currently working on together is a “vector collector”, a mobile device that we use to collect vectors. The idea is that people can make drawings with a joystick. The images are stored digitally and we build up an archive of vector drawings. We will process the vectors in the final week with the aim of leaving something lasting on the Sonnenberg.”

    Digitality in Chemnitz’s urban space, especially on the Sonnenberg: science fiction or everyday life?

    Niklas:“I immediately noticed the network coverage via Freifunk on the Sonnenberg. I’d like to have something like that in Berlin too. Chemnitz is already further ahead than other cities and that’s a great thing.”

  • 07.01 ‣THREE QUESTIONS FOR BRIDA
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    What kind of project have you come up with for this year’s dialogue fields?

    Sendi: “When we were contacted by Klub Solitaer, we immediately had the idea that the city itself should become the protagonist of our project. We developed two projects – “DOITYOURSELF” is a performance in which a picture is drawn collectively. The action takes place in a park, for example. We start painting there using audio instructions and invite people to take part.
    In the second project, “Trackeds”, passers-by are unwitting participants. The film recordings of the city are made at different locations and the movements of the cars and people captured in the process contribute to the creation of a new work.”

    Did you already have an image of Chemnitz in advance or did you discard an old image of the city?

    Sendi: “No, we only knew that Chemnitz had been chosen as the European Capital of Culture 2025, just like our city of Nova Gorica. On the day we arrived, it was cold and rainy, so there was nobody on the street. However, my perception of the city changed over the next few days. Only then did I realise how much is happening here and that people actually live here. I know that might sound absurd to people from Chemnitz, but so far I’ve only met very open-minded people. That’s why my image has only changed for the better, if at all.”

    What do you want to say with your work in the dialogue fields?

    Sendi: “We actually want the people of Chemnitz to share their ideas and dreams about the city. We just like being three artists behind the camera and want to observe what happens and exchange ideas with the residents.

    Jurij: “It is typical of our work that we create an environment that focuses on public space. The participants create the art. The interesting thing about our projects is that the art is therefore not just dependent on us. Ultimately, we are not only artists, but also observers.”

  • PARA KOLLEKTIV
    December 10, 2024
    THE SYSTEM COLLECTIVE
    January 7, 2025
  • NIKLAS ROY UND KATI HYYPPÄ
    November 19, 2024
    BRIDA
    November 28, 2024
  • SIMON WECKERT
    April 21, 2025
    SUSANNE FLOCK
    May 28, 2025