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ROBERT RICKHOFF

Slide Chair
I think without a concept, theres nothing. Having found the concept, it´s a question of communicating this in the clearest and shortest way. Nothing superfluous or that can´t be justified, everything for a reason and everything with a function. There´s no room here for I like that or I don´t like that, there is only room for it´s effective or not. I am interested in finding ideas that will be remembered effectively and draw attention. I’m graduated from Crossmedia Design at ArtEZ Enschede in Netherlands. Currently I work in an agency.

JF Malouin

Les trois Grâces

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“Les Trois Grâces” is a presence and corporeality simulation in virtual reality. Exposing the underlying power struggle implied within touch, this piece explores the trespassing  of bodily frontiers and territoriality. As a sculpture, its object is not matter, but our relationship to the other.
It offers a troubling experience of intimate proportions.

CHANTAL MICHEL

Pour Chantal Michel, les sujets et les objets ne sont pas des catégories définies, l’un peut être pris pour l’autre et inversement. L’humain peut être une marchandise, comme les choses peuvent prendre des traits anthropomorphes. La photographe fait office de médium dans une sorte de royaume intermédiaire, où elle incarne un ange (protecteur), un esprit (frappeur), voire même un (non-)être. Elle a un flair prononcé pour ces détails qui évoquent le passé comme les moquettes, les lampes ou les tapisseries qui, malgré leur caractère ordinaire, laissent un goût d’étrangeté

Joon Y. Moon

Augmented Shadow
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Augmented Shadow is a design experiment producing an artificial shadow effect through the use of tangible objects, blocks, on a displayable tabletop interface. Its goal is to offer a new type of user-experience. The project plays on the fact that shadows present distorted silhouettes depending on the light. Augmented Shadows take the distortion effect into the realm of fantasy. Shadows display below the objects according to the physics of the real world. However, the shadows themselves transform the objects into houses, occupied by shadow creatures. By moving the blocks around the table the user sets off series of reactions within this new fantasy ecosystem. In this installation, the shadows exist both in a real and a virtual environment simultaneously. It thus brings augmented reality to the tabletop by way of a tangible interface. The shadow is an interface metaphor connecting the virtual world and users. Second, the unexpected user experience results from manipulating the users’ visual perceptions, expectations, and imagination to inspire re-perception and new understanding. Therefore, users can play with the shadows lying on the boundary between the real, virtual, and fantasy. Augmented Shadow utilizes this unique interface metaphor for interactive storytelling. Maximizing the magical amusement of AR, it is embedding an ecosystem where imaginary objects and organic beings co-exist while each of them influences on each other’s life-cycle, even though it is not in use by users. Light and shadow play critical roles in this world’s functions causing chain reactions between virtual people, trees, birds, and houses. A set of tangible blocks allows users to participate in the ecosystem. Users can influence on the system by playing with the blocks or observe the changes of the shadows as if kids were playing with an ant farm.

maarten baas

team B
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“I have encouraged these young architects to think and work in a freer, more playful way. I have been coaching both teams and guiding the creative process, getting people to kick around archetypes and suchlike,” he said.

OLAFUR ELIASSON

视图成为窗口
奥拉富·埃里亚森(Olafur Eliasson)为象牙印刷厂(Ivorypress)建的“一个视图变成一个窗口”是一版的九本独特的书籍。代替页面的是,皮革装订的体积包含各种颜色,质量和不透明度的各种玻璃板。玻璃页是由德国瓦尔德萨森(Waldssassen)格拉苏蒂·兰伯特(GlashütteLamberts)的工匠手工吹制的,这是世界上少数能够生产这种品质的大幅面手工吹制玻璃板的玻璃厂之一。因为它们是手工制作的,所以叶子的边缘是不规则的,每个叶子都有其生产的瑕疵。最好阅读纵向格式的书在书架上打开。它们让人联想到地图集的大小,字面上充满了照明:玻璃页反射,折射和传导光。翻页时,彩色玻璃层会产生复杂的反射,从而使观看者成为这本书俏皮的镜子叙事的角。

JUN HASHIMOTO

Web Chair
Web Chair è un omaggio al web e alla sua inestricabile rete, leggera e nel contempo salda e forte. La sedia è un progetto della designer Jun Hushimoto di Junio Design, è pensata interamente in acciaio inossidabile e contiene più di 2000 punti di saldatura. E’ stata presentata tempo fa al SaloneSatellite di Milano, ma è ancora così attuale e bella nella sua semplicità! Il suo punto di forza è proprio l’estrema leggerezza, la sua caratteristica la rende adatta ad un arredo moderno, ad un spazio ufficio o al contract ed è assolutamente perfetta per chi ama cambiare posizione agli oggetti all’interno della casa.

Duran Lantink

The Vagina Pants

Duran Lantik is the Dutch, but now London-based design sensation, who came up with the unique and peculiar pink vagina pants that Janelle Monet wore in her hit single “PYNK”. His designs are a funny and playful approach to sustainability and unique in form and appearance.

FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Barbara Oettinger

What future will we build upon the ruins of the present?

Barbara Oettinger

FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Art and Technology – Video Art
Electronic Language International Festival

 

What future will we build upon the ruins of the present? – Chile

What future will we build upon the ruins of the present? is a short film that embarks on a symbolic and poetic exploration of faults and glit ches in the fabric of reality, both physical and virtual. It delves into how these disruptions can act as catalysts, transforming our understanding of the world we inhabit.

BIO

Barbara Oettinger is a visual artist and filmmaker from Chile. She has participated in various exhibitions and scre enings in cultural centers, galleries, and museums in South America, North America, Europe, Asia and Oceania. Recently, she received a scholarship from the Chilean government (ANID) to pursue a PhD in Creative and Critical Practice at the University of Sussex in Brighton, UK.

ANNE IMHOF

Faust
Faust ist eine mehr als fünfstündige Performance, die während der sieben Monate der Biennale stattfindet. Die Arbeit interagiert stark von außen mit der Architektur des Deutschen Pavillons; in einem großen Käfig versteckte Wachhunde, dicke, bruchsichere Glasscheiben, die den Eingangsportikus des neoklassizistischen Gebäudes des Pavillons verschließen und dem Besucher nur die Möglichkeit des Blicks in die Haupthalle lassen, die Verlegung des Haupteingangs auf der Seite des Pavillons und schließlich die beunruhigende Präsenz von Menschen, die auf der Dachkante sitzen, antizipieren ein Gesamtkunstwerk, in dem sich verschiedene formale und expressive Schichten und Mittel – von visueller Installation bis Musik, von Malerei bis Live-Performance – überlagern.

ANNETT ZINSMEISTER

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“Die Auseinandersetzung mit Utopien und dem Identitätsgehalt von Architektur, Raum und Alltagsgegenständen, sowie die Untersuchung von Wahrnehmungsprozessen, sozialer Interaktion, Kommunikation und die Transformation urbaner Raumsituationen sowie die Form, kulturelle Prägung und Konstitution von Raum und Lebenswelt sind zentrale Themen, die Annett Zinsmeister in ihren künstlerischen Arbeiten neu verhandelt: in Raum – Installationen, konzeptuellen und gebauten Räumen, in Fotografien, Zeichnungen, Collagen, im Film sowie in theoretischen Abhandlungen. Kultur- und medientheoretische Ansätze sind Teil ihrer konzeptuell geprägten künstlerischen Praxis, die ohne erklärende Erläuterungen eine große Wirkungsmacht entfaltet. Zinsmeisters Werke wurden mit Preisen ausgezeichnet und sind in internationalen Gruppen- und Einzelausstellungen zu sehen. Sie sind in öffentlichen und privaten Sammlungen vertreten und international in Magazinen, Fachzeitschriften, Katalogen, Fachbüchern publiziert. Ihre Installationen fordern unsere Wahrnehmung heraus, entlarven alltägliche Gewohnheiten und legen den Antagonismus utopischer Ansätze und unserer sozialen und gebauten Umwelt offen. Annett Zinsmeisters Arbeit eröffnet neue Perspektiven und ungeahnte Potentiale hinsichtlich unwirtlicher, verlassener Orte und initiieren Prozesse urbaner Interventionen und Transformationen. Mit ihrer Überzeugung und ihrem Glauben an interdisziplinaere Kommunikation und Interaktion, führt sie in zahlreichen Veranstaltungskonzeptionen Vertreter unterschiedlichster Disziplinen in einen lebendigen und zukunftsweisenden Dialog.”

isabel nolan

Turning Point
Isabel Nolan’s artwork utilizes textiles, steel rods, and primary colored paint to approach questions of anxiety, current events, and the human condition. Her work has a particularly erudite quality, with materials teased and propped to mimic symbolism and images in literature, historical texts, science, and art. Nolan’s work has been exhibited throughout her native Ireland and wider Europe, including at the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Musée d’art modern de Saint Etienne. With her first solo exhibition in the United States fast approaching, artnet News caught up with the scholarly artist to hear about her early diagrams of brains and ideas she is currently entertaining for her next body of work.

Marguerite Humeau

Echoes
The yellow walls back drop Humeau’s signature white polystyrene sculptures propped up on elegant metal legs or artificial prostheses and varnished to a kind of unearthly gleam.

ALEXANDER KHOKHLOV

الكسندر خوخلوف
亚历山大·霍赫洛夫
アレクサンダーホフロフ
Александр Хохлов

PARK SEUNG MO

Сын Мо Parkv
Grand piano
Seung Mo Park creates impressive sculptures using simple aluminum wire wrapped and positioned with extreme precision. Park prides himself on creating works of art exhibiting natural positions and situations.

Julius Popp

Bit.fall
BIT.FALL uses a unique algorithm connected to the Internet in real time to look for popular buzzwords through different newsfeed channels, which are then displayed as words through hundreds of water droplets in a curtain of water.

NINO ROTA

نينو روتا
尼诺·罗塔
נינו רוטה
ニーノ·ロータ
니노 로타
Нино Рота
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