On the weekend we have been on the Ars Electronica Festival - the 30th anniversary version of this art&technology festival in Linz. Awesome.

I will blog and put pictures online in the next weeks, here a few previews:

Leobard doing the headbanghero.com game - its guitar hero with headbanging. röckers, you häve to dö it.


Here is Ingrid in the Nica-Award winning Nemo Observatory, its a "private tornado", you sit on a comfortable chair in the eye of the storm. Polystrene balls and ventilators build the storm:


And we visited the MIT exhibition, traditionally a place where the best interactive media art people in the world gather. Drawdio really cought us, a simple rep-rapped device using an electrical current going through your body and watercolor paint to create a musical painting experience, at (I would guess) a low cost of 10$ per device and electrical materials you have in your drawer at home. Googling for it, I instantly found that they published it on Instructables in a pencil-based version. Just enjoy the movies:

Thats it! We escape from Kaiserslautern. On Saturday, 20th June 2009 we celebrated our last night-out in Kaiserslautern. We leave for good, we leave for Vienna.

pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/leobard/sets/72157620153553827/

Thanks to all the people who joined Ingrid and me at the party. Michael and Gunnar and Martin cooked an excellent mix of curries, pakoras, and other dishes. Henning and Maria brought icecream, Sebastian another dessert. Dominik and Nora brought salads, Jochen a nice tapas "rolled bacon with dates". And more. Everyone enjoyed eating the resulting menu.




I decorated and rearranged the flat a bit to accomodate more people and have a nice look.



As surprise cultural event, I decided to put up a street-bar. At 23:00 about half of the partygoers went down to the street and built a bar from 10 banana boxes (we have 70 of them around here for moving). On the bar we had chips, wine, and spirits.



It attracted the right people


That went really well, later on we put down the bar again and went to fruchthalle to watch some tango dancing and other things.



That got boring after a while and we got a tip from someone performing that the Urban Biwak should be nice, so we went on:


At this time, things get a bit blurry and not all stories must be told...


It all ended classically in Gusto, with a hard group of Gunnar, Max, Rinne, and me.


Thanks to everyone for making this the great escape, it couldn't have been better. I will miss you guys! See you in Vienna.

Am Freitag, 1.Mai, hatten wir, wie angekündigt, ein Permanent Breakfast in Kaiserslautern.



Hier die photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/leobard/sets/72157617561339220/

Am 16.Mai 2009, um etwa 19:50, wird dazu auch ein Beitrag von Henriette Seyfferth in SWR3 Rheinpfalz "Landesart" laufen.

Wie jedes Jahr, werden wir auch dieses Jahr in Kaiserslautern am 1.Mai am Stiftsplatz frühstücken! Teil der globalen Permanent Breakfast Kunstaktion.

Freitag, 1.Mai 2009
10:00 Stiftsplatz
bis etwa 12:00

Die regeln:

• es muss wie ein formales frühstück aussehen (keine picknicks)
• es geht ums partizipieren - jeder hilft mit
• ein klein wenig mehr mitnehmen als für dich selbst, dann ist auch genug da für passanten und freunde die was vergessen haben

was man mitnehmen kann:

• Tische
• Stühle
• Frühstück
• Hüte
• Sonnenschirme
• Lampen, kleine Radios, es soll Wohnzimmerstimmung aufkommen

vergangene freude:

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/leobard/109330580/
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8UATLQfEAs
• http://leobard.twoday.net/stories/1900994/

Merkt euch den Termin an, es zahlt sich aus! Haltet es nicht geheim, macht comments hier (unten) wenn ihr dabei seid.

"Adults having fun so children will want to grow older",
Hobart Brown, glorious founder of the race.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_Sculpture_Race
A Kinetic sculpture race is an organized contest of human-powered amphibious all-terrain works of art. The original event, the Kinetic Grand Championship in Humboldt County, California, is also called the "Triathlon of the Art World" because art and engineering are combined with physical endurance during a three day cross country race that includes sand, mud, pavement, a bay crossing, a river crossing and major hills.

This year is 41th Anniversary! The first race started in 1969 in Hippie-California. How about making a race this year in Klosterneuburg, next to Vienna? We have wild cross-country, road, and water. I would like to find a few mates for a team to create "Free Ellie" and you should also make a team! its fun, it teaches you artwork and handicrafts.

and look at all the fun it can be after you do it for many years:



I search for alternative-minded people who would like to help out, co-organize, form teams, and carry on the spirit of this family-friendly event in Europe. Are you in? Write to me or comment below.

Our design is intentionally simple so that its possible to build it within a week - would you like to ride in this? then help building it!


update: I made a facebook group to kickstart this: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=67272838900

Freitag, 27.3.2009

22:00, 4 EUR Eintritt



Pflichttermin, beste Musik der Stadt, Balkan Beatz meets Electronic.

Unser persönlicher The Great Escape von hier liegt für uns noch in der Zukunft. Bis dahin sind wir WahlLauterer und verbringen unsere Zeit in dieser Metropole der Pfalz. Wir warten nicht ab, das jemand uns Zeitvertreib organisiert, sondern organisieren selber und schauen dabei gern mit Laptop und Beamer über den Tellerrand von Kaiserslauern hinaus.

Offenes Treffen / Eintritt frei.

15.10.08
19:00 - 22:00
The Great Escape ins
Cafe23
Pirmasenser Str. 5 / Eingang Glockenstrasse
http://www.cafe23.de/

Nehmt USB-sticks, videos und shit aus dem Netz mit!

vorige great escapes:

• 13.11.2006
• 9.10.2006
• 7.8.2006
• usw

für die couch,
Jens Rinne und Leo Sauermann

Wie auch hier verkündet:

Längere, dem Flashmob verwandt: Permanent Breakfast.

Wie vor zwei Jahren gibt es auch dieses Jahr wieder ein Permanentes Breakfast: das immerwährende Frühstück. Immerwährend sind inzwischen zwölfJahre, im Mai 1996 initiierte der Wiener Künstler Friedemann Derschmidt und seine Gruppe das "Permanent Breakfast".

Die Regeln sind einfach: einer lädt zum Frühstück ein, alle eingeladenen Freunde bekommen ein ordentliches Frühstück im öffentlichen Raum. Am folgenden Tag frühstücken die eingeladenen und laden wiederum Freunde ein, die Kette setzt sich fort.

Frühstück ist am

• 23.8.2008,
• von 10:15 bis 12:00 (pünktlich)
• bei der Pirmasenser Strasse 18 (Fußgängerzone).

Zum gleichen Zeitpunkt steht an eben der adresse ein Oldtimer, und etwas Kunst vom angrenzenden Unicat laden, d.h. es wird bunt und nett.



Bitte bringt mit:

• Tisch und Stühle (zur Not auch Decken, GymFitbälle oder ähnliches)
• Wir können Tische organisieren, meldet euch bei Leo vorher
• und Verpflegung.

Das entstehende Frühstück soll formal als solches erkennbar sein, dementsprechend sind tageszeitungslesende Kaffegenießer in Lehnstühlen zurücklehnend am Butterzopf knabbernd ausdrücklich erwünscht.
Bei Regenwetter? Als Kontaktmann für die Frage was bei Regen passiert dient Leo. Ruft mich einfach an: +49 176 24548974. leo(at)gnowsis.com

What participatory Art project do you bring into the desert to Nowhere2008 festival? It has to glow, it has to look amazing, it has to be less than 5kg and 5 liter space to fit in the luggage in the airplane?

You have to bring an idea. The idea is combining Led lights with TapeSculpture.org, a form of street art developed and perfected by Mark Jenkins.

The core of the idea is that the ingredients are cheap and can be bought virtually everywhere:

• clear packing tape
• plastic wrap
• scissors or a knife
• and an object you'd like to cast

Read the tutorial or watch the video by Mark Jenkins:


An technique that can be easily tought and copied. Excellent. Mash it up with LED Throwies (I use AA batteries) and we have lighted art.

Here is my first real piece, the Rabe:


Its a great piece of DJ art to give light to your labels:


And a second one, appearing magically today in Kaiserslautern:

On thursday I stumbled into the relaunch party of
transformingfreedom.org. The site aims to provide essential information about our age, using the tools of our age.



Andreas Leo Findeisen is one of the founders of the platform and we had a great time chatting, showing off technostuff, and drinking beer. Accidentially, most of monochrom.at were also there and somebody put on a screening of Kubrick's 2001.

A typical content of transforming freedom is this Stallman speech:
http://www.transformingfreedom.org/de/node/97

photos of the events