RUSH HOUR turns jammed highways into conveyor
belts, belt freeways into assembly lines and makes
the city to factory that produces senseless
motion.
RUSH HOUR, 2012, 30sec excerpt
shown at
2015, WOHIN GEHEN WIR? VIDEOS ZUR
STADTGESELLSCHAFT, Motorenhalle, Dresden, Germany
2014 URBAN RESEARCH SELECTION 2014, Zurich,
Switzerland
2014 THE 10TH BERLIN INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORS
LOUNGE, Urban Research: The Future - The City,
Berlin, Germany
2013 6th International Video Art Festival
PROYECTOR, Madrid, Spain
2013, FlashForward + presentation of VideoSpin
Vol. 2 = VisualcontainerFEST, Milan, Italy, link
THE FINE CITY. The footage is shot from the
Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri. By post
production modification the city scape is turned
into a circle of streets that devour each other.
THE FINE CITY, 2012, 30seconds excerpt
shown at
2012, 2012 GESICHTSVERLUST-BE(COM)ING (IN)VISIBLE,
link
Cities + Factories series further shown at:
2016, PAPAY GYRO NIGHTS 2016 HONG KONG,
ART_TECTURE, VIDEOFORMES, Hong Kong
2016, CITIES AND ARCHITECTURE, VIDEOFORMES,
Opening of New School of Architecture,
Clermond-Ferrand, France
2014, VideoBardo V INTERNATIONAL VIDEOPOETRY
FESTIVAL 2014, Buenos Aires, Mendoza, Argentine
2014, VIDEOFORMES @ Ca va faire BOOM´,
BOOMSTRUCTUR, Videoformes special selection,
Clermond-Ferrand, France
2014, 29th international Video Arts Festival
VIDEOFORMES, Clermond-Ferrand, France
The MTA Project
MTA, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is
providing an transportation system for
metropolitan areas, e.g. New York City, Toronto,
Milan, Italy etc..
The public transportation system, the MTA
provides, is what may be compared to the human
body system of arteries and vents. Without the
public transportation system the big cities
lymphatic, nervous and blood systems would have a
severe brack-down. Nobody would be able to reach a
place outside of their quarter. Nobody would be
able to enter the metropolitan center, where the
vital economic systems are beating, connected to
the other economic systems of the megacities
around the world, which might compared to meaning
of the heart of a human body.
In contemporary times public transportation system
has been copied by informational systems, e.g. the
web. The web 3.0 or the metaverse as the latest
version of our communication system has become as
vital as the public transportation system of the
big cities, which is bringing people from place A
to place B in a few minutes, here condensed to
milliseconds.
Metaverse is served by internet capabilities,
accessible to anyone who want to be at the virtual
place which is called Metaverse. Without this
accessibility the Metaverse is dead and the
individual that is trying to get access, is left
behind, as a passenger waiting for his next train
to another place on the platform of a public
transportation system in a megacity in despair.
So this project is dedicated to the physical and
the metaphysical transportation opportunities of
the 21st century with all its uncertainties both
online and offline.
And there is more to come because the system of
metropolitan transportation might compared to the
pilgrimage of our lifetime. We are condemned to
walk from one point to another and than again to
another, which we believe, is our final goal,
which reveals itself as a temporary one during our
lifetime. So entering one train to a specific
destination in order to catch another train to a
second destination and then a third one, a fourth
one, might be deceive. The second or third train
station, from which we thought it would be our
final destination, reveal itself to be a temporary
stop and we are forced to enter another train to
another goal, we hope it would be the final.
Taking this thought further, the MTA is nothing
else then what represented mazes in old cathedrals
to human beings, the symbol of eternal pilgrimage.
The MTA Project - M1 Line to/ Metaverse, 2023,
1min40sec excerpt
The MTA Project - M3 Line to/ Biomorphism, 2023,
1min48sec excerpt
The MTA Project - M4 to/ Biodiversity, 2023,
1min17sec excerpt
The MTA Project - M7 Line to/ Real Life, 2023,
2min13sec excerpt
Web Art version on nota.space (best viewing
experience with Google Chrome Browser)
