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starsky

to date, starsky has worked with the following media:

projection, photography, film, video, installation, sound, music, image, objects, text, politics, graphics, theatre, performance, interactive systems, control systems, computers, internet, communication, networking Σ

since 1991, starsky has been working with projections in different formations:

slide cinema "dia kino"

dia kino are the only productions which are finalised, concluded and not any more modifiable in a live show: they have a defined beginning and a defined end, they are audiovisual compositions and designed for a flat surfaceΣ

'lichtmusik', 1993, co-produced with fritz fitzke, show with 8 projectors on a flat surface with sound, 35 min., approximately 3.000 slide images, processed manually over a period of about 3 years.

'radzebutz', 1996, visual production: starsky, sound: Rupert huber / starsky, show with 8 projectors on a flat surface with sound, 7 min., diploma thesis university of applied arts Vienna.

stage productions

in most cases commissioned productions or co-productions with theatre, dance, performance or opera, for example with haga susa, jim whiting, messing, harald jokesch, akemi takeya, paul wenninger, michael krammer, sonja schmidlehner, michael mautner, messing network, thomas jelinek, tina leisch ...

spatial projections and installations

deal with the creation of environments and three dimensional settings through using the projector's entire cone of light, creating additional image layers, spaces within a certain space, and through constant mutation and variationΣ
see spatial projections for further details

word-light-image-sound-installations

deal with language and the communication, interaction or misinterpretation of phrasesΣ
"the sentence begins as thinking has come to an end" - to question the phraseology of power. starting off from the meaningful content, or sometimes the unsubstantial content of a language or communication, phrases are chosen and processed in written form or as sound, and then presented as interactive installations.

≠sprachstücke' 1995 - 1998, co-production with rupert huber (sound, music)
1998 ≠sprachstücke' in berlin podewil

since 1995 starsky has been working on the project ≠zufallsindoktrinator' (random indoctrinator)

live visuals

are projections which are played live to music using different drive and control technologies, similarly to a musical instrument. starsky performs different shows live which are however open productions which are not finalised:
these productions are either works in progress, since starsky has been working on them for several years - over and over disassembling and re-assembling them, or shows which are composed in different combinations and arrangements each time for a live performance.

this is the visual pool, the collection of material which serves as a base for creating a show and temporary images in a live performanceΣ

ambient 1992 - 1995
zufallsindoktrinator 1995 - 2002
love 1995 - 1999
l only lights 1999 - 2000
anybody 2001 - 2002
nobody 2000 - 2003
attributes 2003 - 2005
and various other visual modules without titles

starsky has played in allmost every club in vienna and some clubs abroad with many djs, vjs and musicians like : jeff mills, sven väth, electric indigo, kruder + dorfmeister, dsl, makossa, fauna flash, sofa surfers, kgc, ....

selection of parties and festivals where starsky has performed:
ars electronica, danube rave, jazanova wiesen, musikmaschine, dub club, female pressure, medusa, pitch, sens o round circus, kunstwerk, con-verse, contact europe, equaleyes, ...

co-productions with fritz fitzke (visuals), mike hentz (video), sofa surfer (sound), rupert huber (sound), musikmaschine (sound) fm habla (sound),...

control systems

starsky built her first self-constructed midi control in 1995:
a midi keyboard in combination with Atari and cubase.
since then, this system has been permanently extended and been operating in various interim versions.

since 1996, starsky has been working on a concept for building and programming an optimised control system:
'lupa' - a midi fader console with keys, comprising 141 keys, 141 led displays, 21 faders, 16 lcd, 3 in/out, memory, sequencer,Σ plus its own software (based on max, jitter, on macintosh), special interfaces between the computer, projectors and various sensor systems.
'lupa' is still in development status.

interactives

the midi control is compatible with various sensors and signals. we have therefore been working on developing interactive systems which can be run by the audience. so far, these activities have been concentrated on sound, such as in the 'propaganda machine'.

the propaganda machine is a reconstructed midi keyboard, fed with samples from everyday media noises. it can be played by the audience - the players can create their own propaganda.
the online version can be found at http://www.starsky.at/propaganda/index.html (use your keyboard to try)

/ large screen / architectual / strutural / environmental / public projections /

are projections adjusted to a certain architectural setting in public space (18x18 slides, 6 kW projectors).
since 2000, these projects are mainly of political content.

stadtsignale
tacheles / berlin / germany 1993
lomo express
innsbruck / austria / projection onto a water wall 1997
random indoctriantor / zufallsindoktrinator
projections onto the building of the austrian federal chancellory in vienna 2000 - 2003
opa
large screen projection onto the vienna state opera with 7 pani BP 6, co-production with fritz fitzke, chris laska (lights) 2000
lifeball 2003
projection on the townhall of vienna with 6 pani BP 4 / BP 6 / BP 12
update
projection for the opening of the exhibition update on the künstlerhaus / vienna / austria 2005
ima
projection with pani BP 4 on the townhall of hainburg / austria
for the opening of the institute of media archaeology , 2005

/ networks/

since a few years starsky started to be organised in various networks :

die orangen, since 1995, political activist group
http://www.dada.at/orange/

nobody, since 2000, radical political activist group
http://www.dada.at/niemand/

blumberg, since 1998, gallery and artist collectiv
http://www.blumberg.at/

poool, since 2001, visualist and vj network
http://www.pooool.net/

equaleyes, since 2003, visualist network and event serie
http://www.equaleyes.org/

netznetz, since 2004, selforganising netart and networking group
http://netznetz.net/wiki/

vvmh, vienna visual media hub
since 2005, digital media archive for visualists and vjs,
>>> not online yet

ima, institute for media archaeology
since 2005
http://www.dada.at/ima/

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