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The Prix Ars Electronica Archive is a collection enabling search and viewing of all the submissions since 1987. The award-winning projects are documented with catalogue texts and audio-visual media. All other submissions can be searched by title/artist and displayed with year, category in list form. Please cite the credits (artwork name, artist and photographer) and only use the materials if your article is related to Ars Electronica.
BUG
Mark Bain
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The “BUG” project is a permanent site-specific sound installation located in Berlin at Brunnenstrasse 9. Done in collaboration with the architect Arno Brandlhuber of B&K architects, this work is unique in that it’s the first time a new complete building has been knowingly wired up to sense sound and vibration and present it live to an anonymous public. Located in the former eastern sector of the city the building is designed, built and owned by the architect. The five story mixed-use structure contains gallery spaces on the ground floor along with private living and studio space above. Conceived as a type of architectonic microphone, this project utilizes eight seismological sensors permanently embedded in the concrete at various points throughout the building. Micro-vibrations traveling within the matrix of materials are converted to an electric signal that are then amplified and mixed down to a live two-channel stereo output. This sound is available 24 hours a day via a headphone jack located on the facade at the street level constantly rendering the structure’s acoustic fingerprint. The proliferation of portable headphones readily carried by individuals for use with mobile phones, mp3 players and iPods allow the spectator to “jack in” to the building and thus the “BUG” functions as a delivery device and amplifier of sounds and actions that surround everyday lives.
Supported by: Carsten Stabenow, Anne Kockelkorn, Tuned City, Berlin; Arno Brandlhuber, B&K Architekten + ERA, Emde, Schneider, Berlin; Haupstadtkulturfonds, Berlin
Mark Bain (US) born in 1966. He lives in Amsterdam. He has shown internationally, notably, at the Venice Theater Biennale, Boijmans Museum, Rotterdam the Platform Gallery, Istanbul, the Macba,Barcelona, the List Art Center, Cambridge and at the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt. He has worked in the collections of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Porin Taide Museum in Finland and the MIT Museum in Cambridge, USA