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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.
Tropospheric Laboratory
Agnes Meyer-Brandis
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The Tropospheric Laboratory is a huge and highly confusing data and image generator—allowing insights into cloud cores (aerosols) and other
matter of the apogee. The installation obscures the borders of the possible and the impossible within the realm of aerosols, invisible due to their nano scale, but omnipresent to any human environment. It is a metaphor machine centered around a real cloud.
The laboratory is the gravimetric document of Cloud Core Scanner—an experiment and artistic project in weightlessness by Agnes Meyer-Brandis,
carried out on board a German Aerospace Center research plane. It reflects an iridescent world, between controlled and unleashed states: artistic
research on the quest for a degree of reality within constructions.
Links: http://www.ffur.de/tropos
matter of the apogee. The installation obscures the borders of the possible and the impossible within the realm of aerosols, invisible due to their nano scale, but omnipresent to any human environment. It is a metaphor machine centered around a real cloud.
The laboratory is the gravimetric document of Cloud Core Scanner—an experiment and artistic project in weightlessness by Agnes Meyer-Brandis,
carried out on board a German Aerospace Center research plane. It reflects an iridescent world, between controlled and unleashed states: artistic
research on the quest for a degree of reality within constructions.
Links: http://www.ffur.de/tropos
A production by Dock e.V. in cooperation with the Schering Foundation Berlin. The “Cloud Core Scanner” experiment on board the airplane was realized in cooperation with the German Aerospace Center DLR. Supported by the Filmstiftung NRW. Many thanks for the essential contribution of the sponsors and the wonderful Cloud Core ground crew. Software & hardware support: Ralf Baecker, Martin Riches. Sound fluid matter: Michael Moser.
Agnes Meyer-Brandis (DE), born 1973, studied mineralogy for a year, then transferred to the Art Academy in Maastricht, the Düsseldorf Art Academy and the Cologne Media Art Academy. She comes from a background of both sculpture and new media art. Her work, exhibited worldwide, is at the experimental edge of art and science, exploring the zone between fact and fiction. She works with participatory urban interventions. Her current research focus is on public places and situations as well as imaginary ones. Agnes Meyer-Brandis is the founder of the Forschungsfloss FFUR / Research Raft for Subterranean Reefology, a small institute whose chief aim is to explore and confirm subterranean phenomena and unknown life forms. For the last two years her focus of investigation has moved to higher altitudes with their related realities.