"COOP HIMMELB(L)AU: FUTURE REVISITED"
Date: September 19 (Sat.)-December 23 (Wed.), 2009 Venue: NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC] Gallery A, Tokyo Opera City Tower 4F, 3-20-2 Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 163-1404 Japan Organizer: NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC] Special cooperation: Austrian Embassy - Cultural Forum / Austrian Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture Cooperation: TOSTEM Foundation for Construction Materials Industry Promotion / Austrian Airlines Curated by Yukiko Shikata The exhibition "COOP HIMMELB(L)AU: FUTURE REVISITED" presents two projects that have first been shown at the 11th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale in 2008. "Astro Balloon 1969 Revisited - Feedback Space", an interactive installation which uses the participants' heartbeat in a feedback mechanism to synchronize and visualize it on screens in the balloon, has originally devised in 1969, finally realized in 2008 in Venice and has now been upgraded to accommodate the exhibition hall in the ICC. The second project, "Brain City Lab" is a current research assignment of COOP HIMMELB(L)AU, the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the neuroscientist Wolf Singer as well as sociologists, and computer programmers. This interactive installation relates the development process of the human brain with that of the city. Final goal will be to conceive programs adopting the latest resources from biological and information sciences to forebode scenarios for urban and social development. [COOP HIMMELB(L)AU] Founded by Wolf D. PRIX, Helmut SWICZINSKY and Michael HOLZER in Vienna, Austria in 1968, is active in architecture, urban planning, design, and art. Headquartered in Vienna, there is a second office in Los Angeles as well as several project offices in Frankfurt am Main/Germany, Paris/France, Akron/USA, Mexico City/Mexico and Hong Kong/China. Since 2006 the studio has been run through Wolf D. PRIX, Wolfdieter DREIBHOLZ, Harald KRIEGER, Karolin SCHMIDBAUR and Project Partners. http://www.ntticc.or.jp/ http://www.coop-himmelblau.at/ ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
