Congratulations to Christoph Wachter and Mathias Jud! With their project qaul.net they have won this years [the next idea] voestalpine Art and Technology Grant! You can find a detailed description of the project here.

Incorporated in our clothes, digital technology can influence human communictaion maybe in the most direct way. In her project “intraInter socialite” Kristin Stransky Mallinger shows how such an integration could look like.

Although the notion is still strong that nature and culture are to different spheres, we strat to realize now that the things are maybe more intertwined as we think. Mia Kos tries to connect different actors like objects, the environment and nature via a digital interface and thereby turns the “passive” environment in an active actor!

Dance to your own movements! That is the concept of the Pacer suit and by turning around the concept of dacing, the individual is not just following a rhythm prodced by an external source, but creating and shaping its own sound.

We all know online collaboration tools and are more or less familar with them. But how can you rethink crowd based cultural production? The project Social Device is approaching this question in a new way…..

We all have heard about the problematic relation between the available data in the world wide web and search engine produced information. Inspired by this situation Phil Jones and Aharon Amir are working on a search engine which uncovers neglected and as they call it “dark” information.

A candy which is producing images in your head! The people from BetaTank submitted this project in 2010 and here you can find their description….