{"@attributes":{"version":"2.0"},"channel":{"title":"Gottfried Haider","link":"https:\/\/gottfriedhaider.com","description":"Gottfried Haider","pubDate":"Sun, 16 Feb 2020 20:45:59 +0000","generator":"https:\/\/gottfriedhaider.com","language":"en","item":[{"title":"Box with the air of its own making","link":"https:\/\/gottfriedhaider.com\/Box-with-the-air-of-its-own-making","pubDate":"Sun, 16 Feb 2020 20:45:59 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/gottfriedhaider.com\/Box-with-the-air-of-its-own-making","description":"\n\n\n       Air cushions, as they are being delivered as part of Amazon orders or other online retailers, are generally being inflated at the very moments the order is being fulfilled with the ambient room air from the warehouse. Each shipping box thus carries with it a \u201csample\u201d of the work situation and environment, which is generally hidden to us (online) consumers.\n\nIn his work, Gottfried Haider reconstructs this situation quasi forensically through means of air analysis, performed by a scientific lab, which identifies the specific organic compounds in samples received from different warehouses. Most of those compounds are classified as irritants, health or environmental hazards. \n\nIn each case, a synthetic resin cast permanently preserves a cushion containing a sample of air \u2013 and thus an \u201cecho of labor\u201d. The enclosed results of the air analysis allow conclusions about the specific conditions in the Fulfillment Centers at the time of shipment. \n\nThe work exist as a series for a number of Amazon locations in the western United States. A single-channel video (jointly with Matthew Doyle) is re-tracing the path of the shipped air.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n"},{"title":"Drawing Circuits","link":"https:\/\/gottfriedhaider.com\/Drawing-Circuits","pubDate":"Sun, 27 Jan 2019 20:05:41 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/gottfriedhaider.com\/Drawing-Circuits","description":"Drawing Circuits\n\"Screenshot\nSoftware, Drawings, Electronics \/ 2013\n\n            Drawing Circuits explores free-hand circuit design as a gesture, aimed to address the hidden labor of electronics, and programming, within the field of media arts.\n\nThe project consists of an experimental CAD tool (pictured above), which visually re-contextualizes the rigidity and joylessness of existing tools into a fine art drawing studio. The software is connected to a cutting plotter machine, which is used for fabricating functional electrical circuits from rolls of copper tape in a quick and informal manner.\n\n\n\nI used the Drawing Circuits software to create a body of copper prints on paper, that depict personal memories relating to my electronics practice, and the different ways people have related to it.\n\n\n\n\nThe prints are individually powered by single AA batteries. Most of them contain functional electronics that relates to the depicted elements in a whimsical, make-believe way.\n"},{"title":"Casual Circuit Drawing Workshop","link":"https:\/\/gottfriedhaider.com\/Casual-Circuit-Drawing-Workshop","pubDate":"Sun, 27 Jan 2019 20:07:09 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/gottfriedhaider.com\/Casual-Circuit-Drawing-Workshop","description":"Casual Circuit Drawing Workshop\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop \/ 2013 & 2014\n\n            A part of the Drawing Circuit projects was a series of workshops, developed together with Alex Rickett, Phoebe Hui, and Tyler Stefanich. The workshops transformed the imagined drawing studio, that is part of the software, into actual social settings.\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n"},{"title":"Hacking Habitat","link":"https:\/\/gottfriedhaider.com\/Hacking-Habitat","pubDate":"Sun, 27 Jan 2019 20:14:21 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/gottfriedhaider.com\/Hacking-Habitat","description":"Hacking Habitat\n\n\n\n\t\"Home\n\t\"Home\n\n\n\n\n\nInstallation \/ 2016\n\n            Two site-specific electrical circuits were shown as part of the exhibition \u201cHacking Habitat\u201d in a former prison building in Utrecht, The Netherlands.\nThe piece \u201cHome\u201d (above) was installed in a former cell, whereas \u201cDennis Rosenfeld holding a projector during the installation of this show\u201c (below) was installed on the wall of a utility room.\n\n\"Dennis\n\n\"Dennis"},{"title":"Darkgame","link":"https:\/\/gottfriedhaider.com\/Darkgame","pubDate":"Sun, 27 Jan 2019 20:13:09 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/gottfriedhaider.com\/Darkgame","description":"Darkgame\n\n\n\n\n\n\nElectronics \/ 2018\n\n            I designed the circuit board for an upcoming iteration of Eddo Stern\u2019s Darkgame project.The electronics control eight vibration motors mounted on the player\u2019s head. Vibrations guide him to locations in the virtual world he is navigating. The circuit contains a USB port for changing a Li-ion battery, and is wirelessly connected to the computer hosting the game using Bluetooth.\n"},{"title":"Primitive Computer","link":"https:\/\/gottfriedhaider.com\/Primitive-Computer","pubDate":"Sun, 27 Jan 2019 20:10:08 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/gottfriedhaider.com\/Primitive-Computer","description":"Primitive Computer\n\n\n\n\n\n\nResearch \/ ongoing\n             I am currently exploring ways to build primitive computational \"fabrics,\" where all functional structures are visible and have been assembled by hand.\nI plan only to use discrete components (MOSFETs, resistors), and to build them into installations or tapestry. The test shown here contained a clock generator (0.5 Hz); a SR latch to store state information; a NOT gate; an NAND gate; and a NOR gate.\n"},{"title":"Study for a Camera","link":"https:\/\/gottfriedhaider.com\/Study-for-a-Camera","pubDate":"Sun, 27 Jan 2019 20:08:38 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/gottfriedhaider.com\/Study-for-a-Camera","description":"Study for a Camera on a Plot of Land in the Desert\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInstallation & Website \/ Ongoing\n             I am working on a satellite-like apparatus, which, placed in the California High Desert, will autonomously capture the environment using a camera and other sensors, and send this data back to me using radio waves.\n\nI am interested in learning what it means to perceive a place only through custom-built electronics and software - much like our impressions of other celestial bodies, such as planet Mars, are shaped by the robots scientists sent on our behalf.\nThe data collected is encoded as to only take up the least amount of bandwith, and exfiltrated from the desert by piggy-backing onto the APRS amateur-radio system, which is already being used by radio operators in the area.\n\n\n"},{"title":"Hidden In Plain Sight","link":"https:\/\/gottfriedhaider.com\/Hidden-In-Plain-Sight","pubDate":"Sun, 27 Jan 2019 20:04:50 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/gottfriedhaider.com\/Hidden-In-Plain-Sight","description":"Hidden In Plain Sight\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMachinima \/ 2008\n\n            Hidden In Plain Sight is a meditation on computer programming. It reflects on the fact that (readable) source code is never completely self-sufficient, but that execution always requires a compiler (binary) - something that is itself a program. Compilers are themselves in need of other compilers to turn themselves into something the computer can execute, meaning there exists a sort of binary tradition outside of the pure textual world that programmers like to think about when they construct their worlds.\n\t\n\t\n\nHere a compiler and the game is being re-compiled while the game is running, with the output of this process being used to texture the walls.\n\n"},{"title":"Window Blinds","link":"https:\/\/gottfriedhaider.com\/Window-Blinds","pubDate":"Sun, 27 Jan 2019 19:36:02 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/gottfriedhaider.com\/Window-Blinds","description":"Window Blinds\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\nInstallation \/ 2011\n\n            The installation Window Blinds filled the gallery space with primitive logic gates in the form of ready-made window blinds suspended from the ceiling. Light made information propagate through the room by means of photo-sensors, which acted as inputs, and servo-motors controlling the slat angles as outputs, which in turn affected the surrounding elements \u2013 producing a visible ripple that traveled through the room.\n\n"},{"title":"Source Contents","link":"https:\/\/gottfriedhaider.com\/Source-Contents","pubDate":"Sun, 27 Jan 2019 19:14:13 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/gottfriedhaider.com\/Source-Contents","description":"Source Contents\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\nInstallation \/ 2012\n\n            This assemblage consists of \"found objects\" found in the source code of the Linux kernel, the underlying piece of machinery that enables all different ways people use their computers. I was interested in learning about the mental concepts embedded in the textual source.\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\n\n\n"}]}}