Shift in progress

Thursday, 25th October 2007
Friday/Saturday, 26th/27th October 2007, 11 a.m.–10 p.m.
Sunday, 28th Oktober 2007, 11 a.m.–6 p.m.
Freight wagons

Shift in progress has invited students at Swiss art schools to submit work from the digital arts field, which relates to the theme of this year’s festival, Access. Daniel Baumann (curator) and Hanspeter Giuliani (Tweaklab) selected 16 projects from a total of 27 entries. Shift in progress sees itself as a platform for projects by a new generation of artists and activists, who keep close track of current developments in the electronic media, comment on them, influence them and use them as they see fit.

Shift in progress presents contributions by students of the following schools:
- University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Academy of Art
and Design, Institute for Media Art, Aarau; Art Institute, Basel; HyperWerk Institute, Basel
- Bern University of the Arts, Music and Media Art
- Lucerne School of Art and Design, Videodepartment
- F&F School for Art and Media Design, Zürich
- Zurich University of the Arts, Department for New Media


Stefan Baltensberger / David Siepert
Inside and Outside, 2007
FHNW HGK Institut Medienkunst – Installation
The installation enables calls to be made to randomly selected telephone booths throughout Basle. Someone will answer – or not. The art object is liberated from its specific location and allows the guest to become involved. All that remains is a fleeting trace in public space.


Roland Brönimann/Hans Peter Wyss
e-feuille, 2007
FHNW HGK Institut Medienkunst, installation
e-feuille are creatures that act as an interface between human beings and the digital world. Their existence is real and, simultaneously, they are a presence in the digital space of the internet. Thanks to their primitive sensory organs, these hybrid life-forms can perceive their environment and react to it, whereby the user acquires a new type of access to data space.


Christoph Brünggel
tonfeld, 2007
HKB Musik und Medienkunst, concert
tonfeld is a monochrome surface area over which 87 audio tapes have been spanned. Notes from overtone structures of varying density, from simple sinus tones through to complex noise, have been recorded on tape. Two interpreters play with tape heads a concerto that was specially written for tonfeld.
Concert, Thursday, 25th October 2007, concert room
See also Concert Programme


André Freiermuth
Stadt 2.0, 2007
FHNW HGK Institut Hyperwerk, Shift Talk
Stadt 2.0 serves to reanimate social interaction in public space and relies on a networked idea gaining its own momentum. It isn’t the internet that provides the infrastructure here however but the city itself. The project transfers the real, digital Web2.0-infrastructure into the virtual, palpable stadt2.0raum, thereby enabling interventions in the form and communication of public space. 
http://stadt2null.ch/
Shift Talk, Sunday, 28th October, 4 p.m., Small Hall


Sam Graf/Sofie Schweizer
Track & Trace, 2007
FHNW HGK Institut Medienkunst, installation
An acoustic journey from Bern to London. The core element is a recording made from inside a package dispatched by express mail. From noise through to private conversations, it picked up the lot. With help from TNT’s Tracking Service, the acoustic and geographic data were combined and are presented in unison as the sound installation, Track & Trace.


Mischa Hediger
Herumstehen mit meiner Generation, 2007
FHZ HGK Videodepartement, installation
The video installation by 23-year-old Mischa Hedinger is his attempt to characterise his generation.


Lucie Kolb
sarasolid, 2007
FHNW HGK Institut Kunst, concert
sarasolid constructs the identity of a band. The aim is to find performers for sarasolid who will put their own stamp on this identity for the duration of a single performance. In this way sarasolid is de-personalised – the band becomes a vessel that can be appropriated for an evening.
www.sarasolid.com, www.ctrl.name
Concert, Thursday, 25th October, concert room
See also the Concert Programme


Severin Kuhn
Drop In – Das Gefühl des menschlichen Augenblicks, 2007
FHZ HGK Videodepartement, installation
The experiment is based on observations made on the promenade at Lucerne Lake: one bench after another, squares, parks, streets and the facades of buildings. A public place where people from all walks of life come together, each wrapped up in him- or herself and yet framed by the same settings and hence, by the same story.


Sara Majidzadeh
Nullgrad, 2007
FHNW HGK Institut Medienkunst, installation
Nullgrad is the visualisation of an artistic process. Breath on a windowpane can elsewhere give rise to a pattern in frost, an ice flower. This ice flower disappears and connects with new thoughts.


Marcel Sägesser
a caminho/unterwegs, 2007
HKB Musik und Medienkunst, installation
The sound installation is preoccupied with the path between A and B. Push a button and a person or message is sent on its way. A person marches from A to B. Perhaps s/he will reach the destination. The path is suggested acoustically, the rest is left to the imagination.


Miro Schawalder
IX-IXP-NAP, 2007
F&F Zürich, outdoor installation
The streets of the Customs & Excise open depot at the Dreispitz site in Basle are named after Europe’s major freight shipment terminals. Yet gradually another kind of trade is on the advance: trade and exchange of culture, code, knowledge or ignorance. It is high time to give a dignified place to the names of data highways and central servers.


Alexandra Stähli/Bianca Dugaro
Insert coin, 2007
FHNW HGK Institut Kunst, installation
As children we spent hours seated in front of arcade games watching tempting preview computer games. The buttons and joysticks gave us the feeling of perhaps being able to influence things. Yet in reality we were always only viewers. This was the starting point for Insert Coin, an installation including a 16mm animation.


Markus von Glasenapp
Fuelbrush, 2007
ZHdK, Neue Medien, Shift Talk
fuelbrush is a fully operative, petrol-powered toothbrush that, in the exhibition context, provokes a confrontation with one’s own everyday actions. The energy consumption required for a banal, daily ritual is translated into noise and stink.
Shift Talk, Sunday 28th Oktober, 4 p.m., Small Hall


Moritz Wettstein
algoritmo caliente!, 2007
ZHdK, Neue Medien, performance
Wettstein controls a mobile MusicVideoMachine that records both noise at the venue and the public’s and performers’ movements, which are then directly transmitted via speakers and screens as an audiovisual loop.
Concert, Saturday 27th October, approx. 10.30 p.m., concert room