The
Science Vizualization Lab invites you to enjoy a series of microcosms for its 10 year celebration!
The exhibition
is a parcours of miniature garden-like objects. What is the origin of life? A minute microbe rather than a big bang? A sound
verberating acting the mix of a primordial soup? You are invited into a micro messy world of blue green algae and moss like
plant forms. We encourage contemplative experiences rather than one seemingly solid theory to explain all. We look at micro
life forms and how these affect life. Michael Bachhofer exhibits Kleine Wunder and there will be prints by biologists
Stephan Handschuh, Thomas Schwaha and Manfred Walzl.
The presentation explores the early life forms which began habitation on land. Moving from whatever
the blue green algae soup somehow moved from water to desolate terrain, eventually creating the possibility for many life
forms. On all continents except Antactica, Marchantia Polymorpha is present and possibly holds key insights to oxygen creation
and the great step of a very minute single cell plant form. The exhibition poetically contemplates air pores, mosses fingers,
groping and catching dripping and flowing. Sound comes into the mix for a POV “primordial soup” of foamy blue green algae.
Opening Programme:17–21:00
Book Launch 18:00
Performance: Scale Tone Matter MicroSound performance, 30 minutesDrone bees
are buzzing, drone birds are flying along to sounds and drippy beats. The text melts into a spoken word performance. Live
amplified sounds of scalpel’s incisions as well as a collage of field recordings. Live visuals.
Mel E.
Logan with
Power,
Philipp Quehenberger,
Mandy Mozart,
Martina
Fröschl (live video),
Michael Hacker (drones) and
Klemens Kohlweiss
Short Biographies:
Mel E. Logan
A trailblazer in the electroclash movement and founding
member of the iconic Chicks on Speed, Mel E. Logan has spent decades reshaping electronic music, art-pop, and performance.
With a career spanning global festivals, renowned art institutions, and underground clubs, Logan merges noize energy, electro
cool with experimental electronics, creating a sound that is both playfully subversive and sonically profound.
Now performing
under her solo moniker, Mel E. Logan crafts hypnotic, bass-heavy electronic soundscapes using live instruments, analog synthesis,
and raw vocal experimentation. The performance spans from electro to sound, glitch to up beat lyrical layering, It's a dialog
between the organic and the engineered. A structured improvisation, and a touch of the uncanny with her co performing stars.
Martina R. Fröschl studied media technique & media design and wrote her thesis about computer-animated
scientific visualizations of tomographic scanned microscopic organic entities. The depiction of realities and biological phenomena
has ever since driven her creations. She contributed to various documentary and fictional productions for TV and cinema as
visual effects and CG-artist.
Her recent computer animations are based on scientific imaging data like µCT, MRI, SEM
and light microscopy in collaboration with imaging experts and biologists. Currently, she is head of the Science Visualization
Lab of the University of Applied Arts Vienna, senior scientist and digital artist.
Michael
Hacker
An Artist who works with coding, drones and the everyday whimsicality of life.
Klemens
Kohlweis
An artist living and working in Vienna. Sound and installation art works are the medium where sensory
imprint is expanded by the highly skilled and sensitive fearless approach of his work.
Philipp Quehenberger
Well known as a performer with a keyboard as the medium to transform audiences with the electronic Jazz E-Musik energy.
Legendary driven avant garde.
Mandy Mozart
Is a Vienna based artist working in music,
sound performance and graphic novels. Utilizing digital outlets the stories spread over platforms and genres.
Power is a OG Vienna DJ and sound artist working with cut ups, splicing noise collage. Immerwiedersonntags
is a format of happenings Power hosts at the Vinylograph.
Michael Bachhofer studied ecology
in connection with ethnomedicine as well as Art & Science. He is currently working on his dissertation at the Science
Visualization Lab at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, where he is developing a high-resolution 3D scanner for insects.
Over the years, he has realized several art-science projects in interdisciplinary teams.
A project by: Melissa
E. Logan and Martina R. Fröschl
Further information on the website of Science Visualization Lab:
scivizlab.com
@scivizlab
@klemensohlweiss
@philipp_quehenberger
@power_brii
@mandy.mozart
@mel_e_logan
@marofroeschl
@chicksonspeed
@digitalekunstklasse
