Works

WORKS | 1987 - 2023


Pioneers of digital media art since 1987, Monika Fleischmann and Wolfgang Strauss explore the paradoxical nature of digital media. Their work ranges from artistic installations and research prototypes to poetic events at the intersection of art, science, and technology. It is produced at specially founded institutes such as ArtWork, ART+COM, GMD, and Fraunhofer. Among their most important contributions are netzspannung.org (1997 - 2012), the patented contactless interface ECCO (2007) with the PointScreen Interface, and innovative and poetic projects such as Liquid Views (1992), Berlin-Cyber City (1989), and the very first artistic VR project Home of the Brain (1990-91). In 2010, the artists and the Fraunhofer MARS Lab donated the netzspannung.org platform to the ZKM Center for Art and Media. This generous gift has served as a valuable resource for research, learning and teaching in media art.


An extensive process of reviewing and refining the artists' projects began at ZKM in 2022. This process was supported by the late Peter Weibel at ZKM.This generous donation has served as a valuable resource for researching, learning and teaching media art. Spanning more than three decades, this overview presents some of their diverse projects in media art, architecture, and artistic production in text, interview, magazine, or video. Short excerpt from the ORF documentary about the VR work Home of the Brain, which won the Golden Nica, 1992. Derrick de Kerckhove on Liquid Views (2020), the MARS Booklet - Project Videos - Interview 2011 at Laznia Center, Gdansk, PL - Art&Science Meeting Video (2011)


MEDIA ART  |  ARCHITECTURE  |  PRODUCTION  |  VOLUNTARY

 

MEDIA ART

» 2023 Home of the Brain. Reconstruction plan with ZKM and KIT, Karlsruhe (ongoing) [Link]

» 2023 Liquid Views (1992). Kiosk version: Remastering a masterpiece 31 years later. [Link]

» 2013-14 Urban Media. Visualizing the Hidden City: Making the City's Inhabitants Visible with their Moods and Emotions. Artistic Research Example: Energy-Passages.

» 1997-2012 netzspannung.org (online since 2001) eTeaching platform for media art & electronic culture with visualization tools for exploring the contents of the archive. Knowledge discovery tools such as Media Flow, Timeline or Semantic Map, are among the groundbreaking products of the 21st century. Press Release! netzspannung.org, eculturefactory.de/netzspannung-org / 

» 2008 Media Flow Browser. Audiovisual web interface for netzspannung.org, the platform and online archive for media art, science & electronic culture. http://medienfluss.netzspannung.org  

» 2008 Liquid Views (1992). Remastering a masterpiece 16 years later. www.eculturefactory.de/liquid-views

» 2007 Performing the Archive. Online Archive as a space to enter. www02.zkm.de/you/netzspannungorg-performing-the-archive

» 2007 Interactive Poster & Outdoor PointScreen. Display for interactive window shopping. (MA) www.eculturefactory.de/interaktives-plakat

» 2006/07 deine-story.de. Mobile gaming combined with urban screening. www.eculturefactory.de/deine-story

» 2006 Medienfluss Installation. Netzspannung.org archive representing images, texts, keywords. www.eculturefactory.de/medienfluss

» 2006 Digital Sparks Matrix & PointScreen. Gesture based Installation http://eculturefactory.de/digital-sparks-matrix

» 2006 Virtual Book. Digital augmentation of the classical book. http://www.eculturefactory.de/virtual-book
» 2006
Digital Sparks Matrix DVD. DVD Interface for the >digital sparks< database. http://netzspannung.org/digital-sparks/

» 2002-05 PointScreen 2002-2005. Patented Interface: Interaction without touch inspired by the Theremin. eculturefactory.de/pointscreen
» 2004
Energie_Passagen. Multi-user installation in public space energie-passagen.de, energie-passagen.de/webinstallation.htm

» 2002/04 Semantic Map (Vers 1/2). Tools for analysing semantic relations of data in documents. eculturefactory.de/semantic-map 

» 2002/03 Timeline (Vers 1/2). Tool for time-based structuring of information in context. eculturefactory.de/timeline 

» 2002 Mobile Unit. Mobile Streaming-Lab for recording and broadcasting. netzspannung.org/Mobile-Unit

» 2001 i2TV – Performance: Ottos Mops. Distributed, networked poetry play. netzspannung.org/OttosMops

» 1999 i2TV - interactive Conference Tool for Memoria Futura Symposium 1999. Tool for networked participation in public events netzspannung.org/i2TV-Konferenz, netzspannung.org/MemoriaFutura 

» 1999 eMUSE electronic Multi-User Stage, connecting digital and physical space as a Mixed Reality. netzspannung.org/eMuse 

» 1997-99 Murmuring Fields on a Mixed Reality interactive stage netzspannung.org/MurmuringFields

» 1998 MARS-Bags. Fashion interface inspired by the Theremin netzspannung.org/MARS-Bags

» 1995 Virtual Striptease (Video Only). Mixed Reality Performance live on TV-stage netzspannung.org/Virtual-Striptease

» 1995 Video Only. Interactive, distributed Virtual Studio TV production. netzspannung.org/Video-Only

» 1995 Virtual Balance. Interactive Interface & tool for navigation with the balance of the body. www.eculturefactory.de/virtual-balance, netzspannung.org/Virtual-Balance/

» 1994 Responsive Workbench. Collaborative 3D tool & workspace environment. netzspannung.org/Responsive-Workbench/

» 1993 Rigid Waves. The story of Narcissus & Echo as distance and approaching. netzspannung.org/Rigid-Waves

» 1992 Liquid Views. The interactive mirror of Narcissus as interactive realtime morphing. www.eculturefactory.de/Liquid-Views

» 1991 Home of the Brain. Virtual Reality Installation - media-theory as space to enter. Golden Nica for Interactive Art, Ars Electronica 1992. netzspannung.org/Home-of-the-Brain

» 1989 Berlin, Cyber City. Mixed Reality Installation about the Fall of the Berlin Wall. History tour into the future of Berlin.Cyber City Flight through Potsdamer Platz Architecture Competition. netzspannung.org/Cyber-City

» 1989 Between 0+1 1989. Folded 3D bodies for multiple perspectives: Implosion of Numbers. Text+Bilder.

"1989-91 Hewlett Packard Berlin Office. Research Project Electronic Model House and Participatory Office Design with VR. In: "Office with wings". Mensch & Büro 2/1991


ARCHITECTURE

» 2018 Apartment therapy for an apartment in Bonn, Germany

» 2015-16/2022-23 Datscha Low, redesign + extension, architecture + art project, Gnewikow, Ruppiner Lake, Brandenburg, Germany. PhotoDoc: How we started (Facebook) by Monika Fleischmann.Wolfgang Strauss

» 2014-17 Apartment Therapy for 4 apartments in Berlin, Germany

» 2013 Apartment therapy for an apartment at Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation de Briey, France

» 2002/2018-22 TownHouse at Lake Garda. Rebuilding of an 17th century TownHouse in Gargnano, Italy [Link]

» 1990 Hidden Lines, Video about the building and design of the Hewlett Packard Headquarter Berlin by Fleischmann & Strauss, exhibited in the Werkbund-Gallery, Berlin.

» 1989 Hewlett Packard Berlin Office 1989. Wolfgang Strauss & Monika Fleischmann. Participatory Office Design using VR as a simulation model and research on light and acoustics. In: "Büro mit Flügeln". Mensch & Büro 2/1991

» 1987-89 Two Small Houses - Extension of a House & Extension of the Schering Institutes' House for Visiting Scientists Library "Denkraum" in Berlin (Wolfgang Strauss)

» 1987 Foldup Thomas-Kirche. 1. Preis im Wettbewerb zur Umgestaltung der Thomas Kirche Berlin Kreuzberg. Senat Berlin (Wolfgang Strauss)

» 1985 Berlin Berlin. Stadtraum Collage Berlin - Gesamt Installation 1:5000, 600x150 cm. Berlin Bahnhof Zoo. (Wolfgang Strauss)



PRODUCTION OF TELE-LECTURES / VIDEO / CD-ROM / DVD / ONLINE
» 1989-2009 MFWS Projects - interactive indesign presentation => (
PDF) .
» 2001-07
Digital Sparks Matrix webbased DVD-Installation 
» 2006 eCulture Factory in Bremen -
showroom opening (Video)   
» 2005 netzspannung.org - Platform for Media Art and digital Culture, Video
dt/en 
» 2004
Energie-Passagen - Video of the installation in public space: energie-passagen.de 
» 2004 Energie-Passagen -
web installation & web-docu
» 2004
Hypermedia Tele-Lecture on »Sound und Vision« connected with MediaArtNet of ZKM, Karlsruhe  in coop. with Dieter Daniels, Hochschule fuer Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig. A new form of e-Teaching by connecting two online-archives in a thematic context.
» 1997-2004MARS – the Exploratory Media Lab «, Videodocumentation of works on DVD
2001/04
Tele-Lectures - video documentation of Hypermedia lectures & lecture series such as: Spiel mit dem Medium , Ohne Schnur,WissensKünste II , DRM und Alternativen , Mapping , Generative Tools , Present Continuous Past(s) , Migrating Images, Iconic Turn , BEM 03 , transmediale.03 , Online-Archive , Bildersturm & Bilderflut , Frames of Viewing  a.o.

» 2003 Media-Jukebox with Digital Sparks. Videos of award winning projects 2001-03 for the Jukebox
» 2002-03 Iconic Turn Lectures: Live-Streaming SS 02-WS 02/03. Partner:
Burda - Akademie, Ludwig-Maximilian-University, Munich (pdf)

» 1997-2002 MARS – the Exploratory Media Lab, Videodocumentation on CD-ROM
» 2001 Video-Trailer for
CAST01 conference at GMD Schloss Birlinghoven
» 1992-2001 Fleischmann & Strauss, Videoclips of works on CD-ROM
» 2000
Ich sehe, was du hörst / I see, what you hear, Video of workshop with children on Mixed Reality Theremin Interfaces (Dieter-Baacke-Award)
» 1999 Murmuring Fields - Performance Setting, Fidena Festival Bochum, part II, Videodocu
» 1999 Murmuring Fields - Interactive Installation, Transmediale Berlin, part I,Video documentation
» 1998 Murmuring Fields - Interfacing Virtual Studio. Videodocumentation
» 1995
Video Only - Virtual Striptease. Interactive scenography, and video documentation of live TV from GMD's virtual studio via ATM 350 km to Baden-Baden. Twelve interactive virtual stage designs for the ZKM/WDR Media Art Award in cooperation with Wolfgang Strauss, Professor at the Hochschule der Künste, Saarbrücken.
» 1995 Skywriter - Virtual Balance, Video documentation
» 1993 A Vision of Virtuality, video about the exhibition, curated and produced by MFWS about the VisWiz research at GMD
» 1993 Rigid Waves - Echo and Narciss, Video documentation
» 1992 Liquid Views - the Virtual Well or Narcissus' Mirror, Video documentation  
» 1992 Visualization in an Environment of Massively Parallel Computers - Interactivity, Realtime, Virtual Reality. Video about the VisWiz research at GMD.
» 1990 Science Fiction? Science Fact!, First Video about Art+Com e.V.
» 1990 Berlin-Potsdamer Platz - Underground Study, Video in the Filmhaus Esplanade, Berlin



VOLUNTARY

» Growing Everywhere, 2014. Artboards skateboard for children's skate park, India. Skateboards with designs by Ai Weiwei,

 Ai Weiwei, Ashok, Children from Jodhpur, Ernst Handl, Joi Ito, Egon Zippel, Monika Fleischmann, Wolfgang Strauss, and others for the Artboards Skateboards AUCTION: March 20 - March 26, 2014. Ulrike Reinhard's we_school project. 

» Mapping People not Land - Concept for Benin, Africa 2012

MORE DOCUMENTATION 

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