transmediale.01 wanted to turn passive media consumers into active producers: visitors should get the opportunity to experience artistic and media-technological strategies in order to give them the opportunity to create art by themselves, in situ. Thus, DIY [do it yourself!] reflected the emancipatory and self-empowering tendency of the digital era in media-artistic practices.
Julien Maire has inserted miniature kinetic gadgets within 5 x 5 cm large slide frames which, when they are projected, become gigantic cinematographic machines.
A ball freely wanders in a rectangular space, bouncing on the walls. Each bounce generates a percussive sound, to each wall corresponds one note. The successive bounces always play the same melody, but not always with the same tempo.
DIY [do it yourself!] is transmediale.01’s appeal to its visitors expanding and fostering creative media competences: They were requested to use provided technological tools in order to produce digital art by themselves.
