Simon Weckert
Work
About
The Map Becomes the Territory – Street 3.0
University of Ljubljana
Artist talk, 2024
Zapfenstreich Über Algorithmen im Krieg, aber was hat die Kunst damit zutun?
Chaos Communication Congress, 37C3
Artist talk, 2023
Pet View
Pet View is Evan Roth and Simon Weckert, featuring Derkundespunzler, panke.gallery
Performance, 2023
xMobil
The xMobil project is developing a working prototype framework for a solar-powered investigative art module in the form of a car trailer that enhances creativity and innovation in remote locations.
Installation, 2023
A(i)R Pollution
the “A(i)R Pollution” App on your smartphone, the breath of the plant is visualized.
Application, 2023
Mirror Me !
Reflections are formed in our minds and shape our ideas about who we are. Mirror Me! is an attempt to answer from different perceptions, the question: Who am I?
Installation, 2023
The Republic of Null Island
Null Island denotes an imaginary island as a cartographic placeholder on the earth's surface where the prime meridian and the equator intersect.
Installation, 2024
Himmelfahrt (Ascension) - Cyber Procession
Entering heaven alive (ascension) is a belief held in various religions.
Installation, 2022
Galloping Horses
36 seconds frozen in time.
Installation, 2022
Digital Nature
The room installation Digital Nature, consisting of old, discarded monitors, devices, cables and circuit boards and questions the sustainability of our digital life.
Installation, 2022
Nonexistent
An AI-algorithm, which now generates deceptively natural looking portraits of people in an endless loop
Installation, 2022
Sgraffiti
Sgraffiti is the interactive media façade artwork that forms an expansive collaboration with the existing material graffiti works drawn in this place.
Installation, 2022
Bauhaus Infinity Archive
The Bauhaus Archive collection is made up of over one million items, and only very few of them have ever been shown publicly.
Installation, 2022
No Travel Agency
You are invited to a journey that will not strain your body, or leave any carbon emissions.
Performance, 2022
XBordering
Xbordering.net was created at the "Art of bordering" experimental workshop in Chemnitz, 8.-12. 12. 2022.
Webpage, 2022
Airmarket
Air is traded here! At the Airmarket, the air becomes a commodity, which can be purchased and is managed by the Airmarket.
Performance, 2021
Chaordic
Bauhaus is considered the center of modernism. Utopias were created here that inspire generations of designers and artists.
Installation, 2021
Arte TRACKS
Simon Weckert | Arte TRACKS
Documentation, 2020
Google Maps Hacks
99 smartphones are transported in a handcart to generate virtual traffic jam in Google Maps.
Installation & Peformance, 2020
Zapfenstreich
A machine was trained with neuronal audio syntheses to play the tune of "Zapfenstreich" (engl. Taps)
Installation, 2018
Time warp choreography
Contemporary dance with generative coding.
Programming, 2018
Eternal Dream
The digital soul of your scanned body leaves the place,for an eternal flight through the web.
Installation, 2019
Maps from Space
The map is not the territory ..... but another version of reality. (Korzybski 1933)
Installation, 2017
Google Maps Borders
The map is not the territory ..... but another version of reality. (Korzybski 1933)
Research, 2018
Zukunft
Sound interactive light sculture.
Installation, 2019
In the shadow of darkness
In the history of mankind, the natural phenomena of solar eclipses has been interpreted as a threatening omen, abused by tyranns and described in mythological contexts.
Installation, 2018
Dumbphne
The dumbphne is a conversational rigor that attempts to question how we utilize the smart phone.
Film Installation & Performance, 2016
Source Code
Different Textures based on one source code in pixelshader.
Programming, 2017
Distance Clock
So many people have never loved before each other over such long distances as today.
Hardware, 2016
The world longest selfie stick
60 seconds Satellitevideo from "IRIS" Satellite implemented into google earth.
Animation, 2018
Hope Machine
Real-time ‘Slot Machine’, generating algorithmic quotes depending on which 3 producers of ‘Hope’ the user received. Operated with coin slot and lever.
Installation, 2017
Kinoetic Evolution in the internet of things
Paraphrase of the work "Kinoetic Evolution" from Loren Carpenter.
Programming, 2015
Phase Repair
This project asks how changing modes of video post-production might inscribe themselves on a perfomance.
Programming, 2015
Interconnected
A digital artwork that dramatically portrays the hidden troves of operational data at Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT)
Installation, 2018
Kamera Slider
Tutorial for Cameraslider
Hardware, 2015
Hansaviertel & Dokumenta
Photo Hansaviertel & Dokumenta
Photo, 2012
Maueropfer
The work Maueropfer dedicate the deceased people of the Berlin Wall 1961 - 1989, where refugees , people without escape intention and border guards died.
Hardcoded Object, 2015
Endless Ending Energy
Endless Ending Energy
Installation, 2015
Choreograpic Coding 1
Various studies of choreographic movements.
Performance, 2014
Equiveillance
Equiveillance is a state of equilibrium, or a desire to attain a state of equilibrium, between surveillance and sousveillance.
Hardcoded Object, 2015
Sequence Sea
SequenceSea is a multimedia light and sound installation in which the visitor reflects a sound element by his movement in space. There are more and more melodies and sounds generated when the visitor noticed that they must interact with other people. Each person in the room is a part of the sound world and is a sound on a score.
Installation, 2014
Wanze
Pro Jahr werden in den Industrieländern rund 50 Millionen Tonnen Elektroschrott entsorgt, darunter Computer, Fernseher, Handys und Haushaltsgeräte. 75 Prozent davon kommen nie in den offiziellen Recycling-Anlagen an, oft werden sie illegal nach Indien , China oder Afrika verschifft.
Concept, 2014
Mirror Move
Manipulated light-shapes reflect the movement of the viewer. The visitor enters into an alliance with the mechanics and used it as an extension of its action. The person try to adapt the movement of the digital systems and change there natural body movement into a motion which is influenced by bits and bytes.
Installation, 2014
Reading is a way to wisdom
An interactive media, which is a combination of light projection with concrete object (a book) by using tracking technology to start the projection when the visitors open the book.
Installation, 2014
Rope Screen
The installation is a dynamic screen, which gives the viewer the impression that he moves around a 3 Dimensional virtual object. Only the the dynamic movement of a rope create a canvas for the projection. RopeScreen illustrates the decomposition of „white light“ in its spectral colors.
Installation, 2013
PROCESSOR i5 760 @ 2.80GHz
Visualisation of single processes in a i5 2.80GHz Processor
Generative Coding, 2013
Generative Coding 2
Bézierkurve, Mathematic Movement Studies.
Generative Coding, 2013
Interaktive Grid
Generative Coding, 2013 You see the projection of a grid, which assumes the forms of the people in front of it. If the person of the projection comes too close, the pattern of the grid begins to distort and tear. The game begins if the visitor noted that the grating always returns to its original state.
Installation, 2013
Generative Coding 1
Sphere affected by sound. Made with vvvv.
Generative Coding, 2013
Du must dein Leben ändern
Menschen nach Feierabend. Vom Sport geht es in den Club - zum Tanzen, Trinken, Flirten, und nimmt schon bald absurde Formen an. Eine Satire über Coaches, Ratgeberliteratur, das bessere Leben und missionarischen Eifer im neoliberalen Zeitalter.
Performance, 2014
Atlas of Media Thinking and Media Acting in Berlin
Website for Media Thinking and Media Acting in Berlin
Programming, 2016