Considers what it hears as it paints its own body of work.
A work by Benjamin Grosser.

Niklas Roy’s ‘Electronic Instant Camera’, is a combination of an analog b/w videocamera and a thermal receipt printer. The device is something in between a Polaroid camera and a digital camera. The camera doesn’t store the pictures on film or digital medium, but prints a photo directly on a roll of cheap receipt paper while it is taking it. As this all happens very slow, people have to stay still for about three minutes until a full portrait photo is taken.

http://www.niklasroy.com/project/103/electronic_instant_camera

A book by Xavier Antin printed through a printing chain made of four desktop printers using four different colors and technologies dated from 1880 to 1976. A production process that brings together small scale and large scale production, two sides of the same history.

MAGENTA (Stencil duplicator, 1880)
CYAN (Spirit duplicator, 1923)
BLACK (Laser printer, 1969)
YELLOW (Inkjet printer, 1976)

http://www.xavierantin.fr/archive/Just-In-Time/

Helikopter mit Spraydose (Helicopter with spray-can), 1997
Installation by Roman Signer – view at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, 2007

Photo: Roman März

Ink jet machine originally built as a tool to draw letters built by Alexandre Viault
This machine is made of a wooden box with a grid of 5×7 holes filled with syringes. At first, the box could only move on 1 axis and a master was designed on a wooden plate that would push on every wanted syringes. Now, the box is set on 2 guides that allow the box to move horizontally while the whole construction is mounted on wheels, allowing a vertical movement and providing more freedom and more chance.

Trained as a musician and composer, French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot creates works by drawing on the rhythms of daily life to produce sound in unexpected ways. His installation for The Curve will take the form of a walk-though aviary for a flock of zebra finches, furnished with electric guitars and other instruments and objects. As the birds go about their routine activities, perching on or feeding from the various pieces of equipment, they create a captivating, live soundscape.

For more details go to Barbican Art Gallery

The usage of an photocopier is common since decades as copy-art, cheap flyers, copied objects and obscene interactions. In research terms new functions besides scale and contrast were not trackable. To copy three dimensional matter is the obvious gap to the equivalent photography.

Plan B is an interface for two-dimensional input devices. It enables the copier to read the environment in front of the lens and produces, mounted on a copy-machine, a immediate printed picture (b/w and color). This prototype only works in combination with light sensitive machines. It accommodates the name of a photocopier or a very bulky polaroid.

This adapter “PlanB” was developed within an intermediate diploma in Product Design at the State University of Art and Design Karlsruhe.