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The Trend Is Your Friend
Vernissage
43% installation
15% economy
32% interaction


Trends are all the trend. Alongside fashion and health it is analyses of economic trends which are shaping our environment. To what extent do they influence and change us as individuals and as a society? By recognising and relying on trends do we become part of an economisation that promises profit but at the same time absorbs us? Does the individual who opposes the trend get socially marginalised? So is the trend in a knowledge-based society nothing but Orwell’s famous Big Brother? A new, if more complex uniformity of control that denies us future with its hubris of calculability? The installation “The Trend Is Your Friend” invites us to think through these questions for ourselves and, with the aid of our senses, to dive into a virtual space while our bodies remain in the real.


Produced by Medienkunstlabor Graz
In co-operation with steirischer herbst, Institut für Elektronische Musik und Akustik (KUG) & Institut für Maschinelles Sehen und Darstellen (TU Graz)

26/09 - 08/11
Tue - Sun 10 am - 6 pm



Medienkunstlabor
By
Sylvia Eckermann (A) &
Gerald Nestler (A)

Sound
Peter Szely (A)

Scientific advice
Wolfgang Höchtl (A)

Curated by
Winfried Ritsch (A) &
Mirjana Peitler-Selakov (A/SRB)

Medienkunstlabor

26/09 - 08/11
Tue - Sun 10 am - 6 pm



Medienkunstlabor

By
Sylvia Eckermann (A) &
Gerald Nestler (A)

Sound
Peter Szely (A)

Scientific advice
Wolfgang Höchtl (A)

Curated by
Winfried Ritsch (A) &
Mirjana Peitler-Selakov (A/SRB)

Medienkunstlabor