Apparat LAB encouraged upcoming artists to exhibit their artworks of any kind together with the international artists. There were no limitation regarding genres – installation, performance, video, spoken word, mixed-media…. All of it was invited!

Three groups have been chosen for the open call exhibition.

JBIRCH/ROENNOW

The idea is to combine the creative work of Janni Birch Andreasen and Bjarke Rønnow in a collaboration where analog and digital art meet.
Janni uses colorful triangles to create different structures and patterns on a surface. That pattern is the base for a new dimension where Bjarke will map out the pattern and create new structures and animations inside it thus putting a layer ontop and reinterpreting it

About Birch and Roennow

Janni Birch Andreasen has a passion for colours and patterns. Her work derives from this passion and her aspiration for perfection in layout and esthetics. As a graphic designer she wanted to go more into the field of art, interaction and experiencedesign to be uncompromising in concept and performance. Her impro collages is one way of expressing these parameters. Currently Janni studies 3th semester Art and Technology at Aalborg University.

Bjarke Rønnow is studying interactive digital media (humanistic informatics) at Aalborg University. For the last year Bjarke has worked with visuals in all sorts of ways. Both the kind for different parties and the more artistic ones in the realm of 2d/3D mapping and interactive installations.

Asynchronous Reflection

The idea behind this installation by Christos Kontogiorgas and Apostolis Kourtogiannis is to create a transparent connection between different sources. Interactivity is a goal but not for it to happen in a obvious way.
The field of interaction is considered to be currently in its prime time. However, it is observed in many cases that the classical approach of an interactive installation loses depth on its way to be interactive, by being directly responsive to the audience. In other words, it expires after the first minutes of observation. How we think of our installation is that of course it should be ‘alive’ and reflecting what goes on during the festival. By not being direct and relocating the signals somewhere and somehow else it will offer some kind of unification to the whole event internally.

Give – Group-controlled Interactive VJ Ensemble

Unlike VJ applications, which are usually controlled by one person, the Group-controlled Interactive VJ Ensemble by Isabell Tröger “GIVE’s” the often passive viewers the opportunity to influence the artwork by interacting with light and sound and alter the video content, the colour hue, scaling and motion of the video.