Projects
Otchi
Interactive Storyteller (2018)
by Tiago Martins and Désirée Meul
Otchi is an interactive storyteller for voice assistants (e.g. Google Home, Amazon Echo) to promote collaborative play between all groups of people with a special focus on visually impaired and blind children. Players gather around Otchi to witness the development of a story. While Otchi leads the activity, players can contribute to the story by deciding what to do next, asking the right questions, or adding details to the story. Each time a story is told, players can discover new opportunities.
ORIGINAL CONCEPT
Désirée Meul & Tiago Martins
STORY
Désirée Meul
GAME DESIGN
Tiago Martins
SOUND DESIGN
Fabian Gutscher
ILLUSTRATION
Benjamin Herrmann
www.otchi.de
by Tiago Martins and Désirée Meul
Otchi is an interactive storyteller for voice assistants (e.g. Google Home, Amazon Echo) to promote collaborative play between all groups of people with a special focus on visually impaired and blind children. Players gather around Otchi to witness the development of a story. While Otchi leads the activity, players can contribute to the story by deciding what to do next, asking the right questions, or adding details to the story. Each time a story is told, players can discover new opportunities.
ORIGINAL CONCEPT
Désirée Meul & Tiago Martins
STORY
Désirée Meul
GAME DESIGN
Tiago Martins
SOUND DESIGN
Fabian Gutscher
ILLUSTRATION
Benjamin Herrmann
www.otchi.de
HIS LEFT HAND IS CLOSE TO THE BODY
Video (2017)
by Laura Ferrara and Désirée Meul
The work deals with political gestures in the context of sports. They are gestures that convey a political narrative to the outside world. A sports event is one of the largest communication platforms; it combines cultural, social, economic and political interests. This place is to be occupied. Even if the body and its movements are wordless as such, the gestures become direct speech acts. In this sense, the artists also regard the performative gestures in sport as a linguistic act. On the one hand, they were interested in the performative and mimetic character of these gestures, and on the other hand, the body becomes the bearer and symbol of resistance.
SCREENINGS
VideoEx Festival Zürich, 2017
UG im Folkwang,Museum Folkwang Essen, 2018
Interview at WomenCinemakers, Special Edition
by Laura Ferrara and Désirée Meul
The work deals with political gestures in the context of sports. They are gestures that convey a political narrative to the outside world. A sports event is one of the largest communication platforms; it combines cultural, social, economic and political interests. This place is to be occupied. Even if the body and its movements are wordless as such, the gestures become direct speech acts. In this sense, the artists also regard the performative gestures in sport as a linguistic act. On the one hand, they were interested in the performative and mimetic character of these gestures, and on the other hand, the body becomes the bearer and symbol of resistance.
SCREENINGS
VideoEx Festival Zürich, 2017UG im Folkwang,Museum Folkwang Essen, 2018
Interview at WomenCinemakers, Special Edition
transphère
Recherche (2016)
by Dominik Fornezzi, Jana Blöchle and Désirée Meul
“TranSphère” deals with the technological expansion of the human body in the discourse field “Human Enhancement”. For this purpose, the neurological measurement method electroencephalography (EEG) is used as an artistic tool by which the brain activity of the performers is measured during the performance and transformed into visual and auditory outputs. An audio-visual experience is created for the viewer. Based on the motif of the Doppelgänger, the performance explores the duality of human beings and technology - technology as a digital Doppelgänger of the analog self. The ego and the other, the familiar and the foreign, the analog and the digital collapse and cancel each other in the effect and their categorical function for human perception.
Research supported by
Kultur Stadt Zürich, Tanzhaus Zürich, NRW Tanzrecherche
by Dominik Fornezzi, Jana Blöchle and Désirée Meul
“TranSphère” deals with the technological expansion of the human body in the discourse field “Human Enhancement”. For this purpose, the neurological measurement method electroencephalography (EEG) is used as an artistic tool by which the brain activity of the performers is measured during the performance and transformed into visual and auditory outputs. An audio-visual experience is created for the viewer. Based on the motif of the Doppelgänger, the performance explores the duality of human beings and technology - technology as a digital Doppelgänger of the analog self. The ego and the other, the familiar and the foreign, the analog and the digital collapse and cancel each other in the effect and their categorical function for human perception.
Research supported by
Kultur Stadt Zürich, Tanzhaus Zürich, NRW Tanzrecherche
RFID CHOREOGRAPHIES – Akt IV
Performance (2016)
by Dominik Fornezzi, Jana Blöchle and Désirée Meul
The young company RFID choreographies offers the implantation of RFID microchips and uses the transmission medium “Near Field Communication” to introduce choreographic approaches to everyday actions.
As part of P-Bodies 2016, RFID choreographies presented its half-year balance sheet for 2015/16 and at the same time celebrated the hundredth customer and thus the hundredth implant in a ceremonial act.
by Dominik Fornezzi, Jana Blöchle and Désirée Meul
The young company RFID choreographies offers the implantation of RFID microchips and uses the transmission medium “Near Field Communication” to introduce choreographic approaches to everyday actions.
As part of P-Bodies 2016, RFID choreographies presented its half-year balance sheet for 2015/16 and at the same time celebrated the hundredth customer and thus the hundredth implant in a ceremonial act.
RFID CHOREOGRAPHIES
Performance (2015)
by Dominik Fornezzi, Jana Blöchle and Désirée Meul
Having arrived in the gesture of the present, RFID choreographies explores the interactive possibilities of cybernetic organisms. The young team uses implanted RFID chips as invisible little helpers to develop choreographic solutions in the context of building automation and network technology. In cooperation with body modders, there are tremendous connections between people and technology. Together with the clientele, RFID choreographies will realize everyday practical hybrid wishes and re-code intelligence and give you the right implant. With the RFID chip, for example, you can magically open your apartment door or start your car. The technology fair for buildings and infrastructure ‹ineltec.› Is entirely dedicated to modern building technology and the intelligent home of the future. On the New Technology Boulevard, think tanks, start-ups and RFID choreographies offer trade fair visitors a unique experience.
CO-PRODUCED BY
Theatertage TREIBSTOFF Basel, 2015
SUPPORTED BY
Messe Basel, Fondation Nestlé pour l'Art, Österreichisches Kulturforum
by Dominik Fornezzi, Jana Blöchle and Désirée Meul
Having arrived in the gesture of the present, RFID choreographies explores the interactive possibilities of cybernetic organisms. The young team uses implanted RFID chips as invisible little helpers to develop choreographic solutions in the context of building automation and network technology. In cooperation with body modders, there are tremendous connections between people and technology. Together with the clientele, RFID choreographies will realize everyday practical hybrid wishes and re-code intelligence and give you the right implant. With the RFID chip, for example, you can magically open your apartment door or start your car. The technology fair for buildings and infrastructure ‹ineltec.› Is entirely dedicated to modern building technology and the intelligent home of the future. On the New Technology Boulevard, think tanks, start-ups and RFID choreographies offer trade fair visitors a unique experience.
CO-PRODUCED BY
Theatertage TREIBSTOFF Basel, 2015SUPPORTED BY
Messe Basel, Fondation Nestlé pour l'Art, Österreichisches Kulturforum
IF NOW WAS SOMEWHERE ELSE
Live-Audio-Walk (2015)
by Laura Ferrara and Désirée Meul
«if now was somewhere else» was a Live-Audio-Walk crossing bridges. The walk took place simultaneously in Zurich, Hamburg and Hong-Kong on May 13th, 2015. In the course of 20 Minutes, three narrators aurally guided the spectators across the following bridges: Duttweilerbrücke in Zurich, Baakenhafenbrücke in Hamburg and the Circular Bridge in Hong Kong.
ARTISTS INVOLVED IN THE PROJECT
Team Zurich:
Laura Ferrara, Benjamin Jagdmann, Désirée Meul, Charlotte Sarrazin
Sound: Benjamin Pogonatos
Narrator: Monika Hölzl
Team Hamburg:
Marie Celeste Knop, Mara von Zitzewitz
Narrator: Franziska Möckel
Team Hong Kong:
Cheuk Wing Nam, Siddharth Choudhary, Lau Ming Wai
Narrator: Lau Ming Wai
SUPPORTED BY
Z+ „PLAYGROUND“ AND CONNECTING-SPACE ZURICH – HONG KONG
by Laura Ferrara and Désirée Meul
«if now was somewhere else» was a Live-Audio-Walk crossing bridges. The walk took place simultaneously in Zurich, Hamburg and Hong-Kong on May 13th, 2015. In the course of 20 Minutes, three narrators aurally guided the spectators across the following bridges: Duttweilerbrücke in Zurich, Baakenhafenbrücke in Hamburg and the Circular Bridge in Hong Kong.
ARTISTS INVOLVED IN THE PROJECT
Team Zurich:
Laura Ferrara, Benjamin Jagdmann, Désirée Meul, Charlotte Sarrazin
Sound: Benjamin Pogonatos
Narrator: Monika Hölzl
Team Hamburg:
Marie Celeste Knop, Mara von Zitzewitz
Narrator: Franziska Möckel
Team Hong Kong:
Cheuk Wing Nam, Siddharth Choudhary, Lau Ming Wai
Narrator: Lau Ming Wai
SUPPORTED BY
Z+ „PLAYGROUND“ AND CONNECTING-SPACE ZURICH – HONG KONG
