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Infolab
We are in a socio-economic crisis - we think its a crisis of information - capitalism and technology. We are looking for solutions and new perspectives. However, our projects are not based solely on Claude Shannon, who erroneously attributes information theory - we think, with the information theory we made the greatest mistake of the last 70 years. In Infolab we focus on John Archibald Wheelers statement - Its from Bit..
OUR WORK
2020 Complex Information
2019 STWST48x5 - The concave sand hole
2019 Entropia: Land of our Future
2019 Our own ECO-SYstem From Gibling to XGiveCoin - Event Cryptocurrencies
2019 Mycelium Network Society and MNS at Biennale Taipeh
2017 The Blockchain - constructed truth
Infolab Youtube LIVE Channel Oct 2017
Infolab vs Digital Physics Sept2017
From Nothing to Something - convergence to zero by fx 1986-2017 Sept 2017
Infolab 2017 - Digital Physics Nonstop Videotalks bei stwst48x3.stwst.at sept 2017
Mycelium Network Society 2017 Transmediale - ongoing
Special handling of information by mushrooms 2016- ongoing
The Infolab Radioshow each third thusday on air at Radio FRO
Infolab 2017 - stwst48x3.stwst.at
Pilze als Informationsträger 2016- ongoing
Surf and Inform the Water 2016- ongoing
Ghostradio 2016
7067 Its not a Test - INFOLAB 2016- ongoing
Das Aalhotel 2015
Schattenlaboratorien
Mycelium Network Society 2017 Shu Lea Cheang - ongoing
Mycelium Network Society auf der Transmediale 2017
Nonstop Screening of Infolabs
The term “Digital Physics” partially coincides with the thinking models of the Infolabs to make these ideas accessible to the public, we run a video clip in the room of http://servus.at 3 weeks (from 20.8 to 10.9) with the following Programm or check our Infolab Youtube channel
The autonomous information network on ships
Ships are islands, they offer autonomous structures. That's why we work a lot on ships. We have been working on ways to reflect the Internet for several years. In order to get an observer status on this powerful information network you have to be able to disconnect yourself from the system. We try that with our own autonomous information network. The first experiments started in 2006. 2011 Armin Medosch wrote a text about it. In 2016 we extended our experiments with SlowScanTv from our ship in Linz. From this followed the information network "7067 -Its not a Test". Based on image transfers, an alternative information network was created. Due to technical and content developments, however, bandwidth of the information network has been further reduced in order to achieve higher ranges.
Milestones were developed in 2016/2017 to make this network accessible to everyone.
- Lowering bandwidth with the WSPR Technology
- Using the non-public frequency 7040khz to understand the propagation conditions of the transmitter
- The Future: Use the JT65 Technology to establish your own rapport system.
- The goal: Change to the publicly accessible CB Radio Frequencies 27 Mhz
More Work with independent networks you kan see at - Funkfeuer.de
Labs and Art
A context that influenced the concept of contemporary art in the last two decades of the last century.
Art comes from not knowing, explore, try and learn. The same applies to laboratories. Both concepts contain new ideas and utopias. This was the idea of New Media Art.
With this concepts were created in the “New Context”. In the history of the Stadtwerkstatt this connection appeared on different STWST-TV projects see http://archiv.stwst.at. The term was used by Wilder Efeu 1991, Parallelraumdisplay 1996, Clickscape 1997 u.v.a. used. The Infolab of Stadtwerkstatt is also closely related to others the labaratories http://servus.at (1996), http://vbs.at (1995), http://kunstlabor.at (1992) and the “Laboratory for Visual Media ”(1989) at the University of Applied Arts (Peter Weibel).
But already in the early 1980s the Stadtwerkstatt was working on the process-oriented art in which the change, the development of the artwork was part of the concept.
The work-up of this art context in which the laboratory as a process is / was part of the artwork has / was dedicated to our colleague and friend Armin Medosch. The book was published by MIT-PRESS.
New Tendencies: Art at the Threshold of the Information Revolution (1961 - 1978). Book presentation in New York 2016. The book can also be obtained through the STWST.