multimedia catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition
unleashed. Newly Revealed: Early Explorations of Interactive Media in Visual Communication, featuring texts by Stefanie Bräuer, Teresa Dillon, Gilles Rouffineau, and Zachary Liberman, with an introduction by editors Annette Schindler and Michael Renner.
With works by Nathan Aebi, Thomas Bircher, Frederick Jon Burbach, Claudia Colombo, Demian Conrad, Ted Davis, Anna Dippert, Korina Gallika, Martina Gees, David Héritier, Andreas Hidber, Christian Heusser, Esther Hunziker, Roland John, Dirk Koy, Renée Labek, Jürg Lehni, Samuel Lüscher, Nicholas Paredes, Travis Purrington, Tobias Rall, Michael Renner, Pipilotti Rist, Matthias Rohrbach, Roman Schnyder, David Schwarz, Vines Gregory, Andres Wanner, Danilo Wanner, Gabriel Weiss, Alper Yagcioglu, Sangye Zahn.
Curators: Annette Schindler, Michael Renner
The exhibition unleashed at Museum Tinguely invites visitors to rediscover the origins of interactive media in visual communication in Switzerland. It connects these early explorations with contemporary artistic experiments in technologies such as generative AI and virtual reality. The exhibition reveals surprising parallels with Jean Tinguely’s work and showcases a diverse array of experimental examples in the artistic and creative use of interactive media from the 1990s to today, featuring works by Demian Conrad, Ted Davis, Esther Hunziker, Dirk Koy, Jürg Lehni, and Pipilotti Rist, among others.
unleashed focuses on outstanding historical projects that were long inaccessible due to technological changes. These projects are seen as precursors to game design, generative AI, and virtual reality. Using modern media archaeological methods, they have been restored and are now accessible for the first time on contemporary computer systems.
The exhibition bridges a significant gap and facilitates an exploration of the aesthetic, cultural, and social characteristics of early interactive media within the context of current developments.
unleashed
Revisiting early explorations of interactive media in visual communication design
editor:
Institute Digital Communication Environments (IDCE),
Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW.
Annette Schindler
Michael Renner
electrfd.net is a new independent publishing house for digital artists' books based in Basel, Switzerland. Our publishing program focuses exclusively on non-printable books, on ebooks/epubs that explore the audiovisual possibilities of electronic publications.
eBook
All of our publications are created in the extended ePub3 format (short for Electronic Publication). They are available as free downloads or as special editions via the eShop.
