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The CD-ROM SkinnerBoxMixes contains a collection of twelve individual projects. It is the result of a collaboration between artists who usually work with different, mostly analogue, media. For the majority of them, this has been their very first interactive CD-ROM project. All twelve projects share the same theme and have the same point of departure, namely the SkinnerBox which is an experimental set-up, the well-known labyrinth, designed to investigate the learning capacity of rats. On this common basis, many different works have been created, all of which experiment in their own way with the different possibilities offered by the medium of the CD-ROM. Most of the artists’ contributions have been developed especially for this CD, which received the Viper Swiss Award for Media Arts/CD-ROM in 2000. The completion of this definitive version of „SkinnerBoxMixes“ took several detours and required extra efforts, as if the title had anticipated its very production.




 

Contributions:


Daniele Buetti: Take me home

Daniele Buetti: Take Me Home (Video)
Like a magic ball, which sends out electromagnetic rays, an object that glows mysteriously moves through a dark apartment, defying gravity, as a star might move through a distant galaxy.

 


Dominique Lämmli and Markus Bucher: Manchmal liebe ich dich
(Sometimes I Love You)

Dominique Lämmli and Markus Bucher: Manchmal liebe ich dich
(Sometimes I Love You)
This is a poetic animated lovestory by Dominique Lämmli und Markus Bucher. The text-image-sound-collage invites you to plunge into this humorous animation-poem, to explore it and to allow yourself to be seduced by it.


Franticek Klossner: Remastered Remix Identity

Franticek Klossner: Remastered Remix Identity
In changing the data of the DNA-analysis which the artist had generated for himself the user can, almost, „become God“ and change the physiognomy of Franticek Klossner’s portrait as a child.


L / B (Sabina Lang and Daniel Baumann, assisted by Michael Vögeli): Wrestlers Delight

L / B (Sabina Lang and Daniel Baumann, assisted by Michael Vögeli): Wrestlers Delight
L / B, partners in work and in life, allow themselves to be manipulated. The user can choose from a set of quite aggressive wrestling patterns. The programme written by Michael Vögeli also allows the user to combine and perform some automated set sequences.


Raoul Marek (with Ute Wassermann): I Get What I See

Raoul Marek (with Ute Wassermann): I Get What I See
Raoul Marek invites the viewer to interpret different splashes of colour on the screen accompanied by a soundtrack which was created specially by Raoul Marek and Ute Wassermann. This leads to a new interpretation of the process itself, an „interpretation of the interpretation“, which in turn can be obtained directly from the artist.


Barbara Mühlefluh: Klick

Barbara Mühlefluh: Klick
The work of Barbara Mühlefluh generates texts, fragments of texts and computer sounds out of the darkness of the Black Box (the computer), the black monitor is turned into a space for texts and sounds.


Bessie Nager and Nicoletta Wartmann: Tremurs

Bessie Nager and Nicoletta Wartmann: Tremurs
The „wormballs“ created by Bessie Nager appear when you least expect them, accompanied by the mysterious sounds of Nicoletta Wartmann. These playful trouble-makers appear throughout the CD, wandering through the other contributions as they wish. This contribution is only in part „accessible“ through the main menu, where you can just see an example and a short description of it.


Kotscha Reist (with Simon Hostettler): Erfolg (Success)

Kotscha Reist (with Simon Hostettler): Erfolg (Success)
The artist himself appears in the figure of a playing piece, which was photographed by David Aebi, and moves in the manner of the early computer games. He has to rely on our assistance in order to pack the unruly wooden box named „Erfolg“ (success). The accompanying sounds were created by Simon Hostettler.


relax (Chiarenza, Hauser, Croptier): ecopop

relax (Chiarenza, Hauser, Croptier): ecopop
After a short „informative film“, which leads to the project „relax“, you find yourself gathered around a table, enjoying the small joys of everyday life, not without having to watch out for the small, unavoidable mishaps of everyday life.


Laurent Schmid: Chicaboom

Laurent Schmid: Chicaboom
Chickaboom reacts according the activity of the user. Too much activity will stir everything into wonderful movement, it can, however, also lead to damage. A software-part which will wear and tear while playing and fooling around with subliminal messages.


Nika Spalinger: Active Rat (Video)

Nika Spalinger: Active Rat (Video)
A rat under the spell of rhythm – during a stay in New York, Nika Spalinger taught a rat how to dance before it was released again into the freedom of the city sewers.


Emanuel Tschumi: Amokrat

Emanuel Tschumi: Amokrat
An Ego-Shooter-game by Emanuel Tschumi. You can choose your weapon and a particular site in Basel – however, this is about all that this game has in common with other computer games.

CD_ROM/DVD-ROM for MAC und Win
1999 (works) and 2005 © activeRat and the artists

ISBN 3-9521842-1-7

34 SFr. plus shipping

 


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