f18 robotik, f18
robotics, robots, Living Rooms - Happy End of the 21st Century Living in a culture of
technology - what does it meen? GAK - SmArt2006 - Bremen - DingDong festival - Hamburg -
Senseo ArtInitiative - Altona - große bergstraße Altäglichkeit - Altag - Every day life
- Interface mensch-maschine, f18 institute, robotic, art, kunst, information, technologie,
technik, robotik institut hamburg, oper, the wings of deadalus,software, electronic,
workshops, devellopment, stelarc, motion prosthesis, stelarc exoskeleton, stelarc walking
head, exoskeleton, art, theatre, sound, interfaces, kunst, artgendaTV, Artgenda, streaming
art, internet TV, hamburg, roboter, robot, mensch und maschine, lernen, cooperation,
medien, robots, hamburg germany, slovenia, deuschland, erfindung, slovenia, slowenien,
motion prosthesis, exoskeleton, stelarc, Ljubljana, the wings of deadalus, motion
prosthesis, exoskeleton, Kunst und robotik, Description of work and intentions: Basically
we have a strong interest in teamwork, it creates the most dynamic processes, increases
know how and forces towards self-positioning. Historically we are coming from different
fields of interests, but since long we were working a lot today's technologies, so
artistic interests focused on these fields areas. For to analyse and to understand
contemporary systems and techniques in terms of society and philosophy, we believe it is
necessary to deconstruct and/or rebuild these systems and to face them in a direct way to
the own mind and to the public. In 1996 the free artist Gwendolin Taube, the graduated
engineer Lars Vaupel and the free artist Stefan Doepner founded the Institute for art,
information and technology f18 in Hamburg. f18 institute is a pool of artists and
technicians, a lab and research centre for the artistic field of today's technologies. One
of focuses is on the development of tools which enable artists to create their own
positions in high tech environments. Since the foundation of f18 the realisation of own
artistic projects as well as commissioned artworks produced an extensive network of
experts in different branches. Based on this we create a platform for to enhance the
exchange and co-operation in art, electronic media, information and technology, so the
products and results of different approaches could be merged into new projects. A further
aspect of work is the human perception of the daily routine, as well as resulting from
this, projections of request. The everyday life is characterised according to its common
meaning by an