f18institute

Social Noise Sessions - Noise as Metapher
Cirkulacija2
07. - 14. 06. 2012, Močvara Gallery

Participants: Boštjan Leskovšek, Stefan Doepner, Jakob Harisch, Lars Vaupel, Boštjan Čadež, Slavko Glamočanin,
Neven Korda, Borut Savski and colleagues from Zagreb: Azot, Ivan Marušić Klif, & I’MM_ Media lab and as
special guests: 300.000 V.K
13.06. - ueber V.K. concert.

C2 + 300.000 V.K. = ueber V.K. (Dejan Knez, Stefan Doepner, Tomo Božič, Urška Lipovž, Boštjan Leskovšek)
300.000 V.K. historically: one of the by-products of Laibach – “the noise section”.

speakerBot protoype
projected features: sensor controlled autonomous behaviour, active speakers, audio blue tooth, audio minijack, infrared mode switch

Beyond a Construction Site
an artist initiative project on participation and urban planning by Kud Obrat
In collaboration with neighbourhood residents and other interested people, we are transforming a long-fenced-off plot of land
in Ljubljana into a community space intended for gardens, socializing, ecological projects, education, and culture.

oakBass
e-bass guitar prototypes, handmade pick up, oak

prototype1, computer controlled playing devices are in development prototype2 for Dejan Knez, 300.000 V.K. / Laibach
2012

concert with 300.000 V.K.
at dvorana ROG, Ljubljana, including turning tweeter and oakBass

noiseBot 0.11
sensor controlled autonomous robot soundplatform
ultrasonic sensors, drive sensors, infrared data receivers, active speaker system

noisebot by Stefan Doepner is an autonomous robot sound platform. In contrast to prevalent sound systems,
which, by shooting sound, patronize the listener and imprison sound, noiseBot 0.11 does not "throw" sound from a
single, static point, but is a creative tool for dealing with sound in space in diverse ways. With moving in the space
and its own programmed behavior autonomous robot sound platform is a sound actor, which creates a dynamic
sound space.

mobile art platform
in cooperation with Cirkulacija2
mobile art platform is a pushcart with adjustable and extedable multi platform
for inter social media activities and interventions

midiPicknick, atm - robotPartner 2.0 and smartist
by Stefan Doepner
at the Muzej Robotov exhibition, UGM Maribor

midiPicknick

atm - robotPartner 2.0

smartist, in cooperation with Nika Oblak and Primoz Novak

2011 (photos: Damjan Švarc)

kleinerOskar
prototype of computer controlled string instrument
by Stefan Doepner

2011 (photos: Sanela Jahic, Sketch: Doepner/Jahic)

... has been exhibited in Berlin, Portland and Ljubljana so far.

NanoŠmano - Šmall Matter Ljubljana, 21. 04. - 30.04. 2011
artistic scientific public lab phase on small scale materials and effects
Stefan Doepner - Marc Dusseiller - Boštjan Leskovšek - Bengt Sjölén - Erik Reimhult

it was awsome, alive, open, it was hacking and tinkering, researching and engineering,
it was poetic and it was facts, it was kuglica, mavrica, sajeca and glisdice and it was doodoo,
it was also good coffe and tee, talking and eating, breakfast and dinner, pelinkovec and beer

it was:
DIY Spectrophotometer
Fluoresence Microscope
Make it Black!
Pseudo Ferrofluid experiments
Ferrofluid Display
Simple Magnetic Stirrer / Shaker / Spin-coater
NŠ Fungulator
Biosynthesis of Silver Nanoparticles
Hacked Ink-Jet Printer
15% Alcohol Kilju in 28h
Magneto NanoKuglica exciter-stimulator
How to Start a NanoLab

thanks to all involved, supporters, visitors, cooperators, friends, kapelica, ljudmila, cirkulacija2...

also have a look at www.hackteria.org

In the second edition of NanoŠmano, we are starting new explorations into the world of matter on the
nanoscale by investigating its physical and aesthetic potentials. As an collaborative and open research
based workshop by artists, hackers and scientists, we want to elicit methods to enable the creative use
of nano materials in critical and playful artistic processes.21. 04. - 30.04. 2011
Ljubljana, Mestni trg 15
produced by Galerije Kapelica / Zavoda K6/4 in cooperation with f18institut, Cirkulacija2, Dusjagr in Hackteria
supported by the Ministry for Culture of Slovenia, Cultural department of Ljubljana, Pro Helvetia

http://www.f18institut.org www.cirkulacija2.org http://www.dusseiller.ch/labs/ http://hackteria.org

STEFAN DOEPNER - MARC DUSSEILLER - BOSTJAN LESKOVSEK - BENGT SJOELEN - ERIK REIMHULT:

'NanoSmano - Small Matter' / Umetniski in znanstveni javni laboratorij za materiale in ucinke najmanjsega merila

Lokacija: Mestni trg 15, Ljubljana

Otvoritev laboratorija: cetrtek, 21. april 2011, ob 21. uri
Zakljucek in prezentacija: sobota, 30. april 2011, ob 21. uri

V drugi fazi projekta 'NanoSmano' (prva faza je bila z naslovom 'NanoSmano, NanoPunk in hekanje bodocnosti' predstavljena v Galeriji Kapelica septembra 2010) zacenjamo nova raziskovanja fizicnih in estetskih potencialov razlicnih materialov v nanomerilu. Na delavnici, kjer sodelujejo umetniki, hekerji in znanstveniki, zelimo predstaviti moznosti, ki omogocajo kreativno uporabo nanomaterialov v kritiskih in igrivo umetniskih procesih. Delavnica ponuja zanimivo moznost, da se obiskovalci neposredno in izkustveno srecajo z mitologiziranim ter mistificiranim podrocjem nanotehnologij, ki je zapustilo svetisca in bunkerje tehnoloskih laboratorijev, in si ustvarijo obcutek za merilo, ki vse bolj postaja nevidna plast, v katero se ovijajo nasa telesa.
Zacasni laboratorij, prestavljen v staro mestno jedro (Mestni trg 15), smo iztrgali obicajnemu galerijskemu prostoru prav zato, da bi skupinsko raziskovanje priblizali tudi nakljucnim obiskovalcem, saj smo mnenja, da je svet nanomaterialov tema, ki sme in mora zanimati vsakogar.

Povezave:

http://www.f18institut.org/

http://www.dusseiller.ch/labs/

http://hackteria.org/

Projekt predstavljamo v redakciji Galerije Kapelica / Zavoda K6/4 in v sodelovanju z f18institut, Dusjagr in Hackteria. Za pomoc pri izvedbi projekta se zahvaljujemo MOL - Oddelku za okolje, prostor in bivanje.

Projekt so podprli: Ministrstvo za kulturo RS, MOL - Oddelek za kulturo, Pro Helvetia

exhibition:
Küchenmaschinen auf Abwegen
Robot Partners at Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich
by Stefan Doepner
opening: 04.03.2010, 18.00

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Walking Tent − Robot partner 4.0 produced by Kud Obrat
Stefan Doepner / f18institut

During the 90's these wierd shelters, roofs on legs, spread more and more in Germany, later they were rather hidden behind the houses or in the last corner of the garden, one could see them often when passing through towns with the train. Slowly they were covered by green patina ...
Whole time of being an artist, I always was and am living and working under precarious and temporary circumstances; these wiggly, tipsy, provisional wannabe objects, as this provisional tent is, put their spell on me.
During the time of working on and discussing ongoing projects regarding artists and artistic working and presentation space, the idea became more alive again, for me it can represent very well the position and circumstances of art in reality of business like driven cities and societies.

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The Hounted House of Nano − Nano-Schmano, nanoPunk and the hacking of future
(Working title)

Nano is all around
Nano is future, future will be nano
Nano colour, nano structures, nano machines, nano biology
Intelligent dust and elevators to outer space

f18institut Ljubljana/Hamburg together with dusjagr labs Zürich will establish an artistic research on nanotechnology, beginning in spring 2010 with their first collaboration.

As the field of nanotechnology is far too broad to be investigated as a whole, we will start with a preliminary project in the field of nano-biotechnology. While nanotechnology deals with all natural and artificial phenomena at the lenghtscale of nanometers, only a few atoms, it is also the meeting point where all modern disciplines merge and have to find a common language. Allthough a real world experience of this nanoworld is difficult to achieve and can only be perceived by the use of modern scientific instruments, logical abstraction and modelling, we will try to develop possible tools to find, build, sensorize, evaluate, see and manipulate biological nanostructures, such as motorproteins and protein-coated nanoparticles. We think that an artistic interpretation of these allows further insight into this world and produce experiencable and metaphorical realities of modern science and technology.
Within the context of a simple approach and DIY philosophy, our tools will be comparable with knowing 3 chords on a guitar and playing punk music, one does not really now the whole context − but gathers experience and examples for new developments − while creating new artefacts.

The project will kick-off with a project presentation and discussion, followed by a intensive reasearch, experimentation and production phase of 10 − 14 days by Doepner and Dusseiller.
We will investigate to create structures, systems and situations with possible artistic value. It is about basic research on how to work on simple ways with nanotechnology, accessible to artists in labs and ateliers, and any more its possibilities for social and artistic value and relevance. Further on the project will consist of audiovisual and physical examples of our developments, as well as of self generated and semi professional tools for biological nano experiments.

(Image from Hess, H. MATERIALS SCIENCE: Enhanced: Toward Devices Powered by Biomolecular Motors. Science 312, 860-861(2006).

(Image from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. at <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinesin>)

Stefan Doepner studied Painting and Experimental Film at the University of Arts Bremen.
Doepner's focus is on the artistic exploration of today's use, reception and rules of technology, to analyze and understand contemporary systems and techniques he acquires the method of reinvention. In his work Doepner tries to profane the technological glorification and to grasp the relations of society, technology, sound, science and every day life through meditation and mediation.
1992 Doepner participated at the Documenta9 project Van Gogh TV; 1993 co-founded MAB, Bremen; 1995 MediaLab @ sea, Hamburg; 1996 co-founded f18institut, Hamburg; since 1997 on going collaborations with Stelarc; 2002 artgendaTV within Artgenda Hamburg; 2004 Playground Robotics, Basel, Bern Solothurn; 2006 participated at Steirischer Herbst, Graz and Smart 2006, Bremen. 2007 co-founded Cirkulacija2, Ljubljana; 2008 participation at Synthetic Times: Media Art China 2008, Beijing and at Ars Electronica08, Linz.

Marc R. Dusseiller is a transdisciplinary scholar, lecturer for Micro- and Nanotechnology and artist. He works in an integral way to combine science, art and education. He performs DIY-workshops in lo-fi electronics, music and robotics, has made various short movies and is currently developing means to perform biological science (hackteria | open source biological art) in a DIY fashion in your kitchen or your atelier. He is also co-organizing dock18, Room for Mediacultures, and various other engagments like the diy* festival as the president of the Swiss Mechatronic Art Society, SGMK.

About Hackteria/
Hackteria is a collection of Open Source Biological Art Projects instigated in February 2009 by Andy Gracie (UK), Marc Dusseiller (CH) and Yashas Shetty (IN). The aim of the project is to develop a rich web resource for people interested in or developing projects that involve DIY bioart, open source software and electronic experimentation. As a community platform hackteria tries to encourage the collaboration of scientists, hackers and artists to combine their experitise, write critical and theoretical reflections, share simple instructions to work with lifescience technologies and cooperate on the organization of workshops, festival and meetings.

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Robot Partner 3.0
f18institute Develops Service Robot that Offers Human Task Support
in Offices, Commercial Establishments and at Home

Ljubljana, December 21, 2008 – f18institute lju. and f18institute hh today announced their joint development
of a service robot that can provide support for various services in offices, commercial facilities, and other areas in
which people work, live or spend leisure time. The newly developed robot features functions that enable it to provide
such services as detecting and greeting guests, operating drill machines, drilling holes and measuring dust and
other emmissions at night and day.

f18institute will develop the robot, with tasks scheduled to begin in June 2009.

Details of the robot are to be presented at the 3^rd Robot-Partner exhibition scheduled to be held on September 15. 2009 at Kapelica Gallery in Ljubljana. There will also be a demonstration of the robot at the 1^st Robot-Partner exhibitionin Hamburg.

There is great anticipation for the application of robots for a wide range of fields such as in medical services, social services, housework, and so on. According to Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), societal expectations are high for robots to contribute to the realization of an enriched society. f18institute Laboratories has been conducting ongoing R&D on robots for practical use, in the quest for robots to support people in their daily lives and make their lives more convenient.

f18institute's past robot offerings include the hexapedal robot Exoskeleton, Motion Prosthesis, Paintbot, Linespiders, Spraybot, PillerPaintbot, Robot Totem, Cellobot and Walking Head. All of which were designed for a broad range of applications for R&D of robot technologies and which are commercially available from f18institute. f18institute also developed Robot-Partner 0.1, a home robot that can be controlled by two touch sensors and the Robot-Partner 2.0, an Automated Table Modificator, which are being sold by f18 on a limited basis.

Building on its past expertise in developing robots for R&D and home-use applications, f18institute went further to the next level by developing a robot that can co-exist with people and provide services in a variety of places such as offices, homes and public facilities.

The new service robot is comprised of 4 drill-heads, capable of moving up, down, left, right, forward and backward, up to 7 pneumatic actuators for the movement, a CPU that controls the entire robot, sensors for detecting alive objects, obstacles and airpolution, a 2D visual interface system comprised of a digital signal processor (DSP) and custom hardware.

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Ability to autonomously move to a designated location according to a pre-programmed map while carefully avoiding obstacles. The robot is capable of quickly perceiving people or things in its surrounding areas while simultaneously measuring their location, through the use of a IR sensor and two ultra sonic sensors which can be quickly self-selected from its eight available sensors as necessary, using the newly developed sense- and control-software. This processing enables the robot to detect and avoid obstacles so that it can move safely to a designated location, thereby making it capable of completing tasks alongside people.
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Ability to climb walls by drilling holes, react toward voices when called loud, and accomplish tasks by following the program. The robot is equipped with multiple microphones that enable detection of a sound source. The robot can also by ultra sonic system detect people and can react on them verbally.
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Ability to flexibly maneuver itself within compact spaces, on slopes, over minor surface gradations, and complete tasks
4.
Natural, easy-to-understand interface

Future Developments

The robot can connect to the Internet, search for information according to user request, and present the information in the method that best fits the situation, such as by announcing the information, displaying the information on a display, pointing to information on a separate source, and so on. Various kinds of Internet services can be provided through the robot by using its network-related functions.
Self-equipped with a web server, the robot can be instructed, programmed and remote-controlled from an external devices such as computers, that do not feature specific applications for the robot.

Robot Partner 3.0
f18institute Develops Service Robot that Offers Human Task Support
in Offices, Commercial Establishments and at Home

Key Specifications

Robot Partner 3.0 f18institute Develops Service Robot that Offers Human Task Support in Offices, Commercial Establishments and at Home

Key Specifications

Robot Partner 3.0
f18institute Develops Service Robot that Offers Human Task Support
in Offices, Commercial Establishments and at Home