Ursonate | Heavy Headed
Heavy-Headed / Dada-Minded ⋅ Klaus Obermaier & Ars Electronica Futurelab
A project by Klaus Obermaier, Christopher Lindinger
and Ars Electronica Futurelab
Opening performance of Sound:Frame Festival 2015,
Festival for audiovisual expressions
MAK Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna / Austria
artistic direction, choreography and sound: Klaus Obermaier
performance: Barbara Vuzem
scientific direction: Christopher Lindinger
dramaturgy, text and research: Martina Mara
software development: Roland Aigner
technical direction: Roland Haring
video: Veronika Pauser and Claudia Schnugg
Part of the research project (St)Age of Participation,
supported by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, PEEK program, AR111
and Ars Electronica Futurelab
Opening performance of Sound:Frame Festival 2015,
Festival for audiovisual expressions
MAK Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna / Austria
artistic direction, choreography and sound: Klaus Obermaier
performance: Barbara Vuzem
scientific direction: Christopher Lindinger
dramaturgy, text and research: Martina Mara
software development: Roland Aigner
technical direction: Roland Haring
video: Veronika Pauser and Claudia Schnugg
Part of the research project (St)Age of Participation,
supported by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, PEEK program, AR111
Heavy-Headed / Dada-Minded (2015)
Since 2011 the Ars Electronica Futurelab together with performance avant-gardist and composer Klaus Obermaier investigates innovative forms of audience participation in stage based media art. The research project (St)Age of Participation is a reference to the actual paradigm of social media and collaboration culture.
Heavy-Headed / Dada-Minded is a playful eccentric combination of
real-time generated content, live manipulated sounds and dadaistic performance interventions: Kurt Schwitters’ famous sound poem Ursonate (1923-32) gets transformed into an interactive dance performance. The audience can co-create the audiovisual environment by means of smartphones but also through bodily actions, or enter a walk-in tracking box to leave their virtualized heads as visual material.
Thereby Heavy-Headed / Dada-Minded not only lifts the boundaries between audience space and stage, but also blurs the traditional timeline of showtime and curtain call.
Since 2011 the Ars Electronica Futurelab together with performance avant-gardist and composer Klaus Obermaier investigates innovative forms of audience participation in stage based media art. The research project (St)Age of Participation is a reference to the actual paradigm of social media and collaboration culture.
Heavy-Headed / Dada-Minded is a playful eccentric combination of
real-time generated content, live manipulated sounds and dadaistic performance interventions: Kurt Schwitters’ famous sound poem Ursonate (1923-32) gets transformed into an interactive dance performance. The audience can co-create the audiovisual environment by means of smartphones but also through bodily actions, or enter a walk-in tracking box to leave their virtualized heads as visual material.
Thereby Heavy-Headed / Dada-Minded not only lifts the boundaries between audience space and stage, but also blurs the traditional timeline of showtime and curtain call.