Best of BIX!

Based on Johann Sebastian Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier II, Fugue VII, the artist Thomas Baumann and the conductor Michael Klaar have cooperated in the creation of a singular work that relies on the course of the music to define the BIX Light and Media Facade.

As visual basic material to be displayed on the BIX Facade of the Kunsthaus Graz, the newly created video int.5_27/G.S.I.L.XXX (visuals: Lia, sound: @c), being part of the commissioned Edition Medienturm, is adapted according to the location’s characteristics.

cubica represents the unique case of a completely abstract three-dimensional computer animation.

In the work Kassiber Renée Levi deals with the relationship between the human and the architectural body and creates an irritating self-portrait from the "localization" of her own head on the BIX Media Facade. 

With Endloskonzept (Endless Concept) the Austrian media artist Crista Brandstaetter uses the unique medium of urban communication at Kunsthaus Graz.

Little Star plays upon the suspense between the hectic pace of images that overwhelm us and the desire to contemplate the pattern.

Colombian Andrés Ramírez Gaviria, based in Vienna, is a conceptual artist who turns digital technology into his laboratory for the analysis of art-historical "truths". His work modal.patterns for the BIX Facade is about the abstracting of narration and the analysis of a principle important for abstract art.

1 kilometre 28 metres, 5 minutes 26 seconds, more than 100 buildings become 16,300 images. Images that never look alike. Always new moments, always different people make an endless collage. Scenarios of a day – image per image – are combined to a new whole. What connects each of them is the rigid movement of the tram. A ride along the boundaries of Lend and Gries as a part and as an observer of this urban structure, until you leave it to come back later.

In his short film stroboscopic noise~ (10 min 6 sec), the award-winning Austrian artist Manuel Knapp explores the aesthetic possibilities of a line, choreographed in a reduced formal environment.

With Volume 3 of the project Equilibrium it seems as if the designers of CTRL are giving the finishing touches to the creation a full circle.

Pixel Tattoos is the new project for the BIX Media Facade. It will transform Kunsthaus Graz into a rhythmically pulsating tapestry of perceptual phenomena, piercing the urban space.

Pendule shifts vision from the two-dimensional to the three-dimensional and turns the BIX Facade into a mirror of the imagination as well as a real moving object in the urban space.

As part of the exhibition "Measuring the World" (11.06.-04.09.2011), the artist duo zweintopf, Eva Pichler and Gerhard Pichler, explore the theme of territories and invisible borders.

The BIX Media Facade and a monitor in the foyer show two works by Michelangelo Pistoletto. Titled “Third Paradise”, the works beckon toward a new age in the fusion of art and life.

Daniel Egg has employed cigarette smoke as a means of communication, developing a semantic vocabulary of forms that manifests itself in smoke.

Kuball is showing public preposition | (Dys)(U)topia, a script that mutates from the term Utopia to Dystopia and back again. In an endless loop of repetitions on the facade, he questions shifting perspectives on both architectonic and social developments, here and everywhere.

The video work Isomorph, which was specially developed for the facade of the Kunsthaus Graz, works on the threshold between form and line. Generative noise patterns slowly emerge from simple lines, which in turn merge into complex patterns.

On September 15th, we will all take to the streets! The BIX Media Facade will also be on strike, announcing the global climate strike the evening before with a deliberately provocative question: Are we the last generation standing a chance?

Bernhard Wolf sends a growing column of symbols into the urban space. Not easy to decipher, they are pretty and spooky at the same time.

On the occasion of the Congo Stars exhibition, the text "Loneliness 12" by Fiston Mwanza Mujila runs on the BIX Media Facade.

"I love my stuttering" or "I love my very shy breasts" are just a few of the answers Katharina Diem has already received to her question "What flaw do you love about yourself?", which will alternate with body images on the BIX Media Facade.

Abstract patterns run across the building as a network of lines, tracing, deforming and distorting it, creating the impression of a pulsating object.

Herbert Brandl features Thomas Baumann. Black or white, yes or no, 0 or 1? In his examination of digital processes, Baumann uses straightforward decisions such as these to determine what might seem like a simplistic approach to complex correlations.

"Having the freedom to live as you are and not having to conform to socially constructed role models" is one of Ines Handler and Jona Lingitz's motivations for their EXIT GENDER project.

A multi-part spatial and stage installation about an extended waiting room stretches from the courtyard and the BIX via the Cat Tree in the foyer to the basement - and onto the cinema screen.

During the exhibition Sometimes As A Fog, Sometimes As A Tsunami, SUPERFLEX will be showing clips from their new filmwork Beyond The End Of The World on the BIX Media Facade. 

XOR celebrates low resolution: various pixel-based algorithms form three parameter spaces that are customised to the facade, through which the grid moves on the BIX surface in ever-changing variations.

#PICTREES is an interactive project for BIX Media Facade, designed by fourth-year students of Ortweinschule Graz's Department of Film and Multimedia Arts.

Are we living in a simulation? As part of the exhibition Faking the Real, US media artist Signe Pierce broadcasts her subversive slogans via the BIX Media Facade.

A wheel – an animal skull – a snake. Our attempts to read these charged images inevitably lead to associations. But what do they mean?