The Product http://www.the-product.org Hello, we are The Product a berlin-based spatial and media-related design practice. Wed, 10 Apr 2013 10:58:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Objectmachine0020 http://www.the-product.org/objectmachine0020 http://www.the-product.org/objectmachine0020#comments Tue, 31 Jul 2012 07:39:28 +0000 d3 http://www.the-product.org/?p=1070
Diffusion Limited Aggregation … y

eah and what do I care?

]]> http://www.the-product.org/objectmachine0020/feed 0 The Booklet. http://www.the-product.org/news-the-booklet http://www.the-product.org/news-the-booklet#comments Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:57:04 +0000 d3 http://www.the-product.org/?p=1019

We have just finished the production of a small book about … us. It is a well-crafted small edition of 20 copies. We used hand-sewing and laser-cutting to achieve the ever important ambivalence between the physical and the virtual.

]]> http://www.the-product.org/news-the-booklet/feed 0 Optimistic Gizmos and Melancholy Gadgets http://www.the-product.org/optimistic-gizmos-and-melancholy-gadgets http://www.the-product.org/optimistic-gizmos-and-melancholy-gadgets#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:57:40 +0000 d3 http://www.the-product.org/?p=929 Media Design Course at HfK Bremen, Summer 2011.

Auf den ersten Blick sind Gadgets Apparate mit einem etwas merkwürdigem Wesen. Sie sind dingliche Beschreibungen von oft alltäglichen Situation. Nicht selten belächelt, sind sie die Grenzgänger, die Narren unter den Gestaltungen. Doch genau wie der Narr, können und dürfen auch sie die wahre Natur der Dinge benennen.

In diesem Kurs wollen wir uns die ambivalente Natur des Gadgets zu eigen machen und Apparate entwerfen und konstruieren, die, befreit von der Kategorie des unmittelbaren Zwecks, eine narrative Qualitäten entfallten. Unsere Gadgets werden Spiegel, Katalysatoren oder Wünsche sein.

Ein Ausführliche Beschreibung der Projekte findet sich in diesem Pamphlet.

Lecturer
Prof. Dennis Paul

Students
Michael Berndt
Florian Born
Peter Buczkowski
Marcel Helmer
Henrik Nieratschker
Jonas Otto
Rasmus Rienecker
Lukas Zerbst
Denine Thode
Okan Gürsel
Julian Thies
Vanessa Dreier

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]]> http://www.the-product.org/optimistic-gizmos-and-melancholy-gadgets/feed 0 Soundmachines http://www.the-product.org/soundmachines http://www.the-product.org/soundmachines#comments Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:33:36 +0000 senorpako http://www.the-product.org/?p=846 An instrument for performing electronic music

Three units, which are resembling standard record players, translate concentric visual patterns into control signals for further processing in any music software. The rotation of the discs, each holding three tracks, can be synced to a sequencer.
The Soundmachines premiered on the Volkswagen New Beetle stand at the IAA motor show in late Summer 2011. In cooperation with the sounddesigner/ producer Yannick Labbé of TRICKSKI fame, we developed three unique discs, each controlling one track of an Ableton Live Set exclusively made for the Event. The show was supported by a set of realtime generated visuals, running on a 25m wide LED wall.

One/One
TheProduct*
©2011

Client
Volkswagen

Agency
Vok Dams, Hamburg

Sounddesign/Producer IAA
Yannick Labbé

Special Thanks
Matt Karau
Lorenzo Cercelletta
Andreas Schmelas

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]]> http://www.the-product.org/soundmachines/feed 75 The Y-Table at DAZ http://www.the-product.org/the-y-table-at-daz http://www.the-product.org/the-y-table-at-daz#comments Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:59:47 +0000 jens http://www.the-product.org/?p=735 Yesterday, we set up a large version of the Y-Table at the DAZ, German Architecture Centre.

 

The Y-Table [DAZ version] by The Anxious Prop, in collaboration with DAZ and
Raumtaktik, 2011

The Y-Table is not a finished object. It is a customizable workstation that is
CNC fabricated, built only on-demand to help resolve the common creative
questions of its users. As a sustainable approach, it is a customizable idea
designed to facilitate specific production processes while keeping material
excess to a minimum. The Y-Table always keeps its distinctive three-partite
form, but its dimensions and surface-features vary from use to use, from site
to site.

The DAZ version was developed by Matthias Böttger, Silke Johannes [+DAZ team],
Ludwig Engel [Raumtaktik], Mendel Heit, Patrick Kochlik, Jens Wunderling, Jan
Bovelet, and Luis Berríos-Negrón.

The Y-Table was initially a participatory installation for Case 3 of The
Anxious Prop at Salon Populaire in 2010. It served as an interface and
large-scale template for the collective and the audience to come together
through the
editing and binding of The Black Swan Issue feuilleton. The initial concept was
a collaboration between Luis Berríos-Negrón, Elín Hansdóttir, Mendel Heit,
Fotini Lazaridou-Hatzigoga, and The Product.

 

]]> http://www.the-product.org/the-y-table-at-daz/feed 0 Golden. http://www.the-product.org/golden http://www.the-product.org/golden#comments Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:27:06 +0000 jens http://www.the-product.org/?p=731 Our interactive installation SOL is golden.

Not only its outer shell, but also at the 2012 Annual Multimedia Award, which we won in the Event/Game/Installation category.

A hearty thank you to the jury!

 

]]> http://www.the-product.org/golden/feed 0 Installation Storage Art http://www.the-product.org/installation-storage-art http://www.the-product.org/installation-storage-art#comments Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:33:09 +0000 jens http://www.the-product.org/?p=724 The arms of our visual turntables, turned into a piece of art, for storage.

]]> http://www.the-product.org/installation-storage-art/feed 0 WUNDER http://www.the-product.org/wunder http://www.the-product.org/wunder#comments Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:51:38 +0000 jens http://www.the-product.org/?p=716 We are happy to announce the opening of the wonderful exhibition “Wunder – Art, Science and Religion from the 4th Century to the Present” at Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, to which we contributed three interactive, collaborative and transformative installations on the specially curated “childrens’ path”.

From the curators’ description:

WONDER (Miracle) is a word that bursts boundaries. This exhibition taps into its explosive potential, tracing the arc of the miracle throughout different times and disciplines. Centering on works of contemporary art, it develops its arguments by assembling objects from many different spheres and allowing them to enter into dialogue with one another: a technical innovation stands next to an artwork exploring the western fascination with technology; a Christian rendition of the Vera Icon is flanked by a video work that flouts all notions of authenticity; the visualization of sub-atomic particles in a cloud chamber is juxtaposed with the emotions made visible by an art installation.

The Exhibition will be on until February 5th, 2012.

 

 

]]> http://www.the-product.org/wunder/feed 0 Rube Goldberg Processor http://www.the-product.org/rube-goldberg-processor http://www.the-product.org/rube-goldberg-processor#comments Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:28:07 +0000 senorpako http://www.the-product.org/?p=662 Media Design Workshop at HfG Karlsruhe, Spring 2011

Our everyday life is more and more captured and stored as digital data. The promise says that an extensive collection of data can be translated into objective information, whereas the translation of data depends on the subjective selection of algorithms and devices.

The digital Rube Goldberg Processor articulates this subjectivity of data by transforming a flickr image in an endless cycle of interconnected computers and algorithms.

Communication Design Department
Prof. Florian Pfeffer
Indra Häußler

Lecturer
Jens Wunderling
Patrick Kochlik

Students
Matthias Gieselmann
Kirstin Griech
Stefanie Miller
Simon Schelsky
Nadja Schoch
Lisa Stöckel

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]]> http://www.the-product.org/rube-goldberg-processor/feed 6 The Aesthetics of Generative Design http://www.the-product.org/the-aesthetics-of-generative-design http://www.the-product.org/the-aesthetics-of-generative-design#comments Thu, 28 Apr 2011 11:58:56 +0000 d3 http://www.the-product.org/?p=653 is a workshop we gave in february 2011 at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design

Software is omnipresent. Every computer is driven by software. Software is composed of algorithms, sets of rules, that describe processes. Algorithms are a way for humans to negotiate with machines, a strange and beautiful communication. In recent years, designers have become increasingly interested in this algorithmic approach. They have transformed software into a new material to design with. ‘Generative Design’ emerged. In this 2-week workshop the students were concerned with the implications, the potential and aesthetics of Generative Design. They conceived a series of works ranging from computer-generated posters to interactive objects and installations, to concepts commenting on software itself. In this exhibition, we shed a little bit of light on the strange and beautiful world of algorithmic design.
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The Emergent
The Many
The Mnemonic
The Parametric
The Precise
The Procedural
The Responsive
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Credits

Some photographs were taken by Yufan Wang and some by Chris Bierbower.

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Video documentations made by the students themselves

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