LANDMASCHINE - Schloss Lind

(Marcus & Yogi)

As part of our outreach activities, we were commissioned (through the arts & science collective The ZoNE), to contribute to the event called "Landmaschine" ("land machine") at Schloss Lind, a museum for art and local history in Styria, Austria, where we will also have an exhibition next year.

Our activities at the Schloss can be subdivided into three parts: (1) a projection display (of project-related videos, among other animated elements) on the front facade of the castle, plus (2/3) two installations in the former sheep stable on the domain (one on each side of the building), which we used to address the problem of looking at the world as a machine (the theme of our book, "Beyond the Age of Machines"). These installations juxtapose and integrate technology and mechanisms with the natural processes of the castle garden, and the local insect life attracted by our projections. Parts of the installation remain over winter, exposed to the weather, to be revisited and reactivated next year during our exhibition. Actions such as these are powerful interventions demonstrating our philosophical and scientific approach in applied settings, to audiences not usually exposed to academic presentations or scientific research of the abstract kind we are engaged in.

Artwork by Marcus Neustetter and Bronwyn Lace.