SGM-Iceberg-Probe
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And the winner of the Transmediale award this year is...
The SGM-Iceberg-probe is a very poetical and totally fictitious tool to explore subterranean icebergs located beneath ice-scating-rinks and other worlds hidden under the surface of Germany's land! With the SGM-Probe [Subglacialis Montometer] subterranean life-forms and ecosystems can be studied in their natural environment.
I must say i found irresistible the non-sense of this work (though it wasn't my favourite piece): the fact that i could sit there, get swallowed by this slow and imaginary life, forget about the cold and feel like i was part of some fantastic dicovery adventure. |
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2 Comments:
i am so glad that this won. not that i'm necessarily up for the whole competition thing, but her work is such a lovely application of technology and imagination, accessibility with rigor, definitely a high point in a for me in quite a mediocre weekend.
I love its close relation to a good old fashioned preposterous lie or hoax. It certainly is both very poetic and very playfull the way it twists reality, like a childs game :)