Created by Juliane Götz and Sebastian Neitsch of Quadrature and currently on view within the Ars Electronica exhibition at the DRIVE Volkswagen Group Forum in Berlin, “Positions of the Unknown” is an installation of 52 custom-made mini machines that, ever so slowly, track unidentified objects (possibly classified satellites) in Earth’s orbit.
Quadrature
Quadrature’s artistic research focuses on data and physical experiments. The Berlin based artist collective including Juliane Götz, Sebastian Neitsch and formerly Jan Bernstein (until 2016) understand technology as means to read and write realities. https://quadrature.co
Created by Quadrature and first shown at this years’ Ars Electronica festival in Linz, MASSES installation includes two stones lying on top of a balanced steel plate and a machine with aim to create a perfect equilibrium state by moving the stones to the appropriate positions.