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Atmers are kinetic inflatable objects which try to reflect on the surrounding environment and its health state through repetitive movements which resemble breathing.

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kultivator, art and agriculture, Öland, Sweden

As we were at a farm, the first step was to create a working space. What would be a better place for some artistic-scientific research than a kitchen ? Fortunately Kultivator has a so called Outdoor-Kitchen, which was not in permanent use, so this approved to be the perfect place to feel the environment and to create art. When the weather was bad, or it was to cold, we changed to a not yet finished residency space, where a bed had to take the function of a table.

In a future version of the project, the health state of the inflatable objects will be triggered by sensoric input. In this case I used myself as a sensor, trying to feel the environement and transfer this emotions in the breathing algorithms.

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nida art colony , Curonian Spit, Lithuania

Here we were encouraged to show our works in progress during the open studio event on the 27.8.2011 as this was generally an indoor event I placed the Atmers next to one of our sleeping rooms which we converted into studiospaces.

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Flørli, Lysefjord, Norway

together with Tapio Mäkelä

Already before we arrived to Flörli, there where rumors about the so called “Stairway to heaven”, 4444 wooden stairs, which belong to the old Powerplant.

We had the idea to create some device, which has a camera mounted on it to ride those tracks, next to the wooden stairs, down.

When we climbed those stairs up, which took about two to three hours we were far to exhausted to modify the not really working first prototype, so we came back without success. But after some days the motivation came back and just before we left the beautiful Lysefjord Tapio and I created a second version which actually was kind of successful. Absollutly fun included.

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DIY tool for measuring and communicating radiation in fish.

I had been thinking very hard about the scientific process of collecting samples for radiation measuring. I broke down the areas concerned and tried to figure out the relationships between them – the science – the samples – the public. Who are these elements I wondered, what is their character?

I found myself thinking as scientist, interpreter and citizen. I incorporated all roles in the process of figuring out how to respond to this very small activity in the hugely important and massive activity of radiation as a phenomenon overall: what of the radiation in fish in the Baltic Sea?

And so, as citizen first, I decided to become a scientist and engage in the process, however flawed my attempt, and would then try and communicate my findings, however flawed the effort. So I built my own measuring station where fish are lured into an escapable cage, measured for radiation, and the radiation is stored in a publicly accessible data transmission house above water. The last idea is an attempt to create a ‘seamark’ or ‘beacon’ that communicates both the data, and the act of collecting data.

Short video of my wireless sensor + data visualiser prototype.