Living Kitchen

Stefan Doepner

ESC im Labor im steirischen herbst | September/Oktober 2006 Intermediate Spaces Stefan Doepner: LivingKitchen interactive installation, opening 23.09.2006 (until 15.10.2006) The Installation offers the visitor to explore his own everyday world which is implemented in the ideas of automation and duty. The inner-space of the living-area relates to the outer-space, therefore the gallery space, as reality to medial reflection. Views and sounds, angles of view and effort will be audio-visual transferred, being amplified and controlled, into projections in the outer area. So the outer area gallery reflects the inner of the living-area and thereby supports the opportunity of sensual reception of this installation. The complexity of technology, development, mechanic and electronic of our everyday devices is not translated into our reception. The system behind, the creation, conditions and user-optimisation is in now way transparent. This applies even for our not motorised or electric driven surrounding, the ideal kitchen of Bauhaus for example, which dimensions where created considering the shortest distance between the different work-stations or the whole format of our flat-units, this all is based on theories which want to make our life / daily living systematically 'easier and better'. Starting with the electrified kitchen via the electronic bureau and virtual space towards 'Augmented Environment' or 'Ambient Intelligence' (s.2/4), a mixture of virtual and real space. With our Installation we want to approach this phenomena on a not object orientated level, similar to the quote of O.Onnen $ A moment of sensual and aesthetic reception of an almost normal situation arises, which offers the opportunity to visitor t$ homepage at http://www.f18institut.org/DingDong/living_rooms.htm