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artworks by Limiteazero (IT) , Holger Lippmann (GER), Olaf Bender (GER)
curated by LAb[au]
About Limiteazero–
Limiteazero is an architecture, media design and media art duo, based in Milan, Italy. Founded in 1998 by architect/media designer Paolo Rigamonti, together with electronic musician/media designer Silvio Mondino, Limiteazero's work is focused on the relation between new technologies, space and environment, designing installations, interactive furniture, reactive environments aiming to bridge the physical and the digital.
In its experimental activity, Limiteazero manages to mix different languages and areas of expertise, from media communication to architecture, from Italian design and craft tradition to electronic aesthetics. Limiteazero has worked both on independent research projects and commissioned installations, for clients like Toshiba, BlackBerry, Alberto Aspesi, Nice, Tomato, Antonio Citterio and Partners.
Limiteazero's work has been featured in many international design and art magazines and widely exhibited in festivals, art exhibitions and public venues as: WIRED magazine's NextFest - New York; Google Zeitgeist - Stanford Art Museum, Palo Alto; UNPlugged - Ars Electronica Festival, Linz; Techne02 - arte e interattivitá, Spazio Oberdan, Milan; Netizens, 'Sala 1' art gallery, Rome; Microwave Media Art Festival, Hong Kong; Media.comm(unity)/comm.medium - MASEDU, Contemporary Art Center, Sassari (Italy); Villette-Numerique - La Villette, Paris.
In 2006 they held their first solo exhibition at Hublab Art Gallery in Milan, along with the publication of the monograph "0006_limiteazero".
About Holger Lippmann–
Holger Lippmann studied for sculpture at the Art Academy, Dresden, 2 year masterstudent with Professor Klaus Schwabe. Stipend of the county Baden-Württemberg, study at the Art Academy Stuttgart, stipend at "l'Institut des Hautes Etudes en Art Plastiques - IHEAP", Paris. Lectures with Pontus Hulten, Daniel Buren, Sarkis among others,1 year residence in Paris, trainee at the Institut of Technology, New York /computer art department. 2 year residence in Brooklyn, New York, 1 year postgraduate education for multimedia at CIMdata, Berlin. the publication of the monograph "0006_limiteazero".
About Olaf Bender–
Olaf Benders experimental work with film-ma¬terial started during school-time. The casual finding of a complete 16mm movie equipment gave the initiation. From this time on started an intensive dealing with the medium ‘film’ as well as the raw material ‘film’.
Technical limitations forced special methods: He scratched directly on the footage with objects to create geometrical figures. The results were ar¬chaic motion patterns. Due to the experiments he came into contact with the East-German un¬derground band AG-Geige. By working with this group he got into musical aspects. Home computer made it possible for autodidacts like him to work multimedial without knowledge of practical musical skills.
He founded the record label rastermusic with Frank Bretschneider in 1996. Rastermusic wanted to publish their own elec¬tronic music projects and those of other similar working artists. The special process of creat¬ing electronic sound should be reflected also in the graphical presentation of the label and his products. One of the earliest rastermusic productions was the project signal, which Olaf Bender has been continuing together with Bretschneider and Nicolai until today. Nicolai owned the sublabel noton, which finally merged with rastermusic to raster-noton in 1999.
Beside the management of raster-noton he is responsibly the graphic design and public ap¬pearance. Additionally Bender performs solo under the pseudonym byetone.