Unit 404

Unit 404 is an artist collective founded in 2020.

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Logo of Unit 404

Technological advancements have created knowledge that is as helpful as it is confusing. An ever-growing collective archive has the potential to enhance the knowledge of the everyday individual as much as it has the power to delude it. All of us are trying to make sense of an increasingly chaotic landscape of knowledge and diverse channels of communication. This creates new perspectives, spanning from traditional nihilism to emphatic techno-optimism. Unit 404 is an art-collective that does not try to feign a false sense of unanimity on these issues. Its members, former students of the HBK Braunschweig and now active in creative capacities all over Germany, do not believe in a prerogative of interpretation, not even within the confines of its small member count. Quite the contrary, they try to enrich discourses through artistic means. With their individual backgrounds ranging from sound- and conceptual art, over 3D- and motion design to media studies, their medium of choice varies. Their focus, however, lies in creating multimedia-installations and experiences, which are created using a variety of materials and software, as well as creating a stable ideological and philosophical foundation to base these works on.

Forwarding

Contact us via mail@unit404.net ^here.

• Website

Official website utilizing the 404_OS_CI.

• Youtube

YouTube Channel containing various documentations.

• Instagram

Instagram Channel utilizing the 404_OS_CI.

• GitHub

GitHub Repository with diverse code distributions.

• Press Kit Download
  

Presskit containing relevant information and data ^{hosted via GoogleDrive.}

Projects

• Ein Haus, ein Pool
  • An art installation featuring a pool and a realtime finance tracking script's output turned into a hologram.
• Point Nemo
  • A Soundpiece about diving into the depths of an unknown sea.
• Kopf / Zahl / Physik
  • Public video art piece about unexpected multidimensionality featuring coin toss animations, towering over the roofs of Braunschweig.
• generative fill
  • 360° Video for the Wantalon App, targeting the ruin of an old church and turning it into a haunting imagination about possible and impossible new spaces within.
• Genesis City Map
  • Speculative and conceptual approach to spatial entanglement, concerning the exhibition space and property in a metaverse-service.
    Discontinued and grown into:
• The Metaverse Project
  • TBA
• sellout_video
  • An experiment in circular video editing.
• Labor I
  • An extended length sound performance
• Labor II
  • A collaborative experiment in conceptual acting, turned into a public video installation intertwining AI transcription technology with impressions of the mythological Tower of Babel.
• Not Found.
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• Rhizom 3.0
  • An interactive outdoor installation connecting humans as well as trees to the world wide web.
• VisP-Engine
  • A video installation exploring topics of photography, archives, emotion. The work consists of a behaviorally programmed multisensoric unit that communicates it's "feelings" to viewers.
• Datamining
  • A OpenSource Project exploring and transforming the massive amounts of personal data in the hands of big tech, relying on the European DSGVO.
• Forming a Circle
  • A collaborative experiment in creating graphic works with circular trade processes.

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Workshops

• Architectural Collages
  • A workshop for phaeno Wolfsburg inviting to work with architecural forms and to create new spaces via collage techniques.

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Talks

• Phaeno Science Talk
• Artist Talk, Kunstverein Hannover 2021

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Exhibitions

• Wantalon Parcour

Nikolaikirche, Zeitz, mobile app intervention, group exhibition, 2023

• Labor II

Studio 10, Oldenburg, solo exhibition, 2023

• VisP-Engine

Drogerie Braunschweig, 09.22 -.10.2022

• Plan of Plants

Die H_lle, Braunschweig, 08.22

• Kopf, Zahl, Physik

BRAWO PARK LED Wettbewerb, Braunschweig, 2022

• Ein Haus, Ein Pool

Keller III, 89. Herbstausstellung des Kunstvereins Hannover, 09.21 - 10.21

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Members

active

• Timothy Whitlock
• Gordon Endt
• Johanna Spieker
• Jonas Meyburg
• Lukas Ruoff
• Jan Mischur
• Giuliano Scollo

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former

• Bela Bertram

History

- "404 is an error message, which one encounters more often on the Internet. It means that a link is missing, something is not properly connected. "Unit" is a unity, the combination is, so to speak, the "unit of the missing link", this is because we all have very different competences, but try to work together in these overlaps." ^{Johanna Spieker, excerpt from the Artist Talk for the fall exhibition at Kunstverein Hannover, 2021}

Press

https://www.kulturschnack.de/post/kunst-kollektiv-unit-404-oldenburg-labor

See Also