Unit 404

Unit 404 is an artist collective founded in 2020.

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 in 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

A list of projects with notFound.wiki sites

• 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
• sellout_video
• Labor I
• Labor II
• not Found
• Rhizom 3.0
• VisP-Engine
• Datamining
• Forming a Circle

Workshops

• Architectural Collages

Talks

• Phaeno Science Talk
• Artist Talk, Kunstverein Hannover 2021

Members

active

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

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

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