Ars Electronica "Goodbye Privacy", Linz 2007

Artists, in collaboration with technologists and scientists, staged and run an Environmental Office to provide environmental information, monitoring and control. The ironic use of an office serves as an allusion to the self-perception of companies in relation to their societal credibitlity. The projects by Kalle Laar, Rúrí and Silver & Hanne Rivrud document the way in which artistsutilize changing modes of communication, interaction and storytelling within the spectrum of mobile technologies, and how they use these to take a public position on controversial issues.

⇒ Overtures Expedition Turkey

Environmental Office, Dr. Serafine Lindemann, curatorin and overtures project director

Kalle Laar's artwork YPMS (Your Personal Message Sculpture) was reproduced in virtually on the representation of the real parish square in Linz in second life.
If you touched the sculpture with your avatar, "Calling the Glacier" was activated and a direct connection was established with the microphone on the Pasterze Glacier.

"Your Personal Message Sculpture" in the Press and Information Center. Hourly updated gauging data from the Vernagt Ferner Glacier was transmitted via SMS and displayed on the LED running light.

Overtures "Hydroformance": Panel, live at Ö1 Radio austria, with Dr. Ludwig Braun (Commission of Glaciology), Dr. Söke Dinkla, (artistic director "Cultural Capital Duisburg 2010"), Prof. Gabriella Giannachi (Centre for Intermedia University of Exeter UK), Dr. Serafine Lindemann ( artcircolo), Kalle Laar, Rúrí (artist, Iceland), Gerfried Stocker (Director Ars Electronica), Dr. Bernd Wiemann (Vodafone Group R&D Germany)