BraunPrizeBlog

I hope you’ve find the time to have a closer look at the brand new Flash exhibition which the folks over at e.sens.e have done in the last couple of weeks. Kudos!

For the first time the whole BraunPrize Ceremony has been taped on video (well this has been done at previous BraunPrize events as well) and for the first time completely processed for online use. Even though I personally think that the intensity of experiences of virtual exhibitions are somehow limited this particular one is a great example how to bring a live feeling to those of you who couldn’t have attended the BraunPrize in realtime this year.

Anyway let’s go ahead and introduce the first presenters on that afternoon in September. Lena Billmeier and David Baur presented their project “Vision Energy“. From my perspective this has been a project which is a good example for an entry at the intersection of Art and Design. Interestingly many people I’ve talked to later on during dinner said that they found it quite courageous (in the most positive way!) that the jury selected this somehow unconventional entry. Beside several details consider it a great approach to create a new (fictive) organization namely the “IRO International Resource Organization” in order to illustrate the conciseness of their concept. After all let’s shortly quote from the BraunPrize site on the character of their submission:

“Small objects for private households and sculptures for public spaces reflect, by the way of structural and formal mutations, the economization of resources in terms of a benchmark value as defined by the IRO International Resource Organization.”

Side-note: The timing of the placement of the workflow video at the beginning of their presentation has been an idea we’ve developed during the morning rehearsal training ;-) As the video is not sharing too much of their slides I will try to add them later on via “Slideshare“. So stay tuned.