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Work Title
Berlin, Under the Urban Skin
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Work Title（EN)
Berlin, Under the Urban Skin
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Please describe the concept of your artwork in 1000 words.
Ephemeral, distorted, and fading in time, experiences, and memories are not tangible, yet they are one of our most precious possessions. Your experiences make you who you are and the collective memories make Berlin the city it is today.
Berlin is a city governed by its very own rules, defined and established during its different historical and cultural events, constantly shifting and shaped by its population.
Berlin, Under the Urban Skin makes a sectional cut in Berlin’s lifestyle and subculture by bringing together stories, anecdotes, and real experiences of diverse *BVG users.
As an icon of the city and a fundamental part of Berlin’s culture, the BVG moves more than one million users every day. This enormous friction of human lives colliding in a small underground space sparks all kinds of experiences that citizens and visitors have witnessed in numerous ways.
* BVG Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe - Berlin Transport Company -
Please describe the concept of your artwork in 1000 words. （EN）
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Work Specification
The installation uses a minimum space of 8m².
The central piece stands on a metal bar that has to be anchored to the ground.
The light in the exhibition is dim and subtle, the main light sources are 2 low-intensity spotlights that illuminate the centerpiece from the upper side angles and the screen on the background that projects the colors of the video onto the walls of the room.
The screen or monitor is placed in the center, right behind the ticket machine, in vertical (portrait) mode.
The installation uses consumables.
The printer uses a ticket paper roll that has to be replaced once is over.
For the main interaction, the installation provides replicas of the BVG tickets, printed and cut to size.
The exposition of the installation requires:
Electricity power supply
2 Spotlights
1 HD screen
The hardware has been built using a combination of techniques.
3D printing on PETG, primer, spray color, and lacquer.
The technology part is covered with a raspberry pi Zero W, speakers, a Thermal Printer, an IR sensor, and several cables and LEDs. -
Work Specification（EN）
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Media CoverageURL
https://action-io.com/works/under-the-urban-skin
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Video URL
https://vimeo.com/458506989
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Your OfficialURL (Website, Instagram, Facebook)
https://instagram.com/action.io
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Your Profile
Nuño de la Serna is a Berlin-based media artist. Born in Soria, Spain in 1992 he grew up constantly moving between cities. This nomadic lifestyle gave him an eclectic character that influences his work.
Mixing multiple art disciplines with inventive ways of using technology, Nuño tries to improve the coexistence between humans and technology. His creative process acknowledges the importance of the fair use of resources and free access to information.
Nuño creates artworks that are born from fundamental innocent curiosity and resonate with complex contemporary issues.
Professional work:
- Volkswagen Future Center Europe. Research and development in the field of electric and self-driving vehicles within smart inclusive mobility.
- æternity + THE WYE. Creative technologist and software developer of a blockchain art platform for the freedom of speech through drone graffiti technology.
- Atyla Ship Foundation. Development of digital tools and a platform for an educational charity. -
Team Members
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Entrant’s location (Where do you live?)
Karl-Marx-Straße 13, 12043 Berlin, Germany
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Berlin, Under the Urban Skin
Others
Berlin, Under the Urban Skin, is a narrative interactive installation that brings together stories, anecdotes, and real experiences of users of the Berlin public transport system (BVG). It reflects the lifestyle of Berlin by allowing its audience to experience, through the point of view of real people, some of the enrichment testimonies of people in this city.
The installation presents a replica of a BVG ticket validator as a centerpiece and a video displaying on the background.
The piece serves as a storyteller totem that guides the audience, by the act of validating train tickets, through the experiences of some else. As the visitors of the installation ‘punch’ or validate their tickets, the machine shares those stories by printing them on a paper ticket. The nature of this printed medium (thermal printing) will make the words slowly disappear over time, as do the stories.
The video shows long shots of different metro stations that capture the noise of trains, the movement of people commuting, and the iconic yellow-colored theme of U-Bahns, to immerse the room and its audience into the underground world of Berlin.
It does not matter if the machine is printing tickets or what story it has shared, the video continues running in the background just like the trains continue to run every day and people continue their way regardless of what you have experienced in your ride in the subway.
The installation presents a replica of a BVG ticket validator as a centerpiece and a video displaying on the background.
The piece serves as a storyteller totem that guides the audience, by the act of validating train tickets, through the experiences of some else. As the visitors of the installation ‘punch’ or validate their tickets, the machine shares those stories by printing them on a paper ticket. The nature of this printed medium (thermal printing) will make the words slowly disappear over time, as do the stories.
The video shows long shots of different metro stations that capture the noise of trains, the movement of people commuting, and the iconic yellow-colored theme of U-Bahns, to immerse the room and its audience into the underground world of Berlin.
It does not matter if the machine is printing tickets or what story it has shared, the video continues running in the background just like the trains continue to run every day and people continue their way regardless of what you have experienced in your ride in the subway.
