Matthias Jäger - Projects

Bruchstücke/fragments

matthias — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 22:48:06 +0000

synopsis

15 minutes of pure nightmare. Robert Holm, a young man, recives a mysterious phone call from a complete stranger. He accuses Robert to be involved in a murder. A high speed race begins in wich he tries to proove his innocence. But is he going to like what he will find out?

Bitter Lemmon

matthias — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 22:45:41 +0000

synopsis
Pusher Ronny operates in Graz and takes in his cousin Poldi, who due to his own fault was declared an enemy within the Viennese drug scene. Soon Poldi is fed up with being his cousin’s runne; he desires to get his own deal done. He subsequently orders a batch of drugs to be delivered by a bike messenger to the discotheque that is run by Ronny’s girl. The plot takes a sudden turn when the two pushers clash together on the join – the bike messenger is listening involuntarily

screenings
Palais Thienfeld
short movies big screen
vienna independent shorts

Dieser Baum ist unser!

matthias — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 22:36:07 +0000

[project website] Diser Baum ist unser

[german text] Dieser Baum ist Unser – wir Studierenden,
aber auch Euer – Ihr Lehrenden und Angestellten.
Nach fortschreitender Vereinheitlichung unserer Universität
scheint es an der Natur der Zeit auch der Vielfältigkeit wieder Raum zu geben.
Deshalb haben wir unserer Universität diese beiden Bäume zum Geschenk gemacht.
Sie stehen an der alten Stelle zweier ehemaliger Bäume,
die ihren Lebenszyklus vollendet haben.
Mögen sie viele Generationen Früchte tragen und Freude bereiten.

irrlichter/ghost lights

matthias — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 22:32:17 +0000

A cooperation with kmkg.org

irrlichter/ghostlights refers to the ghostly lights sometimes seen at night or twilight over bogs, swamps, or marshes. It looks like a flickering lamp, and is sometimes said to recede if approached. Much folklore surrounds the phenomenon. The project is a contemporary realization of this topic. A series of specially gutted flourescent lamps, connected through a self developed software and a stereo equipment are used to create a spooky environment. The setting was on one hand used as an mixed media installation on the other hand as a tool for an audiovisual performance.

Irrlichter at GAD Award.

verstrickungen/prepletanje

matthias — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 22:14:11 +0000

verstrickungen/prepletanje follows an artistic approach towards an examiation of the “double city” Gornja Radgona/Bad Radkersburg concomitant with the complete dissolving of the borders in 2007. To speak plainly, it is all about crossing boundaries. Physical ones, as for example the Mur river, or physic, which through conjuncted efforts can be overcome entirely.

Our primary aim was to mobilize/motivate as many inhabitants of both sides of the border to join a collective needlework in order to produce out of many, squared, single blotches of wool one huge pice that represents the single efforts of the people living in that region. Not only the outcome of this project, but especially the one-week workshop conducted together with most different kinds of people at Bad Radkersburgs’s main square as well as rather spare but also very interesting in most different areas of the region were an unique attempt to represent both regions’s connectivity and literally interweave two cultures …

More images and an interview at das Blattwerk.

loop

matthias — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 23:36:36 +0000

a simple hanger made from 3/8” steel tubes. all handmade.

EcoBox Competition

matthias — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 22:41:28 +0000

[type] European design competion entry, Saubermacher
[team] C. Matthias Kügler, Matthias Jäger

[selection of 5 panels]

Design competiton for a new way to transport and store your household trash. The main idea of the competition was to follow a concept where the trash itself is displayed as a beautiful object instead of creating a “beautiful box”. The very conceptual entry wanted to show the problem and make people aware of the daily amount of household jitter.

Die Grüne Welle

matthias — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 21:11:40 +0000

[type] Student Competition, TU Graz – City of Straßwalchen, 1st price
[team] Cornelia Pirker, C. Matthias Kügler, Matthias Jäger

These panels are the result of an ideas competition for the austrian town Straßwalchen (in Salzburg). Straßwalchen is a minor city in the low density belt around Salzburg. It consits mainly of two crossing roads. The german word for road “Straße” is in the name included – this city has been facing the problems and benefits of mobilty and traffic since it’s foundation. Our contribution “Die Grüne Welle” won the first price and was presented in town hall to an interested audience.
Get more information at das Blattwerk