The Breathing Wall is a full-length interactive program created by writer Kate Pullinger, artist/designer babel and software artist Stefan Schemat using a story-telling software developed by Schemat that responds to human breathing.

A net-based artist, Hovarth’s interests in multi-media art began with photography at the age of six and progressed to other art forms, including photomontage, which he uses in his net-based and 2D works. At the birth of the web, he immersed himself in digital technologies, becoming a founding member of the net.art collective. He believes one of the benefits of working on the Internet is the large audience base that can access his work from anywhere in the world. Hovarth also likes that the Internet, “Allows me to combine image/text/audio/video. I see myself as a participant and investigator in the realm of new media art as it exists on the web.”

Hovarth’s exhibitions include the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Artport, 18^th Stuttgarter Filmwinter (Germany), FILE Electronic Language International Festival (Brazil), Video Zone International Video Art Biennial (Israel) and venues in New York, Quebec, Tokyo, London as well as numerous net.art showings.

Brian Knep exhibits three wall pieces showing slowly drifting shapes titled (left to right) Drip, Drift and Drift Grid. The pieces never look the same because the art records an infinite process that in all probability will never repeat

A digital fiction, The Breathing Wall is a full-length interactive program created by writer Kate Pullinger, artist/designer babel and Berlin-based software artist Stefan Schemat using a story-telling software developed by Schemat that responds to human breathing. The user’s breath becomes an input device that affects the way that the story is told. Visually it uses a mix of digitally altered photos and video. In keeping with the theme of threading time, Pullinger explains, “There are two temporal threads in the story represented by ‘day’ and ‘night’ dreams… interwoven to reveal the story as a classical who-dunnit. During the night-dreams, time becomes a function of the reader’s breathing rate: it takes each reader a different amount of time to relax enough so that the full story is revealed.”

Knep retains a love/hate relationship with technology, although he is trained in mathematics and computer science.

The Academy award-winning film, The Piano, is based on a novel that Pullinger co-wrote with director Jane Campion. Her published books include several novels and short story collections. She also writes for film and television; her feature, Violet, is currently in development at the BBC. Schemat is a media artist, writer, programmer and pioneer in GPS-driven storytelling. His “breathing book,” an electronic work that responds to the breathing rhythms of the reader, is a truly innovative use of computer technology. Digital writer, artist and editor of the post dada magazine 391.org., babel’s recent projects include a collection of multimedia children’s poetry, Animalamina, and a collaborative multimedia CD/website, Online/Offline.

Brian Knep exhibits three wall pieces showing slowly drifting shapes entitled, Drip, Drift and Drift Grid. Explorations into mathematics, biology and architecture, the pieces never look the same. The art records an infinite process that in all probability will never repeat. Knep admits his fascination with “the idea of the infinite arising out of the finite.”

Although he is trained in mathematics and computer science, Knep retains a love/hate relationship with technology. He pursued pottery as “an antidote” to those feeling. Liking the physical feel and unpredictable nature of clay, Knep believes that work has more “soul,” but continues to be drawn to the potential of computers, attempting to infuse his digital works with as much soul as the pots that he has created.