N3krozoft Ltd

Low-Rez Stories/Solaris (1972-2010) is a video installation that confronts a scene from Andrei Tarkovski’s 1972 Science-Fiction film Solaris (a long non-narrative sequence filmed on the urban highways of Tokyo) with a “remake” of the same highway track within Google Streetview. Between 2008-2009, a vehicle manned by the staff of the Californian multinational has recorded the [...]

Short audio video edit of a performance by three N3krozoft agents, at the carnival of e-creativity in Sattal, Uttarakhand, India. 1st of March 2009. Chloé Cramer: voice, acting, camera, mise en scène Boris Kish: voice, acting, camera, mise en scène Manuel Schmalstieg: tech wizardry, mise en scène

Accelerated journey from Geneva to Kathgodam, recorded by N3krozoft Ltd agents M. Schmalstieg, B. Kish and C. Cramer, spring 2009.

Imagery source: public webcam located in Tomsk, southwestern Sibiria. Audio track by OMFO (Our Man from Odessa, Eastblok Music, 2005). Production: 1904.CC/N3krozoft Ltd.

On Saturday October 20th 2007, a video-link was realized between a spot in the main pedestrian street of Belgrade (Knez Mihailova) and a location in Prishtina, capital of the yet-to-be recognized state of Kosovo. Both spaces were linked through an internet connection, using a popular free teleconferencing software to transmit sound and image in realtime. [...]

Film director and n3krozoft Ltd representative Boris Kish participates to Film Spring 2007, a three-week workshop under the direction of Slawomir Idziak (director of photography for Bleu, La Double Vie de Véronique, Gattaca, Black Hawk Down, Harry Potter, …).

N3krozoft Ltd’s solo exhibition at MAAC in Brussels features 3 fully functional ZOETROPES, graphical prints, a rare exhaustive screening of the classic videoperformance “LOL (laughing out loud)” & other artifacts. Additionally, N3krozoft Ltd presents an exclusive edition of its complete videographic works (1904-2007). The opening programme consisted in a lecture about the noble art of [...]

A series of plan-sequence videos shot in the suburbs of Brussels sharing the same shibboleth.

Four video pieces (“counter-commercials”) for electronic advertisement billboard, screened in Geneva central station during June-August 2006 (in the frame of the exhibition Photo-Trafic). Overall duration: 2’40 min «Tirant prosaïquement ses stills des caméras de surveillance qui sécurisent le périmètre de la gare Cornavin (récemment rebaptisé “zone de rencontre”), Manuel Schmalstieg y injecte subrepticement des séquences [...]

A young thief discovers a temporal warp zone saturated with love, a pitbull, a porsche cayenne and the game of chess.

Inspired by Philip K. Dick’s novel “UBIK”, N3KROZOFT’s eponymous project began in a dark room with a chair, a table and a telephone. When a visitor picks up the telephone, he hears fragments of UBIK dialogues and vocal interventions of previous visitors. Should the visitor react to what he hears and start talking into the [...]

On January 12th 2003, in Phoenix (Arizona), a 21-year old computer addict died of an overdosis of prescription drugs while chatting on the internet. Soon after this tragic event, a text file containing a transcription of the dialogs that occured in the chatroom appeared on numerous websites. Re-processing the dialogs recorded before, during and after [...]

In 1999, the swiss population was informed of the existence of the ONYX project – a spying programme instigated by the swiss secret services, whose task is to scan and analyse international satellite traffic (e-mail, fax and telephone communications). The results of N3KROZOFT’s investigation into this national surveillance project where presented to a wide audience [...]

Video remix for a fashion DVD production. c+p 2003

existential action movie

“Vamos a l’arteplaya” (original title: “D’une arteplage l’autre”) is a documentary video exploring the interaction between art, humanity and technology during expo.02, the swiss national exhibition. Beyond its quick and dirty dogma-esthetic, the 20-minute video piece is a kaleidoscope of surreal encounters, exhilarating interviews and stunning performances carried out by agent provocateur Nicolas Goulart. Furthermore, [...]

unearthly beings of rather bellicose and warlike character

«Pourquoi nous aurons des caméras subjectives bio-intégrées»
Video essay on the issue of surveillance and spectacle in magical post-modern societies.

mesmerised by a dreamachine

Zagreb-Geneva, night train.

before youth had broad personal access to digital AV technologies

Movie script found in a garbage can next to the xerox machine !

Arrivés au sol, les téléviseurs implosent avec vigueur et fracas, transférant leur énergie photonique aux badaux enivrés par le spectacle.