Bitnik

!Mediengruppe Bitnik is an artists collective which works on the production and the imparting of mediacultural projects. Bitniks main focus is to investigate digital and analog media and the impact they have on society. This exploratory work is put into practice in artistic exhibitions, interventions in public space and in the development of social software and interfaces. Thereby !Mediengruppe Bitnik aims at creating a field for social and cultural action and collaboration.

«Opera Calling» is an artistic intervention into the cultural system of the Zurich Opera. By means of a audio-bug placed within the auditorium of the local opera house, the outside public is given access to the performances on stage. The performances are retransmitted to the public not through broadcasting, but by telephoning each person in Zurich individually.

«Opera Calling» is the first of three parts of a six-month-long exhibition at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich called «appropriate – manipulate – feed back!». It stands for the «appropriate»-part so to speak. It’s main aim is to explore the usefulness of as an artistic strategy of redirection and criticism.

«Opera Calling» is a project by !Mediengruppe Bitnik and Sven König