About Jens Wunderling & Philipp Bosch (D)
Jens Wunderling is a media artist and an interaction designer. His works use both online and physical spaces/environments. Philipp Bosch is a web and mobile developer.
Having worked together on several projects before, Wunderling and Bosch teamed up with designer Patrick Kochlik and started their creative practice SYNTOP to focus on the application of emerging technologies in the context of research, art and design. They are based in Berlin, Germany.
Wunderling is interested in the communication structures found on the Internet and has repeatedly used social media in his works. In the project Default to Public he allows Twitter updates to leak out into the physical space. This happens in the work Tweetleak (2008), where an IP printer is connected to the network and prints selected tweets on a reel of stickers that can then be placed in the physical space. A similar thing happens in the work Tweetscreen (2008), which projects Twitter updates on to the walls of buildings. In both cases, the Twitter profile from which the tweet was taken receives a message on Twitter. This activity breaks into the supposedly intimate sphere of some Twitter users and poses the question of what is considered a private or a public space on the Internet.
Bosch’s work with mobile devices includes the application West ll Ost (2011), which is related to German history and the former division of Berlin. The application tells it’s user in which part of Berlin she / he is – in the former East or West.
More Jens Wunderling online:
www.jenswunderling.com
www.defaulttopublic.net
www.syntop.io
More Philipp Bosch online:
www.pb.io
www.syntop.io