Time's Up is an international group of artists founded in 1996 in Linz on the Danube, Austria, and based in the port area. The "Laboratory for Experimental Situations" (self-definition) develops a wide variety of spatial installations, some of which can be classified as interactive and others as mechanical art. Older works of the group mainly refer to questions, aspects and interactions of human perception, control and biomechanics. The more recent works of the group are characterized by a distinct narrative character. Accordingly, fictional or semi-fictional characters, stories and the design of the environment play a correspondingly important role in their current narrative productions and installations. Time's Up's oeuvre has been presented in Europe, the United States, Africa, Asia and Australia.

Work Series

Time's Up has shown a large number of works as individual objects and as complete environments internationally. The exhibitions fall into four main phases: * Hyperfitness Studio (1997-2004), media machines for the whole body. * Spherical Projection Interface SPIN (2000-2006), premiered at the Ars Electronics Festival 2000 achieved artistic and technical attention. * Sensory Circus (2002-2006). * Since 2007 main works have been around narrative and living environments. The group has been involved in an extensive network of European projects, working closely with groups such as FoAM, M-ITI and ATOL.

Matt Heckert Matt Heckert is an American sound artist, born in 1957. He was involved in Survival Research laboratories in the 1980s before becoming a machine musical artist. Matt Heckert graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1979 with a Bachelor ...

worked closely with the group in the first year, members of the group have worked closely with

Chico MacMurtrie Chico MacMurtrie was born in New Mexico in 1961. He has been awarded four grants from the National Endowment for the Arts for Interdisciplinary Artists. In 1990 he received the San Francisco Bay Guardian Goldie Award. In 1992 MacMurtrie formed A ...

within the Amorphic Robot Works.

Publications

The Anchortronic series of residencies culminated in the release of the same named DVD on the Dutch-German label

Staalplaat Staalplaat is an independent record label that is located in Amsterdam with a separate store in Berlin. Founded in 1982, the company's mission was to create a sound forum for sound artists, who write and perform new and experimental music. Staalpla ...

.Reviews: http://industrial.org/news.php?t=15833, The book "PARN: Physical and Alternate Reality Narratives" was published in 2012 at the end of the project with the same name. The books "Futurish" and "Turtles and Dragons" were created using the

book sprint A book sprint is a method of creating a book collaborative writing, collaboratively in a short period of time, usually three to five days. Book sprints make use of Unconferences, unconference techniques to ensure that a group of content experts un ...

methodology and published in short runs on demand.

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Austrian artist groups and collectives Austrian contemporary artists Austrian installation artists Digital artists Interactive art New media artists Organisations based in Linz Robotic art