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STWST-TV HUNDESPRENGUNG

Interactive live TV event as part of the programme “Niemand ist sich seiner sicher” (~ “Nobody can be sure of themselves
Ars Electronica 1991, broadcasted live on 3Sat & FS 2 (ORF)

Live TV art via satellite directly to the home and back: for Ars Electronica 1991, the Linz-based artists' association Stadtwerkstatt initiated a live TV play on several simultaneously occurring levels of action. The viewers in front of the screens are left to decide on the life and death of a dog by pressing a button on the telephone keyboard. After the ultimatum has expired, the vast majority of callers agree that the dog should be killed by blasting. The ignition is triggered. While the dog remains unharmed, the spectators in front of the TV sets explode in its place. The next day, the ORF, which is plagued by calls, presents the living dog to the worried public in “Oberösterreich Heute” and informs the population that it was a video trick. The dog is a studio guest on the regional news programme. Of course, this live broadcast of the Upper Austrian regional studio could also have been recorded one day before the actual blasting.

Ars Electronica 1991, broadcasted live on 3Sat & FS 2 (ORF)
Concept “Hundesprengung”: Thomas Lehner
Concept “Niemand ist sich seiner sicher”: Georg Ritter, Thomas Lehner, Wolfgang Lehner, Reinhard Jud & many others
Production & Realisation: STWST-TV Various Artists 91

Participants: “Niemand ist sich seiner sicher” in alphabetical order:

Houchang Allahyari
Reinhard Anderle
Petra Anlanger
Norbert Artner
Baronesse Lana Maria von Dimwald Seebach
Andreas Baumgartner
Domique Bejvl
Gerhard Blöchl
Heinz Brandner
Peter Donke
Gustav Dornetshuber
Wolfgang Dorninger
Selam Ebead
Martina Ebner
Joachim Eckl
Fina Esslinger
Andreas Feichtner
Markus Fischer
Bernhard Frankfurter
Karl Freilinger
Willibald Fuchshumer
Charles Fürth
Stefan Gassner
Hannah Gehart
Caro Geier
Erwin Graf
Dr. Karl Hafner
Peter Hauenschild
Kurt Hennrich
Laurenz Hofstadler
Petra Jeup
Reinhard Jud
Gabi Kepplinger
Gerhard Kohlmair
Silvia Lappi
Dominik Lepuschitz
Thomas Lehner
Wolfgang Lehner
Gertraud Marta Lehner-Harkay
Inge Maria Limbach
Georg Lindorfer
Erwin Loidl
Christian Meixner
Didi Neidhart
Gerhard Neulinger
Bob O'Kane
Gertrude Plöchl
Günther Rainer
Peter u. Paul Reinthaler
Paul Riedl
Elke Rittenschober
Georg Ritter
Ruth Ritter
Helmut Rozmann
Robert Rudelstorfer
Herbert Schager
Valerie Schager
Brigitte Schober
Alf Schwarzlmüller
Peter Sommerfeld
Wolfgang Amadeus Steinmetz
Markus Tremel
Nancy Tüffy
Martin Vlk
Mark Vojca
Gotthard Wagner
Max Zellinger
Rainer Zendron
Monika Zoufal

and many others.

THANKS TO:
ORF Landesstudio OÖ., 3sat, Ars Electronica, Bundesministerium für Landesverteidigung, Bundesministerium für Unterricht und Kunst, Landesregierung Oberösterreich, Stadt Linz, Bundespolizei Linz, Sony, Communication Systems, Schweizer und Pilger, Kapsch, Bergbahnen Hinterstoder, Amiga, Commodore. Offenes Kulturhaus Linz, Elektro Ransmayr, Fischer Film,

and
Markus Binder, Ing. Gernot Gökler, Gottfried Hattinger, Mag. Jürgen Meindl,
Dr. Christine Schöpf, Günter Stockinger, Dr. Ernst Strouhal, Mag. Martin Sturm,
Dr. Herbert Timmermann, Mag. Gitti Vasicek.

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