disco snail – an art collective

Posted on December 3, 2017 by admin

Nicole Siggins and I have started an art collective called disco snail! This year we made a short film, Resist Tanz which got into two film festivals in Germany (the Hamburg International Short Film Festival and the Braunschweig International Film Festival), and Ridiculous Love, an installation interactive art project. All our projects will be listed on discosnail.com, posted on our disco_snail instagram, and eventually posted here too! Read More →

Ridiculous Love

Posted on October 1, 2017 by admin

Love is often ridiculous. This participatory art project invites you to share your experiences of how ridiculous love is for you.

Here’s a time lapse video of our installation in September at the Volkspark Friedrichshain in Berlin:

Ridiculous Love from Nicole on Vimeo.

Read about our process below the jump:

Resist Tanz

Posted on April 1, 2017 by admin

A short film by Nicole Siggins and Adina Bogert-O’Brien, March 2017
In an ever tumultuous world, these resistors dance their erratic, playful and furious dance. They are at war, they are fighting, they long to be free. They escape their confines, resist, and are dragged back into slavery. They move, they combat, they dance. They are spiky and strong. They are up against each other. Their conflict becomes a dance. Today is the time to resist, take action, and use the magnetic forces that exist to let yourself dance free in resistance. Resist Tanz.

Selected for the 33rd Hamburg International Short Film Festival(June 2017)
Selected for the 31st Braunschweig International Short FilmFestival (October 2017)

Read more for information about how we made the film.

DIY Guidebook – Parsing OSM data

Posted on January 9, 2015 by admin

I used the Geofabrik package of OpenStreetMap data for Berlin as a basis for several layers in my map. Once I unpackaged the file to a simple .osm, it’s over 700 MB. I did try to open this in QGIS, but… that didn’t work so well. Read More →

DIY Guidebook – Brainstorming and Project Introduction

Posted on January 9, 2015 by admin

Rob and I get many guests in our place in Berlin. We have a pile of guidebooks, museum pamphlets, and other stuff for people to look through while they’re here, but I like to give them a personalized guidebook with stuff I really like in it. Read More →