Belvedere Palace hosted an exhibition on the theme of 100 years of Austrian history. The exhibition was designed by three parties: the walls by an exhibition designer, historic objects by an art curator and paintings and the space between were designed by Art+Com. As part of this process, the Berlin studio installed a 250m long Austrian flag, as a continuous filament running through the space, explaining and commenting on the national history. The flag was extended by weaving 17 media installations into it.

When Berlin’s Museum of Natural History redesigned the permanent exhibition in 2007, they commissioned ART+COM to develop interactive elements to revive the huge dinosaur skeletons in the main hall. Art+Com emerged with media telescopes that showed how one after the other inner organs, muscles, and skin will appear. The animals returned to their natural habitats and started moving, feeding and hunting before the spectators eyes.

Berlin’s National History Museum also commissioned Art+Com to add the historic staircase for the first time as an exhibition hall. Art+Com designed an exhibit that centered around the “Solar System and Cosmos”. For the exhibition’s main piece – a media installation that audio visually depicts the development of the universe – Art+Com made use of the 14m staircase height. From the highest point of the ceiling, a circular projection screen with a diameter of over three metres descends towards the viewers. It shows  in fast motion how the universe developed from the big bang to the present. The voyage through time ends in a flight towards the earth, to Berlin and through the museum’s roof. At its lowest point, the viewers can see themselves in the projection as a live image.

In the beginning, moving chaotically, then evolving to several competing forms that eventually collectively morph into the finished object, the kinetic sculpture creates an artistic visualisation of the process of form-finding. The transitions are realized by 714 metal spheres, hanging from thin steel wires attached to individually-controlled stepper motors and covering the area of six square meters. The animation includes a seven minute long mechatronic narrative.

Art+Com created dynamic poetic mirror installation for the World Expo Shanghai 2010 by Art+Com. One hundred prosthetic hands revolving around their own vertical axis and controlled by individual motors  were arranged in a matrix. The mirrors reflect the beam of a floodlight into the room and onto the wall opposite. They followed a computative dramaturgy of first gliding chaotically along elliptical paths and finally coming together to form the Chinese character for “movement”.