The meeting of Stephen Hobbs and Marcus Neustetter as an artist collaborative fuses their interests in urban social change and virtual culture. Over the years their artistic practice as resulted from experimentation with the juxtaposition of hi and lo tech, dead and new media interventions. These experiments manifest in public space, galleries and museums and in the arena of their artist lab the Trinity Session. Taking into consideration the exclusivity of the museum and gallery context current projects are focused on social research and mobile platforms enabling their artistic expression.

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Select projects

2010 _____________________

Public Artwork commission by the City of Johannesburg and the Johannesburg Development Agency for the Oppenheimer Park in collaboration with Sipho Gwala, Johannesburg (H/N)

Public Artwork commission by the eThekwini Municipality for an artwork at the Princess Magogo Stadium in Kwa Mashu, Durban (H/N)

URBANET: Alex/ Zimbabwe/Mozambique – supported by SDC programme of Pro Helvetia Cape Town. Interventions in Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Alexandra Township (H/N)

URBANET: DAKAR II – In partnership with Ker Thiossane and Afropixels 2010, Dakar (H/N)

Bergen residency and exhibition with Stiftelsen 3,14 Gallery, Bek Center, USF and Maia Urstad (H/N)

URBANET Hillbrow/Dakar/Hillbrow presented at Arco 2010 on the African Pavilion hosted by Ker Thiossane (H/N)

2009 _____________________

Stadium-Scape / Ocean-Scape. commissioned public artwork in perspex and adhesive vinyl for the Durban Soccer Stadium, Durban (H/N)

URBANET 80+1 LINZ/JHB artist commission for Ars Electronica’s 80+1 – a journey around the world, Linz, Austria (H/N)

Documentation of Parade – a Project for Linz 2009 Kulturhauptstadt Europa by Peter Kuthan, Austria (H/N)

2008 _____________________

Metro Centre Public Artwork. Site specific installation for the new Metro Centre Visitors Building, Braamfontein (H/N)

Black Out. Public intervention project for Travesia at the CAAM, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas, Canary Islands (H/N)

A Rough-Cut through Alex. Experimental documentary and screening event commissioned by the Austrian Embassy in South Africa, Alexandra (H/N)

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UrbaNET Hillbrow-Dakar-Hillborw – art exhibition at the University of Johannesburg Art Gallery (H/N)

UrbaNET Hillbrow-Dakar-Hillborw – featured on THE COLOUR LINE curated by Odili Donald Odita, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. (H/N)

Joeys, artistic collaboration with Machfeld at the Kunstmedianlabor, Graz, Austria (H/N)

2006_____________________

EMODM (Enjin Museum of Dead Media) – ongoing project page in Enjin Magazine (H/N)

UrbaNET Hillbrow-Dakar-Hillborw – art project at Kër Thiossane, Dakar and in Hillbrow (H/N)

Necessity / Redundancy – artwork at the Dak’Art06 LAB, Dakar (H/N)

BRT Public Artwork. Site Specific Artwork for the Twist Street Bus Rapid Transport  Station, Joubert Park (H/N)

2005_____________________

Large-scale artworks in the reception of the Raphael Penthouse Suites. Sandton (H/N)

Lighting, Hammer, Figleaf, Darkness – sculpture for the David Exhibition. Sandton(H/N)

TangoCity – Locative media artwork. Johannesburg (H/N)

Awaken The Dead -  Dead Media installation and launch of the Enjin Museum of Dead Media ‘EMODM’ – Design Indaba, Cape Town. In partnership with Enjin Technology magazine SA (H/N)

2004_____________________

Station Mir residency: Second stage of artist exchange hosting Station Mir at The Premises, with collaborative project for Playtime video festival, Johannesburg (TS)

2003_____________________

‘Detours R Us’: installation artwork for Learning From* Neue Geselshaft der Bildenden Kunst, Berlin and Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna (TS)

Residency at Station Mir, Hérouville St-Clair, Normandy, France (TS)

M.O.: Trinity Session Artministration, Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg (solo exhibition) (TS)

Transmediale.03 ‘Play Global!’, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany. Curated by Andreas Broekmann (TS)

2002_____________________

SafeFood II: Mr Delivery installation for “New Strategies�, World Summit on Sustainable Development exhibition programme, Johannesburg Art Gallery (catalogue)

SafeFood at BIG Torino, Biennale for Young Art, Turin, Italy (catalogue)

Tricrotic (video installation) for the 16^th Rencontres Video et Art Plastique, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Basse-Normandie, Normandy, France (catalogue).

Ars Electronica Festival 2002, Linz, Austria. Radiotopia participants and E-Lobby “Search� co-ordinators and participants (catalogue)

The Pseudo-Bureaucracy of the Network Neighbourhood, residency and exhibition, Kunstraum, Linz, Austria

To Have and To Hold, Station Propeller experimental art space curated by Paula Paul, Linz, Austria