changed: - <h1>5VOLTCORE</h1> URL: http://5voltcore.com Artist name: Emanuel Andel Christian Gützer Category: Audiovisual performance Statement: we started to realize that you get really good pictures out of a computer when you short circuit the hardware of a computer in a night of unsuccessful programming and after attacking the computer with a knife. then we tried the same with a cable providing an audio-signal instead of a knife and got the pictures to actually jump to the bass. that was the starting point of our life performance. the video you can find online is a really early one, i'm cutting a more up2date video at the moment because we extended our show with some perforative elements like a massive hammer, a circular saw and fire. Then we built the shockbot because we thought that we don't need to kill the computers, they can actually kill each other on their own. this is the very short history of our work Software: mostly hardware, a small program written in c to control the shockbot.