Exhibition / Groundless – Birds, Models, Plastic Songs is opening at Zwitschermaschine, Berlin

Opening this Friday at 19:00;

Groundless – Birds, Models, Plastic Songs
9–12 January 2026

"Birds, Models & Plastic Songs" brings together three artistic positions by Tristan Wheeler, Jung Hsu, and Özcan Ertek, engaging with questions of cohabitation and adaptation, taking the communicative lives of birds as a shared point of reference. Relationships are explored both across species and between animals and machines: through staged systems, birdsong as a living history, and everyday encounters in the environments we share.

In umbrella, 16.133, @tristan.wheeler presents a folded paper bird that adjusts its mechanical dance in response to a vision model’s shifting focus. @junghsu_ brings her save a dying bird series which examines the pet bird industry and human empathy towards others. In "Birds on the Wire", @ozcanertektransforms anti-bird spikes into a touch-sensitive sound installation, shifting a structure of deterrence into one of shared presence.

Through a camera-driven generative system, an installation with cages, and an interactive sound work, the exhibition asks how coexistence is sensed, shaped, and worked out over time.

#mediaart #zwitschermaschine #interactiveart #newmedia#soundart #installation supported by @leihe.media poster by @tristan.wheeler & @cremebay