Groundless

little bird collages visiting groundless – birds, models & plastic songs exhibition traces from January; fragments and small encounters that stayed with us. "birds, models, plastic songs" brought together three artistic positions by @tristan.wheeler , @junghsu_ , and @ozcanertek reflecting on cohabitation and adaptation. thanks to all the birds who came by, spent time, listened @groundless.group will continue to create, curate, and collaborate collages by Tuna Uysal

Tavern of Mu Exhibition & Performance January 2026 - Berlin Project: @borangngor Production support: @ozcanertek Hosted by @zwitschermashine

Today join us for Tavern of Mu by Boran Güngör on 27.01.2026 evening at Zwistschermaschine. Gather around the table for a sincere experience of conversation, presence, and collective exchange. Drink Rakı, draw, talk, and listen with fellow participants, co-create your own ritual at the table. This is an interactive experience designed to slow down, initiate meaningful dialogue, and connect people from diverse backgrounds in an art gallery. Tavern of Mu is an art mediation project, designed by @borangngor Güngör, initiated by groundless group at Zwitschermaschine. Seats are limited. Register now via the form to secure your spot. Free entrance. Link in bio. @nuevohorizontelibrary

Özcan Ertek – Birds on the Wire – interactive sound installation – Bird spikes, contact mics, MAX, audience, speakers Dreaming of a world where interspecies conflict gives way to cohabitation, the work reimagines bird spikes as a sound artefact. The work speculates on how defensive architecture might be reclaimed by the species it targets—pigeons. The installation diffuses recorded pigeon sounds, reabsorbs them via contact mics, and projects them back into the space—allowing visitors to experience the material as a vessel for sonic exchange. Visitors are also invited to activate new timbres from the spikes, rethinking the boundaries between hostility and cohabitation. “Birds on the Wire” by @ozcanertek was on view at @zwitschermaschine last weekend as part of “Groundless – Birds, Models & Plastic Songs.” photos by @zak_krevitt Media arts collective @groundless.group plays with the media of a changing world.

Tristan Wheeler - umbrella, 16.1333 -generative installation- folded paper - servo actuation - machine vision apparatus (VGG-16 model + camera) This installation takes inspiration from the courtship dances of birds, where features are flaunted through choreographies shaped over evolutionary time. A simplified paper bird uses its folded structure to control how tension spreads, turning sequences of motor movements into expressive gestures. Images of this dance are captured by a vision model ‘observer’. In response, the paper bird refines its choreography, adjusting pose sequences to guide the vision models patterns of focus, shifting its gaze across the scene. Produced within the @newmediaclass_udk at @udkberlin , with supervision from @allesblinkt and @katja.aufleger Special thanks to Nils Kreter and Jonas Nechleba photos by @zak_krevitt #groundless plays with the media of a changing world.

Jung Hsu – Hear Me Out 8-channel sound installation Wood, speakers, 3D prints A recording assemblage combining canary songs with spoken recitations of texts about caged birds. Canaries learn to sing through listening and imitation, yet domestic breeding often isolates them before maturity, leaving humans as their only audience. While humans cannot answer in the bird’s own voice, the canary has long inspired poetry and writing—often marked by melancholy or used as a symbol of freedom. In this work, the canary’s song may never reach other birds, but its voice has been heard by humans and transformed into text. These human-authored words, born from listening, are heard by us today. “Hear Me Out” by @junghsu_ was on view at @zwitschermaschine last weekend as part of “Groundless – Birds, Models & Plastic Songs.” photos by @zak_krevitt Groundless plays with the media of a changing world.

groundless group exhibition #2 at Zwitschermaschine “Please Rate” Please Rate brings together works by Erik Anton Reinhardt and Clemens Schöll & Ortrun Bargholz that reflect on practices of measurement, evaluation, and standardized forms of perception. Taking rating systems, surveys, and feedback interfaces as points of departure, the exhibition examines how subjective experience is increasingly translated into comparable units. Vernissage (23.01.2026 – 18:00-22:00pm) Exhibition (24-26.01.2026 – 12:00-19:00pm) Zwitschermaschine Potsdamer Str. 161, 10783 Berlin Text by @ozcanertek poster. by @_ereinhardt

From the opening of “Groundless – Birds, Models & Plastic Songs.” For birds, plastic song describes the phase when a young bird begins to shape its voice, fragments of future melodies appear, not yet fixed, but already becoming. Just as this exhibition and our collaborations emerged through listening, trial, and response, shaped by how the works and the people around them met in the space. Thank you to everyone who joined us. @groundless.group will continue to curate the Zwitschermaschine program throughout January. Stay tuned for more exhibitions, performances, and encounters.

“Birds on the Wire” is on view this weekend at @zwitschermaschine as part of “Groundless – Birds, Models & Plastic Songs.” Özcan Ertek – Birds on the Wire – interactive sound installation – Bird spikes, contact mics, MAX, audience, speakers Dreaming of a world where interspecies conflict gives way to cohabitation, the work reimagines bird spikes as a sound artefact. The work speculates on how defensive architecture might be reclaimed by the species it targets—pigeons. The installation diffuses recorded pigeon sounds, reabsorbs them via contact mics, and projects them back into the space—allowing visitors to experience the material as a vessel for sonic exchange. Visitors are also invited to activate new timbres from the spikes, rethinking the boundaries between hostility and cohabitation. @ozcanertek Özcan Ertek is a Berlin-based sonic and media artist whose work explores how sound, motion, and material systems shape perception and interaction. Media arts collective @groundless.group plays with the media of a changing world. photo 1, 2 by @cihankucuk_ photo 3 by @abdull4hkilinc

“Hear Me Out” by @junghsu_ is on view at @zwitschermaschine this weekend as part of “Groundless – Birds, Models & Plastic Songs.” Jung Hsu – Hear Me Out 8-channel sound installation Wood, speakers, 3D prints A recording assemblage combining canary songs with spoken recitations of texts about caged birds. Canaries learn to sing through listening and imitation, yet domestic breeding often isolates them before maturity, leaving humans as their only audience. While humans cannot answer in the bird’s own voice, the canary has long inspired poetry and writing, often marked by melancholy or used as a symbol of freedom. In this work, the canary’s song may never reach other birds, but its voice has been heard by humans and transformed into text. These human-authored words, born from listening, are heard by us today. @junghsu_ Jung Hsu is a Taiwanese researcher and new media artist based in Berlin. She attempts to combine interdisciplinary knowledge with artistic research to create heterogeneous encounters. groundless plays with the media of a changing world.

“umbrella, 16.133” by @tristan.wheeler is on view at @zwitschermaschine this weekend as part of “Groundless – Birds, Models & Plastic Songs.” Tristan Wheeler - umbrella, 16.1333 -generative installation- folded paper - servo actuation - machine vision apparatus (VGG-16 model + camera) This installation takes inspiration from the courtship dances of birds, where features are flaunted through choreographies shaped over evolutionary time. A simplified paper bird uses its folded structure to control how tension spreads, turning sequences of motor movements into expressive gestures. Images of this dance are captured by a vision model ‘observer’. In response, the paper bird refines its choreography, adjusting pose sequences to guide the vision models patterns of focus, shifting its gaze across the scene. Produced within the @newmediaclass_udk Berlin, with supervision from Benjamin Maus @allesblinkt and Katja Auftleger @katja.aufleger Special thanks to Nils Kreter and Jonas Nechleba @bleed_akryl @tristan.wheeler is a new media artist based in Berlin exploring machine vision and animal worlds through system-based installations. photo by @realclemensfischer

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", @ozcanertek transforms 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