The Alhambra Project (with Lynn Marie Kirby)
The Alhambra Theatre, Russian Hill neighborhood, various locations, San Francisco, CA





A collaboration with Lynn Marie Kirby involving the Russian Hill community in San Francisco. The Alhambra Project was as a neighborhood-wide installation based around the former Alhambra Theatre, now a Crunch Gym, in San Francisco’s Russian Hill. The theater, built in 1926 as a movie palace, was inspired by the original Alhambra Palace in Granada, Spain — an architectural wonder of the Moorish empire and a testament to the coexistence of Muslim, Jewish, and Christian traditions in Europe.

The Alhambra Project combines an archive of neighborhood conversations with a series of video and performance pieces resulting from collaborations with artists from across the globe. Visitors are guided through the neighborhood with a smartphone app that activates the blocks surrounding the former Theater. The project illuminates layered site-specific history, exploring cultural patterning and visions of exoticism, while using the Theatre’s gym conversion as a locus for interrogating the shifting demographics of the neighborhood.

Concept and Realisation: Lynn Marie Kirby & Christoph Steger
Geolocation App Design and Concept: Christoph Steger
Coding: Sam Elie

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Boop Loop
H&R Block Art Space, Kansas City, MO
MPEG/MP3 Digital Deterioration Loop, Gallery Installation at the H&R Block Art Space in Kansas City, MO

Concept and Editing: Christoph Steger
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Wiki Loops for the New Epistemology
The Internet
Exquisite Wikipedia. 
Concept and Editing: Christoph Steger
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Introspection (The Devil, Probably...)
MacBook webcam video feedback experiment. I made my computer look inside itself by pointing a webcam at the screen while recording.

Concept, Video, Editing: Christoph Steger
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East End Dirge
Hackney, London, UK
Slow-mo karaoke video feedback lament (2007 - 2014). 
Concept, Video, Editing: Christoph Steger
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