AR · VR · Stitched Canvases · Vienna 2026
The Works
Installation View · 2026
Via Artivive · 2026
Computer Embroidery · 2026
AR · VR · Physical · Digital
Where it began
STATION ROSE launched one of the first art websites in existence — hosted on The WELL, San Francisco. Gunafa became a landmark of early net art.
Prix Ars Electronica Honorable Mention, 1995 — WWW category, juried by Joichi Ito.
↗ Visit Gunafa on The WELL · 1995Context
12th Century
Chapel, Weinviertel — base for many works since 2025
1982–86
Fashion-music performances with Gary Danner / Die Nervösen Vögel
1988
STATION ROSE founded, Vienna
1991
Gunafa Clubbing — early net art on The WELL, San Francisco
1995
Prix Ars Electronica Honorable Mention — WWW category
2026
Denim de Lux — with archive, with body, with code
Blue Denim is not a neutral material. It is a cultural storage medium — inscribed with layers of meaning accumulated over decades. Roland Barthes would have read it as myth in the double sense: an apparently simple, "natural" fabric that is in reality highly culturally charged.
Denim codes freedom and control simultaneously. Produced through slave labour, toxic dyeing processes, and devastating water consumption — yet it stands for rebellion, democracy, the frontier. These contradictions are structural, woven into the fabric itself.
Denim de Lux is, in STATION ROSE's artistic practice, a Leitmotiv — a generative force that binds image, sound, material, and space into a single creative act. All works emerged from one place: a 12th-century chapel in the Weinviertel, where medieval stone walls and computer-driven embroidery machine share the same room.
What found no interest in 1983 returns today as a multi-dimensional artwork — with archive, with body, with code.