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01Two separate halves grow together
Combining art and technology is my superpower for immersive art
Looking back, my working life as a software developer reads like a technical art education tailored perfectly to me, and to immersive art in particular.
Stance and school of thought
Looking is itself a form of positing
For me, art is always also a stance and a school of thought. So that it becomes clear what moves me, what lies behind the art and why this cannot be grasped by merely “looking at it”, I outline here the theory through …
Leaving things out is not the only way
Groups, rhythms and variants within structures
I am interested in complexity, the forming of groups and rhythm. I love hierarchies and complex systems that can be seen and understood from their abstract structure down to the detail. My computational thinking shapes …
A historical hypothesis on the new meaning of art
How human competence is shifting
Technological revolutions do not only change tools. They also change the competences that are regarded as particularly valuable within a society. With every new stage of development, social scarcity shifts. As a result …
It is not only the work that gets standardised
but the entire social staging of being an artist
This text does not attempt to define what art is.
Judgement, too, is a positing
Reflecting on judgement and making it explicit
A frequent reproach levelled at present-day image production is that it reproduces existing aesthetic patterns instead of developing an independent position. Particularly in the context of social media and artificial …
Judgement, too, is a positing
Quick, simple, clear
This template is meant to make assessments more comprehensible. Art is viewed from different perspectives. The jury therefore documents, alongside its assessment, the viewpoints that particularly influence its decision …
The real deception
The greatest illusion in art discourse
The concept of decoration is among the most self-evident concepts in art. Precisely for that reason it is among the least precise. Hardly any word is used more often to classify works, to devalue them or to exclude them …
It raises the bar for its own justification
Is this art or decoration?
Decoration is often distinguished from art by denying it meaning, reflection or interpretive depth. Art is regarded as an object of interpretation and reflection, decoration as mere design whose effect calls for no …
A crisis of moral credibility
Institutions do not act — people do
The cultural sector claims a special moral standing for itself. Hardly any other area of society reflects so intensively on power, justice, participation, diversity and social responsibility. Museums, art associations …
The real crisis lies deeper
A structural problem
The present crisis of many artists' associations, artists' federations and cultural institutions is often described as a problem of new blood, a problem of funding or a consequence of digital change. These explanations …
