![]() The playful recombination of elements which seemingly can not be combined leads to the threshold of our existence’s dark side: soothing aspects interlock with displeasing ones, the dead melts with the alive into creatures never seen before, and the depicted scenarios run from microscopic to giant scales. His video installations, objects, slide shows and drawings fascinate through their bodily charisma and their formal clarity. Since 1997, he has been working on a widely ramified, poetic cosmos of imagery. Yves Netzhammer, born in 1970, studied Art at the Zurich College of Art and Design. Last but not least the drawings uncover the contradictions of medially subverted authorship and subjectivity. ![]() They mix different levels of reality by melding living creatures with machines, intertwining objects and animals, interlocking the human and the object, leading the viewer into the interplay of strangeness and identity, genesis, metamorphosis and resemblance. Sometimes these drawings are near to total abstraction, sometimes playful, funny, and nightmarish at the same time. ![]() Like Netzhammer’s work in general, the digital drawings shown in the book and in the exhibition, open up to a widely-ramified cosmos of poetic imagery by showing surreal constellations drawn with the utmost precision and clarity. The exhibition shows the book as an object, as a pocket universe for reflection, chuckling and musing, and will interrelate the book object with the artist’s animations. 357 Digital Drawings’, an artist’s book which exists in an edition of 32 varied front covers and with 3200 permuted sets on 32 printed sheets. The exhibition focuses on Netzhammer’s recent book ‘Concave Thoughts. 118, 10999 BerlinĮxhibition opening with book launch, video screening and miniature electroacoustic quadrophonic sound intervention by Bernd Schurer. #ELEMENTOS VISUALES Y SONOROS PRO#Supported by Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts CouncilĪutomatic Reading (Obfuscation) by Bernd Schurer | N.N.Ī visual parcours with drawings and animationsīERND SCHURER: +3200 – A sonified reading (installation) & 32 Minutes of scattered pieces (live)ĮSPACE DIAPHANES, Dresdener Str. The artistic implementation is based on parametric synthesis (“mapping”) and model-based sonification. To this end, the test subject is exposed to a written libretto while a computer tracks their eye movements and translates them to sound in real time. In an experiment-like situation, we create a perceptual short-circuit that unlocks the otherwise unconcsious processes involved in reading. ![]() The present work reflects on the marvelous feat that is reading. A multitude of processes are involved in making meaning happen, however, most of them are conveniently tucked away from the reader’s conscious experience allowing them to read effortlessly without having to worry about any of the practicalities such as where to place the gaze next and for how long. Bernd Schurer and Titus von der Malsburg Automatic Reading (Obfuscation)ĭuring reading, we rapidly construct meaning from sequences of rather cryptic symbols. In 2017 xCoAx will take place for the first time in Lisbon, in and around the Faculty of Fine Arts, right in the heart of the city center in Chiado. The focus is on the unpredictable overlaps between the chaos and freedom of creativity and the rules and determinism of algorithms, between human nature and machine technology, with the aim to evolve towards new directions in aesthetics. Since 2013, xCoAx has been an occasion for international audiences to meet and exchange ideas, in search of interdisciplinary synergies among computer scientists, artists, media practitioners and theoreticians at the threshold of digital arts and culture. XCoAx is an exploration of the intersection where computational tools and media meet art and culture, in the form of a multi-disciplinary enquiry on aesthetics, computation, communication and the elusive X factor that connects them all. ![]() Happy to announce that Titus von der Malsburg an myself are part of this years’ xCoAx exhibition programme with our research piece Automatic Reading (obfuscation): ![]()
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