Past exhibitions

2003

Yunchul Kim (Korea)
Roman Kirschner (Austria)

"Proliferations"

2009-03-27 - 2009-04-26

Opening Friday March 27th, 18-22

+Workshop March 28th and 29th

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Yunchul Kim (1970) lives and works in Cologne. He studied composition at Chugye University in Seoul and later art at the Academy of Media Art in Cologne. He was artist-in-residence at Schloß Balmoral in Bad Ems and won the Young Artist Price for Media Art of the German state of Nordrhein-Westfalen 2004. His compositions and artworks have feautured in various international contexts, such as the New York Digital Salon, Art Cologne, Transmediale in Berlin, Ars Electronica in Linz, European Media Art Festival in Osnabrück and New Media Arts Exhibition in China.

www.khm.de/~tre

(void)traffic provides an experience of data traffic: a direct, real-time visualisation of the code being executed on a specific server. By monitoring this server it visualizes the ongoing traffic of digital information in a selected area of internet. The code is displayed in waves of activity. The data traffic is sonificated and visualized as a cascade of ASCII poesies thrown up from the floor as a black and white digital organism.

oK (symptom-generator)
"oK" is a pataphysical machine which is not imaginary way but materialized. it is an embodied pataphor of metaphorical imaginary organ.

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Handwritten jpeg data(59KB) of the portrait, originally taken with a digital camera.

Roman Kirschner (1975) lives and works in Cologne and Vienna. He studied philosophy and art history at the University of Vienna and later attended the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. In 2001 he co-founded the art group ”fur” together with Tilman Reiff and Volker Morawe. ”Fur” realized works in the field of multisensory interfaces in computer game context. In his latest works he searches for ways of dealing with the complexities of life using various devices, fluids and much more. His work has been shown internationally and won prices in Germany and Japan.

www.romankirschner.net

Roots
A world with a fluid atmosphere in a glass tank. Dark crystals grow trying to make connections. Constellations develop. They generate sound. And after some time they dissolve into clouds... Dynamic Sculpture, 2005-2006

Billy crossing the Red Sea
„Billy crossing the red sea“ connects Christian mythology and capitalist ubiquity. Its first source  is „Parting of the red sea“ by Julius Schiller from his „Coelum Stellatum Christianum“ 1627. It was a Christian Approach to remap the sky and to install images above our heads.. The second source, Billy, is the most widely sold shelf by a Swedish furnishing house. It can be found in many European households. It is on stock in 27 shops in the US, in 6 stores in the Middle East (Saudi Arabia, Israel, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait) and 200 other stores all over the world except Africa.

„Billy crossing the red sea“ raises questions about cultural imprints. It combines drawing and 3D rendering in one image. Some parts are the result of human imagination and its cultural roots and others are the outcome of automated growth processes. Digital print, 2008.

Still life
The video "Still life“ shows a bunch of white cells in their wild expansion.The camera only catches them for a short period of time. Together they take on shapes and almost become objects. But an inner drive makes them vibrate and flow into new forms. It proposes an new vision: not one of protecting for eterntity but one that opens up to embrace volatility.
„Still life of a metamorphosis“ is an animation that combines stop­trick and morphing. It is filmed with a single camera setting. The audiovisual composition was developed in collaboration with the Flemish sound artist Els Viaene, a specialist in soundscapes and field­recordings.
This parable on unsteadiness is loosely based on the story "The Spiral" by Italo Calvino.

Video 6 min., HD, 2008-2009