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Werders Wohnzimmer
My old piece Fear of Machines was shown during a small arts festival in the neighbourhood. The concept was to present art inside peoples’ living rooms – in my case, in the flat I’m living in myself – and was a rather interesting, albeit exhausting experience (I have gained quite some respect for the job of a museum guard).
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The Daniel Libeskind Research Studio
In 1999-2003, Daniel Libeskind held seminars at the HfG Karlsruhe. While the seminars were labeled as “Architecture”, they were actually on learning how to initiate and execute a project; on finding out what you want to do, and finding the best way how to do it. Also, these were very good seminars. Andreas Voigt, Libeskind’s assistant – and, later, guest professor at the HfG – plus several veterans from the seminars have published a book on the Libeskind years. It’s 300 pages in color, showing 40 projects by students, and brilliantly designed by Sahar Aharoni and Adrian Krell. There are a couple of pages on my own project Fear of Machines, and I was even allowed to write one of the forewords. You can buy the book in the ZKM Bookshop.
Theorie / Praxis
Small graphic I made. The text reads: THEORIE (theory) KUNST (art) / PRAXIS (practice) AUTISMUS (autism).
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Kunstbriefe Website
A website I designed for artists & writers Krystyna Damar & Wojciech Sztaba.
Fluxus East Website
I designed a website for the Exhibition “Fluxus East” at the Bethanien in Berlin. The exhibition has been traveling since through several countries in central, eastern & northern Europe. Based on the book & poster design by Lars Wohlnick.
White Space
A web project I started in 2002; a collection of pages on the Internet that show exactly nothing. This project is now more or less historical, as these pages – I used the phrase “white space” to find them via google – were necessary as design elements in the dark age of frame layouts.
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Fear of Machines
This is a project I made for a Daniel Libeskind seminar. Actually, I began working on it for the seminar in 2002, but didn’t finish it until 2004. It is a 1:15 scale model of rooms that relate to a story I wrote, that itself is built around a set of words from Giordano Brunos mnemotechnic vocabulary. The model is made from cardboard, Styrofoam and various bits, and painted with acrylics. The text and more photos can be found at unitropa.org.
Untitled (Vs.)
Another attempt at the fantastic (see the corresponding picture from roughly one year earlier). Sketch in pencil, re-painted in Painter.
Viscosys
“Viscosys” was a rather ambitious project I was involved in a the HfG. Our idea was to create a fake surveillance company, and to present it on a trade fair. We produced an image movie, a website, a dummy for surveillance software, and even a scent which would be spread around our stand on the fair. Unfortunately, the trade fair project did not materialize, and although the image movie was completed, we still have to make it somehow presentable for the web. There is a backup of the German website here; I built in a small script gag on the “Über uns” page, which, on a conceptual level, demonstrates how the entire project would have worked.
The project was concept was mainly written by Philipp Rosenbeck and me, while a lot of people including Frank Halbig and Samuel Röcker helped us with both ideas and the production. Ronald The designed the logo.
Das Buch der Galerie
The study gallery of the PH Ludwigsburg produced a catalogue of their exhibitions and workshops. I provided the typographic grid.