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'Die Huldigung des Ante Trstenjak - Hołdowanje Ante Trstenjaka' Digital Collage, 375 x 375 mm, 1994 Color-Laser Print Wooden frame

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Monumente Sollen stehen Oder Nichts / 1991/92

Video documentary in three parts

Video documentary in three parts (1991/92) by german artist group Riefenstahl. The video is explaining the role of monuments for east german society before and after the fall of the wall in Germany.

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'Crash' Mixed Media Object, 505 x 505 mm, 1992 (destroyed in 2010) B/W Laser print, Wood, Zinc Sheet, Steel Sheet, Plaster, Glas, Palm Leaf, Gold metallic powder

This very early mixed media object contains one of my first computer graphics that I created at the end of 1990 and/or beginning of 1991 with Xerox Ventura under GEMDOS before I was able to use Windows and MacOs systems. Shortly before, I had finished my job as a props technician at the theater. The mixed media object clearly shows access to the resources of everyday theater life, such as theater blood and plaster molds.

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'GEIL' / 1997

LED animation for public LED billboards in Leipzig

On the occasion of the Leipzig Book Fair in 1997 (March 19. - March 23.), I made an update of my LED animation 'I'm so GEIL says inge meise' based on the quote by Elfriede Jelinek. The LED billboard in Leipzig had now become larger and shows several colors. The selection of animations shown was curated by Prof. Dieter Daniels. The work is to be understood as an intervention in public space. Back then, the advertising sections of newspapers were full of telephone sex advertisements with small imaginary portraits of women and the Internet became popular with adult content. I used these images as a template for my animation. As a so-called 'Easter egg', in addition to the quote, an IP address was displayed that referred to a fake 'porn website' called 'Inge Meise Chatline'. This website did not show any explicit content but repeated introductory texts over and over again. The subversive thing was - the IP address belonged to the website of the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig (hgb-leipzig.de). So if you accessed the art school's website using your IP address, you would get to the fake porn site. This situation lasted until the summer of 1997, when a new HGB IT employee unknowingly took the website offline. However, the website can be accessed here for documentation purposes:

Website: Inge Meise Chatline

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I am the doorway - Pork / 2000

Ready Made (three preserving jars, containing salt, plastic toy pigs, a pig chop, and a floppy disk with 'TOR' software, labeled with QR code)

“I am the doorway – Pork” was a contribution to the agriEXPOcultura 2000 contest and was awarded with it’s first prize including the exhibition at EXPO 2000 in Hannover.

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I am the doorway - Translation / 1999

Installation (software 'TOR', tattoo (QR code), photography, shirt, glass cabinet, office chair)

Interactive installation at art-gallery 'Villa Kobe', Halle/Saale for Award 'Kunstförderpreis Halle'

Awarded with 3rd prize.

In 1999 the “I am the doorway” series of works had it first appearance at “Translation” Kunstförderpreis der Stadtwerke Halle. This particular work is based on the idea to find an expression for a contemporary tattoo. Artist Bernhard Schipper developed a software (TOR) what is able to encode any sentence into a threedimensional bitmap. Later on Berlin based tattoo artist Tobias Werner from Pain & Ink Dept. did the real job by getting the encoded sentence “I am the doorway” into Bernhard Schippers skin. Since the artist isn’t able to stay 24/7 in an exhibition over weeks – the artwork itself has disappeared by intention. The only proof that the artworks exists: a bloody and stained shirt what the artist was wearing after the tattoo session and a cheap framed photography of the fresh tattoo.

Related website: 1999.dust-dbugger.de