Schirn Kunsthalle

Florian Maisenberg

Digital Exhibition

08 Mar - 29 May 2016

FLORIAN MEISENBERG
Digital Exhibition
8 March - 29 May 2016

Florian Meisenberg shows us his digital foot­print and chal­lenges the viewers to think about their own digital traces and their personal handling of media.

The artist Florian Meisenberg (*1980) has gener­ated a self-portrait from personal digital data that can be viewed online at the SCHIRN home­page. The digital art project conceived exclu­sively for the SCHIRN bears the title “Out of Office (I used to be 'with it', but then they changed what 'it' was. Now what I’m with isn’t 'it', and what’s 'it' seems weird and scary to me.)” (2016).

The self-portrait consists of a GPS-tracked motion and commu­ni­ca­tion profile of the artist and his personal image mate­rial. All of the data are rendered graph­i­cally according to a specific algo­rithm. Viewers can follow Meisenberg via a time­line and track where he is, when he makes an online purchase, how often he uses Google or writes a What­sApp message, and what pictures he takes. What develops is an inti­mate contem­po­rary self-portrait of the artist.
 

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