today I published a new remix under my artist’s name oonard. the basic samples are taken from a jam session of my band rhein. title: 2022 (die verstoerte republik)*, this refers to the present mental situation in germany. the people in my homeland seem to be very confused about the situation – too much crisis in too short time. and so their favorite word now is: verstört. crazy.
* the disturbed republic
in the beginning – there was improvisation: at a rehearsal in the early 10s of the band rhein, they once tried to improvise krautrock. jo rix and peter michael witt played the same instruments as always – synthesizer and electric guitar – jürgen krause switched to bass guitar, the beat was set by a simple…
two montages of snapshots taken in 2006 with the camera of the motorola razr v3 smartphone. some of them show lost, personal objects in the volksgarten. the work reflects the difficult situation i found myself in at that time – privately and professionally.
with my current media art project #6million, i would like to try to visualise the incomprehensibility of the holocaust and thereby inherently question the cognitive consequences of media technology mediation for our memory work. the idea at the moment is a media installation with 6 million different, photo-realistic, digital-virtual portraits, created by an ai, although…
we will give a concert at the kassette, düsseldorf. we hope to see you there.
i kept asking myself how one could imagine the unimaginable amount of 6 million people killed. but you can visualise it: if you line up 6 million people, you get a human chain of incredible 3,500 kilometres. this corresponds to the distance bordeaux – moscow. my new work tries to show the systematic killing of…
after lengthy deliberations on how to contextualise the 6 million ai-generated portraits so that their relation to mass destruction becomes visible, i finally came up with a solution. with that, the conceptual preparations are complete, now it’s time to programme and find a place for the installation.