in ausschwitz birkenau i photographed the ruins of crematorium iii in the light of the setting sun. the scene reminded me strongly of caspar david friedrich and the fact that hitler and speer planned their buildings in such a way that they would still have made an imposing impression after a thousand years. admittedly, rather terrible associations at that moment.
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…
we will give a concert at the kassette, düsseldorf. we hope to see you there.
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.
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…
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…
yesterday i published two new photographic works here on this website, which are the results of my trips to japan and poland, where i visited hiroshima two years ago and auschwitz two months ago. in my picture montages „realising the incomprehensible“ i put the two places of horror in relation to each other pictorially. in…