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 doing so i asked myself what one actually sees when standing at these places of remembrance. and how much one actually looks inwards in the process.
‘who owns the machine?’ is a conversation between peter michael witt and the ai system claude (anthropic) about a gap in the current discourse: the public debate on artificial intelligence revolves almost exclusively around threat scenarios – mass unemployment, concentration of power, the erosion of democracy – without ever asking an obvious question: if the…
Peter Michael Witt published at soundcloud the second prelude to the concept album “anti düsseldorf,” an experimental journey from classical sounds to granular destruction and synthesis — a conceptual project that explores the boundaries and the questionable nature of the decades-long hegemony of sequential music.
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…
The work „5 grams“ presents a gold tooth next to gold jewellery in a showcase. it does not address the victim himself, but the coldness of a system that sought profit even in death. the showcase, a symbol of desire and museum distance, makes the unspeakable visible and at the same time unbearable. the gold…
paul christian erntges of hauch records asked peter michael witt to remix a track by the cologne-based ambient duo oehlmann rix. the track „ganymed flyby #2 (oonard krautelectronic remix)“ was released on may 1 on „patronage v“, a compilation album from the label. Patronage V by Oehlmann Rix
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…