rhein@kassette

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…