40 Years of Media and Art Discourse
Here you will find information about 40 years of engagement with media and the possibilities that art can offer. These four decades provide a unique perspective to better understand societal developments from the analog era to global networking.
Digital developments pose a significant challenge for our information society. Many people find the discourse on the media age often unsatisfying. Yet, for me, art remains the only genre capable of abstracting information and thereby providing an external perspective on our information society.
Art derives from the term “artificial” and has the potential to open up a new discourse—especially in the digital world—and bring us closer to a utopia of a fairer information society.
On this page, you will find my works dealing with art and inventions. My areas of activity include:
- New Media, Process Art, and Generative Art
- Criticism of the Internet
- Net Art and Hacking Culture
- The Infolab of the Stadtwerkstatt – What is Information? What opportunities does the transfer of the analog world to digital simulations offer?
Art in the context of nature may often seem unusual. However, a consideration of evolution can open up new perspectives. Art thrives on “not knowing” and the willingness to learn something new. It is shaped by failure and experimentation. Art gives us hope, arises from a longing, and brings us new inventions that make utopias visible.
Here you will find a discourse on contemporary media, materials, and social influences, implemented in exhibitions and experimental lab situations.
Hacking and Secret Labs
Hacking and labs are today central places to develop new ideas and positions in our society. Often this happens behind a “firewall,” on islands, or in protected spaces for creative experiments.
My work with digital machines began in a small workshop (1983) and continued in the Visual Media Lab at the University of Applied Arts (1989), the Kunstlabor (1991), through experimental internet providers like “Silverserver” and “servus.at” (from 1994), the Media Art Lab at the Kunsthaus Graz (2004–2007), and finally the Infolab of the Stadtwerkstatt (2008–2025). This page offers an overview of my engagement with technology and art.
At the beginning and end, the question arises: What is information, and why is it so important in evolution?
Information is the most important asset we have. Without information, there would probably be neither time nor space—it is the core of our existence and the key to connecting our reality with the underlying structures.
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BIO - Exhibitions: https://fax.priv.at/fax.priv.at/bio/bio_e_1.html
More pages : https://codex4art.com, https://thenextlayer.org, https://xav.net, http://newcontext.stwst.at, http://funkfeuer.de, http://kunstlabor.at, http://halfbit.org,
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