Participating artists:

Ralf Baecker (Bremen)
Johannes Franzen (Frankfurt)
Anett Frontzek (Dortmund)
Friederike Gahrmann (Muenster)
Olaf Pyras (Kassel)
Julian Schuster (Breckerfeld)
Stephan US (Muenster)
Jorinde Voigt (Berlin)

Ralf Baecker, The Conversation, Installation, 2009

The installation is made up by a circle of 99 pulling electromagnets that carry three rubber rings (attractors) in the center. Each magnet is functioning autonomically and is able to adjust its power according to the forces in the network. The rubber ring acts as an intermediator between the magnets.

Johannes Franzen, series 1024 x 768, 2004

A machine is generating a new picture every second, randomly varying each pixel color. All pictures of the digital format 1024x768 are thus the subject of Johannes Franzen's work. The number of all possible pictures is large but finite. It comprises all known and dreamt pictures and those lying within or ouside our imagination. All pictures of the Here and Now, from past and future of every perspective and zoom factor.

Anett Frontzek, MARIEN (W) (...)

During an Artist-Residency in 1995/96 the first artist books, paper cuts and drawings dealing with the ground plans of gothic brick cathedrals in Northern Germany were created. Ever since a loose series of works referring to this particular architectural form has emerged. The ordered arrangement of identical elements forms structures that can be understood as a system that is expanding regularly into all four directions. (Anett Frontzek)

Friederike Gahrmann, Teilchendrehung (particle rotation), 2009
objects of different size, MDF, acrylic varnish

The 12 objects of the installation Teilchendrehung seem to move through space with ease. This dynamical impression is due to the fact that the objects, as a consequence of the large number of angles, could easily fall to the next side. In the way as the geometry puts into perspective the weight of the material creating an instability, the monochrome inner faces offer a view through the open spatial structures. The moving of the observer around the objects is actually creating the rotation of the parts in space. (Fiederike Gahrmann)

Olaf Pyras, Neun Wege (Nine Ways/Paths), installation for video and 4+1-channel sound, 2009 

The music "Nine Bells" is by the American composer Tom Johnson. Nine bells that are dispersed over the room are sounded following varying paths. Silence, nothing but the sound of the player's steps, single tones, sound accumulations. By introducing a sand field into the scenario the steps of the player are stored as traces in time. Like a palimpsest the paths are crossing and overwriting each other. They ask for an observability and a predictability of the algorithms of the compsosition.

Julian Schuster, 5 out of 25!, video, 2009

A pack of quadratic cards are dealt out; they are sorted and arranged side by side in an ordered way. Step by step the 25 pieces form a black square; references to works by Carl Andre and of course Kasimir Malewitsch cannot be denied. Each of the elements has a definite position in the ensemble specified by information referring to a coordinate system noted on the rear side. The order in the pile though is different due to random mixing. The respective evolutions towards a complete square and the intermediate states thus differ for each process. Mathematically there are precisley 25!
(25 faculty = 25x24x23x22x...x3x2x1 = 15.511.210.043.330.985.984.000.000)
different sequences. In Julian Schuster's work we see only five of them in a video loop. By opposing the playfullly simple action on one hand and the incredibly large number of possibilities on the other hand this contemporary work reveals the intreaguing contrast between rationality and sensation: The mathematical calculation limiting the number of possibilities remains abstract whereas the sensual perception abides to the imagination of an unlimited and inexhaustible variety. (Willi Otremba)

Stephan US, from the Archive of Nothing

In his multimedia installation "0 , nichts" partly intervening in public space, Stephan US, the founder of the Archive of Nothing, is analyzing the actual value of the zero. In this field investigation he is moving amidst formulae, financial crisis and the nothing. Almost every medium is legitimate. At the end of the calculation the result will be more or less zero anyway.

www.archiv-des-nichts.de

Jorinde Voigt, 2 kussen sich (2 kissing each other) – action process, drawing, 2008

(...) the performative element (is) crucial for Jorinde Voigt - in real action space as in perception space of the drawing. The drawings represent self-referring scores comprising and formulating the action and transformation of mutually interweaved facts and issues. Sometimes in a series, sometimes as monumental single sheets or diptychs this process often displays the character of a scientific test rig. It is irritating to only talk about tests though as the the systematical notations developed by Voigt are actually creating realities. (...) Voigt's test rigs are not necessarily composed of homegenous elements, coming from a certain subject area or concrete field of perception. (...) Basically the systematic iteration and arrangement of such an imaginary scenario create reaction chains of varying shape and allowing for geometric asymmetries as can be found in mathematically constructed fractals (Mandelbrot fractals). (Dr. Andreas Schalhorn)