Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau

Name: Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau
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The Artwork as a Living System 19922022

Karin Ohlenschlager, Peter Weibel, Alfred Weidinger

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MIT Press
28 March 2023

History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -

""More than a cabinet of curiosities, more than a terrarium, more than an aquarium""- a captivating look at thirty years of artistic work by the Austrian-French artist duo Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau.

""More than a cabinet of curiosities, more than a terrarium, more than an aquarium""- a captivating look at thirty years of artistic work by the Austrian-French artist duo Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau.

Working at the intersection of natural science, technology, and art, Austrian-French artist duo Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau pioneered the ""Art of Interface""-innovative technical interfaces that enable physical interaction between simulative visual worlds and the world of natural sensory organs. Early on, the pair used algorithms to represent not only forms of the living but also their evolution and growth. Edited by Karin Ohlenschl ger, Peter Weibel, and Alfred Weidinger, this publication in the Leonardo book series brings together key works of the artists since the early 1990s in pictures and text contextualized by renowned international authors- Reinhard Kannonier, Ryszard W. Kluszczynski, Birgit Mersmann, Tomoe Moriyama, Karin Ohlenschl ger, Ingeborg Reichle, and Siegfried Zielinski.

In the artists' installations, which are possible only through interactions with the viewer, devices designed by the artist couple produce novel virtual realities and immersive environments. In ""Portrait on the Fly,"" for instance, a viewer stands in front of an interactive plasma screen, behind which a swarm of thousands of flies is moving. Gradually, the flies settle on the shadowed areas of the projection, thereby collectively reproducing the person's likeness. Works such as these, now almost classics of digital art, open a new horizon in which artworks can function as living systems. As Peter Weibel writes, their work is ""more than a cabinet of curiosities, more than a terrarium, more than an aquarium; it shows mythical creatures, artificial creatures,

and

a so far unseen panorama of imagination and technical ingenuity.""

By: Karin Ohlenschlager, Peter Weibel
Edited by: Alfred Weidinger
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm,
Weight: 567g
ISBN: 9780262048156
ISBN 10: 0262048159
Pages: 300
Publication Date: 28 March 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Karin Ohlenschl ger was a curator, art critic, and the artistic director of LABoral Centro de Arte y Creaci n Industrial in Gijon, Spain. Peter Weibel was an artist, theorist, musician, curator, and educator. He was artistic director and CEO of the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany. Alfred Weidinger is curator and writer, and the managing director of O Landes-Kultur GmbH in Linz, Austria, and the former director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig, Germany.