[photo-3d] Information and Invitation : virtual installations

[Thomas Born <tborn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Kunst- und Medienzentrum Adlershof, Kulturamt Treptow



Press- Information and Invitation

Thomas Born
sensorium commune : virtual installations

15. October bis 14. November 2000
Vernissage: Friday, 13. October 2000, 8 pm

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sensorium commune: virtual installations

New works by Thomas Born at Kunst- und Medienzentrum Adlershof, Kulturamt
Treptow
 
 
Since his beginnings in art-work in the late 70s, media-artist Thomas Born
was occupied with the subject of what later in the 80s was to become
"virtual reality", a term coined by Jaron Lanier.
 
Born's latest works in this respect shape the kernel of an exhibition, the
Kunst- und Medienzentrum Adlershof will show. It is dealing with spacing
installations one could call "Sehmaschinen" based on computer-generated
images, transporting the spectator into a 3D-room. This way, this new
exhibition is first of all the consequent continuation of Born's earlier
projects "Hole & Hill" 1985, "Fantomas" 1988 and "Binokulare
Installationen" 1987.
 
Born's installations provide a "sensorium commune" that takes us down into
the primeval mud of perception, forcing us back into the experience of
perception and taking us down to the naivety of our perception file.
 
Our perception comes to it's subjects. Once constitued, the object
appeares as the reason for all our real or possible experiences. Looking at
it from
different angles we will see the objects in different ways. The object
itself is none of these appearances. Leibnitz called it the "Geometral" of
this and all other possible appearances, i.e. the one, all appearances can
be derived from. It is the object seen from nowhere. Therefore the
Geometral itself is invisible.
 
Naturally, access to the objects, the view, always originates somewhere,
yet without including the viewing itself into our perception: here Thomas
Born's works put the finger. The reflexive force of Born's media-art
primarily shows, how much of what we take for perception is invisible and
must be shown. This he does with great consequence, thus making obvious:
virtuality is no exlusive category of the digital technical sector, but
designed within the artistic discussion about problems of space already.
 
Beyond these new works, selected pieces from three decades of media-artistic
production will be shown, documenting a piece of german media-art-history,
here on display for the first time. Media-art, at the beginning of the new
century in it's developments and sources, one will understand in this
graphical and transparent form.
 


for more Informations:

Biographie Thomas Born:

http://www.f5.fhtw-berlin.de/kd/dm/born/vita.pdf

Zur Ausstellung (deutscher Text):

http://www.f5.fhtw-berlin.de/kd/dm/born/einfuehrung.pdf

about the work (engl.):

http://www.f5.fhtw-berlin.de/kd/dm/born/introduction.pdf

Einladungskarte:

http://www.f5.fhtw-berlin.de/kd/dm/born/sensorium-commune.pdf




Kunst- und Medienzentrum Adlershof, Kulturamt Treptow, Dörpfeldstr. 56,
12489 Berlin, 
Tel.: 030/ 677 68 11, fax 030 67 77 68 12
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