DIGITAL WORKS 2010 - PRESENT
TRANSFORMER
An analog work turns into an nft by morphing into the digital realm
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Transformer video
BEYOND THE WALL
Multimedia project built from video-stills of military sites at the Berlin Wall, changed into watercolor-like images
LINDENHOTEL
Digital Models for an installation at the former Stasi-prison in Potsdam.
Former inmates were projected on to the walls of their former cells, talking about their experiencces.
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Three video portraits
Lindenhotel installation
SCHLOSSZWERG / CASTLE GNOME
A virtual monument on Berlin’s Palace Square
Installation at Sala Belleartes, Caceres, 2010. Curated by Marce Solis.
The project is made up of Facebook pages under a fake name – Schloss Zwerg (Castle Gnome)
Related to the project above: Article in German about another fake name turned into a graffiti tag by Stefan Roloff in 1971 – OTTO BUFONTO
Two virtual-monument projects for those who have Facebook
An interactive page on which virtual monuments can be built on Berlin’s Castle Square
Castle Gnome’s page
DIGITAL WORKS 2000 - 2010
SO INTO YOU
Real and artificial faces are morphed into each other.
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DIGITAL WORKS 1995 - 2005
WHEN 6 IS 9
This project was created on my first computer from 1995 on. I composited photographic portraits I took of friends with a Fuji 6×7 camera at two different times, once inside their homes and the again in the same position outside in a public place. My aim was to expand the time-related limitation of photography (where every picture can only be taken within the split part of a second) to hours and sometimes weeks. Through the process they received qualities of paintings which are created over extended periods of time. Check a selection of the series here:
Portraits from the When 6 is 9 photo-series merge. Music by FJ Krüger and Johannes Roloff
DIGITAL WORKS 1990 - 2000
FIREBAL - SERIES NO 2
In 1994 I still didn’t own a computer. I created a second series of FIREBALL images in Photoshop with the assistance of computer-operator Ernest Wertheim.
Differently from my first FIREBALL series I didn’t exclusively use found pictures but also some of my own photographs.
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Fireball series no. 1
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RED ORCHESTRA
Selection of stills from the documentary film „Red Orchestra“ – Typing and distributing leaflets via mail
Prinz Albrecht Strasse 8 – Morphs created from Gestapo Identification photos. Special effects by Willi Wirz and Stefan Roloff, Music by Martin Rev
DIGITAL WORKS 1980 - 1990
BIG FIRE
BIG FIRE (see detailed views below) is my first digital video, created on an Images II paint-system at New York Institute of Technology in 1984. I zoomed into the eye of a motorcycle-rider on my oil and tempera painting Polish Rider. Inside the motorcyclist’s eye I found an architectural landscape. Accidentally I had discovered the space beyond the painting, the one that’s only visible when you’re inside the painting itself. A description of this process can be found here.
Re-construction of process:
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„Big Fire“ video
FIREBALL
Technology was evolving at a rapid pace. A year later, in 1985, I was able to wrap the BIG FIRE around the surface of a sphere, using a Mirage system. Today this seems normal but back then I felt I had entered some sort of sci-fi-related future. I called the resulting image Fireball.
Jim O’Rourke added the sound to this video in 2004:
FIREBALL - SERIES NO 1
A year later I began to create the FIREBALL series, digital Polaroids on a Quantel paint-box, an early predecessor of Photoshop. They combine FIREBALL, the depiction of an environmentally destroyed planet, with scenes of everyday-life.
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