Overview
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The Viennese Georg Eckmayr is an artist, researcher and lecturer. He specialises in moving imagery, films and installations in space or in form of coded structures to produce a body of work, coming full circle despite its multi-formity.
>> Artist Statement
#digitalcollage #conceptual art #animation
When did I realise I am an artist? I always found myself surrounded by magically aligning lines, geometric forms of highest tension, overlapping elements which defied Euclidean space. These abstract relations and patterns spoke somehow to me, but nobody else could appreciate them. Today my art, mostly digital collages and illustrations, operate with contrasts and ambivalences, with contradiction as a productive force. I create compositions from visual clichés, narrative structures, scientific fragments and/or (fictitious) social and political claims. I blend these into animated images, films, prints for site specific installations, into NFT collections or into coded structures. My specific view on the world, locating abstracts forms with high tension, helps to composite discrete and heterogenic elements into one single form. These forms are compact, but simultaneously fragile, foreshadowing their falling apart. This ambivalence appears throughout my work, not only on an aesthetic level, but also in my approach to the subjects represented. I aim for balance, but a vulnerable one.
>> Research
My research on digital culture is based on discourse analytic and artistic paractices. Besides theories of digital culture my approach incorporates theories of visual studies, philosophy of technology and epsitemology.
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Artworks – Pure digital
RESCUE – Drwoning by Numbers
This collection is about our interactions with the environment we live in; nature, landscape, life, algorithms, machines. We are in constant interaction with these entities. And these interactions are more and more shaped by numbers. By numbers we drown in.>> LINK to the Collection
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Artworks – Installations
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The Ability to Perceive
Artificial Intelligence, Animationfilm, Ink-Jet Prints / 2021
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Relics from the Internet
Drawings of factual objects found on the internet (around 180 cm x 130 cm) / 2018
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THE BUG
Robotic Performance, Drawing Machine, Paper Sheets, Video, HD / 2015
A Robots is drawing endlessly original moments of a dying bug.
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they are mine!
Ink-Jet Prints 29x21 cm, Video Loop Full HD / 2017 >> Reconstruction of facial biometric data via a reconstructive algorithm.
Making a symbolic bid for power.
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Iconic Landscapes
Inkjet-Print, 140 cmx110 cm / 2015
Non-reversible transformations of the iconic quality of images
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A landscape of me
Video, 9 minutes, HD, C-Prints / 2016
A re-enactment of the ideal subject represented in The Birth of Venus
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Impressions
C-Prints, 96cm x 70cm / 2014
Various imprintings on skin
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Desire Lines
Flatbedscans, C-Prints, mounted on aluminum / 2008
A firm grip.
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Anima Materia
Installation, c-prints, 70x96cm, digital compositions, mounted on aluminium / 2006
A transformation from body to object. I am becoming a suit...
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Research &
Lectures
Homeostasis – The Ability to Perceive Walls
Artificial Intelligence, Experiment, Animationfilm, Ink-Jet Prints / 2020>> Creating a perceptive System. An attepmt to simulate individuality
The questions are: Could individualitybe an effect of interaction?And far more specualtive: could even consciousness be an effect of interaction? Generally: Why do we project human characteristics on non human entities?
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Recent lectures
University Vienna, Department Theater-, Film- und Media Sciences, Althanstrasse 14 (UZA II), 1090 Wien2021S UE Multiperspektiv - Finding digital factual truth, in between science, narratives, identity and algorithms
2020W VO Lecture Media History - The genesis of digital operative space - A media theoretical approach
2020S The Ability to Perceive Walls - Artistic research and artificial intelligence
2019W VO Lecture Media History - The genesis of digital operative space - A media theoretical approach
2019S UE Digital Speech Acts: A theory of digital media
2018W PS Proseminar Mediatheroy - Rethink Media
2018S PS Proseminar Mediatheroy - Rethink Media
University for applied sciences St. Poelten, Department Media and Digital Technologies
2009 - now
Study programmes:
Digital Design (MA)
Digital Media Production (MA)
Digital Media Technologies (MA)
Interactive Technologies (MA)
Media Technology (BA)