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Georg Eckmayr


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Datasets, Compression & Understanding     Films ︎︎︎

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  1. The Viennese Georg Eckmayr is an artist, researcher and lecturer.

    He studied digital art at the class of Peter Weibel under whose supervision he also completed and defended his doctoral thesis on digital images.

  2. Please contact me via one of these platforms below or the email on the CV page.
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Overview



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 «I am turning myself into data! Currently I am working on the project "RAW MATERIAL & DATA GESTURES", dealing with the politics of algorithm-based sensuality.»

Curriculum Vitae 
The Viennese Georg Eckmayr is a multidisciplinary artist, researcher and lecturer. He studied digital art at the class of Peter Weibel under whose supervision he also completed and defended his doctoral thesis on technical images. >> FULL CV

→ Art: My art (media installations & pure digital work), operates with contrasts and ambivalences, with contradiction as a productive force. The focus of my work lies on the entanglement of physical and machine-based realms and its effects on social & identity practices. In many of my works my aesthetic gestures are embedded in scientific & research approaches.
→ Research:
My research explores digital culture with a focus on digital art, as well as the hybrid systems of perception and knowledge shaped by digital technology. I use cross disciplinary approaches incorporating systems, affect, critical theory, feminist epistemology and others combined with a set of artistic methods. >> FULL STATEMENT

Current / upcoming
︎︎︎ Interview with Anika Meier about my artistic approaches
︎︎︎ Ringvorlesung Universität Wien WS 2026 – Critical Appraoches to Artificial Intelligence 
 
Exhibitions
︎︎︎ WHAT A VIEW! / Francisco Carolinum / 16.04. – 02.08. 2026 / Linz, AT

Catalog of works
>> Physcial art objects
>> Digitally signed art objects
>> Writing & Lectures

Artworks (Selection)

endless_song#1

→ Networked sculpture, choir for 6 mobile devices  
■ A ritual machine: How would a group form and interact that communicates wordlessly, organizing itself into a collective presence through triggering individual and autonomous voices of a choir?  / 2025

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gestures – (songs of algorithm)

→ Networked sculpture, artistic research, prints
■ A modular, scale-able monument for mobiles, desktop, or large scale white-cube settings. Various audio-visuals bundled via one smart contract into a modular installation / 2023 – 2026

My networked sculpture surfaces - songs of algorithm is an example of an artwork which is not designed for a specific viewing situation. It is adaptive and scale-able and can be shown within white cube settings but also in any social gathering as long as at least two devices (and the audiovisuals) are present. >> READ MORE
>> LINK: gestures – songs of algorithm
>> LINK: untitled gestures – Hello World! (pt1-4)
>> LINK: Various works from this project

INTERFACE#ef

→ 8K two channel video installation
■ What if, hand & eye substitute the body? #VR #HCI
One work, two pieces, 100 possible owners.
From individual to community!
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>> LINK to the Collection

The Digital Abilitiy to Perceive Walls

→ Software work, perceptive agent
■ Screenvideo showing the artificial intelligence at work. It grants the shark in the pool the ability to perceive borders and react according to it. The shark is programmed in a way, that it recognises obstacles and turns if they appear ahead.>> READ MORE

Open Water

→ Animation film
 ■ Animation Film, 11 Minutes / 2020-2021
▤ 2024 Patterns of Disillusion / Galery 5020 / Salzburg, Austria
▤ 2023 Vienna Artweek exhibition / Vienna, Austria
▤ 2023 Short Waves Festival / Poznań, Poland
▤ 2022 Crossing Europe Film Festival / Linz, Austria
▤ 2022 Short Waves Film Festival / Poznań, Poland
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RESCUE

→ Ink-Jet, 3D modelling, studies on the formative processes
■ Animated ASMR movies, Inkjet Distortions, Ink-Jet Prints on wood.
We shape our environment and thus we shape the behavior of all living and non-living entities on the this planet.
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Is it Me or a Misunderstanding?

→ Machine languages, experimental work
■ Agentic material – The interpretation of a self portrait via an algorithm trained on landscapes.
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they are mine!


→ Machine languages, experimental work
■ Ink-Jet Prints 29x21 cm, Video Loop Full HD / 2017
■ Reconstruction of facial biometric data via a reconstructive machine-learning algorithm. Making a symbolic bid for power.  
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Desire Lines

→ Tactile realms & the machine’s perspective
■ Scanography (Flatbedscans), C-Prints, mounted on aluminum / 2008
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Anima Materia

→ Tactile realms & the machine’s perspective
■ Scanography, Installation, c-prints, 70x96cm, digital compositions, mounted on aluminium / 2006. >> A transformation from body to object. I am becoming a suit...
☆ WINNER Editiorial Award, Vienna, @ KUNSTRAUM NOE, Vienna
▤ shown @ the Saatchi Gallery, London
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Research &
Lectures (Selection)

︎ RAW MATERIAL & DATA GESTURES
(Artistic & Research Project)

Non-conscious extraction of data, resource, labor via affective machines and the rethinking of the subject.

Do we run the machines or do the machines run us?

This project I am currently working on is incorporating aesthetic works and theoretic writing. It is about the automation of the embodied self through a second skin made from data. I am turning myself (and others) into data to reconstruct our bodies, our behavior patterns and our identities from these abstractions.

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︎ 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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︎ Further research projects

>> PLEASE FIND HERE


︎ Academia.edu profile

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︎ Overview lectures


University Vienna, Department Theater-, Film- und Media Sciences, Althanstrasse 14 (UZA II), 1090 Wien LINK
2026S UE Digital Facts, between science, narrative, identity and algorithms
2026S SE Crowd Intelligence, Open Source, Statistical Truth und Maschinelles Lernen aus einer historisch-kritischen Perspektive
2026S VO Medienentwicklungen und Kommunikationsformen
2026S UE Digitale Faktizität zwischen Wissenschaft, Narrativ, Identität und Algorithmen
2025W VO Technik, Wissen, Ästhetik & Deutungsmacht
2025W VI Mediale Strukturen des digitalen Handlungsraums
2025W VO Medienentwicklungen und Kommunikationsformen
2025S PS Proseminar "Medientheorie" - Mediatheory for the Next Society
2024S VO+VI Structures of the Digital Operative Space - Technology, Knowledge, Speech & Interpretative Authority
2023W VO+VI Structures of the Digital Operative Space - Technology, Knowledge, Speech & Interpretative Authority
2023S VO+VI Lecture Media History - The genesis of digital operative space - A media theoretical approach 
2021S UE Multiperspektive - 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
2019S UE Digital Speech Acts: A theory of digital media
2018W 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)

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︎ Recent papers & articles


>> PLEASE FIND PAPERS & ARTICLES HERE


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