Overview
A short portfolioCurriculum 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.
→ Art: As an artist, I am interested in the (non-conscious) interconnection of physical and machine-based perception. To address this field my art operates with contrasts and ambivalences, with contradiction as a productive force.
→ Research: His research focus is on digital culture and knowledge systems and the digital operative space.
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Current / upcoming
︎︎︎ 2023 Group Exhibition – THE VIENNA ART WEEK 2023 EXHIBITION
Artworks
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surfaces – (songs of algorithm)
→ Networked Screen Sculptures
■ 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
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
The QUANTS – A Profile Pictures Choir
→ Digitally signed■ Hello World! We are the entities inhabiting the space between digital realm and human gesture.
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a generic landscape
→ Machine Languages, Experimental Work■ Installation – Interpretations of the Landscape around Bschlabs by an machine fed by the collective non-consciousness of the web / 2022
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The Digital Abilitiy to Perceive Walls
→ Software work■ 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
The Ability to Perceive
■ Niemandsland, Inverse Map, Digital Drawn, Ink-Jet Print / 2021
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Open Water
■ Animation Film, 8 Minutes / 2020-2021
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RESCUE
■ Animated ASMR movies,
Inkjet Distortions, Ink-Jet Prints on wood / 202. 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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Relics from the Internet
■ Robotic drawings of factual objects found on the internet (around 180 cm x 130 cm) / 2018
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THE BUG
→ Machine Languages, Robotic Performance ■ Drawing Machine, Paper Sheets, Video, HD / 2015.
A Robot is drawing endlessly original moments of a dying bug.
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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 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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False Memory Syndrom
→ Collaboration■ Short Documentary, 7 minutes, HD / 2020
Can you document something, that did not happen?
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A landscape of me
→ Collaboration■ 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
■ Scanography, C-Prints, 96cm x 70cm / 2014
Various imprintings on skin
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Desire Lines
■ Scanography (Flatbedscans), C-Prints, mounted on aluminum / 2008
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Anima Materia
■ Scanography, 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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Overview lectures
University Vienna, Department Theater-, Film- und Media Sciences, Althanstrasse 14 (UZA II), 1090 Wien
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 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
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
In publication:
> Der Akt des digitalen Erzählens Walter Benjamin & digital Culture, Hg. Christian Schulte, 2024
Published:
> Clickbait Politics - Im Nebel der Institutionen @ Berliner Gazette, 2016
> Clickbait Politics - Populismus goes Smartphone @ Berliner Gazette, 2016 > Clickbait Politics - Von reddit lernen @ Berliner Gazette, 2016
> Totales Sehen im Netz: Wie Medien mit der visuellen Darstellung des Todes umgehen @ Berliner Gazette, 2015
> (Un)sichtbare Opfer im Syrienkonflikt @ telepolis.de, 2015
> Unsichtbare Politik, multiple Persoenlichkeiten, elektronische Darsteller, in Next Generation, New Ideas, VWH Verlag, 2011