Are you a happy mesh?

Video series/audiovisual performances/ installation/ object treadmill/print, augmented reality, mixed reality, 2024

Between war and spectacle lies a quiet power. Drones, algorithms, and projected images speak a language of signs that shapes a visual vocabulary and draws us into narratives we barely notice. The aesthetics of light cannot be separated from power: the same spectacle that dazzles can mark borders or instill fear; technology itself is amoral. The real terrain is our thinking—not how they fly, but which stories they anchor in us as they pass overhead.

Machine Royale: Echo Chambers of Our Time

Video installation/object robot surrounded by  a guinea pig fent with black shadowballs. 2025

Machine Royale — Echo Chambers of Our Time explores desire within emerging power structures across digital and physical spaces and their effects on society. Technologies like AI and digital currencies fuel a hunger for efficiency, inflating bubbles whose bursts reshape social and economic life. The work asks how we will navigate dataism while dulled by an incessant flood of communication and information.

Self-awareness at 42 % battery level

Installation/object robot with baroque mirror, 2025

The robot’s gaze into the mirror becomes a quiet allegory of a philosophical question: Can a being without consciousness recognize itself?

In “Self-Awareness at 42% Battery Level,” cold mechanics meets the age-old gesture of self-contemplation. The 42% battery level laconically points to limitation: the moment of reflection is fleeting, temporarily charged, half-conscious—a liminal state between thinking and calculating, being and simulation.

Training Your Best Friend: A Character Test

2 Channel, 8:16 min, loop, experimental Video/installation, tank dog robot, cages, accessoires of tanky leo and trainer, print, 2020

The work examines the co-evolutionary relationship between human and machine. How a co-evolution between human and machine behaves, is reflected of the historical background and future significance of a tank. Will the tank of the future have a completely different form?

LEO MN2033 is a with shepherd dog data trained AI that is both a pet and a protector machine. Its task is to serve as a companion and protector in everyday life. Leo has been assigned to the category of working dog, which is subject to the strict and constantly monitored requirements of the German Electronic Shepherd Dog Association.

Data Me

Video/Installation 2023

Data Me explores post-digital life across nature, humans, and machines. The video installation DataMe: DataHorse questions the “happy” virtual body that labours as a data horse for algorithms, trapped in a produce–consume loop. Referencing the dressage method Rollkur (hyperflexion), it likens our constrained online posture—and narrowed perception—to dressage restraint, while platforms reward productivity and conformity with higher feed rankings or “Diamond Fan” badges. How long do we persist?

DATAME: DATAHORSE

Video/Installation, object, moving rocking horse with screen, yoga mat, 2023

Data Me explores post-digital life across nature, humans, and machines. The video installation DataMe: DataHorse questions the “happy” virtual body that labours as a data horse for algorithms, trapped in a produce–consume loop. Referencing the dressage method Rollkur (hyperflexion), it likens our constrained online posture—and narrowed perception—to dressage restraint, while platforms reward productivity and conformity with higher feed rankings or “Diamond Fan” badges. How long do we persist?

Training Your Best Friend: Smart Home Breeding

Video/Installation, objects playpen with robots and smartphone mobile, 2025

Training Your Best Friend: Smart Home Breeding sketches a speculative vignette of a possible everyday life in which machines are not only assistants but emotional points of reference, wards—or perhaps educators themselves. It remains open whether we appear as users, parents, or pets of these systems.

The installation speculatively explores social behaviour and our relationships with new technologies. It starts from the observation that not only our relationships with one another, but also our ideas of affection, upbringing/breeding, and sociality are increasingly being reshaped by algorithmic systems and digital infrastructures.

Post Eden

Contemporary video art with a critical gaze.

Presented by Gallery Art Claims Impulse, Markgrafenstraße 86, 10969 Berlin
Wed-Sat 12:00 - 18:00, till 30.08.25

At a time when screens have become the dominant lens through which we experience both intimacy and crisis, Post Eden—a contemporary video art exhibition—brings together a selection of powerful new works that question, reframe, and reimagine the current state of human progress. Curated by Gallery Art Claims Impulse, this exhibition presents works by renowned contemporary video artists Anna Anders, Mihai Grecu, Kathrin Hunze, Nadja Verena Marcin, and Jörg Piringer. Rather than prescribing dystopia, Post Eden positions itself in the aftermath of an ideal that never fully materialised. These video works are less concerned with declaring decline than with exploring what emerges in its wake—spaces of friction, beauty, resistance, and transformation.

Anna Anders’ Old Days Clip reflects on the transition from professional identity to a less defined role in later life, questioning the societal invisibility and latent potential of aging through a quiet, poetic lens. Mihai Grecu’s Shockwave renders digital space as both spectacular and unstable—an aesthetic of echo and collapse.

The contributions by Kathrin Hunze, wellNet and Two legs or six: dec-ANT-structing social behavior, dissect patterns of control, cooperation and surveillance through immersive digital choreography. Nadja Verena Marcin's Orphelia and Zero Gravity engage in a kind of feminist myth-making, combining art and philosophy to question the cultural systems that shape identity and desire.

Finally, Jörg Piringer’s Klangfarben des Zufalls explores the intersection of language, algorithm, and chance—creating audiovisual compositions where randomness becomes structure, and structure becomes open to chance.

Together, these works inhabit a liminal space between critique and imagination. They do not simply ask what went wrong, but how contemporary video art can render the complexity of our condition both visible and audible.

Post Eden offers a space of resonance for those seeking not just commentary, but the kind of abstraction and articulation that only art can create.

 Old Days Clip, Anna Anders, 2025, 4,25min

Shockwave, Mihai Grecu, 2022, 4,45 mins.

wellNet, Kathrin Hunze, 2025, 7,06 mins.

Ophelia, Nadja Verena Marcin,  2018, 4,51 mins. (Projection)

Zero Gravity, Nadja Verena Marcin,  2013, 2,04 mins. (Projection)

Klangfarbe des Zufalls, Jörg Piringer, 2025, 3,15 mins

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