Alex Wenger

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Alex Wenger (born May 30, 1975 in Baar in the canton of Zug ) is a Swiss multimedia artist and author .

life and work

Wenger's work consists of digital art , multimedia and internet projects in which he examines the possibilities of art to express or change content. In 1996 he won a prize from the u-asta of the University of Freiburg with the first interactive Christmas tree on the web . In 2001 a project with Manuel Odendahl followed with pixel , which deals with the narrativity of the analog-digital transition into the pixel world.

Work on the Aland project at the ZKM in Karlsruhe began in mid-2007 . With Philip Pocock and other group members, a work of art was created for the third Biennale in Seville / Spain . The three philosophers Moses Maimonides, Muhammad Tufail and Federico Lorca talk to each other as virtual people, and their conversations are accompanied by images from Flickr and Google using an automatic image search. This conversation is filmed live by many different cameras like a television interview, whereby some of the cameras only view sections of a few square centimeters and thus only get a very limited view. The resulting images are mixed up again and again and displayed on countless monitors and cell phone displays. Aland also stands for Hypercinema and Post-Montage, for the increasingly self-employed media, computers watch computers. During the project, all the resulting data (conversations of the artificial philosophers and images) could be looked up live on the project website.

Almost at the same time as this work, the book Arduino, Physical Computing for Hobbyists, Designers & Geeks , was published by O'Reilly . It is aimed particularly at all career changers in the field of electronics and microcontrollers, but also offers a solid basis as a reference work for all Arduino users.

In May 2009 the project Flirp was exhibited at the contemporary art ruhr 09 (CAR) / fair for contemporary art, a (sustainability) art object operated autonomously with a solar cell . In 2009 Aland was exhibited in the Nam June Paik Museum in Korea for half a year.

In 2010 the Tannenbaum plant needs attention was created in collaboration with Max-Gerd Retzlaff.

In 2011 the collaboration with Max-Gerd Retzlaff was continued and the work »uoısuǝɯıp ɹǝɥʇo« was created as part of a tender from the ZKM Karlsruhe . The people in the exhibition are filmed using a 3D camera and their outlines are shown again on a transparent surface using laser projection. This consists of fine glass fibers that refract the light so that an impression of free floating in the room is created.

For the exhibition Global Control and Censorship at the ZKM, an installation that makes the data from smartphones that send them visible and visualizes the relationships and location of the people.

Exhibitions / works (selection)

  • 2008: Aland: scopic regimes of uncertainty (with Philip Pocock, Julian Finn, Linus Stolz, Others), Biacs3, Spain
  • 2009: Book: Arduino, Physical Computing for Hobbyists , Designers & Geeks, O'reilly / ISBN 978-3-89721-995-3
  • 2009: flirp , contemporary art ruhr 09
  • 2009: Aland (with Philip Pocock, Julian Finn, Linus Stolz, Others), Nam June Paik Art Center, Korea
  • 2010: Christmas tree needs attention (with Max-Gerd Retzlaff)
  • 2011: »uoısuǝɯıp ɹǝɥʇo« woven light (with Max-Gerd Retzlaff) ZKM, Karlsruhe
  • 2011: »uoısuǝɯıp ɹǝɥʇo« vision. Seeing , Weimar, (with Max-Gerd Retzlaff)
  • 2015 October 3rd, 2015 - July 31st, 2016: Installation DatenSpuren as part of the exhibition GLOBAL CONTROL AND CENSORSHIP at the ZKM, Karlsruhe
  • 2017 04/29/2017 - 06/18/2017: Installation DatenSpuren in the Tallinn Art Hall / Estonia
  • 2017: Installation of data tracks. Nová Synagóga in Žilina, Slovakia.
  • 2018 01/26/2018 - 03/01/2018: Installation DatenSpuren in the gallery Arsenal Bialystok
  • 2018 04/10/2018: Installation of DatenSpuren in Vilnius
  • 2018 08/27/2018 - 10/28/2018: Installation of DatenSpuren in the National Library in Riga

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alex Wenger on kunstaspekte.de
  2. ↑ Aland ( Memento from December 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Arduino - Physical Computing for hobbyists, designers and geeks ( Memento from September 5, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  4. ↑ FLIRP
  5. ↑ a b C.AR 2009 catalog (PDF; 4.1 MB) page 32
  6. ↑ A Christmas tree needs attention
  7. ↑ »uoısuǝɯıp ɹǝɥʇo« ( Memento from December 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Woven light ( Memento from February 13, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  9. ↑ vision. Seeing ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ GLOBALE: GLOBAL CONTROL AND CENSORSHIP | October 03, 2015 to July 31, 2016 | ZKM. Retrieved April 18, 2018 .
  11. ↑ GLOBAL CONTROL AND CENSORSHIP | 04/29/2017 to 06/18/2017 | ZKM. Retrieved April 18, 2018 .
  12. ↑ GLOBAL CONTROL AND CENSORSHIP | October 14, 2017 to December 6, 2017 | ZKM. Retrieved April 18, 2018 .
  13. ↑ GLOBAL CONTROL AND CENSORSHIP | 01/26/2018 to 03/01/2018 | ZKM. Retrieved April 18, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Vilnius Tourism: Energy and Technology Museum | Vilnius Tourist Information Center . In: Vilnius Tourist Information Center . September 2, 2011 ( vilnius-tourism.lt [accessed April 18, 2018]).
  15. ↑ GLOBAL CONTROL AND CENSORSHIP | 08/27/2018 to 10/28/2018 | ZKM. Retrieved April 18, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Wenger, Alex
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss multimedia artist and author
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Baar ZG