Francis hungry

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Francis Hunger (* 1976 in Dessau ) is a media artist who works with the means of video installation and net art . He is also active as an author and curator and publishes texts on media theory and history. He lives in Leipzig , Germany.

Life

From 1997 to 2003 he studied media art at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (HGB) in Leipzig and then completed his master class there by 2007. During this time he worked as a DJ and organizer and organized a. a. together with the DJ and artist Cornelia Friederike Müller monthly Der Elektronischen Sonntag , during which unknown electronic musicians performed. From 2005 to 2008 he worked at Hartware Medienkunstverein , Dortmund, as a junior curator. a. with the workshop Satellite Voyeurism (2007) and the exhibition Anna Kournikova Deleted by Memeright Trusted System - Art and Copyright in the Digital Age (in collaboration with the curator Inke Arns ). From 2009 to 2017 he was an artistic assistant for electronic media at the Burg Giebichenstein Art Academy in Halle . Since 2015 he conducts research in the context of an artistic Ph.D. studies at the Bauhaus University Weimar about the shape of the database - The origins of the relational database . In this context, he also published on the criticism of artificial intelligence.

Selected Works

The Setun Conspiracy, 2005

This performance takes place in a room that is characterized by a massive information desk and an absurdly long queue marked by a barricade. The artist provides information about a computer that did not calculate binary, with 0 and 1, but ternary, with −1, 0 and 1 and was supposedly developed in Moscow at the end of the 1950s. Visitors are not allowed to make comments, they are only allowed to ask questions. Whether the story is about reality or fiction is deliberately kept in suspense during the performance by the artist. In 2008, Francis Hunger published the actual background to his media history research in a book entitled Setun - A Research on the Soviet Ternary Computer and published documents translated from Russian into German and English for the first time on the Setun computer .

The woman who never flew into space, 2012

The work fictionalizes the story of the woman who would almost have become the first woman in space had it not been for Valentina Tereshkova chosen for the flight: Valentina Ponomarjewa . A 52-minute radio play tells of the training of the first women's group in the course of the early space program of the USSR and the resistance against women in the high-tech environment of the post-Stalinist era. The installation consists of a round sculpture the size of the Vostok spaceship capsule , the radio play and a series of framed pictures that also appear in the radio play as the choir of the dead spacemen . On the front of the pictures facing the visitors there is black velvet, on the invisible back there is pictures of the spacemen who perished at the time of the exhibition. The research contextualized hunger in the text published in 2013 Stay calm friends - we still have everything ahead of us. The almost space traveler Valentina Ponomarva and the failure of social and personal utopias .

Deep Love Algorithm, 2013

The installation consists of several displays and a video projection. A fictional story is told with the help of dialogues, which are staged like subtitles in silent films, graphic animations and staged photographs. Its protagonists Jan and Margret embark on a journalistic research into the origin of electronic databases while an unhappy love story develops between them.

Exhibitions (selection)

2019

  • WIN WIN. Hall 14, Leipzig

2017

  • Mood swings. Q21 Freiraum Gallery, Vienna
  • The lost utopia. Hall 14, Leipzig
  • A romance with revolution I. ACC Gallery, Weimar and Museum of Nonconformist Art, St. Petersburg

2016

  • European Media Art Festival, Kunstverein Osnabrück, cat.
  • Kingdom Paradise, Municipal Museum, Zittau, cat.

2015

  • Kingdom Paradise, Kunstraum ACC Galerie, Weimar, commission
  • Invisible maneuvers - interpretation reserves and definition areas, Galerie Wedding - space for contemporary art, Berlin

2014

  • Memorial to Cold War Victory, Cooper Union Gallery, New York
  • Search Routines: Narrations of Databases, Kunstraum D21, Leipzig, cat.

2013

  • Monday begins on Saturday, The Bergen Assembly Triennial, Bergen, cat., Commission
  • To give shape to the impatience of freedom, Wuerttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, cat.

2012

  • III. Moscow Biennial for Young Art, Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
  • History has left the building, Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund, solo exhibition, cat., Commission

2010

  • II. Biennial of Young Art, Center for Contemporary Art / Artplay Center, Moscow
  • Amnesia, Kunsthalle Faust, Hanover

Curation (selection)

2018

  • Rosebuds - Hidden Stories of Things. Kunstraum D21, Leipzig, in cooperation with Lena Brüggemann & Fabian Reimann

2014

  • Symposium: Search Routines - Narrations of Databases. Art space D21, Leipzig

2012

  • What is behind us is ahead of us. Color Festival 2012, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation

2010

  • Satellite / Border / Footprint. Workshop, HMKV, Dortmund

2008

  • Unwill, Künstlerhaus Dortmund
  • Anna Kournikova Deleted by Memeright Trusted System - Art and Copyright in the Digital Age, HMKV, Dortmund, in cooperation with Inke Arns

2007

  • Never fail. Jette Rudolph Gallery, Berlin
  • Satellite voyeurism. workshop, HMKV, Dortmund

2006

  • Irational Action Weekend. HMKV, Dortmund
  • How I learned to love RFID - Workshop at HMKV Dortmund

2005

  • Readme 100 - Temporary Software Art Factory, Dortmund City Library, In cooperation with Inke Arns, Olga Goriunova and Alexei Shulgin

Publications

  • Lena Brüggemann, Francis Hunger, Fabian Reimann (eds.): Rosebuds - Hidden Stories of Things. Kunstraum D21, Leipzig, 2018
  • Lena Brüggemann, Francis Hunger: Search Routines - Narrations of Databases. Kunstraum D21, Leipzig, 2015
  • Francis Hunger: Satellite / Border / Footprint, HMKV, Dortmund, 2010
  • Inke Arns, Francis Hunger (eds.): Anna Kournikova Deleted by Memeright Trusted Systems. Kettler, Bönen, 2008
  • Francis Hunger (ed.): SETUN. An inquiry into the Soviet Ternary Computer. Publishing house of the Institute for Book Art Leipzig, Leipzig, 2008
  • Inke Arns, Francis Hunger, Alexei Shulgin, Olga Goriunova (eds.): Readme 100 - Temporary Software Art Factory, BOD, Norderstedt, 2005

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.corneliafriederikemueller.de/the-electronical-sunday/
  2. ↑ https://www.uni-weimar.de/en/art-and-design/studies/doctoral-degree-phd-drdrphil/doctoral-projects/frei-kunst/
  3. ↑ Fabian Saavedra-Lara In: Arns, Inke (ed.): History has left the building. Spector Books 2012, p. 47f.
  4. ^ Francis Hunger (ed.): Setun - A research about the Soviet ternary computer. Institute for Book Art Leipzig, 2008, ISBN 3-932865-48-0
  5. ↑ Fabian Saavedra-Lara In: Arns, Inke (ed.): History has left the building. Spector Books 2012, pp. 45f.
  6. ↑ In: Schwartz, Anding, Meyer (ed.): Gagarin as archive body and memory figure. Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt / Main, 2013, pp. 165–186, https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-653-04005-0
  7. ↑ Ekaterina Degot / David Riff (eds.): Institute of Love and the Lack Thereof. In: Monday Begins on Saturday. Sternberg-Press, 2013, pp. 239-254, ISBN 978-3-943365-74-0
personal data
SURNAME Hungry, Francis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German media artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Dessau