Joachim Blank

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Joachim Blank (* 1963 in Aachen ) is a German artist and university professor.

life and work

Joachim Blank trained as a photographer at the Letteschule in Berlin from 1985 to 1986 . He studied at the Free University from 1988 to 1996 . Joachim Blank has been teaching at the University of Leipzig since 1995 and was appointed professor at the University of Graphic and Book Art in Leipzig in 2003. From 2003 to 2006 Blank was Vice Rector for University Development there . Joachim Blank has been honored with numerous awards and exhibits internationally.

The Handshake project emerged from a loose association of media artists called Lux Logis and was founded in 1993 by Barbara Aselmeier, Joachim Blank, Armin Haase and Karl Heinz Jeron. “In Germany it was one of the first communication projects involving the Internet . From 1994 to 1995 Handshake operated the legendary club network, which consisted of public IRC chat terminals in Berlin clubs. At the turn of the year 1994/95, handshaking in the newly founded International City went up. "

Joachim Blank worked with Karl Heinz Jeron from 1996 to 2005 . As Blank & Jeron , they took part in the documenta X in Kassel with the work Without Addresses .

“In Without Addresses , visitors are not given any information about their entire structure. They leave traces that expand into paths and create paths. You enroll. The totality of the visits forms the structure, the route system. The self-writing website has no addresses, no index.

The homepage of the website activates two applications in addition to the first document. The first application opens a simple text entry field in its own window. Here the visitor has the opportunity to start the process of enrolling. The request is made to him or her: "Tell me who you are." The text entered is used as a search pattern for online research on the Internet. An individual HTML page is generated from the result of the research. The visitor leaves a trace in Without Addresses . "

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monoskop Joachim Blank , accessed on December 8, 2018.
  2. ↑ HGB Leipzig Joachim Blank , accessed on December 8, 2018.
  3. ↑ Medienkunstnetz Handshake , accessed on December 8, 2018.
  4. ↑ Thomas Dreher Internationale Stadt Berlin and sero.org (Blank & Jeron) , accessed on December 8, 2018.
  5. ^ Documenta X short guide / Kurzführer Ostfildern 1997, ISBN 3-89322-938-8 , page 34
personal data
SURNAME Blank, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German net artist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen