Julius Popp (artist)

Julius Popp (* 1973 in Nuremberg ) is a German media artist .

Life

The installation bit.fall on the Grote Markt in the Dutch city of Groningen (2014)

Julius Popp trained as a photographer from 1995 to 1996 . From 1998 to 2005 he studied fine arts at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig , from 2005 to 2009 he was a master student of Astrid Klein . Popp is not included in the New Leipzig School .

He deals with various artistic disciplines, in particular with objects , installations , environments and computer simulations , and in his works he breaks the boundary between art and information technology . One example is his work bit.fall from 2005, in which a machine selects keywords from the Internet and represents them by falling water droplets. Each word is only visible for a fraction of a second, so that an “information waterfall” ( bit .fall ) arises from them .

Popp received numerous awards, including the Robot Choice Award (2003) and the Art Prize of the Leipziger Volkszeitung (2009). In addition to the art world, his works also received attention in scientific circles as contributions to artificial intelligence , such as the Fraunhofer Institute in Bonn and the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge (USA).

Julius Popp lives in Leipzig and New York .

Quote

“The focus of my work, which lies between science and art, is the investigation of the interactions of complex systems. This is done with the help of autonomous machines that I constructed according to logical rules. "

- Julius Popp

Exhibitions (selection)

• 2011 Selected Words , Edith Ruß House for Media Art ( Oldenburg)
• 2010 Transposition , Museum Haus Lange ( Krefeld )
• 2009 Resolution , Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig
• 2009 3rd Moscow Biennale
• 2008 Labyrinto, Mexico
• 2007 Oboro, Montreal
• 2005 D-House, Tokyo
• 2005 Union Gallery, London (with Oliver Kossack, Julia Schmidt)
• 2004 50% reality , Kunstraum B / 2, Leipzig
• 2003 Artbots - The Robot Talent Show , Eyebeam Gallery, New York
• 2002 Paradise , Halle (Saale)
• 2001 Heimat LE ., Organized by the Gallery for Contemporary Art and HGB, Leipzig

Awards (selection)

• 2010: Art Prize of the Adolf Luther Foundation , Krefeld
• 2008: Art Award for Fine Arts of the Academy of the Arts , Berlin
• 2003: Robot Choice Award from the international art exhibition ArtBots
• 2003: Scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation , Bonn
• 2002: Art Prize from Stadtwerke Halle and Leipzig

Web links

• Homepage of Julius Popp
• Julius Popp on kunstaspekte.de
• www.jochenhempel.com
• Lithographs by Julius Popp

Individual evidence

1. ^ Julius Popp: Vita . On: Website of the Dogenhaus Galerie Leipzig (www.dogenhaus.de); Retrieved April 29, 2011.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Ralf Julke: An amazing choice: Julius Popp today gets the LVZ Art Prize . At: Leipziger Internet Zeitung (www.l-iz.de) on November 14, 2009; Retrieved April 29, 2011.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Information about Julius Popp . On: Kunstaspekte.de; Retrieved April 29, 2011.
4. ↑ Julius Popp: room installation bit.fall . On: Young Art Portal ; Retrieved April 30, 2011.
5. ↑ Bit.Fall - Discovery Channel Short Film . Documentation of the Discovery Channel , on Youtube; Video stream , 3:05 minutes, accessed April 30, 2011.
6. ↑ ^{a b} The Bavarian artist Julius Popp is presenting his works at the “Montreal en lumière” festival ( Memento of the original from July 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . On: Website of the Representation of the Free State of Bavaria in Québec (Canada) on March 5, 2007; Retrieved April 30, 2011. 
7. ↑ Julius Popp ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Press release by Galerie Jocelyn Wolff , Paris (France), February 2005, p. 2; PDF file, English, accessed on April 30, 2011.  
8. ^ Edith-Russ-House for Media Art