Karl Heinz Jeron

Karl Heinz Jeron at work

Karl Heinz Jeron (* 1962 ) is a German artist from Berlin who has been dealing with the information society and new media since the late 1980s.

With Handshake , a net art work and international city realized in the early 1990s with Barbara Aselmeier , Joachim Blank and Armin Haase , "which was probably the most prominent project on the German net scene from 1995–1996", Jeron helped shape the beginnings of net art. Together with Joachim Blank he took part in the documenta X in Kassel as Blank & Jeron with the work Without Addresses .

Karl Heinz Jeron is a member of the German Association of Artists .

Jeron's current work includes sonification , data mapping, animatronic and participatory environments. Using the possibilities of transmodal media aesthetics, he develops the thought experiment as an artistic method. “The data and self-portrayals, information and mailings lead a life of their own, in which the human being does not seem to be the actor, but the infrastructure that he has created.” Sim Gishel , a new development in open source software, is created in 2013 Robot that can sing “ In C ” by Terry Riley through speech synthesis and sound modulation .

With Space Time , Jeron will present a work in 2016 that deals with digital synesthesia and space-time infrastructure. By making the time deviation audible, time can be experienced.

In his post-internet installations on Hypothetical Machines , animatronics recite a chopped up narration from social media. The works throw an unusual perspective on the cultures of datafication .

Works

Fresh Music for Rotten Vegetables (2011)

Fresh Music for Rotten Vegetable

With Fresh Music for Rotten Vegetables , a work from 2011, Karl Heinz Jeron u. a. Represented at the European Art Festival, the Shedhalle Zurich and at the Festival of the Regions 2013. Fresh Music for Rotten Vegetables consists of a series of workshops and a participatory installation with electronic sound generators, it transfers the do-it-yourself principle, which has long been established in the electronics and computer scene, to biodegradable material. “Fresh Music for Rotten Vegetables” transforms “currents directly into sound”. The self-made sound devices are supplied with voltage and controlled by fruit and vegetables. "Because there is a musical talent in each of the rotten apples, in each of the worm-eaten plums." The installation uses vegetables that have been disposed of from the supermarket garbage containers. “The work of art has received a lot of attention and recognition for its unique way of tackling the issues of energy and waste”. The sound installation refers to the concept of aleatoric music, a music based on chance and improvisation, but also to the album title of the Dead Kennedys . “Depending on the condition of the vegetables, the tone, tone and volume are varied. This is how an improvised piece of music is created from the simplest components and a supplement. "

Hermes Opera (2013)

Hermes Opera

"Everyone has a cell phone these days and what used to be a private conversation in a closed room now happens in public spaces." With the "Hermes Opera", a multimedia opera with robots and overheard cell phone calls in 2013, Jeron broadcast the current one in 2013 usual private conversation in public space on stage. Singing robots perform a drama in which "biological constraints subvert the logical structure of language". “What happened there becomes clearer and clearer. It's about this: I know that I've unconsciously been doing it all my life. And what was last year was already there. There just wasn't enough evidence. I just thought, what the hell is going on here? Get on with it first. Whether that's true or not, I don't know. It's our subject, you know that, and it goes on and on. " Excerpt from the libretto, first act, “The Secret”. With the transmission of the "mindless conversation". ubiquitous cell phone calls in a multimedia robot opera, Hermes Oper Karl Heinz Jeron was nominated for the “New Technological Art Award” in 2014. Jeron worked with the composers Robert Jähnert and Christian Rentschler for the setting. “It is named after Hermes, the patron god of rhetoric. The cell phone conversations depict general human situations under the headings secret, sex, guilt, betrayal. In these four acts, the artist stages the recorded conversations and transforms everyday situations into an artistic act. "

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Handshake Website Medienkunstnetz. Retrieved November 30, 2017.

↑ Inke Arns: "Interaction, Participation, Networking". In: Rudolf Frieling and Dieter Daniels (eds.): Medien Kunst Netz , Vienna, New York: Springer 2004, ISBN 3-211-00570-6 , pp. 315–332, here 325.

↑ Künstlerbund Website Künstlerbund. Retrieved November 30, 2017.

^ Gerrit Gohlke, Karl Heinz Jeron: Horde website Brandenburgischer Kunstverein. Retrieved November 30, 2017.

↑ Sim Gishel website. Retrieved November 30, 2017.

^ Space Time website. Retrieved November 30, 2017.

↑ Katharina Gsöllpointner, Ruth Schnell and Romana Karla Schuler (eds.): Digital Synesthesia: A Model for the Aesthetics of Digital Art , Berlin / Boston: DeGruyter, ISBN 978-3-11-045934-0 , p. 21 (Fig. 6).

^ Hypothetical machines website. Retrieved November 30, 2017.

↑ Verena Kuni: Under power. Do-it-yourself - bioelectronics - art . In this. and Dominik Landwehr (ed.): Home Made Bio Electronic Arts, Basel: Christoph Merian Verlag 2013, ISBN 978-3-85616-567-3 , pp. 30-37, here p. 33.

↑ Fresh Music for Rotten Vegetables website Datscha Radio. Retrieved November 30, 2017.

↑ engl. Original: "The artwork has received a lot of attention and credit for it's unique means of tackling issues of energy and waste (...)". In: Thomas Howells, Leane Hayman (Ed.): Experimental Eating , Black Dog Publishing ISBN 978-1-908966-40-7 , p. 171.

↑ Under power ( Memento of the original from December 4, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Website Shedhalle Zurich. Retrieved November 30, 2017. @1@ 2

↑ engl. Original: "Everyone has a mobile phone these days and what was once a private conversation in closed rooms is nowadays happening in the public sphere." In: Liedts-Meesen Foundation (ed.): Update_5. Technology as context . International Art Exhibition, Zebrastaat, New Zebra Ghent 2014, ISBN 978-94-91775-75-8 , p. 32.

↑ engl. Original: "A mindless drama in which biological urges subvert the logical structure of language, appropriately enacted here by two robots that process text with voice synthesizer." Matteo Marangoni: Hermes: Robotic Mobil Phone Romance, website neural.it. Retrieved November 30, 2017.

^ Hermes Oper website by Karl Heinz Jeron. Retrieved November 30, 2017.

↑ ^a ^b Liedts-Meesen Foundation (ed.): Update_5. Technology as context. International Art Exhibition, Zebrastaat, New Zebra Ghent 2014, ISBN 978-94-91775-75-8 , p. 32

↑ A Handy Opera in Four Acts Website Haus der Electronic Künste Basel. Retrieved November 30, 2017.

personal data
SURNAME	Jeron, Karl Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German artist
DATE OF BIRTH	1962

[1] Handshake Website Medienkunstnetz. Retrieved November 30, 2017.

[2] Inke Arns: "Interaction, Participation, Networking". In: Rudolf Frieling and Dieter Daniels (eds.): Medien Kunst Netz , Vienna, New York: Springer 2004, ISBN 3-211-00570-6 , pp. 315–332, here 325.

[3] Künstlerbund Website Künstlerbund. Retrieved November 30, 2017.

[4] Gerrit Gohlke, Karl Heinz Jeron: Horde website Brandenburgischer Kunstverein. Retrieved November 30, 2017.

[5] Sim Gishel website. Retrieved November 30, 2017.

[6] Space Time website. Retrieved November 30, 2017.

[7] Katharina Gsöllpointner, Ruth Schnell and Romana Karla Schuler (eds.): Digital Synesthesia: A Model for the Aesthetics of Digital Art , Berlin / Boston: DeGruyter, ISBN 978-3-11-045934-0 , p. 21 (Fig. 6).

[8] Hypothetical machines website. Retrieved November 30, 2017.

[9] Verena Kuni: Under power. Do-it-yourself - bioelectronics - art . In this. and Dominik Landwehr (ed.): Home Made Bio Electronic Arts, Basel: Christoph Merian Verlag 2013, ISBN 978-3-85616-567-3 , pp. 30-37, here p. 33.

[10] Fresh Music for Rotten Vegetables website Datscha Radio. Retrieved November 30, 2017.

[11] . Original: "The artwork has received a lot of attention and credit for it's unique means of tackling issues of energy and waste (...)". In: Thomas Howells, Leane Hayman (Ed.): Experimental Eating , Black Dog Publishing ISBN 978-1-908966-40-7 , p. 171.