Kirsten Geisler

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Kirsten Geisler (* 1949 in Berlin ) is a German media artist .

Life

Geisler studied from 1985 to 1989 at the "Gerrit Rietveld Academie" and in 1991 at the " Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten " in Amsterdam. She is a founding member of media @ haarlem , the institute for media arts in Haarlem . Kirsten Geisler lives in Haarlem and Berlin.

Kirsten Geisler in front of Maya Brush

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In her work, Geisler deals with the interface between the real and the virtual world . It addresses how these worlds increasingly flow into one another. Kirsten Geisler develops virtual sculptures with the help of 3D and virtual reality technology. The body, its materiality, its traces and its media presence are the themes that shape and inspire her work. Her work consists exclusively of computer-generated 3D sculptures.

At the beginning there were juxtapositions of real and virtual portraits of women such as “Who are You?”, 1996. Geisler thus took up the socio-political debate about the virtual and the digital and the construction of identity in a digitally networked world. In the works in the "Virtual Beauties" series, 1992–1996, the repertoire of virtual 3-D characters was expanded to include interaction with the viewer. The series addresses the appearance of female ideals of beauty and reflects the beauty craze in a digitized and virtualized society. This was followed by works with full-length, stereotypical female bodies, such as Dream of Beauty, 1997-2000, and "Catwalk I" - "Catwalk II", 2004. These virtual models were created without a photographic model. They are the synthesis of ideal images of a woman as conveyed to us through the media. They correspond to the ideals of the fashion industry and plastic surgery . In "Catwalk II" the figure moves like a model on the catwalk and presents as in a film report from a fashion show.

The further development of this series with the Maya Brush 2011 version overcomes the boundaries between the real world and the virtual world. As an artificial figure, Maya Brush moves in both worlds: For the first time a virtual sculpture is leaving the museum and the art institutions, daring to step into “real” life, into the media public and global communication networks.

Homo Virtualis - Maya Brush

Maya Brush is a virtual photo-realistic sculpture that was created by the artist Kirsten Geisler from 2008 to 2011. Maya Brush consists of bits and bytes. Its name is a composition that refers to the tools with which it was created, a combination of the Maya software (software) and the ZBrush program. Maya Brush is the first virtual beauty - an artificial body - that is based on the human ideal of beauty, but without having been created according to a physical model. As a model, it is the dream of desired media beauty that has become reality. Maya Brush represents all global prefab girls, the standardized and technically designed beauties as propagated by advertising and the media. As a fictional character, Maya moves in the various online and offline worlds. For the first time a virtual sculpture will leave the museum and the art institutions and dare to take the step into life. The media public and the global communication networks will be just as much at home as the museums, to which she keeps returning with her experiences. Since she was born, the whole world has been able to experience Maya's Facebook page as she makes her way into real life and is the first virtual sculpture to conquer the media. With appearances and reports on the Internet in newspapers, magazines, TV reports and YouTube videos. Well-known fashion photographers such as Peter Lindbergh or Karl Lagerfeld work with her as a model.

Works in collections

Her works are in public collections in

Exhibitions

2012

  • Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Masquerade
  • Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden-Rot, Hunters and the Hunted - Insects in Contemporary Art
*Museum – Shoes Or No Shoes – Stone, Antwerpen, SHOES SELECTION n°5
  • Sala de Exposiciones Hospedería Fonseca, Salamanca, COLAPSO. UN ENSAYO SOBRE EL FRACASO Y LA RUPTURA

2011

  • Kumu , Tallinn Capital of Culture: "gateways. Art and networked culture"

2010/2011

  • Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam: Technology Requested

2009

2008

2007

2006

Catalogs

  • “In full bloom”, Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden, 2008
  • “Contour”, Museum Het Prinsenhof, Delft, 2007
  • “ Interface” (PDF; 1.2 MB), Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington, 2007
  • “Dangerous Beauty”, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, 2007
  • “Dutch Installation Art”, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, 2006
  • “The animal in art”, Oldenburg City Museum, 2006
  • “Art-Physical”, Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche, Osnabrück, 2006
  • “Leibhaftig”, Kunstverein Konstanz, 2006
  • “Carrera de Fondo”, Concejeria de Cultura, Junta de Andalucia, 2005
  • “Brides of Frankenstein” , San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, 2005
  • “Summer of Beauty”, Stedelijk Museum , Amsterdam, 2005

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John, Jennifer.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Don't tell me who i am Representing the construction of gender in contemporary art. Amsterdam 2002@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / culturalgenderstudies.zhdk.ch  
  2. ↑ Hansen, Mark BN ( Memento of the original from October 24, 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. Affect as Medium, or the `Digital-Facial-Image '. Journal of Visual Culture 2003; 2; 205 doi : 10.1177 / 14704129030022004 . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / vcu.sagepub.com
  3. ↑ [1] Media Art Network
  4. ↑ Hansen, Mark BN ( Memento of the original from August 18, 2016 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. New Philosophy For New Media. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2004 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / leonardo.info
  5. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from August 18, 2012 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. Infrabodies @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.infrabodies.com
  6. ↑ [2] NIMk Amsterdam
  7. ↑ [3] Facebook
  8. ↑ [4] Wordpress
  9. ↑ Sabine Eckmann, Lutz Koepnick. (PDF; 1.4 MB) WINDOW INTERFACE. Screen Arts and New Media Aesthetics 2, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum / Washington University in St. Louis 2007
personal data
SURNAME Geisler, Kirsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German media artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin