Manfred Seifert (media artist)
Franz Manfred Seifert, nickname Manfred (* 1953 in Michelstadt ) is a German media artist .
life and work
Seifert studied mediaeval studies with Andreas Franzke from 1975 to 1977, art history from 1975 to 1978 with Siegfried Wichmann and from 1976 to 1981 painting at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe with Emil Schumacher . In 1984 he received an award from Robert Moog for the performance “tenderness to music” at the Ars electronica in Linz.
He is one of the pioneers of early computer art. In 1983 he developed the formula in his "fractal office":
( + b * ) * ( + Var) - * ( ) * ( + Var) for the visual representation of a set of Mandelbrot ,
which resembles a cut through an apple core. His interface- controlled sound machines received initial attention in the ZDF Knoff Hoff Show . The premiere of the performance “heaven's gate” at the Hessian cultural summer in 1999 formed the basis for further Visible Music Happenings , in which a body scanner controls sound and light via light barriers (further development of the Videophon II). In 2005 he received a Moldavian scholarship at the Egon Schiele Art Center in Český Krumlov for his film "Wet Water". From this point onwards, epistemic additional information for the understanding of the work is attached to the back of the erotic painting as historical references for the viewer . Seifert creates the term for this process: erotic iconography . In 2014 he worked in the artist village Schöppingen on the " Kandinsky Project", the possibility of using the Raspberry Pi microcomputer to represent lyrical, non-geometric abstraction so that blind people can touch it. His current project, the ' Zoffany Project', makes it possible, interactively and mouse-controlled, via a virtual pseudo-illusionistic 3D camera pan, to look around freely in a picture like in a gallery room. In the Seifert room, the pictures from the Townley Collection have been replaced by their own work.
A sample demo clip gives a first impression; You can move around interactively within the work via the artist's homepage.
Manfred Seifert has a daughter. He lives and works in Michelstadt and on Crete .
Exhibitions
In addition to numerous exhibitions at home and abroad, publications in catalogs and publications on computer art, he was involved with performances at the Südhessischer Kultursommer.
- Paris 1982 (grands et jeunes d'aujourd'hui)
- Linz 1984 (Ars Electronica)
- Munich 1987 (ZDF)
- Zurich 1989 (Schlossgass Gallery)
- Kassel 1992 ( documenta archive)
- Ceský Krumlov 2006 (Egon Schiele Art Centrum)
- Schöppingen 2014 (artist village)
Images of the artist's work
- Karlsruhe artist 1977 (Badischer Kunstverein)
- Mouse pinball machine and halo 1980 (Engelhorn Foundation)
- grands et jeunes d'aujourd'hui 1982 (Grand Palais)
- Ars electronica 1984 (Brucknerhaus Linz)
- Magazines (TV hearing and seeing 4 | 1988), Inside Multimedia 10 | 1998
- Calendar sheets 1991 (Deutsche Telekom and Deutsche Bundesbahn)
Publications
- Computer Art '88 . ISBN 3-923815-15-8 , p. 94
- The Knoff-Hoff book . 1987, ISBN 3-925334-13-0 , p. 165
- Guide to computer graphics . 1989, ISBN 3-925786-03-1 , p. 161
- Masterpieces of Computer Art . 1988, ISBN 3-924252-05-X , p. 191
- “Computer art fascination 1989” Does computer art exist? ISBN 3-87150-322-3 , p. 194
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Photo: Performance "tenderness set to music"
- ↑ Image examples for the formula
- ↑ Derivation of the formula: growth "cell nucleus"
- ↑ Presentation: visible music “videophon 1”
- ↑ Documentation: visible music “heaven's gate”
- ↑ Online: "The Kandinsky Project"
- ^ The modification of the picture by Johann Zoffany
- ↑ Documentation: Zoffany project “2 pics, 2 rooms”
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Seifert, Manfred |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Seifert, Franz Manfred (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German media artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Michelstadt , Germany |