[ISEA95] Artist Statement: Christian Hübler: Co-realities: Interaction with Bodies of Hybrid Information

Artist Statement

Networks as locations of “the information war” are dataworlds which are shared and continuously constructed by man and machine. These networked multiworlds inform, generate illusions, simulate and construct, hurt and destroy without any direct human activity. The need for “placeholders” in the hyperdimensional webs is emerging. Computer science offers simple agents as a solution for information selection and navigation in virtuality. Do these placeholders have the potential to fabricate themselves since their movement in networks can hardly be controlled, their effectiveness in time cannot be limited, and their number can be continuously increased through copying?

  • Christian Hübler, Austria. Member of the media art group Knowbotic Research, he is a research fellow of the Academy for Media Arts of Köln (Germany) and has had media-art exhibitions in major international shows. He received the Prix Ars Electronica ’93, as well as the Medien Kunstpreis ’95 (ZKM-Siemens).