An image editing program is like an artist’s toolbox. Brushes, magnifying glass, eraser, cardboard knife – there is a digital equivalent for everything. And just like with a real toolbox, there is always space for useful additions, best suited for special tasks. In the digital world, these are often called “plug-ins” and they can give the program completely new functions. This works best if you haven’t already had spend hundreds of euros for your image editing package!
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The merging of nature and technique is a complicated matter and most approaches already fail at the beginning. Usually, technology serves the purpose to help humans to transform nature into culture. So much the better, if it succeeds to combine both in pure harmony. This is the exciting idea of the German artist, Julius Popp (née 1973).
In his installation Bit.Fall (2002-2006) water is the medium between information and the viewer. Two circular flows are combined: on the one hand, the one of nature with the force of gravity. On the other hand, the one of information with its fleeting moment. A software based on a static algorithm filters news from the internet. These news are broken down to keywords and these data is send to the mechanical control of the installation. Water is gravitated to pumps and for fractions of a second hundred and thousands of drops – fluidised as pixels and bits – fall to the ground and create a waterfall of words. The idea of the artist is to display the speed and momentariness of information in modern society. This succeeds in a impressive way and because of this, the installation becomes an effective and beautiful piece of art.
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