Reclaimed Beauty
This work explores the concept of beauty through the lens of the Greatest Common Divisor (GCD) algorithm, using discarded wooden boards found on the streets.
Hypothetical Machines
Enactments of social media content These hypothetical machines are present but not quite legible. They exist in a state of potentiality. They are informed by the digital even when not in digital format, they are shaped by a sense of data excess and data vulnerability. They are about thought-experiments and speculative enactements. Things Are Not…
Optimize
The Optimize machine is outfitted with an “activity tracker”, an electronic device that generates data from the machine’s motions, displaying calorie consumption. The tracker data is used for a soundscape.
#me
One year long every day a new video with animatronics and postings tagged with #me. identity construction through social media #me mimicks the conditions of social media. This work does not answer the multiplicity of identities, but takes up everything in its infinite soliloquy. Animatronics recite content from social network platforms, hinting at the role…
Nervous Field
As a mean of measure, electric field sensing tells us about a strange and invisible physical world.
Paint By Numbers
“Paint By Numbers” is about serendipity. It deals with the accident of finding something good or useful while not specifically searching for it.
Sim Gishel
Sim Gishel is a mulitmedia robot. He sings and dances to become a popstar.
When Plants Sing
Wherever electric current exists, the magnetic field is also induced. This means that plants as all living organisms, which utilize electric current in their biology emit weak electromagnetic fields. This installation makes use of a noncontact method for measuring electric fields for the sonification of the plants. I hear the buzz of the little world…
Wind Park Drone
Wind Park Drone is about the sound of wind turbines and guided tours to discover the versatile and interesting sounds.
Hermes Opera
A multimedia opera with robots and overheard mobile conversations in four acts. “I’m sitting in the train. Where are you?” Everyone has a mobile phone these days and what was once a conversation in closed rooms is nowadays happening in the public sphere. The mindless phone monologues in busses and trains have irritated the German…
Love of Things
Karl Heinz Jeron collects carelessly discarded objects while walking through the city. With minimal electronic circuits he makes these objects sound. He has been inspired by the text Supernatural Apparitions and Domestic Life in Japan by Kazuhiko Komatsu.There he describes the concept of Ushirometasa. “Although it has largely been forgotten since disposability became the…
Fresh Music For Rotten Vegetables
Workshop and participatory installation with DIY audio devices. The circuits are powered and controlled by fruits and vegetables. The participatory and exciting installation of media artist Karl Heinz Jeron draws attention to a further aspect of our dealing with resources: In supermarkets and markets, the artist asks for overripe fruit and vegetables that are usually…
Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee
Beuys remake. It combines the following works by Beuys Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee and Auskehren.
Water Music
Tiny self developed robots play Alla Hornpipe from the Water Music by Georg Friedrich Händel.
XOR
I conduct teach-ins for the public. A teach-in is a once popular form of an intensive teaching, discussion and information event, which has fallen into oblivion during recent years. It developed in the context of the political movements of the 1960s and served as an instrument to point out grievances, and to develop possibilities of…