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Thomas Mohr →Live search( total items: 2 ) Thomas MohrThomas Mohr (1954, Mainz, Germany) currently lives and works in Amsterdam (The Netherlands). Since the late 1980s, Mohr has been working on a consistent oeuvre of video works and installations in which he systematically and rigorously researches the processes of image generation, and the transformation from perception to experience. His artworks can be situated at the intersection between common media and software; they refer both to conceptual and abstract tendencies in modern art and to automated, computer-generated processes. Thomas Mohr’s earlier works mainly explored abstract imagery; later on, he became fascinated by (digital) photography, basing his newer works on a personal photo archive containing more than 300,000 pictures taken since 1985. Realm 1 Part 1 Thomas Mohr: Realm 1 Part 1 In the long-term project Conditions of Existence Thomas Mohr has built a model for (the visualisatia on of) the processing of incoming images: storing, naming, ordering, structuring, experiencing, sedimentation and erosion. It is a (re)construction of memory, built from 266,144 photographs, taken over a period of 4 years, on different levels of being handled. Realm 1 is the product of a first phase in this research. In this case, the source material is a small sample of an exemplary series of photographs (comparable to samples taken from sediment). Realm 1 (Part 1) is an investigation within the framework of the 4:3 aspect ratio (typical for ‘old’ video and photos), the next parts of the work (Realm 1 (Part 2-4)) investigate the 16:9 aspect ratio (used in high definition video). In the beginning the viewer can still distinguish photos in the graphical images, but the whole doesn’t represent a recognisable event or traceable story anymore. |
