R u Sirius new paintings on star- and animal game maps at gallery 60six in San Francisco

 

R u Sirius   Jürgen Trautwein presents his new suite of paintings in an eighth exhibition with 60SIX, “R u Sirius”. His practice of using found objects continues as in this series printed vellum maps of game animals and star constellations act as the canvas, both showing through and at times creating resistance with the acrylic paint. Jürgen has an uncanny ability to seemingly effortlessly integrate elements of subjects or materials he confronts in daily life into his paintings. In these paintings the artist’s brush marks subtly or boldly disintegrate and deconstruct. In some pieces the marks from the maps below show through the paint as a curious pattern or code. Trautwein’s deliberate manner allows his color fields and wide brush gestures to interact with the found object substrate and create an unlabored aesthetic, not precious, nor overly worked. The artist says about his paintings, “They are voids of no incident encouraging a state of contemplative meditation in the viewer.” The name of the series married with the outer space maps suggest the absurdity and inevitably of our precarious current relationship with the larger universe and the microscopic world. This angst resides just beneath the surface in our lives and below the artist’s confident gesture.

Reception:  Saturday, February 19 5:00-8:00pm at 455A Valencia, SF CA 94103 MASKS required and vaccination cards will be checked at the door.

60SIX After the off-site opening, view by appointment at 12 Elgin Park San Francisco CA 94103 http://www.gallery60six.com 415-577-4396

 

Strolling under San Francisco Awnings - photowalks

 

Goethe on demand: Bias in technologies - short films 18-28 November 2021

Goethe on Demand: Bias in technologies
Shorts

Language DE, EN
Subtitles EN
Genre Short films
Country Germany, USA
Year 2001 - 2020
Directors Brenda Lien, Veneta Androva, Björn Melhus, Halina Kliem, Jürgen Trautwein, Silvia Nonnenmacher, Vera Sebert, Harun Farocki
Length 84 minutes
FSK  16 Years

In a humorous, playful, experimental, surprising and provocative way, the short films collected here question the use of and our dealings with various forms of technology as well as the effects of deep socio-political structures on algorithms. They provide insights into the machines and present utopian-dystopian views of posthumanist futures.

Brenda Lien’s Call of Comfort (DE 2018, 9 min.) deals with our online privacy, which falls victim to our demand for comfort as well as the promise of an optimized life. AIVA (DE 2020, 13 min.) by Veneta Androva humorously analyzes how “neutral” artificial intelligence can be, deconstructing the myth of the male genius. The experimental science fiction short film by video artist Björn Melhus, SUGAR (DE 2019, 20 min), confronts us with a post-humanist and post-capitalist future in which robots seek a way out of the echo chambers of meaningless selfie monologues left behind by humans. Halina Kliem’s speculative fiction The AIs (DE/USA 2021, 7 min.) is an experimental fiction on learning and unlearning, mind and labor, dynamics of bias, as well as change, and a dialogue between human and non-human entities. The film explores beliefs humans have about themselves, using feedback loops, chaotic systems, and historical-pattern-replicating machines. Meta_Face (USA 2017, 2 min.) by Jürgen Trautwein and Silvia Nonnenmacher reflects on how the major social networks we feed daily with our search queries, status updates, and location services know more about our obsessions and addictions than we do. Vera Seberts and Harun Farocki direct our gaze into the machines: What happens when visual language elements and metatexts are stripped of their context? Liquid Traits of an Image Apparatus (DE/AT, 2019, 7 min.) presents a poetic-experimental choreography of codes and symbols. In numerous juxtapositions, Eye/Machine III (DE, 2003, 25 min.) examines “intelligent” image processing techniques and “operative seeing” as well as the relationship between man, machine and modern warfare: What are the socio-political, but also humanistic consequences when (war) machines block out “surplus” information?   

Some of these films contain graphic scenes of nudity.

Af-No-0, 1 sec movie at ONE_OFF moving image festival, screening in collaboration with 60sec festival, Copenhagen

 

"Born" large scale paintings on cotton and paper

 

Topsy_Turvy_TTASEIN exhibition @Kunstverein Ladenburg, Germany, June/July 21

 

Topsy_Turvy_TTASEIN (fragmented memories of a year like no other) by Nonnenmacher/Trautwein @kvladenburg

an exhibition of mixed media installations and online projects

NIESATT - statement

NIESATT
ist ein sich stetig entwickelndes Zeichnungs und Multimedia-Hybridisierungs-Projekt das im Jahr 2001 begonnen wurde.

NIESATT ist ein Neologismus gebildet aus den Wörtern nie und satt. Wenn NIESATT rückwärts gelesen und das doppelte T durch ein D ersetzt wird, liest man Dasein.

NIESATT untersucht ausgewählte Zeichnungen und ihre digitalen Transformationen. Die Zeichnungen, die zur Transformation auswählt werden, sind nicht im Bereich der Ästhetik und Theorie versiegelt, sondern beziehen sich auf das Leben um uns herum. Sie enthüllen Visionen des menschlichen Dramas auf dem Schlachtfeld der Realität in unserer kommerzialisierten und maschinenabhängigen Welt.
NIESATT sind emotional realistische, zum Nachdenken anregende Zeichnungen, die den Betrachter herausfordern, sein eigenes Verhalten unter der Last der technokratischen Maschine in Frage zu stellen.

Alle Zeichnungen und gedruckten Transformationen werden auf 8,5” x 11” Papierblättern (des dem amerikanischen Equivalents zum DIN A4 Format) ausgeführt, ein Hinweis zur Standardisierung der Kommunikation. Blatt für Blatt, Minute für Minute, der eigenen inneren Stimme folgend, werden einfache, kraftgeladene Strichzeichnungen in einem maschinenähnlichen Rhythmus ausgestossen. Es ist die Absicht makellose, unprätentiöse Zeichnungen zu erstellen, die in einem schnellen und direkten Modus gezeichnet wurden und keine Korrekturen zulassen. Zeichnungen, die nicht funktionieren, landen in einer Recyclingschleife, in der sie spontan mit Stiften, Markern und Farben bearbeitet werden. Einige bleiben über viele Jahre in dieser Schleife und sammeln mehrere Inhaltsebenen. Sie sind wie Zeitkapseln oder Timesheets. Gelegentlich werden Timesheets durch schwarze Malstriche gelöscht, wodurch ihr früherer Inhalt zerstört wird und nur rudimentäre Fragmente sichtbar bleiben.

Für ortsspezifische Wandinstallationen werden ausgewählte NIESATT Zeichnungen geordnet, um neue Beziehungen herzustellen. Sie werden gescannt, manipuliert und vergrößert. Schließlich werden diese neuen Arrangements gedruckt und an die Wand geklebt, um das Bild in seiner Gesamtheit zu zeigen. Die gedruckten Vergrößerungen werden zur pixelisierten Objektivierung der Zeichnungen. Die einzelnen Blätter, die Bausteine ​​der neuen Anordnungen, erscheinen selbst wie Pixels.


NIESATT erforscht weiterhin unaufhörlich die Erfahrung des Selbst in einem sich kontinuierlich entwickelnden Erkundungs- und Befragungsprojekt.


NIESATT

Installationansichten aus der "Gnadenlose_Idylle" Ausstellung @KV NECKAR_ODENWALD, Germany

Are You Sirius? A painting series based on vinyl starmaps and game-animal posters

selected works from a painting project exploring a stroke of paint as such

 

RISE (in a topsy_turvy world) a NIESATT_TTASEIN video project by jtwine.com

 #TTASEIN #NIESATT #2020inReview #contemporaryvideoart #jtwine.com #RiseToPersevere

 #

fragmented memories of a year like no other

NIESATT

TTASEIN

ROOFING - temporary rooftop installations - San Francisco part 2 (the wind as a sculptor)

 

                                                          letter-size paper on roofing felt

ROOFING - temporary rooftop installations in San Francisco's Nob Hill

 

TTASEIN - an exercising being animation project - a year in review

 

TTASEIN in a Topsy_Turvy world 

TTASEIN is a collaborative net-based project by Jurgen Trautwein and Silvia Nonnenmacher. On the creative methodology, the work employs a low-end approach by using social commentary drawings on letter-size paper with pen and ink before converted into .gifs. - A year in review - TTASEIN is Dasein in serious times under serious measures, a constant balancing act between hope and despair, using Art as the raft onto which to climb to save our sanity. 

 

http://www.jtwine.com/020TTASEIN.html

Rolling to the Mission - a trailer to a movie that was never made

 Delivering a role of art work to gallery 60six pop-up space in San Francisco's Mission district.

jtwine aka Jürgen Trautwein - Netartist of the Month November 2020

 

 

NewMediaFest2020 '11 - The 365 Days Diary
 

04 November 2020
 

jtwine aka Jürgen Trautwein - Netartist of the Month November 2020
Already in 2001, at that time living in San Francisco, jtwine joint Wilfried's Netart Cosmos, he participated in all possible JavaMuseum shows and his netbased work is one of a few artists whose entire work is still online - and can therefore called "netart" in the actual sense of the word. So, there are many good reasons to honour this artist - living in two worlds - as "The Netartist of November 2020", and point to the "Internet based art", this way, as an artform which still has the potential to represent an art genre for itself, even if this wide field will be nearly completely erased on 1 January 2021. So, many thanks to j.t.wine for being a compagnion in art over the past 20 years! Read the complete article on - http://retro.newmediafest.org/04-november-2020/ - and review a selection of his netart works.

 

newmediafest/november 2020

"Girls Navels and Dream Boys" advertisement elimination scrolls, acrylic paintings on synthetic cloth

 all between 200-220 cm by 80-100 cm, July-November 2020

Girls navels and dream boys - advertisment elimination scrolls, acrylic on synthetic cloth - studio shot

 

BOMMEL - wool bobble making in progress

diameter aprox seven inches