“If you believe the audience that applauds Saup, this beautiful new media future should best begin right away.”
taz.de, Germany, 1998
Read more "°WORKS & EXHIBITIONS"“…a merciless revealer using the means of Art.”
Berliner Zeitung, Germany, 2010
Welcome. I am Michael Saup. Audax viator, et terrestre centrum attinges.
“R111 could be considered the pinnacle of
media art at the turn of the millennium.”Yukiko Shikata, President of International Association of Art Critics Japan, 2024
Read more "°ABOUT"“Sometimes, it felt like the inner workings of the universe made visible. It revolved slowly, then grew in complexity until it seemed, in substance if not style, like a collaboration between da Vinci, Picasso and Stephen Hawking.”
Evening Post, New Zealand, 1998
“If you believe the audience that applauds Saup, this beautiful new media future should best begin right away.”
taz.de, Germany, 1998
Read more "°WORKS & EXHIBITIONS"“…a merciless revealer using the means of Art.”
Berliner Zeitung, Germany, 2010
A live concert with legendary NZ music group From Scratch @fromscratchnz, Strings by Matevz/Laibach @olenc341 and Geiger Counter | 8pm tonight NZST
Read more "ISOTOPE"DUST @ NOWNESS
1000 silicon eyes
Shanghai Power Station of Art
2023.12.15 – 2023.12.21
Read more "硅晶的眼神 | 2023-12"“For dust we are and to data we shall return.”
#319, 4 DUST VR, the microscopic apocalypse
R1 by Oskar Fischinger as a deep data dome derivate
Read more "R1 | RAUMLICHTKUNST | 1927"the art of fossil spamming:
27 tonnes of lignite coal
Read More“For dust we are and to data we shall return.”
#319, DUST VR
Addressing the Digital Power Consumption Crisis
Read more "minimalcarbon | 2022/23"minimal carbon has been selected 2023 by Pioneer, a startup accelerator dedicated to fostering creative and ambitious innovators representing a collective valuation exceeding $1 billion. Backed by Stripe and Marc Andreessen, Pioneer employs an advanced AI-driven process, scraping 100 million domains weekly and narrowing down the top 0.002% [1:50,000] for human evaluation—ultimately identifying minimal carbon as one of its standout innovations.
FROM GEONEMESIS TO NEOGENESIS
Read more "WELT | NOVA KOSMOGRAFIKA | 2022"QUANTUM CINEMA OF PERILOUS PROBABILITY (AND ULTIMATE UNCERTAINTY)
#unescocityofmediaarts
Read more "Trinity Twins | 2022/23"There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Read more "Protected: TRANSCHEMICAL | 2022"for the appreciation of all things micro
a new world atlas inside the deep data dome
carnivorous coronavirus
the art of cartography
Read More
never mine the blocks
Read more "CRYPTOGENESIS | 2018"The Light of the World – The Sugarcoat of Nuclear War
A world map built from white sugar cubes serves as a global canvas documenting the chronological history of nuclear detonations. This work provokes profound reactions and reflections on our technological advancements, their consequences and the impending threat of nuclear warfare and omnicide, the annihilation of all life forms, including humanity.
documentary film about the Fukushima nuclear crisis
with Keibo Oiwa, Japanese author, activist & philosopher
20 min
“Finding a positive thing in a very negative picture is the most difficult, most challenging type of criticism.” Keibo Oiwa
Read Morebefore the nuclear sunrise: the abyss of light
a short reminder by Michael and Laibach
“Their magnum opus. It is spectacular and sublime.”
The Quietus
Read More“Ohne Musik wäre das Leben ein Irrtum | Without music, life would be a mistake”
Friedrich Nietzsche
An immediate humanitarian response to the earthquake and arising
nuclear crisis in Japan, March 2011
Read more "AVATAR | 2010"Saup, on the other hand, with his monumental sculpture “Avatar Incarnation cRdxXPV9GNQ” depicts the daily consumption of energy by the seemingly clean Internet so strikingly and impressively “that it will blow every visitor away and is guaranteed to make them think.”
Donaukurier
How much energy is needed to view one single video on YouTube?
Read more "SCIENCE |How I stole the radioactive
Tree of Half-Life
from Chernobyl
“Radioactive traces will be the heritage to the next generations and not the cultural artifacts.”
Margit Rosen on Pulse8 by Michael Saup, 1992
Read more "HfG Karlsruhe | 1999 – 2005"some notes about my academic life in the late 90s early 00s
we have mutated from collective, connective to corrective.
let us correct you, before it is too late.
A Conversation between Peter Weibel and Michael Saup, Karlsruhe, 2002
Read more "infossil – AD VITAM | 2002"“When people disappear, new systems and ideas can emerge. But i’m not fighting for death, i’m trying to limit it: we humans participate in this evolution for such a short time that we can’t even observe it. there’s a huge play being played on stage and we don’t see any of it. That’s why I would like us to be able to extend this tiny window, these eighty years, a little. So that I can understand a little more of this play.”
Peter Weibel, Karlsruhe, 2002
アートラボ第5回プロスペクト展「R111 —仮想から物質へ」
Read more "R111 | 1999-2001"the tunnel of light – interactive light installation in Frankfurt airport.
Read more "LIGHT AS SKIN | 1997 – 2015"data-tableau with data fossils, C, 1991
Read more "Sonic Shadows | 1991"digital light
Read more "FLICKER | 1987"Read more "Quote"This dream is for you
–John Barry / Leslie Bricusse (1967)
So pay the price
Make one dream come true
You only live twice