ABOUT

Welcome to 1001 SUNS.
I am Michael Saup, artist.

“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

WORKS

Works

“Using VR, a virtual space, artist Michael Saup has constructed an incredible realm of wonder, a world where reality and data merge. There eternity and instant coexist, virtuality and reality coexist, along with miracle and disillusion.”
Liu Chang, Shanghai, 2023

ATOMSPHERE

The Humanhattan Project and the Infossil Sky

From atmosphere (Gr. atmós “vapor” + sphaira “sphere”) and atom (Gr. átomos, “indivisible”), the word atomsphere reverses the poetic sublime of the sky into a radiated, informatic void.

NEWS

News

“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

MAPS

Maps

“The most beautiful and horrifying Dymaxion map yet.”
David McConville, The Buckminster Fuller Institute, 2018

NUCLEAR

Nuclear

remembering the tree of half-life.

“I don’t know what weapons might be used in World War III. But there isn’t any doubt what weapons will be used in World War IV: Stone spears!”
Albert Einstein, 1948

Anthr_0

Anthr0py

civic engagement addressing challenges created by technological or political systems.

minimal carbon ⧉

minimalcarbon.net

addressing the digital power consumption crisis.

Minimal Carbon was selected by Pioneer – backed by Stripe and Marc Andreessen – after an AI-driven review of 100 million domains weekly, placing it in the top 0.002% of innovations.