ABOUT

Welcome to my site.
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

アートラボ第5回プロスペクト展「R111 —仮想から物質へ」
currently being reconstructed with ZKM, Germany

“For dust we are and to data we shall return.”

#319, 2018

DUST uses virtual reality to represent and investigate the invisible sphere of urban particulate matter

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.

ISOTOPE

A live concert with NZ music group From Scratch

War, Art, Anthropocene: Anticipating Uncertainty – Sept 3 2024

online discussion, September 3 2024, 18:00 Ukraine / 17:00 Germany, co-organized by Pochen Biennale Chemnitz and the Center for Urban History Lviv.

Producer Kai Fischer has passed away | 2024

Radioactive goo goo.

DUST | VR | 2018 – 2025 ▣

DUST

“For dust we are and to data we shall return.”
#319, 2025

exploring the data density of the infossil sky.

Trinity Twins | PhonoLuxMaschine

Die Lange Nacht der PhonoLuxMaschine! Samstag, 27.01. von 18:00 bis 01:00 Uhr in der Kinemathek Karlsruhe

硅晶的眼神 | 2023-12

DUST @ NOWNESS
1000 silicon eyes
Shanghai Power Station of Art
2023.12.15 – 2023.12.21

“For dust we are and to data we shall return.”
#319, 4 DUST VR, the microscopic apocalypse

R1 | RAUMLICHTMUSIK | 1927 – 2023

A documentary-artistic reinterpretation of the Fischingers’ work, realized as a lecture with multi-projection visuals in a planetarium.

Sensor.Community | Bundestag

24 billion datapoints later… awakening from digital slumber?

Artist Talk | newmediagallery

Sunday, August 20, 2023
11:00am PDT (Vancouver) UTC-7
08:00pm CEST (Berlin) UTC+2

Sensor.Community ⧉

sensor.community

is now listed in the
Open Climate Data Landscape
at creativecommons.org

Death by Data – carbon calculus – materialistic media metrics II

It is estimated that one human life is lost prematurely every 4.51 seconds due to exposure to dust. Furthermore, we estimate that one human life is lost prematurely every 7.51 minutes due to the exposure to dust originating from the production, delivery and consumption of digital data.

Surviving the Taliban – Saba Sahar’s Search for Safety

In August 2020, Saba Sahar, an Afghan director, actress, and the country’s first female police officer, survived an assassination attempt. Her family urgently needs support to relocate to a safe home in Canada. I first met her in 2004 in Kabul.