ABOUT

Welcome to my site. I am Michael Saup, artist.

“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

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R111 | 1999-2001

“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

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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.

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