q-news

Exhibitions, lectures and concerts

q-maps

Translating invisible phenomena into conceptual cartographies

MAPS

Maps

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

q-nuclear

Examination of the nuclear mindset

q-works

At the intersection of data, environment, and technological culture

q-dust

DUST VR investigates the intersection of environmental quality, open data, and civic tech.

q-1001suns

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

“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 VR explores human vulnerability and societal impact through immersive data visualization, combining humanistic reflection with participatory engagement in environmental and technological issues

Despite measurable environmental and radiological transformations, public discourse maintains the fiction of atmospheric continuity. The atomsphere remains unacknowledged in legal, ecological, and educational frameworks.

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 | 2018 – 2025 ▣

DUST

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

DUST VR explores human vulnerability and societal impact through immersive data visualization.

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.

DUST VR | New Media Gallery, New Westminster, Canada | 2023

“dust carries wisdom; data captures knowledge” – GodNode “…the twenty first century (is) the century of dust…” – Jussi Parikka

AVATAR | FINALE BERLIN 2023

the art of fossil spamming:
27 tonnes of lignite coal

Collaborative Stream Scape Event | 2023

on May 3, 6-9pm both 30-minute fast-paced episodes of CSSE ( Collaborative Stream Scape Event) will be presented in a bundle for the first time

AVATAR FINALE | 2023

ZUR NACHAHMUNG EMPFOHLEN !

12.05.–16.07. Dienstag – Sonntag 12-20 Uhr
Uferhallen – Uferstraße 8 – 13357 Berlin Wedding

Mit freundlicher Unterstützung der Hans Engelke Energie OHG, Berlin
https://hans-engelke .de

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.

“Life is death in a fleeting disguise.”
† Peter Weibel

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Author: michaelsaup