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°ABOUT
Welcome. I am Michael Saup.
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
ORBIT AT
ARS ELECTRONICA
SEPT 6 – 10 2018
Error – the Art of Imperfection
Location: Linz, Austria
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Mushroom Clouds in Paradise and the Nuclear Zen
On the occasion of the anniversary of the nuclear catastrophe in Chernobyl, two documentary films on the topic of nuclear dangers were shown in the Zeiss-Großplanetarium in Berlin.
ORBIS LUMEN in Köln
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VOR SONNEN-AUFGANG at Mitte Media Festival
Samstag, 21.4. von 18-20 Uhr
GALERIE FATA MORGANA . TORSTRAßE 170 . 10115 . BERLIN . DE
NUCLEAR ZEN
AT PLANETARIUM BERLIN
Freitag, 20. April 2018, 19:30 Uhr
Zeiss-Großplanetarium, Prenzlauer Allee 80, 10405 Berlin
AT PLANETARIUM BERLIN"
AVATAR in Bonn
Eröffnung: Mittwoch, 18. April 2018, 18 Uhr
Laufzeit: 19.4.-10.6.2018
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Orbis Lumen
at Luminale Frankfurt
2018
18.–23. März 2018
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2018"
Lecture at HLRS
High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart
Read more "Lecture at HLRS"ETF! awarded as best international exhibition of 2017 in Chile
by the Chilean Circle of Art Critics.
Read more "ETF! awarded as best international exhibition of 2017 in Chile"Orbis Lumen | 2017/18 | PREMIERE AT CYNETART HELLERAU
Premiere at CYNETART Hellerau, Germany
A world matrix built from over 44,000 industrial sugar cubes.
Some notes on sugar and the evolution of industrial capitalism | 2017
Written by Peter Machen
Read more "Some notes on sugar and the evolution of industrial capitalism | 2017"NUCLEAR ZEN
AT URANIUM FILM FESTIVAL
Thursday, Oct 12 2017, 20.00 – 22.00 pm
KINO IN DER KULTURBRAUEREI
Schönhauser Allee 36, 10435 Berlin
AT URANIUM FILM FESTIVAL"
Nuclear Zen | 2017
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 MoreORBIS LUMEN | OVERVIEW
Introduction | Einführung
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lecture at downwithart!
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before the nuclear sunrise: the abyss of light
an invocation 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
i8843.com | 2017
The evolution of nuclear news distilled into a blog
AI-driven from the knowledge cloud
in collaboration with sociative / edcast
i8843.com
facebook.com/i8843
Pixel Niger – AVATAR in Chile | 2017
The black pixel has arrived in Valparaíso
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201∞ at EMAF17
improving the cognitive signal-to-noise ratio
Read more "201∞ at EMAF17"State of Flux
Read more "State of Flux"»Music for imaginary films!«
Karl Bartos (Ex-Kraftwerk)
TH-232 at RΛE Berlin
TH-232 at Azores Islands
Examining VR in a paradise of nature.
Read more "TH-232 at Azores Islands"ZNE!/ETF! listed at ARTCOP21
cultural programme for the 21st UN Climate Summit
Read more "ZNE!/ETF! listed at ARTCOP21"LIGHT AS SKIN | 1997-2015
the tunnel of light – interactive light installation in Frankfurt airport.
Read more "LIGHT AS SKIN | 1997-2015"TH-232 | 2015
Anton Newcombe, Li Alin & Michael Saup join forces to present their first Virtual Reality Music Release “TH-232”
Read more "TH-232 | 2015"Avatar with ETF! in Lima at COP20, the UN Climate Change Conference 2014
Upcoming Exhibition in Lima, Peru: 29/10/2014 – 19/01/2015
Read more "Avatar with ETF! in Lima at COP20, the UN Climate Change Conference 2014"Variaciones energéticas / texto de Pedro Donoso | 2014
Texto de Pedro Donoso a proposito de la obra de Michael Saup
Read more "Variaciones energéticas / texto de Pedro Donoso | 2014"Foramen Nigrum – The Light in the Black Hole
Exhibition at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Santiago de Chile, September 30 – October 12 2014.
Read more "Foramen Nigrum – The Light in the Black Hole"Lecture in Valparaiso | Chile
Lecture at the Biblioteca Santiago Severin, Valparaiso, Chile.
Read more "Lecture in Valparaiso | Chile"Avatar with ZNE! at Zeche Zollverein
Zeche Zollverein 19.07.2014 – 04.09.2014
Read more "Avatar with ZNE! at Zeche Zollverein"Under Blue Suns | 2014
A Live Cinema Experience with Skyline Symphony Orchestra at Luminale Frankfurt am Main.
atomsphere.org at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin
We are presenting the map of all 656 commercial nuclear power plants: operational, dormant or deconstructed – precisely mapped on the World map with educational clarity.
Read more "atomsphere.org at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin"UNESCO chooses ZNE! as UN Decade Project
We are more than happy to announce that the German UNESCO Commission has chosen EXAMPLES TO FOLLOW! as an UN Decade Project.
Read more "UNESCO chooses ZNE! as UN Decade Project"Fossil Radiation: Paranal Observatory in Chile
We were invited by ESO to take a look at the Paranal Observatory to study the oldest memories of the universe carved into radiation
Read more "Fossil Radiation: Paranal Observatory in Chile"1001 SUNS at 11 Bienal de Artes Mediales in Santiago de Chile
In the Episode “NUCLEAR ZEN I – KEIBO OIWA” we will introduce Keibo Oiwa’s meditation on 3/11 and the events following the disaster of Fukushima Daiichi.
Read more "1001 SUNS at 11 Bienal de Artes Mediales in Santiago de Chile"Lecture at Universidad de Chile
Lunes 30 de septiembre 19.oo h. Sala Adolfo Couve, Facultad de Artes, Universidad de Chile, Las Encinas 3370, Ñuñoa.
Read more "Lecture at Universidad de Chile"ZNE & Avatar in Puebla, Mexico
The Lovers | 2012
Lecture ‘Crisis Utopia” on August 25 19:00.
Read more "The Lovers | 2012"bionerd23 @ Discovery Channel | Behind the scenes
Antiques containing radioactive materials will continue to emit low levels of radiation for many thousand years.
Read more "bionerd23 @ Discovery Channel | Behind the scenes"ZNE hits 21.000 visitors in Sao Paulo
The exhibition took place February 22 – April 4, 2013.
Read more "ZNE hits 21.000 visitors in Sao Paulo"Art and Science: Lecture at Japanisches Kulturinstitut Köln
Art and Science 18. Japanese-German Symposium
Read more "Art and Science: Lecture at Japanisches Kulturinstitut Köln"Lecture by bionerd23
What is radioactivity and how can we detect it? Has the human being left the limits given by nature? Does nature herself employ nuclear strategies? Have we created Supernature?
Read more "Lecture by bionerd23"Exclusion | FUKUSHIMA | 2012
The former exclusion zone Minamisoma, May 2012
Read more "Exclusion | FUKUSHIMA | 2012"Avatar in Zagreb: Pixel Niger
The first incarnation as a square: pixel niger.
Read more "Avatar in Zagreb: Pixel Niger"PYRAMIS NIGER | BLACK PYRAMID | pirâmide negra
Avatar in China: Limes Niger
Opening: August 5 2012, 5pm at Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, E06, 798 Art Zone, 4 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China.
Read more "Avatar in China: Limes Niger"SHIMA in Tokyo
We will show the first chapters of our movie SHIMA from July 7 – 21, 2012 at the German Cultural Center in Tokyo.
Read more "SHIMA in Tokyo"Exhibition in Tokyo
ヒトは太古より、自然と闘いながら生きてきた。やがて天の 、星を仰ぎ、時間と地上で繰り返される季節の法則を理解し 安定した日々を手に入れた。知識は生きるための武器とな り、争いを鎮め、共生を可能にした。人類は原子力エネル 、ギーを手にし、その有用性と安全をとなえた。そして昨年 その呪縛から目覚めるための警笛は鳴り響いた。日本のみ ならず、全世界に。鋭い感性と表現の手段を持つ日独のアー ティストの作品に触れ、彼らと共に水の星地球と私たちの 。
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Avatar at Mumbai Sun Gates
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Total lunar eclipse and lecture in Utrecht today. https://www.freemote.nl/
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AVATAR in KUNST 1111
Article about the touring exhibition “Zur Nachahmung Empfohlen!”
Read more "AVATAR in KUNST 1111"The Kingdom of Mud | 2011
Interview in Some Magazine – Electric
Read more "The Kingdom of Mud | 2011"Code, Codecs & Codex
"From Code & Codecs to Codex: The Archeology of Future" is an artistic talk about the shift from the digital arts employing bits stored via electrons to the nuclear arts employing radiation released via atoms.
Read more "Code, Codecs & Codex"Open Homes | 2011
find videos & photos here
Read more "Open Homes | 2011"Sugar Mountain
Count the faces in the book at http://openresource.1001suns.com/pyramis-alba.php
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show at Umweltbundesamt + Bauhaus Dessau March 23 – April 20 2011
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Open Home Project |
2011
An immediate humanitarian response to the earthquake and arising
nuclear crisis in Japan, March 2011
Open Home Project |
2011"
AVATAR – Lecture March V
Vortrag von Michael Saup zur Finnisage der Kunstausstellung ZUR NACHAHMUNG EMPFOHLEN! im Zehntspeicher in Gartow bei Gorleben am 5. März 2011.
Read more "AVATAR – Lecture March V"Counting on our favourite beast: the Internet
How hungry is our favourite beast? And who is sleeping in the big black pyramid?
A realtime energy counter for the Internet at http://openresource.1001suns.com
Read more "Counting on our favourite beast: the Internet"AVATAR | 2010
Avatar category listing 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
SCIENCE |
Media Metrics |
2010
How much energy is needed to view one single video on YouTube?
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2010"
AVATAR | 2010
Avatar introduces the avatar of Hollywood’s “Avatar” online YouTube-trailer. A massive body of coal equivalent to the energy used to serve, transmit and view the trailer 1 million times over the Internet.
Read more "AVATAR | 2010"The Sorcerer and the Source | 2011
The nuclear diaries of Johanson Johan Johan
Read more "The Sorcerer and the Source | 2011"FALLING FOREST | CHERNOBYL | 2008
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