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 nuclear diaries of Johanson Johan Johan
Read more "The Sorcerer and the Source | 2011"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
Radioactive goo goo.
Read more "Radioactive Gaga | 2008"Filmed in India, Sri Lanka, Morocco, Afghanistan and Europe from 2000-2004.
Read more "1001 SUNS – 360° | 2002 – 2004"Read more "HfG Karlsruhe | 1999 – 2005"some notes about my academic life in the late 90s early 00s
we have mutated from collective, connective to corrective.
let us correct you, before it is too late.
A Conversation between Peter Weibel and Michael Saup, Karlsruhe, 2002
Read more "infossil – AD VITAM | 2002"“When people disappear, new systems and ideas can emerge. But i’m not fighting for death, i’m trying to limit it: we humans participate in this evolution for such a short time that we can’t even observe it. there’s a huge play being played on stage and we don’t see any of it. That’s why I would like us to be able to extend this tiny window, these eighty years, a little. So that I can understand a little more of this play.”
Peter Weibel, Karlsruhe, 2002
“One thing that I’m really curious about though is how does this stuff get made? How did somebody get the money for all that equipment and the room etc. That room is in Omotesando which is one of the most expensive places in Tokyo. It seems like it would be really fun to contribute to […]
Read more "QUOTE R111"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 at ZKM, Germany
In 1992, Hyena Days debuted at Ars Electronica. The project featured a remarkable collaboration between Icelandic video art pioneer Steina Vasulka and German media artist Michael Saup, who initiated and directed the work. Steina Vasulka, co-founder of The Kitchen and a leading figure in experimental video, brought her unique approach to live image manipulation. Connecting […]
Read more "Hyena Days | 1992"data-tableau with data fossils, C, 1991
Read more "Sonic Shadows | 1991"digital light
Read more "FLICKER | 1987"“If you believe the audience that applauds Saup, this beautiful new media future should best begin right away.”
taz.de, Germany, 1998
Read more "°WORKS & EXHIBITIONS"“…a merciless revealer using the means of Art.”
Berliner Zeitung, Germany, 2010
Read more "Quote"This dream is for you
–John Barry / Leslie Bricusse (1967)
So pay the price
Make one dream come true
You only live twice