before the nuclear sunrise: the abyss of light
a short reminder 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
An immediate humanitarian response to the earthquake and arising
nuclear crisis in Japan, March 2011
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
How much energy is needed to view one single video on YouTube?
Read more "SCIENCE |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
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
アートラボ第5回プロスペクト展「R111 —仮想から物質へ」
Read more "R111 | 1999-2001"the tunnel of light – interactive light installation in Frankfurt airport.
Read more "LIGHT AS SKIN | 1997 – 2015"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
This dream is for you
So pay the price
Make one dream come true
You only live twice
–John Barry / Leslie Bricusse (1967)
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