MAPS

Maps

“The most beautiful and horrifying Dymaxion map yet.”

David McConville, The Buckminster Fuller Institute, 2018
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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, combining humanistic reflection with participatory engagement in environmental and technological issues

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Our work DUST VR uses virtual reality to represent and investigate the invisible sphere of urban particulate matter. We give representation to the recent developments of open data and citizen science and chip away at popular incognizance of just how much dust, and now data may impact our private lives.

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Orbis Lumen | Deutschlandfunk ⧉

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Unsichtbares sichtbar macht auch eines der erschreckendsten Kunstwerke auf der diesjährigen Ars Electronica. Der Berliner Künstler Michael Saup hat eine Weltkarte des Visionärs Richard Buckminster Fuller nachgebaut, aus mehr als 44.000 Zuckerwürfeln. Darauf projiziert er verschiedene Darstellungen der Erde. Saup: „Warum Würfelzucker? Inhaltlich gesprochen ist Zucker Energie. Im Friedensfalle Energie für Menschen und Fahrzeuge, im Kriegsfall wird Zucker allerdings konfisziert und in Sprengstoff überführt.“

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ORBIS LUMEN | 2017-2019

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The Light of the World

“The most beautiful and horrifying Dymaxion map yet.”

David McConville, The Buckminster Fuller Institute

A world map built from white sugar cubes serves as a global canvas documenting the chronological history of nuclear war. This work provokes profound reactions and reflections on our technological advancements, their consequences.

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AVATAR | 2010

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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
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WORKS

Works

“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
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NEWS

News

“If you believe the audience that applauds Saup, this beautiful new media future should best begin right away.”

taz.de, Germany, 1998

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NUCLEAR

Nuclear

Remembering the tree of Half-Life

“I don’t know what weapons might be used in World War III. But there isn’t any doubt what weapons will be used in World War IV: Stone spears!”

Albert Einstein, 1948

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