DLD08 Arts

Author: Johannes Fricke

DLD considers cultural production and creativity necessary for inspiration and disruption and fosters interdisciplinary exchanges and new forms of dialogue. How can creative production contribute to a "LIVE" social networking platform in a way, that contradicts "art on display" at a conference setting and also involves the audience´s attention by participation and context?

Olaf Nicolai, "Prime number pattern" (2008)

Berlin-based artist Olaf Nicolai has designed "Prime number pattern (version 0 - 1481)", 2008, a limited set of endless visual language patterns, consisting of randomly occurring prime number combinations. The patterns originate in a simple graphical representation of these combinations being both, graphical designs and a "universal code" to represent the western numeral system via prime numbers. Jokingly calling it "inspired by Atari", Nicolai´s contribution is based on his fascination for universal alegorithms, symbolisms and patterns of regularity within them.

Addressing Europe and continuing his ongoing research about perceptions about Europe and democracy, with "the violence of participation", architect Markus Miessen presents a work in progress, which was on show at the 2007 Lyon Biennial.

Tobias Rehberger's practice is located between art, architecture and design. What is a work of art, how much of it is contextually determined? Or does it merely derive from a contemporary cliché of art? The public can, in most cases, "walk into". Rehberger's works which oscillate between functionality and uselessness, and this removes the nimbus of the untouchable art work. For DLD08, he has designed an oversized window lettering in luminescent primary colours, similar to a wall-painting or a graffiti pattern. Playing with both, the conference's space and the its identity, he doubled an over-sized window design at the front into a second space consisting of a layer of plexiglass boards, modifying the conference logo into a fragmented shadow. Only at certain points do both perspectives match perfectly.

Using technology to intricately study our relationship with nature and the world to adapt our perception to the ever-changing reality around us, New York based artist Katinka Matson
Installed large photographies of oversized flower blossoms at DLD.

 

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