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Artist Statement-
My work reflects upon the condition
of art making after the "digital
experience." The formal and structural approach to various
media such as
installation, CD-ROM, internet and sound almost requires binary
logic,
because the material is assembled according to a narrow set of self-imposed
rules which often incorporate controlled randomness and other methods
inspired by computer code.
Since 1997, I have investigated the term "reverse engineering"
by
(re-)translating the abstract aesthetic language of virtual reality
and 3-D
computer modeling back into an architectural space by means of large-scale
light installations. In this body of work, space is experienced
as a second
skin, our social skin, which is transformed through my artistic
intervention. Due to the very nature of its architectural dimension,
participating by simply being "present" is an integral
part of the
installation. Visual perception has to work in conjunction with
corporeal
motion, and the passage of time, an additional parameter of motion
(*).
The formal aspect of the works is easily accessible. An interpretation
and
understanding of this aspect is dependent upon the viewer's subjective
references. Equally, the various individual's interactions within
the
context of the installation re-shape each viewer's subjective references
and reveal a complex social phenomenon.
Erwin Redl holds an MFA in Computer Art from School of Visual Arts,
New
York and a BA in Composition and Electronic Music from the Music
Academy,
Vienna. In 1997/98 he was the Austrian participant in the International
Studio Residency Program at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York.
For
his studies at School of Visual Arts, New York the artist was awarded
a
Fulbright Scholarship. Erwin Redl has lived and worked in New York
since
1993.
(*)'Speculatively, we might refer to the well-known experiment involving
cats that were restricted so that they could not explore space through
their own body movements, and thus could not learn the constants
of objects
relative to their own movement. Some of the cats were allowed to
move
freely, but dragged a cart containing other, constrained cats -
bound like
the viewers of the shadow show in Plato's cave. Both groups of cats
had the
same visual experiences. But when all the cats were, after several
weeks,
allowed to move freely, the cart-pulling cats were able to orient
themselves normally, while those cats restricted from any movement
would
continuously bump into things or fall off edges. From this experiment,
it
was deduced that an "intelligent" orientation in space,
or any generally
"intelligent" behavior, develops from an active senso-motor
exploration of
the environment.'
Florian Rötzer, 'Images Within Images, or, From the Image to
the Virtual
World' in 'Iterations: The New Image', p.64, International Center
of
Photography - New York City, The MIT Press - Cambridge, Mass. and
London,
England 1994
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| Biography
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born 1963, Gföhl, Lower Austria
lives and works in New York since 1993
EDUCATION (Selection)
1993-95 MFA Computer Art, School of Visual Arts, New York
1988-91 Diploma in Electronic Music, Music Academy, Vienna,
Austria
1988-90 BA in Composition, Music Academy, Vienna, Austria
SCHOLARSHIPS, AWARDS and RESIDENCIES (Selection)
2000 Art/Omi, Omi, New York
1999 Center for MetaMedia, Plasy, Czech
Republic
WNET/Channel 13
Reel New York.Web Award, New York
1997-98 P.S.1 Studio Residency, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center,
Queens, New
York
1996 Prix Ars Electronica 96, Honorable
Mention - Category Interactive Art
1993-95 Fulbright Scholarship for MFA-Studies at School of
Visual Arts
SOLO SHOWS
2001 Kunstpanorama/Galerie Meile, Luzern, Switzerland
2000 High Altitude, permanent light installation in dance
club, New York
Galerie Stadtpark, Krems, Austria
1999 New Jersey City University Gallery, Jersey City,
New Jersey
444, Apex Art, New York
1998 Austrian Cultural Institute, New York
1995 Blau-Gelbe Galerie, Vienna, Austria
INTERNET PROJECTS
1997 You Me And, http://www.hotwired.com/rgb/redl
Truth is a Moving Target, http://www.thing.net/~parallel
GROUP SHOWS (Selection)
2000 Computer Okay, La Programa, Mexico City, Mexico
After Kraftwerk, Ex Teresa Arte Actual,
Mexico City, Mexico
Space and Beyond, Bitola, Macedonia
1999 Another Planet, Central Fine Arts, New York
Utopia/Distopia, Ex Teresa Arte Actual,
Mexico City, Mexico
Fairy-tales, Center for MetaMedia,
Plasy, Czech Republic
Punto Ciego ("Blind Spot"),
Art & Idea, Mexico City, Mexico
1998 Fin de siècle New York a Nantes, Hotel de la Duchesse
Anne, Nantes,
France
Modular Composite, Central Fine Arts,
New York
Open Salvo, White Box Gallery, New
York
Wish You Luck, P.S.1 Contemporary
Art Center, Queens, New York
1997 ISEA 97, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Mac Classic - The Immaculate Machine,
Postmasters Gallery, New York
Fragments in Time, Clementine Gallery,
New York
T0-Public Netbase Chiller Lounge,
Museums Quarter Vienna, Austria
1996 Balance Akte 96, Museum of the State of Lo wer Austria,
Vienna, Austria
Password: Ferdydurke, Postmasters
Gallery, New York
Out of the Dark, Elga Wimmer Gallery,
New York
3rd New York Int. Video & New
Media Festival, New York
Ars Electronica 96, Linz, Austria
Free Fall, China Town Loft, New York
Can You Digit?, Postmasters Gallery,
New York
1995 Digital Salon, Visual Arts Museum, New York
Power!, Visual Arts Gallery, New
York
1994 Cyber Queer, Anthology Film Archives, New York
1993 Zur Zeit, KunstHalle Krems, Krems, Austria
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