Henrik Nieratschker
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Toying Around: -archies, -cracies & -isms, 2019, Ebook and Print-on-Demand Self-Publication
Is democracy failing us?
The publication presents a short essay in interpretation of the press coverage of protests during the 2017 US presidential inauguration that poses this very question. In search of an answer, we encounter a collection of Wikipedia articles in the second half of the book, showcasing a wide variety of forms of government. From Matriarchy to Technocracy to Despotism, engaging with the theories and histories of these -archies, -cracies and -isms might help us to identify ways to move forward with democracies in crisis.
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Toying Around: -archies, -cracies & -isms, 2019
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Toying Around: -archies, -cracies & -isms, 2019
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Transparencies: 3 (or 6) Definition..., 2018, Lecture Performance, Essay Draft, Transparent Backpack, Acrylic and Ink on Paper, Work Gloves, Scanning Device Holster
... from a Perspective of Networked and Standardised Labour
From the essay:
It all began as a mistake. In the summer and fall of 2018, I spent 6 months working as a package handler for one of the world's largest shipping companies. What started as an act of desperation, rents are rising and making art doesn't always pay off, soon became a sort of undercover mission. As I was loading, moving and sorting packages, I became fascinated with the complex interplay of the workers, their powered equipment and an ever-present corporate technobureaucracy. The shipping warehouse is a stage on which a common state of our technologised society becomes visible in its showings of raw consumption and digitally enhanced, physical labour. The scenes of interpersonal, post digital, micro and macroeconomical tragedy and comedy I have witnessed will continue to take shape within my work for the coming year or more, but for today I will highlight 3 of them in search for definitions of the term Transparency.
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Transparencies: 3 (or 6) Definition..., 2018
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Transparencies: 3 (or 6) Definition..., 2018
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Minusplusplus, 2015/16, Fictional Company
Minusplusplus is a fictional Silicon Valley start-up, developing products which reflect upon the shortcomings of a technologically induced "better world" promised by the Californian ideology that is spreading from Silicon Valley around the globe. The company is run as a multi-platform art and research project, appropriating advertisement and corporate language to engage with overlooked cultural, social, and political roles of (digital) technology and works towards prototyping alternatives in the space between art, technology, activism and startup culture.
Minusplusplus comes fluidly into existence through installations, lectures, artistic experiments and design prototypes, as well as its online presence. -
Minusplusplus, 2015/16
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Minusplusplus, 2015/16
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Minusplusplus, 2015/16
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I Am..., 2017, Algorithmic Concept, Custom-built Speaker (Wood, Aluminum, 3D-Prints & Sailcloth), Text-to-Speech Software
I Am ...
proposes the use of artificial intelligence and natural-language-processing software to create non-human conversation partners. Simulated personalities could foster alternative perspectives on contemporary issues such as the environmental crisis.
For the exhibition Water during London Design Festival, 3 computer-read scripts were developed that introduce the perspective of Water to the audience via a custom-built speaker. -
I Am..., 2017
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The Boltham Legacy, 2014, Cherry Wood, various Veneers, Stainless Steel, Corian, 3D-Printed Plastic, Electronics, Digital Print on Paper, Wooden Frames, Ink, Sealing Wax
A fictional narrative, told through custom designed artifacts and documents.
As British billionaire Lloyd Frederic Boltham secretly founds a private space program, he takes an unpreceded, scientific and technological gamble to ensure his aristocrat family's wealth over many future generations. Taking advantage of recent breakthroughs in synthetic biology and the discovery of previously unknown exoplanets, he succeeds in launching a 400-year mission that sends genetically engineered, mineral-detecting bacteria to a planet far outside of our solar system. Once the Bacteria inhabits the surface of the planet, it will change its color according to the existing metals in the environment. The planet ultimately becomes a visualisation of its own resources. If the mission succeeds it will create a future monopoly in space mining for the Boltham family. After his death the mission became the unique legacy of his family and several generations to come will observe the journey of his space probe in secret.
The narrative is presented through multiple objects that the Boltham family inherited after Lloyd Frederic's death. They were designed as props for a science fiction movie that will never be made.
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The Boltham Legacy, 2014
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The Boltham Legacy, 2014
