EXHIBITION

Shape of science

GALERIE BRIGITTE SCHENK, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Cologne, 11/12/2015 - 01/02/2016

Albertusstraße 26, Cologne

ABOUT

Ingo Günther is a German born, New York based new media artist credited with pioneering the use of mapping and data visualizations in both art and journalism. His award-winning work has been shown in over twenty countries and is in the permanent collection of several global institutions and museums.

At first glance, Ingo Günther’s glowing globes exude an aura of times past, evoking libraries from the Age of Enlightenment when such globes were a prominent expression of scientific discovery. A closer look reveals that Günther has overlaid his globes with current geo-social, political, economic, environmental, historical, technological and scientific data collected from institutions, governments, and media sources around the world, raising issues of globalization as neutrally as possible.

Since 1988, when Ingo Günther set out on his ongoing World Processor project, it has grown to encompass 1000 globes. For each site-specific installation, he modifies them anew, creating a new situation from case to case. Dozens of Ingo Günther’s Worldprocessor Globe designs come to new animated life accompanied with a data-driven soundtrack on the 6 meter diameter geo-cosmos display, the emblematic heart of the Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo, Japan.

Working in diverse cultures such as America, Japan, China, Korea, Vietnam and Europe Günther had to find a language and methodology that would transcend local flavors as well as ideological and civilizational barriers and thus would identify and build common ground. His perspectives have manifested themselves in a plethora of works, many of which transcend the boundaries of art. There are collaborations with scientists, architects, policy makers, and journalists across fields, disciplines and methodologies. His teaching experience goes back to having been one of the founding professors of the KHM (Academy of Media Arts) in Cologne, Germany (1990), the first of its kind in Europe.

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