Julius Popp

Julius Popp (born 1973 in Nuremberg, Germany) is a German media artist.

Life

Julius Popp graduated from 1995 to 1996 trained as a photographer. From 1998 to 2005 he studied Fine Arts at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig from 2005 to 2009, he was there a master student by Astrid Klein. Popp is not attributed to the New Leipzig School.

He is involved in various artistic disciplines, especially with objects, installations, environments and computer simulations, and breaks through in his works the line between art and information technology. One example is his work bit.fall from 2005, in which a machine selects keywords from the Internet and displays it by falling water drops. Every word here is visible only to the fraction of a second, so that a created " information cascade " (English bit.fall ) from them.

Popp has received numerous awards, including the Robot 's Choice Award (2003) and the Art Prize of the Leipzig People's Daily ( 2009). In addition to the art world, his works also found attention in the scientific community as contributions to artificial intelligence, such as, among others, at the Fraunhofer Institute in Bonn and at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge (USA).

Julius Popp lives in Leipzig and New York.

Quote

" The focus of my settled between science and art work is the study of interactions of complex systems. This is done with the help of autonomous machines that were designed by me according to logical rules. "

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2011 Selected Words, Edith Russ Site for Media Art (Oldenburg )
  • 2010 transposition, Museum Haus Lange ( Krefeld )
  • 2009 resolution, Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig
  • 2009 3rd Moscow Biennale
  • 2008 Labyrinto, Mexico
  • 2007 Oboro, Montreal
  • 2005 D- House, Tokyo
  • 2005 Union Gallery, London ( with Oliver Kossack, Julia Schmidt)
  • 2004 50 % reality, art space B / 2, Leipzig
  • 2003 artbots - The Robot Talent Show, Eyebeam Gallery, New York
  • 2002 Paradise, Halle ( Saale)
  • 2001 home LE, organized by the Contemporary Art Gallery and HGB, Leipzig

Awards (selection)

  • 2010: Art Prize of Adolf Luther Foundation, Krefeld
  • 2008: Arts Award for Visual Arts at the Academy of Arts, Berlin
  • 2003: Robot Choice Award from the International Art Exhibition artbots
  • 2003: Scholarship of the Scholarship Foundation of the German people, Bonn
  • 2002: Art Prize of the Stadtwerke Halle and Leipzig
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