Kirsten Geisler

Kirsten Geisler (* 1949 in Berlin ) is a German media artist.

Biography

Geisler studied from 1985 to 1989 at the " Gerrit Rietveld Academie " and in 1991 at the " Beeldende Rijksakademie van kunsten " in Amsterdam. She is a founding member of the media @ haarlem, the Institute for Media Arts in Haarlem. Kirsten Geisler lives in Haarlem and Berlin.

Work

Geisler explores in her work with the interface between real and virtual world. It discusses how these worlds increasingly flow into each other. Kirsten Geisler developed virtual sculptures with the help of 3D and virtual reality technology. The body, its materiality, its tracks and its media presence are the issues that shape their work and inspire. Her work includes only computer-generated 3D sculptures.

Initially created juxtapositions of real and virtual portraits of women as "Who are You? ", 1996. Geisler handle so that the socio-political debate about the virtual and digital, as well as the construction of identity in a digital networked world. In the works of the series " virtual Beauties ", 1992-1996 to expanded the repertoire of the virtual 3- D characters to interact with the viewer. the series focuses on the aspect of feminine beauty ideals and reflects the obsession with beauty in a digitized and virtualized society. was followed by working with full-length, stereotypical women's bodies as Dream of Beauty, 1997 - 2000, and "Catwalk I" -. "Catwalk II", 2004 This virtual model created without photographic model This is the synthesis of idealized images of a woman as they are conveyed to us by the media you. . correspond to the ideals of the fashion industry and plastic surgery. in "Catwalk II", the character moves like a model on the catwalk and presented as in a film report of a fashion show.

The development of this series with the version of Maya Brush 2011, overcomes the boundaries between the real world and the virtual world. As a fictional character, Maya Brush moved in both worlds: the first time, leaving a virtual sculpture the museum and the art institutions that dares to step into the "real" life, in the media public and global communication networks.

Homo virtualis - Maya Brush

Maya Brush is a virtual photorealistic sculpture that was created by the artist Kirsten Geisler from 2008-2011. Maya Brush consists of bits and bytes. Your name is a composition refers to the tools with which it was created, a combination of Maya software (software ) and the ZBrush Program. Maya Brush is the first virtual beauty - an artificial body - the profit of the human ideal of beauty, without having been created but after a physical model. As a model she has become the reality dream of desired media notions of beauty. Maya Brush represents all global Prefab Girls, standardized and technically designed beauties as they are propagated by advertising and the media. As a fictional character, Maya moves in the various on- and offline worlds. For the first time a virtual sculpture will leave the museum and the art institutions and the plunge into life. The media public and global communication networks will also be their home, such as the museums, in which she returns again and again with their experiences. Since its birth, can the whole world witnessed on Maya 's Facebook page, as it goes the way into real life and conquered the first virtual sculpture media. With appearances and Berichtenim Internet in journals, magazines, TV reports and YouTube videos. Famous fashion photographers such as Peter Lindbergh and Karl Lagerfeld me her work as a model.

Works in collections

Her works are in public collections in

  • Museum of Contemporary Art, ZKM, Karlsruhe
  • Art Collection NRW, Dusseldorf
  • Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem
  • Kunstverein Bremerhaven
  • Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León
  • Kunsthalle Bremen

Exhibitions

2012

  • Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, The Masquerade
  • Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden - red, hunter and prey - insects in contemporary art

* Museum - Shoes Or No Shoes - Stone, Antwerp, SHOES SELECTION n ° 5 Sala de Exposiciones Hospedería Fonseca, Salamanca, colapso. UN ENSAYO SOBRE EL Fracaso Y LA Ruptura

2011

  • Kumu, Tallinn Capital of Culture " gateways Art and Networked Culture. "

2010/2011

  • Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam: Technology Requested

2009

  • Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires
  • Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Rosario ( MACRO): huésped

2008

  • Art Museum Bremerhaven: The Collection
  • Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden: In Full Bloom

2007

  • Chelsea Art Museum, New York
  • Museum Het Prinsenhof, Delft: Contour
  • Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis: Interface
  • Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Naples: Dangerous Beauty
  • Städtische Galerie Ravensburg; Kunstverein Konstanz: Bodily

2006

  • MNAC - National Museum of Contemporary Art ( Muzeul Naţional de Arta Contemporană ), Bucharest: "Dutch Installation Art "
  • Audio Relay, Lafayette
  • City Museum Oldenburg: The Animals in Art
  • Kunsthalle Osnabrück: Art Physically

Catalogs

  • " In Full Bloom ", Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden, 2008
  • " Contour ", Museum Het Prinsenhof, Delft, 2007
  • "Interface" (PDF, 1.2 MB), Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington, 2007
  • "Dangerous Beauty", Chelsea Art Museum, New York, 2007
  • "Dutch Installation Art ", National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, 2006
  • " Animals in Art ", City Museum, Oldenburg, 2006
  • "Art Physically ", Kunsthalle Dominican church, Osnabrück, 2006
  • " In the flesh ", Kunstverein Konstanz, 2006
  • " Carrera de Fondo " Concejeria de Cultura, Junta de Andalucia, 2005
  • " Brides of Frankenstein", San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, 2005
  • "Summer of Beauty", Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 2005
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