cdelutz

2011-10-14T12:40:00.004+02:00

Dada Post presents:

After the Death of Painting

October 15th to November 13th, 2011
Opening: October 15, 2011, 7PM

After the Death of Painting is an exhibition that revisits the controversy from the late 1970s that declared the Western tradition of painting to be dead.

We have brought together artworks that mimic painting, and or compete with painting both formally and conceptually, but are not painting. This would include Large Scale Photographs or Digital works, Multimedia-Assemblage on the wall, Wall-Sculpture, and so on. These are not “oil paint on stretched canvas” works.

For Western painting, the skilled production of representations had been its mission since antiquity, through the Renaissance, and up to the Industrial Revolution. With the camera a new serial mode of image creation was introduced, which changed the way that artists would see and make art forever. Today with these changes, under postmodernity, we observe photography, joined by other practices, as they continue to push painting off the wall.

Painting, of course, did not die. Because also emanating from the late 1970s were several revivals of the Western format for painting. These would include the Junge Wilde movement in Germany, a group of representational painters in the United States led by Mark Tansey, and the Transavantguardia movement in Italy, and well-known today are the Leipzig School of painters. However, the art forms that developed out of the attacks on painting are alive and thriving as well. After the Death of Painting will exhibit some of these practices.
By Howard McCalebb

The artists:
Yasmin Alt l Martina Baist l Chandra Brooks l Sam Icklow l
Christian de Lutz l Lola Goller & Lilli Kuschel l Lisa Larsson l
Damian Loboda l Sara Pfrommer l Johanness Ribarits l Sadie Weis l
Markus Wirthmann l and Matej Zet

Performances by:
Liz Rosenfeld, and Twilight Claps & Thunder

More information at http://www.dadapost.com/

DADA POST
Nordbahnstraße 10
13409 Berlin
Germany

2011-08-21T12:27:00.004+02:00

World Peace Festival Berlin
World Peace Festival Berlin
20 August - 27 August 2011

Imagine Conflict - Daniel Sambo-Richter, Christian de Lutz

Freies Museum Berlin, Potsdamer Straße 91, 10785 Berlin

Photos by Filipa Rolaça

Special thanks to Art laboratory Berlin

2011-06-04T12:16:00.005+02:00

Shangrila New Moon

ARTISTS

William Adair, Jack Bangerter, Sam Belkowitz, Helen Cahng, Michelle Chong, Kenneth Cowan, Veronica Duarte, Drew Dunlap, Rob Faucette, Roni Feldman, Rashell George, Ian Henderson, Luis G. Hernandez, Daniel Hope, Nate Hess, Bridget Kane, Matt Lifson, Christian de Lutz, Danielle McCullough, Tucker Neel, Chris Oatey, Josh Rickards, Taylor Tschider, Gabie Strong

Shangrila is pleased to present New Moon, an exhibition that explores the notion of rebirth. The group show brings together works that investigate phases in cyclical phenomena and the conditions that surround change, expanding our understandings of the past, present, and future and challenging our perceptions of originality. The exhibition is produced by Drew Dunlap and is co-curated by Michelle Chong.

2010-09-23T19:23:00.002+02:00

I've been working on a new collection of images based on screen shots or photographs of computer use, interfaces, web conferences, skype etc.

Here are some new images. The 2nd and 3rd are from the event Everyone is Chinese Tomorrow organized by I-Wei Li and sidebysidestudio as part of the project Kunstapotheke

untitled (web cam) 2009 archival digital print on matte paper, 37 x 50 cm

untitled (web cnference), 2010 archival digital print on matte paper, 35 x 40 cm

web conference study digital photograph

dima and two horses, 2010 digital photograph

2010-09-13T19:34:00.000+02:00

I'll be showing my digital projection Sarajevo/Love Virus (2009)nurtart - fängt Licht! curated by Irmgard Berner. The show, which opens 17 September, hightlichts artists who have been presented in the portal nurart.org. I was featured in 2008.

2010-07-14T14:47:00.000+02:00

Two smaller new works from the Cuts series:

untitled, 1996/2001/2010, archival digital print on matte paper, dyptich each 25 x 30 cm

untitled, 1996/2010 archival digital print on matte paper, 37 x 60 cm

2010-06-23T18:44:00.001+02:00

New works from the Cuts series

untitled (westway) 2009/2010 archival digital print on matte paper 40 x 53 cm

untitled (Torreon) 2004/2010, archival digital print on matte paper 20 x 33 cm

julia, 2010 archival digital print on matte paper 30 x 51 cm

2010-04-16T12:23:00.003+02:00

video stills from Junctures I

My residency at the Frankfurter Kunstverein is coming to an end. I have been working on a project, Junctures 1: Frankfurt, which combines video interviews and mapping technology to examine migration, information technology and the 21st century globalized city. Junctures I is the first of a series of projects that I hope to continue in Asia, North America and elsewhere.

More information at http://fkv.de/frontend_en/kalender_detail.php?id=697

2010-03-26T09:02:00.005+01:00

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Artists Talk with Christian de Lutz at the Frankfurter Kunstverein
06 April at 7PM

His work combines photography, printmaking, video and installation with computer based media. Recent projects have focused on the connections between globalization and information. During his stay at the Deutsche Börse Residency Program he is researching the perceptions of those for whom Frankfurt has become a point of transit or migration. The core of the project are a series of interviews and 'mappings' exploring Frankfurt's position as a base for international finance and trade, commerce and culture.

More information at http://fkv.de/frontend_en/kalender_detail.php?id=697

2010-03-19T14:38:00.003+01:00

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Coming, going, settling down. The city as hub, the city as staging point,
The city began as a marketplace.

2010-03-12T11:30:00.003+01:00

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Frankfurt in late Winter, the residency, Pecha Kucha night at fkv

2010-03-01T11:24:00.002+01:00

From 1 March - 25 April 2010 Christian de Lutz will take part in the Deutsche Börse Residency Program at the Frankfurter Kunstverein
http://fkv.de/frontend_en/program.php
http://fkv.de

2010-01-08T18:51:00.000+01:00

Christian de Lutz, The Copyright Piece, 2009
(see http://cdelutz.blogspot.com/2009/08/copyright-piece-from-artist-statement.html)

Creative Rights. On Appropriation, Copyright and Copyleft

Azin Feizabadi, Gilbert & George, Christian de Lutz, Triple Candie

The Creative Rights Library with documentation on Shepard Fairey vs AP, Richard Prince vs Patrick Cariou, Creative Commons, The Fair Use Projekt, Piratpartiet, etc.

Opening 27 November 2009, 8PM
Duration: 28 November 2009 - 7 February 2010
(closed 18 December 2009 - 3 January 2010)
Open Sat - Sun 2-6PM, exhibition tour 3PM

Workshop: "Copyright and related topics for artists. musicians, filmmakers and other creative producers" with Andreas Lichtenhahn (lawyer), in German.
28 November 2009, 15h (free, registration necessary: info@artlaboratory-berlin.org)

Creative Rights. On Appropriation, Copyright and Copyleft investigates questions concerning the use, re-use and misuse of images and information in the contemporary art world from artistic, legal, political and philosophical viewpoints.

Since the late 1970s appropriation of images and information by such artists as Sherrie Levine and Richard Prince has become a common and accepted technique, part and parcel of postmodernism's critical approach. Indeed it follows a tradition that goes back through pop art and nouveau realisme to Dada and cubist collage. Not without ethical, aesthetic and legal controversy, a number of law cases involving appropriation seems to have increased in recent years involving artists such as Jeff Koons, Richard Prince and Shepard Fairey

The exhibition Creative Rights consists of three parts: The exhibition with four artistic positions, the Creative Rights Library with extensive material on the presented artists and other recent law cases as well as a workshop on the theme of copyright.

(more information)

2009-11-02T11:37:00.003+01:00

Christian de Lutz is taking part in Projetaveis
a section of the the 7th Bienal do Mercosul
in Porto Alegre, Brasil
16 October - 29 November 2009

screen shot from http://www.bienalmercosul.art.br/projetaveis/node/30

screen shot from http://www.bienalmercosul.art.br/projetaveis/node/30

screen shot from http://www.bienalmercosul.art.br/projetaveis/node/30

more at
http://www.bienalmercosul.art.br/projetaveis/

2009-08-31T21:18:00.002+02:00

The Copyright Piece

From the artist statement:

The 'Copyright Piece' is an audio work made by changing and distorting another audio piece. The 'original' is the subject of a copyright dispute, and was itself procured through questionable circumstances (ie youtube).

The 'purchaser' will sign a contract in which they agree to take over all rights and responsibilities for the piece. There will be no fee for becoming the 'purchaser', only their signature and presentation of identification. After the contract is signed, I will inform the 'purchaser' of the 'original material' used in the production of the 'Copyright Piece'. I will also retain the licensed right to exhibit the artist's copy six times, in consultation with 'the purchaser.' The 'purchaser' will otherwise fully 'own' the piece, all its rights, and attendant responsibilities, legal and otherwise.

The intrinsic value of the 'Copyright Piece' is its mockery of the marketplace. It seeks to replace the medium of money with the medium of risk. The 'purchaser's' role is a performative one, which completes the artwork. If the artwork has an extrinsic value it is to place the art world (already largely based on visual appropriation) in the grey world illicit reproduction that has flourished in our new digital climate.

CD with artist statement and contract
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2009-08-15T19:05:00.003+02:00

Source Code images ( more at http://cdelutz.net/html/fine_arts_menu.htm)

untitled (weather#4), 2009, digitally altered photograph, archival inkjet print on canvas, 70 x 100 cm

riga/melissa, 2007, digitally altered photograph, archival inkjet print on canvas, 80 x 90 cm

2009-07-05T20:45:00.001+02:00

Seafaring Route (Who is K.Mardam Bey?)
Director Animation, 5:45

The digital animation piece Seafaring Route (Who is K.Mardam Bey?),2009, is an exploration into the nature of cultural communication through the ages.

The animation opens with a satellite view of the Levantine coast, one of the oldest seacoast based cultures on earth. From here the Phoenicians set forth to colonize the Mediterranean, starting a tradition of cultural exchange and diaspora that has lasted over 3000 years.

From a space age view of Tel Aviv the screen travels north over Haifa to Tyre, Sidon and Beirut. Metonymous with the combination of satellite imaging and simulated drawings, made out of altered photographs, the viewer is witness to a dialogue between two anonymous online writers discussing the Palestinian software designer Khaled Mardam Bey and mIRC , the internet chat client he developed.

Seafaring Route (Who is K.Mardam Bey?) makes reference to levels of technology and communication, layering them over a historical background of various media – pen, photography, film and computer based media. It also refers to the Sisyphean task of controlling the technology we develop, especially as to its use and misuse.

Additionally a series of digital prints, taken from images used for the animation are presented.

animation still

animation still

animation still

installation view

installation view

installation view

Artneuland e.V. | Schumannstrasse 18 | 10117 Berlin | Germany
Tel: +49 (0)30 28046650, 28047013 | Fax: +49 (0)30 28092950
berlingallery@artneuland.com | berlinprojects@artneuland.com

2009-07-02T20:29:00.000+02:00

“Sea faring- route. Berlin. Tel Aviv. Beirut.”

Photography. Video. Installation.
Busy, hectic, multicultural are words in which all these three cities can be easily described. Though lacking topographical or political similarities, they share an atmosphere of constant motion and exchange of goods, people and ideas. They became places that willingly accept and even look forward to vivid changes and new impulses. In this way, they offer the perception of the temporary and represent the ‘here and now’. This vibrating ambience makes the three cities function as ‘harbours’ in a sense other than geographical. While Tel Aviv and Beirut have in fact been major seaports, Berlin has a clear longing for it, what can be observed, for instance, in the multiple beaches constructed along the Spree.

Exhibition

The exhibition tries to expose different views on the topic expressed by the artists Ayelet Albenda, Ana Bilankov, Heike Barndt, Tim Deussen, Dotan & Perry, Anna Faroqhi, Lasse Lau, Dana Levy, Chris de Lutz, Guy Raz, Ilana Salama Ortar, Michael H. Shamberg, Simcha Shirman, Felice Naomi Wonnenberg, Paola Yacoub and Maya Zack. The artists adopt the local or project the foreign view on the cities’ life. This exchange of views and opinions among the international participants of our project is just another aspect of the lively Trialogue between the three busy harbours on this imagined seafaring route.

The project will be opened on the 2^nd of July 2009 at 7pm in Artneuland.

Schumannstraße 18, 10117 Berlin. It will remain open until the 8^th of August 2009.
more at http://artneuland.com/project.asp?pid=48

2009-06-14T19:38:00.004+02:00

Välkommen till Öppet Hus i Nordiska Gästateljén i Malongen Onsdag 17 juni kl 20.30
Welcome to Open Studio in the Residency Studio in Malongen Wednesday June 17, 20.30

Christian de Lutz (Amerika/Tyskland) www.cdelutz.net har under juni månad 2009 en vistelseperiod i Malongen. Se mer på vår hemsida www.nkf.se .
NKF (Nordiska Konstförbundet Svenska sektionen) och Christian de Lutz bjuder in till Öppet Hus. Kom och träffas ett par timmar - vi bjuder på ett glas vin eller vatten, nåt att tugga på. Christian visar videoverk och bilder i ateljén. Christian de Lutz är verksam i Berlin och är vid sidan av sitt eget konstnärliga arbete curator och en av ledarna för det konstnärsdrivna galleriet Art Laboratory i Berlin.

Adress: Nordiska Gästateljén Malongen, Nytorget 15 A. Buss 3 eller 76 till hållplats Gotlandsgatan. Eller T-bana Skanstull.

Christian de Lutz (America/Germany) www.cdelutz.net is the Artist-in-Resident in the Nordic Residency Studio Malongen during June 2009. For more information see our website www.nkf.se .

NKF (Nordic Art Association Swedish section) and Christian de Lutz invite you to an Open Studio. You are welcome to meet Christian, take a look at some of his video- and photo work and to have a glass of wine in the evening of Wednesday June 17th.

Christian de Lutz lives and works in Berlin. Besides his own artistic work he is also a co-director and curator at Art Laboratory Berlin.

Address: Malongen Residency Studio, Nytorget 15 A. Bus 3 or 76 to Gotlandsgatan. T-bana Skanstull.

Untitled, from Christian de Lutz's cuts series

The series cuts examines the limits of the photographer’s perception, and the resistance of the world to portrayal. The works consist of small details of documentary photographs taken over the last 15 years. Often the images are of details I was unaware of while photographing. Like the main character in Antonioni’s Blow Up, I often only discover the secret narrative of these details “in the darkroom”. These “secret stories” take place in the background, on the margins, of the original images (which are now exterior, unknown to the viewer). Freed of their original context, they form new relationships with other works in the series, and with the world at large, quite independent of their documentary origin.

2009-06-02T19:32:00.000+02:00

I am the June resident at the NKF Malongen residency in Stockholm.

2009-05-07T22:32:00.007+02:00

Private Viewing
New Works from Christian de Lutz

15-17 May, 2009

at Prinzenallee 34,
13359 Berlin-Wedding

untitled (sarajevo/love virus#2), 1996/2008, archival inkjet print on canvas, 100 x 150 cm

untitled (dobrinja), 1996/2009, archival inkjet print on canvas, 95 x 100cm

You are cordially invited to a private viewing of new works
by Christian de Lutz

Friday 15 May 6-9PM
Saturday and Sunday 16-17 May 2 - 6PM

Art Laboratory Berlin
Prinzenallee 34,
13359 Berlin
U bahn Pankstrasse (U8), Osloerstrasse (U8,U9)
S bahn Bornhomerstrasse

2009-03-29T12:24:00.007+02:00

Photos from the opening of Culture of Torture Torture in Culture
at Artneuland, Berlin, 26 March 2009

Christian De Lutz presents written evidence and accounts of people who have been present in the so-called “black sites”. This is a military and journalistic term for the extra-judiciary interrogation centers, used by the U.S. military and the CIA. The most famous, or rather infamous, of these sites are probably camps Delta, Iguana and X-Ray at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, Abu Ghraib in Iraq, and Bagram in Afghanistan. However, a number of other such places have existed, and probably still exist throughout the world.

The first series of prints are facsimiles of CIA documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. The documents were requested with keywords which are shown, but almost all the rest information was blacked out by CIA censors. The second series of prints are meta-geographies which show views of alleged black sites, such as Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean and the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan via Google Earth and NASA Worldwind. Included are mash-ups by Google Earth users and abstract lines showing the paths of the satellites which took the photos. “Black Sites” reflects upon the distribution of knowledge and the effect it has on our empathy.

from the exhibition text

2009-03-27T18:44:00.005+01:00

“Culture of Torture, Torture in Culture“
at Artneuland

View of the audiovisual installation Black Sites by Christian de Lutz 2009

Installation view of Black Site-Diego GarciaChristian de Lutz 2008

Installation view of Black Site/FOIA Christian de Lutz 2009

Artneuland is a home for Trialogues of image, word, and people, an artistic platform for the three monotheistic cultures. In the frame of our cultural, social, and political engagement Artneuland has invited the following artists Hannan Abu Hussein, Raida Adon, Christian de Lutz, Tim Deussen, Dotan & Perry, Al Fadhil, Babak Golkar and Raha Rastifard from different cultures and of different origins to contribute to the topic of torture — with the use of installation, video, audio and photography. This is an invitation to be confronted with the questions of what between visual representations and the narratives of human suffering.

Opening 26 March 2009 from 7pm
Exhibition runs 27 March - 23 April
Artneuland e.V. | Schumannstrasse 18 | 10117 Berlin | Germany
Tel: +49 (0)30 28046650, 28047013 | Fax: +49 (0)30 28092950
berlingallery@artneuland.com | berlinprojects@artneuland.com

2009-03-19T19:45:00.004+01:00

Opening of the exhibition
“Culture of Torture, Torture in Culture“
at Artneuland on March 26th 2009 at 7pm

Artneuland is a home for Trialogues of image, word, and people, an artistic platform for the three monotheistic cultures. In the frame of our cultural, social, and political engagement Artneuland has invited the following artists Hannan Abu Hussein, Raida Adon, Christian de Lutz, Tim Deussen, Dotan & Perry, Al Fadhil, Babak Golkar and Raha Rastifard from different cultures and of different origins to contribute to the topic of torture — with the use of installation, video, audio and photography. This is an invitation to be confronted with the questions of what between visual representations and the narratives of human suffering.

With an opening lecture by Bazen Brock
Opening 26 March 2009 from 7Pm
Exhibition runs 27 March - 23 april

Artneuland e.V. | Schumannstrasse 18 | 10117 Berlin | Germany

Tel: +49 (0)30 28046650, 28047013 | Fax: +49 (0)30 28092950

berlingallery@artneuland.com | berlinprojects@artneuland.com

Opening hours:
Tuesday - Friday: 11:00 - 19:00.
Saturday: 11:00 - 18:00, and by appointment.

2009-03-03T19:34:00.003+01:00

Several works including the copyright piece and caffebar Flash Art
will be shown as part of the exhibition

“On CDOs and Double Clubs”
Exhibition: 5 – 12 March 2009, 1-6 pm
Art Swap & Party: 10 March 2009, 6-9 pm

August Art
Wharf Studios, Baldwin Terrace
London, N1 7RU
+44 (0)20 7354 0677
info@augustart.co.uk
www.augustart.co.uk

as part of the East Festival in East London

2009-02-16T11:34:00.003+01:00

ART OF EMERGENCY

a group exhibition opening on Thursday, 5th February 2009 at 7pm
in Artneuland,
Schumannstraße 18, 10117 Berlin

The exhibition will last from 5th February 2009 until 15th March 2009

exhibition photo copyright cdelutz.net

exhibition photo copyright cdelutz.net

Opening of the exhibition on 7 March
with my work untitled (sarajevo/love virus 1) 1996/2007

more information at http://artneuland.com/project.asp?pid=43&s=0

2008-12-07T23:43:00.004+01:00

Evasion Machine /Apparat der Ausflucht
An Installation by Christian de Lutz

28 November-7 December, 2008

Projection and installation at space untitled.

Installation at Atelier Sambo-Richter.

Performance at Atelier Sambo-Richter, the artist with Kleopas Nghikefelwa, 30 November 2008.
All images copyright Christian de Lutz 2008.

more details at http://cdelutz.net/html/thumbnail%20pages/installation.htm

space untitled
Drontheimerstraße 3
13359 Berlin

Atelier Sambo-Richter
Koloniestr. 131
13359 Berlin

2008-11-21T22:27:00.004+01:00

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Evasion Machine /Apparat der Ausflucht

An Installation by Christian de Lutz
Eine Installation von Christian de Lutz

28 November - 7 December 2008

An installation in two locations, the Evasion Machine combines video, digital print and found objects to create a space for a discussion on migration. The installation centres around two videos from the series El-Andalus Clips. Clip #3 is made of two components. The visual component was filmed on the southern Spanish coast. The sound component is made up of text fragments collected from internet blogs, written by migrants. The fragments are read by a non-native speaker, whose repeated attempts to read in a foreign language have influenced the visual editing of the piece. Clip#4, shown through a storefront window, resounds with utterance of a single Arabic phrase (Inshallah), which is elongated to seven times its original length – and accompanies the dawn.

Several digital prints provide a contrasting static component. The print petroleum lines is made up of satellite images of the Persian Gulf, Wolfsburg, Germany, Flint, Michigan and Toyota, Japan. It represents static records of moments and locations, stolen from their original purpose location, remade into a new visual system. Additionally the area(s) of the installation are covered with detritus, broken wood, wiring, building material – and also text: fragments of algorithms for calculating demographics, migration and population movement.

The Evasion Machine not only implies migrants evasion of central regulation and authority, but also points to the flourishing of cultural hybrids in exactly those regions which (for a while) provide haven for the wanderer. Yuri Lotman, while developing his system of linguistic environments (or semiospheres), divided them into centre and periphery. The centre (metalanguage) controls the environment, but is sterile, bereft of innovation. It is the periphery, ripe with multiple, outside influences, where creativity bears most fruit.

-Christian de Lutz

space untitled
Drontheimerstraße 3
13359 Berlin
Vernissage: 28.11.2008 ab 19h/ from 7PM
30.11.2008 - 7.12.2008, So 16-19h /4-7PM

Atelier Sambo-Richter
Koloniestr. 131
13359 Berlin
Vernissage: 28.11.2008 ab 20h /from8PM
30.11.2008, 14-19h /2 - 7 PM
Performance 30.11.2008, 18h30/ 6.30PM

Both exhibition spaces are located near Ubahn station Osloerstr. (U8,U9), approx 2 min. walk from each other and the station.
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2008-07-17T01:09:00.003+02:00

New Works: Meta-Geographies

petroleum lines, 2008, archival inkjet print on paper, 110 x 200cm

petroleum lines, (detail) 2008, archival inkjet print on paper, 110 x 200cm

america is from mars and europe is from venus(2008) archival inkjet print on paper, each 170 x 110cm

america is from mars (detail), 2008, archival inkjet print on paper, 170 x 100 cm

Meta-Geographies, combines a variety of satellite images with text and other information taken from the Internet.

petroleum lines (2008) combines satellite imagery of the main Saudi Arabian oil terminal, Ras Tanura with images of Toyota, Japan; Wolfsburg, Germany; and Flint, Michigan (the headquarters of General Motors). The combined geographical image shows parts of the various motor cities partially submerged in the waters of the Persian gulf.

Source code, algorithms and charts overlay the whole picture and refer to scientific measurments of water temperature, ice melt and the effect of fire on climate change.

The series uses metaphor and metonymy to map the structures of geo-political relations and connections in the ever shrinking space of the globalized 21st Century.

America is from mars and europe is from venus (both 2008), refer to an phrase coined by the American neo-conservative Robert Kagan after the 2004 Madrid bombings. The works not only literalise Kagan’s word, placing an aerial view of the Pentagon on NASA photos of the Martian surface, and views of the European Commission and European Parliament on Venus, but also add additional layers of information in the form of source code excerpts, as well as art historical and symbolic meaning.

2008-07-16T22:51:00.009+02:00

El-Andalus clips (2008)
is made up of five short clips, each under two minutes. The clips exist as stand alone works, or together. Three (no. 1,3 and 5) include recitations of a text collage derived from internet blogs written by migrants from the Near East ,living in Europe or North America. The narrator, uneasy in her use of English stumbles across the text. Combinations of takes and breakdowns are used as an editing device for the visual images, collected excerpts of footage from southern Spain - the ruins of a Moorish fort, the view across the straits of Gibraltar, architectural details from Alhambra - which refer to Europe's old cultural connection to the Near East. Image and text, unrelated in origin, combine and influence each others form to elicit new meanings and relations.

The soundtrack of El Andalus clip #2 (breath) is made up of the narrator's breaths, gasps and laughs between words. It forms a first intermezzo, when viewed with the other four clips

El Andalus #4 (fate) was filmed on a hillside on the SE Spanish coast. The soundtrack is one word (Inshallah) stretched out over the duration of the clip, which forms the second intermezzo, when all five clips are viewed together.

2008-04-03T11:33:00.004+02:00

Strictly Berlin
GdK
12.04.2008-3.05.2008
Vernissage: 11.04.2008 from 8 PM

excerpt from bulbul (2006) dv,4'47"

The video bulbul (2006) will appear in the group show
Strictly Berlin 2008 - Between Fact and Fiction - Media Art from Berlin,
curated by Ingeborg Fülepp and Heiko Daxl.

GdK
Galerie der Künste
Potsdamerstr. 98
D-10785 Berlin
+49 (0)30 53060948
www.gdk-berlin.de

12.04.2008-3.05.2008, Opening 11.04.2008, 8 PM
open Wed-Sat 16-20h

2008-03-12T19:25:00.003+01:00

stills from El-Andalus clips, 2008, dv

Christian de Lutz

Open Studio

New works: digital prints and video

Saturday and Sunday
15th and 16th of March, 1 - 9 pm

Nostitzstr 12, VH 4.-5.OG
10961 Berlin-Kreuzberg

2007-10-08T21:54:00.001+02:00

Art and Text: Christian de Lutz Ekphrasis at

29 September - 28 October 2007

The title of the exhibition, ekphrasis, means a verbal representation of visual representation; thus a double intermediation of the real, as a depiction of the depicted. It is in this very sense of ekphrasis that Christian de Lutz operates on the manifold character of references within his Source Code Images, which as a recent series are based on a digital collage of word and image...
-from a text by Regine Rapp.
(more under http://artlaboratory-berlin.org/html/eng-exh-archive.htm
and http://artlaboratory-berlin.org/html/eng-exh-5.htm)

From the vernissage on 28 September 2007:

all photos above by Tim Deussen fotoscout.de copyright 2007

photo by Christian de Lutz copyright 2007

Projection at Koloniestr 131, Berlin/ Projectraum Sumphahn/Art Laboratory Berlin
photo by Christian de Lutz copyright 2007

2007-08-20T23:29:00.000+02:00

Opening 22 August in Bern, Switzerland

the trail from srebrenica (background); sculpture (foreground) by Annika Unterburg

metacontent 1.0, 5.0, 6.0

untitled (riga2); caffebar flash art

2007-07-30T21:42:00.000+02:00

Views of the Exhibition
Anatomie der Rastlosigkeit
Anatomy of Restlessness
Christian de Lutz
at fabrik.galerie/ Basisikulturfabrik
Neustrelitz, Germany
20 July 2007

untitled (kwyjibo) photo by Christian de Lutz copyright 2007

empire photo by Jo Rapp copyright 2007

women of roses, from the cuts series photo by Jo Rapp copyright 2007

on the road: keleti photo by Jo Rapp copyright 2007

from the empire series photo by Jo Rapp copyright 2007

installation views from europa (projection) photos by Jo Rapp copyright 2007

installation views from europa (projection) photo by Christian de Lutz copyright 2007

Exhibition runs 21 July - 2 September
daily from 5pm and by appointment

fabrik. galerie für gegenwartige kunst
Basiskulturfabrik - Sandberg3a - 17235 Neustrelitz
tel. 03981 20 31 45 www.basiskulturfabrik.de

2007-07-18T23:59:00.001+02:00

Anatomie der Rastlosigkeit
Christian de Lutz

a solo exhibition of works 2002-2007
at the fabrik.galerie, Neustrelitz,Germany

Opening 20 July 8pm
Exhibition runs 21 July - 2 September
daily from 5pm and by appointment

fabrik. galerie für gegenwartige kunst
Basiskulturfabrik - Sandberg3a - 17235 Neustrelitz
tel. 03981 20 31 45 www.basiskulturfabrik.de

2007-04-25T10:54:00.000+02:00

Cordoba - Works by Christian de Lutz

Opening: Friday 27 April, 8pm
Galerie Art Digital, GAD
Freienwalderstraße 30
U8 Pankstr./ S-Bahn Bornholmerstr.

Christian de Lutz’s work is an inquiry to the radical changes that photography and the idea of the visual image are undergoing today in our age of fast changing technology. His video Cordoba (2006) was filmed in the Mezquita of the Spanish city of Cordoba. Filmed at slow speed, the crowds of visiting tourists appear as phantom-like blurs. The audio track features a woman’s voice reading text fragments taken from online journals (blogs), written by immigrants from the Near East.

Medieval Cordoba was a vibrant multicultural center. The architectural remnants of this era contrast with the melancholy words of homesickness and estrangement in the script, as if to imply that only in the virtual world of the internet can occident and orient peacefully co-exist.

In his series Light Drawings the artist has digitally altered photographs that he took as a photojournalist in the 1990s, into what appear to be drawings. Pale Sensation, a picture of a crowd of onlookers and camera crews at a politically rally in Bosnia, has been transformed from news footage to aesthetic artefact. Also important here are the gaps, white spaces where visual information has been erased. The series title Light Drawings, refers to the etymological meaning of the word photography itself, both as a pun and a reference to the medium’s aesthetic roots.

The exhibition runs 28.04.-20.05.2007
Opening hours: 28 and 29* April 1-8pm and by appointment, 0179/1499265

* as part of the first Sunday Wedding program for Contemporaray Art in Berlin- Wedding.

2007-04-21T12:55:00.000+02:00

Kunst! Ausstellung Kolonie Wedding
Neues Kunstquartier Berlin
14. April - 12. Mai 2007
Opening: 14. April 2007, 18:00 Uhr
Finissage: 12 May 2007
Wednesday - Friday 3 - 8 PM
Saturday and Sunday 12 - 5 PM

2007-04-20T12:53:00.000+02:00

From the solo exhibition
The Digital Image at Galerie ONYVA, Maastrict
11 March - 15 April 2007

2007-03-07T11:03:00.000+01:00

Christian de Lutz:The Digital Image

GALERIE ONYVA

Achter der Molens 24, 6211 JC Maastricht NL

Opening Reception 11 March from 3 PM

Exhibition runs through 15 April.
Open Thurs- Sat 11 AM - 5 PM and by appointment.
tel.+(31)43 3211 339 mob.+(31) (0)62185 1943 www.mariaes.nl

2006-08-31T11:44:00.000+02:00

Easy Transport
The Museum of Contemporary Art,
Skopje, Macedonia
12 July - 10 September, 2006

The meta content series by Christian de Lutz. .... photograph by Jovan Balov (copyright 2006)

KOLONIE WEDDING BERLIN: Armin Kauker; Mathias Mayer aka Mo Magic; Michaela Strumberger; Claudia Michaela Kochsmeier; Frank Pieperhoff; Christoph Faulhaber; Jovan Balov; Ivona Borkowska; Lucyna Viale; Maciej Diczkowski; Gertsovskaya Marina; Barbara Klinker; Marina G. M. Lyubaskina; Mihail Molohnikov.
PRIMA CENTER BERLIN: Heiko Daxl; Christian de Lutz; Tim Deussen; Archi Galentz; Sybille Hoessler; Peter Kees; Otjörg A.C.; Wadim Rakowski.

The Berlin art scene has reached a substantial level, yet it is still growing. One of the essential changes is the spontaneous de-centralization and its expansion to the other parts of the city. While in the past the points of all kinds of art events were focused on the center of Berlin, since recently the art, especially the alternative one, is being relocated around Berlin Mitte: Kreutzberg, Prentzlauer Berg, Friedrichshain, Tiergarten and of course Wedding offer cultural and artistic programs of every kind.

The carriers of the artistic and cultural events in Wedding are the members of the “Wedding Colony” - “Kolonie Wedding”, an association of art galleries and ateliers. The idea for this association was born out of the necessity to revive culturally this part of Berlin.
...

The number of the Colony’s members is growing and the cooperation and exchange with artists from abroad is also rising. In the past two years it has promoted projects with artists from the Czech Republic, France, Croatia and Poland, and for next year it plans and exchange with Belgium. The present exhibition in the Museum of Contemporary Art is also part of the concept of presenting the “colonists” abroad and developing a long term and productive cooperation and exchange with the Macedonian artists and cultural institutions.

The gallery Prima Center Berlin has been a member of the association “Wedding Colony” since 2004. Jovan Balov, an artists and the founder of this gallery, says: “It is a gallery, an institution, a space for the art”.... The primary objective of PCB is to make a long term exchange platform between the German artists and the artists from the Balkan countries and to present their works both to the art experts and to the art lovers in each of the countries. The other objective of PCB is to present the works by foreign artists who live and work in Germany.

-Elizabeta Lindner

The coordinator of Easy Transport at the Museum of Contemporary Art is Rolph Kültz-Mackenzie Ph.D. who, as a friend of the “Kolonie Wedding” and the gallery Prima Center Berlin, made the selection of... artists and artworks for this exhibition.

More under http://www.prima-centar-skopje.org/ProektiPCS/EasyTransport.htm
and http://www.msuskopje.org.mk/?sid=698&lid=1

.all photos by Jovan Balov Copyright 2006........................... http://www.prima-centar-skopje.org

2006-06-23T12:53:00.000+02:00

Review of Berlin Biennale

Regine Rapp and I have written a review of the 4th Berlin Biennale
for Portal Kunstgeschichte (http://www.portalkunstgeschichte.de/ )
to read the review (in German) click here

2006-05-27T16:59:00.000+02:00

As of 25 May I now have a site at http://saatchigallery.com/yourgallery

2006-03-04T19:56:00.000+01:00

light drawings

i dig a pony ...............gardens of alipasna polje ....after thefall ................radovan's girl

light drawings, recent works, such as caffe bar Flash Art, the gardens of ali pasa polje and after the fall, are reworkings of photographs I took in Bosnia-Herzogonia in the 1990s. I have digitally re-worked the photographs to appear like drawings, a reference to the word 'photography' meaning 'light drawing'.

The process also includes erasing certain parts of the image. In 'editing' these once 'documentary' photographs I choose, like the photo editor of a newspaper or magazine, to highlight or remove certain information. But in these works the manipulation becomes evident to the viewer who is forced to distinguish between the 'subjective' hand of the drawer and the 'objective' eye of the photographer.

The resulting works defy categorization as either documentary or aesthetic, photograph or drawing; but seek to provoke a discussion on these categories themselves.

More examples can be found at this page on my newly updated website

2005-10-22T14:56:00.000+02:00

new works

temp path ..............mirror(... echo) ................charcode/ nologo ..............pale sensation

temp path, and charcode/nologo combine photographic images from my archive with samples of virus source code. In mirror (narcissism's echo) I have sampled source code from sound software, used to provide an echo effect. Text and image meet at a connotative level by means of a metaphor (ie the connection between a mirror and an echo).

pale sensation is derived from a photograph I took in 1996 at a campaign rally in Pale, Bosnia. The subjects of the photograph are the journalists and camera crews present at the rally; a fact heightened by erasure of details and use of digital filters to make the image appear like a large scale drawing. The cameraman in the forground reminds me of Velazquez by his easel in Las Meninas. The staged media event has become the atelier of our age.

More examples of my work can be found at my website

2005-07-10T12:26:00.000+02:00

flora of the drina valley
part of the Kolonie Wedding program for 15 July 2005

more at: http://www.koloniewedding.de/index/6214/

2005-04-13T19:12:00.000+02:00

new works 05: source code images

avebury/kournik..1 avebury/kournikova2 avebury/kournikova3 GlobalFree state.buffer

The series avebury/kournikova combines digitally reworked photographs with source code from the Kournikova virus. The resulting images are digitally altered with a series of algorithms to imitate brushstrokes; then printed on canvas and stretched. GlobalFree state.buffer combines a photograph of part of a sufi (Bektashi) monastery in Tetovo, Macedonia with source code from the MyDoom virus.

More examples of the source code series can be found on my website at this link

2004-11-22T21:55:00.000+01:00

source code images:

Photos of the Vernissage on 12 November 2004

Jovan Balov of Prima Center (left) and Christian de Lutz (right)
photo copyright 2004 by Matthias von Hoff Koloniewedding

boluga's sister, 1997/2001.
photo copyright 2004 by Matthias von Hoff Koloniewedding

at Prima Center Berlin

12 November - 08 December 2004
Wednesday - Saturday 2PM - 7PM
Finnisage: 8 December 7PM

Prima Center Berlin
Biesentaler Str. 24
13359 Berlin
Tel:0171 985 7497
Fax 030 49910397

2004-11-07T11:18:00.000+01:00

source code images:

an exhibition of new works

at Prima Center Berlin

12 November - 04 December 2004
Tuesday - Saturday 2PM - 7PM
Vernissage: 12 November 8PM

Prima Center Berlin
Biesentaler Str. 24
13359 Berlin
Tel:0171 985 7497
Fax 030 49910397

2004-09-07T13:57:00.000+02:00

New Work 2004: Source Code Images

most, 1996/2004, inkjet pigment print on paper 80 x 120 cm

"Melissa is the first combination Word macro virus and worm to use the Outlook and Outlook Express address book to send itself to others via E-mail. "
http://www.cknow.com/vtutor/vthistory.htm
Source code from the Melissa virus is placed over a digitally altered photograph of the Ottoman bridge of Visegrad, Bosnia, famously described in Ivo Andric's novel Bridge on the River Drina, suggesting a somewhat darker side to the bridge as an architectural and/or communicative element.

rollover, 2000/2004, inkjet pigment print on canvas 70 x 100 cm

The text here is a fragment from the javascript code for a rollover or mouseover.

agni, 2000/2004, inkjet pigment print on canvas 80 x 120 cm

A digitally reworked photograph, taken in Romania in 1997, is covered with a fragment of HTML source code from a website about the influence of Hindu traditions on Roma culture.

2004-06-18T13:55:00.000+02:00

Politische Ästhetik: Dokumentation dokumentiert

a group exhibition of political art
14 may 2004 - 05 June 2004
at the TAKT Galerie Knorrpromenade 1 10245 Berlin

some photos from the vernissage and exhibition:

foto:(C) Tim Deussen, www.tapezismus.de, 2004

foto: (C)Tim Deussen, www.tapezismus.de, 2004

foto: (C)Christian de Lutz, 2004

2004-05-11T20:27:00.000+02:00

Opening on Friday 14 May

Politische Ästhetik: Dokumentation Dokumentiert

Tim Deussen - Christian de Lutz - Wolfgang Müller - Wolfgang Spahn - Dmitri Vilensky

14.05.2004 - 05.06.2004

Vernissage: 14.05.2004 um 20 Uhr

Panel Diskussion: 23.05.2004 um 19 Uhr

Takt Kunstprojektraum. Knorrpromenade 1, 10245 Berlin. 030 2977 4733. do - sa 16- 20 Uhr

S-bhf Ostkreuz, Warschauerstr.,Tram 23

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the EMPIRE series, 2003

This series explores the `time resistance’ of three media: photography, painting and television. The immediate subject of the series is the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March/April 2003. The images are photographs taken of BBC broadcasts during the war. The inclusion of the TV screen, as well as the BBC logo, remind the viewer that she is watching a (historical) event indirectly. This is very much what the Canadian writer Michael Ignatieff referred to during the earlier (first) gulf war as the TV or `virtual war’. The viewer often has access to events in real time, although in an often sanitised and always virtual form.

By the use of digital filters the images have been altered so as to appear like paintings. They have `virtual’ paint strokes, and are printed on canvas. They are in effect photographs of TV images masquerading as counterfeit paintings. As such they point to photography’s intermediate and mediating role between the ephemeral character of television images and the eternal aspect of history painting.

2004-02-25T01:46:00.000+01:00

the kasimir series: a new net.art piece by Christian de Lutz

Among the urban myths that have predominated since 9-11 is the belief that Al-Qaeda hid secret messages in data, which they then sent over the net. As far as I know this is only a myth. Yet it dovetails with all the 'chatter' about encryption, hacking and the famed 'echelon' intelligence gathering system. In my kasimir series I have taken up this conceit. I have hidden two secret messages in two HTML files, masquerading as abstract images. One is a quick note to Denisa Kera. The second is a letter to Yuri Albert, describing my experiences taking part in his performance in Berlin in January 2004.

Should anyone fail to find the message I have enclosed a 'note' to the piece. All three pages can be accessed through my net.art portal http://net.cdelutz.net

screenshot of kasimir 1, 2004

screenshot of kasimir1 and source code

screenshot of kasimir2, 2004

screenshot of the source code for kasimir 2

Me participating in Yuri Albert's performance at the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin January 31, 2004

2004-02-24T20:11:00.000+01:00

New Works 2004: from the series europa and metacontent

Latvia, 1996/2004 from the series europa

metacontent 7.0, 1998/2004 from the series metacontent

metacontent 8.0, 1998/2004 from the series metacontent

for further images go to my website

2003-12-02T22:02:00.000+01:00

Jenseits der Fotografie. Europa.

eine Ausstellung von Christian de Lutz

Beyond Photography. Europe.

An exhibition by Christian de Lutz

Bilder von der Vernissage/ from the opening

photos by Tim Deussen www.tapezismus.de. (mobile phone image: Iris Munt)

exhibition runs from

27 November 2003 – 02 January 2004

Galerie südost Zentrum
Großbeerenstr.88, 10963 Berlin
Mo - Fr 10 - 17 Uhr und nach Vereinbarung
030/ 253 77 990 Kontakt: Iwona Mickiewicz

2003-11-18T14:44:00.000+01:00

Jenseits der Fotografie. Europa.

eine Ausstellung von Christian de Lutz

Zur Eröffnung der Ausstellung am Donnerstag,
den 27. November 2003 in der Galerie südost Zentrum.
laden wir Sie herzlich ein

18h30: Podiumsdiskussion zum Thema Das digitalisierte Bild.
es sprechen:
Christian de Lutz
Tim Deussen (Fotograf)
Dmitri Vilensky (Fotograf/ Videokünstler)
Moderation: Regine Rapp (Kunsthistorikerin)

20 Uhr: Vernissage

Galerie südost Zentrum
Großbeerenstr.88, 10963 Berlin
Mo - Fr 10 - 17 Uhr und nach Vereinbarung
030/ 253 77 990 Kontakt: Iwona Mickiewicz

2003-10-22T00:23:00.000+02:00

il paradiso: the flight to/ from tuzla

an audiovisual installation

In summer 1995 a young woman from Tuzla narrates her flight from war torn Bosnia three years earlier. She recounts her journey from war to sanctuary in a white marble city on the Adriatic coast.

At the same time that she is telling her story, 15 000 men from the town of Srebrenica
in Eastern Bosnia are fleeing the Bosnian Serb Army, hoping to reach the city of Tuzla. Less than half will survive.

9 Months later, investigators from The Hague based International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and assorted journalists visit the hillside near the hamlet of Kamenica where more than 70 men and boys from Srebrenica died on 12 July, 1995.

The Flight from/ to Tuzla is the first of three projected multimedia installations on the theme of nationalism, media and the break-up of the former Yugoslavia by Christian de Lutz, a New York born artist, who during the 1990s worked as a photographer and journalist in Eastern Europe. He is now based in Berlin.

link to tapescript of the installations audio CD

EXHIBITION EXTENDED UNTIL 09 NOVEMBER!

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Paradies

in Bunker
Berlin Alexanderplatz 3.10 - 02.11.03

Vernissage
02.10.03 20:00/ 8P.M.

in Room 35
Il paradiso: The flight from/to Tuzla

an installation
by Christian de Lutz

for further information about Paradies see:

http://www.paradiesprojekt.de/beta/index.html

2003-04-13T22:08:00.000+02:00

Visions of Berlin

at berliner kunstprojekt

Photographs of the Vernissage on April 11, 2003 by Tim Deussen, www.tapezismus.de

all images copyright 2003 Tim Deussen/ www.tapezismus.de

more images at http://www.tapezismus.de/berliner_kunstprojekt/

2003-04-07T22:30:00.000+02:00
you are cordially
invited to the vernissage of

Visions of Berlin

at berliner kunstprojekt

on Friday 11 April at 7 PM.
Gneisenaustrasse 33 (HH) Berlin Kreuzeberg - Ubhf. Gneisenaustr.

a Photography exhibition featuring

Patrick Blasa
Tim Deussen
Sandra Hermannsen
Christian de Lutz
Regine Rapp
Julia Schöffler
and others

Christian de Lutz................................................Julia Schöffler....................Regine Rapp
........
Tim Deussen....................Sandra Hermannsen

2003-04-05T19:13:00.000+02:00

Berliner Kunstprojekt Art as Fashion-Fashion as Art
Gneisenaustr. 33 Berlin, March 14- 31, 2003

dervish, 1999 gallery views from the exhibition Art as Fashion - Fashion as Art

next
Berlin Visions a group show of Berlin Photographers including Christian de Lutz, Regine Rapp, Sandra Hermannsen, Julia Schöffler, Patrick Blasa and Tim Deussen opens at Berliner Kunstprojekt on April 11 at 7 PM.

2003-03-13T21:54:00.000+01:00
VERNISSAGE- Group Exhibition at the Berliner Kunstprojekt Geniesenaustr. 33, Berlin featuring

dervish, 1999 by Christian de Lutz, works by Nina and Torsten Römer and Viktor Nikolaev among others.
The Opening is at 7 PM on Friday 14 March. The exhibition last through 31 March.

2003-02-19T19:51:00.000+01:00

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22ND

Emerging Arts Presents
LOVE, ART&WAR

A Multimedia Art Extravaganza Showcasing the work of Over 40 NYC Artists.

including Christian de Lutz with the digital projection of the Meta Content series

go to Emerging Arts website

text on my digital projection in the exhibition:

meta content- source code images

The series meta content, 2001-3 began with a series of black and white
photographs I took in Macedonia during the 1990s.

In 2001 I was working with the idea of conceptual trompe l'oeil images -
manipulating photographs to make them appear as paintings, video stills,
etc.

In late 2001 I began experimenting with the idea of making 'faux-night vision'
images which imitated military surveillance technology. At about the same
time I became acquainted with a text
by the new media sholar Denisa Kera. The text was part of a larger projects
by scholars at the Charles University in Prague in cooperation with the
Open Society fund researching myths and archetypes and Balkan nationalism.

The text in question was part of a larger analysis of nationalist websites.
The text on Macedonia posited a unique paradigm for Macedonian sites.
Instead of concentraing on Macedonian myths these websites seemed obsessed
by the myths of their neighbors- what Ms. Kera referred to as 'mythophobia'.

For me this idea of 'mythophobia' and fear of ones neighbors fit well with
the paranoic images I was creating. Furthermore it was very much the opposite
of the grand myths found in thos eneighboring countries- a kind of negative
(like a photographic negative) of 'Greater Serbia' or the Greek 'Megala
Idea'.

I have incorporated the source code from Denisa Kera's original site (http://balkan2001.webpark.cz)
into the images, which are all taken in Skopje. To further the 'negative
effect' I have used images that point to the minority and non-Macedonian
(Slav) population (Albanian, Roma, Turkish).

more on the META CONTENT series on my May 7 2002 blog entry

2003-01-08T12:34:00.000+01:00
Werben>Bewerben >Europa- Yearning for Europe- a project for a New Europe

Hungary, 2002

Werben>Bewerben >Europa- Yearning for Europe- a project for a New Europe

In January 2004 ten countries are expected to join the European Union. At least another eight are engaged in talks
with the EU or have expressed interest in doing so.

My project, Werben >Bewerben >Europa, incorporates, photography, digital imaging, computer software
source codes and the internet to explore the image and self-presentation of these countries.

The project
The project, was originally proposed for Alexanderplatz U-bahn (subway) station, as part of an ongoing public arts
project. I envision the project being exhibited in a public space, preferably one that is accessed by large numbers
of people during their daily lives. The location could be anywhere within the current 15 nations of the European
Union

The artwork could be shown in several formats:

1. Advertising spaces – billboards, walls of public buildings and access ways. The images would be exhibited at
various sizes- from A0 to billboard format in places normally used for advertising or informative notices.

2. Works printed on 'backlight film' would be attached to the windows or display cases. Several fluorescent lamps
could be placed behind the film creating the effect of an architectural light box.

3. Works could be projected as part of a revolving 'digital slide show' of all the countries in the series. Each image
would be shown for a duration of 30 seconds, enough time for a view to decipher the content. Alternatively multiple
beamers could be used. Beamers would be timed so that different images were projected on multiple screens at
any time, images would appear to travel throughout the exhibition space - going from screen to screen.

The 'digital slide show' could be projected from behind onto a window to which an opaque or transluscent screem
were attached.

The works themselves
The works are all made up of photographs, taken by the artist during the last eight years. They have been digitally
altered and collaged with HTML source code from the main page of the government web site of the nation where
the photograph was taken.

The main page or 'Index' page was chosen as the source of the virtual representation of each nation. The
government web sites function as a basic information source and as an advertisement for each nation as it tries
to present itself as a part of a modern Europe.

Often the HTML source code shows information not visible on the website as viewed through a web browser. The
META Content and description lines often include 'keywords' or subjects that are to be noted by search engines
such as 'Google' and 'Yahoo'. The use of Javascripts may show the versatility and craftsmanship of the web
designer employed by the featured nation.

In altering the color, hue and saturation of the images I plan to provoke a more careful analysis of the images on
the part of the viewer. The image reveals itself more slowly, and the viewer is thus more attentive of small details
in the images, that he or she might normally overlook. The added dimension of the text/ sourcecode invites the
viewer to investigate the whole image further- to put together a puzzle of sorts.

The individual images will be untitled, leaving it to the viewer to figure out which countries they represent by
means of the text/ source code and an affixed national emblem. My aim is to acquaint the viewer a little more
intimately with these new nations, who are now applying (bewerben) to join a larger United Europe.

Czech Republic .......Estonia..............Poland................Turkey.................Slovenia.................Slovakia

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new images from september/october 2002

untitled (istanbul) 1999/2002

republika e shqipërisë, 1998/2002

for more images click here

2002-06-27T18:06:00.000+02:00
on june 25 the trail from srebrenica, 1996/ 2001 was exhibited
as part of the break 21 festival of emerging artists

photos by davide grassi copyright 2002

2002-06-27T17:46:00.000+02:00
roma in osteuropa, the 1999 exhibition curated by regine rapp opened
in erfurt, germany in an abbreviated form ( 15 of the original 27 photographs).
on June 23rd.
the venue is the kleine synagoge or small synagogue and is part of the
festival of roma culture, heimat, dir wir mit uns tragen
The exhibition remains open until July 28th

as part of the festival the romanian band fanfare ciocarlia performed in erfurt on June 22.

all photos copyright christian de lutz 2002

2002-06-03T23:17:00.000+02:00
the inaugural exhibition of the plaetterei gallery in berlin friedrichshain opened on may 30th.
artists include anna pannek, boban radosavljevic, samuel weisman and christian de lutz

photos from the vernissage by tim deussen, www.tapezismus.de copyright 2002

installation with lightbox meta content 4.0 1995/2002

installation detail, untitled (sarajevo library) 1996/2000

installation detail, untitled (sarajevo library) 1996/2000

photos of installation/vernissage by tim deussen copyright 2002
Any and all copyright infringements will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

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upcoming exhibitions

galerie plaetterei, berlin (jessnerstr. 22 friedrichshain) inaugural exhibition opens may 30th, 2002 more info

roma in osteuropa, part of the heimat, die wir mit uns tragen festival inerfurt, germany june 23- july 28, 2002

break21 festival of emerging artists kapelica gallery, ljubljana slovenia opens 25 june, 2002

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meta content,
2001 digitally altered photograph

based on a series of photographsof skopje, the capital of macedonia, and hypertext
by media scholar denisa kera.

the text explores nationalist websites from the former yugoslavia. the section
on macedonia explores the theme of mythophobia, fear of ones neighbor's
myths.

denisa kera's text

my website

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your opinion to this weblog
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(cdelutzblog@yahoo.com)

2002-04-05T18:19:00.000+02:00

blog1

My
current

solo exhibition The Balkans in Turmoil will be up at the Potter Library

galleries at Ramapo College, Mahwah NJ through 10 April.

http://www.ramapo.edu/berriecenter/galleries/potterlibrary.html

I
have also been invited to exhibit this spring in Ljubljana, Slovenia,

as part of the Break 21 Festival of Emerging Artists. Please note
that

the festivals opening has been postponed until 18 June.

http://www.break21.org/

2002-04-05T17:34:00.000+02:00
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