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.

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

foto: (C)Christian de Lutz, 2004

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

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.

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

photo: Yuri Albert copyright 2004

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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/

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

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.

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.

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