Georg Eckmayr
This collection is about the footprint of humanity produced by our interactions with the environment we live in: nature, landscape, life, algorithms, machines. We are in constant interaction with these entities and thus we shape the behavior of all living and non-living entities on the this planet.
RESCUE – Drowning by Numbers is stored on the energy efficient Tezos Blockchain and it is a series of animation loops with audio, which can be shown as singles or all together.
Who is Georg Eckmayr?
The Viennese Georg Eckmayr is an artist, researcher and lecturer. He studied digital art at the class of Peter Weibel under whose supervision he also completed and defended his doctoral thesis on digital images.
He specialises in moving imagery, films and installations in space or in form of coded structures. Eckmayr also uses sculptural approaches, scientific methods, documentary and journalism to produce a body of work, coming full circle despite its multi-formity. He participates in workshops, lectures, exhibitions and festivals around the world, and also publishes papers and articles as a researcher. In 2008, he received the Saatchi Gallery ́s Showdown award for photography in London. Currently he is working on a research on digital knowledge production and distribution.