Julien von Bismarck: guerilla tactics in public space

There’s a great interview with one of my favorite artists Julien von Bismarck, the 26-year old Berlin-based artist/student in Olafur Eliasson’s Institute of Space Experiments. His media intervention project is The Image Fulgurator in which Bismarck uses an analog camera fitted with a projection/strobe system to throw images rather than capture them. Used in opportune moments (like here), the work becomes an infiltration of staged moments to challenge the assumption of the photographic reality.

His most recent project Perpetual Storytelling Apparatus is based loosely on computational free-association between text passages of bestsellers and the US Patent database. The entire process (elaborated here) is a (nice) revised method of image production, storytelling and poetic drawing. Clever and beautiful.

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