2024

Cologne-based artist ASKI plays with the possibilities of new technologies in the visual arts. In his group of works entitled "Cybernetic Objects," microprocessors, LEDs, and also displays are combined with everyday objects or integrated into minimalist objects. What is remarkable here is that ASKI emphasizes the software running on the microprocessors as an independent component of the artwork - it is not visible, but has a significant influence on the overall work.

Software as the basis for a work of art has a special property for ASKI: the underlying source code describes a work precisely, but also makes a later reinterpretation or further development possible - similar to how sheet music precisely describes a piece of music and at the same time opens up space for the musician's own interpretations. ASKI is thus able to revisit, reinterpret and further develop its ideas at later points in time.

In recent years, many interactive works have been created.

Der Kölner Künstler ASKI spielt mit den Möglichkeiten neuer Technologien in der bildenden Kunst. In seiner Werkgruppe der „Kybernetischen Objekte“ werden Mikroprozessoren, LEDs und auch Displays mit Alltagsgegenständen kombiniert oder in minimalistische Objekte integriert. Bemerkenswert ist dabei, dass ASKI die auf den Mikroprozessoren laufende Software als eigenständigen Bestandteil des Kunstwerks hervorhebt – sie ist nicht sichtbar, hat aber einen wesentlichen Einfluss auf das Gesamtwerk.

Interactive, kybernetic objects, mostly with lighting.

Analog and digital media melted into graphics.

Animations made from still images.