The Vulture Mothers (2023 – ongoing) is a mobile augmented reality experience part of a larger intermedia initiative offering a somatic space of vulture power, a push through death into regeneration and the numinous. Vultures – feared and venerated for their connection with death and decay – are essential to the health of our planet. The Vulture Mothers broadcasts their magnificence.&nbsp;

The Vulture Mothers

Abandoned urban spaces become living canvases for virtual sculptures, envisioned as mediators between the present and imagined futures. The integration of AR allows audiences to engage with these spaces in new ways, turning static structures into dynamic centers for exploration and imagination.

Echoes of Emptiness

Within this artistic enactment, the concept of 'worldmaking' serves as a guiding framework, fostering the creation of a plethora of imaginative scenarios that embrace a diversity of perspectives. Rooted in the ethos of embracing ambiguity, discomfort, and the spaces where knowledge remains elusive, the project challenges conventional notions. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://thevisitors.jeron.org/mirror-system">https://thevisitors.jeron.org/mirror-system</a>

The Visitors

This piece imagines an underwater infrastructural ecology beyond the user-device binary of the early 21st century. Algae, humans, e-waste material, and surrounding species have evolved to learn a shared medium of communication. They mutually power, use, and embody the network-habitat. Information flows across an Indra’s net of neurotransmitter-like sites, a mechanism which depends on and gradually deepens the connectivity of all participating organisms.

Diatom Radio Network

Nothingness, they say, is their product. An intangible concept, a paradoxical notion, it is simultaneously the most elusive and sought-after commodity in the cosmos. In this age of boundless knowledge and limitless possibilities, it is the realm of Nothingness that intrigues and captivates the minds of the visitors.

The Nothingness Corporation

Drawing from Berghain and traditional Greek folk elements, this object bridges past and present. It evokes the transformative era of Isherwood’s "Goodbye to Berlin," later adapted into “Cabaret,” celebrating Berlin’s enduring artistic energy. The title honors the Greek Gastarbeiter of the 1960s, whose journeys of hope and identity mirror those of today’s Greek immigrants in Berlin.

Welcome to cabaret, Gastarbeiter!

This object reimagines the myth of "The Rapture of Europe".Here, Europe is not seduced, raped, or raptured. Instead, she is portrayed as a powerful, independent woman on her own journey to freedom, escaping a hostile homeland. However, this raises the question: Is she truly independent, or just a "pick me" Girlboss? The term "Girlboss," once seen as empowering, has been, criticized for promoting a toxic, capitalistic culture. So, is the Girlboss girlbossing—or, in this case, is Europe europing?

Gaslight, Gatekeep, Europe

Closed-Circuit Yiayia contrasts the tension between surveillance and solidarity. Underpaid Balkan workers in German digital sweatshops train algorithms that monitor us, while they themselves are closely watched. Meanwhile, the Greek Yiayia (grandma), often likened to a CCTV camera in memes, embodies a more communal gaze—perhaps not gossip, but a symbol of community and solidarity.

CCYiayia

Támata are small golden plaques that are placed by people beside images of saints in Greek Orthodox churches. Táma (singular) / Támata (plural), translate to promise or promises, respectively. On Támata one can see engraved different body parts, such as legs or eyes. Thusly, the dedication of these objects to God or a certain saint, secures the divine intervention that will guide and protect the body part depicted on them.

TAMA

Other Dances is a site specific AR animation sculpture made for Wave Hill, a park, botanical garden, pond, exhibition space and artist residency in the Bronx, overlooking the Hudson River.Avatar and Motion Capture: Kristin McNallyDigital costume: MX Oops

Other Dances

Always Night

Geo reportages about apes, their intelligence, vulnerability and ultimately hopeless situation in nature, form a popular subgenre on the subject of last resorts, jungles and conservation. At the same time, they are a popular genre in cinema history with dystopian traits and contribute to the humanization (appropriation) of animals in social media ("animal video"). In the exhibition, together with the visitors, they become exhausted living sculptures in space, seemingly observing each other.

Apes G.E.O.(1)

Installation for Tresor Berlin outdoor queue entry.

Sky Queue (Tresor), 2023

Her works about cats is about using shape shifting as a way of journeying the inner world. “Cat Grey” is a sort of meditation over what cat like traits the artist currently embody.

Cat Gray (unleashed)

Global Mode &gt; Horsewoman Appearing Normal takes the object of desire and speculation crypto aesthetic to make an image about the ecological and social disaster that we are already in—that we have set ourselves for extinction, an keep programing ourselves for suicide.&nbsp;Horsewoman Appearing Normal II was specifically made for the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, with imprints of normals of diverse city-related objects under the skin, which itself is made with the colors of 3D normals.

Horsewoman Appearing Normal II

Metaverse Petshop is an ironic and playable installation inspired by the relationship between information space and real space. There is a growing worldwide ban on the sale of caged pets in stores. Is it ethical to cage virtual creatures, which can be said to have originally been locked in a cage (called a monitor), for sale in stores? This work lets you purchase an ownership of a pet and release it from its cage using your smartphone.

Metaverse Petshop at 37c3

An oil-drenched offspring, shaped by virtual remnants of fossils stanced upon tentacled limbs, embodying both the traveler and the terrain.&nbsp;The walker was first sighted inside the MYTHMACHINE; a virtual world that produces an infinitely modulating song in response to audio feedback,&nbsp;akin to a sentient musical instrument. Now unleashed, the Walker traverses augmented worlds between, mind, machine, myth, and memory.

Walker (unleashed)

It is a multi-part work: an AR, a video loop and a small series of fine art prints. The moving AR object depicts a standing metallic turquoise lion/ess moving and shaking its head, as if the figure wants to shake off the large metallic splinters that condense around its head.The work refers to the sleeping lion, a bronze sculpture by sculptor C. D. Rauch from 1828, which was placed on a grave monument by K.F. Schinkel for the Prussian General Scharnhorst at the Invalidenfriedhof in 1834.

Restless Lion/ness (Version:unleashed) 12/2023

Vultures - abominated and venerated by human civilizations across histories and geographies for consuming and cleaning the dead - are the only animals on our planet who can digest diseased carrion without getting sick and without spreading sickness to others thanks to the powerfully corrosive quality of their stomach acids.&nbsp;Vulture Veneration&nbsp;is a rare space to honor our agents of life beyond death, a space where visitors may recognize, measure, and prepare.

Vulture Veneration Unlocked

In Search of Ideas (2021–2022) is a self-playing game exploring the Jonas Lund Token universe, following the 3D version of the artist walking around the virtual space looking for his animal friends. The path-finding AI that controls how the artist moves has been programmed to search for animals. The weather and time of day are synchronized with its current location. The animals are representatives and symbols of the JLT universe. Here we show the Penguin.

JLT Collectible (Penguin)

Polite Anti War Messages to bring to a demo are a brief collection of sentences you might want to share to people in positions of power currently supporting or ignoring the genocide in Gaza 2023. Sometimes its easier for people to rectify their positions if we create space for the lie that their transgressions are done in ignorance instead of ideology.

Polite Anti War Messages to bring to a demo 

Weapon was part of the exhibtion Readiness: Civil War at panke.gallery in 2022.

Weapon

The Vulture Mothers is an augmented reality animated sculpture which is part of a larger multi-media project combining scientific and sociological research with animated symbols drawn from pre-Christian European mythology depicting animals as magical beings who both heal and harm their human neighbors. The Vulture Mothers project presents the species as primary actors of decay but also of re-birth and renewal.

Global Mode &gt; Horsewoman Appearing Normal takes the object of desire and speculation crypto aesthetic to make an image about the ecological and social disaster that we are already in—that we have set ourselves for extinction, an keep programing ourselves for suicide.&nbsp;

HorseWoman Appearing Normal

In Search of Ideas (2021–2022) is a self-playing game exploring the Jonas Lund Token universe, following the 3D version of the artist walking around the virtual space looking for his animal friends. The path-finding AI that controls how the artist moves has been programmed to search for animals. The weather and time of day are synchronized with its current location. The animals are representatives and symbols of the JLT universe. Here we show the Deer.

JLT Collectibles (Deer)

Metaverse Petshop at panke.gallery

An oil-drenched offspring, shaped by virtual remnants of fossils stanced upon tentacled&nbsp;limbs, embodying both the traveler and the terrain.

Walker

The restless lion/ess 

Pandora’s Snatch is meant to be opened by the Prometheus statue in Rockefeller center, NYC. The project reframes the myth linking the two: When Prometheus gave fire to men on earth, Zeus was angry. In vengeance, Zeus created the first woman, and sent her with a jar full of trouble. But Pandora brought the cycles of life and death and the promise of a beginning wherever there is an end. Pandora is all-gifted, the first woman of earth and water, she-who-sends-up-gifts-and-vengeance.

Pandora's Snatch

Vultures, abominated and venerated by human civilizations across histories and geographies for consuming and cleaning the dead, are the only animals on our planet who can digest diseased carrion without getting sick and without spreading sickness to others thanks to the powerfully corrosive quality of their stomach acids. Vulture Veneration is a sacred space to honor our agents of life beyond death, a space where visitors may recognize, measure, and prepare.

Vulture Veneration

Her works about cats is about using shape shifting as a way of journeying the inner world. “Cat Grey” is a sort of meditation over what cat like traits the artist currently embody.

Cat Grey

The image of the Farmall tractor is iconic of American farming before the advent of Big Agriculture. This digital 3D model used in several Revolutions Generator WebAR apps was produced from a hand-held scan of the actual tractor that serviced the Brito Family Farm in Presidio, Texas. The tractor helped harvest crops along the U.S./Mexico border, and was used for other farm-related purposes, such as ferrying water tanks and inebriated community members.

Brito Farm Tractor

Santa Cachucha is the holy baseball of mutant spacecraft designs. A volumetric simulation of the object, subject to extreme effects of the near-perfect vacuum of outer space, is featured in the WebAR app "PankeBummel", first exhibited in 2023 at Panke Gallery Berlin as part of the Revolutions Generators collaboration between Ismael de Anda III and Eugene Ahn.

Santa Cachucha

"Object Oriented Stones" is a series of augmented reality abstract artworks and 3D sculptures. The artwork shows an alternative and visionary side of the stones, which appear animated by a sort of bizarre nature, transformed beyond its own functionality into something strange and unpredictable.

"Object Oriented Stones" 2018-ongoing.

memes as swarm.please scale the work until it surrounds you; or until you puke.

Content Swarm

Suitcase[, 0 ]][, [ 1 , 2 ], [ 3 , 4 ]][, [ 5 , 6 ]];\n\n I found the center of the suitcase and stuck my hand out, inviting the wind to pass through me and create sound in the new world.\n\n The suitcase vibrates\n\n And suddenly two large balloons float into view\n\n One is full of fruit\n\n The other with nuts and bolts\n\n That is how I felt at first\n\n Like I was dreaming text generated with GPT-2, custom dataset, 2021part of Trust Territories, credits: Pink and Gold Trumpet by Oberon

Suitcase

A yellow rectangle and the inside of a lila artwork that was painted by Manuel Rossner in virtual reality.&nbsp;

Inside: Spatial Painting (Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz)

Manuel Rossner’s work "Spatial Painting (Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz)" no longer distinguishes between the real world and the alternative world, but experiences space simultaneously as a physical dimension, virtual image and hyperreal medium. His drawings, created in VR, interfere with the location.

Spatial Painting (Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz)

AR Skulpture

Fig 01

Aptal

Particlehair Noisedriven Sculpture

Cascading variations of a game called Sprouts, which uses a few simple rules to generate evolutionary algorithmic structures.

ilinx

"Optimist" is a commentary on&nbsp;attitudes towards environmental issues. Using mostly found materials, the delicate assemblage activates a digital portal to reveal an embodiment of the author's uneasiness with pollution conditions of major cities worldwide. The digital geometric figure deforms and nervously reacts to air quality data retrieved in real-time, an augmented layer to the calmness and child-like quality of its physical artwork counterpart, itself a by-product of wasted resources.&nbsp;

Optimist

A3911.17 is one of a series of 3d scans by Dirk Paesmans processed over a 3 year span. The scans are of people in museums and galleries looking at art. In this scan, updated for Augmented Reality, a TV on the museum wall becomes a window into the world in which it is placed, creating a delightfully complex interplay between layers of mediation.

A3911

A chair.A reference to Joseph Kosuth’s 1965 piece, “One and Three Chairs”.

One and 3D Chairs

Augmented Archeology is the study of human history post current era through the excavation of pixelated reality augmentations and the analysis of GLB artefacts. Uncovered 21 PCE, the Tempelhofer Cybernetic Meadow is the primary site for Augmented Archeology Research and GLB Preservation. It has, since the discovery of the first OBJ Carving, unveiled artefacts and idols that tell a story of soon-to-be ancient digital culture that centers around shared memetic recognition and dankness.&nbsp;

Augmented Archeology

We asked humans from planet Earth to give us their wishes for how they would like the future in 2050 to be like. They talked about wishes for their local community, their country &amp; the planet.In the Augmented Reality experience, you will randomly meet two humans who live across continents and compare their ideas about the future.Buy a piece of someone else's desired future: Net proceeds from the sales are going to projects that support the wishes of the people of the purchased AR object.

PFW - Planetary Future Wishes

A sculpture formed from 4 steel plates balanced against each other turns deadly.

Sculpture No.3

“The mighty hand” takes Rodin's work of the same name as a 3D replica and confronts it with components of an ultra-car from the Lamborghini brand (“Aventador”), a heavily alienated 3D scan of the sculpture “Flamme” (1963) by the sculptor Bernhard Heiliger, and one 3D scan of a modified kitsch fairy tale fountain “Marienborn” (2017) by Joachim Blank.

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