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Binocular Rivers

Binocular Rivers is exploring new ways of animated painting,  playing with movement and time using stereoscopic imagery. Hereby I make use of convergence and divergence between the image…

Dream as Visual Expression – Lecture at ZKM

On 5. November 2016 I participated on „Real of Reality“ Conference at the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe with a lecture on „Dream as Visual Expression“. The…

Dream as Visual Expression Organ

  Humans and other mammals usually have an auditory organ of perception (ear), an auditory organ of expression (vocal tract) and visual organ of perception (eye).   These…

Dream Diaries

Visual dream diaries make the core of my research on dreams.  Once the dream world visualized veridically with the tools of visual arts the content and elements of the…

I am a Ghost in Your Dream

„I am a Ghost in Your Dream“ Virtual Reproduction of Dreams Interactive Performance Experience Dream scenes, like virtual reality scenes, are immersive, complex, multimodal and sequentially organised models…

Dream Flight Simulator

Dream Flight Simulator Dream Flight Simulator is an interactive art installation to reproduce the experience of dream flying in reality. For this purpose, I selected from my dream…

Crabs, Frogs and Squids

Crabs, Frogs and Squids – An Experimental Installation about the “Sudden Transformations” of Objects in Nightly Dreams “Crabs, Frogs and Squids” is an experimental installation which aims to…

Dusts of Jupiter

Dusts of Jupiter Dusts of Jupiter is a simulation reproducing the experience in a nightly dream. On 16th February 2015 I dreamt that I was near the planet…

Fenestrae

Fenestræ is an 8 channel video installation trying to restaurate the original stained glass paintings of the Church of St.Johann which were destroyed during the second world war….

Dogma

Dogma is an animation film composed of 7 nested stories about the “curiosity” as a guide in nature, science and arts. Curiosity is the primary driving principle of…

Animals

In this series, wild animals were taken from the dreams and was painted as isolated beings on paper. Wild animals are emotionally powerful symbols that appear in dreams…

Terror

„Terror“Mert Akbal2008, Animation, PAL, 5min, Germany The animated film „Terror“ consists of fifteen sequences. I have the individual sequences in the framework of three years, quite independently produced…

Sunken (Counter) Reliefs

 Sunken (Counter) Reliefs aim to produce the illusion of movement in the painting when the viewer changes his position, imitating a dream scene back from 2005 where „paintings…