www.zeitgenossen.com
a web trilogy (1999 – 2005)

Since 1999 Zeitgenossen have been focusing on creating individual components to identify the contours of a topic that has long characterized human thought in the field of philosophy: What is a human being? These projects are summarized into a web trilogy. The external framework of the trilogy is a time axis leading from the present of the Binary Art Site to the future of the Outer Space IP and into the past of Phantasma. The Binary Art Site juggles with the synchronous linking of visual images, texts, and sounds. All together it is about the form of inner tranquility that evolves when one’s own sensitivities are no longer shocking. Outer Space IP shows preliminary efforts at integrating voices into linked visual spaces. It focuses on human disorientation in a hermetic environment supported by technological feasibility. Phantasma is based on a homogeneous surface that leads into contiguous voice rooms. (Insufficient) obedience is treated as a central motif of human action.

Zeitgenossen

Ursula Hentschläger

communications scholar and author, has been involved in interdisciplinary works since 1990 in the fields of media theory and literature (e.g., Lost & Found, 2001). Since 1982 ZELKO WIENER has been involved in media art projects in the fields of telecommunication (“Biennale di Venezia,” 1986), audiovisual composition (“Ars Electronica,” 1990), and digital image worlds (“(A)WAY,” 1998).

Zelko Wiener

has been involved in media art projects in the fields of telecommunication (“Biennale di Venezia,“ 1986), audiovisual composition (“Ars Electronica,” 1990), and digital image worlds (“(A)WAY,” 1998).


Both artists founded Zeitgenossen in 1999 as an independent artist duo concentrating on the development of web projects. www.zeitgenossen.com won two prizes and has been shown in the United States, South America, and Europe.


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