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Homoplanta / 2020
In the project “Homoplanta”, a human-like creature merges with nature and technology in a surrealistic way. Individual body parts, covered with plant remains, mushrooms, wrapped in tree bark. Between the plants a computer board, a cable, a transformer? The remains of long forgotten electronics; what it was good for “back then”, no one knows anymore. Man” could be living in the year 2100, where mankind wanted to be one with nature and just as one with technology, which in the end has become part of the body. Or, it is just a genetic mistake that has brought the hybrid to life. And so we see the future portrait of our species – a strange branch of human evolution.
Object 01 / 33 x 20 x 8 cm / 2020
Object 02 / 28 x 20 x 5 cm / 2020
Object 03 / 30 x 15 x 4 cm / 2020
Object 04 / 37 x 25 x 9 cm / 2020
Object 05 / 33 x 12 x 7 cm / 2020
Fotografie / spekulative body cover 01 / 70 x 70 cm
Fotografie / spekulative body cover 02 / 70 x 70 cm
Fotografie / spekulative body cover 03 / 70 x 70 cm
Scanned_Image / 2014
Scanned_Image01 / oil on canvas / 150 x 110 cm / 2013 – 2014
Scanned_Image02/ oil on canvas / 150 x 110 cm / 2013 – 2014
Scanned_Image03 / oil on canvas / 150 x 110 cm / 2013 – 2014
Scanned_Image04/ oil on canvas / 150 x 110 cm / 2013 – 2014
Scanned_Image05 / oil on canvas / 150 x 110 cm / 2013 – 2014
Scanned_Image06 / oil on canvas / 150 x 110 cm / 2013 – 2014
The visual message (painting) have in backround electronic devices: a scanner, scanning the light of a desk lamp or them self – with a help of a mirror. The images emerged in a process of trial scanning with open scanner and moving the light or mirror during the process of scanning. The accidental incurred glitch was the base of the finish result – oil paintings. The process of painting computer generated pictures reverse the image back to a real object and it needs a physical effort. The human factor is back and responsible for variability and subjectivity.
The processing of “re-using” is a strategy of cultural garbology, based on the content of the digital rubbish. As a result of using the redundant data, both – digital images and regular paintings are remediated and shifted into a new aesthetical dimension.
“The randomness of the picture as a key quality, results from a kind of “reverse engineering” tactics that Marcelina Wellmer applies in her works. Using everyday devices, the artist reaches for the ready-made aesthetical formula but also engages them in a form of a transmedial dialogue. “E. Wojtowich/ PhD, Fine Arts Academy Poznan / Poland
Keywords: remediation, feedback, transmedia, scanning, systems aesthetics, randomness, reverse engineering.
Error 404 502 410 / 2018 – 2012
ERROR 404 502 410 / burned tree / 3 hard discs, acrylic glass, PC Housing, Arduino, Piezzos, Speakers / 2012 – 2019
ERROR 404 502 410
ERROR 404 502 410
What do computer errors sound like? In our everyday use of computers error messages are communicated without sound. Most likely you are presented with matter-of-fact information like, “Server Error. The server has encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request”, or “Oops…This link appears to be broken HTTP 404 File not found.” These silent messages are software interfaces designed to prevent you from having to worry about or engage with what is taking place at the deeper level of the computer‚s processor.
I created a group of hardware interfaces to three common errors that – beyond principles of usability – challenge the visitor to relate to the materiality of errors through the abstract qualities of sound.
Onto the disks of the drives I laser etched the 404 502 410 status codes in big Latin letters. Because of the lasered letters the disk routine stops and the write/read head goes back into its rest position, the disk powers down. A contact microphone is attached to the hard disk drive, recording the mechanical sounds of the moving disk and the write/read head. The sound gets amplified by an equalizer, pronouncing the rhythmical pattern of read action and the disk spinning. The boot routine creates a composition of random length and rhythm, that is always slightly different, depending on how and where on the spinning disk the read / write head gets distracted by the laser etched letters. While the disk is powered down and isn‚t spinning, the text becomes readable by the audience.
E.Wojtowicz, PhD, University of Arts, Poznan / Poland
Poetry Machine / 2013
Poetry Machine / music stand, speakers, distance sensor, DIY mp3 platin / 2013
Poetry Machine / Music stand, speakers, distance sensor, DIY mp3 
Poetry Machine / Music stand, speakers, distance sensor, DIY mp3 / ICI Berlin exhibition view / 2013
Poetry Machine / audio&video documentation / ICI Berlin / 2013
Poetry Machine is mixing randomly two poems by William Blake: Little Girl Lost and Little Boy Lost. The poems are read out loud by the machine – every time the reading is launched, it may be different due to an algorithm responsible for using the particular verse from the database.The artificial voices are synthesized by computer software. The human body influences and interacts with the machine – based on the distance of the listener to the object, the voices are changing, changing in volume, mixing the sentences, getting destroyed. The work plays with the sensibility of machines, the fragility of digital memory and the interaction between human body and artificial object.