EXPANDED.ART presents the group show THE TEXT IS THE MESSAGE. AN EXHIBITION OF MIXED MESSAGES at the gallery in Berlin. What would Marshall McLuhan write today? Very likely text messages. The global village is now largely connected via messenger apps and social media. Life is closeness to strangers and friends, changing every second. Thoughts and feelings are shared as they are thought and lived. Artists: Joachim Bosse, Emily Edelman, Claudia Hart, Andy Kassier, Anika Meier, Skye Nicolas, and Jurgen Ostarhild.

THE TEXT IS THE MESSAGE. AN EXHIBITION OF MIXED MESSAGES

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JENNIFER & KEVIN MCCOY | MACHINE ORGANIC

HEINRICH HEIDERSBERGER: ESPACE THE DARKNESS. RHYTHMOGRAMS, 1953-1965 29 AUGUST - 9 SEPTEMBER 2023 
On view is a selection of RHYTHMOGRAMS Heinrich Heidersberger has created since the early 1950s using a self-built drawing machine. He had an influence on the history of generative photography and algorithmic art with his RHYTHMOGRAMS which are, among others, in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and influenced contemporaries such as Jean Cocteau and Herbert W. Franke.
The RHYTHMOGRAPH, as Heidersberger called his device, was redesigned several times and perfected. The larger version, which was made of conventional scaffolding, still stands fully functional in the exhibition room of the Heidersberger Institute today and takes up close to twenty square meters of floor space. Using four harmonically muffled pendulums, it creates traces of light on photographic material via a mechanically linked mirror and a point source of light. Three-dimensional images are produced by controlling the frequency, phase difference, amplitude, and transmission of the pendulums—two drive the mirror vertically and two horizontally.
EXPANDED.ART Friedrichstraße 67, 10117 Berlin Monday - Saturday: 11 AM - 6 PM CET

Heinrich Heidersberger | Escape the Darkness

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Collect paintings, plotter drawings, works on paper and sculptures by artists of our time.

EXPANDED.ART presents the international group exhibition of early computer art and generative art, THE THINKING MACHINE. PRESENTING PIONEERS, 1953-2023 in collaboration with ELEMENTUM.ART. Curated by Anika Meier and Georg Bak. The exhibition will be on view from 6 to 27 JUNE 2023 at EXPANDED.ART in Berlin. Additionally, the NFTs will be shown at NFT ART Day Zürich on 11 June.
The exhibition presents pioneers from different generations, early 1950s until today, working in the field of generative art. On view will be, among others, plotter drawings, generative photography, sculptures, and NFTs from 30 international artists.
Artists: Ai-Da Robot, Victor Acevedo, Vladimir Bonačić, Analivia Cordeiro, Pierre Cordier, Geoff Davis, Hans Dehlinger, Boris Eldagsen, Primavera de Filippi, Herbert W. Franke, Hein Gravenhorst, Ira Greenberg, Samia Halaby, Heinrich Heidersberger, Karl Martin Holzhäuser, Roger Humbert, Gottfried Jäger, Mario Klingemann, Zach Lieberman, LoVid, Jonas Lund, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, Lee Mullican, Frieder Nake, Piter Pasma, Aaron Penne, Manuel Rossner, Marcel Schwittlick, Travess Smalley, Marina Zurkow
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THE THINKING MACHINE. PRESENTING PIONEERS, 1953-2023

A CHILD’S MACHIAVELLI by Claudia Hart was initially written and illustrated by the artist in 1995, inspired by Niccolo Machiavelli’s Renaissance treatise, THE PRINCE, the first book of political philosophy. Hart’s version began as a series of oil paintings and a small catalog, produced by the Realismus Studio, at the Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin in 1995.
The catalog was eventually released as an expanded hardcover by Penguin USA in 1998, along with German and French editions.
While keeping to the meaning of the original, Hart rewrote THE PRINCE, reflecting street values and the voice of youth culture, as if Machiavelli’s book, meant to advise kings on seizing power, was a primer to teach good manners to small children.
"We are obviously in a period of cultural crisis, with the world slipping into autocracies, war in the Ukraine, and democracy dramatically destabilized in the USA. Social media is used to spread misinformation and engender fear and terror in order to manipulate the populace.
The little mottos that I wrote in the early nineties are more relevant now than ever. They seem to be pointedly directed at the cultural and political world of today. Yet when I wrote them, I felt that I was translating Machiavelli’s early 16th-century text into the politics of that time."
– Claudia Hart, June 2023
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CLAUDIA HART | A CHILD'S MACHIAVELLI

The exhibition PLOTTED LINES by Hans Dehlinger is comprised of 26 of the artist's plotter drawings of the past three decades and shows the artist’s exploration of the medium and the line. With a focus on algorithmically generated line drawings, Dehlinger bases his generative artworks on computer code executed on pen plotters, forming delicate structures, dense textures, or even evoking an unsharp impression from sharp lines.

HANS DEHLINGER | PLOTTED LINES

Herbert W Franke: CODED BEAUTY  2-26 March 2023 EXPANDED.ART | BERLIN
CODED BEAUTY is comprised of eight works of Franke’s series MATH ART created between 1980 and 1995, early generative photographs from the 1950s, his Biennale serigraphy including QUADRATE (1969/70) and further serigraphies. 
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HERBERT W FRANKE | CODED BEAUTY

JENNIFER & KEVIN MCCOY | THE EICHLER SERIES

"I am a writer. As students, we ran the first print peer-reviewed magazine for the history of art. It later turned into a blog. We won prizes.
Social media killed art criticism.
Readers mainly respond to headlines and quotes on social media. At best, it‘s a lively exchange of thoughts, experiences, knowledge, and opinions.
In 2022, I started tweeting thoughts and questions that, in a different world, I would have turned more often into texts.
As a writer would do, I now present these thoughts and questions, written by hand on a beautiful piece of paper.
The first 5 editions of "tweets from twitter" are the tweets from myself that got the most responses and, at the same time, are a document of a moment in history: the age of Post-NFTism.
Signed. Anika Meier
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ANIKA MEIER | TWEETS FROM TWITTER

ARTIST STATEMENT
Andy Kassier observes phenomena in social media and the development of digital image cultures. Based on his findings, he searches in his artistic work for answers to currently socially relevant questions: is happiness? How do I become successful? How is masculinity portrayed? How do I accept myself? What is the role of the artist in the digital age?

Andy Kassier

JOACHIM BOSSE | SELECTED FRAMES

EXPANDED.ART is pleased to present the group exhibition THE CUTE SHOW on the occasion of Gallery Weekend Berlin. More than 21 artists explore the duality of kitsch and its critique of modernity, technology, and online culture.
Bright, pastel-coloured fantasy worlds filled with unicorns, animals, and other fluffy creatures evoke feelings of tenderness and innocence. But is cuteness always this innocent? The rise of the aesthetic movement "cute" correlates directly with challenges of growing up and living in the digital age. ​
Artists: Albrecht/ Wilke, Arno Beck, Joachim Bosse, Arvida Byström, Chris Drange, Daniel Gebhart de Koekkoek, Claudia Hart, Andy Kassier, Clare Kenny, Nadine Kolodziey, Jiny Lan, Marcin Laszczewski, Margaret Murphy, Isis Maria Niedecken, Skye Nicolas, Cevin Parker, Leonie Specht, Josefine Schulz, Mateusz von Motz, Ruohan Wang
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THE CUTE SHOW

IRA GREENBERG | BEASTS

The exhibition GENERATIVE ABSTRACTION AND BEYOND aims to define a point in history where a network of artists are generating abstract works with algorithms and codes. Artists employing formal ideas of abstraction in their codes and algorithms are pioneering compositions that take generative art to new horizons.
Artists: Herbert W. Franke, Lee Mullican, Heinrich Heidersberger, Anna Lucia, Kim Asendorf, Banz &amp; Bowinkel, Anna Carreras, Anna Beller, Ira Greenberg, Iskra Velitchkova, Jonas Lund, Leander Herzog &amp; Richard Nadler, Aaron Penne, Lisa Orth, Marcel Schwittlick, Manuel Rossner, Ivona Tau, Julien Espagnon, and more.
In collaboration with <a href="https://verse.works/exhibitions/generative-abstraction" style="color: #ffffff; text-decoration: underline;">Verse</a>.

GENERATIVE ABSTRACTION AND BEYOND

A NEW BEGINNING | EXPANDED.ART

Herbert W. Franke

ARTIST STATEMENT
Jonas Lund creates paintings, sculptures, photography, websites and performances that critically reflect on contemporary networked systems and power structures of control. His artistic practice involves creating systems and setting up parameters that require engagement from the viewer.

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