"DANCEFLOOR". Zurich

"DanceFloor"

Gallery multiple art, Zürich

09.12.2013-18.01.2024

Jurgen Ostarhild 2023 Mua Card 01

Jurgen Ostarhild 2023 Mua Card 02

Translation from invitation card

Jurgen Ostarhild is a Berlin-based visual artist who uses light and code as a canvas.

He creates image machines, site-specific installations, multiples and printed artifacts to examine the limits of concrete imagery in the post-photographic landscape. His current work explores distributed data networks such as public blockchains to produce real-time performances of coded light drawings from the tradition of American color field painting and concrete art.

“DanceFloor” is a constantly changing, multi-scalable camouflage pattern based on the Bitcoin price. The fluctuation of the Bitcoin value creates the color field shifts, which are updated every minute.

The work addresses the post-pandemic conditions for systems of decentralization and autonomy (DAOs) as well as the impact of the cryptocurrency boom on artistic production.

Dance Floor Show 1installation view

Df Demo 128DanceFloor, recordings. 2022
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Size: 51 x 51 x 9 cm

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Dance Floor Show 2Timo Niemeier, art historian. Jurgen Ostarhild. Nando Palla, gallerist

Df Br 1657637707Color Constellation, recordings, 2023
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