KIM ASENDORF
Kim Asendorf hat an der Kunsthochschule Kassel Visuelle Kommunikation studiert und war später am gleichen Ort Dozent für Creative Coding. Seine Arbeiten experimentieren mit technologischen Entwicklungen und loten die Grenzen ihrer Möglichkeiten aus. Zuletzt kreierte er generative NFTs und mit ihnen einen ganz neuen Animationsstil, der als Echtzeit-Animation den Blick der Betrachter*innen herausfordert.
Jedes Kunstwerk der „Monogrids“ wird mit einem sogenannten Startalgorithmus initialisiert, der eine Reihe von Rechtecken aufbaut und sie mit Pixeln füllt. Die Art der anfänglichen Füllung hängt von der Position im Hauptraster ab. Die erste Reihe (#00-0F) beginnt mit einem Pixelraster geringer Dichte. Die Dichte erhöht sich bis zur mittleren Reihe (#70-7F), wo das Pixelraster in ein Linienraster umgewandelt wird. Von der Mitte (#80-8F) bis zum Ende (#F0-FF) nimmt die Dichte wieder ab. Die Farbbalance geht von Weiß in der linken Spalte (#00-F0) zu Schwarz in der rechten Spalte (#0F-FF) über. Die Komplexität des Anfangsaufbaus ist in der Mitte am höchsten (#77, #78, #87, #88) und nimmt nach außen hin allmählich ab. Die Dynamik der Animation funktioniert in umgekehrter Richtung. Je einfacher die Struktur ist, desto höher ist die Dynamik der Bewegung. Es gibt eine Reihe von 16 Animationen bei der Arbeit. 4 geräuschbasierte Animationen, 4 Verschiebeanimationen, 4 modulobasierte Animationen und 4 Rücksetzanimationen, die alle parallel ablaufen. Jede Animation wählt ein Rechteck aus der Ausgangssituation aus und bearbeitet die Pixel in diesem Bereich. Der Auswahlprozess läuft unabhängig und die Animationen können sich überschneiden, was zu einem neuen Animationsstil führt.
Kim Asendorf ist Konzeptkünstler. Seine Arbeit reicht von Online-Projekten und Performances bis hin zu visueller Kunst und Installationen und ist stark von der Internetkultur und technologischen Entwicklung inspiriert. Er ist bekannt für die Erschaffung von Pixel Sorting, einem Bildveränderungsalgorithmus, den er als Open Source zur Verfügung gestellt hat, die Schaffung von Dateiformaten als Kunstwerk oder The First Animated GIF Send Into Deep Space. Kim Assendorfs Arbeiten wurden auf Festivals und in Institutionen wie der Transmediale, dem ZKM Karlsruhe, dem Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, dem NCCA Jekaterinburg, Eyebeam, NIMK, LEAP oder der Overlapping Biennale Bukarest sowie in Galerien und auf Messen wie Unpainted (München), Moving Image Contemporary Art Fair (London), Creation Gallery G8 (Tokio), Carroll / Fletcher (London), KM Temporaer (Berlin), XPO Gallery (Paris) oder The Photographers’ Gallery (London).
KIM ASENDORF
Kim Asendorf studied visual communication at the Kunsthochschule Kassel and later taught creative coding at the same place. His works experiment with technological developments or rather explore the limits of their possibilities. Most recently, he created generative NFTs and with them a completely new style of animation that challenges the viewer’s gaze as real-time animation.
Each „Monogrid“-artwork gets initialized with a start up algorithm that builds up a set of rectangles and fills them with pixels. The style of the initial filling depends on the position in the main grid. The first row (#00-0F) starts with a low density pixel grid. The density increases up to the middle row (#70-7F), where the pixel grid converts into a line grid. From the middle (#80-8F) to the bottom (#F0-FF) the density decreases again. The color balance fades from white on the left column (#00-F0) to black on the right column (#0F-FF). The complexity of the initial setup is highest in the middle (#77, #78, #87, #88) and gradually reduces to the outside. The dynamic of the animation works in the opposite direction. The simpler the structure, the higher the dynamic of the movement. There is a set of 16 animations at work. 4 noise based animations, 4 shifting animations, 4 modulo based animation and 4 reset animations, all run in parallel. Each animation selects a rectangle from the initial setup and edits the pixels in this area. The selection process runs independently and animations can overlap which results in a new style of animation.
Kim Asendorf is a conceptual and visual artist from Germany. His work ranges from online projects and performances to visual art and installations and is highly inspired by Internet culture and technology. He is widely know for the creation of Pixel Sorting, an image altering algorithm he made Open Source, the creation of file formats as work of art or The First Animated GIF Send Into Deep Space. Kim’s works has been shown at festivals and institutions like Transmediale, ZKM Karlsruhe, Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, NCCA Yekaterinburg, Eyebeam, NIMK, LEAP or the Overlapping Biennial Bucharest and at galleries and fairs like Unpainted (Munich), Moving Image Contemporary Art Fair (London), Creation Gallery G8 (Tokyo), Carroll / Fletcher (London), KM Temporaer (Berlin), XPO Gallery (Paris) or The Photographers’ Gallery (London).
Kim Asendorf
Kim Asendorf lives and works in Berlin, Germany
Education:
Master of fine arts new media, School of Art and Design Kassel, 2006-11
New media research assistent, School of Art and Design Kassel, 2011-12
Meisterschüler, New Media with Joel Baumann, School of Art and Design Kassel, 2012-13
EXHIBITIONS
2015
Pizza Pavilion, Pizza Al Volo, Campo Santa Margherita, Venice, Italia (Curated by Paul, Konstanze, Matteo & Simona)
Station Rose & Friends, Museumsquartier Wien, Vienna, Austria (Curated by Station Rose)
The New Black, Resonate, Galerija 12 HUB, Belgrade, Serbia (Curated by Nora O´Murchú)
Screens, Little Berlin, Philadelphia, USA (Curated by Peter Erickson)
Long Distance Gallery @ transmediale Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Kim Asendorf & Ole Fach: Computer´s World, Carroll / Fletcher, London, UK
2014
INIT(INTERNET);, DAM GALLERY Berlin, Germany
Transmediale After Glow, Art Hack Day, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany (Curated by John McKiernan, Olof Mathé & Kristoffer Gansing)
Unoriginal Genius, Carroll / Fletcher, London, UK (Curated by Domenico Quaranta)
net.art Painters and Poets, City Art Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia (Curated by Vuk Cosic)
NET.ARTografie, Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, Germany (Curated by Gustavo Romano)
Unpainted Media Art Fair, Postpalast, Munich, Germany
Illuminating Graphics, Creation Gallery G8, Tokyo, Japan (Curated by Ryoji Tanaka)
Data Culture, New Horizons Festival, Onderwijscentrum Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands (Curated by Jan Robert Leegte)
International Teletext Art Festival, ARD Text, ORF TELETEXT, Swiss Text and ARTE Teletext (Curated by FixC)
Gamerz Festival #10, École Supérieure d’Art d’Aix-en-Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France (Curated by Quentin Destieu)
Penetrating Surfaces, The Austrian Film Museum, Vienna, Austria (Curated by Robert Seidel)
Exhibition Kickstarter, Ditch Projects, Springfield, USA (Curated by Krystal South)
You Might Be A Dog, LEAP, Berlin, Germany (Curated by Teresa Dillon & LEAP)
Out of Office, Arcade Cardiff, Cardiff, UK (Curated by Matthew Britton)
Everything All at Once, Lyst Studios, London, UK (Curated by 15 Folds)
Produce, Consume, Grunt Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (Curated by Matt Troy)
SLO-MO-O-O-T-D, Halle 14 – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany (Curated by Tine Günther)
Official office: Kim Asendorf & Ole Fach, S T O R E, Dresden & Recess, NYC (Curated by Paul Barsch)
Digital Visions, Bibliothèque Francophone Multimédia de Limoges, Limoges, France (Curated by Systaime)
Hacktist, Sanshan Museum, Hangzhou, China (Curated by Systaime & M. Delourme)
“Influx” (Arrival & Inward Flow of a Large Amount of Something) Part 2, CR10 Arts, Linlithgo, NY (Curated by Mark Dorf)
BYOB Geneva, Le Commun (BAC), Geneva, Switzerland (Curated by Eva Papamargariti, Loïq Sutter & Elias Carella)
You Are The Artist. The Happening Vol. 2, Direktorenhaus, Berlin, Germany (Curated by Gary Cutman)
URL-Squatting #1, Internet (Curated by Philipp Teister)
GIFBites, Internet (Curated by Daniel Rourke)
The Limited Collection, Internet (Curated by Valentina Fois & Rozsa Farkas)
2013
Transmediale, Back When Pluto Was A Planet, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany (Curated by Jacob Lillemose)
global aCtIVISm, ZKM, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany (VC)
Offline Art: NEW2, Xpo Gallery, Paris, France (Curated by Aram Bartholl)
New Aesthetics: Constancy of the Internal Principle, National Center for Contemporary Arts, Yekaterinburg, Russia (Curated by Ilya Shipilovskikh)
National #Selfie Portrait Gallery, Moving Image Contemporary Art Fair, London, UK (Curated by Marina Galperina & Kyle Chayka)
Emoji Art & Design Show, Eyebeam, New York (VC)
Zu Gast im Rektorat #6: Kim Asendorf, Rektorat, Kunsthochschule Kassel, Germany (Curated by Christian Philipp Müller)
local.#non.access, KM Temporaer, Berlin, Germany (Curated by Florian Kuhlmann, Elisa R. Linn & Lennart Wolff)
TECHNOROMANTICISM, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, USA (Curated by Alfredo Salazar-Caro)
Parcel, Bronx Art Space, New York (Curated by Rollin Leonard)
Sunset With Gogo Girls, C.Rockefeller Center For The Contemporary Arts, Dresden, Germany (Curated by Tine Günther)
(ᴳ̇̐litch) Art Genealogies, LEAP, Berlin, Germany (Curated by Rosa Menkman & John McKiernan)
PAF, XII. Prehlídka animovaného filmu (Festival of Film Animation), Olomouc, Czech Republic (Curated by Mary Meixner)
Dinca Vision Quest, Mana Contemporary, Chicago, USA (Curated by Andrew Rosinski & Fern Silva)
Prosume This! Gorbushka, TV-Team, Moscow, Russia (Curated by Anika Schwarzlose, Yana Nikulenko & Jonas Lund)
John Lewis TV Gallery, Rook & Raven Gallery, London, UK
Untitled, Cloaque, Art F City Booth, Miami Beach, USA
_ģ̶Ł̶1̶ɫ̶C̶ʮ̶_Δ┌┼—\/\/\/\/\/\/!┬—jonCates_, Neutral Ground Contemporary Art Forum, Regina (Curated by jonCates)
Art Hack Day, Going Dark, LEAP, Berlin, Germany (Curated by John McKiernan & Olof Mathé)
UPLOAD, New Hive & GAFFTA, Mission Dispatch, San Francisco, USA
Glitch Aesthetic, Counterpath, Denver, USA (Curated by Michael Flatt)
Hacktist, 5ft WebExpo, Internet & Nomade Art Space, Hangzhou, China (Curated by Systaime & M. Delourme)
Parametric Utopia, Espace29, Bordeaux, France (Curated by Pierre Antoine Irasque)
Kiss my Pixels, Espace29, Bordeaux, France (Curated by Pierre Antoine Irasque)
Rrrecycle Bin, Future Tenant Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, USA (Curated by John Zobele)
When Analog was Periodical, Z-Bar, Berlin, Germany (Curated by Lorna Mills & Anthony Antonellis)
Meet in Real Life, Westend Carree, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
You Are The Artist. The Happening, Je Regrette, Berlin, Germany (Curated by Gary Cutman)
The Wrong New Digital Art Biennale, Shadow Box, Internet (Curated by Rollin Leonard)
Selfie, Museum of Internet & ArtStack, Internet (Curated by Emilie Gervais & Félix Magal)
SPAMM Safari, Internet (Curated by La Turbo Avedon & Systaime)
Tropical GIF, Domain Gallery, Internet (Curated by Manuel Fernández)
Mon3y.us, Internet (Curated by Vasily Zaitsev)
Parallax View, Internet (Curated by FixC)
Virtual Verbs, Internet (Curated by Molly Richards)
RIGID_BØDIES, Internet (Curated by Alfredo Salazar-Caro)
2012
OddPoetics, Overlapping Biennial, The Biennial of Young Artists, Bucharest, Romania (Curated by Lea Rasovszky, Silvia Saitoc & Matei Samihaian)
Born in 1987, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK (Curated by Katrina Sluis)
Exciting Virtuals, Διεθνές Φεστιβάλ Ταινιών Μικρού Μήκους Δράμας, Melina, Dráma (Curated by Georges Jacoty)
Parcel, X as Y as Z Pop-up Gallery, Portland Maine, USA (Curated by Rollin Leonard)
DITHER_DØØM: ∆N INTRØ TØ M∆¥∆N NEW MEDI∆, Oliver Francis Gallery, Dallas, USA (Curated by Alfredo Salazar-Caro)
Astral Projection Abduction Fantasy, Monster Truck Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (Curated by Standard Features)
Click Nr. 2, New Media Arts Festival, Helsingør, Denmark (Workshop) (Curated by Jacob Sikker Remin)
Swäg Party, DITHER D00M, Nightingale Theatre, Chicago, USA (Curated by Patrick Quinn)
Speed Show Ping!…, Nicola Internet Cafe, Vancouver, Canada (Curated by Aureliano Segundo & Aaron Chan)
Speed Show Transfer3D, NAVIG@TOR Igielna, Wrocław, Poland (Curated by Małgosia Woznica & Dominik Podsiadly)
Speed Show Gifs 4 Life, FoneNet, Galway, Ireland (Curated by Nora O’ Murchú)
Speed Show Extra Credit, Penn State, Altoona, USA (Curated by A. Bill Miller)
Sheroes #12: Nina Simone, The Beaver, Ontario, Canada (Curated by Rea McNamara & Lorna Mills)
C.R.E.A.M., Art Micro Patronage, Internet (Curated by Lindsay Howard)
Inetrnet Download, Domain Gallery, Internet (Curated by Manuel Fernández)
Print Fiction, Internet (Curated by Michael Alfred)
#0000FF Line #1, #0000FF Gallery, Facebook, Internet (Curated by Georges Jacoty)
2011
GLI.TC/H 20111, Nightingale Theatre, Chicago & STEIM, Amsterdam, Netherlands (Curated by Rosa Menkman, Jon Satrom, Nick Briz & Evan Meaney)
The Art of Hacking, moddr_, Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMK), Amsterdam, Netherlands (Curated by Walter Langelaar)
4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, 25 Kadr Gallery, Moscow, Russia (Curated by Alexander Lysov)
Dazed Live, Action! International Film Club, London, UK (Curated by Christian Petersen)
aTTENDING Second Salon, Essential Existence Gallery, Leipzig, Germany (Curated by Hendrik Niefeld & Ron Nuyork)
BYOB 5caaarr3d & PR0f4nee, Peaks Island, Portland Maine, USA (Curated by Rollin Leonard)
Screengrab, School of Creative Art, Townsville, Australia
Spektakel, Documenta Halle, Kassel, Germany (Curated by martinafischer13)
Dumb Eyes & Ian Obermuller Present: ACTION!, Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, USA (Curated by Christian Petersen)
Desktop Views, Internet (Curated by Adam Cruces)
Ani-gif.com, 003, Internet (Curated by Daniel Rehn & Sarah Caluag)
SuPer Art Modern Museum, spamm.fr, Internet (Curated by Thomas Cheneseau & Systaime)
2010
Poke, Tetem Kunstruimte, Enschede, Netherlands (Curated by Ella Buzo)
Speed Show Vol. 2, Vienna, Austria (Curated by Aram Bartholl)
Gli.tc/h, Internet
VisualBerlin Festival, AViT, Berlin, Germany (Workshop)
Visual Circus, Kulturfabrik Salzmann, Kassel, Germany
Pirateristik, Caricatura, Kassel, Germany
2009
Spielzone, Museum im Deutschordensschloss, Münnerstadt, Germany (Curated by Olav Val & Joel Baumann)
Save The Place, Galerie Loyal & Raum 4, Kassel, Germany
Spaziergang, Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Bääääm Groupshow, Galerie Loyal & Raum 4, Kassel, Germany
2008
DIY Festival, Dynamo, Zurich, Switzerland
Plattform #5, Kunstverein Hannover, Germany
Jahrmarktskunst, Caricatura, Kassel, Germany
TALKS
2014 Arte Creative, Transmediale After Glow, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
2013 Blackboard Intervention, Transmediale BWPWAP, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
2013 Hörspielforum, Film- und Medienstiftung, WDR Köln, Germany
2012 Processing Berlin, LEAP, Berlin, Germany
2011 ExtraFile, LEAP, Berlin, Germany
2008 DIY Festival, Dynamo, Zurich, Switzerland