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“I used to be with it, but then they chan­ged what it was. Now what I’m with isn’t it, and what’s it seems weird and scary to me.”

Florian Meisen­berg has gener­ated a self-portrait from personal digital data that can be viewed online at the SCHIRN home­page. It consists of a GPS-tracked motion and commu­ni­ca­tion profile of the artist and his personal image mate­rial. All of the data are rendered graph­i­cally according to a specific algo­rithm. Viewers can follow Meisen­berg via a time­line and track where he is, when he makes an online purchase, how often he uses Google or writes a What­sApp message, and what pictures he takes. What develops is an inti­mate contem­po­rary self-portrait of the artist.

Concur­rent with the digital self-portrait, Meisen­berg is presenting an instal­la­tion by the same name, “Out of Office” (2016), in the Schirn exhi­bi­tion “]∂” in which his smart­phone is streamed 1:1 onto a large screen so that visi­tors to the exhi­bi­tion can follow Meisen­berg’s commu­ni­ca­tion in real time.
The project is part of “Me” – an exhibition at the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, that follows artists in their quest for a contempotary form of self-expression. Until 29 May 2016.
http://www.schirn.de/en/exhibitions/2016/me/
http://www.schirn.de/en/exhibitions/2016/florian_meisenberg/
Photo: Norbert Miguletz, Frankfurt