Digital Worlds
November 10, 2019 to February 2, 2020
Today’s world cannot be imagined without digital media, which have a formative influence on life’s reality in the 21st century. The technical basis of their development, however, goes far back into the past century: the computer was developed during the 1940s as a machine designed primarily to execute complex calculations, and was originally not meant to be an artistic tool. However, during the course of the 1960s, when the first graphic images were generated by computer, it quickly joined the range of artistic possibilities. The earliest computer-based drawings laid the foundation for a new manner of generating images in the arts, and ever since this new method has profoundly influenced our aesthetic sensibility.
Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud, architect, 1918
In its exhibition “Illusionary Nature. Digital Worlds”, the Museum Sinclair-Haus shows works by contemporary artists who use digital compositions to approach a traditional subject of art – namely nature. The results are virtually composed places of yearning whose idyll, however, is frequently disrupted by the cool hyper-reality of artificial animation. These digital landscapes appear foreign yet familiar at the same time. In their works, the artists explore the borders between reality and image, questioning the human perception of the world. The exhibition features digital works on the subject of “nature” from the 1960s to this day.
MUSEUM SINCLAIR-HAUS
Löwengasse 15
Entrance Dorotheenstraße
61348 Bad Homburg v. d. Höhe
Germany
T +49 (0) 6172 404-120
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Tue 2–8 pm, Wed–Fri 2–7 pm
Sat, Sun, public Holidays 10 am–6 pm
December 25, 26 and January 1, 12–6 pm
Closed on Mondays and December 24 and 31
6 €, reduced admission* 4 €
with Culture Pass 1 €
Free admission on Wednesdays
*Reduced admission available for students and those in vocational training up to the age of 27, unemployed persons and persons with severe disabilities.
Free admission for children and teenagers up to the age of 18,
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