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Margret Eicher

Margret Eicher

It’s a digital World

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Context

The motif uses a photo of pop icon Lady Gaga at the 2010 Grammy Awards in a futuristic glitter dress by Armani Privé. It shows her standing in a teleportation unit. Teleportation became commonly known as "beaming" with the first Star Trek series Starship Enterprise in the 1960s.

Teleportation refers to the theoretical transport of a particle, an object or a person from one place to another without crossing the space in between, which is impossible according to the known laws of physics. From a philosophical point of view, the question arises as to what happens to the individual and the consciousness of the transported person during this transformation process. It is a fictional overcoming of time and space that evokes the futuristic vision of total freedom.

The hands in the foreground, which can be assigned to the viewer in terms of perspective, obviously control the fictitious process of teleportation by using a digital controller. This touches on the urgent issue of individual integrity in the face of digital manipulation and access.

Instructions

none

  • Colour

    ideally black, but can also be coloured

  • Position

    free

  • Scalable

    yes

About Margret Eicher

Margret Eicher studied at the Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. As a concept and media artist, she develops digital collages that are woven in the style of classical tapestries and produces large-format art works. In this way, she configures images of the Internet from different areas into a new whole. She developed the technique of copy collage back in the 1980s. She works with reproductions from variable contexts and combines them into large patterns. Her works can be found in numerous collections such as the ZKM Karlsruhe, the Kunsthalle Mannheim and the Sprengel Museum Hannover.

Fun fact

Has practiced Kyūdō (the Japanese martial art of archery) for ten years to the level of first dan until she decided doing art like her complex tapisseries is a way of zen by itself and does not need no further cultural appropriation.