Nemo Nonnenmacher

In his practice, Nemo Nonnenmacher explores the tension between the field of digital materiality that we can experience within a 'brave new' virtual world and the actual means of representation when it transfers back into an image. He is interested in the state of 'locking' an object 'back in' to the two dimensions of an screen and how a visual fetish determines future mental and sensorial concepts of ourselves. The material he is dealing with are abstract, algorithm-based shapes that shift between undefinable, ephemeral, immaterial and the glimpse of a solid, recognisable, bodily form. He tries to find an equivalent to the new material of the virtual, that he understands as an extension of what we call physical. Lately, he has explored notions around the material of a virtual body and the transcription of physical content into digital texture, such as the act of violence this bodily, digital material is confronted with. Within that he explores the question how the rendering of the slice and rearrangement differs from the process of dematerialisation that is defined by technological limitations. He touches upon the utopian idea of a state that is defined by motion, acceleration and participation rather than matter, gravitation and representation; proposing new politics of the image and its paradigmatic character for the politics of a digital space. This utopian view is the one of a generation that grew up within and hoped for a new political realm within the digital and which experienced the seduction of its economised downfall.