The large-scale sculpture by Darmstadt steel sculptor Georg-Friedrich Wolf is about a special kind of data. Forms that serve as data carriers. Like the receptors and enzymes in the biology of living beings, in which partner elements come together through form-fitting interaction – the key-lock principle. The fingerprint stele does not depict the actual actors, but only their outlines – the negative image – the fingerprints. Here, in the stele, they absorb the observed environment.
The artwork is part of an exhibition featuring other works by Wolf at Darmstadt’s Stadtkirche (City Church). Two very different works are presented here. Here, data symbols in steel as an “ode to eternity,” which humans have been carving into solid materials for 10,000 years, are shown. There, a digital media installation “Smart Hans” by Munich artist Max Haarich, which uses artificial intelligence to communicate with the viewer, is shown. The exhibition opens with a vernissage on Friday, May 3, 2024, at 6 p.m.
On June 7, 2024, at 7:30 p.m., a midissage will take place with a dialogue between the artist and the Vice President of TU Darmstadt, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Pelz, and other participants on the topic “The Poetry of Data – Between Art, Technology, and Ethical Challenges.”
The exhibition can be viewed until June 16, 2024, during opening hours, Tuesday to Friday, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Under the common theme “The Poetry of Data,” art exhibitions and cultural events will be presented in various locations and over several periods in central public spaces in Darmstadt in spring 2024.
Further information: kultur-digitalstadt.de/artvorort
