Darwin’sche Finken suchen [Searching for Darwin’s finches] is a form of applied artistic research. It consists of various experiments with different cameras, with the picture’s time and space and with myself as a part of the recording session, of the camera, of the picture etc. The question in focus is whether and how it is possible to search beyond one’s own boundaries, whether they are structural/conceptual/methodological or based on the fact that one is a body and is thus vulnerable and occupies a certain space and time. The method is rather a non-method, first broadly documented in written form and applied by Charles Darwin on his circumnavigation. It is based on curiosity (= being interested and confident in advance) in whatever lies on the way and therefore concepts or preferences are figured out as you go along. At best they are not easy to grasp or put into words.
The videos (finches and non-finches) are pooled, structured by relatedness, on the project’s website. Each video creates page of it’s own, presenting its particular perspective. The videos are accompanied by my theoretical work which is structured for digital reading.
Darwin’sche Finken suchen is my diploma thesis which I completed in febuary 2012 at the Design faculty of the University of Applied Sciences. It was supervised by Prof. Anja Vormann and Heike Sperling.
The videos (finches and non-finches) are pooled, structured by relatedness, on the project’s website. Each video creates page of it’s own, presenting its particular perspective. The videos are accompanied by my theoretical work which is structured for digital reading.
Darwin’sche Finken suchen is my diploma thesis which I completed in febuary 2012 at the Design faculty of the University of Applied Sciences. It was supervised by Prof. Anja Vormann and Heike Sperling.
