LINKS:
www.franziska-von-den-driesch.de
@franziska_von_den_driesch

Descripion of the work:

The pixelated aesthetic of Minecraft doesn‘t deny its digital origin. Everything, from landscapes to creatures, is built from rough cubes. On the other hand, the game offers an enormous variety of materials, questioning the idea of representing one material through another. In you fell out of the world, Franziska von den Driesch explores randomly generated landscapes and photographs them via screenshots, transferring them onto 35mm film. The resulting images merge pixels and silver grains, revealing the imperfections of both digital and analog processes.

Short Bio:

Franziska von den Driesch (*1981) works with analog and digital photography, video, and cameraless techniques. Her works explore the materiality of the photographic and the interplay between reality and illusion. Silver grain, pixels, and grids act independently, motifs dissolve, and digital images merge with analogue structures, evoking the concept of virtual reality as a possibility.

She studied at University of the Arts Bremen and works since years as a Lecturer in Art and visual Culture at University of Oldenburg and other universities and academies. Her work has been nominated for numerous art awards and exhibited internationally, most recently at Kunsthalle Bremen and C.A.P. Kobe, Japan.