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Infolab / Franz XAVER
Endlose Annäherung an Null - Endless Approach to Zero

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Analog and Digital Visualizations
Basement
Continuous

In the context of art, technology and natural sciences Franz XAVER has been dealing with so-called glitches since the beginning. Glitches interrupt processes of logical consequences as unexpected events or unexplained blurs. This examination has shaped XAVERs concept of process art and his preoccupation with the causes of creativity.

“Mathematics offers the possibility to describe reality and thereby opens a special perspective on our being. For almost 40 years I have been pursuing an endless approximation to zero. Thereby I subtract the reciprocal value of the natural number series again and again from a basic value.”

The digital approximation to zero visualizes a fugue or interference pattern created by iterations of endless number series.

The analog approximation to zero takes place via a video image that is fed back via the electromagetic space in the basement of the STWST. The projection screen thereby becomes the zero passage.

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Franz XAVER (AT) has studied at the Academy of Applied Art, department of “Visual Communication” founded by Peter Weibel. Subsequently he was teaching computer languages, audio-visual productions, electronics and electrical technics at the same Academy until 1992. At the Technical University of Graz he was lecturing at the department “Institut für Baukunst” “CommunicationTheory”. He was participating in numerous exhibitions in Austria and abroad, including Ars Electronica, Aperto Biennale di Venezia, Triennale Milano, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle Bonn in Germany. Director of Medienkunstlabor in Kunsthaus Graz 2003-2007. Since 2008 he works in Stadtwerkstatt Linz. http://stwst.at http://donowtic.com

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