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ZEITGUISED

Sommerso - Vertical

3D
Abstract

Submerged: straight-cut volumes of glass sunk within each other, light dispersing along their edges. It’s the closest descendant of the Denver façade, with the architecture removed and the optics kept.

The Series Murano HUD is a family of moving images in which the oldest optical technology — glass — meets one of its youngest descendants: the head-up display. Molten volumes drift as if they never cooled, then re-set in sudden shifts, not clocked, but of their own accord: continuous matter, discrete moments. The series began at architectural scale: as "The Abbe Number" on the Jenoptik tower in Jena (2025), and as a monumental projection on Denver's Daniels & Fisher Tower (itself a replica of Venice's Campanile) for Night Lights Denver (2026), returning a Venetian building to Venetian glass. These works re-score that material for the screen: speculative form, between simulation and matter. Vertical, each work reads as a totem of light; horizontal, as a landscape in slow recomposition.

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ZEITGUISED

Germany

ZEITGUISED is an influential art and design studio for audio-visual spatial installations at the intersection of virtual and physical space. The studio's signature is post-poetic, digitally abstract narrations in innovative photoreal collage styles, often a blend of recognizable unassuming objects in unaccustomed environments, and vice versa. Self-labelling their work as virtual prosthetics shows their intent to corrupt the tropes of vandalism with digital means, as their ambiguous and exquisite work draws from the infinite recombination capacity of a digital mash-up culture, multiplied by the manipulation potential of virtual real time 3D tools. Using seductive photographic simulation, ZEITGUISED is widely regarded as the handcraft-based originator of a hallucinative transformation style that is now the signature of AI image production. These post-narrative modes of structural transformations, evoking mental states of manic order and complex instability, have been made up by the studio’s natively digital vocabulary of forms and processes that walks a precarious line availing itself of the aesthetic languages of both fine art and commercial industries, disintegrating either. As surface phenomena become the content and unstable generative processes of colour, material, shape and spatial structures become storyline and protagonist simultaneously, the dichotomy between cognitive imagination and rational observation is exposed and evaporated as one and the same mental figment.

With the post-poetic The Zoo (2004) and Peripetics (2008), ZEITGUISED initiated a genre that has flourished in the realm of digital art and motion design. geist.xyz (2016) is one of the first natively virtual textile design projects that inspired a new generation of virtual garment designers and has been acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, into their permanent digital collection (2021). ZEITGUISEDs work has been presented in numerous international media festivals like ZKM, Onedotzero, Dotmov, Nemo, ITFS, Toronto and Resfest.

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