Juergen Trautwein



                   
ONFF is a Meta_Face sequel

2:11min, b/w, mp4
© San Francisco, February 2022
a NIESATT Production

"ONFF" is a collaborative video by Jürgen Trautwein and Silvia Nonnenmacher aka jtwine.

"ONFF" is based on original pen and ink drawings on letter-size paper.
"ONFF" observes our obsessions and addictions in a digitalized world. Through our devices and social media we are being deep-faced, spied-on, infiltrated and manipulated to become vulnerable addicts, exploitable for perpetual digital harvest.

Triggerfinger ONFFness. The Battle between Zero and One, ON or OFF.  "ONFF" reveals the physical detachedness from each other, making us to the human species homo digitalis, a family of post reality primates.

"ONFF" is opening up the questions: What would happen if all the screens go blank? What will the world be like when there is no option to click to continue, when all is frozen and completely wiped?

RISE

1:51min, b/w, mp4
© San Francisco, February 2021
a NIESATT_TTASEIN production

"RISE" (in a topsy_turvy world) fragmented memories of a year like no other


mind_fly

2:00min, b/w, mp4
© San Francisco, April 2020
a NIESATT production in quarantine

"mind_fly", employed the 'shelter-in-place' low-tech approach of weaving pen & ink drawings on letter-size paper into .gifs and subsequent video. Counterpointed by a clickety-click soundscape of automated subway traffic, assembly-lines, elevator doors, disembodied footfalls, droning announcements --in which a cumulatively nightmarish post-apocalyptic lung exhales toxin and smoke into an accelerating de-humanizing de-civilization of smartphone dependence and dystopic digitization (where gas masks literally become the only short-end resolution)--
“mind_fly” nevertheless eschews the fatalistic for the hopeful… suggesting that the evil spell be broken, at least symbolically, by a calming re-integration with nature, as in the simple interaction of a single human gratefully listening to the song of a single bird on the perch of one’s own finger. Rebecca Peters.


Meta_Face

2:09min, b/w, mp4
© San Francisco, November 2017
a NIESATT production

"Meta_Face" is a collaborative video by Jürgen Trautwein and Silvia Nonnenmacher aka jtwine. The video is based on original pen and ink drawings on letter-size paper.
"Meta_Face" observes our obsessions and addictions in a digitalized world. Through our devices and social media we are being deep-faced, spied-on, infiltrated and manipulated to become vulnerable addicts, exploitable for perpetual digital harvest.
"Meta_Face" reveals the physical detachedness from each other, making us to the human species homo digitalis, a family of post reality primates.