jtwine aka j twine aka jt wine aka jurgen trautwein aka juergen trautwein aka jürgen trautwein

studied at the University of the Arts in Berlin, lives and works in San Francisco, founder of  jtwine.com, active exhibition record since 1986

jtwine is an experimental artist working in a variety of forms, including new media and hypertext works, temporary interferences, installations and classical forms such as painting, drawing and photography. jtwine has been creating web works since 1996 with a strong focus on repetitious sound-image-motion-interactions. jtwine.com functions like an archive of fictional and real incidents where personal experience merges with visual research and documentary. jtwine is combining high and low tech, reflecting on the heterogeneous and pluralistic character of our visual culture and the web. His work has been shown widely in museums, non profit art spaces, festivals and galleries around the world.

current project: noise_pix_bombs / jtwine re-twined - click your way into infinite repetitions of the same, an always the Same-Game SPIEL ohne ZIEL project. n_p_b is a remix, consisting of various former jtwine net art projects re-contextualized and re-twined. This is an anti war, experimental, virtual interactive sound-image-composition pseudo game. The n_p_b project questions repetitious perception of destruction with the option  of minute modifications, while repeating the same actions. It seems one can change a lot, but actually one doesn't. It's possible to white-wash most of the screen, but at some point the system stays the same, resulting in  being caught up in an endless loop of  war-machinery and destruction.

most recent exhibitions include: 2011 - Hans Benda gallery, Verviers, Belgium - sitting quietly doing nothing, Indian Valley outpost-outhouse exhibitions, Indian Valley California - File 2011, SESI Cultural Centre, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Synthetic Zero, Bronx Art Space, NY - Regeneration.011, politics and poetry in net-art,  curated by Marcus Graf, PlatoSanat, Istanbul --- 2010 - WB 10, Web Biennial, museum for contemporary art, Istanbul - Festival of digital culture, Espacio Enter, Teneriffa, Canari Islands - No Food No Drink No Sticky Lollies, curated by F. Leuthäußer, Stattbad, Berlin - FAD Festival Arte Digital, Belo Horizonte, Brazil - Climate Gallery (Sonik1), Long Island City, NY - Java museum (net art features), Cologne ---2009 - HTTP Gallery (DIWO at the dark mountain), London - Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery (A book about death), New York  --- 2008 - Live worms Gallery, (a striking twelve), San Francisco -  Sight Sound Interaction, MICA, Rosenberg gallery, Baltimore... 

> review by darshana vora @ furtherfield
> review/ interview by lewis lacook @ furtherfield
> interviewed by togay tanyola
> review by michael huebel
> review by claudia schuler

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