Soundpool
7 interactive levels of nature and noise sounds. A mp3 sound subtraction and addition game, consisting of 4 nature layers and three noise layers. It goes like this all go, or 1, 2, 3 go 4 stop 5 stop 6, 7 go, or 1 go 2 stop 3 stop 4 stop 5 stop 6 stop 7 go, or 1 go 2 go 3 stop 4 stop 5 stop 6 stop 7 stop, or....

 

 

RWB - who's afraid of red, white and blue.
RWB is a NIESATT of liberté, egalité and fraternité project. This piece is a simple html game. It's not necessarily funny, it's only an interactive Jimi-noise composer in red, white and blue, but maybe for some it's some entertaining fun besides the finals of the american presidental elections 2008.

 

Words for nothing (the fedup elegy)
Words for nothing or the fed up elegy is an interactive web art piece questioning who we are, what we do and what we are good for. This project explores the meaning of words voiced by man-mammals and fe-mammals the ultimate, limitless supra animals, who are constantly reflecting on their environment in a perpetual process of hopeless, destructive change.

Drawing reverse
Ephemeral environmental interferences
Drawing reverse is a drawing project with sheets of paper, not on to sheets of paper, using standardized industrially produced white, letter-size paper to spread it out in nature, on to nature, or within man made outdoor structures.

read more

The sleep of reason
Trautwein takes what he finds in the cheap consumer world, and transforms it, with sometimes only minimal formative interferences, into aesthetic statements about the conditions of our present. "I shop therefore I am" determined by Barbara Kruger 1987 in a photo work as a provocative allusion on Rene Descartes basic idea "cogito ergo sum": I think, therefore I am. Trautwein doesn't come along that categorically. In his work the different ways of life pass into each other - certainly not without breaks and by any means not in such a way, that it would be without something to think about.

Michael Huebel

read review

NIESATT parallel worlds
In NIESATT, the notion of ‘parallel worlds’ translates into dividing every inch of the screen into slithers of multi-layered, scrolling, exploding, animated, visual, wordy, flash, gifs; the website seems unlimited and unbound by time and space constraints. One can get lost in it – but never feel at a dead end for all the links, tunnel and merge into the world of JTwine.

Darshana Vora

read review

Homo digitalis will never be full
The biographer and writer on art Karel van Mander wrote, that Pieter Breugel, the great Dutch landscape painter, when crossing the Alps sucked up the impressions of the mountains on his journey to Italy and literally spit them out, when he returned from his trip.
It is similar with Jurgen Trautwein’s computer art, only that he doesn't suck up alpine landscapes, but various contemporary issues. He absorbs themes like depersonalization, ecological collapse, obsessions with beauty and violence, to spit them out again, after being digitally manipulated, in a socially critical and ironic manner.

Claudia Schuler
read review

 

 

© jtwine.com