Installation, 2007 - ongoing

ENDO takes the notion of the black-boxing of technology to a conceptual critique and poetic sculptural interpretation. A black-cased digital recorder is equipped with various sensors – allegedly registering data from its surroundings such as sound, camera image, GPS-coordinates, brightness, air pressure, humidity and temperature on a large hard drive. Once the hard drive is full, recording stops, and the data becomes enclosed within the object, transfiguring it into a monumental static artefact.

About the artist

Verena Friedrich is an artist who avails herself of diverse media to develop artworks dealing with the relationships between humans, science and technology – mostly in the form of installations, objects and robotics.
Shown internationally at various media art festivals and exhibitions in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Turkey, Japan the USA, Friedrich's works have received the International Media Award for Science and Art from ZKM Karlsruhe and were nominated for the Transmediale Award 2008. In 2009 she received a work stipend from the German foundation Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen.
Verena Friedrich studied art and media at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and at the University of Art and Design Offenbach from which she also holds a diploma and where in 2009 she also taught and conducted workshops related to electronics.
Verena Friedrich is based in Frankfurt/Main and Cologne where she is currently studying in the postgraduate programme of the Academy of Media Arts (KHM).

TRUST
30 July–5 September 2010

Dortmunder U – Centre for Art and Creativity
Floor U3
Leonie-Reygers-Terrasse
44137 Dortmund

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