SCIENCE ARTIST

Olaf Schirm

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News / 7. October 2024

new artwork “TIME Code128”

“Time Code128” is a light object for wall, floor or table mounting.
From the “Clock Works” series.

Objects and products are equipped with a barcode to make the price and other data of this product readable for a machine, by means of a barcode reader. These can be found at every supermarket checkout. The machine eye needs barcodes to be able to recognize products quickly and reliably.

That‘s why it‘s time for us humans to get used to read barcodes as quickly and reliably as machines do. We have already learned to convert analog clock faces into a time number.
My solution presented is a barcode clock in the widely used Code128 format.

More information about this artwork can be found here

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News / 27. September 2024

new artwork “TIME explicit”

“TIME explicit” is a light object for wall mounting.
From the “Clock Works” series.

My wristwatch reads 12:01, it‘s just after midday.

I can‘t help solving this math task every time I look at my wristwatch. Now it says 12:03 and that works out to be 12 divided by 3 = 4.00000. I wanted to simplify my life by developing a clock that calculates this for me every minute.

But since some of results are the same, e.g. the time 16:04 also gives 4.00000, the hours of this clock are displayed additionally as a light position and the minutes as a binary display for simplification. Instructions are enclosed 🙂

further details of the artwork are here

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News / 17. September 2024

Exhibition “BMUV Community Convention”

On the occasion of the Federal Ministry for the Environment’s “BMUV Community Convention” conference on digital sustainability, I was invited to show two of my AI generated works. From my series of works on climate change and environmental degradation, the two works “Fool on the hill” from 2022 and 2023 (this for the first time) will be presented to the public.

The exhibition can only be visited on 17.09.2024.
Federal Ministry for the Environment, Stresemannstraße 128, Berlin

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News / 15. August 2024

Exhibition “REBOOT” in Dresden

At “REBOOT” group art show in Dresden, in the rooms of the “Coderitter”, one of my – until now not shown in public – AI artworks of 2023 will be presented. It is “Fischer in der Bucht (fisherman in the bay)”.

The exhibition runs from August 30th, 2024 to February 28th, 2025.
Opening and party is on August 30th, 7pm to midnight. I will be there, too.


Location:
Coderitter, administration@coderitter.io, Hoyerswerdaer Str. 27, 01099 Dresden
Open: Mo – Fr 3pm – 6pm

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