Julius Von Bismarck, DE

Image Fulgurator

The Image Fulgurator is a device for physically manipulating photographs. It intervenes when a photo is being taken, without the photographer being able to detect anything. The manipulation is only visible on the photo afterwards.In principle, the Fulgurator can be used anywhere where there is another camera nearby that is being used with a flash. It operates via a kind of reactive flash projection that enables an image to be projected on an object exactly at the moment when someone else is photographing it. The intervention is unobtrusive because it takes only a few milliseconds. Every photo another photographer takes of an object at which the Fulgurator is also aimed is affected by the manipulation. Hence visual information can be smuggled unnoticed into the images of others.

About the artist:
Julius von Bismarck was originally born in Germany and spent his youth growing up in Saudi-Arabia and Germany. He studied and worked in New York and at Fine Arts University of Berlin (UDK) with Prof. Joachim Sauter, where he is completing his studies with Olafur Eliasson at the Institute for Spatial Experiments.Drawing on techniques from the fields of visual arts, film, social and physical sciences, his artistic and cinematographic work, as a camera operator, focus on the use of different media to explore our perception, representation and reconstruction of reality.To date the objects, installations and devices he has created have examined these themes with emphasis placed on the construction of our urban spaces, authorship and ownership. Considered as one of the most innovative young artists in the field, von Bismarck received the Ars Electronica, 2008 Golden Nica, for his work ‘Image Fulgurator’.

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Julius von Bismark, Image Fulgurator, DE. UM Exhibition, Opening Thur 12 Nov, 22hrs, ECV Fiat Garage (new space), Av. 24 de Julho, 60 [Santos], 1200-869. Exhibition runs to 27 Nov (Mon-Fri, 12-19hrs).