In Richard Kriesche\'s project, the human being appears as a work of data, as an encoded and decodable entity. Life in this perspective is based upon an accumulation of data: genetic structures, blood chemistry or the composition of physiological materials. Thus, the data become the optic elements of portraits and images. Codes as material and content of art.

The Universal Data Work – Datanwork : Mankind realizes a connexion between the two thematic formulas Code=Art and Code=Life. The biogenetic decoding of the human being is transformed into representations that can be experienced sensually. Genetic fragments of the artist Richard Kriesche are sequenced and integrated within an image. On the basis of the ACGT genetic building blocks a self portrait emerges – an artistic representation of persons that is most personal and intimate.

Richard Kriesche (Austria, 1940), worked as professor already in the 60s within the area of audiovisual media. In 1969 he founded the art society “pool” and four years later the media gallery “poolerie” for photography, film and video. Since the end of the 80s Richard Kriesche held several teaching posts, among others for the Technical University Vienna and the École supérieure des beaux arts in Paris. Kriesche serves an an expert in several European commissions.

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