Current exhibition "S+T+ARTS Ec(h)o Showing: Johanna Bruckner, Carolyn Kirschner, Theda Nilsson-Eicke" in the Universitys Gallery at Görges Building, TUD

S+T+ARTS Ec(h)o Showing: Johanna Bruckner, Carolyn Kirschner, Theda Nilsson-Eicke
University Gallery in the Görges Building, Helmholtzstraße 9, 01069 Dresden
Duration: 24. April-4. July 2025
Opening hours: Monday-Friday 10-18, Admission free
Exhibition flyer: S+T+ARTS Showing_Folder and Program.pdf

For decades, technologies such as artificial intelligence and robotics have been an integral part of our society and our everyday reality. In all areas of life, digital applications have become indispensable. This is the entry point for artists Johanna Bruckner, Carolyn Kirschner and Theda Nilsson-Eicke. Their works question the potentials and challenges of digital transformation. They open up critical, speculative and analytical perspectives on the microscopic and macroscopic effects of technological change.
S+T+ARTS Ec(h)o Showing’ presents exemplary works by the three artists who are completing thirteen-month research sojourns at TUD as part of their S+T+ARTS Ec(h)o Residency. The three artists explore a wide range of current research topics—in their respective artistic investigations of the relationships between humans and machines, the sociocultural significance of the zebrafish, and human perception in the context of immersive and digitalized worlds, they are being guided by the interfaces of Science, Technology & Arts (or S+T+ARTS, for short).

Johanna Bruckner presents two extensive work complexes that express her interest in the interweaving and points of contact between human bodies, technology and machines. In her sculptural, filmic and performative works, she explores processes of alienation as well as moments of rapprochement - and critically questions the extent to which socially standardized body images are idealized in the age of artificial intelligence or which transformation processes bodies are subject to today.
For Carolyn Kirschner, digital data often forms the starting point for her research-based projects, which focus on addressing ecological challenges. In her conceptual works, she combines media content with analog forms of work in a targeted manner, creating a multi-layered connection between technology, the environment and society in terms of both aesthetics and content. For "S+T+ARTS Ec(h)o Showing", two work complexes from the "NO_POLE" research and design project were selected or newly realized. They shed light on the role of remote sensing instruments in the Arctic Ocean - from a legal, political and ecological perspective.
As an author and director, Theda Nilsson-Eicke's artistic practice has its roots in theater. For the group show, she has adapted her highly acclaimed performative non-stop productions "Cellar Door" from 2016 and "Die Walküre" from 2020 so that they can be experienced independently of the performance. The focus is on her exploration of "digital evil" and the fascination of the internet. She examines the topic against the backdrop of philosophical considerations on the reassessment of possibly outdated moral and immoral norms and values - especially in the context of digitalization and the rise of anti-democratic currents. The simultaneity of different realities and illusions - digital, theatrical, virtual and analog - determine her works in the University Gallery.