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  • Traumliege -
    Video sculpture [English title, Dream bed] INSTANT body, INSTANT coitus, INSTANT dreams The fast-paced images are freeze-dried, the fast-paced dreams static, the people coded, the codes interchangeable. Porn is the dream of de-sensualized sexuality,
  • fünfnullplus -
    [English title, fivezeroplus] Light object Series 'Lichtbilder' The work 'fünfnullplus' from the series 'Lichtbilder' seems at first sight to be a monochrome painting. In the glossy, translucent body of the image, a vertical bar of white LEDs is
  • Interactive computer video installation Three doors of the environment 'Tür für Huxley' ('Door for Huxley') simulate the entrance to different realities. The observer has the choice between pure observance of a conserved and continuosly repeating
  • Light objects Series 'Mirrors of the Unseen (MotU)' At what point are terms recognisable and integrable into one’s own linguistic system? Which synonymous manifestations does language have? The light objects 'MotU #1 to #3' present onomatopoetic
  • Virtual Terms -
    Computer-controlled light installation with three LED bars Lower Austria State Academy, St Pölten (A), competition 1992, realization 1997 (after moving to the government district of St Pölten) The installation 'Virtual Terms' was designed for the
  • Gsöllpointner, Katharina and Ruth Schnell and Romana K. Schuler. Digital Synesthesia: A Model for the Aesthetics of Digital Art. Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2016.
  • Light object Series 'Mirrors of the Unseen (MotU)' 'MotU #7' and 'MotU #8', from the series 'Mirrors of the Unseen', feature words and symbols that seem to float in the space like holograms, which observers can only perceive as afterimages using
  • Hofleitner, Johanna. Ruth Schnell-- Das Sehen re-konstruieren EIKON - Internationale Zeitschrift für Photographie & Medienkunst 24 (1998).
  • The computerised light installation 'Dialogue in Transition' employs the transitory character of the 110-meter-long “netwalk” of the EnBW building in Stuttgart, which connects all parts of the complex. Twelve 35 cm-high light sticks with white LEDs
  • DO NOT CROSS -
    The two-part video installation 'DO NOT CROSS' shows rides alongside border fences in the United States, Belfast and Jerusalem. The rides are presented as stop motion videos composed of single-panorama shots. The images are taken from a common