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  • Tattoo -
    Video installation Series 'Bags' A variable number of paper bags form a rosette shape on the floor. From the top, pictures of tattoo motifs are projected onto the bags. The projection body seemingly becomes the surface of a human body.
  • The Space Between 1 and 2Artist: Ruth SchnellComment:
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Print on gold-plated steel The golden tableau depicts the outline of the Mediterranean Sea and its neighbouring states; escape routes and ferry routes, routes of cruise liners and patrol boats that cross the sea on their journeys were superimposed,