Lex Rütten & Jana Kerima Stolzer
Drone C24b
Title: Drone C24b
Year: 2021
Material: Drone body, helping hands, lamp with magnifying glass, lichen, screen, Raspberry Pi3, video 03:24 min
Dimensions: 37 x 37 x 60 cm
Edition: Unique
Price: sold
Through the eyes of an artificial intelligence, we observe fragments of millennia-old glacial ice, stones covered in moss and lichen. “cryptobiosis – deep sleep for eternity,” the AI sings dreamily as it drifts with us through its 3D scans of desolate environments, slowly tracing the contours of the rugged landscape. As part of the series pawaaraibuu – filling the vacuum, the two works Drone C24b and Scout C255 tell of life in post-human environments and of symbiotic connections between nature and technology—worlds in which human traces are archived like relics of a bygone era. What becomes clear: the human being is not at the center of this narrative, yet remains physically and sensorially intertwined with it.
Text: Manischa Eichwalder
Jana Kerima Stolzer (*1989 in Kandel, lives in Dortmund) studied at the Folkwang University of the Arts and at the Academy of Fine Arts Münster with Aernout Mik.
Lex Rütten (*1989 in Mönchengladbach, lives in Dortmund) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Münster and the Art Academy Düsseldorf with Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster.
Their collaborative works have been shown in numerous group and solo exhibitions, e.g. at the Hartware MedienKunstVerein (2021). Among other distinctions, they were fellows at the Academy for Theatre and Digitality (2020–21).
