Vanitas Reloaded: A Remote Tableau Composition from the Corona “Home Wunderkammer”

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  • Susanne Junker Beuth Hochschule für Technik Berlin, Berlin, Germany Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51191/issn.2637-1898.2020.3.5.74

Keywords:

relocated design process, baroque as contemporary, Corona shut down, visual arts, digital communication, home office

Abstract

Visuals - images - are a globally understandable exchange and copyable transmission of information. "O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space," Hamlet noticed. We also use our Coronavirus home office for experimental journeys in the Renaissance and Baroque periods. As in the 15th / 16th / 17th Century, worlds far away from us were discovered, and we embark on digital adventures that are temporary, simultaneous, synchronous, asynchronous, independent of location. We decided to work with digital photography as a visual method for mainly two reasons. First, taking photos can be done relatively easy during a shut down in the home office. We can train creativity and visual perception without being in a university's studio. Second, photographs can be analyzed and compared with paintings and therefore criticized by their motifs, aesthetic representation, and within their time frame. Our visual souvenirs are photographs and videos in the mirror of illusion, immersion, and imagination.

Author Biography

  • Susanne Junker, Beuth Hochschule für Technik Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Professor Dr. Susanne Junker is a professor at today's Beuth Hochschule für Technik Berlin lecturing design, interior planning, and virtual media visualization, with numerous photography awards, books, essays, and critics on contemporary architecture, design and art.

    She received her Ph.D. (her thesis dealing with the Bauhaus photographer Walter Peterhans) at the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg. Prior she completed a research stay at the IIT Chicago in the USA and participated in the academic lectures of Daniel Libeskind, Kurt W. Forster, and Jerzy Rosenberg at the Academy of Arts Berlin. After completing her architectural studies at the Technical University of Berlin, she worked for several years with Prof. Josef-Paul Kleihues to convert and expand Berlin's "Hamburger Bahnhof" into a museum for contemporary art and as a freelance architect in and around Berlin.

    She is currently researching the importance of baroque space and image concepts for visualization in architecture and art, e.g., photography and graphic story-telling.

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15.12.2020

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No. 5 (2020): Music, Art, and Technology in the Time of Global Crisis

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Vanitas Reloaded: A Remote Tableau Composition from the Corona “Home Wunderkammer”. (2020). INSAM Journal of Contemporary Music, Art and Technology, 5, 74-88. https://doi.org/10.51191/issn.2637-1898.2020.3.5.74
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