André Werner | video art

Selected video art works and video installations by André Werner. Multi-channel installations and interactive works, some of them closed circuit based, that is using the real time feedback between a camera and a monitor displaying the camera signal.

André Werner entered the world of new media art literally through the television tube.  In the beginning he manipulated TV sets to create specific polaroids from the image on the tube. The tweaking of the signal, the contrast etc replaced the painterly process of creating an image. It was only a question of time until videorecorders were added to the machinery, offering new ways to reproduce and manipulate the images.  The resulting video tapes of these experiments soon started their own life as independent video art works.

Autopoiesis, like its prequel La Femme et Le Fou, is an interactive closed circuit installation. An old black-and-white TV set and an analog video camera are directly connected opposite to each other, creating a feedback loop in a closed circuit. The single frame of this edition, a selfie image of a nude girl standing in front of the mirror in a changing cubicle, is printed on an overhead sheet and placed, hanging on thin thread, between the camera and the monitor.

Thus, the image, which in itself reflects an autopoietic system, becomes part of the loop, jumping into the TV, immediately reborn in the camera, an autopoietic beauty.

The first edition, La Femme et Le Fou, of my new series of interactive video installations entitled Was vom Kino übrig bleibt | What Remains Of Cinema was shown in Berlin as part of the … Continue reading “Was vom Kino übrig bleibt | What Remains Of Cinema”

André Werner | The Yeosu Mandalas The Yeosu Mandalas are three silent video loops. necessity | community | territory. Based on a closed-circuit installation of a camera interacting with a black and white tv-set. A … Continue reading “Yeosu Mandalas | necessity community territory”

Circles. You may find yourself. The Collector of pictures had begun to live very much in seclusion; he had locked himself in and started living among his pictures. He simply needed his suitcases about, and … Continue reading “Circles | Installation for 13 monitors and a curious person.”

Necessity silent loop, 2014, part 1 of 3 of the Yeosu Mandalas. Yeosu Mandala | Necessity by André Werner, created for and shown first at the 5th. Yeosu International Art Festival, September 2014 at the … Continue reading “Yeosu Mandala | Necessity”

Community silent loop, 2014, part 2 of 3 of the Yeosu Mandalas. Yeosu Mandala | Community by André Werner, created for and shown first at the 5th. Yeosu International Art Festival, September 2014 at the … Continue reading “Yeosu Mandala | Community”

Territory silent loop, 2014, part 3 of 3 of the Yeosu Mandalas. Yeosu Mandala | Territory by André Werner, created for and shown first at the 5th. Yeosu International Art Festival, September 2014 at the … Continue reading “Yeosu Mandala | Territory”

The closed circuit installation Wiener Katharinenrad | Viennese Catherine Window is now on display at Kafka’s House (The house of Kafka’s birth).  Installed as part of the group show “Spirits, Mystics and Muses” curated by Robert … Continue reading “Viennese Catherine Window at Kafka’s House”

Viennese Catherine Window | Vienna Art Week. Wiener Katharinenrad | Viennese Catherine Window, a closed circuit installation created during an artist residence at the MuseumsQuartier Vienna.  You can see the set up here. A rose … Continue reading “Viennese Catherine Window | Wiener Katharinenrad”