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THE i:CODE-ALSION-CAMPUS-PROJECT
at University of Southern Denmark in Sønderborg
created by Michael Weisser

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i:Codes – „Be Inspired and Free Your Visions!“
A project created by Michael Weisser
on Alsion-Campus/Sønderborg

Is there a connection between the different fields art and science? If yes, where can it be found? This fundamental question is asked again by the media-artist from Bremen, Michael Weisser, in his newest aesthetic field research, which he interprets as homage to the ‘Alsion-Campus’, situated opposite the old town of Sønderborg at the Alssund nearby the Flensburg Fjord. Alsion is a regional centre of research and teaching of the University of Southern Denmark, which combines the idea of a research park with a cultural attraction.

The architectural core of the ensemble is formed by a concert hall, which is known far beyond Denmark because of its brilliant acoustics. The “Alsion-Campus”, as Weisser calls the organism of ten futuristic buildings, is for him “a visionary aligned system of curiosity, endurance, creativity and interaction” and thus he sees his work as “artist in residence” as an intermedial growth process between analogue and digital, between art and science.

As adolescent Michael Weisser aimed in becoming an “alchemist” and he wanted to pursue the Faustian question what binds the world together in its innermost parts. He wanted to study chemistry and had already completed an internship in a research laboratory. But the routines of the industry scarred him. He was interested in performing research, making discoveries and following the path of novelty. This life of freedom he found in his art studies: with sacred painting he acquired the technical foundations, changed into the experimental painting, worked with the techniques of graphic reproduction and finally found his way to photography.

After the exam Weisser worked as an artist, studied art history, sociology and communication sciences, wrote on a dissertation, wrote and published literature amongst others in the FAZ and at Suhrkamp publisher, produced international electronic music and Wordmusic and returned first in the year 2000 consequently back to his roots, the arts. Technology had developed, the digital world had opened up new possibilities which Weisser beforehand had written on in his novels, and so he was for the first time able with computer and Internet to link his media ‘image, sound and word’ to a new piece of work.

The QR-code is his special theme for the “Alsion-Campus”, because the QR-code offers an independent image, which can be created manifold. At the same time it offers events, which are hidden behind the image and which first are revealed and incorporated by use of the smartphone and a special app. The technical QR-code is brought by Michael Weisser to the limits of its readability and is formed to synthetic organisms, which combine technical circuitry with biological structures to new ways of life: the “i:Codes”.

This new life is presented in the “Alsion-Gallery” August 2014.

Prof. Dr. Horst-Günter Rubahn
Head of Mads Clausen Institute


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