CHRISTIAN DOELLER I IN INTERVIEW

We are very pleased that Christian Doeller (*1987) took the time for us to answer a few questions about his art work! Read here the answers of the photo artist, who locates himself in the tradition of generative photography:

PIN: Dear Christian, what made you choose photography as your medium?

Christian Doeller: Photography is an important starting point for my artistic practice and my preoccupation with perceptual processes and technical media. I also have a fairly pronounced interest in physics and philosophy, which ultimately manifests itself in my work. Perhaps this is why I am fascinated by photography not only as a documentary and narrative medium, but above all as a technical system for the two-dimensional translation of time and space. With photographs we can create visual worlds that shift perspectives, make us look closely, and touch and influence us emotionally. At the same time, these visual worlds can only exist within the framework of the technical possibilities that underlie the apparatus in question. I find it exciting to explore the properties and limits of these possibilities and to make them visible. For me, this approach is not necessarily a "disillusionment" with photographic images, but rather a way of letting the technical conditions have their say, in a sense a kind of dialogue with the medium itself.

PIN: Do you have any artistic role models?

Christian Doeller: There are many great artists who inspire me in my own practice and who should be mentioned here. In the context described above - and especially with regard to my studies at the University of Applied Sciences in Bielefeld - Generative Photography spontaneously comes to mind. This is a direction in photography that emerged in the 1960s, which has programmatic parallels with early computer art, is often practiced without a camera, and operates solely on the basis of technical photographic parameters. Generative photography was influenced, among others, by Gottfried Jäger, himself a photographic artist and, before my time, head of the photography department in Bielefeld. I'm also thinking of positions like Steina and Woody Vašulka, who developed a decidedly exploratory, experimental, and interdisciplinary artistic practice in the context of art, technology, and science.

PIN: How do you weight innovation, provocation and aesthetics for you?

Christian Doeller: When I read this question, I immediately have the impulse to design a mathematical formula and program a corresponding algorithm.

PIN: What does the purchase of the PIN. YC for you?

Christian Doeller: The image was created about 13 years ago and I still consider it a cornerstone of my artistic work. I am convinced that it is, not least, an important image for the history of digital photography that can only be realized once in this form.Therefore, I am extremely pleased to hand over the work to a place where it can be appreciated, contextualized, viewed and preserved for an indefinite period of time.

PIN. and the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen would like to express their sincere thanks to Sabine and Thomas Bachmaier for their generous support.