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HOLO Collectors Edition
Marcel Schwittlick
RGB Triptych (2023)
An exclusive set of three meta-visualizations, in which the Berlin-based generative artist and plotter virtuoso abstracts signals from HOLO’s news archive into glorious RGB noise. Issued as limited edition premium risographs, each data matrix encodes patterns of a world in flux.
Single Edition (R/G/B) –– $100
Full Set (RBG) –– $250
• Medium: Risography (120g Metapaper)
• Dimensions: DIN A3 (297 x 420 mm, 11.7 x 16.5″)
• Edition: 600, signed and numbered (150 available)
AI fever dreams, CGI reality distortions, NFT tides going in and out: HOLO’s news ticker is a sprawling history of how art, science, technology, and culture intersect. In 2023, we invited media artist Marcel Schwittlick to distill this record into a more expressive form. Parsing the metadata of an entire year, Schwittlick translated key details—artist names, technologies, cultural organizations—into vibrant matrixes of vintage plotter code. Mixing generative art, data visualization, and media archaeology is on brand for the trained computer scientist, who is renowned for engineering tantalizing geometries with storied drawing machines. A connoisseur (and collector) of plotters from the 1970s and 1980s, Schwittlick surrounds himself with rare and obsolete reproduction technologies to explore their idiosyncrasies.
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“Among artists, I am the computer scientist, and among computer scientists, I am the artist. What this situation offers is the possibility of direct contextualization of the disciplines.”
—Marcel Schwittlick
Marcel Schwittlick is an artist living and working in Berlin, Germany, whose work examines the cybernetic aspects of generative systems. Marcel Schwittlick works with multiple media, including digital material, interactive installations, generative poetry, and conceptual video. He studied Computer Science and Computational Art at the University of Arts, Berlin.
RGB Triptych was commissioned for HOLO Collectors, whose support sustains our journalistic work and independence. Become a Collector here!
Single Edition (R/G/B) –– $100
Full Set (RBG) –– $250
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