Florian Mehnert
Systems / Perceptual Fields / Reference Systems / Social Systems

Three fields across the practice.

Systems describes three interrelated perspectives within Florian Mehnert’s practice: Perceptual Fields, Reference Systems and Social Systems.

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Systems / Connections Connections between fourteen works through observation, light, data traces, privacy, participation and responsibility. Red and grey lines follow the artwork in Vol. 6. Project titles link to the works. OBSERVATION / ANALYSIS DRAWING / ETCHING PAINTING PUBLIC SPACE SURVEILLANCE PRIVACY REMOTE CONTROL INDIVIDUAL / SYSTEM PRIVACY PARADOX MIGRATION / POSTCOLONIALISM DATA STRUCTURE IDENTITY / PROJECTION / ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DECISION / RESPONSIBILITY LINE / SPACE LIGHT / STRUCTURE DATA / LINE MOVEMENT TRACES PARTICIPATION Forest Light Drawings Data to Light Beauty of Privacy Freedom 2.0 Archive of Possible Lives Fragments, Elements, and Details Forest Protocols Humantracks Smartphone Stacks Lockdown Woodcuts Refugee Stacks Social Distance Stacks 11 Days
Forest drawing by Florian Mehnert
01 / Perceptual Fields

Perception becomes a field.

Drawings, paintings, photographs and works on paper condense attention, materiality, gesture and spatial order into visual fields.

Data to Light installation
02 / Reference Systems

Systems of reference become form.

Reference Systems explores the often invisible structures through which we make sense of reality and orient ourselves within it. Coordinates, movement data and technological infrastructures are translated into line, light, image and space. The works give abstract relationships a sensory form and investigate how technical systems shape our perception and actions.

Social Distance Stacks installation
During the 2020 pandemic, Social Distance Stacks project, LfDI Stuttgart
03 / Social Systems

Collective conditions become visible.

Participatory works, installations and public experiments examine social behaviour, observation, control, privacy and collective responsibility.

Method before medium

Systems: Perceptual Fields / Reference Systems / Social Systems.

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AI, Data and Society brings together works from the three interrelated perspectives of Perceptual Fields, Reference Systems and Social Systems.

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