A painterly gesture by a human gets reinterpreted by a digital brain.The result is drawn by a machine.An ongoing series of human machine collaborations. Paintings100cmx150cmacrylics on canvas
In die Welt geworfen
Physically modelled threads are thrown into a virtual landscape that is generated from data of digitized faces. The result is drawn by a machine.An ongoing series of digital-analogue hybrids. Paintings85cmx110cmacrylics on canvas
Augmenting History
An interactive augmented reality stele for the jewish museum Vienna.March 2021 For the Museum Judenplatz we created an augmented reality stele that shows the reconstructed models of the old synagoges on top of the original foundations that were excavated in 1996. Credits: Modeling, Concept: Herbert Peter, www.artuum.atHistorical Advisor: Paul MitchellProduction Management: Florian Prix, cat-x.atBuild: Bernhard Ranner, derprototyp.atProgramming, Interactive Design, Concept: …
Kontemplation und Resignation
Kontemplation und Resignation – A Meditating Automatonby Hannes Köcherfunded by Stadt Wien Kulturspecial thanks to Florian Prix and cat-x A table with a large sheet of paper stretched across it.Two rollers pull the paper slowly, almost imperceptibly, across the table like a conveyor belt.In the middle of the table, facing the viewer, a mechanical arm lays a black thread on …
Exhibition rhiz Vienna
Heroes and Monsters @rhiz Vienna, 2020Curated by Peter Rantaša / Schallform Gallery I was invited by the Schallform Gallery to exhibit Heroes & Monsters at the rhiz Vienna.
Inscriptions
Aufzeichnungen aus dem Archiv, 2020 „Inscriptions from the archive“ is a drawing Robot that over the course of five month will engrave more than a thousand planks in the Auditorium at the University of Music in Vienna with sonograms of sounds that are generated and recorded by the sound installations located there. It was commissioned by „Rotting sounds“ and created …
Exhibition Sehsaal
Heroes and Monsters @Seesaal Wien, 2019 In his solo exhibition Heroes and Monsters, Hannes Köcher presents hybrid art, pictures made by man and machine. Physical simulations of threads that are exposed to complex force fields in virtual worlds are transferred to the real world by drawing machines. Man thinks, programs and underlines. The machine executes and draws. The current work …
Wien Museum TakeOver
Live graffiti performanceWien Museum2018 … during the TakeOver Street Art & Skateboarding exhibition.
Heroes and Monsters
Series of paintings featuring Heroes and Monsters100cm x 150cm, acrylic and ink on either corrugated cardboard or canvas2019 Physical simulations of threads are exposed to complex force fields in virtual worlds and transferred to the real world by drawing machines. Heroes and Monsters is an ongoing series of paintings on canvas or cardboard currently consisting of Hermes, the Dreamer, Batman, …
Street Art Vienna
In the summer of 2016 i did a few medium sized murals in vienna.To be continued.