education
2000 - 2005
Media Art, University Art and Design, Karlsruhe, Germany
and ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
with Boris Groys, Peter Sloterdijk, Ulay, Michael Saup
1999 - 2000
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Klasse Klaus Rinke
1998 - 1999
TV Technician, Düsseldorf, Germany
Frank Eickhoff lives and works in Berlin.
exhibitions (solo)
2018
Self-Driving Artist, Berlin
2014
Apparently, cemeteries are full of napping cops, Berlin
2012
Heads it's Form, Tails it's not Content, Berlin
2011
Paradox der Form, Berlin
2010
The Hat Matter, Berlin
exhibitions (group)
2016
True mirror, Paris
2015
High Pressure Systems, Berlin
Forth under, skip down, Berlin
2014
Integrale Realität, Berlin
For Jean B, Berlin
2012
Meta-Ikon, Berlin
Le Trac, Berlin
Frank Eickhoff, David Matorin + "My%Desktop" von Jodi, Berlin
Slide Show, Berlin/Athens
Aus der Zeit, Berlin
grants
2009 - 2010 Startup Fund of the Berlin Senate
2008 Startup Fund of the Research and Science Center Juelich
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statement
As an artist I am interested in data (internet), automation (algorithms, artifical intelligence, distributed computing), the nature of randomness and how memory is represented in a world that is radically unmanageable.
In my artistic practice I develop methods where decision making is partly automated. I am interested in the question: which decisions should be left to the computer and which decisions should be left to the artist ? Because I work with huge sets of data and therefore a lot of decisions, the progress and the process get blurred. I find myself lost in decisions, giving away control, and being in a state of active remembrance and emotional alertness.
