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Drawings

		The following pictures, as well as the videos below, show an exerpt of my current research on computer generated drawings. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me.

exhibition view in Mastul Kunst- und Kulturverein e. V. Berlin, November 2012

"no title" 2012 (Inkjetprint on cotton paper, 30x40 cm)

"no title - self portrait" 2012 (Inkjetprint on cotton paper, 40x40 cm)

early experiments, 2011

screencapture of "no title" 2012

screencapture of "no title - self portrait" 2012

realtime generated drawing of "no title" 2012

About the Actual and the Virtual

		3 serpentinite stones found at the Clemgia riverside, Grisons Switzerland. Prints made from 3D scans of the stones as well as from custom-made software A work that reflects on materiality as well as on the perception of our reality, both philosophically and aesthetically. Eno Henze, curator of NODE13, wrote this beautiful text about my work: "Using a semi-automatic scanning method, Ivo Schüssler created 3D objects from stones he found on his hiking-tours, so that they could exist as avatars in digital space. It is simple enough to understande the change in the state of being that they have undergone by being disembodied and transferred into the space of digital representation. The stone loses its stoniness and a new more ideal ´state of being´ emerges. The stone is no longer a stone. Matisse has made his process of signification of art comprehensible with his famous painting ´Ceci n´est pas une pipe´(´This is not a pipe´). However, this process takes a new turn when it undergoes automatic treatments as a part of its digitalization, which becomes apparent in Schüssler´s work. The digital space has a certain autonomy of adaption, realization and memorization that doesn´t exist in traditional forms of representation. Though the viewer remains the centre of reference for Matisse, this approach suggest that things in digital form are part of their own reality, and they no longer need a human spectator to be realized."

3 serpentinite stones found at the Clemgia riverside, Grisons Switzerland. Prints made from 3D scans of the stones as well as from custom-made software

A work that reflects on materiality as well as on the perception of our reality, both philosophically and aesthetically.

Eno Henze, curator of NODE13, wrote this beautiful text about my work:

"Using a semi-automatic scanning method, Ivo Schüssler created 3D objects from stones he found on his hiking-tours, so that they could exist as avatars in digital space. It is simple enough to understande the change in the state of being that they have undergone by being disembodied and transferred into the space of digital representation. The stone loses its stoniness and a new more ideal ´state of being´ emerges. The stone is no longer a stone. Matisse has made his process of signification of art comprehensible with his famous painting ´Ceci n´est pas une pipe´(´This is not a pipe´). However, this process takes a new turn when it undergoes automatic treatments as a part of its digitalization, which becomes apparent in Schüssler´s work. The digital space has a certain autonomy of adaption, realization and memorization that doesn´t exist in traditional forms of representation. Though the viewer remains the centre of reference for Matisse, this approach suggest that things in digital form are part of their own reality, and they no longer need a human spectator to be realized."

exhibition view of "About the Actual and the Virtual" at NODE13 - Forum for Digital Arts, Frankfurter Kunstverein 2013

3 x inkjet print on cotton papper, 2012, 45x45 cm

exhibition view of "About the Actual and the Virtual" in Mastul Kunst- und Kulturverein e. V. Berlin, November 2012

3 x inkjet print on cotton papper, 2012, 45x45 cm

Close-up from the first print depicted above