Blank & Jeron
Joachim Blank and Karl Heinz Jeron are working since 1996 as an artist duo under the name Blank & Jeron. They started working together 1993 in different groups creating artistic and cultural internet projects. They are not only engaged with pure internet works but also create physical items, that materialize as hybrid installations, informed objects and collaborative events. They are interested in artistic strategies of information recycling in the context of the information society. Currently they explore and reflect phenomena of the growing mediatization and economization of art and society using diverse media and techniques.
Joachim Blank
* 1963 in Aachen, Germany. Lives in Berlin and Leipzig.
1985 – 1986 studied Photography at the Lette Schule Berlin.
1988 – 1995 Theater- and Film Studies, Information Studies and Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin.
1996 M.A. Information Studies.
Karl Heinz Jeron
* 1962 in Memmingen, Germany. Lives in Berlin.
1985-1986 Painting at Art Academy Munich.
1987-1988 Philosophy of Science and Logic, University Munich.
1988-1989 Philosophy of Science and Logic, Freie Universität Berlin.
Grants
1995 Kulturfond Berlin-Brandenburg. One-year long working grant.
1998 Three Months at EMARE – MUU Media Base Helsinki, Finland.
1999 Project grant of the Berlin Senate for Art, Research and Science.
Prices
1999 Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria.
Honorary Mention in the category ‘Interactive Art’ for the intallation ‘Scanner++’
1999 Comtec Art, Dresden, Germany
1. Price in the category ‚computer aided installation’ for Scanner++
Works in Museums
Museum for Applied Arts: Digital Craft, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Center for Art and Media: Media-Art-Net, Karlsruhe, Germany.
Works
2004
week, 7 interactive Panels with 24 magenitc squareplates (6.5 cm x 6.5 cm) each
2003
Energie, interactive Panel with 555 magenitc squareplates (6.5 cm x 6.5 cm)
about Eva Hellers statistical survey on color perception.
2002
Scanner mobile – portable version of the installation Scanner++
dataflooder international <www.dataflooder.org> – hybrid internet installation
2001
1st Public White Cube <www.publicwhitecube.com> – Working with the public’s envolvement: Economic influence on artistic projects. 28. August 2001 – 12. January 2002 in collaboration with Gerrit Gohlke
Take part in our happiness – visualization of the project 1st Public White Cube
making sense of it all <www.makingsenseofitall.net> – internet project
2000
tac – trade and communicate! <www.we-care-a-lot.org> and <www.trade-and-communicate.net> - hybrid internet community project. Installation and event. Founding of the Association of online handicapped persons.
re:represent <www.rerepresent.org> - Installation: Statistical data and online broker communities are the basis for plexiglass light boxes representing bar charts, wallpaper plots and a large sized writing.
Scanner lite – Computer installation with one flat bed scanner and one LCD display on the basis of the installation Scanner++
Borg – Installation with networked computers
Poster.info <www.posterinfo.net> - artist contribution for EIKON magazine 31/2000. Hybrid internet project
1999
sign.post <sero.org/signpost> - Information art for technology center. Hybrid internet installation. Realisation of the art percentage project sign.post in Leipzig, Business Innovation Center.
re-m@il <sero.org/re-mail> - Internet project
1998
Information recycling – artist contribution for the Nuremberg yearbook 1998/99 net.art, Institut for modern art Nuremberg
Scanner++ <sero.org/scanner/> - hybrid internet installation
Dump your trash! <sero.org/dyt> - hybrid internet project, installtion and sculpture
1997
7-11 TV <sero.org/sero/various/7-11/> - Streaming web interface for the net art mailing list 7-11
sero.org - from October 1997 to October 2000 development of the website http://sero.org – a information recycling system on the internet
Bad Browser – internet project
without addresses <www.documenta.de/without_addresses now offline> internet project for documenta X
without addresses <sero.org/without_addresses> - CD-Rom documentation of without addresses
1994 – 1998
Internationale Stadt Berlin <former URL: berlin.icf.de and www.icf.de> - November 1994 to March 1998 organising and developing the internet project Internationale Stadt (as founding members)
Documentation of Internationale Stadt at the Museum for Applied Arts in Frankfurt am Main, Germany <www.digitalcraft.org>
1994
Clubnetz – Internet terminals (IRC) in public space (in five clubs in east berlin at the same time) first with the group Handshake then with Internationale Stadt Berlin
Feld Reise <sero.org/feldreise> - Participation in the fieldwork project Feld Reise in the former russian barracks Krampnitz near Potsdam from June 1994 to September 1994. Development of the internet project with Handshake.
1993
Handshake <sero.org/handshake> - Internet project with Barbara Aselmeier and Armin Haase
Welcome Home – Internet TV-project on ”Offener Kanal”, the public access cable channel in Berlin, with the artist and activist group Lux Logis
Exhibitions – Presentations – Lectures
2005
Scannermobile at HJ Hafner and C Kugler Nürnberg
2004
Group exhibitions:
Fast Um$onst , NGBK Berlin
1500 Years Haager Convention, Barbara Stollen Freiburg
Solo exhibition:
Bodenbildung, Kunstverein Leipzig
2003
Group exhibitions:
The conquest of ubiquity, Murcia, Spanien
Written in Stone. A netart archaeology, The National Museum of Contemporay Art Oslo,Norwegen
Kunst am Bau, GASAG, Berlin
2002
Solo exhibition:
Galerie im Park, Bremen.
Group exhibitions:
Swiss Re, Munich.
Unusual portraits, Projektraum Berlin, Galerie Mathias Kampl.
o.T for Wild Cards ( Delbrügge deMoll) Sience and Fiction, Sprengel Museum Hannover
2001
Solo exhibtions:
Take part in our happiness. Exhibition of the project 1st Public White Cube, Projektraum Berlin, Galerie Mathias Kampl.
1st Public White Cube (together with Gerrit Gohlke), Projektraum Berlin, Galerie Mathias Kampl.
Group exhibitions:
Trade, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland.
Trade, Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Berlin – London, Institute of Contemporary Art, London.
GeldLust:Modellbanking, Kunsthalle Tirol, Austria.
Lecture:
Conserveration of netart, Mediateca, Fundacio La Caixa Barcelona, Spain.
Panel discussion:
Media art in public space, Transmediale Berlin.
2000
Solo exhibitions:
SchmidtBank Gallery, Nuremberg, during the project log.in Art/Net/Works, Institut for modern art, Nuremberg.
Group exhibitions:
Einsperren Aussperren Aufsperren (Log In Log Out Log Off), LADEN Lothringerstraße, Munich, Germany.
Open Art, Munich.
Tech_Nicks, Lux Gallery, London, England.
Out of Space, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany.
Kunstvlaai4, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam, Holland.
Network Art Entertainment, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA.
Artist contribution / Publication:
EIKON Magazine, International magazine for Photography and Media Art, #31/2000, Vienna, Austria.
1999
Group exhibitions:
Comtec Art, international festival / exhibition for computer aided art and interdisciplinary projects, Dresden, Germany.
net_condition, ZKM (Center for Art and Media) Karlsruhe, Germany.
Viper, international festival for new media, Luzern, Switzerland.
Cyberarts 99, Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria.
European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany.
Post Media Pressure: Expo Destructo, London.
Internet Art Exhibition, Japanise Agency for cultural affairs, Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo, Japan.
Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany.
Shift e.V., Berlin
Arts percentage project:
Business Innovation Center (BIC), Leipzig, Germany.
1998
Group exhibitions:
Global Fun – Zwischen Kunst und Design (Between art and design), Museum Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany. (Catalogue)
Comm_X_Change, Basel, Switzerland.
Ortsbegehung: Body of the Message, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (NBK) Berlin. (Catalogue)
Presentation and Lecture:
Netz, Kunst und Publikum – Vermittlungsstrategien der Netzkunst, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin.
Project presentation:
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin.
Media MUU Base Helsinki and Art Academy Helsinki, Department for Time and Space, Prof. Oliver Whitehead, Finland.
1997
Group exhibitions:
documenta X, Kassel, Germany. (Catalogue)
1996
Presentation and Lecture:
Version 2.2, Symposium on netart, St. Gervais, Kunsthaus Genf, France. (Catalogue contribution)
European Media Art Festival ’96, Osnabrück, Germany. (Catalogue contribution)
Congress during the exhibition Osteuropa Mailart im Internationalen Netzwerk (Mail Art: Eastern Europe in International Network), Staatliches Museum Schwerin, Germany. (Congress documentation)
1995
Group exhibitions:
Videofest ’95, Berlin.
Ars electronica, Linz, Austria. (Catalogue contribution)
Presentation and Lecture:
Telepolis. Die interaktive und vernetzte Stadt (Telepolis: The interactive and networked City), exhibition and symposium, Luxembourg (european culture capital 1995).
Hochschule der Künste (Art Academy), Berlin.
Flusser Symposium, Burda Academy for the third century, Munich. (Book contribution)
Telematic Cities. Perspectives sustainable urban developments, Gelsenkirchen, Germany.
Film + Arc, Festival for film and architecture, Graz, Austria.
Interface 3. Unstable Order, exhibition and symposium, Hamburg, Germany.
1994
Group exhibitions:
Videofest ’94, Berlin. (Catalogue contribution)
Chromapark, techno art exhibition, E-Werk Berlin. (Booklet)
Berlin – hier und jetzt (Berlin – here and now), Prague – Internet – Berlin. Two installations at the same time in Prague and Berlin serving as a cultural exchange between Berlin and Prague artists. Supported by the Berlin Senate for cultural affairs and Goethe-Institute Prague. (accompanying booklet)
European Media Art Festival ’94, Osnabrück, Germany. (Catalogue)
Minima Media, MediaBieniale Leipzig ’94. (Catalogue)
Datendandy: Symposium about behavioural strategies in media space, Zeiss-Planetarium Berlin.
Solo exhibition:
FeldReise: Das Gedächtnis (FeldReise: Memory), Staudenhof Galerie, Potsdam, Germany.
Presentations and lectures:
Die Zukunft von Kommunikationsnetzen (The future of communication networks), Symposium, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin. (Documentation)
Designer der Zukunft – Die medialen Botschaften des 21. Jahrhunderts (Designer of the Future – Media Messages of the 21. Century), 5. European Summer Academy, Academy of Arts Berlin.
Städtische Räume und Selbstorganisation (Urban Spaces and self organisation), Summer School, Bauhaus Dessau, Germany.
Stappen in de Virtuele Ruimte, Symposium for Architecture and electronic media, Delft, Netherlands. (Booklet)
Fenster im Netz (Windows in the Net), Art + Com, Media Forum Berlin-Brandenburg. (Booklet)
1993
Group exhibitions:
OSTranenie ‚93, 1. International Videofestival Bauhaus Dessau. (Catalogue)
Offener Kanal Berlin (public access TV channel), IFA (International Broadcasting Fair), Berlin.