The video essay Consumer-off-the-shelf Drones by visual artist Francis Hunger investigates the use of civilian drones as a means of war and propaganda in the current conflict in Ukraine. It is no longer only very expensive military equipment that is being used, but cheap consumer drones that were originally developed for YouTubers, influencers and documentary… Continue reading Consumer Off-the-shelf Drones (2024)
Category: projects
Artificial Intelligence Cheat Sheet (2023)
A graphical overview of the current state of critical AI discussion, nodding to Kate Crawford’s and Vladan Joler’s Atlas of AI. Work in Progress.
The data proxy (2021)
A Fictional Vlog Drama The data proxy, played by Francis Hunger, is a consultant by profession living in a fictional alternative present. Humans are expected to participate in the data production system by creating a minimum monthly amount of data. The data authority, a government agency, regulates the data market. It watches over the data… Continue reading The data proxy (2021)
Statistical Hypagognia (2021)
Single-channel video, sound, 12:26 min. Based on research into statistics and legislation of the GDR from the 1960s to the 1980s, Statistical Hypnagogy discusses the importance of statistics for economic planning and electronic data processing. In the GDR, almost all procedures, institutions, and legal frameworks were based on statistical data. The legislation also established the… Continue reading Statistical Hypagognia (2021)
This is the sentence (2020)
single channel HD video, 16:13 min Francis Hunger’s video “This is the sentence” (2020) deals with the current development of artificial actors such as the voice assistants from Amazon and Apple. In front of a reddish billowing background, individual words are displayed. In the minds of readers, they are joined into sentences. A dialogue arises… Continue reading This is the sentence (2020)
Adversarial.io (2020)
web app, python, pytorch, wordpress, 2020 (in cooperation with Flupke) Adversarial.io is an easy-to-use webapp for altering image material, in order to make it machine-unreadable.o is an easy-to-use webapp for altering image material, in order to make it machine-unreadable. Through introducing perturbance, adversarial.io seeks to question and subvert automated image recognition. For each uploaded image… Continue reading Adversarial.io (2020)
Video: Artist Talk at School of Visual Arts (NYC, 2019)
School of Visual Arts MFA Fine Arts presents a talk by Francis Hunger (1976, Dessau), an artist who lives and works in Leipzig, Germany. In his practice, Hunger combines artistic and media-theoretic research with the capabilities of narration through installations, radio plays and performances, and internet-based art. His works realize a critical examination of the… Continue reading Video: Artist Talk at School of Visual Arts (NYC, 2019)
TLONM 2019
net.art (html, css, jQuery) online at: https://www.irmielin.org/_websites/languageofnewmedia2019/ The miniature net.art piece alludes to the 2001 book The Language of New Media by Lev Manovich, where he described New Media as being shaped through numerical representation, modularity, automation, variability and cultural transcoding. Hunger takes the books’ title literally and transfers it to the present. What does… Continue reading TLONM 2019
Databody (2018)
single channel video, 11:32 min, HD, 2018 On the backdrop of two visits to St. Petersburg/Russia after a period of 20 years the author explores, how his body was transformed to a data body, constantly producing and accessing data. With the help of Google Maps and Youtube he visits and revisits places in the city.… Continue reading Databody (2018)
Utopia Generator (2015)
The installation Utopia Generator consists of a diamond-shaped, reflective object, hung from the ceiling, that spins slowly. About 20 slide projectors throw names of actual utopian communities, which existed in North America during 1860 to 1920, onto the object, and the generator reflects them back into the room. Christians, utopian socialists, Fourierists, Hutterites, utopists and… Continue reading Utopia Generator (2015)
Cast Iron, Brass, Steel (2015)
Calculation Machine Mercedes Euklid 21, 32×19×34cm I first encountered it when I was researching the history of early Soviet spaceflight. It is a semi-mechanical calculating machine that uses electricity to operate the mechanical parts. It is made of cast iron, sheet metal and steel. The Mercedes Euclid 21 was manufactured very close to my hometown,… Continue reading Cast Iron, Brass, Steel (2015)
Aerial Prototype (2014)
shortwave transmitter, sound file, colored wooden construction Aerial consists of a shortwave radio station, emitting a spoken number sequence that potentially can be received worldwide – a number station. The message that I’m sending is encoded and potentially waits to be decoded by those who receive it. During the heights of the cold war a… Continue reading Aerial Prototype (2014)