Gebhard Sengmüller develops projects dedicated to the history of electronic media. In his artistic-theoretical confrontation, historical development is not only the object of research, but also the projection surface for conceivable expansions.

Sengmüller’s artistic work creates installations resembling test arrangements and illustrating digital connections.

+ Background: Dan Flavin was one of the first artists in the early 1960s to present industrially produced fluorescent tubes in art. The name that he gave his fluorescent tubes, which were initially still bound to the image carrier supports and then later freely positioned in the exhibition space, is significant: He called them “Icons: The modular, standard properties of the industrially produced, everyday objects combine in Flavin’s minimalist objects with an auratic appearance radiating in the room.

LichtRouten Piece: A Parallel Image/LichtRouten Lüdenscheid 

This reactive installation is based on the assumption that the principle, still valid today, of moving pictures consisting of individual pictures moving in rapid succession was never discovered. The assumption continues that another form, the parallel transmission of individually wired pixels, was realised instead. In the series of installations “Paralleles Bild”, this transmission method is installed and the fictitious image transmission process, a type of three-dimensional construction drawing, is visible. This media-archaeological installation was shown for the first time in September 2009 at the ars electronica in Linz, Austria. For the presentation at LichtRouten, it will additionally be augmented by an image generator.

LichtRouten-location: Kremp & Hüttemeister I Humboldtstraße 9-11