In June 2016 you have moved into studio #7 at Untere Augartenstrasse. What project will you be working on next?

I will try to get in touch with the so called ”promise of self optimization“. New technologies like mobile phone apps or smart systems for your home can make your life much more productive in many situations, help to improve and categorize yourself compared to others, or – for the most part – the unknown public. Based on these premises my work addresses some aspects that I find particulary interesting. Firstly, all these tools impicate that your are constantly in interaction with others who are also craving to enhance their self. This situation is very ambivalent because you are part of a social and public realm, where on the surface we all like each other and constantly share our most intimate stuff and at the same time it’s all about competition and thus you’re alone. This strain is intensified by the increasing human-like interaction with apps, gadgets and objects in general. I’m interested in where and how the ”private“ and ”public“ interfere with one another nowadays and wether this division still is a stressable concept. I think in general since a while we experience the dissolution of dichotomous concepts in various fields e.g. labour, artificial intelligence and the conflation of art and research. Therefore I think art especially has the potential to scrutinize these issues.dwh