Timo Seber - GO
curated by Benjamin Dodenhoff
9th October 2016 - 12th February 2017
Ludwig Forum Aachen
Jülicher Str. 97-109, 52070 Aachen
Photography: Jens
Ziehe / Carl Brunn, all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Ludwigforum Aachen
In the series Perspective, the research project
Platform Aachen invites young artists from the Rhine-Maas Region to exhibit
their work. Timo Seber (*1984, Berlin) combines objects, graphic art, and text
to visualize the economic and aesthetic phenomena of the internet and online
gaming. E-sports events in front of a live audience and gaming apps are booming
branches of the economy. Professional players can earn more here than in many
long-established sports. Moreover, computer games run contrary to the
entrenched view that sporting contests are mainly about athletic performance.
But are they thus disembodied? Somewhere between the digital display and a
sweaty teenage room, the virtual generates physical movement, while gaming apps
send their users to collect virtual trophies at real places. The console and
keyboard were never the opposed to the body, but always designed to be its
extension.
Timo Seber’s works sensitively trace the
threshold zone where the aesthetic of immaterial computer images and physical
activity merge. He has developed a site-specific work for the Ludwig Forum.