Franz Thalmair

Austria (residence) °1976
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Franz Thalmair is a freelance arts writer and curator based in Vienna/Austria.

research

research expositions

  • Periphrasis (for a ditto, ditto device) (2017) author(s): Franz Thalmair, Michael Kargl published in: University of Applied Arts Vienna
    Periphrasis (for a ditto, ditto device) is an experimentally designed scenario in the draft stage, a think-tank and rehearsal for a future exhibition—but Periphrasis (for a ditto, ditto device) is also an exhibition in itself. Starting from the idea of the copy as a nowadays omnipresent yet more and more invisible artistic practice and form, seven Austrian and international participants discuss different strategies of appropriation. At the center of this public reflection on methodologies is the potential of the act of copying, its generative force and mimetic productivity. The purpose of this test setting is to collect current copying methods and to analyze their modes. By subjecting the copy to the act of copying again, new copying techniques will derive from this process, creating a research loop that is self-reflective and auto-generative at the same time.
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activities (collaborated)

  • originalcopy-Postdigital Strategies of Appropriation (2016 - 2018)
    Polifonia project, Principal Investigator: Michael Kargl, researcher(s): Michael Kargl, Franz Thalmair
    Copying has become ubiquitous yet invisible, both in the digital realm and in the analog world. In this research project we develop a working model that subjects the dichotomy of original and copy to a re-evaluation from a post-digital perspective and sheds light on this contradictory phenomenon. Our research focuses on the tensions between the supposed immateriality of digital technologies and their material manifestations by appropriating contemporary methods of copying and exposing them to artistic processes of transformation and translation.