Above you see another variation of my picture Parklife. The Puppets Remix version you probably already know. For this new version I didn’t re-edit the montage, but changed the finish to adopt it to my current style. The new version was on display at my latest exposition and I wanted to show you this version as well.

Before I move to the forthcoming exhibitions, I wanted to let you know that you can currently download the latest mockART albums for free from Bandcamp. views | interrupted is the soundtrack to the exhibition mentioned above. The album is instrumental and more ambient. Men Who Lost Their Heads was released last year and features various guest vocalists. If you want to download them for free you have to do it till the coming weekend. Next week we will charge the regular price again.

If you use Spotify, I can also recommend the mockART radio. You will hear some “hits” by mockART and other tracks by similar artists.

You can also listen to the full albums on Spotify as well. They are also available on other streaming services like iTunes, Deezer, YouTube Music, Tidal, etc. too, if you use those.

Now moving back to visual arts: I will present pictures in two more exhibitions this year. Both of them in Frankfurt.

For the most recent one I will return to the Nebbiensches Gartenhaus with one of the pictures that I had already shown there in September.

Departure is another variation of a picture I had already published called The Confrontation. This version was recreated exclusively for the exposition and now you have a chance to see it again at the same place.

The opening is next Thursday, November 3. The exhibition will run till November 20. There will be pictures as well by Sonja Ackermann and Christian Rocas and a lot of other artists as well.

I will also take part in the SPC Photo Awards. Normally I don’t like to compete with other artists. I made an exception here because the pictures are displayed in a renown gallery in Frankfurt. As you can only vote in the gallery, I think the artists win you can mobilise the most people. So if you can come I would be happy if you would vote for my picture.

The opening is December 9. The exhibition is open till December 17. That day the winners will be announced as well.

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This is the cover artwork for the new mockART album “Living with Human Machines”. About 10 years ago I was discovered by a gallery with some holiday snaps and stopped working on my music project and turned my creative energy to photography.

I formed mockART after playing guitars in various bands, but decided form my own project to experiment with sounds and musical structures. I released my first album Reflux Ux Bisou in 2007 and a split album with Slovak artist Drén in 2008. After that I started to record pieces for a project called “Country Songs” which I still want to complete. For that project I asked people from different countries to send audio samples about life on the country side in their native language and used them for the tracks. So if you want to contribute to the project, you still can. Just send a message, or leave a comment.

But back to “Living with Human Machines”. This project is the most abstract so far and was mainly composed from field recordings I collected over the years.

So if you are open for some experimental music, you can download a free copy of the full album from archive.org.

Please also visit the sounds section of this website for further information about mockART and my collection of field recordings.

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