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What kind of artwork does TILO make? Media present: (gif-) animations, 'Super8' videos, VJ shows (real-time rendering), internet sites (html / JavaScript), ink/pastel on paper, murals past: installations, sculptures, graphics, photos, multimedia shows |
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| Periods |
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| 1977 - 1981 | multimedia shows / virtual reality in the seventies with Super8, slides and live music |
| 1981 - 1986 | photocopy as a graphical medium / the specific character of the new print medium / low price print on request |
| 1986 - 1991 | academical work
/ paintings / drawings / (interactive) installations / fractal based designs |
| 1990 - 1993 | interface objects / controllers and interface with computer programs |
| 1991 - 1994 | HiTec Identity / 'Identity in a surrounding of Hi(gh)Tec(h)-products after the fall of the Berlin Wall' / multiple Triangled Notepath / interactive installation / virtual shareholders company / group exposition / congress |
| 1992 - 2000 | It's Not Hollywood / 'communication - project between Roumania and America' / mono prints / photocopies / internet sites / video 'Welcome to the Mountaines of Maremures' / lectures |
| 1993 | Nightwatcher / installation at an office building / 113 paintings on windows / lights / performances / start of the multidisciplinairy art center GEWAB |
| 1997 - now | internet sites |
| 1997 | Extorium / art network |
| 1998 | Radiopages / gif-animations |
| 1999 | Peace at the Lake Danube / gif-animations about a Roumainian village at the border to Serbia |
| 2001 | Virtual Poetry / illustrations for the international sculpture exposition Sonsbeek 9 |
| 2002 | Blaues Blut / illustrated thoughts about globalism / gif animations |
| 2002 - 2007 | www.tilometer.nl / NL homepage |
| 2006 - now | MySpace profiles |
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TILO_art / artist profile TiTech_visuals / 'Super8' videos TI_TI_ME [ti:time] / mp3 play list center |
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| 2007 - now | www.tilometer.eu / TILO's homepage |
| 1998 - now | Das Wunschspiel / drawings / objects / murals |
| 2003 - now | VJ TILO / 3 dimensional collages with 3rd dimension = time / performances |
| 2003 |
/ 'free spaces in NL' |
| 2003 - 2007 |
/ Sandunga: collaboration with DJ Wieke |
| 2004 |
/ '3$ outdoor' |
| 2006 |
/ 'London Time' |
| 2006 |
/ 'Free NYC' |
| 2005 - now | 'Super8' videos / pop concerts / dance nights / portraits |
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Why does TILO this? After experience in galleries and art institutions TILO decided to create art not for traditional spaces. The perception of the public excludes the experience under such circumstances from everyday life. Art mustn't look as like art to prevent it from the elitist attitude. Back to top NONCONFORMISM Since 1995 TILO describes himself as a nonconformist. This is related to the Russian nonconformist movement during the Perestroika. It's not only the end of communism, but the beginning of end of modernist era. The globalist society will create another epoch. TILO attempt to be a part of a new avant-garde, which uses the international networks as a single person actor. 'When I was a child, I had a dream: everyone around me was normally standing on the floor, only me, I stood on the ceiling. Later I imagined that the earth is round, but we do not live on the outside of this ball, but inside. The universe is not the endless space but the small center of the world. We are thinking in linear structures. In this imagination is what we interpret as strait in reality a spiral. This makes the space "endless". To stand on a ball is close to stand on a plate. To hang inside of a ball is not a charming concept of the world.' Back to top JETZT - the present time 'Jetzt' (german: now) is TILO's favorite word. He doesn't forget the past and has an imagination about the future, but the present time is the main level of his activities. 'Nothing is more difficult than to reflect the present time. We are living within traditions of prejudices, which we all use to interpret the world. If everyone is making the same fault, no one can correct this What would truth mean without this traditional prejudices?' TILO practice his observation through at random results. If he doesn't know what would be the present result, then he has to realize it. Back to top High culture The western modern culture is a consequence of the previous states of the societies. Definitions are far developed. They cannot be changed easily, because it could be a breakdown of the whole system as like a house of play-cards. A good example is the copyright, the intellectual property: the western societies have developed the sciences in the era of colonialism, a crime against humanity. Now the infrastructure in this countries allows smart people to develop their talent. Can we occupy this knowledge as our property? Should we share our advance with less privileged people in former colonies? The struggle about AIDS medicine describes, that we mustn't always protect selfish scientists. 'A copy is something different than an industrial product. A material product is unique, which can be given away. The copy is not a 'giveaway', it's sharing information. The only thing, what's lost by multiplying information is the exclusive availability. If someone wants to become famous, the creativity has to be published. In the present time people want both: to be rich AND famous. Maybe in future this will be an alternative: to become rich OR famous. The distribution companies are as like the newspaper industry an area of business of the 20th century.' Back to top Is this a usefully artistic activity? 'Who knows what is THE contemporary art of the present time?' TILO is an outsider in the art world. He takes a lot of aesthetically risks and makes experiments with the new media. He attempts to create an alternative style to the dominant commercial 'blur-beauty' aesthetic, wherein everything is perfect. His results can be raw, but they must be honest. Who wants to say that is not an important subject for the art in the beginning of the 21st century? Back to top "Dilettantism" TILO's artwork doesn't like skilled. As like scientists, who speak an intellectual language, TILO doesn't want to handle aesthetically specialism or advanced, exclusive tools. He likes the reaction on Joseph Beuys drawings: 'Das kann ich auch' (german: This I can do too). He handled the concept of the social sculpture ('Jeder Mensch ist ein Kuenstler' - German: Everyone is an artist). In networks as like MySpace this is becoming true. TILO attempts to give examples how to make interesting things with tools, everyone can avail oneself. His experience in creating images, this is the main difference between amateurism and his professional work. 'The greatest revolution of the media culture is that people can produce on their own presentations and got channels to distribute this. This is an unknown golf of individual creativity My artwork should coach the quality of this statements.' Back to top Not knowing 'I'm only a human. How can I think to know, what will happen when I died? There isn't anyone who can cross the border from death to life! All stories are about people at the border to death, but they were still alive. Many people believe in the 2000 years old story of Jesus, who had crossed the border to death in both directions. Voor me it's only a myth, a good story where people like to believe in. The trick of most religions is, to suggest that humans have an unfading soul and are more as like god than every other being.' A concept of the world includes the position of humans in the environment of the earth. The species human is very successfully. More than 6 1/2 Billions of this kind of animals, this looks like an epidemic. The urban towns are big anthills; the only difference is the scale. We found methods to survive natural threats as like the cold and illness. 'We recognize the problems with the natural environment. The only effective method is to become less humans on earth. All religions are against this. The fundamental sense of our existence is NOT anymore to multiply our-self, but to prevent the world from too many of us. After centuries of grow, now it's time to share. I know from my own life that this has a lot of social en economical implications.' Back to top Choises to handle freedom 'I'm one of the most free artists of all times. I realize: I'm living in a very privileged position. I can live with the money of 20 hours work in a week or of the social security. There is no need to sell my artwork. Unless I don't earn money with art, I got enough time to concentrate on my productions. My oeuvre is independent to any institution.' The Dutch circumstance are really liberal. TILO only works on projects what he wants to do. For sure he isn't busy with terrorist or pervert (sexual) behavior. He is criticizing basic phenomena's of his cultural context in a radical way. In the seventies the artists shout it loud out, he is a quiet worker. He's not trying to reach a wide public, but handles as a researcher. His lab is his living-room. 'My primary choices are: - to handle an inartistic style; - to use the technical en social facilities of the rich world for his individual purposes; - to develop my skills out of the artistic process; - to develop my artwork without influences from the art institutions. - unless my studio is not a shop, I like to be supported by people, who want to have my artwork.' Back to top |