Ornella Fieres
born 1984 in Frankfurt, Germany
lives and works in Berlin, Germany
ornella fieres's work explores the hidden aspects of digital technologies. For her investigations, she develops photography, video, and sound techniques that forcefully merge analog and digital material. Fieres works with photographs and documentary film material from the turn of the 20th century — a time that was characterized by a fascination of occultism in combination with technology — and processes the found footage with experimental methods. Fieres uses self-built apparatuses, autonomous algorithms, tweaked software, and artificial intelligence to create moments that carry lingering traces of the past and might be foreshadowing events in the future.
Fieres's multimedia installations have been exhibited internationally at The Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Goethe Institut, Toronto, Canada; Literaturhaus Berlin, Germany; NurtureArt Gallery, New York; Kunstverein Speyer, Germany; and Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, Germany. She has given lectures and presentations at Volksbühne Berlin, Haus am Lützowplatz Berlin, Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach, and New Lab New York, where she had a research residency in 2017.
selected works
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