Matthias Planitzer‘s artistic work focuses on the conditions and interdependencies of technological processes. It searches for the connections between knowledge production and the technical claim to absoluteness, between opaque surfaces and inconspicuous structures, between trace and artefact.

His works repeatedly question the construction of knowledge. In particular, the inscription of tech-nical means of production and superior interests in processes of gaining knowledge forms a focal point of the thematic debate. Strategies of deception and the image-guided short-circuiting of knowl-edge and action play a special role here. Primarily using film and photography, but also algorithmic and generative means, he repeatedly appropriates imaging methods and image-based narratives, takes them to extremes and seeks for insights in their disruptions.

Matthias Planitzer passed his medical state examination in 2015 and worked in the interdisciplinary image science and medicine research group “Image Guidance” at the Cluster of Excellence “Image Knowledge Gestaltung” until 2016. He graduated in summer 2023 with a master‘s degree in fine arts in Hito Steyerl‘s “Lensbased” class. He is also co-editor of the book series “Uncanny Issues”, the third volume of which, “Uncanny Environments”, will be presented at Princeton University this year.

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