In Christian Waldvogel. Earth Extremes, the artist uses photography and digital imagery to examine our world within the solar system

When producing works of art, the artist judges a piece's themes from a point of view that is characteristic of his beliefs and to the perspective that he takes on things. In many cases, this point of view is set outside the system the piece is about. Besides criticizing given facts, an outside point of view gives a perspective onto things that is free from preoccupation and them-inherent perception.

So writes the architect, musician, and programmer Christian Waldvogel (1971) in Christian Waldvogel. Earth Extremes,* a collection of nine of his projects from the last several years. For the pieces in Christian Waldvogel. Earth Extremes, Waldvogel situates his point of view in space, using photography and digital imagery to examine our world within the solar system. In Top of the World, for example, Waldvogel imagines approaching the Earth from another galaxy, as though he was an alien traveling from another planet. In another, Waldvogel imagines Galileo's fate had he the opportunity to observe the Earth from the Moon. Combining data from space research with experimental art and imagination, Christian Waldvogel. Earth Extremes offers readers a glimpse of what it's like to travel through the final frontier.

Christian Waldvogel. Earth Extremes was named one of 2010's Most Beautiful Swiss Books and won a bronze medal in the 2010 competition Best Designed Books from All Over the World.

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Autorentext

Christian Waldvogel, born 1971 in Austin TX, graduated in architecture from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (M.Sc. in Architecture 1997) and has done further studies at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence RI, and in computer music at the Zurich college of music (Konservatorium Zurich). He has been working free-lance in the fields of architecture, art, graphic design, web design and musical performance since 1997. In 2004 he represented Switzerland at the 9th Architecture Biennale in Venice.

Klappentext

Extraordinary conceptual art, spectacular images and surprising views, result of experimental thinking beyond the usual idea of our world and planet Earth within the solar system.

Inhalt

Contents: Seven Years From Here Globus Cassus Top of the World West Pole Dear Jim Voss, How Does Space Look from Space? (Space from Space #1) As If the Stars Were Countless (Space from Space #2) Suspended Eternity (Space from Space #3) Maybe, the Non-Existence of Antichthon May Be Disproved Galileo's Missing Argument North of Everest The Earth Turns Without Me 433 Eros Global Scalpel