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Thursday, 25 February 2010
Presentation of Cosmic Revelation at the Conference „Astroteilchenphysik in Deutschland: Status und Perspektiven“ at DESY in Zeuthen.

11 December 2009 - 9 January 2010
"Coloursex" is presented as large window work in occasion of the exhibition "Farbe materiell – Farbe immateriell" at Festspielhaus Hellerau/Dresden.

5 - 10 October 2009
Residency as guest artist at CERN including a public talk at the Globe of Science and Innovation, Geneva (CH) more:

16 September - 24 September 2009
Tim Otto Roth is invited as an artist in residence at the at the European Southern Observatories (ESO). Public talk at the headquarter in Garching/Munich on 21 September see:

4 September - 4 October 2009
Cosmic Revelation is presented with two mirror sculptures at the Cyberarts 09 exhibition at OK Center Linz presenting the best and most interesting entries in the Prix Ars Electronica.

16 July 2009
Coloursex - a new large sitespecific window work was realized for a group exhibition with Werner Schmidt, Heinz Schultz-Koernig and Gabi Streile at the cylce KIB (Kunst im Büro) at Koehler, Oberkirch (more....)

1 June 2009
"Cosmic Revelation", article by Tim Otto Roth & Andreas Haungs in the section Transactions, Leonardo Vol. 42, Issue 3 (2009).

27 May 2009
official announcement of a "Honorary Mention" for Cosmic Revelation in the category Hybrid Arts at Ars Electronica 2009 in Linz.

26 April - 7 June 2009
"Konkrete Farbfotoarbeiten" - group exhibition by Christoph Dahlhausen, Robert Davis and Tim Otto Roth at Verein für aktuelle Kunst Oberhausen

16 April 2009
"Flashes of Cosmic Brilliance", review on Cosmic Revelation by Martin Kemp in Nature 458, p. 836

Monday, 30 March 2009
Cosmic Revelation - an art & science cooperation with the KIT Center for Elementary Particle and Astroparticle Physics (KCETA). Cosmic Revelation changes in the evening the detector field of KASCADE into a giant light field of 40.000 sqm! Visitors are pleased to register in advance for the KASCADE symposium: Registration.

1 January 2009
"Colour Agenda 2009": An exclusive New Year edition just has appeared applying the pixel sex principle to colours - a chromatic symphony.
The limited offset edition gives a little fortatste for an upcoming larger light art installation in 2009.

28 August - 20 December
Colours of the Universe at the exhibition "rot. grün. blau. Experiment in Farbe und Licht“, Fischerhütte Ilmenau, opening 28 August 10:30

Friday, 27November 2008
Podcast on "Welt der Physik" by Jens Kube interviewing Andreas Haungs and Tim Otto Roth about the launch of "Cosmic Revelation" (ca. 5 min., mp3, German)

Monday, 10 November 2008
Cosmic Revelation - an art & science cooperation with the KIT Center for Elementary Particle and Astroparticle Physics (KCETA). First light at 17:00 close by the Audimax of the University Campus, Karlsruhe.

26 October - 13 December 2008
Gegenstandslos, Gesellschaft f. Kunst u. Gestaltung e.V., Bonn

15 October 2008
Sonderpreis für Kreativität der Gastronomischen Akademie Deutschland e.V. on the Book Fair Frankfurt for the cookbook "Genie Essen", a unique project by the chilli mind company joining 64 creatives around the world to design recipes about the hot and spicy fruit. The cover picture - a specical creation by Tim Otto Roth - shows the record of the pure chemical traces left by two halves of a pepperoni on an ektachrome sheet film. www.genie-essen.com

latest publications, see also: bibliography

November 2008
This is not a photograph - some remarks on the photogram as a picture, in: Auer, Anna; Schögl, Uwe (Ed.): Congress of Photography in Vienna, Salzburg 2008, pp. 464-469.
August 2008
Ars Photoelectronica - Astronomie als Königsdisziplin der Farbe,bende Bilder, in: Scheurmann, Konrad (Ed.): rot.grün.blau. -Experiment in Farbe & Licht, Ilmenau 2008, pp.S.90-93.
July 2008
Lebende Bilder - zu Paul Lindners Naturgeschichte der Schattenbilder, in: Kultur und Technik 3/2008, Deutsches Museum, pp.56-60.

Sunday, 2 November 2008
Music of Life, matinee at CYNET-Art festival, Theaterhaus Hellerau, Dresden, 11:00
Wednesday, 10 September 2008
Music of Life, evening concert at the German Conference on Bioinformatics at Deutsches Hygienemuseum, Dresden, 19:00
Saturday, 16 August 2008
Music of Life, Lange Nacht der Kunst, Künstlerhaus Lukas, Ahrenshoop

20-24 April 2008
Guest artist at the Max-Planck-Institut for Cellbiology and Genetics (MPI CBG) in Dresden working especially in the research groups of Marino Zerial and Stefan Diez.

N° 500 31 March 2008
Imachination N° 500 appeared in Vienna on the last day of March. Since 2002 the web based image cycle has been presented in 9 leading institutions from art & science from 5 countries in and out of Europe. (overview...)

28 Feburary - 18 May 2008
The Imachinations were presented in a specially designed room at the large exhibition Genau und Anders - Mathematik in der Kunst von Dürer bis Sol LeWitt, Museum für Moderne Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien.

January 2008
The Cosmic Flash project clip presented at ESA International Space Exploration Conference is now online! The movie includes an interview with the astronaut Christer Fuglesang made by Alexander van Dijk and Tim Otto Roth in November at the Axica Centre Berlin. The Swedish astronaut reports about his light flashes on his last space mission STS 116: (mpg, 117 Mb).

31 March 2008
"Bilder aus der Postphogoraphie", review/interview about the Imachinations in Vienna by Karsten Bosch, Acher-Rench-Zeitung

Spring 2008
Position III: Achim Mohnés Lasergraphs, Oppenau/Köln, Spring 2008. Public presentation on 13 April 2008 at 11:30, Kunst- und Museumsbibliothek der Stadt Köln.

19 October 2007
Imprint, Impression, Expression - Peter Gerwin Hoffmann's Traces in the historical context of the whole-body photogramme, in: Holler-Schuster, Günther (Ed.): Peter Gerwin Hoffmann [Neue Galerie Graz], Köln 2007, p. 216-225 (engl. p. 252-258).
Public presentation of the monography with contributions by Thomas Feuerstein, Florian Matzner, Peter Gerwin Hoffmann, Günther Holler-Schuster, Heimo Ranzenbacher, Tim Otto Roth, Peter Weibel and Oswald Wiener at Neue Galerie Graz (A) at 18:30 on 19 October.

Summer 2007

تيم أوتو روتدروس من الدوكومنتا 12

What are the lessons of documenta 12 -Reflections from the viewpoint of a postmodern artist: essay by Tim Otto Roth published in Fikrun Wa Fann N°86.

previous news & exhibits

18 December 2007
Cookbook with chemigrams and photograms. A chemigram of pepperoni made by Tim Otto Roth adorns a unique chilli cookbook. The cookbook is the result of the chilli mind company project joining 64 creatives around the world to design recipes about the hot and spicy fruit. The cover picture shows the record of the pure chemical traces left by two halves of a pepperoni on an ektachrome sheet film. For the illustration of a South American chilli recipe (N°64) Tim Otto Roth created colour photograms of a cluster of chilli slices. www.genie-essen.com

8 December 2007
"Licht aus/ Lights off" - a new idea? A quite different approach was made in 2004 with "Switch Off", a concept by Tim Otto Roth awarded with the German Light Award: www.switchoff.org

22 September - 18 November, 2007
Stanze - a documentary about Fabio Sandri's room photograms by Tim Otto Roth, Kurpfälzisches Museum Heidelberg, Heidelberg (read synopsis in German).

Wednesday 24 October 2007
Premiere of the videos "Taxi Driver" and "Abuquir - The art to turn left" in occasion of the Filmclub: Kunst Film Kunst at Goethe Institute Egypt Alexandria (read synopsis).

08 July -07 October 2007
Les Neuf Portes de Ton Corps is presented at the exhibition "Die zweite Avantgarde, Das Fotoforum Kassel 1972-1982", Stiftung Moritzburg, Halle an der Saale [D], opening: Saturday 07.07.2007

17-21 September 2007
Tim Otto Roth is invited to be the first artist in residence at the Center for High Performance Computing (ZIH), TU Dresden. There he explores new methods in computing and modeling. The ZIH which opened its doors one year ago belongs to the world's top 100 of high performce computing centres. Public talk on 18 September: Pixelsex: über den Eros von Mathematik und Kunst im öffentlichen Raum

Saturday 30 June 2007
"Effected by quite a different and much simpler process - shadow pictures in the sciences and the arts" - public conference talk by Tim Otto Roth, Lakeside Art Centre & Image Studies Network, University of Nottingham.

27 April 07
Galeria Metropolitana presented the Barcelona Work Box project in a press conference to the public. The new exhibition center and platform for multidisciplinar activities consists mainly of sea containers. It will be built up in the 22@ district of Barcelona. It includes the large container based light installation "Containersex" by Tim Otto Roth. www.barcelonaworkbox.com

March 07
The current issue 29 of the Czech architecture magazine zlatý řez is dealing about media facades. A four page feature presents the Pixelsex project in Rotterdam.(link to zlatý řez)

Saturday 27 January
"Das Echo der Dinge" - Matiné with photogram films curated by Tim Otto Roth. Österreichische Fotogalerie am Museum der Moderne/ Salzburg [A] (11.00). More about the screened films: preliminary program.

December 2006
"Bild und Anblick - Versuch über atmosphärisches Sehen" an interview with the philosopher recently went online. It deals about Plato as the originator of the concept of picture, the atmosphere as the big looser of traditional imaging and the weather news as greatest form of theatralization of the invisible. (more...)

November 2006
Finally the catalogue "Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht/Light art from artificial light. " has appeared! The catalogue is with more than 700 pages a quite encyclopedic book presenting much more works and and artists than shown in the past exhibition. The video chip photogram installation is presented on page 173.

Sat 14 October 2006 - 11 February 2007
On Saturday 14 October the photogram exhibition "kamera los! fotogramme im 20. jahrhundert" opens up at the Österreichische Fotogalerie am Museum der Moderne/ Salzburg [A]. Tim Otto Roth’s article "The echo of the things in the celluloid - from the cave cinema to the photogram movie" appearing in the exhibition's catalogue will be the first theoretical essay dealing about the photogram in motion. A film screening will be presented as a matinée in January 07.

Sun 8 October 2006
The "Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie" (DGPh) and the "Kunst- und Museumsbibliothek der Stadt Köln" invite round: Jenseits der Photographie: Das Photogramm", public talk by Tim Otto Roth, at 11:30, Kunst- und Museumsbibliothek, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Köln [D]

9 -11 September 2006
Taking Control Tim Otto Roth presented for the first time officially the "Cosmic Flash" project at the SPACE SOON Symposium taking place at the Roundhouse, London. Above all the Artscatalysts could arrange an exclusive interview with Alan Bean, the fourth man on the moon, to ask him for his cosmic flash experiences during the Apollo 12 and the Skylab mission (watch excerpt, quicktime, 2.9 Mb).

July 2006
The photogram. Light, Trace and Shadow. Finally a detailed report about the symposium at the Center for Art and Media ZKM Karlsruhe has appeared (more...)

19.11.2005-06.08.2006
Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht, the exhibition time has been extended about three months till the beginning of August 2006, ZKM|Museum für Neue Kunst/ Karlsruhe [D]. Part of the giant light art exhibition showing works of about 230 (!) artists is also an installation of a video chip photogram. Info: www.jenseits.net

8/9 April 2006
Das Photogram. Licht, Spur und Schatten. In the context of the large exhibition “Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht” at the ZKM Karlsruhe Tim Otto Roth was invited by Peter Weibel to organize with him an interdisciplinary symposium at the beginning of April that devotes to a medium that has a special relation ship to the different spectra of light: the photogram (more...)

16-20 February 2006
With "Pixelsex" the KPN Telecom Tower built by Renzo Piano changes into the world's largest media light facade. Therefore the facade controle was especially reprogramed to be connected with the internet! The next "Pixelsex" is shown parallel to Art Rotterdam '06: www.pixelsex.org

19.11.2005-01.05.2006
Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht, ZKM|Museum für Neue Kunst/ Karlsruhe [D], opening 19:00, 18 November 2005; Info: www.jenseits.net

13 November 05 - 8 January 06
Fotografie Konret - konkrete Fotografie, Museum im Kulturspeicher/ Würzburg [D]

27 Octobre 2005
"Cyano on the Beach" - exhibition of student's results of Tim Otto Roth's photogram workshop at the Goethe Institute Alexandria, opening 20:00 (10, rue des Ptolemees, Azarita)

9-11 September 2005
"Pixelsex" - a project especially created for the giant KPN Telecom ligth facade was presented during De Wereld van Witte de With festival (Rotterdam, 9-11 September 2005). The project is commissioned by KPN and curated by V2. A cooperation with the bio informatician Jörn Starruß from TU Dresden made it possible to bring "life" to the facade transmitting live via web his simulations of myxo bacteria movements. Tim Otto Roth presented his current projects in a public talk at V2 on 10 Septembre, 16:00
(more: ).

28 August 2005
The Imachinations have started on Sunday August 28 at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina ! The New Library of Alexandria will be a completly new playfield for the project creating for 100 days a lucent landmark in the public space of the mediterranean metropole (more...).

June 2005
Preparing the Imachinations for North Africa: Tim Otto Roth visits the Bibliotheca Alexandrina to clear the last technical details for the upcoming presentation in Autumn 2005.

15 April 2005
The Imachination Report III about the presentation at the Center for Art and Media ZKM Karlsruhe has appeared. It discusses the concept of imachination with Ludger Brümmer, Barbara Könches, Eva Schürmann, Peter Sloterdijk, Woody Vasulka & Beat Wyss.

14 March 2005
All the three big particle experiments in the United States can be watched in March at the Kunstfassade! This week the gold collision images from the STAR experiment at Brookhaven National Laborator/ US can be followed live at the artfacade Munich. Last week the BELLE-Experiment from the KEK-Accelerator Center in Tsukuba/ Japan was shown. The best time to follow the near realtime events is between 18:00 and 20:00 MET. www.kunstfassade.de/webcam

25 February 2005
The Imachination Report II about the presentation at Schloß Dagstuhl has appeared. It reports about the iconic turn or better to say the diagrammatic turn in computer science. The German printing house Kaufmann in Lahr i. Schw. sponsors the production of the next 5 Imachination Reports.

29 January 2005
Imachinations at the "Top of Europe":The Imachinations started at the High Altitude Research Station Jungfraujoch . Since the 1930's important discoveries in the fields of physiology, meteorology, glaciology, radiation, astronomy and cosmic rays have been made at the station in Central Switzerland.

21 January 2005
"1 von 100" - an introduction and more to the presentation at the ZKM Karlsruhe by Tim Otto Roth, ZKM_Vortragssaal, 19h, admission free (more...)

01 January 2005
"Imachination or no Imachination" - the imachinative aspects of synthetic elements are the subject of the New Year Edition 04/05. The limited edition of borosilicate vials contains soil from the Iraqi desert (more...)