Jasper Raukorn

===News===

2016-04-11: Again, featured artist at exhibbit.com! Plus an interview there. Current exhibition: "Terezín | Mirrors. An eerily visceral parable on decay and forgetting, the cynicism of classification and the beauty of individuality."

2016-03-07: Featured artist at exhibbit.com. "The curation "Abandoned Realities" offered a broad-brush introductory sweep across Raukorn's work, showcasing single representative samples from various cycles of his works. Subsequent exhibitions will be dedicated to an in-depth look at individual cycles, respectively."

===Info==

Digital artist Jasper Raukorn has a background in neuroscience and cognitive psychology. His main research interests, human perception and memory, prominently shape his artistic projects. Raukorn approaches his works like a painter; the images are only loosely based on raw photographic material. Blended, merged, filtered, altered elements from disjunct locations or different decades render the illusion of a reality that has never been real. By often omitting any spatial depth and 'placing the camera' in positions and angles that are physically impossible on location, he questions the existence of author, viewer, and recipient. While some apparent photographic influences (Ruscha, Siskind, Becher, Gursky) seem to give these pictures a surface of Neue Sachlichkeit, others (Sugimoto, Winogrand, Sudek, Callahan) drive Raukorn to always paradoxically inject impressionistic subjectivity into the - typically generic and inanimate - scenery.

Another line of Raukorn's work explores the ambiguity between photographic documentation (objective and nonperishable) and psychological memory (subjective and fragile) by subjecting digital photographic files to gradual manipulations over time, similar to processes found in human episodic memory recall: Blurring agents in deteriorating contexts, emotionally infused omissions or embellishments, reinterpretations and obfuscations of the specific place or time. These works actually decay as time passes.