ARSlohgo

ARSLohgo visualizes language or verbalizes images, respectively. It is a non-commercial, private project website and presents artificial entities.

For quick and brief instructions on how to navigate this site, please scroll to the bottom of this page.

Click on Navigation Info for more detailed instructions on how to find your way around.

shaping the imaginary playground and processes

Destructuring the structured will finally result in another but different kind of structure

At the moment the site contains five theme collections, namely ink drawings, tiny posters = phonemic pictures, mini posters on various topics, mini posters on digital topics and mini posters on thmes from the literature.

These theme collections can be divided into three contexts: “Images in Mind”, “Black & White” and “Plug & Play”, and the background of consideration is either “Participate”, “Look and Learn” or “More than one language”.

Everything I see is language. And everything I speak is pictures. This is what art means to me.

All that is new is derived from the familiar, and is therefore only partially new.

images in mind

The fact that we think both in images and in words is nothing new and since we are constantly thinking (more/less intensively), we have images in our minds all the time. The way we see things and the world is based on the idea/the image that we form of them.

Words are images in themselves, languages an inexhaustible source of images und undergo transformations that we often/usually do not perceive.

Because international phonemic language is too tedious to read I decided to use English as lingua franca.

Pure white or black is found in nature only unfiltered sunlight or in the interior of a black hole

Black & White

It is not that I do not like colors, but I prefer black and white in my work. Black—the color that hides itself and others—is the absence of light, while all other colors are reflections of visible light. White contains all colors of the visible light spectrum.

Black objects made with ink, pencil or toner on paper are not made of light. Rather, they are pigments, a mixture of dark and light colors.

With this in mind, I consider my black-and-white works to be colorful, not to say extremely colorful.

art originates in and transcends everyday life.

Plug & Play

For me, “plug & play” means the use of computer and software as a tool, comparable to paintbrush and oil or watercolor paint, pencil and ink, pen or ruler. It is not about computer art, especially not about artificial intelligence and process-engineered artworks.

It is about the tool-like nature of implementing analog concepts/ideas in a real working environment.

Word-processing, graphics, and publishing software have been part of our life context for many years, and that’s where art is created.

How to navigate the site—a ‘quickhiker’s guide thru the galaxy’

The site is quite simple. The menu item “My Galleries Dashboard” allows you to view the individual theme collections as well as an overall gallery of all works. The various galleries are made up of themed collections divided into categories. This part of the site focuses exclusively on the presentation of the images.

In the theme collections, use the mouse wheel or the left/right keys to scroll through the works. A left mouse click on a highlighted work provides an enlarged view. Clicking on a non-highlighted work will highlight it, and another click will give you a larger view. In the event that the close marker for an enlarged work is not displayed, simply click on the dark screen background to close the displayed work.

The “Works Blog” menu item contains a list of all blog entries sorted by posting date, with the most recent entry at the top and the most recently posted entry at the bottom (on the last blog page). In addition to the complete list, the selection can be limited by month of publication or by category. A work blog entry contains an image and the corresponding description text. The display size of the image can be changed here by changing the browser display (Ctrl+’+’/Ctrl+’-‘).