Diemut

Diemut is a German-American artist, based in the US, who recently completed the Ida Ely Rubin Artist in Residence at the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology. She works on the intersection of art and science to address contemporary issues, which often involve topics that relate to philosophy and literature. Her artworks are unique in each single conceptual approach due to the diversity of the strands in science she works with. They show a broad, yet profound interest in the variety of disciplines in science seen through an aesthetic and artistic lens. In working with those subjects, she reaffirms the Romantic paradigm of "the new". Her work is strongly dedicated to the notion of the avant-garde in art, a concept that has very much dominated large parts of the 20th century, though it is somewhat submerged within the artistic discourse of the last decades. Her artwork is committed to reattach to the avant-garde tradition.

Diemut gained broad recognition in 2014 for her work Sugababe, a living, bioengineered clone of the notoriously cut off ear of Vincent van Gogh. Leading linguist and author Noam Chomsky was the first person to speak into the ear through a sound installation at ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany. In 2015 Sugababe was shown in the Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Gallery, NYC, during her solo show Free Radicals, and in 2019/20 in the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo. The artwork is currently on view at her most recent show at the Chinese Art Biennale / ENNOVA ART MUSEUM in 2024.

In 2019/20 she presented The Redemption of Vanity at the New York Stock Exchange, a two million Dollar natural Emerald cut yellow diamond, covered with the blackest black on earth, making the diamond disappear. Her artwork The Prayer was on view in the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2020, in which she explores the supernatural through artificial intelligence. Most recent works take a critical stance on machine versus human intelligence and have been presented in the Aichi Triennale in Japan in 2022. New works, such as Three Approaches to Synthetical Entities features a dialogue between AI and humans (El Turco/Living Theater) presenting a human player hidden in the system, a debate between two adversarial AI machines (Eris’ Apple) as well as an externalized inner soliloquy called Monologue. Three Approaches to Synthetical Entities reconsiders the meaning and implications of human intelligence in the confrontation with the capabilities of an advanced AI machine and will be presented in upcoming shows in the US, Japan (The Mori Art Museum, Machine Love in 2025), and Europe. New works explore the most cutting edge in AI and brain interfaces and humanoid robotics.

She works with leading scientists, such as Robert Langer and Nobel Laureates John Mather, Marty Chalfie, and Kostya Novoselov, as well as Michael Mann, Alan Guth and others, and collaborates with research institutions such as MIT, Harvard University, Columbia

Contact

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Selected press

Sugababe

The Redemption of Vanity

The Prayer

Wigner's Friends