Maurits Boettger

The value chain uses market logic to make fun of capitalism.

morgen is an installation of flags that spell the word tomorrow in the local language. Gradually torn apart by the wind, the flags allude to a tomorrow that is fading away due to human-induced climate change.

Videographic investigation of the thresholds of human pattern recognition using the limits of computer-generated randomness.

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Cracking and eating sunflower seeds is good for nothing but passing time. How can this be done efficiently?

What gives me the right to intervene in the world and alter things?

The installation freezes time locally on 25 advertising columns in cologne by wrapping them in posters of the immediate surroundings.

Egg Timers piled up to rotating towers that collapse after a while.

An installation that exhibits its base, the m20 in the Alte Feuerwache Cologne

With their voices, the Jaladores of South American bus terminals create an acoustic guidance system to draw passengers to the buses. However, the practical purpose of their cries is lost within the intersecting shouting of all the other competing Jaladores, and, in the ensuing noise, their yells become a rolling mantra of rhythmic and melodic loops.

The suspension of place, through abstraction of names. A journey with the horizon. Watch

The flag, printed with a color gradient from blue to red, always points the way to a warmer place and at the same time indicates the human-made temporal temperature gradient.

An instrument for the playful manufacturing of time. Video

Video from a camera focused on a clock. My pulse shakes the camera, thus creating a correlation between the image and the second hand of the watch.

Time Sales Ltd. deals with time as an art piece, the most ephemeral product ever. After specifiying amount and purpose, the customer sets the price he will pay for his time. Video

We hear two versions of the opening speech for an exhibition. One version comes directly from the orator, while another is reproduced with increasing delay via loudspeakers. At the beginning the speech is still intelligible, but as the delay increases over time, sounds overlap and it becomes more difficult to understand.

The pulse of a human being, transferred to a room. Acoustic and haptic stimuli enable the synchronization of your heartbeat with that of the absent subject.

A sundial which, by always pointing towards the sun and never throwing any shadow on the dial, refuses to mark the passage of time. Diploma Thesis

A chaotic pendulum attached to a metronome, thus disturbing the regular rhythm of the metronome and creating slight but unpredictable variances. Documentation

A 10 second still image animation loop underlaid with the sound of my heartbeat.

A 0.56 second video loop of a person in a desert swinging an hourglass on a string.

The Watch poses the question of the rule over time. Anyone who looks at the watch stops its progress. But if you turn your back on it, time suddenly passes again unnoticed. Documentation

Flipping a coin, and following its directions in a place without landmarks or points of orientation. Heads = to the right, Tails = to the left.

A short film on projection, anticipation, memory, past, and future. Watch Film

An Android Application that generates a remix from ambient noise based on the movement of the smartphone. Download

Tutorials from Youtube. Sound played forwards - Images played backwards. Singleshot. Playlist

A concave mirror in combination with a telescope enables the spectator to see himself in a mirage Video

11 Minutes and 49 Seconds
A video essay about waiting time in Germany and Colombia. Watch Film

The long lines of waiting people in Colombia inspired the series La Espera. Drops of ink, running across the page pulled by gravity, drew the figures. The paper was then rotated 180 degrees.

Inspired by Douglas R. Hofstadter's description of the strange loops, I attached a camera to a motor and brought it to 25 revolutions per second, thus matching the image frequency of the camera.