XML-SVG Code / Source Code

2008-2022

Today, computer-generated architectural designs translate spaces into 3-D renderings. The work writes out the figures and sign systems employed to represent and construct the exhibition space, thus rendering its actual source code visible. Here, the inner architecture of the gallery is depicted as XML/SVG code on the walls of the exhibition space, spelling out the very figures that are based on the volume of the space. If these source-code figures were entered into a computer, the architectural body would re-emerge in three dimensions. While the series of figures appear to the viewer as coloured patterns, this readable though undecipherable language is a tangible reference to a spatial drawing which is, at the same time, a representation of the space.

Text: Karin Sander, “XML-SVG Code / Source Code”, in “Karin Sander: XML-SVG Code–Quellcode / Source Code”, Förderverein Museum gegenstandsfreier Kunst, Otterndorf, 2010 (Translation: Karen Michelsen Castañón)

Presented in exhibitions

Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, 2012
Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, 2022
LABoral. Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón, 2014
Arp Museum, Remagen, 2012
ZKM - Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe, 2017
Akzuna Zentroa, Bilbao, 2019
SOCIÉTÉ d'électricité, Brussels, 2020
Museum gegenstandsfreier Kunst, Otterndorf, 2008