Franco-German media artist Enkidu rankX [ınˈkiːdu ræŋk eks] was born 1972 in Saarbrücken / Germany. After his studies in Belgium he settled down in Berlin in 1996 where he is working and living up to this day. His work is comprised of video-art, glitch-art, installations and interaction with dance and theatre. “My art deals with issues such as relational miscommunication, the effect of technology on the human condition and the loss of identity that comes with the advent of virtualization an simulation.”
If you come visiting me on your Android, iPhone or other mobile platform, you’ll now be greeted with a new, appropriate display of content. Enkidu-rankX.de has gone mobile. I you have any trouble viewing the site, please dare to comment, criticize and refute… Debuggers welcome.
During operation Ten-ichi-gō sakusenJapan’s most famous battleship, the Yamatowas sunk by American air planes. It symbolized the beginning of the final end of the Tennō rule as a political figure and the military cast that ruled Japan before and during the second world war.
More than 3000 souls where lost in this waste of life and limb.
„In Montréal entwickelte Kuhnert gemeinsam mit den Tänzern Christian Garmatter, Raphael Hillebrand und Youngung Kim aka B-Boy Jaekwon sowie der kanadischen Tänzerin Marie-Ève Quilicot seine erste für eine breitere Öffentlichkeit bestimmte Choreographie. In „Five Degrees of Separation“ setzt er sich mit Wendepunkten menschlicher Beziehungen auseinander: Wen betrachten wir als Freund, als Liebhaber, als Feind? Und warum? Mechtild Manus, Sprecherin der Jury und Leiterin des Goethe-Instituts in Montréal, überzeugt vor allem Kuhnerts Einsatz „von Video als Ausgangspunkt der Recherche, die Beteiligung des Medienkünstlers Enkidu rankX und die poetische Verbindung von Break Dance und zeitgenössischem Tanz.“
The video installation „m4usism4us“ is about ones image & self definition in the realm of interactive mass media. It is based on a PureData [pd] / GEM installation and is slightly retreated. Tnx 2 m4usism4us 4 being herself music: MK_ultra
This is an interactive visualisation of a (German) text I wrote for the magazine Prolog IV edited by Anton Schwarzbach. For more info see: prolog-zeichnung-und-text.de/