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Über Enkidu rankX

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.”

discovering 4chan – at last (a net artists paradise)

You gonna laugh so hard at me but I just recently discovered 4chan. And it is a paradise for a net artists like me… So I went ahead and did this as a declaration of love to the hyper post-privacy dungeon that is 4chan. I think I am going to spend more time there, since Horus (i.e. the 12 year old mostly white and wealthy male tyrant) lives there and it is he who rules the world (according to some whose name where erased form the public board but not the meme bank).

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„3x4chan – Horus pit 001“ glicth 4th°, 2014

Living near Prenzlauer Berg here in Berlin – the chique part of that town – I can assure you it is true. Horus is rising and it is not a good thing, to my mind at least. But who cares, as long as he can be trapped so easily… He is after all just a child – a very powerful one though.

„4chan_01“ glicth 4th°, 2014
„4chan_0003“ glicth 4th°, 2014
„4chan_0002“ glicth 4th°, 2014
„4chan_0004“ glicth 4th°, 2014

Ferguson at war (at least with the media)

Seeing the situation in Ferguson from a safe distance, it looks like a war. But that is what our (German) media is transporting. Rage, anger, hate, violence, black people. The connection is all so simple. Of course This time the message is: „…right now coloured people are justified (in a sense) in being angry and violent.“ But the underlying message remains: „…coloured people are being angry and violent.“ Then again mass media has never been so good in identifying subtle differences or the complexity of the real world. It is a unifying medium….

„Ferguson_005“ original photo Reuters/Lucas_Jackson
„Ferguson_001“ original photo AP/Jeff Roberson
„Ferguson_007“ original photo AP/Jeff_Roberson
„Ferguson_003“ original photo AP
„Ferguson_002“ original photo AP
“Ferguson_008″ original photo DPA
“Ferguson_009″ original photo AFP
„Ferguson_004“ original photo Reuters
„Ferguson_006“ original photo Reuters/Joshua_Lott

glitching Roxy Raye – cubist pointillistic art porn

There are a lot of (semi-) professional porn actresses that stretch the limit of what can be done physically. Amazing Ty comes to mind, Dirty Garden Girl and Hot Kinky Jo as well as Belladonna & Audrey Hollander, furthermore Sheila Stretch and Taylor Rain… One of the most extreme case of body modification certainly is Roxy Raye. I believe she started out with 3 to 4 (now famous) clips she did on the floor of her kitchen…
dealing in pornography art it was a question of time I had to deal with her. As I still try to be SFW in my porn art (because it is not the obvious sexual aspect that interests me but the sexual meta layer) this is quiet a shy version of her. But it is a 2nd° glitch. Just cropped and sharpened, curves adjusted.

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“roxy (her_face_008)”, glitch 2nd°, 800x1034x, 2014

Still I feel the need to add this: I do not judge neither the producers nor the consumers of this kind or any other kind of pornography. This is not my point. I am interested in how pornography in combination with digital media change our perspective on our body, mind and soul. The depiction of the human body is always a clear indicator on how we view our world (to my mind at least). “roxy” is part of the glitch porn art series „Her_Face“. Read more about this series here >>

no help needed – glitch all by it/her-self

Sometimes the lucky find still happens. As in this case, a porn glitched just in the right moment. I just pulled the contrasts a little, re-framed and sharpened slightly. I think this still qualifies as 2nd° glitch. This image, to me says a lot about the depiction of the female body / face in modern day Pornography. It is degrading and disturbing, deeply instinctive and bleak. In this it reflects the degrading and bleak vision most humans have for almost any other humans except maybe their friends and relatives.

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“bear_with_me (her_face_007)”, glitch 2nd°, 800x800px, 2014

real lust is madness – I guess

Pixelation is a thing that obsesses me.  Maybe it is because I grew up with Commodore computers in the eighties. Actually I had a VC/VIC 20, that may be it since it had no real graphics capabilities. But there is a deeper meaning to it that fascinates me. It is, to me a profound metaphor for the state of our societies. We tend to structure and simplify everything to a point where the complexity and sharpness of living gets lost in compression.

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“the_ring (her_face_006)”, glitch 4th°, 576x381px, 2014

The most interesting thing to humans is another human anyway and if we apply the above mentioned thesis or metaphor to the face of the other, well look and see for yourself…
„the_ring (her_face_006)“ is part of the glitch porn art series „her_face“ that deals with the depiction of the female face or its omission for that matter in modern day web pornography.

on pixel row

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