Ilse Marr works with code as a material.
Born 1991 in Rostock, she studied media art at Akademie Südvorstadt in Leipzig. Her work moves between real-time graphics, print and installation. She treats glitches as a second author and keeps them.
Every work starts with data from a place: waves off Warnemünde, a choir in Wismar, satellites over Leipzig. Marr writes a rule that turns that data into images and lets it run until it breaks. The break is the work.
She prints, codes and builds her projections herself, on browsers rather than special hardware, so the works keep running as long as there are screens. Her studio is in the Garnhof in Leipzig-Plagwitz.
How she works
Place
Data from one specific place, never from an archive.
Rule
One short rule, often under a hundred lines of code.
Break
Let it run until something unexpected happens.
Material
Fix the result in pigment, light or sound.
Collections
Auwald Collection, Leipzig Kunstraum Warnowkai, Rostock Rheinsignal Collection, Basel Private collections in Berlin, Vienna and Copenhagen
Exhibitions