About

Simon Weckert, a modern-day digital wizard and mischievous tinkerer, revels in sharing his insights on everything from generative design to physical computing – think of it as tech wizardry with a dash of social commentary. His playground? The digital world, where code and circuits aren’t just tools but ironic statements. Forget tech’s practical value; Simon's focus is on what future generations will make of our button-pressing, app-refreshing selves. His creations are part tech, part art, and part cheeky social critique, aiming to unravel complex issues in a way that makes people laugh, think, or maybe just scratch their heads.

Contact:

mail
sw@simonweckert.com

Education:

born 608296271 in Karl-Marx-Stadt, Germany.
studied New Media Art at Berlin University of Art in Digital Media Class.

Organization / Research / Teaching:

since 2019 - member of analogNative
2020 - 2022 AI Researcher for Digital Curation Technologies at Art+Com for QURATOR.AI
2022 - 2023 Guest professor at HFG Karlsruhe for new mediart
since 2024 teaching at University of Arts, Linz

Awards:

2023 - Voith Kunstpreis - Kunst und Technik
2023 - WIN/WIN - Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen
2021 - Social Impact Award - Japan Media Arts Festival
2021 - German Design Award - Nominated
2020 - Award of Destinction (Interactive Art +) - Ars Electronica
2018 - Jury Selection - Japan Media Arts Festival

Publications:

The map is not the territory, but another version of reality in Chaos Computer Club - Datenschleuder
Image Garden - Curating Collections and Designing Smart Exhibitions with AI-Based Tools from the journal i-com
The Republic of Null Island Lila Strauss
The Republic of Null Island Medium

Talks, Discussions & Workshops:

2024
The Dual Role of AI: Transforming Creative Processes in Moving Images., B3 Festival, Frankfurt am Main
Im Gespräch : Die unbewussten Klimafolgen des Digitalen und die Strategien der Medienkunst , Museum Gunzenhauser, Chemnitz
Artist Talk: Data as Artistic Material , Bauhaus University, Weimar
Dreams and Disruptions: Machine Unlearning for Artists, Art University Linz, Linz
The Map Becomes The Territory - Street 3.0, Art University, Linz
The Map Becomes The Territory - Street 3.0, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana
Dreams and Disruptions: Machine Unlearning for Artists, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana
Artist Talk , University of Michigan, Michigan


2023
Zapfenstreich - Über Algorithmen im Krieg, aber was hat die Kunst damit zutun?, 37C3 Unlocked, Hamburg
Artitst Talk - Kunstpreis "Kunst & Technik", Kunstverein, Heidenheim
Nichts geht mehr: der Stau, Matinee, SWR2
Digitalität in Kunst, Kirche und Gesellschaft, St.-Petri-Kirche, Melle
Digitale Gatekeeper, Who Owns The Truth, Ö1
Artist Talk, Université de Genève, Genève
Artits Talk, CCBT, Tokyo
Simon Weckert - Hack Reality, Radiokolleg, Ö1


2022
Jury Member (Digital Communitys), Prix Ars Electronica, Linz
AI BRINGS NEW LIFE TO TRADITIONAL ARTS, Art and Technology, Youtube
Artist Talk, Université Lyon, Lyon
Art, Algorithms and Politics , University of Helsinki, Tromsø
Artist Talk, Verein Berliner Künstler, Berlin
Gefälschte Landkarten, Matrix, Ö1


2021
Arte TRACKS , Arte, TV
AI Lab Journey 2021 Ubuntu – The Other Me!, Ars Electronica, Linz
AI x Civil Society: How AI infrastructures can advance the public good, Ars Electronica, Linz
Pochen Symposium 2021 ,Die (neue) Vermessung der Welt , Chemnitz
Future Humanity Journey - 2041 – A Day on an Island , Ars Electronica, Linz
Caosflux-Remote , Siegen


2020
Hacking Google Maps - RC3, chaos computer congress
The map is not the territory, just another version of reality - Data Cities, Disruption Network Lab
Creative Question Challenge Ecology - Technology
The Power of digital maps - DEFCON Conference, Rogues Village

Exhibitions, Commissions & Performances:

2024
Permission to Drive, Exhibition by truck, Tokyo
Walk this way, Kunstmuseum, Ravensburg
The Dual Role of AI: Transforming Creative Processes in Moving Images. , B3 Festival, Frankfurt am Main
KomshiLOOK, Shutka, Skopje
Im Gespräch : Die unbewussten Klimafolgen des Digitalen und die Strategien der Medienkunst , Museum Gunzenhauser, Chemnitz
Gegenwarten, Stadthalle, Chemnitz
Artist Talk: Data as Artistic Material , Bauhaus University, Weimar
Dreams and Disruptions: Machine Unlearning for Artists, Art University Linz, Linz
AUGMENTED SITUATION D, SusHi Tech Space, Tokyo
Photo City: How Images Shape the Urban World, V&A Dundee, Dundee
The Republic of Null Island, Aksioma, Ljubljana
(Un)real Data – Real Effects, Kino Šiška, Ljubljana
Tactics&Practice #15, Kino Šiška, Ljubljana
(UN)MONUMENTING, NDSM, Amsterdam
Neuzugänge zeitgenössischer Kunst im Kunstfonds, Vertretung des Freistaates Sachsen beim Bund, Berlin
IA : Double Je, Quai des Savoirs, Toulouse
Street 3.0, Osaka Kansai International Art Festival Vol.3, Osaka
The Map Becomes The Territory - Street 3.0, Art University, Linz
The Map Becomes The Territory - Street 3.0, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana
Dreams and Disruptions: Machine Unlearning for Artists, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana
Artist Talk , University of Michigan, Michigan


2023
Zapfenstreich, 37C3 Unlocked, Hamburg
Nichts geht mehr: der Stau, Matinee, SWR2
INTERFACE CULTURES, Ars Electronica, Linz
WIP Arts & Technology Festival, CYENS Center, Cyprus
Code & algorithms. Wisdom in a Calculated World, iMAL, Brussels
Ein Turm zum Träumen, St.-Petri-Kirche, Melle
Kunst elektrisiert, Voith Trainings Center, Heidenheim
50. Jahre Kunstverein, Kunstverein, Heidenheim
xMobil, Borov gozdiček, Nova Gorica
WIN/WIN, HALLE 14 - Zentrum für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig
Digitale Gatekeeper, Who Owns The Truth, Ö1
Artist Talk, Université de Genève, Genève
xMobil, Sajeta Art&Music Festival, Tolmin
xMobil, MOD x MOB, Nova Gorica
xMobil, Makers United, Chemnitz
xMobil, InterUrban, Balatonalmádi
4x4 performance”, Panke Gallery, Berlin
Unreal Data, DRUGO MORE, Rijeka
Luna , Media Art Friesland , Leeuwarden
Simon Weckert - Hack Reality, Radiokolleg, Ö1
Augmented Situation D, CCBT, Tokyo
Hello, Robot !, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein
Can You See Me Now?, WE ARE AIA | Löwenbräukunst, Zurich


2022
Gefälschte Landkarten, Matrix, Ö1
No Travel Agency, XCenter, Nova Gorica
IN TRANSFER – A New Condition, Möllerei, Luxembourg
Fake New Fake Court, EDF Foundation, Paris
La face cachée des datas, IUT de Bobigny, Paris
La face cachée des datas, Sorbonne universities, Paris
Artist Talk, Université Lyon, Lyon
Artist Talk, Verein Berliner Künstler, Berlin
Im-Un-Non for Jin Lee, ZER01NE, Seoul
Eternal Dream, Sankt Antonius, Rheine
Bauhaus Infinity Archive, Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin
Datafall for Refik Anadol, Orchard Center, Singapore
Pochen Biennale, Wirkbau, Chemnitz
Song of the ambassadors for Refik Anadol, Lincoln Center, New York
howtodisappear:reset, Spedition, Bremen
XBordering, TU Chemnitz, Chemnitz
LICHTKUNST-SPAZIERGANG 2022, Wasserschloss Reelkirchen, Reelkirchen
AI BRINGS NEW LIFE TO TRADITIONAL ARTS, Art and Technology, Youtube
Sgraffiti, Weberei, Gütersloh
Westart, WDR, TV


2021
Solo Exhibtion: Ubuntu - The other me !, Museum Gunzenhauser, Chemnitz
Artour, MDR Kultur, TV
Matsudo International Science Art Festival – Garden of Creativity, Ars Electronica, Japan
Device Art Festival, Museum of Contemporary art, Zagreb
Airmarket , 48h neukölln, Berlin
Eternal Dream, Lichtsicht 7 - Restarted, Bad Rothenfelde
DASA – Arbeitswelt Ausstellung, Künstliche Intelligenz, Dortmund
Microwave New Media Art Festival, Yesterdays Fiction, Hong Kong
Dialogfeld , Drag & Drop, Chemnitz
LINZ FMR, Kunst in digitalen Kontexten, Linz
1msottolametro , L'arte interattiva sbarca in 5 fermate della metro C, Rome
Social Impact Award , Japan Media Art Festival
Chaordic , Bauhaus Museum, Weimar
Fake News , EDF Foundation, Paris
chi K11 artspace Shanghai


2020
Eternal Dream - Lichtsicht7, Bad Rothenfelde
Eternal Dream - Criatech, Aveiro
Zapfenstreich Digial Art Zurich - Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich
CYBERARTS Prix ARS Electronica, OÖ Kulturquartier Linz
CitizenLab Ars Electronica, Linz
Award of Destinction (Interactive Art +) - Ars Electronica, Linz
Knowledge Fever Geothe-Institut, Beijing
German Design Award - Nominee 2021
Zapfenstreich - Kunst hält Wache, Landsberg am Lech
Google Maps Hacks - AMRO radical openness, Linz
Google Maps Hacks - screensaver watching you, London
Google Maps Hacks - Kreuzberg, Berlin
Zapfenstreich - Silent Green, Berlin


2019
Workshop: Next Stop_New Media Art - Walter-Gropius-Schule, Erfurt
Latent Being for Refik Anadol - Kraftwerk, Berlin
Eternal Dream - Lichtkunst-Nacht, Schöppingen
Sense of Place for Refik Anadol - 601, Oakland
Dataland for Refik Anadol - The Linq, Las Vegas
Workshop: Next Stop_New Media Art - CSM, Chemnitz
Zukunft - Kompott, Chemnitz


2018
Ira Gershwin Gallery for Refik Anadol - LA Phil, Los Angeles
Dataknitting for Refik Anadol - Beverly Center, LosAngeles
Interconnected for Refik Anadol - CLT, Charlotte
Eternal Dream - Scopes, Berlin
Eternal Dream - Lichtkunst-Nacht, Schöppingen
Hope Machine - Cairotronica, Kairo
In the shadow of darkness - Cairotronica, Kairo
In the shadow of darkness - European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück
Maps from Space - Jury Selection Japan Media Arts Festival, Tokyo


2017
Maps from Space - UdK SS17, Berlin
Grand Opening - Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg
Dumbphne - Deptford X, London
Archive Dreaming for Refik Anadol - SALT Gatala, Istanbul
C- Recordings - Zukunft, Chemnitz
Hope Machine - NODE Festival, Frankfurt a. M.
Dumbphne - NODE Festival, Frankfurt a. M.
The cat was quite until morning - Rainbow Unicorn, Berlin


2016
Rope Screen - Shining_Gap, Osnabrück
Artist Exchange - Tadaex 2016, Tehran
Kosmonaut - Kosmonaut Festival, Chemnitz
Distance Clock - Cultural Commuters, Berlin
MedienAtlas - Transmediale16, Berlin
Distance Clock - UdK WS15/16, Berlin
138 Maueropfer - Designtransfer, Berlin


2015
Equiveillance - Tech Art Expo at Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin
138 Maueropfer - UdK SS15, Berlin
Phase Repair - Thalia Theater, Hamburg
Equiveillance - UdK WS14/15, Berlin


2014
SeequenceSea - 48H Neukölln, Berlin
Du Musst dein Leben ändern - Schwuz, Berlin
Titanomania - Fuchs und Elster, Berlin
Mirror Move - InBewegung2, Berlin


2013
Short Shuffle - Space Shuffle, Berlin
Nach & Nebel - Space Shuffle, Berlin
Interactive Grid - Klunkerkranisch, Berlin
Rope Screen - 48H Neukölln, Berlin


2012
Rope Screen - InBewegung, Berlin