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'''Sebastian Schmieg''' (1983) is an artist based in [[Berlin]]. He examines the ways networked technologies shape online and offline realities. In particular, his practice reflects on humans as software extensions, and on machine vision as a global infrastructure. His output encompasses videos, websites, books, lecture performances, or online interventions.
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'''Sebastian Schmieg''' (1983) is an artist. He examines the algorithmic circulation of images, texts and bodies. At the centre of his practice are playful interventions into found systems that explore the hidden – and often absurd – realities behind the glossy interfaces of our networked society. There the boundaries between human and software, individual and crowd, as well as labor and leisure are blurring. Schmieg works in a wide range of media such as video, website, installation, artist book, custom software and lecture performance.
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Schmieg’s works have been shown at, among others, The Photographers’ Gallery, London; Rhizome, New York; Transmediale, Berlin; HeK, Basel; NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf; Panke Gallery, Berlin. He lives and works in [[Berlin]] and [[Dresden]]. [http://sebastianschmieg.com/info/ (2019)]
  
 
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* [http://sebastianschmieg.com/ Home page]
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* [http://sebastianschmieg.com/ Personal website]
 
* [http://vimeo.com/user6364782 Vimeo]
 
* [http://vimeo.com/user6364782 Vimeo]
 
* [http://twitter.com/s_schmieg Twitter]
 
* [http://twitter.com/s_schmieg Twitter]
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* [https://instagram.com/sebastianschmieg Instagram]

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Sebastian Schmieg (1983) is an artist. He examines the algorithmic circulation of images, texts and bodies. At the centre of his practice are playful interventions into found systems that explore the hidden – and often absurd – realities behind the glossy interfaces of our networked society. There the boundaries between human and software, individual and crowd, as well as labor and leisure are blurring. Schmieg works in a wide range of media such as video, website, installation, artist book, custom software and lecture performance.

Schmieg’s works have been shown at, among others, The Photographers’ Gallery, London; Rhizome, New York; Transmediale, Berlin; HeK, Basel; NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf; Panke Gallery, Berlin. He lives and works in Berlin and Dresden. (2019)

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