Thomas Feuerstein (AT)

Thomas Feuerstein, born 1968, is a Vienna-based artist and writer whose work oscillates between the fields of media art and biochemical art. He studied art history and philosophy and has been a regular lecturer and visiting professor at numerous universities and art academies. Feuerstein bridges the interface of applied and theoretical science. His projects combine complex bodies of knowledge from philosophy, art history and literature, biotechnology, economics and politics. His artistic narratives examine the interplay between individuality and sociality, and aesthetically translate research into molecular sculptures, and the aesthetics of entropy. His artworks comprise the most diverse media, including installations, drawings, paintings, sculptures, photography, radio plays, net and biological art. Feuerstein focuses particularly on the interplay between verbal, visual and material elements, the unearthing of latent connections between fact and fiction, as well as on the interaction between art and science. At the core of his practice is an artistic method he calls “conceptual narration.”