Artists statement
The installation “Mirrorpolis” features an AI-generated video of a cityscape displayed on a deconstructed monitor. The video is reflected and refracted through semi-transparent mirrors, creating a dynamic interplay of light and shadow that transforms the perception of space and time.
Guests become part of the artwork, their reflections blending with the digital cityscape.
The installation meditates on the potential to reframe urban environments and how we perceive and engage with them.
Mogens was born in Italy and is living in Copenhagen, Denmark.
He has been working with digital art, objects, and installations since the early nineties, and he was one of the pioneers of Danish internet art. In 1992 he cofounded the Danish net-art collective “The Artnode Foundation”. His works focus on the temporal and material aesthetics of systems, processes, instructions, and code. His artworks often take the form of machines or devices that critically and humorously examine technology and our everyday lives coping with technology.
Mogens’ work has been exhibited at numerous national and international venues, among others the Media Art Festival in Japan, FILE in Brazil, ZKM in Germany, the Transmediale in Germany, and the Ars Electronica in Austria. In 2018, he completed a large-scale interactive sculpture in the city of Vallensbæk outside Copenhagen. The Danish Arts Foundation commissioned this pioneering piece as the first permanent interactive electronic sculpture in outdoor public space in Denmark.
Mogens Jacobsen teaches experimental and critical design at the IT University of Copenhagen. He often works in interdisciplinary collaborative groups on research projects.
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Selected Exhibitions
2024 Restruktion – omsorg & maskiner, Ringstedgalleriet, Ringsted. Denmark.
2023 Multitude & Singularité, La Bicolore, Paris, France.
2023 Wer wir sind and werden könnten, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany.
2018 Feedback #2, Eigen+Art, Berlin, Germany.
2017 Mind the Gut, Medical Museion, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2017 Feedback, West, den Haag, The Netherlands.
2015 Data Materialities , SIGGRAPH Art Gallery, Anaheim, USA.
2015 Random Numbers, 3331 Arts CYD, Tokyo, Japan.
2015 Improved Apparatus, Kunsthalle/PLU41, Berlin, Germany.
2012 Sound Art. Klang als Medium der Kunst, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany.
Awards
UMAC Award, International Council of Museums, 2019.
“Golden Reel”, International Television Association (ITVA), 1999
Prix Ars Electronica ’95, Linz, Austria.
Prix Ars Electronica ’94, Linz, Austria.
Prix Ars Electronica ’93, Linz, Austria.
Memberships
Co-founder of the Danish Artnode Foundation (www.artnode.org).
Member of Kunstnersamfundet (Danish Association of Artists).
Appointed expert to the Nordic-Baltic Mobility Program, Nordic Council of Ministers.
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