Ursa Schoepper
Ursa Schoepper first completed her studies in Natural Science with state examination. In addition she completed a study in cultural management, state examinaten, with a concentration in fine arts, new media. In her Agentur für Virtuelle Denkraeume she was working as a cultural manager. In 2001 she was awarded the Media Promotion Prize of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia for „Das Museum der abwesenden Bilder“. Since 2003 Ursa Schöpper has been working primarily as a photographic artist. Her artwork has been exhibited internationally and she is the recipient of notable awards.
Compared to analog photography, which is chemically based, digital photography follows a mathematical-physical structure, stored as image cells. You can transform, this algorithmic structure using an algorithmic graphics program. For example, if you look at the artwork “baroque_matrix_of_nature”, eyes see the course of dancing loops of color; you no longer recognize the baroque flowerbed that gave the artwork its structure and color. "In the art of color, not only precise tonal gradations but also often imperceptible transitions, comparable to the glissando in music, are important carriers of a particular expression", Johannes Itten. A philosophical question is, what is a digital photograph? What do we see, what do we perceive? What thoughts do we remember when looking at something outside ourselves? My experimental photographic art is not dedicated to realistic reality. The result is a virtual reality. It is my observation of the environment and a chance to break up the routines of perception.
