href="http://dergreif-online.de/www/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/1988_7-001.jpg"> In order to make this post I asked myself: what was the piece of officially approved art that evoked the strongest emotion in myself ever? It was "Twilight Arch" by James Turrell for sure, which I saw some years ago in Frankfurt. First of all this is about the physical reaction of our body, because we simply enjoy shiny colourful things like neon lights or the television screens. This is more complex of course but I don't want to go into detail here because the important thing for me was something else. The glowing surface here is not a surface but a room behind a window. While entering the room you see it as a surface but as soon as you get closer to it you will realise that the surface is a hole in the wall. And for a fraction of a second this installation fulfils the ultimate promise of media in general: It becomes the thing itself. For this short moment it is the imitation of reality and at the same time reality itself. This may sound very deep but it isn't - If you think about the movie "the ring" you presumably visualise the woman coming out of the screen. This scene is the most important one of the movie because of the very same reason.

Emil Barret has an overall interesting portfolio but this video is the one that has aroused my interest. I think the most elegant way to leave a sinister impression is to stay at least a little comical. emilebarret.com

If you are on tumblr regularly this kind of aesthetics should be very familiar to you. But if you look at the field of "serious" photography, you won't find it that often. I won't dare to give it a name but Maxime Guyon appears to be one of the most interesting representatives of this genre. maximeguyon.com

Lieko Shiga belongs to the photographers whose work I appreciated years ago and still do. Her work is still very unique and up to date. What separates her work from the work of other surrealist photographers is the complexity of her arrangements and the clever use of imperfections. liekoshiga.com

Virtual reality is clearly predestined to become one of the most influential forms of cultural media. I guess it is going to take less than 5 years to reach mass media status and at the same time we are also going to have a huge amount of intellectually demanding content for a mature audience - also known as culture. If art galleries or museums are going to widely adopt it, is yet to be seen. Ignoring will not be an option but they might steer in the exact opposite direction. The installation above is of course not meant to be an art piece or anything else than entertaining but in my opinion the little hit in the neck makes it something which is more than its creators intended. If you believe the theory that every medium has the tendency to talk about its own nature, this work here is exactly to the point. Entering virtual reality is strongly connected to getting rid of your physical body, so don't be mislead by the laughing in the video, this is about the horror of virtual reality itself. cargocollective.com/erkkitrummal andreberlemont.com mortenbrunbjerg.dk

First of all let me say thank you to "der Greif" for asking me to to do this. And of course thank you for showing my work. Even though I am used to blogging on my personal tumblr, doing this is very difficult for me. The problem is that there seems to be a tradition in this blog - the tradition of writing what special photographs and artworks mean to you as a human or artist. This is a problem because I have always avoided that things become meaningful to me. I avoided it because as soon as you are entering the realm of the meaningful you are also approaching the realm of the metaphysical and occult. And I believe that you need to stay rational if you want to be good in creating things, which is especially true if you are approaching the metaphysical and the occult. So lets start with the paintings of Juan Ford. Maybe I am attracted by his work because of what I just said above. www.juanford.com