Austrian visual and media artist Stoph Sauter (1963, Dornbirn, Austria) studied at the Vienna Universität für Angewandte Kunst between 1984 and 1993, in the class of Peter Weibel. In 1993, he received the State’s Award for Visual Art. Since 1998, he has been working with his wife, Christine Sauter. He considers himself first and foremost a video and media artist, but he often makes works of visual art that deal with the media. He employs what he calls Bildsprachmodellierung, or image-text modelling, to explore the relationship of the word, which has a traditional meaning in the set of concepts of a given language, and the material, which can be transformed by the artistic act. The same method allows him to explore how words and concepts can be rephrased in space and image. Relying heavily on linguistic wit, the works relate, in a playful and humorous manner, the Sauters’ philosophically minded cultural critique to a broad audience of media consumers
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