Ingrid Hermentin

Ingrid Hermentin (born 26 September 1951 in Löwenstein, West Germany) is an artist and pioneer of serial computer graphics.

Life

From 1969 to 1979, Hermentin was trained in the medical field and worked at various hospitals in the Stuttgart area. In 1980, she spent several months in Canada and the US. Since 1981, Hermentin has lived and worked in Marburg. In 1983, she launched her career as an artist with several study trips to Italy. Her focus has been on computer graphics since 1990. She has since had numerous exhibitions in Germany and abroad.

Concept

Linking people, computers, and art, Hermentin regards her works as "aesthetical reflections of a world organized through media. Our media experiences have become epistemological and pragmatic motivators and originators for our consciousness. Our existence, or our perception of it during an instant of experienced "reality", signifies itself as a synthetic image and is then expressed in a distanced fashion”. [translated from [1][2]] To show the ambivalent nature of the technical present and to give a form to the phenomena of signifiers, which are converted into information and stored, requires, according to Hermentin, the using of a distancing instrument: the computer. “The extension of thought through electronic distance must be read as a spontaneous and reflected creation. The significant aspect here is the representation of altered forms and the endlessness that becomes imaginable through a series. ... The desire for the imaginable but not for measurable space produces the sign. The resistance of the material is not broken by strength and destruction, but rather through calculation”. [translated from [3][4]] “The overlapping of intellectual patterns of thoughts in art, philosophy and science, in resonance and connection with the memory, knowledge and experience, make appear various forms of phenomena”. [translated from [5]]

Technical development

While Hermentin with her "digital collages" in the inkjet print format up to Din-A3 laid the basis for her printed graphics (1991-1994), she also developed a serial inkjet printing method for producing large image formats based on Din-A3 prints (1993-1994). Simultaneously, she used the upcoming large format digital printing for serial works in the Din-A1 format (since 1992) or Din-A0 format (since 1994) and developed a glazing technique for her "synthetic images" in order to produce more brilliant colors, using a large format inkjet printer with non-fading colors since 1998.

Awards and distinctions
  • 2001 'Digital New Art Award': 1st prize of the international art competition "The Human Machine Project", Dominikaner Kloster / DigitalART, Frankfurt
  • 2000 Honor at the Gabriele Münter art award competition, the Women's Museum, Bonn
  • 1996 Award of the 11th German International Graphic Triennale Frechen
  • 1992 Award at the Prisma Award Competition of the Hamburg Cultural Foundation
  • 1992 Art Award of the Frankfurter Neue Presse

Projects (selection)
  • Transcriptions_BioBricks (2014) - in cooperation with biologists of the LOEWE-Centre for Synthetic Microbiology (SYNMIKRO) of the University of Marburg
  • Transcriptions_TATA box (2012-2013) - in cooperation with biologists of the LOEWE-Centre for Synthetic Microbiology (SYNMIKRO) of the University of Marburg
  • Transcriptions_Malus domestica (2010-2011) - in cooperation with biologists of the University of Mainz
  • Transcriptions_decoded (2006-2008) - in collaboration with geneticists of Eurofins Medigenomix, Martinsried and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig
  • Transcriptions - Silicone-Genes 2 (human bodies) (2001-2006)
  • Digital women [re-converted] (1997-2000)
  • Synthetic images - information at distance (1994-1998)
  • Media anatomy (1993-1994)
  • Digital collages - memory without remembrance (1991-1994)

Solo exhibitions (selection)
  • 2015 Transcriptions - Synthetic Images - Alte Brüderkirche, Kassel
  • 2013 Transcriptions_TATA box – Lutherische Pfarrkirche, Marburg
  • 2012 Transcriptions_decoded - GEDOK Stuttgart
  • 2011 Transcriptions_Malus domestica - Galerie im Rathaus, Mainz
  • 2007 Transcriptions_decoded - Galerie auf Zeit, Braunschweig
  • 2004/2005 Codes and Transcriptions - Kunstverein Rüsselsheim / TIGZ - Gallery bij de Boeken, Ulft / NL - Wetzlarer Kunstverein
  • 2002 Transcriptions - DigitalART, Frankfurt
  • 2000 Digital Women [re-converted] - Hanauer Kulturverein
  • 1998 Synthetic Images - Information at Distance - Art Forum Gummersbach
  • 1996 Information at Distance - Marburger Kunstverein
  • 1995 Digital Collages - HP, Barcelona
  • 1994 Information at Distance - Forum Leverkusen

Group exhibitions (selection)
  • 2014 art@science – Drei Positionen der Wissenschaftsästhetik, Marburger Kunstverein
  • 2013 EUREGIO creative 2013 Schönecken / Eifel, Kunstkabinett
  • 2012 Kunst in Marburg 2012, Marburger Kunstverein
  • 2010 Computerkunst / Computer Art, Gladbeck (as part of Ruhr.2010), Stadtmuseum Bergkamen
  • 2006/07, 2011 Große Kunstausstellung NRW Düsseldorf, Museum Kunst Palast, Ehrenhof
  • 2005/06 Kunstforum Gummersbach, Gummersbach
  • 2003 Lucas Cranach Stiftung / Cranach-Höfe, Wittenberg
  • 2001-02 The Human Machine Project, Dominikaner Kloster / DigitalART, Frankfurt
  • 2000/01 Gabriele Münter Preis, Women's Museum, Bonn and Exhibition Hall, Leipzig
  • 2000 CynetArt, Kunsthaus Dresden
  • 1999-2001 Große Kunstausstellung NRW Düsseldorf, Messehallen
  • 1998/2002 Computerkunst / Computer Art, Gladbeck / Stadtmuseum Bergkamen
  • 1996/1999 German International Graphic Triennial, Frechen
  • 1997 Begegnungsraum Schloss - Zeitgenössische Künstlerinnen sehen alte Räume neu, Schlitz (Hessen)
  • 1996 Imaginäre Galerie - Zeitgenössische Künstlerinnen in Mittelhessen. ISBN 3-929425-15-7
  • 1995 Art competition "Mainzer Kunstpreis Eisenturm", Kunstverein Eisenturm, Mainz
  • 1994 Contribution to the first CD-ROM of World Media Interactive
  • 1993 Fünf aus Marburg (Marielies Hess-Stiftung), Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt
  • 1993 Cultural Exchange Hamburg-Prague, ULUV Gallery, Prague
  • 1993 Art & Fair, Mediale, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg

References
  1. „Online...“ in Katalog: Computerkunst ‘98, Gladbeck, ISBN 3-923815-34-4
  2. „Online...“ in Katalog: 3. Gabriele Münter Preis 2000, ISBN 3-928239-47-3
  3. „Online...“ in Katalog: Computerkunst ‘98, Gladbeck, ISBN 3-923815-34-4
  4. „Online...“ in Katalog: 3. Gabriele Münter Preis 2000, ISBN 3-928239-47-3
  5. Katalog zur Ausstellung: Ingrid Hermentin: „Information auf Distanz (digitale Collagen)“, Forum Leverkusen 1994 (Katalogreihe „Junge digitale Bilderkunst“ 16, 1994; Stadt Leverkusen, Kulturamt (Hrsg.))
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