WORKS

q-works

A set of media-art works spanning installation, VR, data sculpture, environmental research, and audiovisual performance. Across different formats, the works examine how energy, data, matter, and environmental consequences intersect in contemporary technological culture.

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R111 | 1999-2001

“R111 could be considered the pinnacle of media art at the turn of the millennium.”

Yukiko Shikata, President of International Association of Art Critics Japan, 2024

アートラボ第5回プロスペクト展「R111 —仮想から物質へ」
currently being reconstructed with ZKM, Germany

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ATOMSPHERE | 2025

Despite measurable environmental and radiological transformations, public discourse maintains the fiction of atmospheric continuity. Nuclear detonations, fallout events, and radiotoxic dispersion are excluded from most climate and energy models. The atomsphere remains unacknowledged in legal, ecological, and educational frameworks.
This omission constitutes a systemic epistemic failure. The atomsphere is not speculative: it is forensic.

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Nuclear Zen | 2017

documentary film about the Fukushima nuclear crisis
with Keibo Oiwa, Japanese author, activist & philosopher
20 min

“Finding a positive thing in a very negative picture is the most difficult, most challenging type of criticism.” Keibo Oiwa

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ORBIS LUMEN | 2017-2019

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The Light of the World

“The most beautiful and horrifying Dymaxion map yet.”

David McConville, The Buckminster Fuller Institute

A world map built from white sugar cubes serves as a global canvas documenting the chronological history of nuclear war. This work provokes profound reactions and reflections on our technological advancements, their consequences.

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AVATAR | 2010

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Saup, on the other hand, with his monumental sculpture “Avatar Incarnation cRdxXPV9GNQ” depicts the daily consumption of energy by the seemingly clean Internet so strikingly and impressively “that it will blow every visitor away and is guaranteed to make them think.”

Donaukurier
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infossil – AD VITAM | 2002

A Conversation between Peter Weibel and Michael Saup, Karlsruhe, 2002

“When people disappear, new systems and ideas can emerge. But i’m not fighting for death, i’m trying to limit it: we humans participate in this evolution for such a short time that we can’t even observe it. there’s a huge play being played on stage and we don’t see any of it. That’s why I would like us to be able to extend this tiny window, these eighty years, a little. So that I can understand a little more of this play.”

Peter Weibel, Karlsruhe, 2002

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Hyena Days | 1992

In 1992, Hyena Days debuted at Ars Electronica. The project featured a collaboration between Icelandic video art pioneer Steina Vasulka and German media artist Michael Saup, who initiated and directed the work.

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