Christian Moeller

A Time and Place

Media Architecture 1991–2003

A Time and Place shows the extensive body of work by the German artist Christian Moeller, who lives in Los Angeles. It includes work dating from 1991 to 2003, and describes his fascinating tightrope walk between analogue and digital worlds. This is the first time there has been a monograph consisting of both internet and book pages. Playing to the particular strengths of each medium, A Time and Place gives its readers a book that, strange as it may sound, can be read at a computer that is logged on the internet. The artist’s texts, drawings and photographs in the book are complemented by digitized internet film documentation sequences in image and sound.

A Time and Place shows the extensive body of work by the German artist Christian Moeller, who lives in Los Angeles. It includes work dating from 1991 to 2003, and describes his fascinating tightrope walk between analogue and digital worlds. This is the first time there has been a monograph consisting of both internet and book pages. Playing to the particular strengths of each medium, A Time and Place gives its readers a book that, strange as it may sound, can be read at a computer that is logged on the internet. The artist’s texts, drawings and photographs in the book are complemented by digitized internet film documentation sequences in image and sound.

Author(s): Christian Möller

Design: Integral Lars Müller

12,5 x 19 cm, 4 ¾ x 7 ½ in

240 pages, 288 illustrations

paperback

2004, 978-3-907078-91-4, English
CHF 26.00

Christian Moeller

Christian Moeller (*1959) is a German-born sculptor and installation artist. He grew up in Frankfurt am Main, where he lived and worked until he moved to the United States in 2001. As a pioneer in his field, Moeller first gained widespread recognition in the 1990s working with electronic media technologies. His light installations and sound sculptures, which change in “real time,” have won him an international reputation. Over the past two decades he has been increasingly focused on the field of public art. He consistently seeks to present his audience with forms that are open to multiple readings, and moreover readings that can suddenly flip. Underlying his work’s broad-based appeal to civic celebration is a subtle criticality directed toward constraining political forces. Moeller taught as a professor at the State College of Design in Karlsruhe, Germany, until he joined the department of Design Media Arts at UCLA in 2001. He operates his studio in Downtown Los Angeles.