Ursa Schoepper


State examination in natural sciences with subsequent teaching examination. In addition the start of a new university education in cultural management with a university degree. The degree in cultural management included the focus on fine arts and new media under Prof. Dr. Eckart Pankoke, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Krempel and Prof. Dr. Michael Bockemühl. As a cultural manager responsible for the conception and realization of various projects in the field of cultural education systems, Awarded a media prize in North Rhine-Westphalia for the Museum of Absent Images, a conception and implementation as a social network in 2001. Since 2003 experimental artist in the field of experimental fine art photography, honored with many national and international awards. Ursa Schoepper lives and works in the Rhineland near Bonn.

The beauty of experimental art lies in the fact that the value of an idea cannot be mathematically calculated. Digital resources operate according to the code of "either/or." However, playing with an artistic idea is not computable. Creativity and innovation follow a both/and principle. The photographic artist as constructor is a creator, not a draftsman, not a graphic artist, not a copyist. As a phantom of light, photography becomes the bearers for an artistic vision. Image skin, artificial skin, forms the blueprint for another possibility.

How can such a creative process unfold? A comparison with a symphony can clarify these connections. The perceived music corresponds to the image. The score of the symphony can be compared to the digital representation. The notes of the score can be accentuated differently, individual passages can be particularly emphasized for selected instruments. Thus, a new piece of music can emerge based on the score. In this case, the artist is both composer and conductor. The irrational, the virtual possibility is inherent in everything real. One simply has to peel it out. The appearance is the objective form of subjective perception. (Michael Bockemühl).

Just as different images emerge in dance, so too can the seemingly fixed objects depicted in a reality be rearranged; their systems are not static. In quantum theory, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle leads to the conclusion that nothing that exists exists exactly and can therefore be changed. Whenever an equilibrium state loses stability, new patterns emerge, which can be traced back to sine waves or a combination of different sine waves. Scientists therefore also refer to sine waves as the structural atoms of nature. This offers many different possibilities for creatively creating novel works of art. My experimental photographic artworks always contain an inherent processuality. In addition to socially relevant topics, biological processes in nature, such as spontaneous mutations, have also influenced my work.

Physiological vision plays a subordinate role in the creation of my experimental photographic art. Crucial is inward-directed vision, imagination. It is not a finished work, but rather the ongoing development of an idea. Thinking without reason. Reordering through experimentation. It is a breaking down of perceptual routines. For "Whoever seizes their opportunity, like the artist and the strategic genius, risks breaking down perceptual routines and, in extreme cases, (self-)destruction. But only the risk of destruction can pave the way for innovation." - Eckart Pankoke. Due to the technical, physical-mathematical foundations, deconstruction is experimentally possible with digital photography. Art, and certainly experimental photography as well, does not take into account any reality outside of artistic reality. It possesses its own sphere of reality. © Ursa Schoepper 2025

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