{"id":4946,"date":"2022-08-24T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T10:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-blog-lb-526867726.eu-central-1.elb.amazonaws.com\/?p=4998"},"modified":"2022-12-17T07:32:19","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T07:32:19","slug":"andreas-nicholas-fischers-ambient-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.niio.com\/blog\/andreas-nicholas-fischers-ambient-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Andreas Nicolas Fischer\u2019s Ambient Art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Roxanne Vardi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andreas Nicolas Fischer<\/strong><\/a> is a multidisciplinary artist from Berlin. Fischer started his artistic career as a traditional artist working mainly with painting and drawing, but became interested in generative art upon his visit to artist Casey Reas<\/strong><\/a>\u2019 Process\/Drawing<\/em> exhibition in 2005 at DAM Gallery<\/strong><\/a> in Berlin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time he discovered Reas\u2019 work, Fischer was interning at ART+COM, founded by Joachim Sauter, who also later became a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts. Fischer learnt Processing from the very first people who worked on the creative coding environment conceived and developed by Casey Reas and Ben Fry in 2001. While he did not have a background in computing, Fischer was motivated to teach himself code and started creating animations with Processing. He also worked briefly with fabrication and sculpture to adapt to the demands of the market at a time when the interest in digital art was not yet mainstream. However, he considers himself a purist and likes to create systems that operate autonomously, something that he can achieve by working with generative algorithms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the following interview, that took place on the occasion of the artist’s solo artcast The Art of Hypnosis<\/a><\/em><\/strong> on Niio, Andreas Nicolas Fischer unfolds the motivations and techniques behind his work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How would you describe your art practice today?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My practice is mostly generative pure abstraction. I do some narrative 3D animation philosophizing about the end of the world, but my main focus is generative systems and aesthetics and abstractions; developing these systems over time and translating them into different means. My personal preference is to create art that is self-contained, and doesn\u2019t take data from the outside. I used to work as an art director to make a living, making 3D animation as this was a bigger market, but I didn\u2019t want to be part of that career where artists need to receive grants. I always wanted to have a hard skill, with a foot in the industry, but I like my work to be more dynamic where I learn something and then apply it. This is what I did for ten years, but then I started to receive commissions, until at some point my art practice and commercial practice merged. Today I don\u2019t work for agencies and I don\u2019t work as a freelance artist. I do my own work. My main focus is generative systems and aesthetics and abstractions, developing these systems over time and translating them into different means.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My main focus is generative systems and aesthetics and abstractions, developing these systems over time and translating them into different means<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n