/ 2018 / Fine Art / Digitally Enhanced

Silicon Cities

  • Prize
    Gold in Fine Art/Abstract, Silver in Fine Art/Digitally Enhanced
  • Photographer
    Heiko Hellwig, Germany
  • Website

In my new series “Silicon Cities” I explore and reveal the core of
our digital society. It is a society in which we can no longer grasp
the paths information is taking, what channels can and may be
used for which kind of information. Even when looking up close,
information paths, interconnects, processors and storage space
are all macroscopically detailed and thus hardly comprehensible:
they won’t easily reveal the information they hold and transport,
but rather conceal it within their digital architecture.
This series captures the complexity and impenetrable character of
digital machines, which is aesthetic and frightening at the same
time. Their structures seem to resemble the structures of modern
megacities and remind us of highway traffic routes out of science
fiction movies.
The images are intended to be printed in squares of 150 x 150
cm, in order to reveal the details and secrets of these digital
metropolises to the