Julia Weissenberg

Julia Weissenberg, born 1982 in Bergisch Gladbach, lives and works in Cologne. 2003-2005 worked as a photographic assistant and in 2005 embarked on a course in Communication Design at the Universtiy of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf. From 2007 she studied Media Arts at the Cologne Academy of Media Arts, with video art as her major subject and gained a diploma with distinction in 2012.

Films

  • Snowstorm / Schneesturm12'

    Cornelia is tense and focused. She turns her laptop on and watches long binary sequences. Her face grows tighter, while her gaze, persistently observing the screen, reveals utmost concentration. The binary sequence runs up and down underneath her fingers. “I'm ready,” says Cornelia. The zeros and ones flood the room. Cornelia Beddies' record is 2940 binary symbols memorised in 30 minutes. The code used to digitally reproduce William Turner's “Snow storm at sea” is about 2 million symbols.

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