Dieter Huber is a contemporary digital artist from Austria. He began his career by studying stage design and theater art painting at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg. He is currently involved in many different projects, such as public collections in many areas of the world including Madrid, Frankfurt, Basel, and many other areas. He also participates in art fairs with his own designs including one of his more famous pieces "Klone". Along with his art fairs he has made publications in many different art magazines and has been the curator of many different art exhibits. He has various grants for artists everywhere and currently resides in Vienna.
Huber incorporates more natural aspects of the world in his work including humans, plants, and landscapes. He connects biotechnology with engineering to create a constantly changing organism that needs to adapt to new technologies. He is able to mutate whole plants and humans, or just parts of them, into new and never-before-seen artificial forms. Huber is able to do something that biologists cannot even imagine because of obvious restraints in technology. He is able to broaden the mind to completely new possibilities with his artwork. If biologists or engineers followed artwork like Huber's, they could be inspired to create these kinds of things in real life and not just through the computer.
Certain aspects of Huber's "klone" are very beautiful and unique. His landscape pieces are more appealing to the eye rather than his mutated plants and humans. While they are unique in their own way I do not believe people would really be interested in learning more about them because of their grotesque shapes. Huber's landscapes have a perfect composition and look exactly like the real things. Not knowing that he created them digitally, nobody could guess that those were not real places. His other pieces involve many combinations of plants of human parts and shaped into many different designs. Because he combines and mutates many different things, there is no consistent shape to his pieces. Huber's artwork is very interesting in a scientific sense but to a regular viewer, the pieces would seem very strange and not aesthetically pleasing.
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http://www.dieter-huber.com/biography-1997.html
I find it interesting how Huber created mutated plants that are perplexing to the human mind while also creating beautiful landscapes using the same principles of mutation. You would never know that the "Klone" was created by the same artist as the landscape.
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