AESTHETICS OF THE THIRD DIMENSION, 2nd
Finally, the long awaited book “Mediale Räume” (i. e. “Media Spaces”) got published by Kadmos, edited by Stephan Günzel, which contains the audio transcription of my lecture on the Aesthetics of the Third Dimension, originally held on October 24th, 2012 in Berlin. You will find an abstract of the recently updated lecture one page backwards. The… Read More »
AESTHETICS OF THE THIRD DIMENSION
In view of the special qualities and their artistic potential, the long-neglected reception of stereoscopy in an art-scientific context – between and beyond painting and sculpture – is indeed an astonishing desideratum. The brief reconstruction of the history of spatial image representation from its beginnings in cave painting to the analog and digital stereoscopy of… Read More »
SIEGFRIED WAGNER 3D
Because of the exhibition at the Gay Museum, last year we had three portrait busts of Siegfried Wagner in Berlin. On this occasion, we got three-dimensional scans of these busts made in the TU’s 3D-Lab for possible future replicas. From the 3D data of the bust by Josef Limburg I created a parallax panoramagram. The… Read More »
EXHIBITION IN BAYREUTH
On the occasion of Wieland Wagner’s 100th birthday, our present exhibition in Bayreuth during the festival deals with Wieland Wagner’s reception of his father’s operas, Siegfried Wagner. Siegfried Wagner, who according to a saying by Martha Mödl, had the misfortune of being the son of Richard and father of Wieland Wagner, was the very first… Read More »
NEW PUBLICATION ON SIEGFRIED WAGNER
Accompanying our exhibition in the Berlin Gay Museum, Siegfried Wagner. Bayreuths Erbe aus andersfarbiger Kiste (which means something like: Siegfried Wagner: Bayreuth’s ‘Fairy’ Crown Prince), a new publication of the same title, edited by Peter P. Pachl and me, was published: Siegfried Wagner: Bayreuths Erbe aus andersfarbiger Kiste. The book comes with 100 pictures and… Read More »
STEREOSCOPY + IMMERSION
This semester, my lecture (Tuesday, 11:30 am to 01:45 pm) at BTK, University of Applied Sciences, Art and Design, will deal with History and Theory of Three-dimensional and Immersive Imaging Techniques, as well – including several excursions to 3IT, HHI, Fraunhofer Institute etc. pp.
EXHIBITION IN BERLIN GAY MUSEUM
The exhibition on Siegfried Wagner at the unique Berlin Gay Museum will feature some autostereoscopic images of historical stage models by Siegfried Wagner, which I recently recorded in Bayreuth. Shown is also a lenticular print of the morphing between Richard Wagner and his son Siegfried, called »Siegfried? Richard? Helfrich?«, which I created for Internationale Siegfried… Read More »
SOME BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Some biographical information and a short summary of Achim’s three-dimensional art work have been added to the site, examples of the latter will follow later …
ESSAYS ADDED
Three renowned essays concerning aspects of stereoscopy by Achim Bahr have been added to the site recently: Anaglyphs Aspects of Stereoscopy Ludwig II – Neuschwanstein – 3D