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The book is out — and now it’s online. cyberneticsociety.floriankuhlmann.com is a new standalone website for The Cybernetic Society, bringing the text, the works, and a running commentary together in one place. The site presents the full theoretical framework: a society built on feedback, signals, and the permanent recalculation of reality through mediated probabilities. A […]
The cybernetic society and metamodernism are not parallel phenomena. One is the material ground of the other. Second-order cybernetics is the connecting principle. This is the working thesis that emerged from a recent conversation between myself and an AI — a conversation about observation, feedback, memory, and what it means to think inside a system […]
I’m releasing a new series on objkt: Collective Binary Loops – 28th april 2026 1800CET 👉 https://objkt.com/collections/exhibitions/projects/collective-binary-loops-31562577/exhibition The starting point is simple: A collective of fingers is constantly steering and navigating the world — across billions of devices, in real time. What we usually think of as interaction is actually continuous input. Tap by tap, […]
ONLY THE BOTS KNOW THE TRUTH is part of the Speedshow Context Collapse in L.A. Context Collapse revisits Aram Bartholl’s iconic Speed Show format, reactivating the internet café as a site for presenting digital art during LA Frieze Week 2026. Taking this historical net art framework as a point of departure, the exhibition explores what […]
NFTalkie Walkies is a collaborative project by Florian Kuhlmann and Hans Ulrich Reck, exploring how artistic thinking and theoretical reflection can be situated within the evolving medium of blockchain technology. While NFTs are typically associated with visual one-of-a-kind artworks and their integration into crypto-economic systems, this project uses the format differently: the edition consists not […]
DROP: https://xyz.floriankuhlmann.com/INTERNET_AS_A_POPULIST_TECHBASED_ART_SYSTEM/ ‚Texttoken 0725_01 tokenized‚ is a conceptual blockchain artwork that explores the internet itself as a medium of collective authorship and automated value production. Each letter of the sentence “INTERNET AS A POPULIST TECH-BASED ART SYSTEM” exists as an individual on-chain token within an ERC-1155 contract. Together, they form a complete semantic and visual […]
Current Exhibition: Metamodern Perspectives on the Cybernetic Society kunsthalle.koeln – A Virtual 3D Exhibition Project by Stefanie Klingemann and Ilya Pusenkoff Several of my recent digital works are currently featured in the virtual exhibition Metamodern Perspectives on the Cybernetic Society, hosted at kunsthalle.koeln. Curated by Stefanie Klingemann and Ilya Pusenkoff, the show explores artistic reflections […]
title: NFTalkie-walkie greenyear: 2024src origin: link to assettype: digital assetsize: responsivetype: HTML/CSS/JS & audio recordingaudio: Hans Ulrich Reckvisual & code: Florian Kuhlmannblockchain: Base (L2 Ethereum by Coinbase) -> Transfer ETH to Base Blockchain HTML-based audio playing web piece using JavaScript, CSS animations, and embedded animated GIFs NFTalkie Walkies by Florian Kuhlmann and Hans Ulrich Reck Background […]
title: NFTalkie-walkie greenyear: 2024src origin: link to assettype: digital assetsize: responsivetype: HTML/CSS/JS & audio recordingaudio: Hans Ulrich Reckvisual & code: Florian Kuhlmannblockchain: Base (L2 Ethereum by Coinbase) -> Transfer ETH to Base Blockchain HTML-based audio playing web piece using JavaScript, CSS animations, and embedded animated GIFs NFTalkie Walkies by Florian Kuhlmann and Hans Ulrich Reck Background […]
title: NFTalkie-walkie blueyear: 2024src origin: link to assettype: digital assetsize: responsivetype: HTML/CSS/JS & audio recordingaudio: Hans Ulrich Reckvisual & code: Florian Kuhlmannblockchain: Base (L2 Ethereum by Coinbase) -> Transfer ETH to Base Blockchain HTML-based audio playing web piece using JavaScript, CSS animations, and embedded animated GIFs NFTalkie Walkies by Florian Kuhlmann and Hans Ulrich Reck Background […]
title: JESUS WAS A SURREALISTyear: 2021src origin: link to assettype: unique digital assetsize: 8268 × 11811px, 300dpitype: png Jesus Was a Surrealist juxtaposes two seemingly disparate realms: the mytho-historical foundations of the Christian West and the fluid, logic-defying space of the contemporary internet. At its core, the work proposes a provocative reframing of Jesus Christ—not as a strictly […]
title: endless_binary_loopsyear: 2024src origin: link to assettype: unique digital assetsize: responsivetype: HTML/CSS/JS HTML-based web piece using JavaScript, CSS animations, and embedded animated GIFs In endless_binary_loops, Florian Kuhlmann explores the structural aesthetics of digital systems and their cultural codification. The work manifests as an HTML-based web installation in which JavaScript-driven movements, CSS animations, and looping GIF sequences […]
title: THEIR WAYS PARTEDyear: 2021src origin: link to assettype: unique digital assetsize: 8268 × 11811px, 300dpitype: png This work was created in 2020/2021 as a direct response to the societal tensions and political measures during the COVID-19 pandemic—particularly those aspects the artist perceived as intrusive and repressive. THEIR WAYS PARTED ON THE INTERNET comments on the […]
title: universal consciousness internetyear: 2021src origin: link to assettype: unique digital assetsize: 11811 × 11811px, 300dpitype: png This visually dense work is an early conceptual precursor to the later text-based piece CONSCIOUSNESS AS AN INTERFACE, realized within the framework of Kunstbasis Ebertplatz with the support of Stefanie Klingemann. It merges media theory, psychology, and spiritual inquiry into a […]
title: YOUR DEEP WILL TO SUBMITyear: 2021src origin: link to assettype: unique digital assetsize: 8268 × 11811px, 300dpitype: png YOUR DEEP WILL TO SUBMIT feeds my insatiable longing for freedom (2020/21) was created in response to the societal reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic—particularly those political measures the artist experienced as intrusive and repressive. The work explores the complex […]
title: THERE IS NO SUCH THING ASyear: 2021src origin: link to assettype: unique digital assetsize: 8268 × 11811px, 300dpitype: png The digital collage There is no such thing as identity directly references the infamous statement by former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher: “There is no such thing as society.” As a key architect of European neoliberalism, Thatcher’s words […]
title: reality was overratedyear: 2024src origin: link to assettype: unique digital assetsize: 1347 × 1347px, 300dpitype: png Reality Was Overrated presents itself as a digital text-based intervention in public space, engaging directly with contemporary discourses on reality, virtuality, and the shifting foundations of collective self-perception. The concise, seemingly dry statement displayed on a large digital board gains critical […]
title: INSTALL CREATIVE CLASS EXEyear: 2021src origin: link to assettype: unique digital assetsize: 8268 × 11811px, 300dpitype: png The digital work engages with the social transformation of the bourgeois milieu brought about by the rise of the so-called “Creative Class,” as described by Richard Florida in The Rise of the Creative Class. From a Marxist […]
title: INSTALL CREATIVE CLASS EXEyear: 2021src origin: link to assettype: unique digital assetsize: 8268 × 11811px, 300dpitype: png Die digitale Arbeit setzt sich mit dem sozioökonomischen Wandel des bürgerlichen Milieus auseinander, ausgelöst durch den Aufstieg der sogenannten „Creative Class“, wie ihn Richard Florida in The Rise of the Creative Class beschreibt. Aus einer marxistischen Perspektive […]
title: reality was overratedyear: 2024src origin: link to assettype: unique digital assetsize: 1347 × 1347px, 300dpitype: png Die Arbeit Reality Was Overrated positioniert sich formal als digitale Textarbeit im öffentlichen Raum und greift inhaltlich tief in gegenwärtige Diskurse um Realität, Virtualität und gesellschaftliche Selbstwahrnehmung ein. Der prägnante, scheinbar lakonische Satz auf einer großflächigen digitalen Anzeigetafel entfaltet in seiner […]
title: THERE IS NO SUCH THING ASyear: 2021src origin: link to assettype: unique digital assetsize: 8268 × 11811px, 300dpitype: png Die digitale Collage There is no such thing as identity bezieht sich direkt auf das berüchtigte Zitat der ehemaligen britischen Premierministerin Margaret Thatcher: „There is no such thing as society.“ Als zentrale Architektin des europäischen Neoliberalismus formulierte Thatcher […]
title: YOUR DEEP WILL TO SUBMITyear: 2021src origin: link to assettype: unique digital assetsize: 8268 × 11811px, 300dpitype: png YOUR DEEP WILL TO SUBMIT feeds my insatiable longing for freedom (2020/21) entstand unter dem Eindruck der gesellschaftlichen Reaktionen auf die COVID-19-Pandemie – insbesondere auf jene politischen Maßnahmen, die der Künstler als übergriffig und repressiv erlebte. Die Arbeit untersucht […]
title: universal consciousness internetyear: 2021src origin: link to assettype: unique digital assetsize: 11811 × 11811px, 300dpitype: png Diese visuell dichte Arbeit ist ein früher konzeptueller Vorläufer der späteren Textarbeit CONSCIOUSNESS AS AN INTERFACE, die im Rahmen der Kunstbasis Ebertplatz in Zusammenarbeit mit Stefanie Klingemann realisiert wurde. In ihr verdichten sich medientheoretische, psychologische und spirituelle Fragestellungen zu einer spekulativen […]
title: THEIR WAYS PARTEDyear: 2021src origin: link to assettype: unique digital assetsize: 8268 × 11811px, 300dpitype: png Diese Arbeit entstand in den Jahren 2020/2021 im direkten Reflex auf die gesellschaftlichen Spannungen und politischen Maßnahmen während der COVID-19-Pandemie – insbesondere auf jene Aspekte, die der Künstler als übergriffig und repressiv empfand. IHRE WEGE TRENNTEN SICH IM … […]
title: endless_binary_loopsyear: 2024src origin: link to assettype: unique digital assetsize: responsivetype: HTML/CSS/JS HTML-based web asset, JavaScript, CSS animations, animated GIFs In endless_binary_loops setzt sich Florian Kuhlmann mit der strukturellen Ästhetik digitaler Systeme und deren kultureller Codierung auseinander. Die Arbeit manifestiert sich in Form einer HTML-basierten Webinstallation, in der JavaScript-gesteuerte Bewegungen, CSS-Animationen und sich wiederholende GIF-Sequenzen eine […]
title: JESUS WAS A SURREALISTyear: 2021src origin: link to assettype: unique digital assetsize: 8268 × 11811px, 300dpitype: png ‚Jesus war ein Surrealist‘ bringt zwei scheinbar unvereinbare Welten in einen spannungsvollen Dialog: die mytho-historischen Grundlagen des christlich geprägten Westens und den fließenden, der Logik trotzenden Raum des zeitgenössischen Internets. Im Kern schlägt das Werk eine provokante Neubewertung von Jesus […]
title: NFTalkie-walkie blueyear: 2024src origin: link to assettype: digital assetsize: responsivetype: HTML/CSS/JS & audio recordingaudio: Hans Ulrich Reckvisual & code: Florian Kuhlmannblockchain: Base (L2 Ethereum by Coinbase) -> Transfer ETH to Base Blockchain HTML audio playing web mit JavaScript, CSS und animated GIFs ‚NFTalkie Walkies‘ von Florian Kuhlmann und Hans Ulrich Reck Hintergrund Irgendwann nutzen Künstlerinnen […]
title: NFTalkie-walkie redyear: 2024src origin: link to assettype: digital assetsize: responsivetype: HTML/CSS/JS & audio recordingaudio: Hans Ulrich Reckvisual & code: Florian Kuhlmannblockchain: Base (L2 Ethereum by Coinbase) -> Transfer ETH to Base Blockchain HTML-basiertes audio web piece mit JavaScript, CSS animations und animated GIFs ‚NFTalkie Walkies‘ von Florian Kuhlmann und Hans Ulrich Reck Hintergrund Irgendwann nutzen […]
title: NFTalkie-walkie greenyear: 2024src origin: link to assettype: digital assetsize: responsivetype: HTML/CSS/JS & audio recordingaudio: Hans Ulrich Reckvisual & code: Florian Kuhlmannblockchain: Base (L2 Ethereum by Coinbase) -> Transfer ETH to Base Blockchain HTML-basiertes audio web piece mit JavaScript, CSS animations und animated GIFs ‚NFTalkie Walkies‘ von Florian Kuhlmann und Hans Ulrich Reck Hintergrund Irgendwann […]
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Holding together difficult at the beginning link to asset: https://xyz.floriankuhlmann.com/holding_together_difficult_at_the_beginning/ obstruction Link to asset https://xyz.floriankuhlmann.com/obstruction/ More about the show WESTERN GODS together with Dennis Rudoplh at Gallery Falko Alexander. two hashes https://objkt.com/collections/fxhash/projects/31216 endless_binary_loops link to asset https://xyz.floriankuhlmann.com/endless_binary_loops/ pyschedelic_cyberdrive_ON Link to asset: https://xyz.floriankuhlmann.com/psychedelic_cyberdrive_ON/ METAMODERN TRIGRAMS link to asset: https://floriankuhlmann.com/netart/metamodern-trigrams/ 3x3RGBDIV Link to asset https://floriankuhlmann.com/netart/3x3RGBdivs/ Sacred Geometry II […]
A collection of digital assets addressing the contemporary HERE AND NOW in a critical, political, sometimes ironic, yet always iconic way. YOUR DEEP WILL TO SUBMIT THERE WAYS APARTED I WAS LEFT BUT NOW I AM RIGHT Asset link: https://xyz.floriankuhlmann.com/I_WAS_LEFT_BUT_NOW_I_AM_RIGHT THE WEST IS DEAD LONG LIVE THE WEST Asset link: https://xyz.floriankuhlmann.com/THE_WEST_IS_DEAD_LONG_LIVE_THE_WEST The asset was part […]
