Einsam - 2
Video, 2025
About the artwork
Einsam is a series of poignant video narratives that delve into the profound sense of isolation within the modern workspace. Each video portrays moments where the veneer of productivity cracks, revealing the underlying loneliness and existential crises of the individual.
In one video, a figure loses control in a darkened office, symbolizing the breakdown of societal expectations. Another scene features a group in chaos, with a single individual standing apart, illuminated in a moment of sudden joy amidst the disorder.
The series also captures intimate moments of human connection, such as one person offering comfort to another in an office, highlighting the rare but powerful instances of empathy and solidarity.
Ultimately, Einsam reflects the dichotomy of modern life, where the quest for individuality often leads to alienation, but also to moments of unexpected revelation and human connection.
Ümüt Yildiz
Audio explanation
Listen to Ümüt Yildiz discuss this work.
Ümüt Yildiz is a lecturer of Creative Coding in Design at Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences and lives in Cologne and Berlin, where he has been exploring artificial intelligence since 2018. Outside of his teaching, he often collaborates with artists such as Cro, and Bilderbuch and brands such as Bulgari, Tods, and Vogue Italia, testing the limits of current technologies.
He participated as an exhibitor in the NFT Pavilion 2022 Venice Biennale. His work is characterized by themes of humanism and controversy through the use of original production. The intervention of artificial intelligence in the visual material of original production allows an interpretation of reality free from the mechanisms of rationalist self-determination of man, introducing the concept of "memory" of the machine, which does not preserve any experience paradigms or culture inherent in human nature. Visual works are created that catalyze the world of the irrational and the unconscious, where the need to create order is less, leaving room for a more intuitive and ancient vision of the subject.