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Erik Freydank
Breitscheidplatz

Frederic Brodbeck
0..1

En Kitani
*WAAW

Ying Chen
Absconding

Lorenz Raab
Analoge Brücke

Akitoshi Honda
Artificial Appetizer

Elisa Storelli
Assemblaggio N1

Julius Fuehrer
A Thousand Seeds or the Right to Becoming

Merani Schilcher
autoantibody.3 – Destruction of Self

Frederic Gmeiner
Bericht über R.

Alexander Hahn
Bioinformatics: Nature’s superiority over binary computing

Susa Schmid
Blickskulpturen / Gaze Sculptures

Bruno Gola
Bruto

Ying Chen
Bubbles

Tim Horntrich
Clock Choc

Hsiao Li-Chi
Coffee And Kitty

David Reitenbach
convincing ideas

Jens Wunderling
default to public

Constantin Engelmann
Der Kopist

Valerian Blos
Design as Restriction / Restriction as Design

Özcan Ertek
Devil's Rope: On a Journey of No Return

Sven Gutjahr
Diaries of Alvin Fredriksøn

Tim Horntrich
DropingNews

Robin Woern
Ephememorion

Orlando Helfer Rabaça
Footprint²¹³

Julian Netzer
GOTCHA

Erik Anton Reinhardt
Graphic Design

Stephan Sunder-Plassmann
Hacking Memorials

Martin Kim Luge
Hear the grass growing

Christopher Hoehn
How It Was(n't)

Tim Horntrich
ICSY TK 5000

Julius von Bismarck
Image Fulgurator

Willy Sengewald
Jammer Horn

Florentin Aisslinger
Living with Matter

Monika Hoinkis
Living with Things

Sebastian Wolf
lovesmenot

Andreas Schmelas
Machines At Work

Merani Schilcher
Make Me A Weapon – Destruction of Context

Julia Rosenstock
Meadow of carnivore plants

Frederic Gmeiner
Memory Shapes

Merani Schilcher
Mephista – Destruction of Other

Ying Chen
My queer body, my ownership

Piet Schmidt
möve

Fang Tsai
Nahweh: the Unreachable

Nicenboim Iohanna
Objects of Research

Bill Hartenstein
Palio

Vinzenz Aubry
pendel 1

Hye Joo Jun
Phantom Limb

Markus Kison
Pulse

Kilian Kottmeier
Resource forecast

Felix Worseck
Subordination/Unterordnung

Frederic Brodbeck
Synthetic Flurry

Stephan Sunder-Plassmann
Tagebilder

Stephan Sunder-Plassmann
The Beauty of Oppositions

Andreas Schmelas
The Space Beyond Me

Julius von Bismarck
The Space Beyond Me

Andreas Schmelas
The Visible Invisible

Paul Kolling
thing <ser. no.>

Elisa Storelli
This machine will not switch herself off

David Löhr
Titan

Niklas Söder
Unstable Trajectories

Tilman Richter
Wall of Distribution

Tilman Richter
Wall of Support

Tilman Richter
Wall of Tendencies
Andi Rueckel
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Andi Rueckel
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Andi Rueckel
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Merani Schilcher — Mephista – Destruction of Other
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Freud believed that there are two kinds of human instincts, one being the instinct of love and the other the instinct of death. The former is constructive, the latter destructive.
He believed that people generally channel their death instincts outwards. Aggression, for example, arises from the death instincts.
"I am the spirit, ever, that denies!
And rightly so: since everything created,
In turn deserves to be annihilated:
Better if nothing came to be.
So all that you call Sin, you see,
Destruction, in short, what you’ve meant
By Evil is my true element."
"Ich bin der Geist der stets verneint!
Und das mit Recht; denn alles was entsteht
Ist werth daß es zu Grunde geht;
Drum besser wär’s daß nichts entstünde.
So ist denn alles was ihr Sünde,
Zerstörung, kurz das Böse nennt,
Mein eigentliches Element."
Mephistopheles in Faust (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1808)
Mephistopheles is a somewhat undefined character in Goethe's Faust. Void of a unique personality, his sole goal is the destruction of all that exists. As God's adversary he embodies the primal principle of Evil and persistently criticizes His summit of creation – Man. At the same time, he's a materialization of all destructive tendencies within Faust himself, and thus within all human beings. Yet through it all, he fails to realize that he too is nothing but a pawn in a higher being's game.
Mephista is a machine taking on a similar role. Another number in a line-up of machines built to embody human traits. Contrary to Mephisto, she has become frustrated over always being confronted with humans and their emotions, being nothing but a personification. Not capable of bringing herself to feel those same emotions of bliss and love – nor being allowed to – she is doomed to sit on the sidelines begrudging all happy couples she encounters. She's angered. Her coping mechanism sets in, she scours the web for pictures of happy couples and she starts snipping away.






