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Observing reality with my camera. How can I put the memory of 9-11 into a context which is giving meaning tot he meaningless. What does it all mean after all? Memory, experience, feelings felt, countless impressions, perceptions. Aware and unaware, hidden and obviously on the surface. Tragedy, drama, upheaval, turmoil, change processed more or less into mind matter. Several approaches to the material of my archive containing meanwhile more than 800000 photo’s taken from 1985 until now. music: Michael Bonaventure: Prelude XI, Interlude XI, Postlude Xi Biography Thomas Mohr

Born in Mainz, Living and working in Amsterdam. Since the late 1980ties systematically exploring processes of perception and experience in installations and “films”. How do we proces what we see and encounter? Working with computer­ generated processes combined with manual execution based on a growing photo archive regarding to important moments of modern history as to major and minor personal events. Works are in various ways referring to conceptual and minimal art, to the history of early cinematography , the transformation of information, the evolution of (new) media. IFFR/Rotterdam, JMAF/Tokio, Sonic Acts/Amsterdam, Ars Electronica/LInz, IFFR/Rotterdam, Transmediale Berlin, IFF Japan, NeMaf/Seoul,mJMAF Tokio, SICAF/Seoul, IKFF/Hamburg ,Jihlava IDFF, HAFF/Utrecht, Media Art Biennale Wro/ Wroclaw, Underdox/Munich, Werkstattkino/ Les Recontres International/Paris/Berlin, Stedelijk Museum/Amsterdam, Edith­Russ­Haus for Media Art/Oldenburg, EMAF, Videomedeja, Berlin Atonal