my name is holger lippmann

and i am @steemit now!
often i have the feeling to be the happiest person of the world. this was not always like that, ..maybe i come to this later..
now, i'm living north of berlin in the middle of beautiful nature with my unique and lovely family, doing my utopian dream-profession..

i come
pretty straight from visual art. started painting as teenager, did evening courses, studied at the art academy dresden and did my diploma for sculpture. then i was 2 years masterstudent, studied post graduate in stuttgart, paris and later moved to brooklyn, new york, where i attended a first computer graphics internship at the institute of technology, ny..

when i came back
to germany in 1994, i moved to berlin, right in the middle of the electronic music boom, i started pretty radically to work with computers (only), i knew I’d have to make art in the same way as the 

music i was listening to was made. i spent another year learning about multimedia design and programming at cimdata berlin. since then, none of the fascination of working with software and internet based networks has abated. i never felt any reason to move back to paints and traditional artistic work.

programming
itself became more and more indispensable. after lingo and actionscript, processing opened a whole new world of basic and minimalistic studies. in 2007 i started seriously working with processing and havn’t taken up any other methods ever since.

anyway,
deep inside i’m a painter and i always was. so i think my work should be best described in the traditional context of painting. the focus lies on the development of an image and colour composition.

sometimes
it is like coming home and feeling full of an expression that, out of its own energy, is longing to become materialized. even in that moment when i would start painting, i don’t have any direct image up on my inner screen. that wouldn’t be fun. just as when you are compelled to go onto the dance floor by good music, you do not exactly know what’s next… i like to compare my work process to dancing or improvising music. it’s like the process of developing a (most nearly) finished composition throughout a performance or play. for me it is the way in which evolving form elements start organizing and – in the best case – combine to form a fascinating image.

above all
the implication of algorithmic structuring by mathmatical visualisation of forms and behaviours, has a basic priority to my work. to me it offers a meta level of looking at/into nature.my works are mainly vector based images for print or screening, animations and 3d generated/printed sculpture.

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