Valerian Blos (*1990, Frankfurt/Main) practice combines tools from the digital realm, mixes them with analog craftsmanship, and creates new materialities.
The artifacts and speculations from his work are exploring emerging technologies and societal issues of tomorrow. In this context, he positions himself between the borders of art, science, and design, using design as a tool for criticism and reflection. By forming and changing the features of matter and objects, he is able to question current models, systems and achieve disruption.
Valerian graduated 2018 from the University of Arts Berlin.
Since 2022 he is assistant professor for the fundamentals of design and new media in visual communication. In his teaching, he negotiates questions of new intermaterialities: what happens when material is no longer tangible? When it disappears or becomes imaginary? New methods of interdisciplinary design and practice-based research are developed and tested together with students.
Since 2015, he realised projects for institutions such as TAMA Art University Tokyo, CYENS Cyprus, Berlin Natural History Museum, Fraunhofer Institute, Futurium Berlin, Klassik Stiftung Weimar or Max Planck Institute Jena. Most of those projects in close collaboration with Gosia Lehmann.
He is a co-founder and member of Solaris Space, an independent studio and project space with a focus on new media.
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