Trafika Europe 11 - Swiss Delights

Jules Spinatsch

ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHS Our featured photographer throughout this issue, Jules Spinatsch (born in Davos, 1964) lives in Vienna and Zurich. He is best known for his long-term photography projects, Snow Management Complex (a long-term study on alpine winter-tourism 2001 – 09) and Temporary Discomfort 2001– 2004 (examining the conditions of documentary photography in political charged situations), or Asynchronous I – X (an ongoing series on nuclear technology). He invented the “Discontinuous Surveillance Panorama”, using computer controlled network cameras to generate a new kind of panorama: 2003 Temporary Discomfort Chapter IV, 2005 Heisenbergs’ Offside, 2006, Fabre n’est pas venu 2009 Vienna MMIX, 2012 Competing Agendas, 2015 Panopticon, Tanzboden 1, Big Bang Theory. 2016 Inside SAP. His work has been shown and collected among others in theMuseumof Modern Art, MoMA, NewYork; SFMoMA, San Francisco; Haus der Kunst, Munich; Tate Modern, London; Palais de Beaux Arts, Bruxelles; NAI Rotterdam; Kunsthaus Zurich; Kunsthaus Zug; Kunstmuseums Chur; Fotomuseum Winterthur; Villa Arson Nice; Palazzo Strozzi Florence MAST Bologna.

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