{"id":95,"date":"2025-07-23T19:08:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T17:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theplaceyoutold.me\/about\/?p=95"},"modified":"2025-08-31T19:02:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T17:02:26","slug":"christoph_kilian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theplaceyoutold.me\/about\/en\/christoph_kilian\/","title":{"rendered":"Christoph Kilian"},"content":{"rendered":"In a cross-media interplay and clash with technology, Christoph Kilian constructs machinic tales that \u2014 often on the verge of futility \u2014 trace the magical. In 2017, he developed If you touch me, you&#8217;ll understand what happiness is (Goethe-Institut Los Angeles), for which he collaborated with experimental snow physicists to create an artificial snow crystal, grown inside a small cooling chamber carried aloft by a weather balloon over Mount Hollywood, where it fell into the summer sky. In the summer of 2024, he brought a cat long believed extinct back to life with The California Snow Leopard at gallery PAGE (NYC): Visible only through a telescope, an animatronic sculpture sat on the roof of a Manhattan skyscraper 400 meters away. Between Lilies, shown in Salzburg from 2024 to 2025, wove visitors into a semi-artificial neural network animated by electronically augmented white lilies as they withered. At the destination of an upcoming cargo ship voyage, he will release an electronic message in a bottle in the Bermuda Triangle, which will then endeavor to return to where it originated. As a prelude to the journey, he presented Dem Grund so nah (To Whom It May Concern) at Raum Matj\u00f6, Cologne, in 2022, featuring an object that might have served as a mold for the message in a bottle.<br><br>\r\nChristoph Kilian, studied media art at the Bauhaus University Weimar and the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. He lives between Cologne, Salzburg, and Los Angeles, where he completed a guest semester at the ArtCenter College of Design in 2014 and has been an artist-in-residence at the UCLA Art|Sci Center since 2020. Christoph Kilian is a member of the interdisciplinary network Waterbodies, which brings together artistic, scientific, and anthropological approaches to water and its significance as an element reflecting the fate of humanity.<br><br>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/christophkilian.de\/\" target=\"blank\">www.christophkilian.de<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a cross-media interplay and clash with technology, Christoph Kilian constructs machinic tales that \u2014 often on the verge of futility \u2014 trace the magical. In 2017, he developed If you touch me, you&#8217;ll understand what happiness is (Goethe-Institut Los Angeles), for which he collaborated with experimental snow physicists to create an artificial snow crystal, [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nicht-kategorisiert-en"],"acf":{"photo_gallery":{"images_on_posts":[[]]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theplaceyoutold.me\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theplaceyoutold.me\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theplaceyoutold.me\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theplaceyoutold.me\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theplaceyoutold.me\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/theplaceyoutold.me\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":569,"href":"https:\/\/theplaceyoutold.me\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theplaceyoutold.me\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theplaceyoutold.me\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theplaceyoutold.me\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theplaceyoutold.me\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}