Biography

Born 1935, Toronto, lives in Vienna.

Adrian X has shown his installations, paintings, sculptures and telecommunications projects at the Venice Biennale (1980 and 1986) as well as at the Sydney Biennale and numerous other international exhibitions. One man shows in Europe and North America. Adrian X's works are included in the collections of international museums and he has completed several large-scale projects in public spaces. Since 1979, he has been involved, in both theory and practice, with art in and by means of the new communications technologies.

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Quotes

Robert Adrian X, Sam Auinger
Deep Blue

"For artists, the loss of the classical traditions has been particularly disturbing. Any artist who has attempted to merge an art practice based on 19th century art traditions with the art practice demanded by the new electronic media, especially the networked media, will have encountered the problem of incommensurability - trying to combine two things which are mutually exklusive. Thinking in terms of objects, products and ‘craftsmanship’ while working with technologies which are fugitive, transient and immaterial is a symptom of living on the cusp of cultural change - straddling the paradigms, so to speak. As the new traditions begin to form around technologies like digital sound (sampling), interactive systems, and virtual reality, the familiar traditions of the real - of products and things - begin to lose definition and fade into memory."