The Austrian artist Mirjam Baker was born in Melk and trained at the Royal College of Art in London. She has been the recipient of multiple international awards in the areas of painting and animation art.

In her latest solo exhibition called „Dust“, which ran between the third of October and the 21st of November this year in the „tresor“ of the Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien in Vienna, analogue and digital worlds met most impressively.

A thirteen minute long animation called „Dust“ was the centrepiece of the exhibition, which was curated by Veronika Rudorfer.

Each of the twelve sequences presented was painted in a different colour, a colour film in the literal sense of the word.

The succession of hand painted individual images created a lively colour space for the beholder. All of Baker’s image compositions are concentrated around a middle line, which, at first glance, is reminiscent of a horizon. The longer visitors looked at the pulsating colour planes, the more they were able to lose themselves in deep, imagined spaces.

For the technical realisation of the visually impressive exhibition, imusee’s Abraham Ananda Baumann enlisted Gerald Herlbauer and his 4youreye team, who had previously been involved with the realisation of complex exhibition projects.

Herlbauer outlines the technical parameters surrounding “Dust“: “The animation film consists of numerous photographed pastel paintings, that needed to be shown in the best quality possible. First trial runs with compressed formats and a standard media player convinced us that using a Digital Projection E-Vision 11000 4K-UHD laser projector and the PIXERA media server system instead would be a much better option, since we would be able to reliably play out ultra high quality uncompressed image sequences. The difference was directly apparent and very tangible.”