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Exhibition "Virtual Railway Worlds"

Deutsche Version

Interview in the Campus Magazine of TU Braunschweig

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Shown are prints of digitally created pictures, in which photos of model railway scenes have been embedded into virtual worlds. While some pictures show prototype-oriented model scenes, others do not fit to a particular era. In some pictures, trains run through landscapes that seem to come from dystopian near-future settings. While, at a glance, some scenes look very realistic, the fictitous background will become obvious when looking at the details. Some scenes seem to be fallen out of time in a rather disturbing way. For the creation of the virtual environments, I started using screenshot from computer games. Later, I used the AI engine Midjourney. In some pictures, I let Midjourney adopt the style of a particular game. This way, there is no break in style compared with with the older pictures.

The selection of pictures may differ between individual exhibitions (see linked online galleries at the exhibition dates below). After an exhibition, the pictures are usually for sale. If interested to buy leftover pieces from previous exhibitions, contact me by joern.pachl@gmx.de. If interested, new copies of sold-out pictures can also be made (professional art print in matte finish on aluminium Dibond board, size 42 cm x 30 cm). Also, all pictures from this online gallery on Flickr that have not yet been shown at exhibitions may be purchased in this form. I also do commissioned works with models provided by the customer.

Catalogue of all pictures that have been shown in exhibitions Online gallery of all available pictures (link to Flickr)

Locations and times

joern.pachl@gmx.de