Digital art. In the composition, a large group of people are sitting on a grassy hill, obviously visitors to an event. All viewers are looking forward, but the people’s heads are hidden by greatly enlarged smartphones, on whose screens pixelated images can be seen, which are reflected on all displays. The phones are colored, the people and the backdrop are in black and white tones. In this and all subsequent works of art, the sky is monochrome and without tonal gradations in a medium gray.
“Shared Consumption” from the picture series ‘Social Identity’ / 2024
In this digital work of art, the large group of people is photographed from a distance. Trees are grouped on the right edge of the image. In the grey sky, an infinite number of colourful and pixelated images are lined up one after the other, which are bundled together on the right edge of the image like a large cloud. The screenshots are also recognizable on smartphone displays when reduced in size.
“Shared Belonging” from the picture series ‘Social Identity’ / 2024
Camera closer to the people again. The group is torn apart in this work of art. On the left edge of the picture and in the right half of the work of art, horizontal lines connect the divided body fragments. It looks as if the images were only stretched at the corresponding parts of the picture. Again, colored screenshots of digital images are lined up on the horizontal image lines.
“Shared Hate” from the picture series ‘Social Identity’ / 2024
Digital art: In this shot, vertical lines flow out of or into the group of people, whose faces are obscured in all images by cell phone overlays. A segment of the lines is in turn replaced by colored screenshots.
“Shared Memories” from the picture series ‘Social Identity’ / 2024
Horizontal lines that define the image massively disturb the group of people from the left and right sides of the artwork, and the striking screenshots are also arranged above the heads.
“Shared Rejections” from the picture series ‘Social Identity’ / 2024
The crowd of people is mirrored vertically, including the hill. Rows of screenshots connect the lower and upper halves of the image. The digital work of art appears unreal due to the reflection.
“Shared Collaboration” from the picture series ‘Social Identity’ / 2024
Multiple reflections of the groups of people together with horizontal stripes form a remarkable composition.
“Shared Convictions” from the picture series ‘Social Identity’ / 2024
Mirrored groups of people form a fanned-out group of people that seems to expand from horizontal stripes on the left edge of the picture to the right. The digital works of art become more and more fantastic in their appearance.
“Shared Brand Awareness” from the picture series ‘Social Identity’ / 2024

‘Social Identity’

Digital Art

Artistic photography/Composition.
C-Prints on Fuji Crystal DP II Velvet photographic paper.
Limited edition per motif: 3 + 1 AP.
Approx. 13,8″ (H) ∙ 24,4″ (W) / 4,144 pixels (H) ∙ 7,366 pixels (W).
Reverse handwritten titled, signed and dated with the year.

Original human art.
The compositions were created without artificial intelligence.
This work is protected by copyright in all its parts.
© 2024 by Heinz Hermann Maria Hoppe. All rights reserved.
Color and tone value representations on monitors deviate from the original.

The image section shows details, especially the screenshots on the smartphones.
Image detail from the digital painting “Shared Consumption”
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