Since mid 2021 Antye Guenther investigates biometrical data visualisations, specifically looking at what kind of hierarchies, norms and ideologies are installed in the underlying 3D imaging software practises. As the ways of engaging with digital software are highly naturalised and explicitly fabricated to be effortlessly intuitive, Guenther started to explore counter-intuitive material research tools such as ceramics, script writing and performance to tackle the suspicions she feels towards biometrical data processing and visualising, investigating digital practices using non-digital tools. And as she is highly interested in collective learning and teaching as well, she started to develop hybrid performance workshop formats to explore different kinds of engagement with broader audiences, were Guenther as a Data Diva, for example, invites people onto a fabulous journey into a (scientific) software called brain voyager.

Guenther is a visual artist whose projects orbit around themes such as (non)biological intelligence and supercomputing, computer-brain-analogies and mind control, think tank ideologies and self-optimisation, neuroimagery and fictionality of science, among others.

She has been an associate researcher at the Research Centre of a.pass, Posthogeschool voor Podiumkunsten in Brussels as well as a participant at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht.Please visit https://www.aguenth.de/ for more information about Guenter’s practice.