TAMARA KNAPPis a multidisciplinary-graphic-designer from Weimar where she also completed her bachelor's and master's degree in Visual Communications at Bauhaus-University. Before moving to Weimar she trained as a photographer in Heidelberg.
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In her work, Tamara attaches great importance to interdisciplinarity, so that often subject-related disciplines such as typo- and photography, graphic and editorial design focus on thematic blocks from scientific disciplines such as media informatics, as well as the humanities and social sciences. She seeks her vocation in the creation and documentation of new aspects in the fields of visual research. In general she likes to draw her inspiration from inconspicuous, everyday materials and her soft spot for the intangible.
PROJECTS
Portrait & Product
Flowers & Vases
Swirly
Concept Identities
Conference for Artistic Research
The 13th SAR International Conference on Artistic Research 2022 took place in Germany for the first time at Bauhaus-University Weimar. The conference consisted of a 24-hour online event and three days of live, on-site events in Weimar. The topic »Mend, Blend, Attend« was transformed into a custom-type calligraphy element inspired by synapses connecting in the research processes. Working together with Lena Weber for the Design Components and Markus Griebl for the Web Development.
Resonant Space
Visual Research
Experimental Photography
Experimental Graphic
Poster-Tool
Music Video
ROH-Art
Exit Strategy - Ivory Mix
Arts & Science
Segments of a Cell
Tamara Knapp hat in der Zeit der Residency bei »künstlerische tatsachen« mit der Abteilung der Bioinformatik im Hans-Knöll-Institut zusammengearbeitet. Dort arbeiten Wissenschaftler:innen an Prozessen zur automatisierten Zuweisung und Erkennung von Zellen. Ähnliche Arbeitsweisen verwendet Tamara Knapp in ihrer eigenen Praxis. Künstliche Intelligenzen wie beispielsweise neuronale Netzwerke werden vermehrt auch in Programmen des Grafikdesigns eingesetzt.
In einer groß angelegten Formenstudie hat sich Tamara mit mehreren Datensets verschiedener Zellen beschäftigt und diese primär als Bildmedien untersucht. Im Zuge dieser visuellen Forschung erstellte sie Grafiken aus den Datensätzen. Die unterschiedlichen Strukturen der Zellen sowie die Formen, die durch ihre Bewegung entstehen, hat sie in der bildbasierten Studie „Segments of a cell“ festgehalten.
Tamara Knapp hat einen Korpus von Arbeiten geschaffen, der sich diesen primär naturwissenschaftlich genutzten Medien auf andere Weise nähert, sie künstlerisch bearbeitet und zugänglich macht
Editorial
The Chopped Off Head Magazine
The Chopped Off Head Magazine is a fashion magazine, an artist book and an artwork. Born in 2022 and founded by Colombian artist Eduardo José Rubio Parra, this publication is meant to serve as a bridge between different artists, artistic disciplines and cultures. Each issue will feature the world of a chosen artist or artists. The title of the project was inspired by the thought of these artists chopping their own heads off to give the viewer an insight into a world only existing in their minds.
28 pieces in total representing one body (my body) carrying one world (my world).
Each piece carries a wound, an acrylic painting.
One body wounded 28 times differently.
Documentation Photography: Janis Uffrecht
Fashion & Artwork Photography: Nathalia Azuero
Port Magazine
Port Magazine is an official publication of Bauhaus University‘s Lucia Verlag. It is released annually featuring curated projects of students. For the 2018 redesign of Port Magazine, we created a double-sided book that divided the magazine into two parts. Using exclusively offset spot colours we were able to present a uniquely coloured product. One part is extremely colourful (2-colour-print on coloured paper) and one is strictly monochromatic using silver and black spot colour on white. Through our expertise in photography, we were able to display imagery within these special colour limitations making images pop with silver highlights or displaying the biggest colour depth possible using only 2 colours.
104 pages, 23,5x17 cm, Offset + imprint, + Inlay-Poster 46,8 x 30cm.
Teaching
Bauhaus-University Weimar - Graphicdesign & Visual Research
Mail: tamara[at]roh-art.de // Instagram: @_tamara_knapp_
©2022 Tamara Knapp, Thomas-Müntzer-Str. 19, 99423 Weimar, Phon.: (+49)15750709065