Lotta Stöver

My name is Lotta Stöver (*1996) and I am currently based in Weimar/Bremen (Germany). I work as an artist in the fields of technologies, research and media.

My works engage with phenomena, energies and matters where they converse, disobey, transform, de/transition, resist, corrupt and mutate along with (new) technologies. Through processes of poetic engineering, (meta)physical computing and experimental imaging methods, my practice focuses on the materiality of technologies and data through an embedded and embodied lens. I have a deep interest in the geo/psycho/techno/physio/bio/electro/media networks around and within us. Often my works are spread out over those intersections and materialize as interactive installations, autonomous imaging objects and kinetic sculptures. They incorporate electronics, self-built machines and hand-written texts, both executable and readable. With my work I aim to subvert the dominant linear narratives and underlying normative assumptions of our largely technologically-mediated social reality, and instead try enact alternative technological (and non-technological) immediacies. And I hope those lead to rather queer, ecological, largely sincere, partially absurd imaginations of how things could be different.

From 2015 - 2023 I studied Digital Media at the University of the Arts Bremen (Germany). Besides my emerging art practice, I work as an artistic associate in the Media Arts program of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.