Quadrature’s work combines art, science and technology. A recurring theme is the cosmos as a space for collective hopes, imagination and scientific discovery, but also as a setting for political power plays, increasing privatisation and capitalist exploitation.

In their practice, they combine critical perspectives, scientific precision and artistic freedom. Collective working and thinking are at the heart of their activities. Whilst, as Quadrature, they enjoy collaborating with other artists, designers and academic institutions, they have also lived and worked within communal structures in their private lives for many years.

Juliane Götz and Sebastian Neitsch met during their studies at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle. They have been working together as Quadrature since 2015. The duo sees technologies as a means of reading and writing realities, as formative and formable tools that shape material, social, political and ideological structures and worldviews. Data often serves as their primary artistic material in this context.

Their work ranges from digital visual worlds and large-scale projections to kinetic objects. It is characterised by a minimalist aesthetic that balances visual beauty with unsettling themes. Their projects invite to understand technology not as a given constant, but as a dialogue between the individual, the machine and the environment. Their artistic research has received numerous awards – including grants from the Kunstfonds Foundation, the Akademie Schloss Solitude, the Hertz Lab at ZKM Karlsruhe and the Schaufler Residency at TU Dresden.

2026 – Schaufler Residency @ TU Dresden with the project “The Mass of Money”

2024 – Brandenburger stipend for visual arts (Juliane Götz)

2022 – stipend NEUSTART KULTUR for visual arts (2nd edition) (Sebastian Neitsch)

2022 – working stipend by Stiftung Kunstfond (Juliane Götz)

Sept – Dec 2021 research stipend for visual arts 2021 by Berlin Senat

Sept 2020 – Feb 2021 NEUSTART KULTUR – stipend for artist with kids, Stiftung Kunstfonds (Juliane Götz)

2020 art & science residence @ Tabakalera & DIPC (Donostia International Physics Center), San Sebastian, ES

2018 – 2020 Fellowship #bebeethoven  by Podium Festival and ZKM (Zentrum für Kunst und Medien), Germany

2019 La Becque, Artist Residency, La Tour-de-Peilz, CH

2018 Japan Media Arts Festival, Jury Selection, Japan

2018 Prix Ars Electronica 2018, Honorary Mention, Linz, AT

2017 Japan Media Arts Festival, Jury Selection, Japan

2016 CynetArt Award, Nomination , Dresden, DE

2016 New Technology Art Award, Nomination, Ghent, BE

2016 European Digital Art and Science Network, Art&Science Residency Award with ESO (European Southern Observatories) and Ars Electronica, Chile / Europe

2015 Prix Ars Electronica 2015, Honorary Mention, Linz, AT

2015 Talents Contemporains, Nomination, Fondation Francois Schneider, Wattwiller, FR 

2012 Akademie Schloss Solitude, Artist in Residency, Stuttgart, DE (Juliane Götz)

2011 Kunstfond Bonn, DE (Sebastian Neitsch)

2011 Kunststiftung Sachsen-Anhalt, Artist in Residency, Istanbul, TUR (Sebastian Neitsch)

2010 Price for young Artists, Friedrichshafen, DE (Sebastian Neitsch)

2010 subnet, Artist in Residency, Salzburg, AT

2024 “sense & sense-abilities”, curation of Ars Electronica Campus Exhibition of Media Arts & Design Department of Bauhaus Universität Weimar, DE

2024 “Data as artistic material”, project class for bachelor & master, substituting for Prof. Ursula Damm @ Gestaltung Medialer Umgebung, Media Arts & Design, Bauhaus Universität Weimar, DE

2023 “Data as Material”, workshop for MA Information Design, Design Academy Eindhoven, NL

2022 “Sentient Media”, 2 week interdisciplinary workshop & collaborative prototyping, Matadero Medialab, Madrid, ES

2021 Lehrauftrag Stagebased Interaction, Master-Studiengang Interface Cultures, University of Art, Linz, AT

2019 “First encounters”, workshop, MA Design Explorations, Iceland Academy of the Arts, Reykjavík, Iceland

2015 Visting Professors at Burg Giebichenstein, Kunsthochschule Halle, Halle, DE

2015 Workshops at NODE15 – Forum for Digital Arts, Frankfurt, DE

2013 Creative Physiscs, BTK Berlin, DE

2013 Creative Coding with vvvv, BTK Berlin, DE

2013 Workshop at NODE10 – Forum for Digital Arts, Frankfurt, DE

2012 Creative Coding with vvvv, BTK Berlin, DE

2012 Rustin Moto – building robots, Essential Existence Gallery, Leipzig, DE

2012 Creative Coding meets Mapping, Nilgi University, Istanbul, TUR

2011 Realtime Coding for beginners, Electrovisiones, Mexico City, MEX

2009 Realtime Coding for Beginners, Graz, AT

2009 Interaction Interfaces, Bilgi University, Istanbul, TUR

2009 Stagedesign Interactions, University of Art, Linz, AT

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Götz und Neitsch
Ring 60
15754 Heidesee
Brandenburg
(still close to Berlin…)

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