His works are inventions, usually connecting technology and software and interactive works of art. To some, says Julius von Bismarck, he’s a designer, to others, an artist, and for the other third, an inventive aristocrat. He has enjoyed success in his work, regardless of which category he is put under, because what he creates is not only exceptional on a technical level, it is also imaginative, confrontational, and critical of society and unexpected at the same time.

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In particular, his 2008 work, “Fulgurator”, has made its way through the blogging circuit. He calls this work his “apparatus for a minimally invasive manipulation of photography”. This pistol-like device is like a reversely functioning camera which operates via a kind of reactive flash projection that enables an image to be projected on an object exactly at the moment when someone else is photographing it. During Barack Obama’s international election campaign appearance at the Berlin Siegessäule, he used the device to project a bright cross on the lectern, which appears in all other photographs taken of it at the same time. He also used it to project the image of a dove, a symbol of peace, onto Tiananmen Square (Gate of Heavenly Peace), which would then appear in other’s photos of the portrait of Mao. In 2008, von Bismarck received the Ars Electronica award for interactive art for the Fulgurator. more »