Through my continous exploration of the experimental trick film I was induced to search for new working methods useable for films. Above all I concentrated upon finding different formal solutions and media that were new to me. Furthermore, I wanted to create animated images by a method that was to be faster and less time-consuming. Thus I discovered computer graphics as a wide field of experimentation, which has to be explored and that allows results completely new to me.

The specific capacities and programmes of the computer allow sensitive working and the creation of extremely fine drawings (Macintosh Drawing programmes, for instance). Through working with paint and drawing programmes I started experimenting above all with series and images that develop themselves, making new images and contexts.
Using the computer enlarges my formal thinking and has lead to a change in the composition of my imgagery.

My graphics treat - in a transforming manner - the cultivated nature as an aesthetical field, where to plan and render useful in favour of Man.
Controlling Nature through geometrization, abstraction and elimination of chaos in favour of a pictorial order that does not threaten any more, is somewhat irrequiescing. Wilderness has been lost, and domestication, landscape design takes its place. My works represent an abstract representation of the "tamed" plant, the withering of Nature to form a "romantic" landscape suited to temporal demands. Originality yields to efficient planning. The garden as an optimized area of consumption, parks as formerly exclusive, now mass-attracting luxury. (I. Hohenbüchler)

Technical background:

All three graphics were realized on an AMIGA 2000, with the use either of digitalized paintings by the artist or of illustrations that were further processed with the DeLuxe Paint Programme.

Irene Hohenbüchler, born 1964 in Vienna. Since 1984 studies at Applied Arts college in Vienna with Maria Lassnig. Between 1985 and 1986, Irene Hohenbüchler realized her first animation films “Muschel” and “Konphon”. In 1987 she went to Paris for two semesters and studied painting and computer arts at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Decoratifs (ENSAD). Irene Hohenbüchler participated at various festivals, e.g. Trick film festival Annecy, 1986. Filmtage Wels 1986, 1987. Israel Trick film festival 1987. Film festival in Clermont-Ferrand, 1988. Trick film festival in Stuttgart, 1987, 1988.
Exhibitions: Participation at the Exhibition “Junk” in St. Pölten, 1987. Group exhibition “Körperzeichen”, Galerie Luftbad, Vienna 1987. “Roosweltscher Garten”, Galerie Luftbad, Vienna 1988. “Orientalismus”, group exhibition, Galerie Mana, Vienna 1988.