In the dialogue of human and nonhuman existences in the “Art System” and in the “Everything-Else System,” as Hörner/Antlfinger call it, these artists, who have been collaborating since the 1990s, explore politically explosive themes and develop critical perspectives on the present. The political and the utopia of human being, animal, and machine interacting with equal rights is a recurring theme in their works.

Ute Hörner (b. 1964, studied sculpture at the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Stuttgart and completed a postgraduate study in media art at the KHM in Cologne, then taught media at the HKD in Halle from 1998 to 2008. Mathias Antlfinger (b. 1960, studied sculpture, mathematics, and cybernetics at the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Stuttgart and at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf) and was an artistic-scholarly association at the HKD in Halle from 2000 to 2006. Since 2009 they have a joint professorship in transmedial spaces at the KHM in Cologne.