The Industrial Revolution changed the face of the large metropolises radically. The impact of digitization is no less great. To an important extent computers and computer networks define the development of the urban landscape. Cities no longer exist in a physical sense alone, but also have a digital double. The city itself has become a mixture of physical and digital space. Michael Najjar visualizes this new, partly invisible landscape in NETROPOLIS (2003-2005) (photo and video). From various angles he made panoramas of cities such as Berlin, Paris and Tokyo and pasted these over each other. The result is a landscape of lines which can be read as a carpet of digital relations, under which the contours of the selected cities remain visible.

Michael Najjar (Germany, b. 1966) has lived and worked in metropolises such as Madrid, New York and Tokyo. His work has been purchased by various German museums.

The videos are made in collaboration with Dieter Jaufmann.