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Denim de Lux

AR · VR · Stitched Canvases · Vienna 2026

STATION ROSE — Denim de Lux 2026
Denim de Lux · 2026
Elisa Rose & Gary Danner — Photo Stefan Joham
Elisa Rose & Gary Danner · Photo: Stefan Joham
STATION ROSE — 12th Century Chapel, Weinviertel
12th Century Chapel · Weinviertel · Atelier
Generative Art · Live
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3D Sculpture · Box 01
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1988 / 2026
Generative Art — Fullscreen 1988 / 2026 3D Sculpture — Fullscreen Box 01
Denim de Lux — Installation view
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Stitched Canvases

Installation View · 2026

AR Interaction
AR · Artivive

Augmented Reality Layer

Via Artivive · 2026

Black Denim Canvas
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Black Denim Canvas

Computer Embroidery · 2026

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Where it began

The First
Website.
1995.

STATION ROSE launched one of the first art websites in existence — hosted on The WELL, San Francisco. Gunafa became a landmark of early net art.

Prix Ars Electronica Honorable Mention, 1995 — WWW category, juried by Joichi Ito.

↗ Visit Gunafa on The WELL · 1995
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STATION ROSE — Gunafa Website 1995
↗ Open Gunafa · The WELL
Document: Done The WELL · San Francisco · 1995

A Cultural
Storage
Medium

12th Century

Chapel, Weinviertel — base for many works since 2025

1982–86

Fashion-music performances with Gary Danner / Die Nervösen Vögel

1988

STATION ROSE founded, Vienna

1991

Gunafa Clubbing — early net art on The WELL, San Francisco

1995

Prix Ars Electronica Honorable Mention — WWW category

2026

Denim de Lux — with archive, with body, with code

Blue Denim is not a neutral material. It is a cultural storage medium — inscribed with layers of meaning accumulated over decades. Roland Barthes would have read it as myth in the double sense: an apparently simple, "natural" fabric that is in reality highly culturally charged.

Denim codes freedom and control simultaneously. Produced through slave labour, toxic dyeing processes, and devastating water consumption — yet it stands for rebellion, democracy, the frontier. These contradictions are structural, woven into the fabric itself.

Denim de Lux is, in STATION ROSE's artistic practice, a Leitmotiv — a generative force that binds image, sound, material, and space into a single creative act. All works emerged from one place: a 12th-century chapel in the Weinviertel, where medieval stone walls and computer-driven embroidery machine share the same room.

What found no interest in 1983 returns today as a multi-dimensional artwork — with archive, with body, with code.