24th March 21:30 visual performance with the experimental ambient project No Accident in Paradise at Timewarp festival in an Art Nouveau swimming hall in Mannheim (DE).
My curated screening Dreaming with Open Eyes is shown at the Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart (DE) on 16th March 20:00 with a slightly changed program showing the latest film by Yves Netzhammer. Free entry! 17th March Workshop and Screening at the Freie Kunstakademie Nürtingen (DE) as a part of the project V-SHARING - New tendencies in Video Art.
I'm doing an experimental a/v performance with Sam Shackleton at Anima Festival Brussels on Feb 14th around 10:30pm, just before I'm doing a retrospective screening of my work at 8:30pm.The whole night is presented by the label meakusma.
Art Center Nabi published a calendar featuring pictures by Minha Yang, Takagi Msaskatsu and myself. Enjoy 2010!
As a little Christmas gift I make _grau publically available for the first time in HD on Vimeo! It's 5 years after it's finishing as my Bauhaus diploma... the HD version has only be shown at museums and galleries before, so please enjoy... have great winter holidays and a wonderful 2010!
_grau is featured in the german book Generative Gestaltung about generative art and design compiled by Hartmut Bohnacker, Benedikt Groß, Julia Laub & Claudius Lazzeroni and published by Schmidt Hermann Verlag. Beautiful artist portfolios are followed by the description of the process on almost 500 pages.
_grau is screened today in the Brainfeeder sessions at Institute for Cinema Studies, Los Angeles, USA.
I curated the screening Dreaming with Open Eyes presented in South Korea at COMO (SKT-Tower, Seoul) and Open Theatre (Tomorrow City Echo Plaza, Incheon) organized by art center nabi, SK Telecom and Goethe-Institute Seoul. // Artists: Julian Rosefeldt, Yves Netzhammer, Carsten Nicolai, Bjørn Melhus, Zeitguised, Philipp Hirsch, David OReilly, Max Hattler, Volker Schreiner, Daniel Burkhardt, Christiane Wöhler, Julia Oschatz, Thorsten Fleisch, Astrid Rieger, Niklas Goldbach, Barbara Hlali, Timo Katz, Robert Seidel and Jan Verbeek. // The programme “Dreaming with Open Eyes” shows 19 different positions of artists mostly working in Germany. Their short films are little poems with a dream-like quality that is freed from our everyday life. They are arranged like the stages of an ambivalent dream: oscillating between an infantile playfulness, the strength of a heterotopic, repetitive architecture, dreamscapes embedded in a romanticized nature or nightmarish states showing the collapse of humanity and science. And each of these very unique moments holds the promise to be watched again, while a dream is lost in its pure linearity after we wake up...
I'm included in current issue of IdN v16n4 magazine's special feature "Let there be light!" about artists working with light as an material. The comprehensive feature includes artists like UVA, Jennifer Steinkamp, Patrick Rochon and Stefan Mylleager. It's a 3 page interview as well as a dvd feature, overall a great issue!
Futures is screened on 3rd Nov in Lichtspiel: Contemporary Abstract Animation and Visual Music at Calarts Theatre and was mentioned by musician Mathias Kaden as one his favorite videos of all time in the Clip Special of Intro Magazine.
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