1960  Born in Marktleugast, Germany     
lives and works in Berlin since 1980

1978-1984 Study »Visual Communication« in Würzburg, Germany.
1980 Stayed in Italy/ worked as assistant at »Arte Povera« studios.
Since 1981 Has been working with photography, new and old media at the interface
between human and mechanical perception.
1989 &1991  Participating at the Bienal of Sao Paulo, Brasil.
1996 »Artist in Residence« at Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco
1996 Awarded TV-production  »Der Schatten­bild­ner« together with Ayse Buchara.
1999-2000  CD-Rom »interzone« (editor). An exploration of the entire ‘death strip‘
between the two Berlin Walls.
2001 ex machina - About the Disolving of Photography, NGBK Berlin (co-curator)
2004 Nomination, International Media Art Award 2004 for Turing Tables, ZKM-Karlsruhe, Germany
2001/2003 Visiting Faculty, Ohio State University - Department of Art, USA
2003 Visiting Faculty (Media Science), University of Paderborn, Germany
2006 Visiting Artist, University of Michigan - School of Art & Design, USA
2006-2007  Fellowship at Kuenstlerdorf Schoeppingen, Germany [link]
2007 Visiting Faculty, University of Michigan - School of Art & Design, USA [link]
2008 Visiting Artist, Auckland University of Technology - School of Art & Design, New Zealand

Exhibitions/Projects (selection 1998-2009); IE=individual exhibitions/projects

2009 Ecomedia - Ecological Strategies in Art Today, Sala Parpalló, Valencia, Spain
SOS- Strategies of Survival, ConcentArt, Berlin

2008 Oekomedien|Ecomedia, plugin, Basel, Switzerland
IAFF Film Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Der durchsichtige Mensch, RNZ Nuremberg, Germany  (IA)

2007 Oekomedien|Ecomedia, Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, Germany
Thinking Detroit, with University of Michigan - School of Art & Design, USA (IE)
Strictly Berlin, Galerie der Künste, Berlin, D
Lost Places, Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, Germany  (IE)

2006 Turing Tables, Exploratorium, San Francisco, USA  (IE)
Liquid Matter, Kunstraum Kreuzberg     (Bethanien), Berlin, Germany
Strictly Berlin, Galerie der Kuenste, Berlin, Germany
Turing Tables, Nomination Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
    
2005 communication in evolution, Media Lab Madrid, Spain
Salztangente (Salt Axis), Sculpture Biennial Muensterland, Germany
communication in evolution, Centro Digital, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

2004 inVISIBLE art_science, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
Turing Tables, Galerie Schueppenhauer, Cologne, Germany  (IE)
interface black box : white cube, garage 8, Stralsund, Germany

2003 Observatori, Museo de las Ciencias Principe Felipe, Valencia, Spain
Viper Mediafestival, Basel, Switzerland
Arco Madrid, Spain (Galerie Schüppenhauer), Turing Tables (jury selection)  (IE)
HyperKult 12, University of Lüneburg, Germany
Hopkins Hall Gallery, OSU, Columbus, OH, USA

2002 Der Berg, Kunstverein Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Art Frankfurt, (Galerie Schüppenhauer)
InsideOut, Festival for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
HyperKult 11, University of Lüneburg, Germany

2001 Grenzpassagen, Kunstverein Frankfurt/Oder, Germany   (IE)
European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany
Art Santa Fe, USA (Galerie Schüppenhauer)
Interzone, Artstudio - Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia  (IE);
Korrespondenzen, ifa-Galleries in Berlin, Bonn, Stuttgart (Germany)
Hopkins Hall Gallery, OSU, Columbus, Ohio, USA
Vous sortez du secteur, Kunstverein Cologne, Germany (with Pierre Granoux)  (IE)

2000 The World is Flat, Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne, Germany  (IE)
interzone, Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben, Berlin, Germany  (IE)

1999 Artline Borken, Europe Insight, Borken, Germany    
Paintings Now, Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne, Germany

1998 Military Eyes, Goethe-Institute, Warsaw, Poland  (IE)
Transmediale, Podewil, Berlin, Germany
Military Eyes, Galerie Wolf, Berlin, Germany  (IE)
Mediascape 6, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia

 

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