Curiculum Vitae

1952 born in Vienna
1958-62 Primary School in Vienna
1962-70 Gymnasium in Vienna
1970-79 studies of Architecture, TU Vienna, Dipl.Ing.
1980-83 member of Medienwerkstatt Wien - Videoworks
since 1983 member of the Artists group DER BLAUE KOMPRESSOR (DBK)
since 1985 works with Hanna Schimek (D&S)
since 1989 numerous filmworks
since 1996 member of SIXPACKFILM
since 2002 member of AFTER IMAGE PRODUCTIONS
since 2003 artistic director AEGINA ACADEMY (1)
2015-17 Guest Professor at the Art University of Linz, Time Based Media

Lives and workes in Vienna and Aegina

Main focus of artistic works

Filmworks on the phenomenology of the media film.
Concept, organisation und realisation of interdisciplinary Artprojects as an attempt to regain social effectiveness of Art
Artistic research works.
Art & Environment Projects, BuildingArt
Exhibitions and participations in exhibitions, nationally and internationally
Lectures and workshops.

Major works and projects, chronologically

1980-81
FILME AUS NIEDERÖSTERREICH, Video-project Gruppe Grund 100, 5 Videofilms (2)
1982
ASUMA - video with people with special needs, Capellen, Luxemburg (3)
1983-87
JARDIN DE WILTZ, concept and realisation of a public garden, in cooperation
with people with special needs, Wiltz / Luxemburg (4)
1985
SON ET LUMIERE / VIENNA - a landscape-, sound-, and light-spectacle (1)
1985-94
THE WATER-, THE PLANTS-, THE BORDERS OF THE DESERT, artistic research works in the Saharien oasis Figuig / Marokko, exhibitions in the oasis (1)
1985-86
TRAVEL ART - Archive Vienna, concept and realisation of an exhibition and event-series in Luftbad, Vienna (1)
1989
TRAVEL ART - Archive Frankfurt, concept and realisation of an exhibition and event-series in Frankfurt / Main (1)
1991
TRAVEL ART - Archive London, concept and realisation of an exhibition and event-series in London, in cooperation with: Battersea Arts Center, Watermans Arts Center, Chisenhale Gallery, London Filmmakers Cooperative (1)
WASCHEN UND BADEN - event-, and lecture-series in Vienna and Budapest, for the SARGFABRIK community in Vienna
1993
SON ET LUMIERE Frankfurt, an audio-, visual-, light-spectacle on the theme: Night/City/Day (1)
1995
TRAVEL ART - The Athens Conference, concept and realisation of an exhibition and event-series in cooperation with Goethe Institut and Fournos Theater / Athen (1)
POCKETCINEMA - contribution to 100 years of cinema, interactive film-project, tour in Austria
1996
POCKETCINEMA - Amerika-tour: Art Institute / San Francisco, Walter Read Cinema / New York, MIT / Boston, Art Gallery Windsor / Ontario
1997
KARAMUSTAFA IMPORT - EXPORT, Austrian-Turkish Art-exchange-project, in cooperation with Gülsün Karamustafa, exhibitions in Vienna, echoraum and Ethnography Museum, and in Istanbul in Kabataş Kültür Merkezi (1)
1998
FILM IST. 1-6, Tableaufilm on the phenomenology of the media film
ALPENGLÜHEN/ 10000 Watt - light-installation, 16.-27.8.1998, Bielerhöhe, Vlbg. (1)
1998-99
SIGNAL - Building/Art-projekt, tram-depot, Vienna (1)
1999
FOOD DESIGN - artistic concept guess club 2, Vienna (1)
ODYSSEY TODAY - INFORMATION CONTAINER, a public service in the context of the Festivals Bellouard / Bollwerk, Fribourg / Schwizzerland (1)
ODYSSEY TODAY-CDROM, multi-media-product of the long term project TRAVEL ART (1)
2001
FILM IST. 7-12, second part of the Tableaufilms on the phenomenology of the media film
2002
FILM IST. 1-12, 8 channel DVD installation in the context of the International Filmfestivals Rotterdam, and the Music Festival Wien Modern, Künstlerhaus, Wien
2003
FILM IST. 1-6, DVD Installation in the context of the exhibition "Remembrance and the Moving Image", in the Australien Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia
LIGHT I IMAGE I REALITY- THE AEGINA ACADEMY, concept, realisation and artistic director of a public forum for Art and Science, Aegina / Greece, in cooperation with After Image Productions (1)
CAMERA OBSCURA BUILDING - idea, concept and errection of a Camera Obscura building in Perdika / Aegina, in the context of the "Aegina Academy 2003" (6)
2004
LIGHT I IMAGE I REALITY - atlas, Lentos / Museum for contemporary Art, Linz (1)
FILM IST.Voice and Singing, 4 channel DVD installation, in the context of "Phonorama", ZKM / Center for Art-, and Media-technology, Karlsruhe
2005
WORLD MIRROR CINEMA, Episode 1-3, film on the relationship of cinema and reality.
LIGHT I IMAGE I ILLUSION - THE AEGINA ACADEMY, concept, realisation and artistic director of a forum for Art and Science, Aegina / Greece, in cooperation with After Image Productions (1)
LIGHT I IMAGE I ILLUSION - atlas / 26 Panoramas, Kunsthalle Wien / Projectspace
TATORT - MIGRATION 1-10, 10 channel DVD installation, in the context of "Projekt Migration", Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln
2006
FILM IST.1-6, single channel DVD installation, in the context of "Postmediale Kondition", Neue Galerie Graz / ARCO Madrid
TASCHENKINO, contribution to "Kino wie noch nie", Generali Foundation, Vienna
REFLECTIONS, multi-media solo-exhibition in the Galeria de Arte Cinemática Solar, Vila do Conde / Porto
FILM IST.1-12, 8 channel DVD installation, in the context of "That's Not Entertainment : el cinema respon al cinema", CCCB - Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Barcelona
2008
TATORT MIGRATION 1-10, 2 channel DVD installation, in the context of "Vertrautes Terrain - aktuelle Kunst in & über Deutschland", ZKM - Center for Art and Media Technology, Karlsruhe
CAFE MELANGE - a public service and a series of cultural events, in the context of the European Year of the intercultural dialogue
VISIONS OF REALITY - Wednesday, 28th of August 1957, 6 p.m, Pacific Palisades, multi media installation, in the context of "Edward Hopper and contemporary Art", Kunsthalle Wien
2009
FILM IST. a girl & a gun, film drama in 5 acts, third part of the series on the phenomenology of the media film
VISIONS OF REALITY - Wednesday 28th of August 1957, 6.p.m., Pacific Palisades, Teaser for the feature film
FILM.STADT.WIEN - a transdisciplinary exploration of Vienna as a cinematic city. Artistic partner of the research project, of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for History and Society (1)
VISIONS OF REALITY - Friday 29th of August 1952, 6.a.m., New York, multi media instellation in the context of "Edward Hopper", Palazzo Reale, Milano.
2010
FILM.STADT.WIEN - a transdisciplinary exploration of Vienna as a cinematic city. Artistic partner of the research project, of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for History and Society (1)
PRIVATE SANDNES. A KINEMATOGRAPHIC ATLAS
Single channel DVD Installation, in the context of the exhibition TIDSMASKINEN, en reise tilbake – til fremtiden, KINOKINO, Sandnes, Norway.
2011
SHIRLEY - Visions of Reality - script, storyboard and design of the sets (1)(6) of the fiction film.
2012
SHIRLEY - Visions of Reality - shooting, editing and finalization of the fiction film. 
2013
SHIRLEY - Visions of Reality - World Premiere at the Berlinale; Sold to 10 European Countries; International Festival Presentations; Multi Media Exhibition at Künstlerhaus Vienna and Stadtkino at Künstlerhaus (1).
MONDAY, AUGUST 28th 1939, NEW YORK, 10 p.m., Mikro-Kinoinstallation, als Teil von "FILM", Galeria de Arte Cinemática Solar, Vila do Conde
2014
SHIRLEY - Visions of Reality - Artist in residence stay in New York City, Präsentations in: Anthology Filmarchives NYC, Museum of The Moving Image NYC, Austrian Cultural Forum NYC, National Gallery, Washington DC.
HOME NEW HOME MOVIE (later HOW WE LIVE) Project developement
2015
HOME NEW HOME MOVIE (HOW WE LIVE), Research stays in Germany, the Netherlands und England. Writing of the script.
MODERATE PALETTE, Color concept for the Federal School Aspern Seestadt, Fasch & Fuchs Architects (1)
MONDAY, AUGUST 28th 1939, NEW YORK, 10 p.m., Micro-Cinema installation in teh context of "Whatsappropriation", VI Mostra 3M de Arte Digital, Fundicao Progresso, Rio de Janeiro
2016
HOW WE LIVE - Messages to the Family, production, image- and sound editing
SHIRLEY - Visions of Reality - US Tour, Princeton University NJ, Hamilton College NY, Binghamton University NY, Cornell University NY, Syracuse University NY
MONDAY, AUGUST 28th 1939, NEW YORK, 10 p.m., Micro-Cinema Installation, Künstlerhaus-Halle für Kunst und Medien, Graz
MODERATE PALETTE, Color concept for the Federal School Aspern Seestadt, Fasch & Fuchs Architects (1)
PERSPEKTIVS, Color concept for the School Campus with Boarding Home, Neustift in Stubaital, Fasch & Fuchs Architects (1)
NOT HOME_picturing the foreign, INDEX DVD, with: NOTES & SKETCHES I, 31 Pocket Films, 2010-15, ADRIA-Holiday Films 1956-68 and EYEWITNESSES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES
RESET THE APPARATUS_Performances (as part of the Artistic Research Project with the same name): Part 1 - THE IMAGE THROWERS (DIE BILDERWERFER) (1)
2017
HOW WE LIVE - Messages to the Family, Completition.
RESET THE APPARATUS_performances, part 2 - THE LIVING IMAGE AND THE BEE KEEPING (DAS LEBENDE BILD UND DIE BIENENZUCHT) (1)
PERSPEKTIVEN, color conzept for the Schulcampus mit Internat, Neustift im Stubaital, fasch&fuchs architects (1)
PLATO´S CAVE TIMES FIVE - treatment for a film projekct
AM RAND : DIE STADT - Vienna in private films, a project with the Austrian Film Museum (1)
2018
AM RAND : DIE STADT - Vienna in private films, a project with the Austrian Film Museum (1)
PLATO´S CAVE TIMES FIVE - script for a film projekt
THE CISTERN OF PHENAKIDES, 8-channel sound installation for TONSPUR_passage im Museumsquatier in Wien.
TRANSFORMATIONEN, color concept for the Wienerwaldgymnasium, Expositur Tullnerbach, BG / BRG Purkersdorf, fasch&fuchs architects (1)
KULTURGARAGE ASPERN SEESTADT, design for the fassade, fasch&fuchs architekten (1)
2019
AM RAND : DIE STADT 2 - Vienna in private films, a project with the Austrian Film Museum (1)
PLATO´S CAVE TIMES FIVE - finalisation of the script
TRANSFORMATIONEN, color concept for the Wienerwaldgymnasium, Expositur Tullnerbach, BG / BRG Purkersdorf, fasch&fuchs architects (1)

Lectures and workshops (selection):

2018 Jihlava Documentary Film Festival
2018 Austrian Film Museum
2017 Festival Du Nouveau Cinema, Montreal
2016 Princeton University, NJ; Hamilton College NY; Binghamton University NY; Cornell University NY; Syracuse University NY (1)
2014 Tampere, International Film Festival (1); Sofia International Film Festival; EYE Film Institute, Amsterdam (1); Austrian Cultural Forum NYC (1); Cinematheque Bruxelles; The Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK), Gent
2013 McGill University, Montreal (1); Bauhaus-University Weimar (1)
2012 Beaux Art, Paris; UQAM, Montreal
2011 Athens School of Fine Arts
2011 European School of Visual Arts, Angouleme/Poitiers
2010 Cineteca Nacional Mexico, Mexico City; The Getty, Los Angeles; Orphans 
         Film Symposium NYC (1)
2009 Österreichisches Filmmuseum, Vienna (1)
2008 Deutsche Kinemathek, Museum for Film and Television, Berlin
2007 Academy of Fine Arts Bergen, Bergen
2007 University of Brighton, Brighton
2006 Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Porto
2006 Hochschule für Gestaltung, Abteilung Film, Linz
2006 University of Binghamton, Departement for Film, New York
2006 Kunstakademie Helsinki, Helsinki
2005 Österreichisches Filmmuseum, Wien, Ringvorlesung Film und Gedächtnis
2004 Österreichisches Filmmuseum, Wien, Ringvorlesung Film und Material
2004 Tampere Filmschool, Finnland
2004 Österreichisches Filmmuseum, Wien, Symposium Visualisierung, IWK
2003 Nederlands Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, ARCHIMEDIA
2002 Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Wien, Symposium WIEN
        MODERN
2002 Österreichisches Filmmuseum, Wien, CINE DAYS
2002 Museo Reina Sophia, Madrid
2002 Shortfilmfestival Hamburg, Hamburg
2002 Diagonale, Festival des österreichischen Films, Graz
2000 Cinemateca Portuguesa, Lissabon, ARCHIMEDIA
2000 Bard College, New York, film department
2000 Athens School of fine Arts, digital media department
1999 University of Liege, Belgien, Liege, ARCHIMEDIA
1999 University of Nijmeegen, Netherlands, ARCHIMEDIA
1998 12th Rencontres Vidéo Art Plastique, Herouville Saint-Clair/Caen, France
1996 MIT Cambridge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology / Media Lab, Boston
1995 San Francisco Art Institute, Cinematheque

Prizes and rewards (selection):

2014 Best Sound (Christoph Amann), DIAGONALE, for SHIRLEY - Visions of
        Reality
2013 3 Austrian Film Prizes - Best Set Design (1); Best Cinematography (Jerzy
        Palacz); Best Costume Design (Julia Cepp); VIENNALE Mehrwert Filmpreis;
        all for SHIRLEY - Visions of Reality
2009 Honorable Mention, Viennale, for FILM IST. a girl & a gun
2005 Best Film, EXiS Mediafestival, Seoul, for WELT SPIEGEL KINO (1-3)
2003 Best Editing Award, Filmfestival Ann Arbor, for FILM IST.7-12
2002 Curators Award, Cinema Texas, for FILM IST.7-12
2000 Main Prize VIPER int.Festival, for ODYSSEY TODAY the CD-ROM, Basel(1)
2000 Main Prize, Filmfestival Ann Arbor, for FILM IST.1-6
2000 Silver Spire Award, Int. Filmfestival San Francisco, for FILM IST.1-6
1999 Honorary award for Film Art, BKA Austria
1999 Main Prize Mediacity Fimfestival, Windsor/Ontario for FILM IST.1-6
1997 Team Work Award / Stuttgarter Filmwinter, for MARIAGE BLANC (5)
1996 Preis Neues Kino/Viennale 96, for TASCHENKINO and FILM IST MEHR
        ALS FILM
1995 Anerkennungspreis des Landes Niederösterreich für künstlerischen Film
1994 Main Prize DOKUMENTART Neubrandenburg for AUGENZEUGEN DER
        FREMDE (5)
1992 Förderungspreis für Bildende Kunst, BMUK, for DIE KUNST DER REISE (1)
1984 Prize of the Belgium TV RTBF for ASUMA (3)

Together with:
(1) Hanna Schimek (2) Ernst Kopper (3) Gerda Lampalzer, Manfred Neuwirth (4) Der Blaue Kompressor (5) Mostafa Tabbou (6) Franz Berzl