Diploma / Final exams
September 9th until 11th, 2013
Max Spielmann invited me to chair the diploma jury at the Academy of Art and Design in Basel. 20 students graduated in Postindustrial Design at one of their institutes called HyperWerk. At HyperWerk the students are trained in complex process design to initiate and shape the social changes of the future.
Motion design as a cooperative strategy of communication
May 8th, 2013
Gave my talk Motion design as a cooperative strategy of communication as part of the annual Highlights at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy. I showed a compilation of the best works from the last two terms by students from the Motion Design program, as well as three experimental videos from the Visual Music workshop, which composer Prof. Matthias Raue and I host twice a year.
Been charing the Motion Design post-graduate program with Prof. Manfred Becker since 1998. This program is unique to German Film Schools.
Video Games in Live Performance
November 17th, 2012
theater-51grad dedicated a day to Video Games in Live Performance at the Globalize:Cologne:Theories 2012 festival. Amongst others, Victor Morales (Caracas/Berlin) held his Inside The Machine workshop, and showed his video game lecture, The Blurry Line And Other Divagations.
I was invited to discuss video games as an artistic medium in the performing arts, and the interplay of virtual and real-time reality with Victor Morales and Barbara Kuon, academic faculty member for Media Philosophy at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, right after Victor's lecture.
Listening with eyes, seeing with ears
July 24th and 25th, 2012
In 2012 three performing arts institutions – O Espaco do tempo, Theatre des Bernardines and tanzhaus nrw – cooperated under the title TRYANGLE – Performing Arts Research Laboratories to develop three multidisciplinary experimental laboratories. Each lab had 20 selected artists from various disciplines. This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.
tanzhaus nrw invited me as a so called zap visitor. During the two days, I supervised the projects of the international artists through observation and with feedback. In my keynote presentation Listening with eyes, seeing with ears on July 25th I spoke about Visual Music.
Radical Thinking – Are we still doing the right thing?
June 21st, 2012
The Creativity & Business Convention (C'n'B) hosted the Radical Thinking – Are we still doing the right thing? panel in the Chamber of Industry and Commerce Cologne. Christian Boros, cluster manager at CREATIVE.NRW, Daniel Hug, director of ART COLOGNE, Katja Kullmann, a freelance author and journalist, and me discussed Radical Thinking.
My perspective for this panel emerged from the inspiring essay collection in Christoph Menke and Juliane Rebentisch's book Kreation und Depression – Freiheit im gegenwärtigen Kapitalismus.
Photo by Jens Willebrand.
Hear with your eyes, see with your ears
April 4th, 2012
Prof. Thomas Leander, prorector at the Robert Schumann Muisc Academy, and I were invited by Kunstsammlung Nordhrein-Westfalen curators, Dr Maria Müller-Schareck and Angela Wenzel. Both joined our panel to discuss the topic, Hear with your eyes, see with your ears.
The KPMG-Kunstabend at the wonderful museum K20 – Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen was an opportunity to demonstrate that music and fine arts belong together. With his idea in kind Thomas Leander, and me talked about selected pieces from their exhibition Fresh Window. Images of Windows since Matisse and Duchamp.
The 100 paintings, drawings, objects, sculptures, photographs, and projections featured in the exhibition Fresh Widow. The Window in Art since Matisse and Duchamp exemplifyed the astonishing variety and diversity of the pictorial models proposed between 1912 and the present. The presentation strikingly documented the use to which these artists put their new-won freedom.
On the Alliance of Sound and Visuals
September 12th, 2011
Daniel Späti invited me to give a talk on the relationship between sound and images at the design department of Zurich University of the Arts as part of his Image vs. Sound class. In my lecture, I used many examples from experimental film, music videos, and motion design to argue that the highest quality in audiovisual productions is only achieved if sound and motion designers work together in constant communication and exchange.
Daniel Späti also asked me to introduce my online archive for Visual Music to the students.
C'n'B Campus Award
June 22nd until 26th, 2011
C'n'B Campus 2011 presented outstanding projects out of academia's melting pots in Germany. The C'n'B Campus Award was not only a prize for the best works in the creative industries but also gave students the opportunity to present it to a relevant audience of experts.
The C'n'B – Creativity & Business Convention as part of the c/o pop in Cologne was a forum where decision-makers, thinkers, and generators from the creative industries' entertainment sectors met.
In 2011 I served for the second time as a jury member for their C'n'B Campus Award 2011.
FullDome-Festival in Jena
May 12th until 14th, 2011
Micky Remann invited me to participate in the VisualLiszt Award jury alongside Dr. Nick Lambert, Prof. Dr. Tiago de Oliveira Pinto, Julia Lucas M.A. and Eno Henze. The jury chose the winners of the VisuaLiszt and Fulldome-Awards in the 2011 FullDome-Festival.
The 5th FullDome-Festival gave insights into the world of immersive fulldome projections and mapped current developments in this young medium. Initially featuring mostly student productions, the festival soon evolved into a meeting place for the international fulldome-scene.
A Perfect Match? On the Alliance of Sound and Visuals
January 21st, 2011
Henrike Kollmar invited me to give a talk on the relationship between the audio and the visual in Studio 6 of the tanzhaus nrw. The lecture is part of the conference Change of mind. Transformation of the perception in dance and media within the context of their festival Temps d'Images.
In collaboration with the Institute for Culture and Media at Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, tanzhaus nrw encourages the combination of the art and academia. Talks, lecture performances, and panels contribute to illuminating various strategies and processes of transforming perception.