For my upcoming performance with Heiko Tippelt at NOVA Festival Sao Paulo I did an interview for Catarina Magazine and from the exhibition in MOCA Taipai here is an audio streamed interview with Max Hattler and myself for Radio Taiwan International. Details on Brazil and MOCA artwork will follow soon...
MOCA Taipei was great, thanks to everyone involved! I'll upload a extensive documentation when I'm back in Germany. Currently I'm in Hong Kong taking a look at an almost finished commission, hope I can share this soon as well...
On 15th June MOCA Taipei (Taiwan) opens the exhibition Tripolar - 3 Positions in German Video Art (Robert Seidel, Max Hattler and Daniel Burkhardt) where I present my new work chiral and the screening "Dreaming with Open Eyes" based on the work of 19 video artists... Artist talks will happen on 12th June at Kaohsiung Fine Arts Museum and on the 19th at MOCA. Goethe Institute Taipei made the overall project possible and will present a Retrospective screening of our works. I'm very excited!
Just released the trailer to my new film floating... I joined forces with composer Heiko Tippelt several years after _grau... hope this will be finished by the end of the year!
_grau and other experimental films are presented with a new live score in the shortfilmlivemusic project "reconstructing Mahler - a vision's gleaming sounds" in Dresden (DE) on 19th, Temeswar (Romania) on 21st and Debrecen (Hungary) on 22nd April.
New Album artwork for the American band Passion Pit. They re-release their award winning album Manners as a Deluxe Edition on April 13th 2010 on Columbia. It additionally includes bonus tracks and overall is a great indie pop record!
My work is featured in the book Animation in Process by Andrew Selby and published by Laurence King. Great list of artist and insights into their work plus movies on DVD...
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.
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