Robert Seidel (1977) began studying biology at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and finished his media design diploma at the Bauhaus University (Weimar, Germany). His films have been shown in a museal context at ZKM (Karlsruhe, Germany, “Art_Clips .ch.at.de”), Wilhelm-Hack Museum (Ludwigshafen, Germany, “Abstract Art Now - Floating Forms”) and Royal Museum of Fine Arts (Antwerp, Belgium, “GORGE(L) - Opression and Relief in Art”) as well as over 250 festivals (Prix Ars Electronica, onedotzero, DOTMOV, IFF Rotterdam, EMAF), galleries, magazines, books and TV programmes worldwide. They have been honoured with several prices like an Honorary Award of KunstFilmBiennale (Cologne, Germany) and the Prize for Best Experimental Film at Ottawa International Animation Festival (Ottawa, Canada).

In his films Seidel is interested in pushing the boundaries of organic beauty and their emotional perception with visual and scientific technology. By layering different structural, spatial and temporal concepts organically he creates a slowly evolving complexity. This multifaceted perspective, a kind of narrational skeleton is filled by the viewers own memory and creates a seamless blend with the artwork itself.

Recently he began to expand his experimental films to an architectural canvas. As one example he turned a natural history museum (Phyletic Museum, Jena, Germany) into a “breathing creature” with a combination of full façade film projection, synched light choreography and a dramatic soundtrack or created a gigantic virtual sculpture (100x125x80 meters) for the Art Center Nabi (Seoul, South Korea). Besides his personal art he works as a director, curator and journalist with clients like Universal Everything, Goethe Institute, Channel Five, Atlantic Records, IdN, Mutabor, Sleek, ARTE/ZDF, Digital Production and Addison-Wesley. For his Zero 7 music video he was chosen as one of „30 directors to watch“ by Canada's leading commercial production magazine 'boards.