Joachim Sauter / ART+COM (Germany)
Professional Speakers
After completing his MA at the academy of fine arts in Berlin Joachim Sauter studied at the 'German Academy for Film and Television', Berlin.
Since the early 1980s, he has been working as a media artist and designer. From the beginning, Joachim Sauter has focussed on digital technogies and is experimenting how they can be used to express content, form, and narration. Fuelled by this interest, he founded ART+COM in 1988 together with other artists, designers, scientists, and technologists. Their goal was to practically research this new up-and-coming medium in the realm of art and design. Until now, he is working in this interdisciplinary environment.
In the course of his work he was invited to participate on many exhibitions. Beside others, he showed his work at 'Centre Pompidou' Paris, 'Stejdilik Museum' Amsterdam, 'Museum for Contemporary Art' Sidney, 'Deichtorhallen Hamburg' , 'Venice Biennial', 'ICC' Tokyo, 'Getty Center' Los Angeles, 'ZKM' Karlsruhe.
He received several awards like the 'Ars Electronica Interactive Award', the 'Los Angeles Interactive Media Award', the 'Prix Pixel INA', the 'British Academy for Film and Television Interactive Award', and many international and geman Design Awards'. Since 1991 he is full professor for "New Media Art and Design" at the 'University of the Arts' Berlin and since 2001 adjunct professor at UCLA, Los Angeles.
Since the early 1980s, he has been working as a media artist and designer. From the beginning, Joachim Sauter has focussed on digital technogies and is experimenting how they can be used to express content, form, and narration. Fuelled by this interest, he founded ART+COM in 1988 together with other artists, designers, scientists, and technologists. Their goal was to practically research this new up-and-coming medium in the realm of art and design. Until now, he is working in this interdisciplinary environment.
In the course of his work he was invited to participate on many exhibitions. Beside others, he showed his work at 'Centre Pompidou' Paris, 'Stejdilik Museum' Amsterdam, 'Museum for Contemporary Art' Sidney, 'Deichtorhallen Hamburg' , 'Venice Biennial', 'ICC' Tokyo, 'Getty Center' Los Angeles, 'ZKM' Karlsruhe.
He received several awards like the 'Ars Electronica Interactive Award', the 'Los Angeles Interactive Media Award', the 'Prix Pixel INA', the 'British Academy for Film and Television Interactive Award', and many international and geman Design Awards'. Since 1991 he is full professor for "New Media Art and Design" at the 'University of the Arts' Berlin and since 2001 adjunct professor at UCLA, Los Angeles.
New Media in Space
As a reaction to the big hype of the virtual communication spaces in the internet the physical space became more and more important. In todays design of these physical narrative spaces (exhibition, brand-spaces, even parts of the public space) new media plays a big role. what are the design-approaches and strategies to translate information and stories into spacial experience. How does the latest technology influences spacial narration. How did visitors change in behavior and expectation?
