Kurt Hentschläger

CV

Born , . Currently lives and works in Chicago.

Studies at the University of Applied Arts,

1984-1989: Machines sculptures, Experimental Film & Video, 2D computer animation

1989-1992: Cofounder of “Pyramedia”, Viennese Media Art Collective. Experimental Video.

1993-2003: Granular-Synthesis – Performances and Installations, with Ulf Langheinrich

2003- Audiovisual Performances-, Immersive Installations- & Public Projects

Selected presentations - Kurt Hentschläger

2010

ZEE & CLUSTER WAVE Exhibition / INDAF, ZEE FILE Festival, Sao Paulo CLUSTER NEMO Festival, ZEE “dynamic (in)position”, LABORATORIO ARTE ALAMEDA, VIEW Tom Bradley International Terminal Public Art project @ the Los Angeles Airport

QWARTZ Electronic Music Award, Paris FILE PRIX LUX Award, Sao Paulo

2009

FEED Festival de OTONO, ZEE FUTUREPERFECT, New FEED TODAY’S ART, Den Haag FEED TRANSART, Bolzano SCAPE PA ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS Museum, Philadelphia FEED FIGUREN THEATER Festival, Erlangen ZEE STRP, Eindhoven FEED ELEKTRA Festival

2008

KARMA/X LES IMAGES DES NUIT - Le Grand Palais, Paris ZEE / RANGE WOOD STREET Galleries, Pittsburgh KARMA / cell SYNTHETIC TIMES, National Art Museum of , ZEE TIEFENRAUSCH, OK-Center, Linz FEED ELEKTRA Festival Montreal SCAPE SONIC ACTS XII - The Cinematic Experience, FEED NEW TERRITORIES, New Moves Int., FEED Festival MOIS MULTI 9, Québec

2007

FEED STRP Festival Eindhoven KARMA / live NIME conference, New York KARMA / live DIAPOSON, New York KARMA / cell BODY MEDIA, O Art Center, FEED HAPPY NEW EARS Festival / Budakunstencentrum Kortrijk FEED Festival Linz FEED SONAR Festival FEED ELEKTRA Festival Montreal

2006

FEED EMPAC RPI Troy, NY "N" Temps d'Images - Tanzhaus Düsseldorf (Collaboration with Ballet Preljocaj) FEED IMPAKT Festival, Utrecht KARMA / cell PANORAMA, Le Fresnoy – Tourcoing FEED EXIT Festival – Paris FEED VIA Festival – Maubeuge KARMA SWITCHING WORLDS: Desires and Identities / ACF – New York "N" NEW NATIONAL THEATER (Collaboration with Ballet Preljocaj) FEED NETMAGE 06 Festival –

Visiting Professor at Le Fresnoy – Studio National Des Arts Contemporain

2005

FEED THEATRE BIENNIAL – Venice KARMA DIGITAL PARADISE - Municipial Museum, Daejon Korea “N” Theatre du Chatelet, Paris (Collaboration with Ballet Preljocaj) “N” LEIPZIG OPER, Leipzig (Collaboration with Ballet Preljocaj)

Visiting Professor at Le Fresnoy – Studio National Des Arts Contemporain

2004

KARMA / Cave ARS ELECTRONICA Festival – Linz “N” THEATRE DE CHAILLOT, Paris (Collaboration with Ballet Preljocaj) “N” MONTPELLIER DANSE, Montpellier (Collaboration with Ballet Preljocaj) “N” DANSE A AIX Festival, Aix en Provence (Collaboration with Ballet Preljocaj)

2003

NATURE04 2004, European Cultural Capital, public project

Selected presentations – Kurt Hentschläger / “Granular-Synthesis”

2010

MODELL5 - install MATIÈRE-LUMIÈRE, Borusan Müzik Evi, POL MAPPING Festival, AREAL FABBRICA EUROPA 2010 - XVII Edition ,

2009

POL – install LE VOLCAN, Le Havre GS-Retrospektive STRP, Eindhoven FELD “SOUNDS AND VISIONS”, Museum of Art, Tel Aviv

2008

POL ROMA EUROPA Festival, POL - install ELANDSCAPES / Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai MODELL 5 - install LES VOIX MAGNETIQUES / Tri Postal, Lille MODELL 5 - install FILM Festival, V2, Rotterdam

2007

MODELL 5 BODY MEDIA, O Art Center, Shanghai AREAL IBOS TARBES, Tarbes

2006

LUX What Sound Does a Color Make? Center for Art and Visual Culture, Baltimore FELD CODE BLUE, Millenium Museum Beijing SWEETHEART 40 JAHREVIDEOKUNST DEUTSCHLAND / ZKM – Kunsthalle, MODELL 5 SLOWTECH, MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART - Taipei MODELL 5 VEO, Escena Oberta Festival / Greenspace – Valencia AREAL SONIC ACTS / Paradiso – Amsterdam

2005

AREAL ALEXANDER KASSER Theatre, Montclair FELD CIRCULO DE BELLAS ARTES, Santa Cruz de FELD GABINETE LITERARIO, de Gran Canaria AREAL DISSONANZE Festival, Rome LUX WHAT COLOR DOES A SOUND MAKE / Eyebeam – New York

2004

LUX Z33, Hasselt AREALight EXIT Festival, Creteil, Paris LUX Arborescence Festival, Aix en Provence MODELL5 ACMI, Australien Center for the Moving Image, Melbourne FORM ACMI, Australien Center for the Moving Image, Melbourne

2003

LUX GALLERIA LIA RUMMA, Milano SINKEN ACF - Austrian Cultural Forum, New York <360.2> ELEKTRA Festival, Montreal LUX LABORATORIO ALAMEDA, Mexico City LUX IEAR, RPI Troy AREAL D-Motion,

2002

FELD MUSICA PER GLI OCCHI, Bolzano WIDE TRANSFORMING MODERNITY, ACF New York MODELL5 SCHIRN KUNST HALLE, am Main <360> VILLETTE NUMERIQUE, Paris FELD 2002 MEDIA ART / Special Effects, Municipal Museum, Daejon Korea AREAL FORMAT 2000/Brugge 2002, Brugge MINUS WIEN MODERN Festival, Vienna AREAL Festspielhaus Hellerau,

2001

RESET AUSTRIAN PAVILION, 49th BIENNIAL, Venice MODELL5 ARENA, Center for Contemporary Music, Dresden MODELL5 Göteborg ART SOUNDS, Göteborg

2000

NOISEGATE MUSIQUES EN SCÈNE / MUSÉE D'ART CONTEMPORAIN, AREAL MUSIQUES EN SCÈNE / MUSÉE D'ART CONTEMPORAIN, Lyon POL EXIT Festival, Créteil POL VIA Festival – Maubeuge NOISEGATE CREATIVE TIME Inc / In the Anchorage, New York NOISEGATE NATIONAL MUSEUM FOR PHOTO FILM & TV, Bradford MODELL 5 ELEKTRA Festival, Montreal AREAL ELEKTRA Festival, Montreal FELD WOOD STREET Galleries, Pittsburg POL MUFFATHALLE, München POL WIEN MODERN Festival, Vienna POL NETMAGE Festival, Bologna FORM PS1-Clocktower, New York FELD OK Center, Linz

1999

PS1 Grant PS1, New York MODELL 5.7 ATONAL Festival, NOISEGATE KUNSTVEREIN Hannover SINKEN VIA Festival, Maubeuge (with Art Zoyd and Lille National Orchestra) SINKEN LE NOUVEAU SIÈCLE, Lille (with Art Zoyd and Lille National Orchestra) NOISEGATE MUSÉE D’ART CONTEMPORAIN, Montréal MODELL 5 install FACE TO FACE – FONDATION BEYELER, SINKEN PALACIO DE BELLA ARTES, Mexico City (with Art Zoyd and Mexico National Orchestra) SINKEN DONAU Festival, St Pölten (with Art Zoyd and Niederösterreichisches Tonkünstlerorchester) POL 2.0 ZEITFLUSS / Festival, Salzburg FORMEN ZÜRCHER THEATER SPEKTAKEL, FORMEN FESTIVAL D'AUTOMNE À PARIS, Créteil FORM RECOMBINANT / Ars Electronica Festival, Linz POL 2.0 TAKTLOS Festival, POL 2.0 ELEKTRA Festival, Montréal

Austrian Federal Grant for Fine Arts

1998

NOISEGATE Premiere - MAK, Vienna NOISEGATE MARSTALL, MODELL 5.7 RECOMBINANT, Miami NOISEGATE EXIT Festival, Créteil NOISEGATE VIA Festival, Maubeuge NOISEGATE TRANSPENNINE, Hull AREAL V VERGESSEN, St. Veit MODELL 5.7 DIVE INTO THE FUTURE – LISBOA’98, POL ISEA 98, POL ARS ELECTRONICA Festival, Linz NOISEGATE STEDELIJK Museum / De Ijsbreker, Amsterdam POL ROOT 98, Hull POL ZKM, Karlsruhe MODELL 5 MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, Seoul

1997

MODELL 5.7 DE IJSBREKER, Amsterdam MODELL 5.7 ACREQ, Montréal SWEET HEART KUNSTSTÜCKE ORF, Austria X–TENDED THRILL ICC, Tokyo AREAL A STEIRISCHER HERBST,

1996

MODELL 5.6 THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT, MODELL 5.6 VISAS Festival, Maubeuge MODELL 5.6 EXIT Festival, Créteil MODELL 5.6 ELEKTRA, MODELL 5.6 MARSTALL, Munich MODELL 5.7 38èmes RUGISSANTS, Grenoble MODELL 5.7 RECOMBINANT, Los Angeles, San Francisco

1995

MODELL 5.1 SKUC, MODELL 5.2 MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna MODELL 5.3 SPRING PROJECT, Vienna MODELL 5.4 ARTEC 95 – City Museum, MODELL 5.3 KLANGART, Osnabrück MODELL 5.5 ARS ELECTRONICA, Linz MODELL 5.5 KUNSTVEREIN Hannover MODELL 5.5 ISEA 95, Montréal MODELL 5.5 MANCA Festival, Nice MODELL 5.5 DEAF 95, Rotterdam

GRAND PRIX Open Competition ARTEC 1995

1994

MODELL 3.2 FUTUR ANTÉRIEUR, Nancy MODELL 5 ICA, MODELL 5 ROOT 95, Hull

1993

MODELL 4.1 WRO 93, Wroclaw MODELL 3.1 AUSTRIAN AVANT GARDE, Antwerpen MODELL 3.1 LES HALLES, Bruxelles MODELL 3.2 AVE Festival, Arnheim MODELL 4.2 DIAGONALE, Salzburg

Austrian furtherance prize for new media art

1992

MODELL 3.0 TANZSPRACHE, Vienna MODELL 4.0 MEDIENBIENNALE, Leipzig MODELL 3.1 ZEITSCHNITT, Vienna MODELL 3.1 TRANSIT / ORF,

DVDs

GRANULAR SYNTHESIS – IMMERSIVE WORKS A DVD compilation containing extracts and documentation of Granular Synthesis’ work over ten years. Publication: ZKM Karlsruhe / Distribution: CANTZ

INDEX 003 / GRANULAR SYNTHESIS – REMIXES FOR SINGLE SCREEN 3rd volume of a collection of 15 DVDs, presenting major contemporary Austrian film and video artists. It includes RESET, 2001, 25 min, and MODELL 5, 1994, 30 min Publication and distribution: ARGE INDEX (Medienwerkstatt Wien & Sixpackfilm)