caspar stracke short biography Caspar Stracke is a filmmaker, visual artist and curator from Germany, living and working in New York City (since 1993) and Berlin (since 2017). His work is situated around the politics of architecture and urbanism, media archaeology and cinema. His films and installation work have been shown in numerous exhibitions in venues such as MoMA, The Whitney, New Museum, PS1, Anthology Film Archives, Yerba Buena Art Center, The Hammer Museum, the ZKM, Karlsruhe, ICC Tokyo, Museo Tamayo, Mexico among many others. He has also participated in festivals such as CPH:DOX, Oberhausen, EMAF, Ann Arbor and many others throughout North and South America, Europe and Asia. In 1999 he completed his first feature-length 35mm film CIRCLE'S SHORT CIRCUIT which toured throughout the US and Europe and was shown at MoMA and The Whitney Museum of American Art. He is the recipient of a Rockefeller Media Art fellowship and recently premiered a film project on the notion of time reversal in philosophy, science and cultural theory, featuring the philosopher Manuel De Landa, the nuclear scientist Mikhail Lukin and the gerontologist Michael West (among others). From 1999-2005 he was board member and curator at THE THING, a NY-based nexus for net-based art, culture and politics. From 2005-2013 he was the co- director of video_dumbo, an annual international exhibition/festival for contemporary moving image in NYC. In 2014 he co-curated the renowned Flaherty Film Seminar in Colgate, New York as well as a selection of the “Turning the Inside Out” screenings at MoMA New York, screening and discussing the oeuvre of Duncan Campbell, Hito Steyerl, Raqs Media Collective, Eric Baudelaire and others. From 2012 - 2017 Caspar Stracke was the professor for Contemporary Art and Moving Image at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, (Kuvataideakatemia) in Helsinki, Finland. In 2014 Stracke organized the symposium “The AfterGodard” on contemporary art practices influenced by the work of Jean-Luc Godard; and in 2015 the screening series “Unravelling Documentarism” on the shifting field of Contemporary Art Documentary. Stracke has published articles on filmmakers such as Bruce Conner, Elizabeth Subrin, Harun Farocki, Jeanne Finlay, Gabor Csazary, Ladislav Galeta and others. He is the editor of "Godard - Boomerang" the outcome publication of the 2014 symposium, and a forthcoming publication at the University of the Arts, Helsinki, 2018. caspar stracke curriculum vitae education 1986 -93 Academy of Fine Arts, Braunschweig, Germany, with HP Zimmer (painting) with Gerhard Büttenbender, Birgit Hein, HBK (Experimental Film and Video) 1989 BFA 1993 MFA 1994/95 New School for Social Research, New York DAAD fellowship professional affiliations since 2001 board member and curator at THE THING, Center for net culture, New York 2005 - 2012 Co-director of Video_Dumbo Festival, Brooklyn, New York editor and cameraman for German TV/ ZDF/3SAT in New York City office 2006/07 Instructor and course developer at SESSIONS.EDU, on-line Design University, New York 2007-08 Guest Prof. for Digital Imaging, Ulsan University, South Korea 2012-17 Professor for Contemporary Art and Moving Image, Finnish Academy of Fine Art, Helsinki 2012 - 16 Nordic Sound Arts Steering Group 2013 - 15 Expert Board Member, Pixelache Festival, Helsinki awards 2016 EMAP AWARD (for time/OUT OF JOINT) EWHA, Seoul 2013 EMARE MEX Commission at FACT, Liverpool, UK. 2008 Los Angeles Dept. of Cultural Affairs, LAX Airport, Commission 2004 Videoart Award of the City of Bremen (Germany) 2000 Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship 2000 1999 NY Bessie Award (with Benton Bainbridge) 1997 European Media Artist Residency, Hull Time Based Arts, UK 1995 Prize of the German Film Critics, Oberhausen Film Festival 1992 Golden Medal (Best Experimental Film) New York Film & Video Expo. 1993 DAAD fellowship New York 1991 GRUNDIG European sports video award Selected Exhibitions (**=solo exhibitions) 2019 Kunsverein Wolfenbüttel 2018 WHAT YOU IMAGED IT TO BE, Microscope Gallery NY** KONSUMVEREIN, Braunschweig** (forthcoming) 2017 WHAT YOU IMAGINED IT TO BE, WHS, Teatteri Union, Helsinki** 2016 A CINEMA THAT WAS NOT, Sinne Galleria, Helsinki** 2015 KIK 3 International. Gallery weekend, Berlin Net of Mirrors. Schafhof. München-Freising 2013 BANK, Shanghai curated by Mathieu Borysevicz Speculative Architecture Kaiku Gallery, Helsinki** 2011 Dear Thick and Thin. ME contemporary, Copenhagen LAX airport, Tom Bradley Int’ Terminal Lobby: video art commission 2010 MICROWAVE, Hong Kong NO DAMAGE, Gallery 210, St. Louis** CONTEMPORARY ART RUHR, (VIDEOSPACE BUDAPEST) Essen European Media Art Festival, Germany "BANDE", Space Bandee, Busan, Korea (with Eike and Jörn Zehe)** 2009 FOOD. Shedhalle Zürich KOMMENTAR ALS SELBER WAS. Kunsthalle Exerngasse Wien Videospace Budapest VOR-STUDIO, Berlin** VIDEOSPACE Budapest OSTRALE 09, Dresden 2008 . INTRUDE 366, ZENDAI Museum of Art, Shanghai** VIDEO AS AN INSTRUMENT II, Supreme Trading, Brooklyn, NY TRY AGAIN FAIL BETTER, Mücsarnok Kunsthalle Budapest (curated by Hajnalka Somogyi) NOBE 67 ART Miami Art Fair 2008 (curated by Milagros Bello) 2008 Video as an Instrument II , Supreme Trading, New York Video Art at LAX, Bradley Terminal, Los Angeles Airport, LA 2007. ART AT THE W (presented by Janet Oh Gallery, Seoul)** TRANSFERENCE, Eyebeam, New York Kopieren&Verfälschen Kunsthaus FRISE, Hamburg Where Euclid Walked. Seoul Muesum of Art “Urbanismo” Espacio Plasma, Buenos Aires, Argentina (with Terrence Gower)** 2006 European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany “Strip Images in Line”, Künstlerbund, Berlin. Curator: Rolf Bier BAP Lab, Brooklyn Art Projects, Brooklyn, NY 2005 “Strip Images in Line”, Kunstverein Hannover. Curator: Rolf Bier 2005 Stadt Rand Fluß Lothringer 13 , Munich, Germany “Silent Observers” Modern Art Museum, Rijka, Croatia, “Media Archaeology” DiverseWorks, Houston Texas “Remapped Realities”, EYEBEAM, NY Joseloff Gallery, Hartford, CT “Video as an Instrument” THE TANK, New York 2004 VIDEOKUNSTPREIS, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, GAK Bremen** MAIN FRAME, The Thing, New York** FUTURE CINEMA ICC, Tokyo Japan 2003 “To Free Cinema” Instituto Braziliano Audiovisual, Rio de Janiero “Harakiri BonBon” Kunstverein Hamburg (with Jörn Zehe and Eike) 2002 FUTURE CINEMA , ZKM, Germany Media Art Interaction, Goethe Institute, New York “WORD” DiverseWorks, Houston, Texas 2001 “MÀSHOL” Goethe Institute, Budapest “PULSE” Series at Whitney Museum at Philip Morris, New York (with DKK) CSOMOPONT, Budapest 2000 FLAHERTY FILM SEMINAR WHITNEY MUSEUM of American Art The American Century Part II, “Circle’s Short Circle’s” in film selection UNITY GAIN, NY “HOTEL NEW YORK” PS 1, Center for Contemporary Art, NY 1999 CINEPROBE* MoMa, New York SIT.COM Galerie Montenay-Giroux, Paris 1998 TRANSMEDIALE, Berlin EICH GALLERY, Hull** 1997 New York Arts Exchange 1996 Artist's Space, NY (with Julie Murray) "15 Lux Maximum", Eighth Floor Gallery, NY 1996 Angel Oresanz Foundation, NY 1996 "Schlaglicht" Kunst Museum Wolfsburg, Germany screenings and lectures 2018 Assembling Reality (with Shambhavi Kaul, Keith Sanborn, Quentin Chiapetta and Francisco Bello) Union Docs, Brooklyn time/ OUT OF JOINT, Union Docs Brooklyn 2017 ICI Berlin (with Laurence Rickels) Transmediale (screening and Talk) time / OUT OF JONT, Lazina Center for Contemporary Art , Gdansk. 2016 time / OUR OF JOINT, Pleasure Dome, Tornonto NYIT, Beijing China EMAP, Seoul, South Korea Ann ARBOR Film Festival ALCHEMY film festival Docs Against Gravity, Warsaw, Poland DOCPOINT, Helsinki MICA, Baltimore SCMS, Atlanta (“Working with Farocki” with Kathy Crane) 2015 Visible Evidence “Working with Farocki” with Kathy Crane and Paige Sarlin) Found Footage Strategies, Gdańsk Art Academy, Poland CPH:DOX, Copenhagen UNIONDOCS, Brooklyn, NY 2014 European Graduate School (EGS) Saas Fee. Lecture / Screening / Seminar 2012 Anthology Film Archives (NY Film-Maker's Coop) 2010 Microwave, Hong Kong (lecture and workshop) Syracuse University, NY 2010 Pratt, Brooklyn, NY MICA, Baltimore 2008 Budapest InterMedia Art Dept New School / Pratt Photography / Film 2007 Sung Shin University, Seoul 2006 Potsdam-Babelsberg Film Academy Zeitgeist Cinema, New Orleans New York Underground Festival 2005 New School for Social Reserach 2004 Split Connect, Split, Croatia PIXELFLUX, mama, m2, Zagreb Digita Dish. Ljudmilla, Ljubeljana 2003 Köln Filmhaus Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach 2002 Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam New York Video Festival REMOTE, Icon series 2001 KHM, Media Arts Academy , Cologne 2000 University of Colorado, Boulder, CO University of Virginia, Richmond, VA Cornel Cinema, Ithaca, NY 1999 Flaherty Film Seminar, Durham, NC Museum of Modern Art, NY: Cineprobe Harvard Film Archives Film Forum at Lace, LA (screenings/lectures cont’d) CalArts, LA SF Cinemateque at Yerba Buena Art Center 1998 Whitney Museum of American Art: The American Century II New School for Social Research, NY KHM, Media Arts Academy, Cologne 1997 Filmhaus, Hamburg Dundee University, Scotland 1996 Adelphi University, Long Island, USA 1996 Kino Circus, Tokyo, Japan 1995 Knitting Factory, NY 1995 Arts & Crafts College, Berkeley, Art Institute, San Francisco, Millennium, NY 1993 Westwerk, Hamburg 1992 Hochschule für Gestaltung, Offenbach II. Filmography and Videography [film] 1986 BUMP AND BUMP (16mm Blow-up, 6,5 min) 1989 KOPF MOTOR KOPF (16mm, 13,5 min) 1991 SAD SACK (16mm, 13 min.) 1993 SILVERY (16mm; 19 min) 1995 AFTERBIRTH (16mm) 1997-99 CIRCLE'S SHORT CIRCUIT (35mm Dolby SR) [video] 1994 THE CAPTURED CITY (Umatic, 45 min) 1996 DECONSTRUCTED EDUCATIONAL SPORT SERIES (Betacam; 8,5 min) 1997 LOCKED GROOVE (Betacam, 10 min) 1997-99 CIRCLE'S SHORT CIRCUIT (35mm/ Betacam 85 min) 1999 MEMORYSCAN Betacam, 5:30 min 2000 THREADS (in collaboration with Mike Hoolboom) OUT OF JOINT (work - in - progress) 2001 KUBRICK SPACE 2002 NO DAMAGE 2003 TORN ZUSE STRIP 2004 SCAN BETWEEN EMPHATHY AND SYMPATHY IS TIME (with Terre Thaemlitz) 2005 Kulchov Sukiyaki 2006 Coma Érotique 2007 Rong Xiang 2009 +Cotas 2012-16 time/OUT OF JOINT 2017 redux/time/out of Joint 2018 IMPRINT TIANDICHENG .