Curriculum Vitae : Remco Schuurbiers Born: September 29, 1968, Breda, the Netherlands. Nationality Dutch. Address: Schönhauser Allee 167-C, 10435 Berlin, Germany Email: [email protected] Website: www.remcoschuurbiers.com Remco Schuurbiers lives and works in Berlin, His works makes photography, abstract compositions, short video films and installations or live video performances. In projects he works with musicians in the field of contemporary electronic music producing composed or improvised audiovisual performances. Besides he is one of the organizers of CTM - festival in Berlin and curator of the TodaysArt festival in The Hague. Founder of “The Art of Pingpongcountry".Together with director Ivan Stanev he is creating films and theater plays. Education 1988 - 1992 Photographic Design at Royal Art Academy (KABK), the Hague, the Netherlands 1992 - 1995 Interdisciplinary Arts at Interfaculty Image and Sound, Royal Conservatorium, the Hague, the Netherlands Interfaculty Image and Sound group projects: Electronic Music Theatre, with Dick Raaijmakers, Paul Koek, Frans Evers a.o. 1993 „Die Glückliche Hand“ (Arnold Schönberg) 1993 “School of Soundmen” 1994 “The Promenair of Mondriaan” 1995 “Schreuer im Hagh” Curating & Organisation Since 2008 Curator of the Soundmuseum.fm – Online Platform Since 2007 Program Director of TodaysArt festival – the Hague, the Netherlands Since 2007 Member of E.C.A.S.group – European Cities of Advanced Sound Since 2006 Pre selection transmediale Award – performing art & installations Since 2005 Member of Project Space : General Public, Berlin, Germany Since 1999 Co-Curator and Co-Director of CTM (club transmediale) - Festival for Adventurous Music and Related Visual Arts 2010 “The promised city” openings evening, Warschau, Poland – in cooperation with Goethe Institute & KW Berlin Qwartz Electronic Music Awards, Jury member of Qwartz 6 – Paris, France Program advisor Berlin ruft an – the Generator in cooperation with Paard, the Hague, the Netherlands 2009 Conference production Pictoplasma Conference – Character Design, Berlin, Germany Program advisor Berlin Ruft An – the Generator in cooperation with Paard, the Hague, the Netherlands 2008 Program advisor Berlin Ruft An – the Generator in cooperation with Paard, the Hague, the Netherlands 2006 CTM at Mutek, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Conference production Pictoplasma Conference – Character Design, Berlin, Germany 2005 CTM at the cultuurnacht, The Hague, the Netherlands 10 years Art Forum celebration, Berlin, Germany 2004 Conference production Pictoplasma Conference – Character Design, Berlin, Germany CTM at Cph:dox film documentary festival Kopenhagen, Denmark Video screening “Snippets - Live at CTM”, Eletronika Festival, Belo Horizonte, Brazil 2003 CTM at Warschau Electronic Festival, Warsaw, Poland “Bug Button - The Repelling”, CTM at Garage Festival, Stralsund, Germany 2002 „Berlin Hardwired: Serial Connector”, video screening, The Horse Hospital, London, UK Pre selection applications Garage festival – Stralsund, Germany 2000/01 Co-curator of the Sonic Acts Festival, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Talks - Panels 2010 Capital out of culture, TodaysArt, The Hague, Netherlands 50 great ideas in support of music, A-2-N conference at Berlin Music Week, Berlin, Germany How to create the perfect event, A-2-N conference at Berlin Music Week, Berlin, Germany 2009 Evolution Remixed! Die Vorgeschichte der Visual Music at Soundframe, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria Presentation of CTM [club transmediale] at Elektra, Montreal [QC], Canada Netaudio Berlin Festival – Alltogethernow – Berlins Alternative im Musikbusiness 2008 Talk: How to organize a festvial, Rokolectiv-Festivals, Museum Modern Art Bucharest, Romania 2006 "Playing with Art: Scenes from a 'Creative City'", Scape Symposium, Christchurch, New Zealand Video / Installations / Exhibitions : 2010 Group Exhibition, Erfolgreich geführtes Real Life, General Public, Berlin, Germany 2009 Silent video, 3”00, during Field of Ears with Anne Laberge, Huib Emmer, Rachel de Boer. Etc. Eindhoven, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Solo Performance, Rencontres internationales Berlin, Germany Solo Performance, Pictopia Berlin, Germany 2008 Solo Performance, Rencontres internationales Centre Pompidou, Paris, France “Sichtbar Archiv”, with Remco Packbiers, O-Tannenbaum, Berlin, Germany Solo Performance, Rencontres internationales Madrid, Spain Solo Performance, Rencontres internationales Berlin, Germany 2007 Director of Videoclip WIRE – Aux Raus by TAX-Videofunding Group exhibition, DIN 1164, Projectspace General Public, Berlin, Germany Het leren mislukken (Dick Raaijmakers), zukunfstmusikbar, Berlin Germany Video performance, DEAF-Festival, Rotterdam, the Netherlands “Sichtbar Archiv”, with Remco Packbiers, , Rencontres internationales Madrid, Spain “Sichtbar Archiv”, with Remco Packbiers, , Rencontres internationales Berlin, Germany Group exhibition, Summercamp, Gallery Visite ma Tente, Berlin Germany 2006 Group exhibition Beast of Burden, Projectspace General Public, Berlin, Germany “Paranoid”, video, The Ass. of Friends and Promoters of Time-Based Media Art in Metrop. Areas – Rio, Berlin, Germany “Sichtbar Archiv”, with Remco Packbiers, , Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris, France Group exhibition, Projectspace NP3, Groningen, the Netherlands Audio/video performance with Balloon & Needle, Special Focus Kim Swoo-Guen, Art Center Arko, Seoul, S-Korea Group exhibition, “Life without weekend”, Gallery PAK//////T, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Group exhibition Ball of Fame, object, Berlin, Germany Video installation, “Flux d’eclairement”, Le lieu unique, Nantes, France Group exhibition Belohnungsraum, video installation, Gallery Gmuer, Berlin, Germany “Paranoid”, video, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bukarest, Romenia “Paranoid”, video, CTM festival Berlin, Germany 2005 “The enchanted sea”, video, Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris, France “Pulse” , with Radboud Mens, Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris, France “Sichtbar Archiv”, with Remco Packbiers, Garage Festival, Stralsund, Germany “Pulse” , with Radboud Mens, X-film festival, Sofia, Bulgaria “Nanuq express” video, CTM festival Berlin, Germany “Dubtrain” video, Brabants Muziekhuis Den Bosch, the Netherlands 2004 Performance with Radboud Mens, cph:dox film documentary festival Kopenhagen, Denmark “Tappo Kontakt vs. Britney Spears” video, Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris, France “Sichtbar Archiv”, with Remco Packbiers, Open Arch, Galerie Büro Friedrich, Berlin, Germany “Pulse” , with Radboud Mens, Eletronika Festival Belo Horizonte, Itaú Sao Paolo, Brasil “Pulse” , with Radboud Mens, Kunstvlaai05, Amsterdam, the Netherlands “Pan-Tilt-Zoom: The Future is Looking Good!”, video installation, CTM, Berlin, Germany 2003 Performance with Radboud Mens, De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg, the Netherlands “Pulse”, with Radboud Mens, Earational Festival, Den Bosch, the Netherlands Performance with Stefan Schneider, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw Electronic Festival, Warsaw, Poland Video “Merci” for Barbara Morgenstern CD/DVD „Kleiner Ausschnitt“, Berlin, Germany 2002 “Move In Slowly to Close-Up…Fade-Out”, Stichting Gras group project, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, the Netherlands “Priarie Gears”, with Anna Laberge , Flora Theater, Delft, the Netherlands “Dot.nu - Bewegingen in Live Cinema”, with Nathalie Bruys, V2 Institute, International Film Festival Rotterdam and Paradiso Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands “Tappo Kontakt vs. Britney Spears“, video, Automatenbar, Berlin, Gemany 2001 Performance at Exit-Festival, Créteil/Paris, France “Triptikel”, with Polyvinylbigband (PBB), Exploding Cinema, Int. Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands “Unregistered HyperCam”, Tappo Kontakt vs. Dr.Loop, video remix of X or C Project 2000 “Untitled”, video installation, Kunstkreuz, Berlin, Germany “Tenmiste Houdbaar Tot”, Walter Maashuis Stichting, De Balie, Amsterdam, Huis a/d Werf, Utrecht; de Unie, Rotterdam; 042, Nijmegen, the Netherlands “Paint Ball”, video for Gallery Maldoror with Klaar v/d Lippe, the Hague, the Netherlands Performance at Dutch Electronic Art Festival, Rotterdam, the Netherlands Performance at STEIM, with Phako/EOG and Funckarma, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 1999 “?Syntax Error”, video, Sonar Festival, Barcelona, Spain “Re-constructions”, with Blixa Bargeld and Bain Brothers, Club ´t Paard, the Hague, the Netherlands Performance with Polyvinylbigband, New Forms Festival, the Hague, the Netherlands “Live samples en levende monsters”, with Phako & EOG, Rotterdamse Schouwburg, Rotterdam, the Netherlands 1998 “Sample Madness”, with Eboman , the Hague, Nijmegen, Eindhoven, Amsterdam, the Netherlands “Laboratory of Plastic Sound” , club Paard van Troje, the Hague, the Netherlands Untitled video installation at Strömungskombinat98 Art Festival, Dresden, Germany The art of pingpongcountry 2010 Pongress Berlin 2010, Berlin, Germany The Knot / The promised city, Warschau, Poland The Knot / The promised city, Berlin, Germany 2008 Exhibition, Gallery SMP, Marseille, France Theaterform, Braunschweig, Germany 2007 Installation, La Quinzaine de l'Entorse, Lille, France Estuaire – Art Biennial, Nantes, France Theaterformen, Hannover, Germany At.tension Festival, Theaterfestival, Flügplatz Lärz, Germany 2006 Installation, SCAPE Biennial of Art in Public Space is don’t misbehave!, Christchurch, New Zealand Group exhibition Ball of Fame, Berlin, Germany Group exhibition Belohnungsraum,