recent films
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We, Technoviking
recent publications
The Meme as Artform – An Interview with Matthias Fritsch in BerlinArtLink
Interview in Neural 39, Multiplied Identities, June 2011, Pages 22-23
Melke die Videowolke: Das Social Media-Projekt “Music from the Masses” Article in the Berliner Gazette from 03-06-2011
X-Freundschaftsanfragen, Review in Springerin Heft für Gegenwartskunst, Issue Spring 2011, Page 93
KUNST IM INTERNET: Wie YouTube die Videokunst verändert
Article at Tagesspiegel published 23-07-2010
On-The-Move launches 'Excited Atoms' exploration of virtual mobility in performing arts (Posted: 09-04-2010)
Interview in German art magazine "Junge Kunst" Issue 81 (Nov 2009) on participatory practise and YouTube, pages 12-14
Premiere: Landscape No.4
at Moving Silence Event in Nikosia (Cyprus)
November 2011
Berlin Shortfilm-Festival kiezkieken
shows I'll be watching you... on November 11th, 2011
The Technoviking Archive is presented at the Convention Camp at the Hannover Fair on November 8th, 2011. Supported by EMAF and Nordmedia.
October 2011
UAMO Festival shows We, Technoviking
27.10.2011 – 30.10.2011 in Munich
“2-in-1”
The international festival of contemporary cinema in Moscow (RU)
presents a Riot video of the project Music from the Masses
from October 21st-24th, 2011
Cortopotere ShortFilmFestival
Bergamo, Italy shows I'll be watching you...
October 23rd-29th, 2011
September 2011
PIXILERATIONS [v.8]
new media festival in Providence, Rhode Island (USA)
from September 22nd-October 2nd, 2011
shows project Music from the Masses
July & August 2011
Sommeratelier GLEICH ZEIT at Shedhalle Tübingen (D) shows
I'll be watching you...
22.8. - 3.9.2011
Databodies, Networked Portraits
Exhibition at Alta Tecnología Andina – ATA, Fundación Telefónica and Museo de Arte in Lima (Peru) from July 8th - August 28th 2011
Based in Berlin
Six Weeks of Exhibitions, Talks, Performances presents We, Technoviking. Related special events:
Artist Talk on July 3rd, 2011 at 18:00 in Atelierhaus
Open Screening: July 13th, 2011 at 22:00 in Monbijoupark
based on my networking activities within the Independent Film Network Berlin since the late 90s.
Exhibition from June 8th - July 24th, 2011
Atelierhaus Monbijoupark, Oranienburgerstraße 77, 10178 Berlin
June 2011
Lecture at Festival Emergeandsee on June 4th, 2011 in Berlin on the project Music from the Masses
Based in Berlin
shows We, Technoviking and host an Open Screening based on my networking activities within the Independent Film Network Berlin since the late 90s. Artist lecture on July 3rd.
May 2011
WRO 2011 Alternative Now - 14th International Media Art Biennale from May 10-15th, 2011 in Wrocław, Poland shows We, Technoviking
April 2011
Landscape No.2 will be shown as part of movingsilence at Goethe Institut Athen on April 6th 2010. Musik von Minimaximum.
Lecture about the Technoviking Archive at "ENTER: DATAPOLIS" 5th multimedia biennale 14.-17.4. 2011, Prague
February 2011
Music from the Masses takes Part in "X Freundschaftsanfragen," a group exhibition about the potential of digital social media at Kunstverein Wolfsburg. Curated by Justin Hoffmann.
Duration: February 24th - April 24th
Part of www.phaenomenale.com
January 2011
Music from the Masses is Part of "Re-generation," a Selection of The Web Biennial Revealing The Poetics and Politics of Net Art selected by curator Dr. Marcus Graf.
Duration: January 20th - March 20th 2011 at PlatoArtspace.
October 2010
Impakt Festival in Utrecht shows We, Technovikng and lecture about the Technoviking Phaenomenon on October 17th
September 2010
premier of three new performances at MIR Festival in Athens:
- "Dancepiece 2" performed by Agni Papadeli Rossetou in
collaboration with Georgis Sakelariou, Stathis Crisidis & NatryX
- "Landschaft 3" performed by NatryX & ACTE VIDE
- "Riot" performed by Lambros Pigounis
The events take place on September 13 & 14 at 9pm in About
Inter-cool 3.0 showes video "We, Technovikng" from 17th Sept - 28th Nov 2010 in Dortmunder U (former Union Browery)
June & July 2010
Video "Hidden" takes part in Chem Tamirs programm "Anticipation", at the Mobile Archive exhibition at Stacion Center for Contemporary Art in Prishtina, Kosovo from June 28 - July 24
Web Biennale shows Music from the Masses at #wb10 - anticensor
gallery 3 - Michael Jackson Pavillion - curated by Dimitrios Fotiou hosted by Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum, iS.CaM
April & May 2010
Events with Moving Silence in Prague and Athens
Music from the Masses takes part in exhibition Mash Up at EMAF in Osnabrück April 21st - May 23rd 2010 at Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche
Lecture on Artist Strategies for Web 2.0 on April 22nd at EMAF
February 2010
Activities at transmediale.10 in Berlin:
Performance "Landschaft 2"; Moderation & Conception of Panel "Art 2.0"; Participation in Panel "Free Culture Incubator"
January 2010
Online / Offline Exhibition of Stuttgarter Filmwinter in Stuttgart:
Music from the Masses
more recent activities
From April to June 2009 the German Media Artist Matthias Fritsch presented Art Jockey, three consecutive exhibitions to take place at three different cultural institutions in Karlsruhe. Fritsch presented a combination of his recent work series, occupied with the investigations of the possibilities of contemporary new media art.
April 23rd - June 14th 2009
Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
Title: Music from the Masses
At Badischer Kunstverein from April 23rd until June 14th the artist presented the open series Music from the Masses, an unfinished group of works using the Internet and user generated sites such as YouTube as a medium of art. Music from the Masses so far consists out of more than 50 music videos. Artists and musicians from all over the world were generating various musical interpretations to silent video and film clips produced by Fritsch. Reflecting and focusing on the actual practice of recycling and reuse of films and videos at sites like YouTube Fritsch raises questions of authorship and distribution, each elementary for the usual perception of art.
(http://www.badischer-kunstverein.de)
Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
Title: Music from the Masses
At Badischer Kunstverein from April 23rd until June 14th the artist presented the open series Music from the Masses, an unfinished group of works using the Internet and user generated sites such as YouTube as a medium of art. Music from the Masses so far consists out of more than 50 music videos. Artists and musicians from all over the world were generating various musical interpretations to silent video and film clips produced by Fritsch. Reflecting and focusing on the actual practice of recycling and reuse of films and videos at sites like YouTube Fritsch raises questions of authorship and distribution, each elementary for the usual perception of art.
(http://www.badischer-kunstverein.de)
April 3rd - 25th 2009
ZKM_Medientheater, Karlsruhe, Title: Parallaxe
ZKM_Medientheater, Karlsruhe, Title: Parallaxe
At the ZKM (Center for Art and Media Technology) Matthias Fritsch showed "Parallaxe", a group of four HD-Video-Panoramas. Each of the four panoramas depicts a "natural" landscape, which appears as pure natural scenery untouched by the tourist industry. Reflecting the desires and dreams of a global society based utterly on technology, the spectator can experience the scenery of these "natural paradise" within an artistic installation. The depicted scenes are technical manipulations and the experience of natural beauty here is an experience of technical beauty.
(http://www.zkm.de)
April 14th - 28th 2009
Kunstraum: Morgenstrasse, Karlsruhe
Title: Credits without Crisis: Prophetic Appropriations
From April 14th until April 28th the independent art space Kunstraum: Morgenstrasse showed Matthias Fritsch's work Credits without Crisis: Prophetic Appropriations. Reflecting the strategic attempts of original Appropriation-Art, Fritsch refers only to works of young and mainly unknown artists at the beginning of their career, artists from his local and social network in Karlsruhe. Different from the well known Appropriation Art of the 80s, Fritsch is neither appropriating famous works from art history nor from commercials. Neither the authorship nor the former fame of the past is questioned here - it is the open future to come.
(http://www.morgenstrasse.de)
Kunstraum: Morgenstrasse, Karlsruhe
Title: Credits without Crisis: Prophetic Appropriations
From April 14th until April 28th the independent art space Kunstraum: Morgenstrasse showed Matthias Fritsch's work Credits without Crisis: Prophetic Appropriations. Reflecting the strategic attempts of original Appropriation-Art, Fritsch refers only to works of young and mainly unknown artists at the beginning of their career, artists from his local and social network in Karlsruhe. Different from the well known Appropriation Art of the 80s, Fritsch is neither appropriating famous works from art history nor from commercials. Neither the authorship nor the former fame of the past is questioned here - it is the open future to come.
(http://www.morgenstrasse.de)
Special Events
April 26th 2009, 2-6 pm
Open Screening at ZKM PanoramaScreen, Medien_Theater, Karlsruhe, Germany
On April 26th Frtisch hosted an open screening at the PanoramaScreen at ZKM. The artist opened up his installation to invite art students from Karlsruhe to present their works. Ten new works by students were presented and premiered within that event.
April 28th 2009, 7 pm
Interventions at Kunstraum: Morgenstrasse
Matthias Fritsch invited the following artists to intervene in his exhibition Credits without Crisis: Prophetic Appropriations:
Thomas Straub, Kevin Matweew, Kilian Kretschmer, Daniel M Fabry, Patrizia Roeder, Annabel Lange, Andreas Lorenschat
April 29th 2009, 7 pm
Artist Talk and Performances at Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany,
Lecture: "TechnoViking - an Echo from Web 2.0"
Performances: Live Interpretations of Music from the Masses
At Badischer Kunstverein Matthias Fritsch temporarily installed a recording studio. The audience was invited to produce new musically interpretations which were added to the exhibition.
On their own, the three integrated yet distinct exhibitions are proposals for open platforms. All singular presentations in Art Jockey are determined by questions of the collective and technically controlled perception and production as well as by questions of the experimental integration of social networks in contemporary art production and distribution.
The exhibition also refers to the complex and heterogeneous filaments of Matthias Fritsch's artistic work, with the invitation of the audience to connect them. It is therefore that Art Jockey as an exhibition has to exceed the usual spatial limits of art exhibitions.
The Artist likes to thank his supporters:
Open Screening at ZKM PanoramaScreen, Medien_Theater, Karlsruhe, Germany
On April 26th Frtisch hosted an open screening at the PanoramaScreen at ZKM. The artist opened up his installation to invite art students from Karlsruhe to present their works. Ten new works by students were presented and premiered within that event.
April 28th 2009, 7 pm
Interventions at Kunstraum: Morgenstrasse
Matthias Fritsch invited the following artists to intervene in his exhibition Credits without Crisis: Prophetic Appropriations:
Thomas Straub, Kevin Matweew, Kilian Kretschmer, Daniel M Fabry, Patrizia Roeder, Annabel Lange, Andreas Lorenschat
April 29th 2009, 7 pm
Artist Talk and Performances at Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany,
Lecture: "TechnoViking - an Echo from Web 2.0"
Performances: Live Interpretations of Music from the Masses
At Badischer Kunstverein Matthias Fritsch temporarily installed a recording studio. The audience was invited to produce new musically interpretations which were added to the exhibition.
On their own, the three integrated yet distinct exhibitions are proposals for open platforms. All singular presentations in Art Jockey are determined by questions of the collective and technically controlled perception and production as well as by questions of the experimental integration of social networks in contemporary art production and distribution.
The exhibition also refers to the complex and heterogeneous filaments of Matthias Fritsch's artistic work, with the invitation of the audience to connect them. It is therefore that Art Jockey as an exhibition has to exceed the usual spatial limits of art exhibitions.
The Artist likes to thank his supporters: