About Me
Biography . CV & Resume
. Artist's Statement
. Artist's Statement
Short Biography
Ger Ger, media artist and photographer, born in Vienna/A 1981, currently lives and works in Los Angeles/USA. He feels drawn to art and digital media early on in life, receives his first honors and awards aged fourteen. M.A. in Digital Arts and Visual Media Design. Study with Karel Dudesek, Peter Weibel and Tom Fürstner at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna. He moves to Berlin/D in 2000. Scholarship in Visual Communication with Joachim Sauter at the University of Arts in Berlin. 2009 he founds the studio LA K50 and moves to L.A. in 2011. His work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions at Ars Electronica (Linz), Electrohype (Malmo), Open (London), FILE (Sao Paulo/Curitiba City), Kunsthalle (Vienna), LA Freewaves (Los Angeles), Media Arts Festival (Tokyo), Rencontres Internationales (Paris), and many other venues. His awards include the Prix Ars Electronica, CYNETart, Rheingold Award and Prix MultimediaArt.
Education
| 1999 - 2005 | University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria. Master's Degree | Digital Arts | Visual Media Design |
| 2002 - 2003 | Jewish Museum Berlin, Germany. | Holocaust Memorial Service |
| 2002 | University of Arts, Berlin, Germany. | Sokrates Scholarship: Visual Communication |
| 2000 - 2001 | Movie College, Allary Film, Munich, Germany. | Movie Production |
Honors/Awards/Residencies
| 2010 | Jury Recommended Work, Art Division/Visual Image, Japan Media Arts Festival |
| 2009 | People's Choice Award, So Fresh! |
| Electro-Residency Invite, Electrofringe, Festival of Electronic Arts & Culture, Newcastle, Australia. | |
| Residency, MoBY/Museum of Contemporary Art, Bat Yam, Israel. | |
| Best of Show Award, 'Unauthorized', Gallery RFD | |
| 2007 | Electric Rats Dream Video Dreams Special Award |
| 2003 | Leonardo da Vinci Scholarship |
| 2000 | CYNETart | MB21 |
| Prix Ars Electronica | |
| 1999 | Student of the Year |
| 1997 | Soundtrack Competition |
| Rheingold Award | |
| Prix MultimediaArt | |
| 1996 | Press button to continue |
Honors, awards, grants, fellowships details
Selected Exhibitions/Screenings/Festivals
| 2012 | The Echo Park Art Walk, PDA, Los Angeles, USA. |
| Hidden & Forbidden Identities, Palazzo Albrizzi, Procuratie Court Yards, Giardini Greenhouse, Venice, Italy. | |
| 2010 | Japan Media Arts Festival, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, Japan. |
| 'Sommernachtstraum', kultpur, Berlin, Germany. | |
| 'So Fresh!', juried exhibition, Mestna Galerija di Nova Gorica, Slovenia. | |
| 13th Japan Media Arts Festival, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan. | |
| 'So Fresh!', Galleria Medusa, juried exhibition, Koper, Italy. | |
| 2009 | MADATAC, Festival of Contemporary Audio-Visual Arts Madrid, Spain. |
| So Fresh!, Art-Kino Croatia of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia. | |
| Visions in New York City, Art Basel, Miami Beach, USA. | |
| Pantheon International Xperimental Film and Animation Festival 0.9, Nicosia, Cyprus. | |
| 'So Fresh!', Stazione Rogers, Trieste, Italy. | |
| Borders+Segments, International ArtExpo, Baia Mare, Romania. | |
| Visions in New York City, New York, USA. | |
| Visionaria 18, Intl. Toscana Video Festival, Piombino, Italy. | |
| 'So Fresh!', juried exhibition, Gradisca d'Isonzo, Italy. | |
| Electrofringe 09, Festival of Electronic Arts & Culture, performance/exhibition, Newcastle, Australia. | |
| Split Film Festival, Split, Croatia. | |
| 'So Fresh!', Galleria Comunale d'Arte Contemporanea, juried exhibition, Monfalcone, Italy. | |
| BuSho Film Festival, Budapest, Hungary. | |
| VInVAF 2009, International Video Art Festival, Stattbad, Berlin, Germany. | |
| Downtown Film Festival, Los Angeles, USA. | |
| DigitalArt.LA, LACDA, Los Angeles, USA. | |
| CON-CAN Movie Festival, International | Tokyo, Japan. | |
| Screengrab: Intervention, Townsville, Australia. | |
| FILE Media Art, Electronic Language Intl. Festival, SESI Cultural Centre, São Paulo, Brazil. | |
| 'Istanbul-Off-Spaces', Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin, Germany. | |
| 19. Internationales Videofestival Bochum, Germany. | |
| Kurye International Video Festival, Istanbul, Turkey. | |
| Berlin Shorts, Street Fest 09, London, UK. | |
| Takeaway Festival, Dana Centre, Science Museum, London, UK. | |
| re-new 09/ICAD Arts Festival and Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark. | |
| 'Factory', MoBY (Museums of Bat Yam), performance/exhibition, Bat Yam, Israel. | |
| Dérapage 9, Centre de Design Uqam, Montreal, Canada. | |
| 'Off the Strip', Contemporary Arts Center (CAC), Las Vegas, USA. | |
| 'Video Kills', AB Project Galleries/HOF 96, Berlin, Germany. | |
| European Video Art Highlight, Lagari, Berlin, Germany. | |
| 'Unauthorized: Art Without Permission', Gallery RFD, by Juror Wendy DesChene, Swainsboro, USA. | |
| 'The Art of Manipulating a Curator' vol.2, Gallery-33, curated by LAN Hungh, Berlin, Germany. | |
| 2008 | Alternative Film/Video 2008, Belgrade, Serbia. |
| 'Soundscapes of Memory', SCCC, curated by Aleksandra Sekulić, Belgrade, Serbia. | |
| Detour, International Video Festival, Cairo, Egypt. | |
| Streaming Festival, International | The Hague, Netherlands. | |
| 'HollyWould', 11th Festival of New Media Arts, Los Angeles, USA. | |
| CologneOFF IV, Museum of Contemporary Art (MACZUL), Maracaibo, Venezuela. | |
| Rencontres Internationales, Madrid, Spain. | |
| 2007 | Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Paris, France. |
| Video Art Festival Miden, Kalamata, Athens, Greece. | |
| Electric Rats Dream Video Dreams, Celje, Slovenia. | |
| 48 hours Neukölln, Berlin, Germany. | |
| Dérapage 7, Centre de Design Uqam, Montreal, Canada. | |
| 2005 | quartier21 | MuseumsQuartier, curated by Tom Fürstner and Peter Weibel, Vienna, Austria. |
| 2004 - 2005 | 'UNISEX', Galerie GC 85, solo exhibition, Berlin, Germany. |
| 2003 | ONE Smart Space, Vienna, Austria. |
| 2002 | quartier21 | MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, Austria. |
| 'Always ON!', Kunsthalle project space, Vienna, Austria. | |
| 'TELEVISIONS', Kunsthalle, curated by Joshua Decter, Vienna, Austria. | |
| 2001 | Ars Electronica T.O.C. Campus, Linz, Austria. |
| FILE, São Paulo | Curitiba City, Brazil. | |
| 'Moving Out', MUMOK | Museum of Modern Art, Vienna, Austria. | |
| 2000 | Kunst Haus Dresden, Germany. |
| Open, invitational exhibition, London, UK. | |
| Electrohype, juried exhibition, Malmö, Sweden. | |
| O.K Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria. | |
| 'Filmischer Körper', Diagonale, Graz, Austria. | |
| 1998 | Milia, invitational exhibition, Cannes, France. |
| 1997 | komm, invitational exhibition, Düsseldorf, Germany. |
| Philips Haus, invitational exhibition, Vienna, Austria. |
Exhibitions, screenings, festival participations details
Bibliography
| 2010 | Space Cool Hunting, Italy. | May 12, 2010. |
| 2009 | Bant Magazine, Turkey. | Jul-Aug, 2009, p.120. |
| New Music Up Late on ABC Classic FM, 'Inside Angle', Australia. | Jul 18, 2009. | |
| Factory, exhibition catalogue, Bat Yam Museums of Art, Israel. | May, 2009, p.5, p.89-90, p.119. | |
| Las Vegas Weekly, 'Vegas was built for this' by Danielle Kelly, USA. | Apr 16, 2009. | |
| Canal Autor (Orange TV/Euskaltel), 'Transfera Video Art #30', Spain. | Jan 30, 2009. | |
| 2007 | RBB Kulturradio, 'Kulturradio am Nachmittag: Das Porträt' by Andrea Heinze, Germany. | Jun 21, 2007. |
| Berliner Abendblatt (weekly newspaper), 'An ungewöhnlichen Orten ...', Germany. | Nr. 23 Neukölln, Cover Story, Jun 6, 2007. | |
| 2006 | Neural.it (hacktivism, e-music, New Media Art), 'Confess.or, one to many confessions' by Francesca Colasante, Italy. | Feb 20, 2006. |
| Phlow (magazine for music & net culture), 'Medieninstallation: Öffentliche Beichtgespräche im Podcast-Abo' by Moritz Sauer, Germany. | Feb 2006. | |
| Radio ORANGE 94.0, 'Radio Netwatcher', Austria. | Feb 10, 2006. | |
| Pfaffe3000, 'Multimedia-Installation ReReligion', Germany. | Feb 07, 2006. | |
| PDA 247 (mobile news), UK. | Feb 4, 2006. | |
| we make money not art, 'Confession-Podcasts' by Régine Debatty, international. | Feb 1, 2006. | |
| networked_performance (Turbulence Net Art research), 'Religion for Rent on eBay' by Jo-Anne Green, CA, USA. | Feb 1, 2006. | |
| Basisklasse (visual communication blog), School of Art and Design Kassel, Germany. | Feb 1, 2006. | |
| macnews.de, 'Mac mini nimmt die Beichte ab', Germany. | Feb, 2006. | |
| fonolog.com, Germany. | Feb, 2006. | |
| 2002 | E-Business-Community, #18, APA, Austria. | Newsletter #18, Oct, 2002. |
| Ö1 (FM Radio), 'Matrix', Austria. | Oct, 2002. | |
| Horizont | Nr. 40 | Austria. | Oct 4, 2002, p.13. | |
| Falter | 40/02 | Austria. | |
| Der Standard Online (daily newspaper online), Austria. | |
| 2001 | TAKEOVER, Ars Electronica 2001, SpringerWienNewYork, Austria/USA. | Sep 2001, p.400-405. |
| Moving Out, exhibition catalogue, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria. | p.146-147. | |
| up (Lauda Air in-flight magazine), 'cool' by Rita Newman | p.74-78. | |
| Computer Kommunikativ, OCG, Austria. | Issue 1-01, Mar, 2001, p.24-26. | |
| 2000 | CYNETart 2000, festival catalogue, Dresden, Germany. | p.123, 160. |
| Kurier (daily newspaper), Austria. | Sep 11, 2000. | |
| tele.ring Nachrichten (news online), Austria. | Sep 7, 2000. | |
| Prix Ars Electronica Gala, ORF | 3sat (TV, live), Austria | international. | Sep 4, 2000. | |
| Cyberarts 2000: International Compendium Prix Ars Electronica, Springer, Vienna/New York, Austria/USA. | Sep 2000, p.228-229. | |
| OÖNachrichten (daily newspaper), Austria. | Aug 24, 2000. | |
| Tagesanzeiger (daily newspaper), 'Kunst-Recycling', Switzerland. | May 10, 2000. | |
| Der Standard Online (daily newspaper), Austria. | May, 2000. | |
| ORF, Kunststücke (TV art program), Austria. | April, 2000. | |
| 1998 | Ö1 (FM Radio), 'Matrix', Austria. |
| mba (Top 10, Multimedia Business Austria) Vol. 1, Austria. | CD-ROM | |
| 1997 | ORF, Landeskorrespondenz Land Salzburg (TV, newscast), Salzburg, Austria. |
| ORF | 3sat, 'Zeit Im Bild' (TV, newscast), Austria. |
Press/Media Coverage
Publications
| 2012 | Ballad Of, London, UK. | Magazine Feature, Photography |
| 2011 | PhotoVogue Italia, Italy. | Magazine, Photography |
| 2007 | Iris Thalhammer: Am Rande des Verstummens, Avinus, Berlin, Germany. | Book Cover Art |
| 2005 | Ger Ger: ReReligion, catalogue, unpublished |
| 2003 | Dem Deutschen Volke, edited by Cilly Kugelmann and Hanno Loewy, Dumont, JMB, Berlin, Germany. | CD-ROM |
| 2001 | LAB-AC.AT_Compilation_01, produced by Bernhard Loibner and Thomas Felder | Audio CD |
| 1999 | Ger Ger: Multimedia between Design and Content, unpublished |
| 1997 | Ger Ger: GERI-Simulator, published by Electronic Land, Vienna, Austria. | Sim Game, CD-ROM |
Lectures/Presentations
| 2009 | Center for Contemporary Art (CCA). Tel Aviv, Israel. |
| 2000 | Roundhouse, Interchange Studios. Open, London, UK. |
| Electrohype 2000, Malmö, Sweden. |
Selected Projects
| 2012 | Palms, My Love | Conceptual, Mixed Media |
| 2009 - Pres. | 1 month project | Conceptual Photography |
| 2006 - Pres. | SOUND NOMADS | performative transformations of the surroundings into sensor based playgrounds |
| 2005 | ReReligion | work cycle | networked and interactive installations CONFESS.OR + JAM Bears |
| 2003 - 2004 | UNISEX | Mixed Media Series |
| 2002 | car[sound]scape | Public Art, cars simultaneously combined into soundscapes by controlling their radios |
| 7 days/week | Public Art, performance, experiments | |
| 2001 | Freeze | Performance/Video, between art and commerce |
| 2000 - Pres. | Kartonage | genre jumping film project, new approaches to composition between fiction and reality |
| 2000 - Pres. | o0oo | Creative Collaboration/Content/Digital Asset Management System |
| 1999 - 2000 | NETDUMP | Net Art, internet platform for recycling discarded creativity and upgrading datatrash |
Selected Performances
| 2009 | Still Evidence of Water, Tel Aviv, Israel. | sensor based Public Art performance |
| Evidence of Water, Bat Yam, Israel. | sensor based Public Art performance | |
| French Fries, Berlin, Germany. | sensor based Public Art performance | |
| 2007 | Bale, Puyvalador, France. | sensor based Public Art performance |
| Lights Out, Berlin, Germany. | sensor based Public Art performance | |
| 2006 | Lantern Dogs, Los Angeles/CA, USA. | sensor based Public Art performance |
| Sound Pets LA, Los Angeles/CA, USA. | sensor based Public Art performance | |
| Victor's Desert Party, Mojave Desert, Goffs/CA, USA. | sensor based Public Art performance | |
| Luxor 22.145, Luxor Hotel, Room 22.145, Las Vegas/NV, USA. | sensor based art performance | |
| Play!, Cedar City/UT, USA. | sensor based Public Art performance | |
| What the Fuck, Kanab/UT, USA. | sensor based Public Art performance | |
| Sound Pets, San Francisco/CA, USA. | sensor based Public Art performance | |
| Black Balloons, Cholla Cactus Garden, Joshua Tree NP, CA, USA. | sensor based Public Art performance | |
| Shoot Down Out, Palm Court Inn, Room 205, Palm Springs/CA, USA. | sensor based Public Art performance | |
| Viva la Hetch, Hetch Hetchy Dam, Yosemite/CA, USA. | sensor based Public Art Performance | |
| 2002 | car[sound]scape, parking lots, building site, car dealer, Berlin, Germany. | multiple cars combined into soundscapes |
| Arrival/Departure, Tegel Airport TXL, Berlin, Germany. | Public Art performance dealing with fears | |
| 2001 | Kartonage Performances #1, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria. | Public Art interventions |
Selected Clients/Commissioned by
| 2010 | Valerie Lasserre, Berlin, Germany. |
| Encovia, Cologne/Berlin, Germany. | |
| 2009 | Germanwatch, Bonn/Berlin, Germany. |
| Monbijou, Zurich, Switzerland. | |
| Alpine Peace Crossing, Austria. | |
| DIE ANTWORT, Vienna, Austria. | |
| Richard Rossmann Film Production, Berlin, Germany. | |
| Gustav Gschossmann, Vienna, Austria. | |
| 2008 | Kort + Partner, Berlin, Germany. |
| Fridolin Design, Vienna, Austria. | |
| LOBA TOWN, Basel, Zurich, Bern, Lausanne, Switzerland. | |
| Designbüro Planetdaisy, Berlin, Germany. | |
| 2007 | Shane Anderson | English Theater Berlin, Germany. |
| Avinus Verlag, Berlin, Germany. | |
| 2006 | Seso Media Group, Los Angeles/CA, USA. |
| Lose Seiten Editorial Office, Berlin, Germany. | |
| 2005 - Pres. | FAR A DAY CAGE, Zurich, Switzerland. |
| 2004 | Miresi, Berlin, Germany. Verona, Italy. |
| 2003 - Pres. | Tomas Schweigen | Theater an der Sihl, Zurich, Switzerland. |
| 2003 - 2005 | FLUMEN, Vienna, Austria. |
| 2003 | Jewish Museum Berlin, Germany. |
| 2002 | ONE, Vienna, Austria. |
| 2001 | Together, Vienna, Austria. |
| 2000 | University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria. |
| 1999 | Expo 2000, Hannover, Germany. |
Professional Experience
| 2009 | Guest Juror, 'Where I'm From', Gallery RFD, Swainsboro, USA. |
| 2002 - 2003 | Curatorial experience, temporary exhibitions, Jewish Museum Berlin, Germany. |
| 1998 - Pres. | Workshop, teaching, consulting, think tanks | CI, Graphic Design, usability, interfaces, IT, art |
| 1999 - 2000 | DMC, New Media Agency (Neville Brody), Vienna, Austria. |
| 1998 - 1999 | Nulleins/01, New Media Agency, Vienna, Austria. |
| 1997 - 1998 | SGI, Silicon Graphics Inc., Vienna, Austria. |
| 1997 - Pres. | Graphic designer, art director, and creative director in the new media industry. |
People with whom I have studied
Karel Dudesek, Tom Fürstner, Joachim Sauter, Ruth Schnell, Peter Weibel
Artist's Statement
I deliberately work in a wide range of media and techniques. Time and again my projects foray into the realms of the hitherto untouched. Pieces are alternately reflexive, poetic, critical or visionary.
My work is site-specific and supra-regional/inter-national/networked at the same time. Places/people/religions/cultures/travel take significance as my principal sources of inspiration.
Passers-by or visitors are integrated, alienation takes place, and the everyday life is reconnected in new patterns. Again and again my pieces hold up a distorting mirror to reality. The line between reality and fiction frequently blurs.
It is important to me to constantly cross disciplines and mediums to convey impressions, emotions, and statements conclusively. My choice for a certain medium is often driven by the effort in obtaining an expression that is powerful and aesthetic at all levels. Therefore, the coherence of the implemented media and techniques with the content is of particular importance. All pieces aim to leave plenty of scope for personal interpretation.
I think my constant ambition to work with the widest possible spectrum of techniques and technologies has much to do with my inner need to do things differently. I always avoid going the same road again and again. I guess, it's also challenges I'm chasing after.
It's the attempt to constantly find new viewing angles, to think far outside the box, to dive into layers of abstraction where the obviousness and importance of things follow their own rules and let you reveal something new. The urge on expressing all those emotions and sharing my experiences that pushes me forward.
While working with so many new technologies, at the same time I still believe in expression and personality in digital art through the development of projects from beginning to end with my own power. My thoughts and emotions can thus be transported more directly and stylistically than would be possible by commissioning the execution of ideas to third parties.
I founded my own online working platforms, workflows and techniques for a more efficient and self-documenting creative production in order to realize even large, cross-media projects. Collaboration, however, occurs when necessary or refreshing for the content and expression at hand. Thus, these platforms also enable projects with many participants all over the world.
I highly value the cycle of individual study, and dealing openly with my own ideas, concepts, and experiences after all. Since, an artist or creative is not only acting as f.i. an inventor, visionary, or engineer but furthermore put her whole person and talent into the realization, the whole work will distinguish from others anyway - with its strengths and weaknesses.
I think the most important factor in creative work which often decides over success can be you – your own personal touch, your one-of-a-kind working method, your esthetics. Sometimes it's all about you, sometimes it's all about ideas and timing, sometimes it's all about esthetics and how everything is put together or the choice of the right medium. However, the process of making is quite often substantial and very apparent.