BIOGRAPHY
Caspar Stracke
is a media artist from Hamburg, Germany living and working in New York since
1993.
He worked in the realm of Experimental Cinema, since 1993 in Digital Media
and Media Archaeology.
His films, videos and installation work has been shown in numerous exhibitions,
retrospectives and festivals ithroughout North and South America, Europe and
Asia.
In 1999 he completed his first feature-length film project “CIRCLE'S
SHORT CIRCUIT” which toured throughout the US and Europe amd was selected
for the American Century Part II exhibition at the Whitney Museum, NY.
He is an active member of THE THING, a NY-based nexus for net culture.
He has curated video programs for Knitting Factory, NY, Eighth Floor Gallery,
NY, Ocularis, Brooklyn, Up and Coming, Hannover, Cityzooms Bremen / Barcelona,
VIDEOEX, Zürich among others.
Since 2005 he is the co-director of video_dumbo a festival for contemporary
video art in NYC, co-presented by the Dumbo Arts Center. (dac)
Caspar Stracke
lives in New York, also working as a free-lanced editor and cameraman.
(CV and list of clients)
1967 born in Darmstadt,
Germany
1986 -93 Fine Art study with Lienhard v. Monkiewitsch und H.P. Zimmer (painting)
und film/video with Gerhard Büttenbender, Wilhelm and Birgit Hein, HBK,
Academy of Fine Arts, Braunschweig, Germany
1994 MFA
1994/95 DAAD scholarship, New School for Social Research
1997 European Media Artist Residency, (EMARE) Hull Time Based Arts, UK
2000 Participation in EXPO theme park project “Knowledge - Information
- Communication” in collaboration with BBM and ZKM at Expo 2000 Hannover,
Germany
2005 EYEBEAM redisency
2002 - present
editor for "Kulturzeit" / New York, with Dominique Gradenwitz (producer)
2003 curatorial projects for CITYZOOMS, Bremen, VIDEOEX Zürich and
CLOSERTHANTHEREALTHING, at THE THING
2006 board member
of THE THING
2006-2007 Guest prof. for Informaton Design at University of Ulsan, Korea
awards
2007 LA cultural
affairs officeLAX airport commission
2003 Videokunstpreis Bremen
2002 Fimbureau Hamburg, Production Grant
2000 Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship
1999 NY Bessie Award (video design for DKK, with Benton Bainbridge)
1995 Prize of the German Film Critics, Oberhausen Film Festival, Germany
1994 Golden Medal (Best Experimental Film) New York Film & Video Expo
1991 GRUNDIG European Sports Video award
selected exhibitions
(** = solo exhibition)
2008. LAX Airport, Bradley Terminal Video Art
Installation Project
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
............Stadt Rand Fluß Lothringer
13 , Munich, Germany
............Silent Observers” Modern Art
Museum, Rijka, Croatia
............“Media Archaeology” DiverseWorks,
Houston Texas
............“Remapped Realities”,
EYEBEAM, NY (curator: Benjamin Weill)
............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 HARAKIRI BONBON (with Joern Zehe and Eike) Kunsthaus Hamburg
............To Free Cinema, Instituto Braziliano
Audiovisual, Rio de Janiero
2002 FUTURE CINEMA, ZKM, Karlsruhe
............Media-Art-Interaction, Goethe Institute,
New York
............“WORD” DiverseWorks,
Photofest, Houston, Texas
2001 "MÀLHOL/ANDERSWO" Goethe Institute Budapest
............CSOMOPONT, Budapest
2000 WHITNEY MUSEUM of American Art
............The American Century Part II, “Circle’s
Short Circle’s” in film selection
............“HOTEL NEW YORK” PS 1,
Center for Contemporary Art, NY **
1999 SIT.COM Galerie Montenay-Giroux, Paris
1998 TRANSMEDIALE, Berlin
1997 New York Arts Exchange
1996 CB's
Gallery, New York (with Julie Murray)
............Artist's
Space, NY (with Julie Murray)
............"15 Lux Maximum", Eighth
Floor Gallery, NY
............Angel Oresanz Foundation, NY
............"Schlaglicht" KunstMuseum
Wolfsburg, Germany
1995 "Meisterschüler", MFA HBK, Braunschweig
retrospectives
(film/video) / visiting artist / lectures
2007..Sejong
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 .Universityof
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
............CalArts,
LA
............SF
Cinemateque at Yerba Buena Art Center
1998 Whitney Myseum 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
FILMOGRAPHY [1989 - 1996]
1986 BUMP AND BUMP
(16mm Blow-up, 6,5 min)
1998 CHEWING GUM: OPEN/CLOSE (16mm Blow-up, 7 min.)
1989 KOPF MOTOR KOPF (16mm, 13,5 min)
1991 SAD SACK (16mm, 13 min)
1993 SILVERY (16mm; 19 min)
1994: NACH WANYUSHA (16mm, 40 min)
1995: AFTERBIRTH (16mm)
1996: DECONSTRUCTED EDUCATIONAL SPORT SERIES (16mm 8,5 min)
1997-99: CIRCLE'S SHORT CIRCUIT
(35mm Dolby SR)
VIDEOGRAPHY
1994: THE CAPTURED
CITY (UMatic, 45 min)
1997: LOCKED GROOVE (Betacam, 10 min)
1997-99: CIRCLE'S SHORT CIRCUIT
(DVCam 85 min)
2000: READ ME
2001: KUBRICK SPACE (CED SERIES)
OUT OF JOINT (work in progress)
2002: NO DAMAGE
2003: SKT 090:2001 (CED SERIES)
TORN (CED SERIES)
ZUSE STRIP
2004 SCAN
(Mostra)
BETWEEN EMPHATHY AND SYMPATHY IS TIME (with
Terre Thaemlitz)
2005 Kulchov Sukiyaki (Mostra)
2006 Coma Érotique (Mostra)
2007 Rong Xiang
TIME/OUT
OF JOINT (work in progress)
INSTALLATIONS
1996 THROATLIGHT
(single channel video installation)
GEGEBEN/VERGESSEN (single channel video installation
w/ water circuit)
OrigiN
(single channel video /16mm loop)
1999 DOUBLESTREAM (single channles video projection, wooden frame, rear screen)
DOUBLESTREAM II (double chanel version)
2001 Untitled (NY/Bergen/Budaest) (Interactive four channel video installation)
OrigiN (interactive net version; on-going)
2002 Untitled (B>NY)
2003 Übersetzter (Translator) with Eike and Jörn Zehe
2004 z2 [Zuse Strip]
Doppel
(4 channel video installation)
2005 Points of Presence (2 channel
video installation)
2007 Urban Particle Super
Collider (3 channel video installation)
PROJECTIONS / PERFORMANCES
1987 FAUXPAS
1988 GERSHFLUX
1990 RORSCHACH 1
1992 RORSCHACH 2
1994 Incomplete Desaster, DanceKumiko Kimoto, St Mark’s Church, NY
1995 MASAO, DanceKumiko Kimoto, St Mark’s Church, NY
1995-1997 PANOPTICAL MOTOR, multi projections, in collaboration with Julie
Murray
sites (selection): Soundlab, Chinatown, Financial
District, Artist’s Space 1996,
Charas NY 1997, Metamorphosis, Context Studios,
Ongolia, Brooklyn (1998)
1998 MEMORYSCAN DanceKumiko Kimoto, The Kitchen 1999
award: New York Bessie award for video design,
in collaboration with Benton Bainbridge
2000: RENDER DanceKumikoKimoto, Pulse Series, WHITNEY at Philip Morris
2002: NEW GENRE (David Linton w/ Charles Cohen)
UNITY GAIN: VIDNAUGHTS
2003: UNITY GAIN@ DCTV
MIXOLOGIES, Perfoming Garage
2004: MOSTRA: Monkeytown Invitational (cutared by Bob Stein)
Festival participations:
New York Video Festival, New York Expo, London Film Festival , Pandaemonium,
EAMF, IMPAKT, Flaherty Film Seminar, Shortfilm Oberhausen, IKFF Hamburg, Edinburgh,
Bruxelles, and other venues throughout Europe.
Films/ Video in distribution of:
Video Data Bank Chicago,
EAMF Osnabrück,
Light Cone, Rencontre Internations,
Film Makers Co-op,
KALI FILM,
Goethe Institute/Inter Nationes, German Flms,
Kuratorium Junder Deutscher Film
FFHH Hamburg
.