Joachim Sauter

----Joachim Sauter (*1959) is a German media artist and designer.

Biography

Joachim Sauter studied design at the Universität der Künste Berlin (Berlin University of the Arts) and direction and camera at the German Academy for Film and Television, Berlin. 

He has been using computers both as a tool and as a medium from the early stages of his work. A pioneer of new media, he has developed and shaped this field with his works from the early 1980ies on.

In 1988 he founded the new media design studio ART+COM, together with other artists, designers, scientists and developers. Their goal was to practically research this new upcoming medium in the realm of art and design.


Since 1991 Joachim Sauter is a full professor for "New Media Art and Design" at the Universität der Künste Berlin, since 2001 adjunct professor at the “Media Art and Design Center” at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Joachim Sauter lives and works in Berlin.

Projects with ART+COM (partial)

Art:

*2008 „Lagrange Ballet“ – kinetic sculpture 

*2007 „Duality“ – interactive environmental installation, Tokyo 

*2002 "Behind the Lines"  - interactive installation

*1999-2002 „The Jew of Malta“ – medial stage
*1995-now „The Invisible Shapes of Things Past” – architectural sculptures made of films
*1992 “De-Viewer” – interactive installation



Design:

*2008 „Spheres“ – mediatecture
*2005 „documenta mobil“ – mobile exhibition
*2004 „floating.numbers“ – interactive table installation
*2004 „Austrian Flag“ - interactive flag
*1996 „Terravision“ – interactive installation
*1995-now "timescope" - low-tech augmented reality device

Exhibitions (partial)

*2008 "on cities", National Architecture Museum Stockholm, Sweden
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2007 “From Sparc to Pixel”, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
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2006 “Venice Biennale of Architecture”, German Pavilion, Italy
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2006 “Shanghai Biennale", China
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2006 “Digital Transit”, ARCO, Madrid, Spain
*2005 "São Paulo Biennale of Architecture", Brasil
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2004 “Navigator”, National Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
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2003 “Future Cinema”, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany/Lille, France
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2001 “Invisible”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
*1998 “Portable Sacred Grounds”, ICC, Tokyo, Japan
*1996 “Wunschmaschine, Welterfindung”, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria
*1996 “Under the Capricorn”, Steijdilik Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
*1995 “Anew Europe”, Venice Biennale, Italy
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1993 “Artec”, Museum of Modern Art, Nagoya, Japan
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1992 “Manifeste”, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

External links

* [http://www.joachimsauter.com/ Joachim Sauter’s Website]
* [http://artcom.de/index.php?lang=en&option=com_acstartseite&Itemid=110 ART+COM]
* [http://www.digital.udk-berlin.de/en/people/faculty/sauter.html Universität der Künste Berlin]