Kurt Hofstetter

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Kurt Hofstetter

BIOGRAPHY

Born on July 16th, 1959 in Linz, concept- and media artist, living and working in Vienna.
Artistic domains: concepts, sound-compositions, mathematical reflections, light sculptures, computer & video installations, InterNet sculptures, time sculptures, media art installations in public space

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INSTALLATIONS

2010	N.I.C. – miniatures, TripleD, VIENNAFAIR - Gallery KONZETT, Vienna N.I.C. – miniatures, ART COLOGNE - Gallery KONZETT, Cologne Ich schaue in den Himmel, um mich zu erden. Gallery KONZETT, Vienna Elementary wave @The Game of the Mighty, MAK - Museum of Applied \| Contemporary Arts, Vienna
2009	AZZURRO @ Détournement Venise, La Biennale di Venezia 2009, Venezia CircumC @ YOUser 2.0, ZKM – Museum for Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe
2008	CircumC @ Biennale Sevilla, CAAC / Museum of Modern Art Sevilla, Sevilla Time De Lux – installation @ zeitraumzeit k/haus - Künstlerhaus, Vienna N.I.C. - miniatur, Wien Museum Karlsplatz, Vienna
2007	SPACING TIME \| solstice 2007 @ paraflows 07 MAK-CAT Flakturm Arenbergpark, Vienna single field – installation, Landpartie 2 / NÖ - Austria, Unter-Oberndorf RAUMKUSS, Forum Experimenteller Architektur, MQ, Vienna TWILIGHT PENDULUM – space installation TENT Witte de With, IFFR exhibition, Rotterdam
2006	TIME DE LUX, Medienkunstlabor, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz TWILIGHT PENDULUM - sculpture, ZKM – Museum for Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe
2005	X-tense images – FTE-, CLP - sculptures KIT - Future Design Institute, Tokyo ‘C light pendula’ sculpture, Triennale New Delhi – India, New Delhi
2004	‘C light pendula’ www-client, http://www.sunpendulum.at/clp/
2003	‘pupils are not black holes’, G-Town Vienna, Vienna
2002	‘facing time eyes’ www-client, http://www.sunpendulum.at/fte/
2001	Sunpendulum HALF TIME, MAK-NITE – FAQ event, MAK, Vienna ‘moving moments @ pendel’, East & East, MUMOK, Vienna ‘facing time eyes’ 1st installation, look around, Medienwerkstatt Wien, Vienna
2000	‘as time goes b-eye’, sunpendulum reflection, Egyptian Embassy, Vienna
1999	‘lips pendulum’, ‘complementary light pendulum’ II=0, Echoraum, Vienna
1998	’moments in communication’, Sarajevska Zima / internat. art festival, Sarajevo
1997	‘die Zeit pendelt durch den Raum’, Arbeit Buch Wissenschaft, Arbeiterkammer, Vienna ‘the smile that you send out returns to you’, TopCall, stock market, Vienna
1996	‘moving moments @ pendel’, "Schrägspuren" - international video festival, Klagenfurt ‘moving moments @ pendel’, 100 Years Cinema, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna ‘moving moments @ pendel’, internat. Festival - Media Scape 4, Zagreb
1992	‚time-eye’, Im Augenblick, Haus Wittgenstein/Thurn&Taxis, Vienna/Bregenz
1991	‘Explosion – Inplusion’, light installation, Skala, Vienna
1990	‘Samples & Pictures’ in HPC, Industry 90, fair area - Hannover, Hannover
1989	‘Hofstetter Pendulum Clockwork’ (HPC), World Tech Vienna, Austria Center Vienna, Vienna

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MEDIA INSTALLATIONS by PARALLEL MEDIA (Barbara Doser & Hofstetter Kurt)

2011	dream’sdreams @ Kro Art Contemporary gallery, Vienna
2009	time no time @ Détournement Venise, La Biennale di Venezia 2009, Venezia breathing life into my bosom @ Psychedelia, CAPC musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux
2008	time no time @ project space, Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck order-re-order @ Katarakt, Schulterblatt 73, Hamburg
2007	order-re-order @ Festival of New Cinema City Art Museum, Ljubljana dream’s dreams @ LINOLEUM MOSCOW, Museum of Modern Art, Moscow

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VIDEOGRAPHY with Barbara Doser / PARALLEL MEDIA (selection)

2010	'zart_B', miniDV, b&w, 7 min, experimentala
2008	'breathing life into my bosom', endless loop, mini DV, b&w, 6 min, experimental 'time no time', DVD, b&w, 62 min, experimental 'zart_A', miniDV, b&w, 9 min, experimental
2007	'dream’sdreams', mini DV, b&w, 13 min, experimental
2006	'order-re-order', mini DV, b&w, 7 min, experimental 'XXLux', mini DV, b&w, 37 min, experimental
2005	'you breathe life into my bosom, Oleander', mini DV, b&w, 10 min, experimental
2003	'SUNPENDULUM by Hofstetter Kurt', mini DV, colour, 16 min, project video
2002	'facing time. parallel in an orbit', mini DV, b&w, 12:12 min, experimental
2001	'runtime one', mini DV, b&w, 4:40 min, experimental
1998	'SUNPENDULUM by Hofstetter Kurt', mini DV, colour, 16 min, project video
1995	'cross over', HI8, colour 7:15 min, experimental \| music with Barbara Doser & Norbert Math: 'Mreza/Netz - a memory of the live event in Vienna', HI8, 20 min, colour and b&w, pal, stereo, documentary \|

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PERMANENT INSTALLATIONS IN PUBLIC SPACE: since

2009	N.I.C. – nature is cool, crossways Langegasse – Laudongasse, Vienna one moment of time from 1994-2009 at Vienna South station now in front of ZKM – Karlsruhe
2006	sunpendulum time-eye of the Marshall Islands, College of the Marshall Islands – RMI, Majuro
2005	sunpendulum time-eye of Tokyo, Kanazawa Institute of Technology – Japan Tokyo
2004	sunpendulum time-eye of Kolkata, Jadavpur Universioty Kolkata – India, Kolkatal
2003	sunpendulum time-eye of Hong Kong, HK University of Science & Technology, China Hong Kong
2002	sunpendulum time-eye of Dubai, Zayed University Dubai - United Arab Emirates, Dubai
2001	sunpendulum time-eye of the Azores, Universidade dos Acores - Portugal, Angra Heroismo
2000	sunpendulum time-eye of Ensenada, Universidad de Baja California - Mexico Ensenada sunpendulum time-eye of New Orleans, University of New Orleans, New Orleans sunpendulum time-eye of Cairo, Ain Shams University Cairo, Cairo
1999	sunpendulum time-eye of Granada, Universidad de Granada - Spain, Granada sunpendulum time-eye of Bermuda, Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute Bermuda sunpendulum time-eye of Hawaii, Maui High Performance Computing Center, Maui /Hawaii
1993	planet of the commuters with the 3 time-moons, rail & sub station "Landstraße - Vienna Middle" Vienna

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MUSIC COMPOSITIONS (selection)

2008	ZART – a cantata möbius, 34:12', media: sampling / computer / electronics
2007	'dream'sdreams', 13', media: sampling / computer / electronics
2006	'ORDER-RE-ORDER', 7', media: sampling / computer / electronics
2005	'you breathe life into my bosom, Oleander', 10', media: sampling / computer / electronics
2004	'even odd even', 7' 30", media: sampling / computer / electronics, arranged by Barbara Doser music for experimental artvideo "even odd even" by Barbara Doser
2002	'moebius-yaomi-1', 1', media: computer / electronics 'belgrade-cafke-moebius-memory-1', 1', media: computer / electronics, piece for radiotopia @ Ars Electronica 2002 'sarajevo-moebius-loops', 1', media: computer / electronics, piece for radiotopia @ Ars Electronica 2002
2001	'for barbara', 43", media: computer / electronics 'runtime one', 4' 40", media: sampling / computer / electronics music for experimental artvideo : "runtime one" by Barbara Doser & Hofstetter Kurt / PARALLEL MEDIA
1997	'luminers call', 27' 15", media: sampling / computer / electronics, recorded in Vienna music for media performance: "luminers call - date 1" by Barbara Doser & Hofstetter Kurt
1995	'crossover', 7' 15", media: sampling keyboard / computer / electronics, recorded in Vienna music for experimental artvideo "crossover" by Barbara Doser & Hofstetter Kurt / PARALLEL MEDIAi 'cmpc', 41' 42", media: sampling / computer / electronics, by Hofstetter Kurt & Norbert Math
1994	'message to belgrade', 2' 16", media: sampling keyboard / e-violine, recorded in Vienna with Mia Zabelka
1991	'planet of time', 55", media: sampling keyboard / guitars / computer, recorded in Vienna music for artvideo "planet of the commuters with the 3 time-moons" by Hofstetter Kurt
1989	'Konzert für Kleiderhaken', 6' 08", media: sampling keyboard, recorded in Vienna
1987	'yumacowimi', 1', media: synthesizer, recorded in Vienna
1976	'Allee' - composition for two guitars / 'ALLEE - base cut version - 00 recorded in Ottensheim with Gary Danner / Slumberland Palace Band (1974-1978) version - 01 recorded 1987 in Vienna, since 1987 samples used in sound designs

"Möbius-sounds" created by Hofstetter Kurt are sound units generated by two parallel sound tracks so that being played forwards and backwards sound identical - a simply temporal version of the spatial principle of the Möbius strip music compositions for experimental artvideos by PARALLEL MEDIA:
VIDEO-, SOUND- & PROJECT SCREENINGS and/or PRESENTATIONS in more than 40 countries (selection)
Melbourne International Film Festival, Melbourne - AU
Courtisane Festival, Gent - BE
file – electronic language international festival, Sao Paulo - BR
Viper- Int. Festival for Film, Video and New Media, Base - CH
backup_festival, Weimar - DE
Int. Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Oberhausen - DE
Les Rencontres Internationales Festival, Berlin - DE
Exground Filmfest, Wiesbaden - DE
Int. ShortFilmFestival Hamburg, Hamburg - DE
Int. Videofestival Bochum, Bochum - DE
short cuts cologne, Int. Short Film Festival, Cologne - DE
SONAR Festival, Barcelona - ES
Les Rencontres Internationales Festival, Madrid - ES
Avanto Festival, Helsinki - FI
Biennale di Venezia – Musica, Venezia - IT
Festival des Cinémas Différentes, Paris - FR
Les Rencontres Internationales Festival - Paris - FR
Les Inattendus, Lyon - FR
Videoformes, IF for Video Art & Multimedia, Clermont-Ferrand - FR
International Festival of Fine Arts, Szolnok - HU
Sadho Poetry Film Fest, New Delhi - IND
Super Deluxe – SDLX, Tokyo - JPN
Kanazawa Institute of Technology / AV space, Kanazawa - JPN
Int. Filmfestival Rotterdam, Rotterdam - NL
Media Art Friesland Festival, Friesland - NL
Cinema de Balie, Amsterdam - NL
Next 5 Minutes, Amsterdam - NL
Curtas Vila do Conde, Vila do Conde, PT
Balkanima, Beograd - RS
Radio B92, Beograd - RS
LINOLEUM MOSCOW, Festival for Alternative Animation, Museum of Modern Art, Moscow - RU
Int. Kansk Video Festival, Kansk - RU
Int. Short Film Festival Izmir, Izmir - TR
Kill your timid notion – festival, Dundee - UK
Cinecity, The Brighton Film Festival, Brighton - UK
Museo Alejandro Otero-MAO, Caracas - VE
Black Maria Film & Video Festival, Jersey City - USA
Synthetic Zero Loft Event, New York - USA New York Int. Ind. Film and Video Festival, New York - USA

in Austria (selection)
Kiesler Stiftung, Vienna - AT
MAK, Vienna - AT
MUMOK, Vienna - AT
Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna - AT
Echoraum, Vienna - AT
Medienwerkstatt Wien, Vienna - AT
F.E.A. Museumsquartier MQ, Vienna - AT
Ö1 / Kunstradio, ORF, Vienna - AT
The Unifying Aspect of Cultures, Austria Center Vienna, Vienna - AT
Wien Modern, Wiener Konzerthaus, Vienna - AT
resfest, TOP-Kino, Vienna - AT
medien.Kunstlabor, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz - AT
Diagonale - Festival of Austrian Film, Graz - AT
film+arc 01 Festival, Graz - AT
video edition Austria – OÖ Landesgalerie / Museum Ferdinandeum, Linz/IBK - AT

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WORKSHOPS / SYMPOSIA / LECTURES (selection)

2010	University of Applied Arts Vienna / Arts & Science Department – lecture ‘Sunpendulum details’, Vienna
2007	Webster University Vienna / Art Department – lecture ‘media installations in public space’, Vienna
2006	Vienna University of Music / Institute of Music Theory – lecture ‘Moebius Sounds’, Vienna
2005	Kanazawa Institute of Technology / Media-Arch. – lecture ‘Sunpendulum - artistic intentions’, Kanazawa
2003	Conference “The Unifying Aspects of Cultures” – lecture “time ? experience”, Vienna
2002	University of Vienna / Pulizistik – lecture ‘video moments with eastern artists’, Vienna European Symposium on Solar Architecture – ‘the Sunpendulum pavilion #2 / solar cells’, Vienna Zayed University Dubai – lecture ‘Sunpendulum - artistic details’, Dubai
2001	Medienwerkstatt Wien – talk ‘moebius tape in terms of time & sound’, Vienna Museum of Modern Art – East&East split reality ‘artistic communication – former yugoslavia, Vienna Summer Academy Riczsovary – workshop ‘moments in communication’ / Hungary, Ricszovary
2000	University of New Orleans – lecture ‘Sunpendulum - artistic details’, New Orleans
1999	University of Vienna / Institute for Cybernetics – lecture ‘the sunpendulum project’, Vienna Summer Academy Topolcianky – workshop ‘moving moments’ / Slovakia, Topolcianky

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COOPERATIONS (selection)

Since 1997 sunpendulum architecture, research and parallel media – work with the sunpendulum team in progress

1997	Luminers Call - Date 1 - media performance with Barbara Doser, European Cultural Month 1997 - Ljubljana
1996	pendel- datapool of moments with Ars Electronica Center since 1996 a www-residence project - WWW / Linz moving moments 96 - exchange of video moments via InterNet with Doser / Math, Sarajevo - Vienna
1995	frame 04199401.0-4 - video-infrared-sound-installation with Doser / Math, Museum of Applied Arts - MAK - Vienna Changing Messages Parallel Crossover - telematisches Radio-Live-Event with Doser / Math TRANSIT ORF-Art Radio/ Radio Sarajevo, Innsbruck
1994	Mreza/Netz - telephone concert in Ljubljana, Belgrade, Pula with the project group Mreza/Netz, Sarajevo, Skopje and Vienna; Remise-Vienna Vienna

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AMONG OTHER THINGS

2009	semper et - gallery AREA53, Vienna scientific papers:
2008	“A simple compass-only construction of the regular pentagon” in Forum Geometricorum - http://forumgeom.fau.edu/FG2008volume8/FG200819index.html “A simple ruler and rusty compass construction of the regular pentagon” in Forum Geometricorum - http://forumgeom.fau.edu/FG2008volume8/FG200808index.htm
2006	“A 4-step construction of the golden ratio” in Forum Geometricorum - http://forumgeom.fau.edu/FG2006volume5/FG200618index.html “An Efficient Construction Of The Golden Section” in Crux Mathematicorum - http://journals.cms.math.ca/cgi-bin/vault/crux.pl?Volume=32&Issue=6&Year=2006
2005	“Division of a Segment in the Golden Section with Ruler and Rusty Compass” in Forum Geometricorum - http://forumgeom.fau.edu/FG2005volume5/FG200518index.html
2004	“Another 5-step Division of a Segment in the Golden Section” in Forum Geometricorum - http://forumgeom.fau.edu/FG2004volume4/FG200402index.html
2003	“A 5-step Division of a Segment in the Golden Section” in Forum Geometricorum - http://forumgeom.fau.edu/FG2003volume3/FG200322index.html
2002	“A simple construction of the Golden Section” in Forum Geometricorum - http://forumgeom.fau.edu/FG2002volume2/FG200208index.html
2004	book project “Einen Augenblick Zeit – Parallaxe” - Verlag “edition selene” – ISBN 3-85266-262-1 http://www.selene.at/buchdetail.php?id=147&show=neuerscheinung
1993	protection by patent of the Republic of Austria for the "Hofstetter Pendulum Clockwork" - permanent installation in the Historical Museum of Vienna
1996	Brunel Award Commendation - Copenhagn - international award for the permanent media installation at the railway station "Landstraße - Vienna Middle" „planet of the commuters with the three time-moons“

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