Benjamin Heidersberger

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Benjamin Heidersberger (* 1957 in Braunschweig ) is a German media artist , publicist, entrepreneur and cultural manager. He lives and works in Berlin and Wolfsburg .

Live and act

Heidersberger studied physics, biology and computer science in Braunschweig from 1978 (without a degree). From 1978 to 1984 he was part of the interdisciplinary artist group Head Resonance in Wolfsburg “to research the laws of how ideas become reality”, together with Peter Elsner, in the field of architecture, music, performance and installation. In 1984 he went to Hamburg, first worked for a PC dealer, published from 1988 as editor of the computer magazine MACup on hardware and software, later also on art, technology and society. He also accompanied the development of a Macintosh -compatible PC from Taiwan .

In 1989 he co-founded Ponton-Lab GmbH, which realized interactive media and TV projects as Van Gogh TV as an artist group at documenta 8 and Documenta IX , in Japan in 1993 and Ars Electronica 86, 89, 90 and 94 . This included the international project Piazza Virtuale in 1992, which combined and broadcast 90 minutes of live TV from twelve studios spread across Europe including the former Eastern Bloc during the 100 Documenta days. That year he also conceived the exhibition “Creative Software - People and Milestones” for Ars Electronica, in which historically outstanding software with original hardware was shown.

From 1993 to 1994 Heidersberger taught at the Merz Academy in Stuttgart on the design of electronic media. The Ponton-Lab was continued in Hanover as a multimedia full-service agency with 20 employees, where u. a. the web offers www.niedersachsen.de for the state government and www.deutschland.de for the Federal Press Office and later the Foreign Office were created. In 1998 he started the cross-divisional online community Kulturserver , which implemented online services similar to today's social media for 20,000 artists. In 1999 the Cuban government invited the project to a presentation at the international conference “Cultura y Desarrollo” in Havana.

In 2002 he founded the Institut Heidersberger gGmbH in Wolfsburg Castle to archive and publish the life's work of his father, the photographer Heinrich Heidersberger , with the support of the city of Wolfsburg. The Heidersberger Institute works with contemporary artists who contextualize the work. In the same year he was also curator of the 4th Werkleitz Biennale real [work] for the field of net art.

From 2011, Heidersberger gave lectures at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Department of Media Studies and Musicology. In 2012 he was the artistic director and production of the concert by the Japanese Shinji Kanki at the Alvar Aalto Festival in Wolfsburg. He also realized the algorithmic piano composition Pentatonic Permutations , with a series of concerts and sound installations, including a. at Ars Electronica 2016.

From 2017 until the end of 2018 he curated the production art festival "Torque" of the KulturRegion Stuttgart .

Awards / nominations

  • 1991 Smithsonian Award, Washington - Nominee
  • 1993 International Siemens Media Art Prize from the ZKM Karlsruhe
  • 1993 Prix ​​Ars Electronica , recognition
  • 1994 Interactive Media Festival, Los Angeles - nominee
  • 2000 Best of Business-to-Business Award, as managing director, category multimedia applications
  • 2002 eMIL Award, User-friendliness category
  • 2003 eMIL Award, Internet category
  • 2004 WebFish of the EKD in the field of innovation
  • 2008 WebFish of the EKD in the Internet area

bibliography

  • Heinrich Heidersberger: Wolfsburg - pictures of a young city . Editor, with Bernd Rodrian, ISBN 3-89479-826-2 .
  • Johannes Ehrhardt (Ed.): Network Dimensions. Cultural configurations and management perspectives, The virtual piazza . 1992, ISBN 3-89238-045-7 .
  • Manfred Waffender (Ed.): Cyberspace: Excursions into virtual realities, The digital drug. 1993, ISBN 3-499-18185-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Spiegel.de: The Imaginary Pizza , May 21, 1992, accessed July 10, 2018
  2. ↑ wired.com: The Media is the Mission , January 5, 1993, accessed July 10, 2018
  3. ↑ Ars Electronica Archive: Endo Nano - The Inside World , 1992, accessed July 10, 2018
  4. ^ The Guardian: Cuba faces the web revolution , July 22, 1995, accessed August 8, 2018
  5. ^ Ars Electronica Festival 2016 - Radical Atoms , accessed on July 10, 2018.
  6. ↑ Kulturregion-stuttgart.de: Benjamin Heidersberger will be artistic director for the 2018 project , February 3, 2017, accessed July 16, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Heidersberger, Benjamin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German media artist, publicist, entrepreneur and cultural manager
DATE OF BIRTH 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig