Frederick Baker

Frederick Douglas Stephan “Fred” Baker (born January 26, 1965 in Salzburg ; died August 24, 2020 in Vienna ) was an Austrian - British filmmaker , media scientist and archaeologist .

Life

He was born in Salzburg and grew up in London . After graduating from Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School for Boys , he studied anthropology and archeology at St John's College , Cambridge, Tübingen and at the University of Sheffield and received his doctorate from Cambridge University .

He was a Senior Research Associate at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge University, specializing in digital humanities , heritage and prehistoric rock art . He was a co-founder of the EU funded 3D Pitoti Digital Heritage Project and co-director of the Cambridge University Prehistoric Picture Project.

He lived in London, Berlin and Vienna , produced and directed films and wrote articles and books. In the book The Art of Projectionism (2007) he defined a projection school for film and media art. In this publication he also presented "ambient film", a surround experience that can be shown in specially developed "ambient cinemas". His first narrative ambient short film Ruhetag premiered in Vienna in 2007. Ring Road: A Viennese Odyssey , the first ambient feature film, premiered at the Seville Biennale in 2008 .

His interviewees included Yoko Ono , George HW Bush , Michail Gorbatschow , Václav Havel , Schimon Peres , Helmut Kohl , John Major , Michel Rocard , Tadeusz Mazowiecki , Amalia Rodrigues , Cardinal Franz König , Lord Norman Foster , Sir Ernst Gombrich , Simon Wiesenthal , Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, Josef Stalin's grandson and Vivienne Westwood .

Baker taught film at the Danube University Krems and the St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences in Austria . He has given lectures on film, media and journalism at the Bauhaus University Weimar , the University of the Arts Berlin and Middlesex University in London. He also taught film as part of the Screen Media and Culture Group at Cambridge University. His specialties were Austrian cinema, new media art and television documentation. For the Museum of Applied Art , Vienna, he created ' Klimt's Magic Garden: A Virtual Reality Experience by Frederick Baker ' (2018).

Web links

• Frederick Baker in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ORF mourns filmmaker Frederick Baker. In: APA-OTS. August 26, 2020, accessed August 26, 2020 . 
2. ^ Filmmaker and historian Frederick Baker passed away. In: ORF.at . August 26, 2020, accessed August 26, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Home. Retrieved February 12, 2018 (UK English). 
4. ↑ home | The Museum of Archeology and Anthropology, Cambridge. Retrieved February 12, 2018 (UK English). 
5. ↑ KLIMT'S MAGIC GARDEN: - MAK Museum Vienna. Retrieved February 12, 2018 .