Günther Friesinger

Günther Friesinger (2016)

Günther Friesinger (born May 4, 1973 in Graz ) is an Austrian philosopher , freelance media maker, artist and curator .

Act

Günther Friesinger works as a lecturer at various universities, as a journalist for several radio stations, is co-operator of the Team Teichenberg project office, develops audio and streaming software and is also the operator of the Philosophical Audio Library at the University of Vienna . From 2005 to 2009 he was works council for the scientific staff at the University of Vienna. Since 2006 he has been chairman of the Quartier für Digitale Kultur, which is located in Vienna's Museumsquartier , and director of paraflows - festival for digital art and cultures in Vienna.

He is a member of the art and theory group monochrom . In his theoretical and practical work, he mainly deals with topics such as: digital culture , media art , media theory , intellectual property , urban hacking , copyright , data protection , network culture and refusal to consume .

In 2003, together with Helmut Neumann , Morgana Petrik and Dominik Sedivy, he founded the “Society for Sound Series Music” and the associated Institute for Sound Series Music. The primary goal is the research and documentation of the third Vienna twelve-tone school and the promotion of sound series composition (also sound series theory , sound series composition teaching).

Since 2003 he organized in Austria Events International Buy Nothing Day (International Buy-Nothing Day). The aim is to protest against exploitative production and trade strategies of international corporations and financial groups by refraining from consumption for 24 hours. Conscious purchasing behavior of every individual, aimed at sustainability, should thus be promoted.

In 2004 he was co-founder of netznetz.net in Vienna. On the one hand, it was about the networking of Viennese net art and net culture initiatives and the development of a new funding model for net art and culture. The core of this funding model is the basic idea that no curator and no jury make funding decisions. A participatory and egalitarian selection should be made according to the nature of the net culture. The aim is to promote a pluralist sector and a collaborative climate between the actors.

In 2006 Friesinger started the paraflows - festival for digital art and cultures in Vienna. The aim was to create a platform for the local scene of media art, net art, digital art and culture, media activism, data protection and game culture. Friesinger has been the festival director of paraflows since 2006.

Curatorial activities, organization of festivals (selection)

• Body music, public art . Graz / Austria , 1997
• Quo Vadis logo ?! . (Exhibition, Museumsquartier ), Vienna / Austria, with Johannes Grenzfurthner , 2003
• Kauf Nix Tag / Buy Nothing Day , Vienna / Austria, 2003-
• Roböxotica . (Festival, Museumsquartier), Vienna / Austria, with Johannes Grenzfurthner and Magnus Wurzer, 2003-
• Flash Exhibition, art in public space . Graz / Austria, 2003-2005
• Udo 77 ( musical about Udo Proksch ) Theater im Rabenhof, with monochrome . Vienna / Austria, 2004–2005
• Demaelstromization . Festival “Living in a Monument”, Hall in Tirol / Austria, 2005
• Experience the Experience! . Los Angeles: Machine Project, Vancouver: Contemporary Art Gallery, San Francisco: Rx Gallery, 2005
• Birthday of capitalism . Kunstverein Baden near Vienna / Austria, with Johannes Grenzfurthner, 2005
• forms to-do stacks! . Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna / Austria, together with Johannes Grenzfurthner, 2005
• Sci Fi Stories . Museumsquartier, Vienna / Austria, 2006
• Mediamatics . (Festival, Museumsquartier), Vienna / Austria, with Thomas Thurner, 2006–2008
• paraflows - festival for digital arts and cultures . Vienna / Austria, 2006-
• Ass electronics . (Festival) San Francisco / USA , with Johannes Grenzfurthner, 2007-
• International Year of Polytheism . Toronto / Canada ; San Francisco / USA; Los Angeles / USA, 2007
• Re: AW: [We] Fwd: Loge etc / OTS-Auss.f.Uberahme; oil / businessplan // IMPORTANT; who? , Galerie Bleich-Rossi / Vienna / Austria, 2007
• monochrome climate training camp / HAU / Berlin / Germany, 2009
• Who Wolf / Viertelfestival / Schönberg / Austria, 2010
• They used to be better too. monochrom (1993-2013) / MUSA / Vienna / Austria, 2013

Exhibition participation and actions

• Netznetz.net, Festival of Net-Art, Künstlerhaus, Vienna / Austria 2004
• Arad-ii Miami Beach Crisis, Art Basel Miami Beach / USA , 2005
• videomedeja, Novi Sad / Serbia , 2006
• HAIP - Multimedia Festival of Open Technologies, Ljubljana / Slovenia , 2006, 2008
• work, House of Architecture Graz - Steirischer Herbst , Graz / Austria, 2006
• 7th Werkleitz Biennale, Happy Believers, Halle / Germany, 2006
• Sinopale, First Sinop Biennale, Sinop / Turkey, 2006
• There's Something Rotten In The State Of Argentinia / Transmediale 2006, Berlin / Germany, 2006
• WE ARE WOANDERS # 2 - European Art Festival, Hamburg / Germany, 2007
• Luksuz Film Festival, Krško / Slovenia , 2007
• file-2007, Sesi Gallery, São Paulo , Brazil , 2007
• aniMOTION - European Animation Festival, Sibiu / Romania , 2007
• Miden - Video Art Festival, Kalamata / Greece , 2007
• Technology Myth Creative Summer Camp, 9th International Festival for New Media Culture, Riga / Latvia , 2007
• Simultan - Video and New Media Festival / Timișoara / Romania , 2007, 2008
• Unterspiel, Blackwood Gallery, Toronto / Canada, 2007
• Touch me Festival / Zagreb / ​​Croatia, 2008
• Haip 08 Festival / Ljubljana / Slovenia, 2008
• Anna Kournikova deleted by memeright trusted system - Art in the Age of Intellectual Property / hmkv / Dortmund / Germany, 2008
• The Influencers, Center for Contemporary Culture / Barcelona / Spain, 2008
• Common History and its private Stories, Musa / Austria / Austria, 2009
• Subversive fair / Linz 09 / Linz / Austria, 2009
• Absolutely Free - The Woodstock Effect / Landesmuseum Joanneum / Graz / Austria, 2009
• monochrome-climate-training-camp / The Model / Sligo / Ireland, 2010
• A8 towards Vienna / Platform3 - spaces for contemporary art / Munich / Germany, 2010
• It's a kind of magic! Mystification and demystification in the context of artist publications since 1960 / Study center for artist publications in the Weserburg / Museum for Modern Art / Bremen / Germany, 2010
• THE BIG PICTURE / Ars Electronica / Linz / Austria, 2012

Organization of conferences and symposiums

Conferences

• Intellectual property in digital processes . Institute for Philosophy, University of Vienna . Together with Peter Schober, 2002
• Wealth through copyleft - creativity in the digital age - 3rd Oekonux conference . Institute for Philosophy, University of Vienna , 2004

Symposia

• The beautiful failure . Museumsquartier , Vienna ; with Karin Harrasser, 2004
• Public Fictions - Robots for (almost) everyone . Museumsquartier, Vienna; with Karin Harrasser, 2005
• Spectacle Art Society . Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna´; with Johannes Grenzfurthner and Stephan Grigat, 2005
• Dreams of regulation - cybernetics & robotics as an interdisciplinary universal science . Museumsquartier, Vienna; with Jutta Weber, 2006
• The nets beyond the net . Semperdepot, Vienna; with Andreas Leo Findeisen, 2006
• Channels of Knowledge . Museumsquartier, Vienna, 2006
• Mind in the machine . Museumsquartier, Vienna; with Thomas Ballhausen and Johannes Grenzfurthner, 2007
• Copy - plagiarism - forgery . Museumsquartier, Vienna; with Paul Lohberger and Thomas Ballhausen, 2007
• Boundaries of the sea . Museumsquartier, Vienna; with Karin Harrasser and Thomas Brandstetter, 2007
• Ambience. Life & its spaces . Museumsquartier, Vienna; with Karin Harrasser and Thomas Brandstetter, 2008
• MIND AND MATTER. Comparative Approaches towards Complexity . Museumsquartier, Vienna; with Thomas Ballhausen and Johannes Grenzfurthner, 2010
• How to Make the World Work: Richard Buckminster Fuller World Game Lab . AzW, Vienna; with Enrique Guitart and Thomas Thurner, 2011
• Open. Dissect. Rebuild. Museumsquartier, Vienna; with Jana Herwig, 2012

Publications

Editorships

• The essence of tonality , editors: Günther Friesinger, Helmut Neumann , Morgana Petrik and Dominik Sedivy, edition mono, Vienna, 2006
• Spectacle - art - society. Guy Debord and the Situationist International , editors: Günther Friesinger, Johannes Grenzfurthner and Stephan Grigat , Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin, 2006
• Quo Vadis Logo !? , Editors: Günther Friesinger and Johannes Grenzfurthner, edition mono, Vienna, 2006
• pr0nnovation? Pornography and Technological Innovation , editors: Günther Friesinger, Johannes Grenzfurthner and Daniel Fabry, RE / Search Publications, San Francisco, 2008
• Roboexotica , editors: Günther Friesinger, Magnus Wurzer, Johannes Grenzfurthner, Franz Ablinger and Chris Veigl, edition mono, Vienna, 2008
• The Sorrows of New Music , editors: Günther Friesinger, Helmut Neumann , Morgana Petrik and Dominik Sedivy, edition mono, Vienna, 2009
• Public fictions. How to invent robots and humans , editors: Günther Friesinger and Karin Harrasser, Studienverlag, Innsbruck, 2009
• Do Androids Sleep with Electric Sheep? , Editors: Günther Friesinger, Johannes Grenzfurthner, Daniel Fabry and Thomas Ballhausen, RE / Search Publications, San Francisco, 2009
• Boundaries of the Sea , editors: Günther Friesinger, Thomas Brandstetter and Karin Harrasser, Turia & Kant, Vienna, 2010
• Protection violations - legitimation of media violence , editors: Günther Friesinger, Thomas Ballhausen and Johannes Grenzfurthner, Verbrecher Verlag , Berlin, 2010
• Ambience. Life and its Spaces , editors: Günther Friesinger, Thomas Brandstetter and Karin Harrasser, Turia & Kant, Vienna, 2010
• ZukunftsWebBuch 2010: Chances and Risks of Web 3.0 , editors: Günther Friesinger, Marion Fuglewicz-Bren, Martin Kaltenböck and Thomas Thurner, edition mono, Vienna, 2010
• Innovation Prize 2010 of the independent cultural scene in Vienna , publisher: IG Kultur Wien, Irmgard Almer, Günther Friesinger, edition mono, Vienna, 2010
• Urban Hacking: Cultural Jamming Strategies in the Risky Spaces of Modernity , editors: Günther Friesinger, Johannes Grenzfurthner, Thomas Ballhausen, Transcript, Bielefeld, 2010
• Mind in the machine. Media, processes and spaces of cybernetics , editors: Günther Friesinger, Thomas Ballhausen and Johannes Grenzfurthner, Verena Bauer, Turia & Kant, Vienna, 2010
• Intellectual property and originality. On the politics of knowledge and culture production , editors: Odin Kroeger, Günther Friesinger, Paul Lohberger, Eberhard Ortland, Turia & Kant, Vienna, 2011
• Pointer. The wonderful world of absence , editors: Günther Friesinger, Daniel Fabry, Johannes Grenzfurthner, edition mono, Vienna, 2011
• Of Intercourse and Intracourse. Sexuality, Biomodification and the Techno-Social Sphere , editors: Johannes Grenzfurthner, Günther Friesinger and Daniel Fabry, RE / Search Publications, San Francisco, 2011
• Mind and Matter: Comparative Approaches towards Complexity , editors: Günther Friesinger, Johannes Grenzfurthner, Thomas Ballhausen, Transcript, Bielefeld, 2011
• Serial Composition and Tonality. An Introduction to the Music of Hauer and Steinbauer , editors: Günther Friesinger, Helmut Neumann, Dominik Sedivy, edition mono, Vienna, 2011
• Context Hacking: How to Mess with Art, Media, Law and the Market , editors: Günther Friesinger, Johannes Grenzfurthner, Frank Apunkt Schneider, edition mono, Vienna, 2013
• Nuances. Positions on music , editors: Günther Friesinger, Helmut Neumann, edition mono, Vienna, 2013
• Screw the System: Explorations of Spaces, Games and Politics through Sexuality and Technology , editors: Johannes Grenzfurthner, Günther Friesinger and Daniel Fabry, RE / Search Publications, San Francisco, 2013
• The Next Cyborg , editors: Günther Friesinger, Judith Schossböck, edition mono, Vienna, 2014
• The Art of Reverse Engineering: Open - Dissect - Rebuild , editors: Günther Friesinger, Jana Herwig, Transcript, Bielefeld, 2014

Magazine and book series

• Sonne Busen Hammer 16 / monochrom # 24 , editors: Günther Friesinger, Franz Ablinger and Johannes Grenzfurthner, edition mono, Vienna, 2006
• Sonne Busen Hammer 17 / monochrom # 25 , editors: Günther Friesinger, Franz Ablinger and Johannes Grenzfurthner, edition mono, Vienna, 2007
• paraflows , editor: Günther Friesinger, edition mono, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
• monochrom # 26-34: Ye Olde Self-Referentiality , editors: Günther Friesinger, Johannes Grenzfurthner, Daniel Fabry and Franz Ablinger, edition mono, Vienna, 2010
• Sonne Busen Hammer 18 / monochrom # 35 , editors: Günther Friesinger, Anika Kronberger, Frank Apunkt Schneider, edition mono, Vienna, 2014

Discography

Studio albums

• Birthday of Capitalism , 2005
• Carefully Selected Moments , 2008

Musicals

• Udo 77 , 2004

As a producer

• Hello World! , Noise the Robots, Label monochrom, 2009

Awards

• Radio Prize for Adult Education, Experimental Section, 2002
• Nestroy Theater Prize (Vienna) for 'Udo 77' (together with 'The Great Television Swindle' by maschek and 'Freundes' by Steinhauer and Henning; Rabenhof season 2004), 2005
• Coca Cola Light Art Edition (Lord Jim Loge powered by monochrom), 2006
• Videomedeja Awards, Special Mention (Novi Sad, Serbia) in the Net / Software category for “Soviet Unterzögersdorf / Sector 1 / The Adventure Game”, 2006
• aniMOTION Award, Honorary Mention (Sibiu, Romania) in the Interactive Tales category for “Soviet Unterzögersdorf / Sector 1 / The Adventure Game”, 2007
• MEDIA FORUM / Moscow International Film Festival, Jury Special Mention (Moscow, Russia) for “Voids Foaming Ebb”, 2008
• Artist in Residence ORF III , 2013
• FWF Art Prize, Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research, 2013
• Promotion Prize of the City of Vienna for Public Education , 2013
• Bank Austria Art Prize, Jury Prize, 2013
• Best Foreign Horror Feature, Indie Gathering International Film Festival 2014, for Die Gstettensaga: The Rise of Echsenfriedl
• Best Hacker Feature, PhutureCon Festival 2014, for Die Gstettensaga: The Rise of Echsenfriedl
• Best Foreign Cult Movie, Fright Night Film Fest 2014, for Die Gstettensaga: The Rise of Echsenfriedl
• Best Narrative Feature, Maker Film Festival 2014, for Die Gstettensaga: The Rise of Echsenfriedl
• Award of Merit, The Indie Fest 2014, for Die Gstettensaga: The Rise of Echsenfriedl
• Best Documentary Newcomer, IAFOR International Documentary Film Awards, 2014 for A Place for Everyone

Web links

• Literature by and about Günther Friesinger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Günther Friesinger in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Interview with Günther Friesinger known in the city
• Radio broadcast about Günther Friesinger on Radio Orange
• http://www.monochrom.at
• http://audiothek.philo.at/
• http://www.oekonux-konferenz.de/
• http://www.paraflows.at

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Co -operator of the Philosophical Audiothek at the University of Vienna ( Memento of the original from April 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on May 2, 2010) 
2. ↑ Entry in kunstaspekte (accessed on May 2, 2010)
3. ↑ Entry in basis wien - Art, Information and Archive (accessed on May 2, 2010)
4. ↑ Quartier for digital culture ( Memento of the original from May 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on May 2, 2010) 
5. ↑ paraflows (accessed October 4, 2010)
6. ↑ What robots tell about people (accessed May 2, 2010)
7. ↑ Urban hacking penetrates Vienna's public space (accessed on May 2, 2010)
8. ↑ Institute for Sound Series Music (accessed on May 2, 2010)
9. ↑ netznetz.net ( Memento of the original from May 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on May 2, 2010) 
10. ↑ Fictional artists, almighty curators ...? ( Memento of the original from July 18, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on May 2, 2010) 
11. ↑ Birthday of Capitalism (accessed on May 2, 2010)
12. ↑ Spectacle - Art - Society. Guy Debord and the Situationist International, Free E-Book under CC ( Memento of the original from January 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on January 26, 2011)