Jörg Piringer

Jörg Piringer (* 1974 in Vienna ) is an Austrian writer , action artist and computer scientist .

Life and work

Piringer studied computer science at the Institute for Design and Effects Research at the Vienna University of Technology until 2001 and wrote his thesis on electronic music and interactivity . Since 2009 he has been teaching at the Vienna School of Poetry a . a. Acoustic poetry . In 1998 he co-founded the Institute for Transacoustic Research , where he works in performances , installations and workshops. He is a member of the ensemble of the vegetable orchestra , which plays on instruments made from vegetables a . a. Free jazz , noise , dub and covers of Kraftwerk titles. Invited by Nora Gomringer , he read his text kuzushi at the 44th Days of German-Language Literature in 2020 .

Publications (selection)

• Data poetry , Ritter Verlag, Klagenfurt 2018 ISBN 978-3-85415-583-6
  • data poetry , Counterpath Press, Denver 2020 ISBN 978-1-93-399674-5 (engl.)
• Trigger warning (radio play), Berlin radio play festival 2018 and SRF 2018
• leaflet no. 18 , in: Dieter Sperl (ed.), Literature as an Art Form and Theory No. 18 (February 2017)
• tractatus infinitus (Poetic Software), 2016
• I / my / me / me (radio play), Radio Steiermark and Radio Ö1 , 2016
• tiny poems (poetic software), 2015
• impulse response (radio play), Kunstradio Radio Ö1, 2013
• consonant (sound poetic software), 2012
• abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz (sound poetic software), 2010
• Three Ideophones , together with Goodiepal and Aeron & Alejandra, Onomatopee, Eindhoven 2008 ISBN 978-90-78454-23-6

Awards (selection)

• 2016 lime_lab2 radio play award (Austria)
• 2015 Project grant for literature from the BKA (Austria)
• 2015 Outstanding Artist Award for Media Art from the BKA (Austria)
• 2015 Residency Scholarship Schloss Wiepersdorf (Germany)
• 2014 Ö1 poetry award "hautnah" (Austria)
• 2013 Residency at the MoKS in Mooste (Estonia)
• 2012 ZKM AppArtAward, Karlsruhe (Germany)
• 2012 BMUKK media art grant 2012 (Austria)
• 2008 Residence Scholarship Stadmühle Willisau (Switzerland)
• 2004 Project grant for literature from the BKA (Austria)
• 2003 AiR_port Residency at Forum Stadtpark (Austria)
• 2003 Prix de l'Atelier de Création Sonore Radiophonique (Belgium)

Web links

• jörg piringer - digital sound visual interactive poetry etc. (engl.)
• Texts by Jörg Piringer available online:
  • leaflet no. 18 on :flugschrift.at (2017)
  • "Data poetry" on: logbuch-suhrkamp.de (2018)
  • "Kuzushi" as PDF on: bachmannpreis.orf.at (2020)
• Audio samples available online:
  • Jörg Piringer, "Triggerwarnung" , on: berliner-hoerspielfestival.de (2018)
  • Vegetable orchestra, "Gemise" (1999), "Automate" (2003), "Onionoise" (2010) and "Green Album" (2018) on: vegetableorchestra.org (engl.)
  • Institute for Transacoustic Research, list of all mp3s , on: iftaf.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jörg Piringer at: haus-fuer-poesie.org (2019), accessed on June 22, 2020.
2. ↑ Jörg Piringer, Electronic Music and Interactivity: Principles, Concepts, Applications (Diploma Thesis), Vienna 2001.
3. ↑ Teacher Jörg Piringer at: sfd.at, accessed on June 22, 2020.
4. ↑ about the institute at: iftaf.org, accessed on June 22, 2020.
5. ↑ about at: vegetableorchestra.org, accessed June 22, 2020.
6. ↑ Jörg Piringer, A on: bachmannpreis.orf.at (June 2020), accessed on June 22, 2020.
7. ↑ The short burning micro 2018 - The nominees at: berliner-hoerspielfestival.de (2018), accessed on June 22, 2020.
8. ↑ bio on: joerg.piringer.net, accessed on June 22, 2020.
9. ↑ LIME_LAB_2 on: literaturhaus-graz.at (2016), accessed on June 22, 2020.
10. ↑ Jörg Piringer, appreciation at: literaturport.de (December 7, 2018), accessed on June 22, 2020.