Joachim Sauter

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Joachim Sauter (2007)

Joachim Sauter (* 1959 in Schwäbisch Gmünd ; † July 10, 2021 ) was a German media artist and designer. He is considered a pioneer of the new media .

Life

Sauter studied design at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin and the Hochschule für Gestaltung Schwäbisch Gmünd as well as directing and camera at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin . Since the beginning of his artistic and creative activity, he has dealt with the computer as a tool and medium. With his work he has shaped the field of new media. In 1988 Sauter founded the design office for new media ART + COM in Berlin together with other artists , designers , scientists and programmers. The aim was to research the computer medium in the field of art and design. From 1991 until his death Joachim Sauter was Professor of Art and Design with Digital Media at the University of the Arts , Berlin, and from 2001 he was also Adjunct Professor of Media Design and Media Art at the University of California, Los Angeles . In 2017 he received a practical scholarship from the Deutsche Akademie Rome Villa Massimo .

Joachim Sauter lived in Berlin and died in July 2021 after a serious illness.

Awards

Projects with ART + COM (selection)

  • 1992 "Zerseher" - interactive installation
  • 1995–2021 “The Invisible Shapes of Things Past” - architectural sculptures from films
  • 1995–2021 “timescope” - interactive installation
  • 1996 “Terravision” - interactive installation
  • 1999–2002 “The Jew from Malta” - media set design
  • 2002 “Behind the Lines” - interactive installation
  • 2004 "floating.numbers" - interactive table installation
  • 2004 “Austrian Flag” - interactive flag
  • 2005 “documenta mobil” - mobile exhibition
  • 2007 “Duality” - interactive installation in public space, Tokyo
  • 2008 "Kinetic Sculpture" - kinetic sculpture
  • 2008 "Spheres" - Mediatecture
  • 2010 “Greifpendel” - interactive kinetic installation
  • 2011 “Anamorphic Mirror” - anamorphic installation
  • 2012 "Kinetic Rain" - kinetic sculpture
  • 2013 “Symphonie Cinétique - The Poetry of Motion” - exhibition / performance in collaboration with Ólafur Arnalds

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1992 “Manifeste”, Center Pompidou, Paris, France
  • 1993 "Artec", Museum of Modern Art, Nagoya, Japan
  • 1995 “Anew Europe”, Venice Biennale, Italy
  • 1996 " Wish machine , world invention", Kunsthalle Wien, Austria
  • 1996 “Under the Capricorn”, Steijdilik Museum, Amsterdam, Holland
  • 1998 “Portable Sacred Grounds”, ICC, Tokyo, Japan
  • 2001 "Invisible", Museum of Modern Art, Porto, Portugal
  • 2003 “Future Cinema”, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany / Lille, France
  • 2004 “Navigator”, National Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
  • 2005 “Sao Paulo Architecture Biennale”, Brazil
  • 2006 “Venice Architecture Biennale”, German Pavilion, Italy
  • 2006 “Shanghai Biennale”, China
  • 2006 “Digital Transit”, ARCO, Madrid, Spain
  • 2007 “From spark to pixel”, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
  • 2008 “on cities”, Arkitekturmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden
  • 2010 “moving spaces”, Alva Aalto Museum, Aalborg, Denmark
  • 2011 “Matter Light II”, Borusan Center for Culture and Arts, Istanbul, Turkey
  • 2013 “LeBains”, Paris, France
  • 2017 “Poetic Structures”, InterCommunication Center Tokyo, Japan

Publications

Sauter, J .; Jaschko, S .; Ängeslevä, J. ART + COM: Media Spences and Installations . Berlin: Die Gestalten Verlag, 2011. ISBN 978-3-89955-285-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short CV of Sauter on medienkunstnetz.de (as of January 11, 2016)
  2. ↑ ART + COM Studios | Farewell. Retrieved July 13, 2021 .
  3. ↑ Wowereit congratulates UdK Professor Sauter on the design award . Press release from the State of Berlin from January 14, 2010.
  4. ↑ Joachim Sauter, Susanne Jaschko, Jussi Ängeslevä: ART + COM: Media Spaces and Installations . Gestalten, 2011, ISBN 978-3-89955-285-0 ( amazon.com [accessed May 3, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Sauter, Joachim
SHORT DESCRIPTION German media artist and designer
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwäbisch Gmünd
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 2021