Michael Mastrototaro

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Michael Mastrototaro (born 1970 in Graz ) is an Austrian writer , media artist and visual artist who is best known for his media art and literature .

Michael Mastrototaro, 2019
MACHFELD

Life

Michael Mastrototaro was born in Graz and has lived in Vienna since 1991. He is the father of two sons. From 1976 to 1978 he was a member of the children's choir at the Graz Opera. During this time he sang a. a. a duet with Josep Carreras in the opera The stingiest man in the world . Afterwards he worked at the youth stage at the Schauspielhaus Graz. In 1994 he completed a speaking choir training with Einar Schleef in Berlin. Back in Vienna, he studied for two years at the Institute for Electroacoustics at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.

After dropping out of his studies, he concentrated on his professional artistic activity. Over the years numerous projects in the artistic disciplines of net art, experimental film (16 mm), installations for public spaces, radio art, performance, media art and literature have emerged. Since 2017 he has been working intensively with the visual arts . The focus of his artistic activity is always dealing with social tendencies. In 1999 he founded the artist duo Machfeld together with the Austrian media artist Sabine Maier . In 2008 he and Machfeld received the promotion award for video and media art from the Austrian Federal Chancellery. He realized projects in Africa, Asia, Europe, South America, Central & North America and in the USA (including Hong Kong Arts Center (Hong Kong / Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China), University of California (Santa Barbara / USA) Bag Factory (Johannesburg / South Africa), Kunsthalle Basel (Basel / Switzerland), Museum of Modern Art (Detroit / USA)).

He is a member of the Graz authors' assembly (GAV) and FLUSS, Lower Austria's initiative for photo and media art .

His work can be found in numerous private collections and in "The Life Collection", Johannesburg, South Africa.

Since 2004, he and the media artist Sabine Maier have been running the Machfeld studio in Vienna, an off-space that deals thematically with cross-border art practices.

Honourings and prices

  • 2000: Literature Prize "Writing Between Cultures", Edition Exil, Vienna
  • 2008: Promotion Prize for Video and Media Art, Federal Chancellery for Art and Culture

Participation in the following art fairs

  • 2012: Presented by “Galerie Raum mit Licht” at Viennafair, Vienna, Austria

Presented by “Galerie Raum mit Licht”, fotofever, Brussels, Belgium

  • 2013: Presented by “Galerie Odile Ouizeman”, Paris Photo, Paris, France

Presented by “Galerie Raum mit Licht”, Art Brussels, Brussels, Belgium

  • 2014: Presented by “Galerie Raum mit Licht”, Art Brussels, Brussels, Belgium

Publications

Filmography

  • 1999: Walk alone
  • 2002: Don't fly backwards
  • 2006: S1
  • 2008: Banska
  • 2016: Gnu for Zoo
  • 2016: Unseen

Cryptographic projects

In 2019 Michael Mastrototaro developed the “Konjungate” project. A blockchain using cryptography based on his 1999 novel Machfeld . In this novel he describes, nine years before Bitcoin Core on the horizon of cryptocurrency appears the breakdown of conjugates . The main character of the book has the same name as the inventor of Bitcoin , Satoshi Nakamoto . Twenty years after the novel was published online, Konjungate appears as a media art project to decentralize the promotion of contemporary artists and art institutions.

Institutions permanently funded by conjugates

  • mur.at - Association for the Promotion of Network Art, Graz, Austria
  • Residencia Corazón, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Kuma International Center for Visual Arts from Post-Conflict, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina
  • Fragments Theater Palestine, Northern West Bank Palestine
  • The Immigrant Artist Biennial, New York, USA
  • Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons, Utrecht, Holland
  • Amalgama Art, London, England
  • Kiosko, contemporary art space, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
  • hipermedula, Ciudad de Córdoba. Cordoba, Argentina
  • Walkin Studios, Bangalore, India
  • croxhapox, Sint-Denijs-Westrem, Belgium
  • Hyperreality, Vienna, Austria
  • Failed Artists International, Cologne, Germany
  • SaltSpace Co-operative, Glasgow, Scotland
  • Association K - Art, Culture, Communication, Vienna, Austria
  • The Art Space, North Wharf, Bahrain Bay, Kingdom of Bahrain

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ) (PIONEER, 2003 ( German ) machfeld.net. Retrieved on February 5, 2020.
  2. ↑ FM4 Webtip, 2003 ( German ) fm4.orf.at. Retrieved February 5, 2020.
  3. ↑ BANSKA, 16mm film ( German ) machfeld.net. Retrieved February 5, 2020.
  4. ↑ "Waiting shelters for the future", report, ORF Lower Austria, 2015 ( German ) noe.orf.at. Retrieved February 6, 2020.
  5. ^ Ö1 Kunstradio ( German ) kunstradio.at. Retrieved February 5, 2020.
  6. ↑ MACHFELD, Cyber ​​Roman ( German ) machfeld.net. Retrieved February 6, 2020.
  7. ↑ Say reloaded. anthology
  8. ↑ Funkhausanthologie Festschrift on the occasion of the 50th birthday of Ö1
  9. ↑ An alphabet of visual poetry. anthology
  10. ↑ the big ABC book. anthology
  11. ^ Edition Exile. anthology
  12. ^ Edition Exile. The book for the literature prize "Writing Between Cultures" 2000 (out of print)
  13. ↑ MACHFELD - novel. Cyber ​​novel
  14. ↑ KONJUNGATE ( German, English ) konjungate.net. Retrieved February 5, 2020.
  15. ↑ SUPPORTED PROJECTS ( English ) machfeld-fondation.net. Retrieved October 10, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Mastrototaro, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz