Michael Saup

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Michael Saup (* 1961 in Hechingen ) is a German visual artist in the field of digital art , filmmaker and musician . He lives and works in Berlin .

biography

Saup studied music, computer science and visual communication at the Dominican College of San Rafael , USA, the Furtwangen University and the University of Design in Offenbach am Main . While studying at Dominican College, he began programming in 1980, initially working with the media of film and video. In 1987 he realized flicker , a computer-controlled light installation. From 1989 Saup experimented with the possibility of reciprocal computer-aided transformations of sound and image.

Saup's work initially included the automatic control of video editing through music, then interactive sound-controlled computer animations and finally programs for the real-time conversion of acoustic and optical signals into digital signals, which enabled dancers and musicians to use image-generating electronic devices such as 3D graphics Control workstations, laser disk players or hard disk recorders, thus converting acoustic events into variable visual experiences. These include the film Paradays (1989), installations such as pulse8 (1992) and performative projects such as Hyena Days (1992) (with Steina Vasulka ) and Binary Ballistic Ballet (1995) (with William Forsythe and Ballett Frankfurt ). At Saup, sound, light and space are defined together in a dynamic model. In 1997, the tunnel , a connecting tunnel at Terminal 1 of Frankfurt Airport and the R111 installation (1999–2004) were built. In 1994 Michael Saup founded the collective supreme particles .

Saup has taught at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts , the HfG Offenbach, the Bremen University of the Arts and the Zurich University of the Arts since 1989 .

From 1991 to 1994 he was an artistic and academic assistant at the Institute for New Media at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main . From 1996 to 1997 he held a substitute professorship at the HfG Karlsruhe , where he then held the professorship for the art of digital media from 1999 to 2005.

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Exhibitions, performances and festivals (selection)

  • Eigenwelt the apparatus world: viability - variability - virtuality. An exhibition by the Städelschule - Institute for New Media
  • Imagina, Monte Carlo, 1993
  • X94, Academy of the Arts Berlin, 1994
  • Media-Scape , Zagreb, 1994
  • Siggraph, Orlando, 1994
  • Art gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1994
  • Venice Biennale in cooperation with Constanze Ruhm & Peter Sandbichler, 1995
  • Festival International du Nouveau Cinema & Video, Montreal, 1995, 2005
  • Dutch Electronic Art Festival, V2 Rotterdam, 1995
  • Eidos Telos, Ballet Frankfurt, 1995
  • Ars Electronica, Linz, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1998, 2002, 2005
  • Digitale96, Cologne, 1996
  • I Phoenix, Gasometer Oberhausen, 1996
  • World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam, 1995, 1997, 1998
  • Wellington International Festival of the Arts, 1998
  • Connected Cities 1999, Ruhr area
  • Artlab Prospect 5, Spiral Art Center, Tokyo, 2001
  • Banquet, Karlsruhe, Madrid, 2003
  • Viper, Basel, 2003
  • Transmediale04, Berlin, 2004
  • Profile Intermedia, Bremen, 1998, 2002, 2005
  • ZKM Karlsruhe, 1997, 2004, 2006, 2007
  • Recommended for imitation, Berlin 2010

literature

  • Margit Rosen and Christian Schoen: The Chrono Files , Frankfurt: Revolver 2003.
  • Dorthe Meinhardt, Sven Voelker, u. a .: beyond the borders , Heidelberg: Springer 2000.
  • Cat. Ars Electronica 98. Infowar - information. Power. Krieg , Vienna: Springer 1998.
  • Cat. Ars Electronica 92. Endo and Nano. The world from the inside , Linz: PSV publisher 1992.

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personal data
SURNAME Saup, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German visual artist in the field of digital art, filmmaker and musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Hechingen , Hechingen district