Michael Weisser

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Michael Weisser

Michael Weisser (born October 18, 1948 in Deichsende, now Wurster Nordseeküste ) is a German media artist, music producer and science fiction author.

Life

After an internship in a chemical research laboratory in Bonn, Weisser studied sacred painting, experimental painting and free graphics at the Werkkunstschule in Cologne from 1967 to 1972 . In seminars with Niklas Luhmann , Alphons Silbermann , Alfred Schmidt and Bazon Brock , he focused on aesthetic theory as well as art, cybernetics and systems theory . He graduated with an exam as a degree. Of. from.
He then studied art history , communication science , political science , sociology and education at the University of Bonn and the University of Marburg .

After completing his studies, Weisser did freelance research on the topics of aesthetics in the everyday world, industrial architecture, workers' housing, the displacement of ornament and German advertising. From 1984 he worked with Peter Mergener , with whom he formed the software duo. To develop music concepts and to set up a sound and image archive for the world music project GENE, Weisser carried out a large number of study trips and digitally recorded more than 1000 Sounds-of-Planet-Earth as original sounds.

In 1985 Weisser took on the role of Creative Director at the music label Innovative Communication (IC), developing product designs and strategic alliances with branded companies in collaboration with his partner Mark Sakautzky in order to open up new sales channels for the label's music. In 1990 the million sales mark was exceeded and Sakautzky / Weisser founded IC / DigItMusic GmbH . In 1994 Sakautzky sold his shares to the Pallas Group, and Weisser headed IC for eight years until he also sold his shares to Pallas in 2002 and turned back to art with a focus on new, digital media.

In the summer of 2008 the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) took over his entire artistic work.

In 2014 Weisser developed the first hybrid medium with its QR coding (from 2007) that Die | QR | Edition implements as an imprint of the publisher p.machinery in Murnau am Staffelsee . This idea of ​​the media mix of image, sound and word continues the idea of ​​the cassette book Dea-Alba - A fantastic sounding story with Musik-MC from Software from 1988.

Since 1966 he has carried out a number of multimedia concepts, presentations and projects. In 1989 he was the founder and organizer of the Bremer Tage der Computerkultur festival .

Today Weisser works as a media artist with a focus on noise , CompressedWorld and i: Codes in Bremen and Artà.

Cultural Policy - Citizens' Initiatives

In 1970 Weisser was a founding member of the citizens' initiative planning groups for cultural policy and the urban development work group in Bonn, as well as a founding member of the Society for Art Consumption and Production . From 1972 to 1974 he was chairman as well as state and federal delegate of the Federal Association of Visual Artists (BBK) in Cologne and Bonn, and from 1973 to 1975 editor-in-chief of the art and cultural policy magazine (BBK). In spring 2008 he developed the concept for a new use of the anti-colonial memorial in Bremen and was a founding member of the non-profit organization DerElefant! .

Teaching assignments

Weisser had a number of teaching assignments at the adult education center in Bonn (1971-1976), at the Children's Forum in Bonn (1974), at the University of Bremen for Art in Architecture (1975/76), at the Braunschweig University of Art , at the University of Bremen and at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen (1975–1982), in the art department at the University of Erfurt (2014) and a visiting professorship at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen (1988).

Publications

Non-fiction

  • Art Nouveau tiles - the artistically designed wall tile as a commodity and ornament support , in "Series Aesthetics of the Everyday World; Vol. 4", Fricke, Frankfurt a. M., 1983, ISBN 978-3-88184-046-0
  • In the style of youth - the Munich illustrated weekly journal for art and life and its influence on the style of the turn of the century in "Series Aesthetics of the Everyday World; Bd. 1", Fricke, Frankfurt a. M., 1979, ISBN 978-3-88184-025-5
  • Ornament and illustration around 1900 - Handbook for image and text documents by known and unknown artists from the Art Nouveau period in "Series Aesthetics of Everyday World; Bd. 2", Fricke, Frankfurt, 1982, ISBN 978-3-88184-033-0
  • Cigarette Reclame - About the Art of Selling Blue Haze . Doell, Bassum 2002, ISBN 978-3-88808-274-0
  • Turn-of-the-Century Ads - The Art of Advertising. Examples from the weekly “Jugend” (1896–1926) . Schlütersche Verlagsanstalt, Hanover 1981, ISBN 3-87706-184-2
  • German Reclame - 100 Years of Advertising 1870–1970. Doell, Bassum 2002, ISBN 978-3-88808-273-3
  • The woman advertises effectively - the woman in the advertisement. Doell, Bassum 2002, ISBN 978-3-88808-275-7
  • The | QR | Code - Backgrounds and Visions - Description, History, Technology, Use, Dangers, Limits, Visions and Aesthetics of the "quick answer" in the 21st century. The QR Edition, p.machinery, Murnau am Staffelsee 2015, ISBN 978-3-95765-027-6
  • Madness! The invitation to a very risky journey into the unfathomable cosmos between heaven and hell from YouTube. The QR Edition, p.machinery, Murnau am Staffelsee 2015, ISBN 978-3-95765-025-2

As editor:

  • Computerkultur - The beauty of bit and byte . TMS, Bremen 1989.
  • “Curious: think!” Interviews and dialogues on artistic-creative and non-linear thinking with 44 personalities from culture, science, business and politics. The QR Edition, p.machinery, Murnau am Staffelsee 2016, ISBN 978-3-95765-070-2

Novels

poetry

  • 2014: Poetry in the dance of neurons. visionary texts and cosmic sounds , (QR coding) Die | QR | edition @ p.machinery, Murnau am Staffelsee. ISBN 978-3-942533-98-0
  • 2014: with Horst-Günter Rubahn: BE INSPIRED AND FREE YOUR VISIONS! The i: Code-Alsion-Campus-Art-Project in Sønderborg, created by Michael Weisser. The | QR | Edition @ p.machinery, Murnau am Staffelsee & Alsion-Campus, Sønderborg, August 2014, ISBN 978-3-95765-003-0
  • 2014: Poetry In the wake of the vortex of words. Visual and acoustic poetry , (QR coding). The | QR | edition @ p.machinery, Murnau am Staffelsee 2014, ISBN 978-3-95765-012-2

Exhibition catalogs

Various exhibition catalogs were designed by Weisser, among others

  • with Rudolph Bauer , Inge Buck : The elephant! Pictures, poems, documents. To the anti-colonial monument in Bremen. Sujet, Bremen 2010, ISBN 978-3-933995-49-0 .
  • SNACK together! the global taste of diversity , catalog for the seminar at the University of Bremen, 2009/10, sujet-verlag Bremen 2010, ISBN 978-3-933995-58-2 .
  • The. The. The. - The way. The view. The longing. About the beauty of travel and adventure , catalog for the exhibition in the Syker Vorwerk - Center for Contemporary Art, Kreissparkasse Foundation, Syke 2013, ISBN 978-3-9815235-2-2 .

Music - electronics, world music, sound archive

  • 1982: “Galaxy Cygnus-A”, live event, commissioned work for ORF as part of ars electronica, Linz / Austria
  • 1984–2000: software (tape) , electronic soundscapes, 19 CD productions on IC
  • 1988: "Digital Dance" concert in the auditorium of the Music University in Cologne, live broadcast of "Nachtmusik" on WDR 1
  • 1988: "Syn-Phonie for computer music and starlight", programmed Multivision in the dome of the Planetarium Bochum
  • 1988: "Electronic Universe" live concert in the old iron foundry in Hamburg
  • 1989: “Syn-Code” planetarium projection in the AllSky-Planetarium Stuttgart
  • 1986–2000: "GENE", Gambling Electronic Natural Environment, 20 CDs on IC / DigItMusic
  • 1986–2000: Sound archive 120 hours on DAT "Sounds on Planet Earth" with> 1000 original sounds worldwide
  • 1997–1998: “Sounds of Planet Earth” acoustic structures (Africa, Seychelles, Easter Island, Polynesia), first ambient sound CDs on IC / DigItMusic

literature

  • Hans Joachim Alpers , Thomas M. Loock: Interview with Michael Weisser. In: Reading book of German Science Fiction 1984. Corian Verlag, Meitingen 1983, ISBN 3-89048-204-X . (Edition Futurum Vol. 4)
  • Kai Schätzl, Hermann Rothermund: Off-Shore , in: Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): Das Science Fiction Jahr 1986 (Vol. 1), Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-453-31233-3 , p. 623– 631.
  • Michael Nagula , Sascha Mamczak : Dea Alba , in: Das Science Fiction Jahr 1989 (Vol. 4), edited by Wolfgang Jeschke, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-453-03139-3 , pp. 546-550.
  • Isabelle Azoulay , Rolf Sachsse , Michael Weisser: "all: about: sehnsucht" - Michael Weisser's complete media work at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe supplemented by new works. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-07074-5
  • Jaspar Dräger, Boris Löffler-Holte, Michael Weisser: bremen: AN: sichten - The inventory of an aesthetic field research as an interview about art and life in the digital society . In: Writings of the State Archives Bremen . tape 58 . State Archive Bremen, 2018, ISBN 978-3-925729-83-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Weisser - Vita. rice.de, accessed on October 21, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Michael Weisser - long biography. rice.de, accessed on October 21, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Weisser, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German media artist and author
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH End of the dike, now Wurster North Sea coast