Philip Pocock

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Philip Pocock (* 1954 in Ottawa ) is a Canadian video , installation and digital artist.

life and work

Philip Pocock studied film and television production at New York University Film School . He completed his bachelor's degree in 1979. He then worked in the field of documentary photography, before taking up a teaching position in photography at the International Center of Photography from 1982 to 1990 . In 1988 he was a founding member of the Jourmal of Contemporary Art . In 1991 he moved to Germany and has been a professor at Pforzheim University since 1994 . He lives in Karlsruhe .

Philip Pocock worked with Florian Wenz , Udo Noll and Felix Stephan Huber on the Internet project A Description of the Equator and Some ØtherLands , which was shown on the documenta X website in 1997 .

Philip Pocock created the installation H | u | m | b | o | t in 1995 (in collaboration with the Center for Art and Media , Wolfgang Staehle , Christoph Keller and others).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biography of Philip Pocock in the Medien Kunst Netz. Retrieved December 23, 2018.
  2. ↑ documenta X short guide. Ostfildern 1997, ISBN 3-89322-938-8 , page 106.
  3. ↑ H | u | m | b | o | t . ZKM.de. Retrieved December 23, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Pocock, Philip
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian video installation and digital artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Ottawa