Rico Tscharntke

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Rico Tscharntke in front of the Berlin club Crack Bellmer, 2016

Rico Tscharntke (born April 19, 1973 in Dresden , GDR ) is a Berlin light artist , inventor and cultural activist.

Life

After training as a locksmith and studying communication science, he worked for 10 years as a freelance and employed journalist for television stations in Germany and abroad.

He lives in Berlin-Friedrichshain .

Act

In addition to his intensive photographic and documentary work, he founded the artist group Lichtpiraten in Berlin in 2006. The artistic focus of the group lies in the design of light installations and projections for light festivals, clubs and events. As ambassadors for the city of Berlin, the light pirates are part of the "be Berlin" campaign and represent it worldwide with "good light". Today they are a loose network of different artists and together they realized and documented hundreds of video installations in twenty countries on four continents.

In 2008 he founded Biostructure GmbH to coordinate and handle the cooperation of over 30 partners worldwide. One of the company's milestones was the development of the open source software OMNIDOME, which is used in projection technology around the world today. This offers the possibility of consuming a video on a three-dimensional body. The software makes it possible to achieve a result with common computer technology that was previously only achieved with special hardware and profound software knowledge.

Rico is one of the founders of the Sisyphos techno club in Berlin.

3D projection

His current focus of work is projection onto spherical bodies. He was supported in this by the TU Berlin and the Federal Ministry of Economics through an EXIST grant .

engagement

Tscharnke has been federal chairman of the alternative mountain party, the Überpartei, since February 21, 2017 . In the party named after an art installation, he advocates anti-fascist protection of the constitution and the right to a failed life.

Shows, visuals and installations

  • MitOst Festival 2010
  • Wilde Möhre Festival 2016 and 2017
  • Light Art @ Sanofi 2017

Filmography

  • One step further (documentary about everyday racism ) 2002. (Director)
  • Campaign advertisement of the mountain party for the 2016 parliamentary elections (puppet show)

Web links

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berlin Partner for Business and Technology: be Berlin presents itself in Buenos Aires. Retrieved January 29, 2019 .
  2. ↑ team - LIGHTING PIRATES. Retrieved January 29, 2019 (German).
  3. ↑ OMNIDOME / FULLDOME MAPPING SOFTWARE. Retrieved January 29, 2019 .
  4. ↑ LICHTPIRATEN: LICHTPiRATEN presents OMNIDOME @ TEUFELSBERG. August 3, 2014, accessed January 29, 2019 .
  5. ↑ B * - Overview of the board members, statutes, program. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: Bundeswahlleiter.de. March 10, 2017, formerly in the original ; Retrieved April 19, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / bundeswahlleiter.de  
  6. ↑ dbate: Exotics in the federal election: mountain party, the superparty. Retrieved January 29, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Pipeline - under construction web archive of the festival, accessed on April 19, 2017.
  8. ↑ light pirates .
  9. ^ Sebastian Frenzel: In the fortress Europe . In: TAZ . August 17, 2005, p. 25 ( online [accessed April 19, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Tscharnke, Rico
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German light artist and cultural activist
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden , GDR