Thomas Feuerstein

Thomas Feuerstein: Work on Meat, 2005, minced meat

Thomas Feuerstein (born November 29, 1968 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian concept and media artist , art theorist and author.

Life

Thomas Feuerstein studied art history and philosophy at the University of Innsbruck from 1987 to 1995 . From 1992 to 1994 he edited the magazine Medien.Kunst.Passagen together with Klaus Strickner . In 1992 he founded the agency for intermedia communication transfer and the art association medien.kunst.tirol. In 1992 and 1993 he worked on research assignments on electronic space as well as art and architecture. From 1997 he received lectureships and visiting professorships at the University of Applied Arts Vienna , the University of Music and Theater Bern, the F + F School for Art and Media Design Zurich, the Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences Intermedia, the Mozarteum Salzburg and the University of Innsbruck.

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Feuerstein's works and projects are realized in different media. They encompass installations , environments , BioArt , objects, drawings, paintings, sculptures, photographs, videos, radio plays and net art and incorporate processes and transmutations, whereby specific materialities play a central role. Materials are used both as carriers of meanings and narrations and in the form of materials and ultimately become actors in art.

In the border area between nature, art and science, Feuerstein's works set in motion pataphysical cycles of the production of meaning and possibility that dissolve the distinctions between nature and culture, past and future. Essential aspects are the interplay of linguistic and visual elements, the detection of latent links between facts and fictions and the entanglement between art and science. For this purpose, Feuerstein developed the artistic method of "conceptual narration".

Publications

• System data world architecture. Triton, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-901310-25-8 .
• Biophily. Better dead than read. Book and CD-ROM, Triton, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-85486-085-4 .

Awards

• 2019: Austrian Art Prize for Media Art

literature

• Herbert Fuchs (Ed.): Thomas Feuerstein. Biogreen. Skarabaeus, Innsbruck 2002, ISBN 3-7082-3105-8 .
• Romana Schuler (Ed.): Thomas Feuerstein. fiat :: radical individuals - social enjoyment. Triton, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85486-182-6 .
• Klaus Thoman (Ed.): Thomas Feuerstein. Outcast of the Universe. Schlebrügge, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-85160-072-X .
• Hans-Peter Wipplinger (Ed.): Thomas Feuerstein. TRICKSTER. snoeck, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-86442-031-3 .
• Alois Bernsteiner (Ed.): Thomas Feuerstein. FUTUR II. Schlebrügge, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-902833-51-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Thomas Feuerstein in the catalog of the German National Library
• Thomas Feuerstein
• Archive Thomas Feuerstein

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The winners of the Austrian Art Prize and the Hans Hollein Art Prize for Architecture 2019 have been announced. September 20, 2019, accessed September 20, 2019 .