Wolfgang Georgsdorf

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Wolfgang Georgsdorf (1964–1987 adoptive name Wolfgang Hofmann ; born September 10, 1959 in Linz ) is an Austrian multimedia artist , director , inventor , draftsman , painter , sculptor , musician and author .

Life

Dome, Museum Park Linz

Georgsdorf studied from 1977 to 1983 at the University for Artistic and Industrial Design in Linz. During this time he co-founded the Stadtwerkstatt Linz and the experimental music project Die Post . His musical works include compositions for Heiner Müller's Duell-Traktor-Fatzer at the Berliner Ensemble, compositions for the giant forest xylophones he built and his participation in the Berlin Improvisers Orchestra as violinist and conductor. As a sculptor, he created, among other things, the metal sculpture dome , which was in the Museum of Modern Art ( Palais Liechtenstein ) in Vienna from 1983 to 1996 and has been in the Upper Austrian State Museum in Linz since 1996 . Since 1977 he has made numerous avant-garde films and from 1980 was a member of the Austria Filmmakers Cooperative .

Smeller 2 (2013), OK Center for Contemporary Art, Upper Austria

Georgsdorf has been involved in olfactory art since the 1980s . In 1996 he built the first odor organ, the mechanically operated prototype Smeller 1 as part of the Werk'Zeuge exhibition in the Upper Austrian State Museum , with which thousands of smells instead of sounds could be played by the audience. From 1983 to 1986 Georgsdorf was involved in the Bangkok project as a member of the Minus Delta t group . Since the 1990s he has dealt increasingly with interactive media .

Fascinated by the aesthetics, facial expressions and poetry in the communication of the deaf , Georgsdorf learned sign language and, after seven years of study, published MUDRA in 2000 , the first digital, bidirectional lexicon for Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS) in nine dialects. Among other things, in the projects sinnlos and Deaf Dance , he artistically dealt with the topic, shot video clips about and in sign language, staged lectures on the culture and language of the deaf and organized dance events for the deaf and hearing.

In 2005 he was invited as a speaker at the first Wikipedia world conference Wikimania and presented his ideas of sign language on Wikipedia and his concept Hyperfilm for the integration of the knowledge of the illiterate world .

His various political and social interventions included the Opal-so-nicht movement he founded in 2007 , which he chaired as spokesman, and which resulted in successful proceedings against a project by the companies Gazprom and BASF in the Dahme-Heideseen Nature Park pulled.

Since 2011, Georgsdorf has been working on the implementation of his long-term project Smeller 2 , an electronic odor organ that exuded complex odor compositions in the large-scale Sensesrausch exhibition in Upper Austria's cultural district from June to October 2012 in all-day automatic operation. In 2013, Wolfgang Georgsdorf received the Austrian Outstanding Artist Award for interdisciplinary culture for Smeller 2.0 . In 2016 Georgsdorf dedicated an own festival of the same name in Berlin to his art practice " Osmodrama ", which he developed with Smeller , in which time-based olfactory art was shown in exemplary connection examples with common artistic disciplines. The synosmia “Autocomplete”, an abstract and purely olfactory story, also premiered at this festival.

Wolfgang Georgsdorf lives in Berlin with the actress Eva Mattes and two children.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1977: Sub and Ultra
  • 1979: Rome
  • 1980: Under the bin
  • 1981: Hanging men
  • 1981: In the Dim of Proximity
  • 1982: Fermentation drum
  • 1985: Simultaneous interpreting
  • 1992: Salzburg sketches day and night
  • 1993: Tent on the Danube
  • 1995: Towards Human Rights
  • 1999: Ballade Berlin
  • 2008: hammer

Exhibitions (selection)

Forest wise guides in Märkisch Buchholz
  • 1990: Decharge , Cartier Foundation, Paris / Jouy en Josas.
  • 1990: Fifth drawer , Hofkabinett Gallery and Small Gallery, Vienna.
  • 2003: pointless - the art / the bodies / the foreign bodies , Künstlerhaus Graz , Graz.
  • : 2005 In men would , gallery Hofkabinett, Linz. V.
  • 2006: Balla Balla Bar , Performance, Berlin
  • 2006: Reading trails in the forest , Brandenburg.
  • 2008: Waldxylofon Brandenburg , Brandenburg.
  • 2008/2009: clearing , copyright project office , Berlin
  • 2011: Xylomat / Permanent Conference in the Year of the Forests , Gallery ZS-Art Vienna, Museum Lower Austria , Art Museum Stift Klosterneuburg .
  • 2012: Smeller 2.0 , Smeller 1.0 in Sinnesrausch , O. Ö. Kulturquartier, OK Center for Contemporary Art.
  • 2016: Osmodrama , St.-Johannes-Evangelist-Kirche , Auguststr. 90, Berlin (in cooperation with Radialsystem V and ilb ).

Awards

  • 1990 scholarship from the Cartier Foundation
  • 2013 Outstanding Artist Award from the Austrian Federal Ministry for Art and Culture for the work Smeller 2.0
  • 2017 Sadakichi Award / Art and Olfaction Award for Osmodrama Berlin 2016 via Smeller 2.0
  • 2017 nomination for the art and science award of the Dresden Center for Science and Art

literature

  • Mudra , multimedia package on Austrian Sign Language, Fischer Film 2001.
  • Children's Mudra - educational program for children.
  • Odor organ In: Uli Marchsteiner, Peter Assmann, OÖ Landesmuseum (ed.): Werk'Zeuge / Design des Elementaren . Provincial Library, 1996, ISBN 3-85252-119-X , pp. 141-143.
  • About smelling In: Gottfried Hattinger, OÖ Landesmuseum (Ed.): About the senses . Provincial Library, 2006, ISBN 978-3-85252-731-4 , p. 63.
  • Protocol of a foundation In: OÖ Landesmuseum (Hrsg.): Stadtwerkstatt - In progress 1979–1995 . Triton Verlag Vienna, ISBN 3-900746-86-9 , pp. 51-58.
  • POST - energetic and momentary music (About the foundation of the music group POST) In: Upper Austrian State Museum (Hrsg.): Stadtwerkstatt - In work 1979–1995 . Triton Verlag Vienna, ISBN 3-900746-86-9 , pp. 65-77.
  • Smeller In: Wolfgang Georgsdorf: Fächer . Fishnet Verlag, 1997, ISBN 3-901677-01-1 , pp. 50-51.
  • Mudra In: Wolfgang Georgsdorf: Fächer . Fishnet Verlag, 1997, ISBN 3-901677-01-1 , pp. 52-55.
  • Thomas Renoldner : Animation in Austria - 1832 until today In: Christian Dewald, Sabine Groschup, Mara Mattuschka, Thomas Renoldner (ed.): The art of the single image . Filmarchiv Austria, ISBN 978-3-902531-66-7 , pp. 41-154. (Georgsdorf in the housing p. 134,143)
  • Unshaven Abfahrer In: Stadtwerkstatt (Ed.): Drawings from the environment (Tax 1979–1999) . Triton Verlag Vienna, 2002, ISBN 3-85486-105-2 , p. 35.
  • Minus Delta t - The Project Catalog for the 6th Triennale New Delhi . Austrian Ministry for Education, Arts and Sports, 1986.
  • Brigitte Felderer: Deaf-Mute or Deaf In: Brigitte Felderer (Hrsg.): Phonorama - A cultural history of the voice as a medium . Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe / Museum for New Art, Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-88221-844-4 , pp. 292–303.
  • Stadtwerkstatt (ed.): Possible answers . Stadtwerkstatt Text, 1990.
  • Distribution catalog of the Austrian Filmmaker-Coop . Austrian Filmmaker-Coop, 1998 (Georgsdorf films on pp. 29–30).

Web links

Commons : Wolfgang Georgsdorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Monument Database - Monuments - Wolfgang Georgsdorf. In: stadtgeschichte.linz.at. Retrieved April 1, 2019 .
  2. ↑ SRA - Band Details: Post, (Die). In: sra.at. Retrieved April 1, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Forest Symphony and forest-reading track - Forest Feast of the Forest District hammer. In: mil.brandenburg.de. August 28, 2008, accessed April 1, 2019 .
  4. ^ Musicians. In: berlinimprovisersorchestra.wordpress.com. Retrieved April 1, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Copies. In: filmcoop.at. Retrieved April 1, 2019 .
  6. ^ Dörte Fiedler: "Smeller" machine - a new olfactory art (archive). In: deutschlandfunkkultur.de. November 26, 2015, accessed April 1, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Austrian Association of the Deaf: Deaf Dance Deaf Slam - meaningful dancing - BIZEPS. In: bizeps.or.at. May 26, 2003, accessed April 1, 2019 .
  8. ↑ MUDRA SIGN ANALYZER (MSA) - A Database / Processing Tool for the Project Mudra. In: sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de. Retrieved April 1, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Internal: Speakers / WG1 - Wikimania. In: wikimania2005.wikimedia.org. Retrieved April 1, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Jonas Nayda: Opponents of the Eugal Pipeline are not giving up. In: maz-online.de. May 22, 2018, accessed April 1, 2019 .
  11. ↑ OPAL - Not like that! In: opalsonicht.de. Retrieved April 1, 2019 .
  12. ^ Wolfgang Georgsdorf. In: ooekulturquartier.at. Retrieved April 1, 2019 .
  13. ↑ outstanding artist awards - art and culture in the Austrian Federal Chancellery. In: kunstkultur.bka.gv.at. Retrieved April 1, 2019 .
  14. ↑ credits. In: osmodrama.com. Retrieved April 1, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Rabea Weihser: Smeller 2.0: The madness machine . In: zeit.de. July 24, 2016, accessed April 1, 2019 .
  16. ^ Carolin Pirich: Smell Festival in Berlin - The Drama Aroma - Society - Süddeutsche.de. In: sueddeutsche.de. September 3, 2016, accessed April 1, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Gunda Bartels: Scent artist Wolfgang Georgsdorf: Breath, breath mouth! - Culture - Tagesspiegel. In: tagesspiegel.de. August 16, 2016, accessed April 1, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Balla Balla Bar. In: copyright-projekt.de. Retrieved April 1, 2019 .
  19. ↑ BRANDENBURG DAY in Königs Wusterhausen: The large forest xylophone enchants with its fairytale-like sounds - please join in! In: stk.brandenburg.de. 2008, accessed April 1, 2019 .
  20. ↑ COPYRIGHTprojektraum_Mix II. In: copyright-projekt.de. Retrieved April 1, 2019 .
  21. ↑ MUDRA CD-Rom - Lexicon of the Austrian Sign Language. In: www.mudra.org. Archived from the original on August 20, 2016 ; accessed on April 1, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Georgsdorf, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hofmann, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian director, draftsman, painter, sculptor, musician and author
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz