BIOGRAPHY
Caspar Stracke lives in New York and Hamburg, also working as a free-lanced cameraman and editor.
He most recently
teaches as a Guest Professor at ULSAN UNIVERSITY in South Korea.
1967 born in Darmstadt,
Germany
1986 -93 Fine Art study with Lienhard v. Monkiewitsch und H.P. Zimmer (painting)
und film/video with Gerhard Büttenbender, Wilhelm and Birgit Hein,
HBK, Academy of Fine Arts, Braunschweig, Germany
1994 MFA
1994/95 DAAD scholarship, New School for Social Research
1997 European Media Artist Residency, (EMARE) Hull Time Based Arts, UK
2000 Participation in Themepark project “Knowledge - Information - Communication”
in collaboration with BBM and ZKM at Expo 2000 Hannover, Germany
2002 - present
Editor for "Kulturzeit" / New York, with Dominique Gradenwitz (producer)
2003 curatorial projects for CITYZOOMS, Bremen, VIDEOEX Zürich and
CLOSERTHANTHEREALTHING, at THE THING
awards
1991 GRUNDIG european sports video award
1994 Golden Medal (Best Experimental Film) New York Film & Video Expo
1995 Prize of the German Film Critics, Oberhausen Film Festival, Germany
1999 NY Bessie Award (video design for DKK, with Benton Bainbridgen)
2000 Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship Progam
2002 NYSCA Distribution
Fimbureau Hamburg, Production Grant
2003 Videokunstpreis Bremen
group exhibitions
(selection)
1990 Galerie Fisch, Braunschweig
1993 Le Plateau , Bruxelles, Belgium
1994 Kunsthaus, Hamburg (exhibition Jochen Lempert)
1995 "Meisterschüler", MFA HBK, Braunschweig
1996 CB's Gallery, New York (with Julie Murray)
Artist's Space, NY (with Julie Murray)
15 Lux Maximum, Eighth Floor Gallery, NY
Angel Oresanz Foundation, NY
Schlaglicht Kunst Museum Wolfsburg, Germany
1997 New York Arts Exchange
1998 TRANSMEDIALE, Berlin
1999 SIT.COM Galerie Montenay-Giroux, Paris
2000 WHITNEY MUSEUM of American Art
The American Century Part II, “Circle’s Short Circle’s”
in film selection
UNITY GAIN, NY
2001 "MÀLHOL/ANDERSWO" Goethe Institute Budapest
2002 Goethe Insitutute
NY
"Word" Photofest, Houston, TX
2002 FUTURE CINEMA, ZKM, Karlsruhe
2003 HARAKIRI BONBON (with Joern Zehe and Eike) Kunsthaus Hamburg
2004 FUTURE CINEMA< ICC, Tokyo Japan
retrospectives
(film/video) / visiting artist / lectures
1992 Hochschule f. Gestaltung, Offenbach
1993 Westwerk, Hamburg
1995 Arts & Crafts College, Berkeley, Art Institute, San Francisco,
1995 Millennium, NY
Knitting Factory, NY
1996 Kino Circus, Tokyo, Japan
1996 Adelphi University, Long Island, USA
1997 Filmhaus, Hamburg
Dundee University, Scotland
KHM, Media Arts Academy, Cologne
1998 New School for Social Research, NY
1999 Flaherty Film Seminar, Durham, NC
Museum of Modern Art, NY Cineprobe
Harvard Film Archives
Film Forum at Lace, LA
CalArts, LA
SF Cinemateque
at Yerba Buena Art Center
2000 Universityof Colorado, Boulder, CO
University of Virginia, Richmond, VA
2001 KHM, Cologne
2002 Reikjakademie Rotterdam, Piet Zwart Instituut
2003"KUNST+KINO" Filmhaus Cologne
FILMOGRAPHY [1989 - 1996]
1986 BUMP AND BUMP
(16mm Blow-up, 6,5 min)
1998 CHEWING GUM: OPEN/CLOSE (16mm Blow-up, 7 min.)
1989 KOPF MOTOR KOPF (16mm, 13,5 min)
1991 SAD SACK (16mm, 13 min)
1993 SILVERY (16mm; 19 min)
1994 NACH WANYUSHA (16mm, 40 min)
1995 AFTERBIRTH (16mm)
1996 DECONSTRUCTED EDUCATIONAL SPORT SERIES (16mm 8,5 min)
VIDEOGRAPHY
1994: THE CAPTURED
CITY (3/4”, 45 min)
1997: LOCKED GROOVE (Betacam, 10 min)
1997-99: CIRCLE'S SHORT CIRCUIT (35mm/ DVCam 85 min)
2000 READ ME
2001 KUBRICK SPACE (CED SERIES)
2002 NO DAMAGE
2003 SKT 090:2001 (CED SERIES)
TORN (CED SERIES)
ZUSE STRIP
2004 OUT OF JOINT (work in progress)
INSTALLATIOINS
1995 KORRIDOR (3
channel film projection)
1996 THROATLIGHT (single channel video installation, ceiling projection w/
water circuit and light bulb projections)
GEGEBEN/VERGESSEN (single channel video installation w/ water circuit)
OrigiN (16 mm loop projection)
1999 DOUBLESTREAM (single channles video projection, wooden frame, rear screen)
DOUBLESTREAM II (double channel version)
2001 Untitled (NY/Bergen/Budaest) (Interactive four channel video installation)
TILT (interactive four channel video installation, in-progress
RENDER (DKK) Multiprojection
DIAL_N (interactive net-based project; on-going)
PROJECTIONS / PERFORMANCES
1987 FAUXPAS
1988 GERSHFLUX
1990 RORSCHACH 1
1992 RORSCHACH 2
1994 Incomplete Desaster, DanceKumiko Kimoto, St Mark’s Church, NY
1995 MASAO, DanceKumiko Kimoto, St Mark’s Church, NY
1995-1997 PANOPTICAL MOTOR, multi projections, in collaboration with Julie
Murray
sites (selection): Soundlab, Chinatown, Financial District, Artist’s
Space 1996,
Charas NY 1997, Metamorphosis, Context Studios, Ongolia, Brooklyn (1998)
1998 MEMORYSCAN DanceKumiko Kimoto, The Kitchen 1999
award: New York Bessie award for video design, in collaboration with Benton
Bainbridge
2000 RENDER DanceKumikoKimoto, Pulse Series, WHITNEY at Philip Morris
2002 NEW GENRE (David Linton w/ Charles Cohen)
UNITY GAIN: VIDNOUGHTS
2003 UNITY GAIN@ DCTV
MIXOLOGIES, Perfoming Garage
2004 MOSTRA: Monkeytown, April 18
Festival participations:
New York Video Festival, New York Expo, London Film Festival , Pandaemonium,
EAMF, IMPAKT, Flaherty Film Seminar, Shortfilm Oberhausen, Hamburg, Edinburgh,
Bruxelles, and other venues throughout Europe.
Films/ Video in distribution of: Video Data Bank Chicago, EAMF Osnabrück,
Light Cone, KALI FILM, NY Film Makers Co-op, Goethe Institute/Inter Nationes.
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