c.v./mediagraphy k.g. 06/04
 
 born '69
painting since ca. 1983 / several exhibitions in Bavaria, member of the Group
"Die Experten / The Experts" / first video experiments 1987
1988 moved to Berlin / 1989 first full length video-tape: Kopflöcher / Headholes
commissioned for the archive of the best videos at the European youth video festival 1990
1989 - 1998 work for the transmedia / VideoFest Berlin, programming / concept / organization
 
still from: Slaves of Inheritance - pt. I
still from: Slaves of Inheritance - pt. I
 
1990 Videotape: Slaves of Inheritance / Part I
>Price for the best experimental video work at the Festival for video and Super-8 in Brussels, Special mention at the VideoFormes festival 1992, Clermont-Ferrand
>screenings at ca. 50 int. festivals and other events. Comissioned for the NBK
(New Berlin Arts Council) video library. Distributed by MonteVideo, Amsterdam
 
1991/92 Videotape: Slaves of Inheritance / Part II: TestamentMaschine
premiere screening at the Berlin VideoFest `92. Screenings in Italy, Belgium, Brazil, USA, France, Spain etc.
International distribution by: The Kitchen (New York) / Heure Exquise! (France) / MonteVideo (Amsterdam)
 
Zeit Messer/Time Knife - (Kassel 1993)
Zeit Messer/Time Knife - (Kassel 1993)
 
1993 video-installation: Zeit Messer / Time Knife or: Clock Face
premiere exhibition at the Videofestival Kassel, Nov. '93 | Berlin: June ’96;
Aug. ‘98; Autumn 2003; | Torino (I): Dec. '98
 
still from: der Tod IST / the Death IS
still from: der Tod IST / the Death IS
 
1994 Videotape: der Tod IST / the Death IS
premiere screening at the Berlin VideoFest `94; screenings in Canada, Japan,
Latin-America, UK, Netherlands, France, Australia a.m.o.
 
1994 Multimedia performance: Bits and Bytes, Bit Bits and Bites
at the "X-94" Festival, Academy for the Arts, Berlin [in collaboration w. Paul Modler a.o.]
 
still from: nachtrag I (XXX)
still from: nachtrag I (XXX)
 
1994/95 videotape: nachtrag I (XXX) / postscript I (XXX)
[based on a text by Konrad Bayer; actor:
Adolfo Assor; premiere-screening: VideoFest Berlin '95 - and var. other int. festivals]
 
1995 video installation: Mondspiegel / Moonmirror
premiere exhibition May - June '95, Berlin "Reservoir I"

 
1995 collaboration with Matthias Beltz on the program:
Obedience is the Art of Hearing - at the Staatsschauspiel Stuttgart [video projections]
 
1996 Performance: The Catastrophe Cycle - in collaboration with Matthias Beltz and Gerburg Treusch-Dieter / Texts & Projections; videotape: The Catastrophe Cycle
 
screenshot: the spirit of the p/age
screenshot: the spirit of the p/age
 

1996/98 - website:
the spirit of the p/age - an online-portrait of Robert Calvert
presented at festivals in Hong Kong and Germany; commissioned for the
"Medien Kunst Aktuell / Current Media Art" programme of the Goethe Institut / ZKM Karlsruhe
[Re-launched in 2004 - current url: http://aural-innovations.com/robert calvert ]

 
1997 videotapes and installations for the video-theatre project Schnittstelle - Dir: A. Dillenberger
 
Jan. '98 - Tour with THE MOOR & Nik Turner - spoken words & guest vocalist
 
screenshot(s) from: The Grand Inquisitor
screenshot(s) from: The Grand Inquisitor
 
May 1998 - premiere of The Grand Inquisitor
- video-live-theatre with Hermann Treusch - at the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin
 
still from: Light Sleep
still from: Light Sleep
 
Dec. '98 - video + sound-installation LIGHT SLEEP
- Multiteatro Juvarra, Torino / Italy
 
May '99 Tour with THE MOOR & Nik Turner - vocals + spoken words performances
 
Feb. '99 collaboration in the Spirits Burning CD project - spoken words + vocals - incl. musicians from Europe, UK, USA
 
montage for: 'System Heaven...'2000 - stageplay:
System Heaven | ghosts of the future

text and development of the staging and projections -
1st scenic-reading Oct. 2000 at the Teatro Viartisti, Torino / Italy



2001- Winner of the Writer's Competition of the "Brecht Days 2001" - [organized by the Literary Forum in the Brecht House, Berlin] with the stageplay 'System Heaven | ghosts of the future'
 
2001 - stagetext: ...ist ein Krieg im Spiegel [ ...is a War in the Mirror ]
commissioned by the ORPHTHEATER Berlin for their "Schlagwerk" project
 
projection from: Arbeit an der Erloesung...
projection from: Arbeit an der Erloesung...
 
May 2001 Theatre/Media-Performance: Arbeit an der Erloesung als Erloesung von der Arbeit ['Work on the Salvation as Salvation from Work]
- Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz; mit Peer Martiny und Henry Meyer
 
2001 Publications in [literary magazines / Anthologies]:
Federwelt / Zeitriss / Krautgarten / Titel-Magazin / Konzepte / cet / Der Dreischneuss / Ästhetik & Kommuniktation / Communications / Das literarische Magazin (LIMA) / freie-zeit-art / Kritsch
- "Mensch Medium Theater" – in: "Theaterperipherien"; Konkursbuchverlag
- Anthologies: - Sechzig-Stunden-Woche (Anth. for the Frankfurt Book-Fair '01)
- Bibliothek des deutschen Gedichts; Realis Verlag
- Publication of: Arbeit an der Erloesung als Erloesung von der Arbeit ['Work on the Salvation as Salvation from Work] – in: Edition Freitag
 
2002 - Special Award of the Uslarer Literaturpreis 2002
Publications in [literary magazines / Anthologies]: Lose Blätter / Zeitriss / Der Philotast / Die Brücke (2x) / cet- / Libus / Lesestoff / Zeichen & Wunder / Krautgarten / Ort der Augen / Dreischneuss / Macondo / Niemandsrose - u.a.
 
projection from: Amerika at War - A Series.
projection from: Amerika at War - A Series.
 
Sept. 2002 - Amerika im Krieg - Eine Serie [America at War - A Series] - Theatre Magdeburg; Premiere: 11.Sept.02 / projections [ www.global-heroes.org ]
 
2003 Literature-Fellowship of the Stiftung Kulturfonds (Ahrenshoop)
Selected for the Wiener Werkstattpreis 2003 (Special Award for Poerty)
Publications in [literary Magazines / Anthologies]: Das literarische Magazin (LIMA) / Die Brücke (4x) / Der Philotast / titel-magazin / Dulzinea Wettbewerbs-Anthol. / Kult / NGL-Anthologie "Ausgeschriebene Zeit" / Bibliothek des deutschen Gedichts (Anthol.) Lyrik Anthol. "Kalte Stufen" / Krautgarten (2x) / Kritische Ausgabe
"Lyrik von Jetzt" - Anthology of young German Poetry, DuMont Verlag (2003)
 
2004 Publications in [literary Magazines / Anthologies]: Text for Kalkfell Zwei - a workbook/anthology for Heiner Müller / Die Brücke / Lyrik 2000S Anth. / Ort der Augen / Zeichen & Wunder / Dichtungsring
- Invitation to the Dramatist-Workshop of the Children's-and-Youth Theatre Centre, Frankfurt a.M.
- Commissioned work for the exhibition: "Andererseits: Die Phantastik" - Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum, Linz; (April - Sept. 04 / Video/DVD)
 
screenshot: the spirit of the p/age
screenshot: the spirit of the p/age
 
2004 - Re-launch of the website:
the spirit of the p/age - an online portrait of Robert Calvert
 
in progress:
D>Elektro - Multimedia project on the history of modern electronic/experimental music from Germany
[ premiere presentation of the website in May '99 at the European Media Art Festival Osnabrück - commissioned for the "Medien Kunst Aktuell - Update / Current Media Art - Update" programme of the Goethe Institute and the ZKM (Centre for Art and Media-Technologies, Karlsruhe)
> http://www.thing.de/delektro
 

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