Caspar Stracke is an interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker from Germany, living and working in New York City since 1993 and Helsinki (since 2012)
His work is situated around architecture and urbanism, media archaeology as well as various social aspects of cinema.

His films, videos and installation work has been shown in numerous exhibitions, retrospectives and festivals throughout North and South America, Europe and Asia.
In 1999 he completed his first feature-length 35mm film project CIRCLE'S SHORT CIRCUIT which toured throughout the US and Europe and was selected for the American Century Part II exhibition at the Whitney Museum, NY.

He is the recipient of a Rockefeller Media Art fellowship and currently finalizes a film project on various notions of time reversal in philosophy, science and cultural theory, featuring the philosopher Manuel De Landa, the nuclear scientist Mikhail Lukin and the gerontologist Michael West (among others).

He is an active member of THE THING, a NY-based nexus for art and net culture.
Since 2005 he is the co-director of video_dumbo an annual exhibition/festival for contemporary video art in NYC, co-presented with Dumbo Arts Center.

He also works as a screen designer for stage productions and collaborating as MOSTRA with his wife, Gabriela Monroy.

Caspar Stracke is a professor for Contemporary Art and Moving Image at KUVA Art Academy Helsinki.

1986 -93 Fine Art study with Lienhard v. Monkiewitsch und H.P. Zimmer (painting) film/video with Gerhard Büttenbender, Wilhelm and Birgit Hein, HBK, Academy of Fine Arts, Braunschweig, Germany
1994 MFA in experimental film and photography
1994/95 DAAD scholarship, New School for Social Research
1997 European Media Artist Residency, (EMARE) Hull Time Based Arts, UK
2000 Participation in EXPO theme park project "Knowledge - Information - Communication" in collaboration with BBM and ZKM at Expo 2000 Hannover, Germany
2005 EYEBEAM redisency
2002 - 09 editor for "Kulturzeit" / New York, with Dominique Gradenwitz (producer)
2003 curatorial projects for CITYZOOMS, Bremen, VIDEOEX Zürich and CLOSERTHANTHEREALTHING, at THE THING
2005 - present co-director of VIDEODUMBO, festival for contemporary video art, Dumbo, Brooklyn in assiciassion with Dumbo Arts Center
2006 board member of THE THING
2006-2007 Guest Prof. for Information Design and Media Art at University of Ulsan, Korea
2008-20011 free-lanced screen designer for MO[i]MO in Mexico City

awards

2007 Dept. of Cultural affairs comission (TBIT LAX airport)
2003 Videokunstpreis Bremen
2002 Fimbureau Hamburg, Production Grant
2000 Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship
1999 NY Bessie Award (video design for DKK, with Benton Bainbridge)
1995 Prize of the German Film Critics, Oberhausen Film Festival, Germany
1994 Golden Medal (Best Experimental Film) New York Film & Video Expo
1991 GRUNDIG European Sports Video award

selected exhibitions (** = solo exhibition)

2010
MICROWAVE, Hong Kong
NO DAMAGE, Gallery 210, St. Louis**
CONTEMPORARY ART RUHR, (VIDEOSPACE BUDAPEST) Essen
LAX Airport, Tom Bradley Int. Terminal Video Art (DCA LA comission)
European Media Art Festival, Germany
"BANDE", Space Bandee, Busan, Korea (with Eike and Jörn Zehe)**

2009
NAHRUNG, Shedhalle Zürich, curated by Markus Wirthmann
KOMMENTAR ALS SELBER WAS. Kunsthalle Exnergasse Vienna
VOR-STUDIO, Berlin**
VIDEOSPACE Budapest
OSTRALE 09, Dresden

2008
INTRUDE 366, ZENDAI Museum of Art, Shanghai**
VIDEO AS AN INSTRUMENT II, Supreme Trading, Brooklyn, NY
TRY AGAIN FAIL BETTER, Mücsarnok Kunsthalle Budapest (curated by Hajnalka Somogyi)
NOBE 67 ART Miami Art Fair 2008 (curated by Milagros Bello)

2007
ART AT THE W (presented by Janet Oh Gallery, Seoul)**
TRANSFERENCE Eyebeam, New York
KOPIEREN & VERFÄLSCHEN Kunsthaus FRISE, Hamburg
WHERE EUCLID WALKED Seoul Muesum of Art
URBANISMO Espacio Plasma, Buenos Aires, Argentina (with Terrence Gower)**

2006
EUROPEAN MEDIA ART FESTIVAL, Osnabrück, Germany
STRIP IMAGES IN LINE, Künstlerbund, Berlin. Curator: Rolf Bier
BAP Lab, Brooklyn Art Projects, Brooklyn, NY

2005
STRIP IMAGES IN LINE, Kunstverein Hannover. Curator: Rolf Bier
.STADT RAND FLUSS, Lothringer 13 , Munich, Germany
SILENT OBSERVERS, Modern Art Museum, Rijka, Croatia
MEDIA ARCHAEOLOGY, DiverseWorks, Houston Texas (with Mostra; curated by Andrea Grover)
REMAPPED REALITYES, EYEBEAM, NY (curator: Benjamin Weill)
Joseloff Gallery, Hartford, CT
VIDEO AS AN INSTRUMENT, THE TANK, New York

2004
VIDEOKUNSTPREIS, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, GAK Bremen**
MAIN FRAME, The Thing, New York**
FUTURE CINEMA, ICC, Tokyo Japan

2003
HARAKIRI BONBON (with Joern Zehe and Eike) Kunsthaus Hamburg
TO FREE CINEMA, Instituto Braziliano Audiovisual, Rio de Janiero

2002
FUTURE CINEMA, ZKM, Karlsruhe
Media-Art-Interaction, Goethe Institute, New York
WORD, DiverseWorks, Photofest, Houston, Texas

2001
MÀLHOL/ANDERSWO Goethe Institute Budapest
CSOMOPONT, Budapest

2000
WHITNEY MUSEUM of American Art
The American Century Part II, "Circle's Short Circle's" in film selection
HOTEL NEW YORK at PS 1, Center for Contemporary Art, NY **

1999
SIT.COM Galerie Montenay-Giroux, Paris
1998
TRANSMEDIALE, Berlin
1997
New York Arts Exchange
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 KunstMuseum Wolfsburg, Germany

1995 "Meisterschüler", MFA exhibiton, HBK, Braunschweig

screenings/ lectures / visiting artist

2010 Microwave, Hong Kong (lecture and workshop)
2010 Syracuse University, NY
2010 Pratt, Brooklyn, NY
2008  Budapest InterMedia Art Dept
2008  New School / Pratt Photography / Film
2007 Sejong University, Seoul
2006 .Potsdam-Babelsberg Film Academy
Zeitgeist Cinema, New Orleans
New York Underground Festival
2005 New School for Social Reserach
2004 Split Connect, Split, Croatia
PIXELFLUX, mama, m2, Zagreb
Digita Dish. Ljudmilla, Ljubeljana
2003 .Köln Filmhaus
Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach
2002 .Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam
New York Video Festival
REMOTE, Icon series
2001 .KHM, Media Arts Academy , Cologne
2000 .Universityof Colorado, Boulder, CO
University of Virginia, Richmond, VA
Cornel Cinema, Ithaca, 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
1998 .Whitney Myseum of American Art: The American Century II
New School for Social Research, NY
KHM, Media Arts Academy, Cologne
1997 .Filmhaus, Hamburg
Dundee University, Scotland
1996  Adelphi University, Long Island, USA
1996  Kino Circus, Tokyo, Japan
1995  Knitting Factory, NY
1995 .Arts & Crafts College,
Berkeley, Art Institute, San Francisco,
Millennium, NY
1993  Westwerk, Hamburg
1992  Hochschule für Gestaltung, Offenbach

videography

1994..THE CAPTURED CITY (U-Matic, 45 min)
1997 .LOCKED GROOVE (Betacam, 10 min)
1997-99: CIRCLE'S SHORT CIRCUIT (DVCam 85 min)
2000 .READ ME (DV, 8 min)
2001 .KUBRICK SPACE (CED SERIES)(DV, 6 min)

2002  NO DAMAGE (DV, 12:30 min)
2003  CED:2001 (CED SERIES) (DV, 5 min)
           TORN (CED SERIES) (DV, 7 min)  
            ZUSE STRIP (DV 9 min)
2004  SCAN (Mostra)
            BETWEEN EMPATHY & SYMPATHY IS TIME (w/ T Thaemlitz) (DV, 3 min)
2005 Kulchov Sukiyaki (with Mostra) (DV, 5:30 min)
2006 Coma Érotique (with Mostra) (DV 4 min)
2007 Rong Xiang (DV, 8 min)
2011 TIME/OUT OF JOINT (work in progress)

filmography

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)
1999 CIRCLE'S SHORT CIRCUIT (35mm Dolby SR)


projections/live video

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: VIDNAUGHTS
2003. UNITY GAIN@ DCTV
MIXOLOGIES, Perfoming Garage
2004.MOSTRA: Monkeytown Invitational (cutared by Bob Stein)
2008 MOSTRA: Eyewash / Lens


Festival participations:
New York Video Festival, New York Expo, London Film Festival , Transmediale, EAMF, IMPAKT, Flaherty Film Seminar, Int'l Shortfilm Oberhausen, Pandaemonium, IKFF Hamburg, EXIS Seoul, Videoex Surich, Edinburgh, Bruxelles, and many other venues throughout Europe, North America and Asia.

works incollections and distributions of:

Video Data Bank Chicago
Light Cone Paris
VIDEOSPACE Gallery, Budapest
Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
AG Kurzfilm Dresden
Künsterbund Berlin
EAMF Osnabrück
Rencontre Internations
Film Makers Co-op, New York
Goethe Institute/German Films
Kuratorium Junder Deutscher Film
FFHH Hamburg

editions.thing.net
videospace budapest
Janet Oh gallery, Seoul

 

 

 

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