works

2022 flow – site specific installation for Sanatorium of the Sound Festival, Sokołowsko (Poland)
2021-22 Querido Pez – Expeditions in Specific Territory, research project Montevideo (Uruguay) and Rostock (Germany)
2021 underwater signals, research project for CAUS - Content Analysis of Urban Sounds at Radio Total. Festival of Visual Arts On Air (curator Florian Tuercke), Fundacja Chmura, Gdańsk
2019-21 storm log - a journey in storms, Tiera del Fuego
2019 For the Birds / Pour les oiseaux - a collective aeronautic sculpture garden, Hollabrunn
2017 spike - performance installation for documenta14 radio - "sonic wilderness" (invited by agf - Antye Greie-Ripatti), Berlin, Germany
2016 vertigo manoeuvre - installation and performance for Sounds Like VI - "Echoing (silent) machines" (curator Eric Mattson), Saskatoon, Canada
2016 speaking walls - exhibition of a shortlisted proposal (together with Rene Rissland) - for a permanent monument at Nelson Mandela Platz, Nuernberg
2015 performance together with Wojciech Kucharczyk, artmeetings Festival, Kiev
2015 kontinuum – installation, reheat Festival, Austria
2014 drone lab – residency & workshop, Tsonami Festival de Arte Sonoro, Valparaíso, Chile
2014 axon – installation for the exhibition 'Listen! - On the Edge of Perceptibility', Műcsarnok / Kunsthalle Budapest
2013 drone log - a journey in drones between singapore and bangkok
2012 line/tilt - installation (permanent), commisioned by haiart, Hailuoto, Finland (winner PIARS sound art award 2013)

below mainly works with staalplaat soundsystem:
2011 kids workshop + concert - de:sonanz festival 2011, Goethe Institut Skopje
2010 Flux you - 19 November at the Fluxus Biennial at the Auditorium, Rome
2010 Trondheim Philarmechanic Cobra Youth Orchestra - 7 October at The new biennial for art and technology, Trondheim Electronic Arts Centre
2010 yokomono - 8 October at The new biennial for art and technology, Trondheim Electronic Arts Centre
2010 9 lives of buddha - performance, Brancaleone club | Romaeuropa festival, Rom
2010 kids workshop + concert - clubtransmediale, Berlin
2009 yokomono - 12 December at UM Festival 2009, Lissabon
2009 inflight - installation at Tor111, Berlin
2009 kids workshop + concert - Picnic Society / 2 de mayo, Mostoles/Madrid
2008 kids workshop + concert - dis-patch festival 2008, Belgrad
2008 yokomono/tonewheels performance together with Derek Holzer - LAB30 Festival, Augsburg
2008 yokomono - La Casa Encendida, Madrid
2008 yokomono - 100LIVE electronic music festival 2008, Goethe Institut, Cairo
2008 avantilator performance/installation - Festival Octopus #5, Paris
2008 yokomono 24-hour performance - spor festival, Arhus
2008 yokomono installation + performance - AV Festival, Newcastle
2007 yokomono - Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Night of the Unexpected
2007 yokomono - strp 07 festival, Eindhoven
2007 taaipe, 8 channel performance - Fieldrecording Festival, Berlin
2007 yokomono - passengers festival, Warschau
2007 architone installation/performance (commission) - opening of Steirischer Herbst/musikprotokoll, Graz
2007 9 lives of buddha - Steirischer Herbst/musikprotokoll, Graz
2007 yokomono installation and performance, sale away workshop/installation - Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei
2007 yokomono - computer art festival, Maribor
2007 Tschumifoon installation (commission) - Tschumi paviljoen, Groningen
2007 yokomono - DEAF 07 festival, Rotterdam
2007 yokomono installation - Galerija Kapelica, Ljubljana
2006 yokomono - RIAM03 festival, Marseille
2006 the amplified bar performance - zentrale randlage, Berlin
2006 yokomono live video version - Sensoralia/Romaeuropa Festival, Rom
2006 yokomono - dis-patch festival, Belgrad
2006 CHEW-Z Colliding HEterophonic Waves machines installation/performance (commission) - sincronie 06 festival, Milano und Reggio Emilia
2006 yokomono multi speaker installation - re:visie/ N filmfestival Centraal Museum, Utrecht
2006 yokomono - steim, Amsterdam
2006 yokomono installation - ars electronica, Honorary Mention Prix Ars Electronica, Linz
2006 architectone installation (commission) - Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival/Siemens Arts Program, Kunsthalle Kiel
2006 kids workshop + concert - Stuttgarter Filmwinter festival for expanded media
2005 kids workshop + concert - Avanto Festival at National Art Gallery and Kiasma Museum, Helsinki
2005 yokomono - Records and Covers by Artists – Museum Weserburg, Bremen
2005 yokomono - Polytechnic University, Athen
2005 yokomono - South Gate Space Gallery, Beijing
2005 sale away installation - todays art festival, Den Haag
2005 floating islands installation - Happy New Ears, Kortrijk
2005 yokomono installation + performance - Mutek Festival, Montreal
2005 yokomono - Detali Zvuki Festival, Kiev
2005 yokomono - DOM, Moskau
2005 yokomono - SKIF Festival, St. Petersburg
2005 yokomono - Ultrasound Fest, Budapest
2005 yokomono - Soundbridges Festival Flex, Wien
2005 yokomono - transmediale workspace im Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2005 yokomono - Netmage 05 festival at Cassero, Bologna
2005 floating islands installation - zomerparkfeest, Venlo
2004 floating islands installation - Tag des offenen Denkmals, Stralsund
2004 sale away installation - Tschumipavijloen, Groningen
2004 happy metal installation (commission) - The State X/New Forms Festival at The Vrije Academie, Den Haag
2004 machine installation + workshop - AKI University Festival, Enschede
2004 sale away installation (commission) - European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück
2004 floating islands installation Floating Islands, (sss with Erwin Stache) - opening of the new Royal Netherlands Embassy, Berlin
2004 yokomono installation + performance - Earational Festival in ARTiS, Hertogenbosch
2003 60 vacuumcleaners installation/perfromance - Oorsmeer Vooruit, Gent
2003 yokomono Installation + performance - Voxxx Gallery, Chemnitz
2003 60 vacuumcleaners installation/perfromance - Brandenburg Music Festival, Industriemuseum, Brandenburg
2003 composition for vacuum cleaners, 2 cement mixers - CEMENT festival, ENCI Cement factory, Maastricht
2002 a composition for 60 vacuum cleaners - Les Chants Mecaniques, Lille
2002 94,4 Mhz - installation for Kühle Räume/Kühlräume, Tor111, Berlin
2002 speelgoed installation (commission) - Argos Festival, Brüssel
2002 yokomono - club transmediale 02 Go Public, Berlin
2001 Mono Erosive Surround Sound Installation (commission) - singuhr, Format 5 Festival, Berlin
1999 osculture - transmediale, Berlin
1997 deutsch-italienischer darkroom - isola palmaria project, Palmaria, Italien

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curatorial

2019-25 Terra Ignota – artistic research and residency project in the southernmost inhabited region of the planet – Chilean Antarctica, Magallanes, Tierra del Fuego and Última Esperanza.
2024 Contact Zones – exhibition, conference and workshop program at Universidad de Magallanes, Punta Arenas (Chile)
2023 Sonic Islands – artistic research and residency project between Tierra del Fuego (Chile) and Rügen (Germany)
2023 Ways of Seeing Sound – Exhibition project by Els Viaene (BE) at Liebig 12, Berlin
2022 Expeditions in Specific Territory – artistic research and residency project between Montevideo (Uruguay and Rostock (Germany)
2019-21 sonic explorers – residency program in Tehran/Iran, Dakar/Senegal, Valparaiso/Chile and Bonn (2019-2020) for sonotopia alumni, produced for bonnhoeren/Beethovenstiftung, Bonn
2018 Listening Politics – tuned city ancient Messene, Greece 2018
2018 Mario DeVega – Spiegelung, installation, Grosser Wasserspeicher, Berlin
2017 Acts of Listening co-production with Tsonami Festival de Arte Sonoro, Valparaíso, Chile
2016 artmeetings Festival, Dnepropetrovsk (Ukraine) and in Vilnius (Lithuania)
2016 Phantom Power – Konrad Smolenski (solo exhibition), Polish Cultural Institute, Berlin
2016 (in development 2016/17) resonating cities, residency and research network between Montreal, New York, Boston, Mexico, Sao Paulo, Valparaiso, Montevideo and Berlin
2014 festival bonn hoeren - conference, workshops, exhibition, performances
2014 sound exchange - Enklaven experimenteller Musikkultur in Mittelosteuropa - program for CTM Festival, Berlin
2013/14 Sound Like Here - Dublin 2013/14, exhibition, residency program, workshops, festival (postponed)
2012/13 Listening between this and that - tuned city Brussels 2013
2012 sonic places berlin, symposium and research in cooperation with Peter Cusack and the DAAD, Berlin
2011/12 sound exchange - Enklaven experimenteller Musikkultur in Mittelosteuropa, festival, exhibition and workshops in Krakow, Bratislava, Tallinn, Vilnius, Budapest, Prag, Riga and Chemnitz for Goethe Institut
2011 Irrational Computing - Ralf Baecker, residency and exhibition Schering Stiftung, Berlin
2011 Sounds of Muggenhof - tuned city Nürnberg for City of Nürnberg
2010/11 Sonic Landmarks - tuned city Tallin - European Cultural Capital Tallinn 2011
2010 data. memory. signal. - festival + exhibition, Tschernobyl/Liviv (development)
2009 sommercamp+workstation=2009, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Schering Stiftung, general public, Berlin
2009 foundation DOCK - laboratory for art and media Berlin
2009 structures - club transmediale - conference, workshops and exhibition on structures of indepenent cultural production, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, HBC, general public, Maria am Ostbahnhof, Berlin
2008 tuned city showcase at FullPull Festival Malmö
2008 tuned city Berlin - conference, exhibition and festival on the topic architecture and sound, Berlin
2008 tuned city pre-face at club transmediale - conference- and performance program
2007 foundation tuned city - platform, Berlin
2007 time's up - the hub - residency project and program TESLA medien kunst labor Berlin
2006 feedback radio - festival- and lecture program - Mediaspace Stuttgart
2004/05 basics! exhibition, lectures + workshops - transmediale Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt
2005 forget it! / die kunst des vergessens - festival program garage
2004 black box + white cube / interfaces of culture - festival program garage
2003 no concept / unsicherheit und scheitern - festival program garage
2002 playground / über das spielen in der kunst - festival program garage
2001 zwischen bild und ton - festival programgarage
2000 open source in the cultural context - festival program garage
1999-2005 international short film festival g-niale Stralsund
1997 foundation media festival and produktions platform garage

lectures

2024/25 magic and illusion in media – 2 seminars (BA + MA) @ BHT, Berlin
2024 Data Sonification - seminar @ Acoustic Ecologies and Sound Studies (Prof. Kerstin Ergenzinger), Bauhaus University Weimar
2024 Environmental Linguistics - presentation @ Contact Zones, TIF 2024, Universidad de Magallanes (UMAG), Punta Arenas (Chile)
2023/24 shadows and echos – seminar (MA) @ BHT, Berlin
2022/23 augenmusik - media translations – seminar (MA) @ BHT, Berlin
2022 Terra Ignota - moving and connecting @ Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC), Santiago (Chile)
2022 Terra Ignota - alternative epistemologies for knowledge production @ Universidad de Magallanes (UMAG), Punta Arenas (Chile)
2021/21 ent-täuschung - disappointment - how media is changing culture – seminar (MA) @ BHT, Berlin
2021 hörräume – lecture @ Alanus Hochschule für Kunst und Gesellschaft, Alfter/Bonn
2020/21 disappearing - camouflage and invisibility in media – 2 seminars (bachelors + masters) with students of Event Technology and Management @ Beuth University of Applied Science, Berlin
2019/20 fog, smoke, mist, dust and clouds as media – 2 seminars (bachelors + masters) with students of Event Technology and Management @ Beuth University of Applied Science, Berlin
2019 Defining territories of the “east” in German music avantgardes – presentation @ Connecting Resonances I - seminar, American University of Beirut
2018/19 data communication – 2 seminars (bachelors + masters) with students of Event Technology and Management @ Beuth University of Applied Science, Berlin
2018 Improvisation as Curatorial Practice - presentation @ Space, Sound and the Improvisatory - conference, Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens
2018 berlin sonic places – book presentation and talk with Peter Cusack and Sam Auinger @ Echobuecher, Berlin
2018 META. Tracing Unknown Knowns – discussion with Víctor Mazón Gardoqui, Daniela Silvestrin, Mario de Vega, Dicey Studios @ transmediale/face value, Berlin
2017/18 media communications – seminar with students of Event Technology and Management @ Beuth University of Applied Science, Berlin
2017 berlin sonic places – book presentation and talk with Peter Cusack, Max Eastley and Christina Kubisch @ daad galerie, Berlin
2017 what is inclusion? – talk @ documenta14 radio ("Listen to the Other - disEmbodied Voices" produced and hosted by AGF (Antye Greie-Ripatti))
2016 Tuned City – Sound in the Urban Context – lecture @ Goethe Institut, Hongkong
2016 hall 04 by TAAT – tutoring architecture students of Alanus Hochschule and theater students of Aberystwyth University, DAZ, Berlin
2016 off the grid festivals – Working in remote places – lecture @ Paved Arts, Saskatoon, Canada
2016 Sound in the City – seminar @ Intonal Festival, Malmö
2016 Translating the hyper visible & invisible: Artist led publications and the co-creation of shared dialogues – discussion @ transmediale/conversationpiece, Berlin
2016 listening as intervention – walk together with Davide Tidoni @ SoCCoS Micro residency, CTM-Festival, Berlin
2016 The walk/the step (is high) – conversation with Eric Mattson @ Research Networking Day - Mapping Sound Cultures, CTM-Festival, Berlin
2015 The Crisis of the Festival – discussion @ artmeetings Festival Kiev
2015 garages, labs, tuned cities, maps & archives – seminar, Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee
2015 Urban Sounds: Acoustic Transformations in the 21st Century City – roundtable, Goethe Institut, Montreal
2015 Tuned City – Sound and Space in the Urban Context – presentation at OBORO, Montreal
2015 Interacting with the City – talk at La Marche (est haute), Eastern Bloc, Montreal
2014 Unmapping – Produciendo Métodos y Tácticas para Interactuar en/y el Espacio Público – seminar, Tsonami Festival de Arte Sonoro, Valparaíso, Chile
2014 Composición espacial – seminar, EUM Escuela Universitaria de Música, Montevideo, Urugay
2014 DIY. How to do something out of nothing, that is survival of culture – discussion @ artmeetings Festival Kiev
2014 Cultural Identities in Sound Art – round table @ mikromusik. Festival for experimental music and sound art, DAAD, Berlin + Deutschlandradio Kultur
2014 The Statement: Sound – Installation – conference, HBK Braunschweig
2014 listening to the city – workshop and round table discussion, City of Basel, Department for Environment and Energy, Basel
2014 sound and city - cultural mediation and presentation formats, Goethe Institut international directors meeting, Berlin
2014 sonic entanglements – lecture at Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities at Queen's University, Belfast
2014 sound exchange - perspectives – panel discussion at CTM Festival, Berlin
2013 artistic interventions in urban space – methods, strategies and formats of mediation – lecture at The Hochschule der Bildenden Künste, Saarbrücken
2013 sounds in the urban environment – lecture and panel moderations at Mutek_Lab, Centro de Cultura Digital, Mexico-City
2013 shifts – lecture at Urban Nights, Science Gallery, Dublin
2013 listening through noise – seminar/workshop for sound art class of Ulrich Eller (HBK Brauschweig) in Brussels
2013 Music in the Cloud – talk with Arno Brandlhuber & Manos Tsangaris, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
2013 listening through noise – lecture at Wiels - Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels
2012 as we speak – talk with Udo Noll and Patrick McGinley - European Cultural Capital Maribor 2012, Goethe-Institut
2012 Mediate Space - curating and producing in unusual environments – lecture at Wind as Context – Wilderness Art Conference, Hailuoto, Finland
2012 urbane hörräume - bonn hoeren — stadtklangforum 3/2012, Bonner Kunstverein
2011 Networking Tomorrow's Art for an Unknown Future - ICAS SUITE Panel Discussion, Berlin
2011 tuned city – lecture @ architecure department of BEZALEL Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
2011 tuned city - at Sound Marathon, Institute for Spatial Experiments (Prof. Olafur Eliasson) University of the Arts (UdK) Berlin
2010 listening! - about tuned city - lecture at MYFBS (my favourite brussels sounds), Brüssel
2010 Progettazione urbana e spazi sonori - lecture an der Politecnico di Milano di Piacenza
2010 put your ear on the wall - lecture at club transmediale Symposium, Berlin
2009 noise - lecture UM festival, Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa
2009 Klang - Raum - Öffentlichkeit, lecture singuhr salon, Berlin
2008 sound and architecture - lecture dis-patch festival 2008, Belgrad
2008 tuning the city - lecture FullPull Festival, Malmö
2008 cultural conditions - masterclass Liviv (Ukraine)
2007 building as instrument - workshop Steirischer Herbst, Graz
2007 sound and architecture - lecture Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee
2007 made in taiwan - workshop MOCA Taipei (Taiwan)
2005 working in public space - lecture at Netmage Festival Bologna
2004 machines of making sense - Workshop AKI University Enschede
2003 coordinator of MA Space Strategy at (KHB)
2003-2004 ongoing supervising master students MA Space Strategy (KHB)
2002-2004 guest lecturer at the interdisciplinary postgraduate program MA Space Strategy at (KHB) - diverse seminars and workshops
- open media; practical-political-judicial problems decentralised public networks, seminar
- open content; collective authorship / artistic diversion strategies, seminar
- encyclopedia for a place + No Maps For These Territories, seminar on mapping
- back to the future, seminar / workshop
2002 communication design with other media, workshop conduction in Salvador de Bahia (Brasil) (Escola Superior de Artes e Design Berlim na Bahia ADBB)
2000 mymonbijou, seminar and workshop on the practice of cultural production in the frame of master year
1999-2000 assistent Prof. S.D.Sauerbier communication science (KHB)
- intermedia/multimedia part1 TON - MUSIK - SOUND, seminar, communication science
- intermedia/multimedia part 2: TEXTE und SPRACHE, seminar, communication science

publications

2025 "Difficult to put into words..." conversation with Kaffe Matthews and Antye Greie Ripatti, Revista AURAL Nº6 – Atmospherica, Chile
2024 "Environmental Linguistics, language as environmental communication." centrefold at, Neural #75, Italy
2023 "sonotopia – the sonic explorers" (Ed. together with Carsten Seiffarth) Norient Books, 2023, ISBN 978-3-9525444-3-3
2021 "Audio Virus and Ear Worms" - radio feature for Festival Tsonami 2021 together with Raviv Ganchrow (NL) and Michiel Huijsman (NL)
2020 "Sobre el eco" - text contribution for the book Forma y sonido - Quince años de arte sonoro en el Uruguay edited by Lukas Kühne and Fabrice Lengronne, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes
2020 "bonn hoeren - urban sound art 2010-2019" - text contribution for the monumental documentation edited by Carsten Seiffarth - edition neue zeitschrift für musik, Schott Music
2019 "Atmospheres, Soundtracks and Transmissions" - by Black Seas Ensemble - double vinyl LP, The Dim Coast, Montreal
2018 "Uneasy Listening" - Acts of Listening Valparaiso, Chile (2017) and Ancient Messene, Greece (2018) - catalogue
2018 Listening Politics - tuned city Ancient Messene - catalogue
2017 "10 years of making noise" book introduction for the 10 years anniversary of Tsonami festival, Chile
2017 "dronlab" interview with Christobal Cornejo, Revista AURAL Nº3 – Antropologias de la escucha, Valparaíso
2015 "Acoustic knowing - Formate der Vermittlung zwischen Stadt und Klang" - text contribution for The Statement! edited by Ulrich Eller / Christoph Metzger, Kehrer ISBN 978-3-86828-641-0
2015 "technique concrete" - text contribution for "Des disques et un couteau", Martin Tetreault monograph edited by Nicole Gingras, Montreal ISBN 978-2-9805019-6-8
2015 "drifting off" + "camouflage" text contributions for Tsonami documentation, Valparaíso
2014 "bonn hoeren" - program book, (co-author)
2014 "other places" - text contribution for the cd release "ma ta ta bi" by Akio Suzuki and Aki Onda, ORAL_records #59, Montreal
2013 noise - tuned city Brussels - catalogue
2013 "Sobre el Eco" - text contribution for the book "Colaboración" by alonso+craciun, Montevideo
2013 "Armoniile orasului. Tuned City", igloo, habitat & architectura #137, Bucarest
2013 "on listening", Blow-Up, 03/2013, Rome
2013 "Tuned City - Zwischen Klang- und Raumspekulation", Positionen, Texte zur aktuellen Musik, 94/2013
2013 "Stadt neu denken", (Arno Brandlhuber, Carsten Stabenow, Manos Tsangaris im Gespräch mit Gisela Nauck) Positionen, Texte zur aktuellen Musik, 94/2013
2012 Sounds of Europe - interview with Sonia Heyer
2012 "sound exchange - Experimental Music Cultures in Central and Eastern Europe", (Ed. together with Carsten Seiffarth + Golo Föllmer) Pfau, 2012, ISBN 978-3897274877
2011 Soundmap of Tallinn - Europäische Kulturhaupstadt Tallinn 2011 - (editor/co-author)
2011 Sonic Landmarks - tuned city Tallinn - Europäische Kulturhaupstadt Tallinn 2011 - catalogue
2009 Structures - club transmediale berlin 2009 - catalogue (co-author)
2008 "Il suono come arte" - Interview for Digimag No.39, Milano (english version here >>>)
2008 tuned city, kookbooks, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-937445-36-6 (editor/author)
2008 tuned city, Katalog
2007 "Situationen schaffen, die die Dinge lebendig halten" - Interview in "herbst.Theorie zur Praxis", steirischer herbst, Graz
2005 forget it! / die kunst des vergessens - catalogue garage
2005 basics - transmediale 05 Berlin - catalogue (co-author)
2004 black box + white cube / interfaces of culture - catalogue Festival garage
2003 no concept / unsicherheit und scheitern - catalogue Festival garage
2003 "open culture" - Beitrag in "Internationalisierung, Wirtschaft und Kultur im Wandel", FH Stralsund, ISBN: 978-3980796354 (author)
2002 playground / über das spielen in der kunst - catalogue Festival garage
2001 zwischen bild und ton - catalogue Festival garage
2000 du meinst der graue kasten auf meinem tisch beeinflusse mich? - theoretical diploma work on the topic of open source in the cultural context
2000 open source in the cultural context - catalogue Festival garage

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contact

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