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- born 1969
- self educated painter and video-artist
paint-works since ca. 10 years / 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-piece Kopflöcher / Headholes
commissioned for the archive of the best videos at the European youth video festival 1990

- since 1989 work for transmedia / VideoFest Berlin, programm selection / concept / organization

- 1990 Videotape: Slaves of Inheritance / Part I
>Price for the best experimental video work at the Festival for video and Super-8 in Brussels, 1990 / >Special mention at the VideoFormes festival 1992, Clermont-Ferrand
>screenings at ca. 50 festivals and other events, mainly abroad. 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. / Comissioned for international distribution by:
The Kitchen (New York) / Heure Exquise! (France) / MonteVideo (Amsterdam)

- 1993 video-installation: Zeit Messer / Time Knife or: Clock Face
premiere exhibition at the Videofestival Kassel, Nov. `93 | [1996 + 97 Berlin / 1998 Torino]

- 1994 tape: der Tod IST / the Death IS
premiere screening at the Berlin VideoFest `94; screenings in Canada, Japan, Latin-America, UK,
France, Netherlands, Australia a.o.

- 1994 Multi-Media performance: Bits and Bytes, Bit Bits and Bites
at the "X-94" Festival, Academy for the Arts, Berlin

- 1994/95 tape: nachtrag I (XXX) / postscript I (XXX)
based on a text by Konrad Bayer, featuring actor Adolfo Assor; screenings in Italy, Netherlands a.o.

- 1995 video installation: Mondspiegel / Moonmirror
premiere exhibition May - June '95, Berlin "Reservoir I"

- 1995 Cooperation with Matthias Beltz on the program/performance: Obedience is the Art of Hearing
at the Staatsschauspiel Stuttgart / video projection

- 1996 Tapes + Performance: The Catastrophe Cycle
- in collaboration with Matthias Beltz and Gerburg Treusch-Dieter / Videotape: The Catastrophe Cycle

- 1996/98 WWW-site: the spirit of the p/age - a portrait of Robert Calvert
/ 1st part of an ongoing video and multimedia project - featured in festivals and exhibitions in Hong Kong, Russia and Germany

- 1997 videotapes and installations for the video-theatre project Schnittstelle - dir: Armin Dillenberger

- Jan. '98 - Tour with The Moor & Nik Turner - spoken words & guest vocalist


The Grand Inquisitor - Collage
> 2/5/98 >     The Grand Inquisitor
Premiere of the LiveVideoTheatre project [Lab-version] with Hermann Treusch -
Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin

- Dec. '98 - video + sound-installation LIGHT SLEEP
at the Multiteatro Juvarra, Torino / Italy

> Mai '99 > Tour with The Moor & Nik Turner - spoken words & guest vocalist
and recordings of songs and improvisations for a new album

> Sept '99 > - Contribution to the Spirits Burning audio CD-project
[texts / spoken words + vocals] - incl. musicians from the USA, UK and Europe

> '99 -> 2000 > System Heaven | ghosts of the future
Text / Theatreplay & work on the first projections for the performance.


> in progress > '99 / 2000:
- D>Elektro - multimedia project [video / CD-ROM / internet] on the history of modern electronic music from Germany. [Internet-Site has been selected for the upcoming "Current Media-Art - UPDATE" programme of the Goethe Institute & the ZKM.]

- Work on the complete text/performance - version of the video-theatre project:
The Grandinquisitor

System Heaven | ghosts of the future

- Work an a new theatre/media project:
System Heaven | ghosts of the future
[author / co-director / projections] -- premiere ca. oct. 2000 at the Viartisti Teatro, Torino, Italy.

- Collaboration with the finish ambient band Nemesis
[texts / spoken words / vocals]



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> Curatorial Work Lectures Presentations <

# 1989-1998 work for the transmediale / VideoFest Berlin: concept and programme selection / presentation

# 1990 - 1993 selection + organization of the "Nachtvideo / Nightvideo" programmes at the Volksbühne Berlin

# numerous presentations of the transmedia / VideoFest Berlin touring programmes in var. European countries

# 1996 - lecture: "The Terror of the NEW" > for the programme "The Future of Images - Beyond the inscpriptions" of the ARS DIGITALIS festival, Berlin & member of the 'Ars Digitalis - Vebacom Award' jury

# Nov. 1997 - lecture at the Mediasymposion + VideoFestival Pamplona on the subject of new festival- forms in the digital age: "The Festival in the age of it's technical dis/solution"

# Feb. 1997 - curation and presentation of the exhibition: Web-Wise<> Art-Sites / New Media Art from the UK and Germany.
A selection of new artistic media projects from the UK and Germany at the Hong Kong University for Science and Technology - in collaboration with the Goethe Institute Hong Kong

# April 1997 - curation and organization of Berlin Alchemie
Two programmes of video-art by Berlin based artists - incl. a catalogue / essay. Programmes toured through 6 cities in New Zealand - in collaboration with the Goethe Institute Auckland.

# 1997/98 - curation of the internet-part of the Media-catalogue / touring package "Medien Kunst Aktuell" [New Media-Art from Germany]
for the Goethe Institute / ZKM (Centre for Art and Mediatechnology) Karlsruhe - incl. an essay on web-art.

# Oct. '98 - lecture on "Art on the internet" at the Videofestival Las Palmas (E) / March '99 in Athens; Fournos Media Center

# curation of 'Berlin Laboratory'
An extensive presentation of Multi-Media artworks from Berlin (video / CD-ROMs and internet projects) - incl. lectures and workshops. Presentation at the Teatro Juvara, Torino (I) in collaborartion with the Goethe Institute Torino.


# Presentations of "Medien Kunst Aktuell / Current Media Art":
March '98 > Goethe Institute Moscow
October '98 - Goethe Institute Kyoto
October '98 - Festival Intern. de Video de Canarias, Las Palmas
December '98 - Goethe Institute Torino
March '99 - Fournos Media Center, Athens


# since 1999 work as a freelance webdesigner and tutor - (a.o.) at the Berlin Internet-Academy

# since 2002 - Lectureship for multimedia at the FU / University Berlin

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C©PYRIGHTS |> D>Elektro

> concept, HTML design, image processing + collages, texts > © Knut Gerwers

|> other sources |
> Kraftwerk: Man, Machine and Music | Pascal Bussy | SAF Publishing, 1993
> We can be Heroes | Andy Gill | Mojo Magazine, April 1997
> Krautrocksampler | Julian Cope | KAK London, 1995
> The CAN Book | Andy Hall + Pascal Bussy | 1989 SAF Publishing
> Klaus Schulze - The Works | Klaus D. Mueller | P.O.E.M. Verlag, 1998
> Klaus Schulze - eine musikalische Gratwanderung | Verlag M. Schwinn, 1986
> Amon Düül - Tanz der Lemminge | I. Schober | Sonnentanz Verlag, 1994
> Krautrock | Simon Reynolds | Melody Maker, Juli 1996
> var. interviews / articles from the WWW [see > Material]

> all rights remain with the resp. authors, musicians and photographers

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