Ger Ger
Participant in
4th edittion of Cologne Online Film Festival 2008
Ger Ger, media artist, born in Vienna/A 1981, currently lives and works in
Berlin/D. He feels drawn to art and digital media early on in life, receives
his first honors and awards aged fourteen. M.A. in Digital Arts and Visual
Media Design. Study with Karel Dudesek, Peter Weibel and Tom Fürstner at the
University of Applied Arts, Vienna. Scholarship in Visual Communication with
Joachim Sauter at the University of Arts in Berlin.
He deliberately works in a wide range of media and techniques. Time and
again his projects foray into the realms of the hitherto untouched. Pieces
are alternately reflexive, poetic, critical or visionary.
Places/people/religions/cultures/travel take significance as his principal
sources of inspiration.
Passers-by or visitors are integrated, alienation takes place, and the
everyday life is reconnected in new patterns. Again and again his pieces
hold up a distorting mirror to reality. The line between reality and fiction
frequently blurs.
His work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions at Ars Electronica
(Linz), Electrohype (Malmö), Open (London), FILE (Sao Paulo/Curitiba City),
MUMOK (Vienna), Kunst Haus (Dresden), Kunsthalle (Vienna), O.K Centrum
(Linz), Diagonale (Graz). His awards include the Prix Ars Electronica,
CYNETart, Rheingold Award and Prix MultimediaArt.