Rainer Kohlberger

An artist talk between Rainer Kohlberger and Patrick Raddatz

INTROSPECTION

Rainer Kohlberger’s work, topics and inspiration has been featured at this year’s transmediale, Berlinale and at NODE17, amongst others. His body of work is based on algorithmic generated images, which he regularly performs live or become manifest in experimental short films and installations. He has been awarded with the Zentrum für Kunst und Medien App Award for Artistic Innovation in 2011, his piece „humming, fast, and slow“ earned the Crossing Europe Local Artist Award in 2013.

Patrick is a researcher, artist, music facilitator, working on scientific and artistic research projects focussing on the evolution of House and Techno in Germany, as well as on obsolete media technologies and photography. He currently has a teaching assignment at the University of Art and Design Offenbach and is working at the Institut für Klangforschung and the independent art space saasfee*pavillon.

 

Rainer Kohlberger

Berlin, Germany

kohlberger.net

Rainer Kohlberger is an Austrian born freelance visual artist / film maker living in Berlin. His work is primarily based on algorithmic compositions with reductionistic aesthetics influenced by flatness, drones and interference. Within his works there always lies a layer of noise, that fascinates him as a sense of the infinite, which is both the ultimate abstraction and inveterately fuzzy. In his films, installations and live performances maximum forms of intensities come into play. His work has won several prizes internationally.

Patrick Raddatz

institutfuerklangforschung.de

Patrick is a researcher, artist, music facilitator, working on scientific and artistic research projects focussing on the evolution of House and Techno in Germany, as well as on obsolete media technologies and photography. He currently has a teaching assignment at the University of Art and Design Offenbach and is working at the Institut für Klangforschung and the independent art space saasfee*pavillon.

Having graduated in Visual Communications with majors in Experimental Spatial Concepts and Photography, but originating from an electronic music background as a dj and producer, he is regularly working on concepts for and realizing events such as ROTOR and Robert Johnson Theorie in cooperation with the University of Art and Design Offenbach, the Institut für Klangforschung and partnering institutions. Patrick’s thesis «HOUSE NATION BRD – Regionale Netzwerke in House und Techno von den Anfängen in den 1980ern bis zur Definition eines städtetypischen Sounds in den 1990ern» has been featured at Robert Johnson Theorie and the B3 Biennale.

Patrick has been part of the team creating the first edition of NODE Forum for Digital Arts in 2008.