Carsten Nicolai (18 September 1965), also known as Alva Noto, is a

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and visual artist. He is a member of the music groups Diamond Version with Olaf Bender (Byetone), Signal with

Frank Bretschneider Frank Bretschneider (born 1956) is a German electronic musician. He works primarily with sine waves and white noise as his source material. He also releases material under the name Komet. Bretschneider was born and raised in Karl-Marx-Stadt ...

and Olaf Bender, Cyclo with

Ryoji Ikeda Ryoji Ikeda (池田亮司 ''Ikeda Ryōji'', born 1966) is a Japanese visual and sound artist who currently lives and works in Paris, France. Ikeda's music is concerned primarily with sound in a variety of "raw" states, such as sine tones and n ...

, ANBB with

Blixa Bargeld Blixa Bargeld (born Christian Emmerich, 12 January 1959) is a German musician who has been the lead singer of the band Einstürzende Neubauten since its formation in 1980. Bargeld was also a founding member of the Australian rock band Nick Cave ...

, ALPHABET with Anne-James Chaton, Opto with

Thomas Knak Thomas Knak is a Danish electronic musician who has also produced work under the name Opiate. He worked with Björk on her ''Vespertine'' album and has produced remixes for Bomb the Bass and Coldcut. He also produced original music for the 200 ...

, and Alva Noto +

Ryuichi Sakamoto is a Japanese composer, pianist, singer, record producer and actor who has pursued a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO). With his bandmates Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi, Sakamoto i ...

with whom he composed the score for the 2015 film '' The Revenant''.

Life and career

Carsten Nicolai was born in

Karl-Marx-Stadt Chemnitz (; from 1953 to 1990: Karl-Marx-Stadt , ) is the third-largest city in the German state of Saxony after Leipzig and Dresden. It is the 28th largest city of Germany as well as the fourth largest city in the area of former East Germ ...

(now

Chemnitz Chemnitz (; from 1953 to 1990: Karl-Marx-Stadt , ) is the third-largest city in the German state of Saxony after Leipzig and Dresden. It is the 28th largest city of Germany as well as the fourth largest city in the area of former East Germany ...

) of

Saxony Saxony (german: Sachsen ; Upper Saxon German, Upper Saxon: ''Saggsn''; hsb, Sakska), officially the Free State of Saxony (german: Freistaat Sachsen, links=no ; Upper Saxon: ''Freischdaad Saggsn''; hsb, Swobodny stat Sakska, links=no), is a ...

, GDR in 1965. He studied architecture and landscape design before pursuing art. In 1994 he founded the label NOTON, following which a collaboration with RasterMusic began and by 1999 the two labels had merged into Raster-Noton, which operated until 2017. Returning to the labels origin in 2017, Nicolai runs NOTON separately. In 2009 Nicolai wrote the opera '' Sparkie: Cage and Beyond'' in collaboration with

Michael Nyman Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE (born 23 March 1944) is an English composer, pianist, librettist, musicologist, and filmmaker. He is known for numerous film scores (many written during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Gre ...

. Nicolai performed and created installations in many of the world's most prestigious spaces including the Guggenheim,

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, the SF MoMA, Modern Art Oxford, NTT

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Tate Modern Tate Modern is an art gallery located in London. It houses the United Kingdom's national collection of international modern and contemporary art, and forms part of the Tate group together with Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. It ...

and

Venice Biennale The Venice Biennale (; it, La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation. The biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of ...

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. As a member (and co-founder) of the Raster-Noton label he was responsible for the acclaimed CD series ''20 to 2000'' that went on to win the Golden Nica prize at

Prix Ars Electronica The Prix Ars Electronica is one of the best known and longest running yearly prizes in the field of electronic and interactive art, computer animation, digital culture and music. It has been awarded since 1987 by Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria). ...

, 2000. Carsten Nicolai also works as a visual artist. In 2013, Nicolai participated as a visual artist in ''Biennale Documenta'', an official collateral show of the ''55th

of Art''. Nicolai started his professorship in art with focus on digital and time-based media with

Dresden Academy of Fine Arts The Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (German ''Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden''), often abbreviated HfBK Dresden or simply HfBK, is a vocational university of visual arts located in Dresden, Germany. The present institution is the produc ...

since 2015. Nicolai scored the music for

Alejandro González Iñárritu Alejandro González Iñárritu (; American Spanish: ; credited since 2016 as Alejandro G. Iñárritu; born 15 August 1963) is a Mexican filmmaker and screenwriter. He is primarily known for making modern psychological drama films about the hu ...

's '' The Revenant''. The score was nominated for a

Golden Globe The Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association beginning in January 1944, recognizing excellence in both American and international film and television. Beginning in 2022, there are 105 members of ...

, BAFTA,

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and

Critics' Choice Movie Awards The Critics' Choice Movie Awards (formerly known as the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award) is an awards show presented annually by the American-Canadian Critics Choice Association (CCA) to honor the finest in cinematic achievement. Writ ...

. In 2018 he created the sound design for Iñárritu’s groundbreaking VR project "Carne y Arena"

Flesh and Sand ''Flesh and Sand'' ( es, Carne y arena) is a 2017 American short virtual reality project written and directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu that plunges "viewers into the harsh life of an immigrant".Peter Aspden"Carne y Arena: Alejandro Iñ ...

Solo exhibitions (selection)

* 2019: ''Parallax Symmetry'',

Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen The Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen is the art collection of the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia, in Düsseldorf. United by this institution are three different exhibition venues: the ''K20'' at Grabbeplatz, the ''K21'' in the ...

Düsseldorf Düsseldorf ( , , ; often in English sources; Low Franconian and Ripuarian: ''Düsseldörp'' ; archaic nl, Dusseldorp ) is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in ...

* 2012: ''unidisplay'', Hangar Bicocca,

Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city ...

* 2007: ''static fades'', shown at PaceWildenstein,

New York City New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the L ...

and in Haus Konstruktiv,

Zürich , neighboring_municipalities = Adliswil, Dübendorf, Fällanden, Kilchberg, Maur, Oberengstringen, Opfikon, Regensdorf, Rümlang, Schlieren, Stallikon, Uitikon, Urdorf, Wallisellen, Zollikon , twintowns = Kunming, San Francisco Z ...

* 2006: ''inver'', shown at

Frieze Art Fair Frieze Art Fair is an international contemporary art fair in London, New York, and Los Angeles. Frieze London takes place every October in London's Regent's Park. In the US, the fair ran on New York's Randall's Island from 2012–19 and in ...

, London and at Galerie EIGEN + ART,

Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as ...

* 2006: ''Polylit'', Kunstmuseum Stuttgart * 2005: ''Audio Visual Spaces,'' Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.),

Ghent Ghent ( nl, Gent ; french: Gand ; traditional English: Gaunt) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the East Flanders province, and the third largest in the country, exceeded i ...

* 2005: ''Anti Reflex'',

Schirn Kunsthalle The Schirn Kunsthalle is a Kunsthalle in Frankfurt, Germany, located in the old city between the Römer and the Frankfurt Cathedral. The Schirn exhibits both modern and contemporary art. It is the main venue for temporary art exhibitions in ...

Frankfurt Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , " Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on it ...

* 2005: ''syn chron'', shown at

Neue Nationalgalerie The Neue Nationalgalerie (New National Gallery) at the Kulturforum is a museum for modern art in Berlin, with its main focus on the early 20th century. It is part of the National Gallery of the Berlin State Museums. The museum building and its s ...

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitu ...

* 2003: ''funken'', Galerie EIGEN + ART, Berlin * 2002: ''International Art Biennial'',

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* 2000: Ystads Konstmuseum (Sweden) * 1999: ''1% space'',

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* 1998: ''polyfoto'', Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig

Discography

Alva Noto solo studio albums

* '' Prototypes'' — 2000 ( Mille Plateaux) * '' Transform'' — 2001 (Mille Plateaux) & re-released on Raster-Noton in 2008 * '' Xerrox Vol.1'' — 2007 (Raster-Noton) * '' Unitxt'' — 2008 (Raster-Noton) * ''

Xerrox Vol.2 ''Xerrox Vol. 2'' is the sixth studio album by German electronic artist Alva Noto. On this record, the author turns to a list of contemporary musicians, including Michael Nyman, Stephen O'Malley, and Ryuichi Sakamoto. The record is the second p ...

'' — 2009 (Raster-Noton) * '' Univrs'' — 2011 (Raster-Noton) * '' Xerrox Vol.3'' — 2015 (Raster-Noton) * '' Unieqav'' — 2018 (Noton) * ''Xerrox Vol.4'' — 2020 (Noton) * ''HYbr:ID I'' — 2021 (Noton)

Alva Noto as Aleph-1 solo studio album

* ''

Aleph-1 In mathematics, particularly in set theory, the aleph numbers are a sequence of numbers used to represent the cardinality (or size) of infinite sets that can be well-ordered. They were introduced by the mathematician Georg Cantor and are named a ...

'' — 2007 (iDeal)

Alva Noto extended plays ( EP)

* '' Transrapid'' — 2005 Raster-Noton * ''

Transvision Humanity+ (also Humanity Plus; formerly the World Transhumanist Association) is a non-profit international educational organization that advocates the ethical use of technologies and evidence-based science to improve the human condition. This cond ...

'' — 2005 Raster-Noton * '' Transspray'' — 2005 Raster-Noton * ''Unieqav Remixes'' — featuring reworks by ''

Fatima Al Qadiri Fatima Al Qadiri ( ar, فاطمة القديري; born July 1981) is a Senegalese-born Kuwaiti musician and conceptual artist. Biography Fatima Al Qadiri is the daughter of Mohammed Al Qadiri, a former Kuwaiti diplomat and writer, and Thuraya ...

'', ''

Ben Frost Ben Frost (born 1980) is an Australian-Icelandic musician, composer, record producer, sound designer, and director. Life Born in Melbourne, Australia, and based in Reykjavík, Iceland, since 2005, Frost composes minimalist, instrumenta ...

'', JASSS, Florian Kupfer, Luis Da Silva — 2020 (Noton)

Alva Noto as noto solo studio albums

* spin — 1996 (Noton) * infinity — 1997 (Noton) * infinity (endless loop edition) — 1997 (Noton) * kerne — 1998 (Noton) * polyfoto — 1998 (Noton) * time..dot — 1999 (Noton) * empty garden, inside out '— 1999 (Noton) * telefunken — 2000 (Noton) * endless loop (e, f, g, h) — 2002 (Noton) * autorec — 2002 (Noton) * sonar endless edition — 2003 (Noton)

Compilation albums

*''For''— 2006 (Line) *''For 2''— 2010 (Line)

Soundtrack albums

* '' The Revenant'' — 2015

Milan Records Milan Records is a record label located in Los Angeles, California specializing in film scores and soundtrack albums. In addition, Milan boasts an extensive electronic catalog which features down-tempo, chillout, and eclectic electronic releases ...

Collaborations

;With

, as alva noto + ryuichi sakamoto * ''

Vrioon ''Vrioon'' is the debut collaboration album between Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto, released in 2002. This is the first album in the ''Virus Series'' followed by four other records: '' Insen'' (2005), '' Revep'' (2006), '' utp_'' (2008), and ''Sum ...

'' — December 2002 (Raster-Noton) * '' Insen'' — March 2005 (Raster-Noton) * ''

Revep ''Revep'' is the third collaboration record between Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto and German electronic artist Carsten Nicolai (here credited as Alva Noto). This EP continues the series titled the ''Virus Series''. The EP was released on 23 ...

'' — March 2006 (Raster-Noton) * ''Insen Live'' — October 2006 (Raster-Noton). DVD release * '' utp_'' — September 2008 (Raster-Noton) * ''

Summvs ''Summvs'' is the fifth collaboration album between Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto. The record was released on 9 May 2011 via Raster-Noton label. Background The collaboration between the artists began in 2002, and ''Summvs'' promises to be the f ...

'' — May 2011 (Raster-Noton) * Alva Noto,

Mika Vainio Mika Tapio Vainio (May 15, 1963 – April 12, 2017) was a Finnish electronic musician. He was best known as a member of Pan Sonic. In addition to his real name, he recorded under the aliases Ø, Kentolevi, Philus, and Tekonivel. He has worked w ...

- Live 2002 - 19 January 2018 (Noton) * "

Glass Glass is a non- crystalline, often transparent, amorphous solid that has widespread practical, technological, and decorative use in, for example, window panes, tableware, and optics. Glass is most often formed by rapid cooling (quenchin ...

" — February 2018 (Noton) * '' Two (Live At Sydney Opera House)'' — November 2019 (Noton) ;With

, as "Cyclo." * ''Cyclo.'' — 2001 (Raster-Noton) * ''Cyclo.id'' — 2011 (Raster-Noton) * ''Cyclo.'' — 2017 (Noton) * ''Cyclo.id'' — 2017 (Noton) ;With

, as "noto" * ''Ø + noto'' - mikro makro - 1997 (Noton) * ''Ø + noto'' - wohltemperiert - 2001 (Noton) ;With Scanner (Robin Rimbaud) * ''Uniform: SF MoMA 2001''. CD Contains 1 track, "Uniform," performed and recorded by Carsten Nicolai and Robin Rimbaud (Scanner) for the exhibition of ""010101: Art in Technological Times"" at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) on 3 March 2001. ;With

, as ANBB * ''Ret Marut Handshake'' — 2010 (Raster-Noton) * ''Mimikry'' — 2010 (Raster-Noton) ;With Opiate (Thomas Knak), as Opto * ''Opto Files'' — 2001 ( Raster-Noton). Limited CD release. Number 6 in the raster.static series. CD Comes in a silver anti-static bag with green card insert. * ''Opto: 2nd'' — June 2004 (Hobby Industries). The CD contains ten tracks, all titled with times of the day. The collaboration was created in a 48-hour period and was inspired by the restored recording from a cassette found in a forest in Eastern Germany. ;With Zeitkratzer * ''Zeitkratzer & Carsten Nicolai: Electronics'' — 2008 (Zeitkratzer Records) ;With Anne-James Chaton and Andy Moor * Anne-James Chaton With Alva Noto And Andy Moor - Décade (CD, Album, Ltd, Boo), Raster-Noton, R-N 135, 2012 ;With Anne-James Chaton as Alphabet * Alva Noto & Anne-James Chaton - ALPHABET (CD, Digital Album), Noton, 2019 ;With Olaf Bender (Byetone), as Diamond Version * ''EP1'' — 2012 (Mute) * ''EP2'' — 2012 (Mute) * ''EP3'' — 2013 (Mute) * ''EP4'' — 2013 (Mute) * ''EP5'' — 2013 (Mute) * ''CI'' — 2 / 3 June 2014 (Mute) ;With

Iggy Pop James Newell Osterberg Jr. (born April 21, 1947), known professionally as Iggy Pop, is an American singer, musician, songwriter and actor. Called the " Godfather of Punk", he was the vocalist and lyricist of proto-punk band The Stooges, who w ...

and Tarwater * ''Leaves of Grass'' — February 2016 ( Morr Music). A seven-track EP on which Iggy Pop performs the poetry of

Walt Whitman Walter Whitman (; May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among ...

to music composed by Alva Noto and Tarwater.

Compilation appearances (exclusive/non-albums tracks)

* "Monophaser 4" from "V.a. – :2" (2008) * "Garment" from "Sound Canvas , 1" (2008) * "Planet Rock" from "Recovery" (2008) * "Stalker" from "In Memoriam

Andrey Tarkovsky Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky ( rus, Андрей Арсеньевич Тарковский, p=ɐnˈdrʲej ɐrˈsʲenʲjɪvʲɪtɕ tɐrˈkofskʲɪj; 4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986) was a Russian filmmaker. Widely considered one of the greates ...

" (2008) * "Haloid Xerrox Copy 3 (Paris)" from "Mind The Gap Volume 70" (2007) * "06.1 Quanta Random" from "Tribute to

Iannis Xenakis Giannis Klearchou Xenakis (also spelled for professional purposes as Yannis or Iannis Xenakis; el, Γιάννης "Ιωάννης" Κλέαρχου Ξενάκης, ; 29 May 1922 – 4 February 2001) was a Romanian-born Greek-French avant-garde c ...

" (2007) * "Sonolumi (For Camera Lucida)" from "Camera Lucida" (2007) * "Odradek (Music to Play in the Dark)" from "It Just Is In Memoriam

Jhonn Balance Geoffrey Nigel Laurence Rushton (16 February 1962 – 13 November 2004), better known under the pseudonyms John Balance or the later variation Jhonn Balance, was an English musician, occultist, artist and poet. He was best known as a co-founde ...

" (2005) * "Re10" from "Landscape 2" (2005) * "Post-Remo" from "Richard Chartier + Various – Re'Post'Postfabricated" (2005) * "Party Plasibenpuis (for Rune Lindblad)" from "The Hidden City: Sound Portraits from Goteborg" (2004) * "Time...Dot (3)" from " An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music Third A-Chronology 1952-2004" (2004) * "m6re" from "SoundxVision 2004" (2004) * "Obi 2 Min." from "Frecuencies z (2003) * "60 sec" from "Soundcultures" (2003) * "Strategies Against War 1.0—Covering All Information with White Noise" from "60 Sound Artists Protest the War" (2003) as Carsten Nicolai * "MM", "Time Dot" from "Raster-Noton. Archiv 1" (2003) as Noto * "Obi_2.3" from "Electrograph 02 – Athens Sound Media Festival 02" (2002) * "Menschmaschine" from "Klangmaschine_Soundmachine" (2002) * "Crystal R" from "Various – Live Sets At Ego 1998-2000" (2002) as Noto * "M 06 Short" from "Electric Ladyland Clickhop Version 1.0" (2001) * "Neue Stadt (Skizze 8)" from " Clicks & Cuts, Vol. 2" (2001) * "Modul 4", "Impulse" from "Raster-Noton.(O)acis Box" (2001) as Noto * "Neue Stadt Skizze 1" from "Between Two Points" (2001) as Noto * "Sound Mobile" from "Ringtones" (2001) * "Prototyp P" from "Raster-Noton. Oacis" (2000) * "Prototype n." from " Clicks & Cuts" (2000) * "Crystal s 10 60 sec." from "

Computer Music Journal ''Computer Music Journal'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers a wide range of topics related to digital audio signal processing and electroacoustic music. It is published on-line and in hard copy by MIT Press. The journal is accompani ...

Sound Anthology, vol. 24" (2000) as Noto * "Crystal.s2" from "Microscopic Sound" (1999) as Noto * "∞ adio Teeth Edit from "Various – Because Tomorrow Comes #2" (1999) as Carsten Nicolai * "Polyfoto 1a-1" from "Modulation & Transformation 4" (1999) as Noto * "Zeit T3" from "Effe 1999" (1999) * "POL .Motor", ".Test", ".Versuch", ".Anordnung", ".Variation", ".Modell" from "Just About Now" (1998) as Carsten Nicolai * "Chemnitz" from "Decay" (1997) as Noto

Remixes

Björk Björk Guðmundsdóttir ( , ; born 21 November 1965), known mononymously as Björk, is an Icelandic singer, songwriter, composer, record producer, and actress. Noted for her distinct three-octave vocal range and eccentric persona, she has de ...

–

Innocence Innocence is a lack of guilt, with respect to any kind of crime, or wrongdoing. In a legal context, innocence is to the lack of legal guilt of an individual, with respect to a crime. In other contexts, it is a lack of experience. In relatio ...

(Alva Noto Unitxt Remodel 12" Remix) *

– Dark Matter (Alva Noto Remodel) * Byetone – Plastic Star (Alva Noto Remix) * Greie Gut Fraktion – Wir Bauen Eine Neue Stadt (Alva Noto Remodel) * Hauschka – Radar (Alva Noto Remodel) *

John Cale John Davies Cale (born 9 March 1942) is a Welsh musician, composer, singer, songwriter and record producer who was a founding member of the American rock band the Velvet Underground. Over his six-decade career, Cale has worked in various sty ...

– Catastrofuk (Alva Noto Remodel) * Kangding Ray – Pruitt Igoe (Rise) (Alva Noto Remodel) * Ludovico Einaudi – Divenire (Alva Noto Remodel) *

Machinefabriek Machinefabriek is the musical nom de plume of musician/sound artist and graphic designer Rutger Zuydervelt from the Netherlands. Biography Rutger Zuydervelt was born on 28 July 1978 in Apeldoorn, Netherlands. He started working as Machinefabriek ...

– Stofstuk (Alva Noto Remix) *

Modwheelmood Modwheelmood (also typeset as ModWheelMood or modwheelmood and abbreviated as MWM) is an American Electronic-Alternative band from Los Angeles, California formed by Alessandro Cortini (who is also part of the Nine Inch Nails live lineup from 20 ...

– Things Will Change (Remodeled by Alva Noto) *

Opiate An opiate, in classical pharmacology, is a substance derived from opium. In more modern usage, the term '' opioid'' is used to designate all substances, both natural and synthetic, that bind to opioid receptors in the brain (including antagoni ...

– 100301 (Re-Model by Alva Noto) * Pantha Du Prince – Frau Im Mond, Sterne Laufen (Alva Noto Remodel) * Pomassl – Sol (Alva Noto Rmx) *

– Insensatez (Re-model by Alva Noto) *

– Undercooled (Alva Noto Remodel) *

Sōtaisei Riron is a Japanese rock band formed in Tokyo in September 2006. Summary The band consists of Etsuko Yakushimaru (lead vocals, producer, original instruments, artwork), Seiichi Nagai ( guitar), Masaru Yoshida (bass), Motoki Yamaguchi ( drums). The ba ...

+ Keiichirō Shibuya – Our Music (Remodel Light) * Spyweirdos – Wiesbaden (Already Happened Tomorrow) (Schwarzer Bock Mix)

Installations, etc.

* Audio installation in the Piazza del Plebiscito,

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adm ...

, December, 2009 * Opening performance for "010101: Art in Technological Times" at the

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern and contemporary art museum located in San Francisco, California. A nonprofit organization, SFMOMA holds an internationally recognized collection of modern and contemporary art, and was ...

(SFMOMA) on 3 March 2001 *

Lovebytes Lovebytes is a digital arts organisation based in Sheffield, UK, established in 1994 and best known for the Lovebytes International Festival of Digital Art. Founded by Jon Harrison and Janet Jennings who are the directors of the organisation. Lov ...

Digital Festival,

Sheffield Sheffield is a city in South Yorkshire, England, whose name derives from the River Sheaf which runs through it. The city serves as the administrative centre of the City of Sheffield. It is historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire ...

England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe ...

, 2003 * Sónar Music Festival, 2004 and 2009 * Netmage,

Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different na ...

, Italy, 2006 * BBmix Festival, 31 October 2008 *

Club Transmediale The annual CTM Festival is a music and visual arts event held in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1999, the festival originally focused on electronic music, but has since evolved to cover a wide range of genres under the banner "Festival for Adventur ...

Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwee ...

, 2009, 2008 and 2000 *

Pace Gallery The Pace Gallery is an American contemporary and modern art gallery with 9 locations worldwide. It was founded in Boston by Arne Glimcher in 1960. His son, Marc Glimcher, is now president and CEO. Pace Gallery operates in New York, London, Hong ...

, 2010

Accolades

Source: * 2003: Scholarship of

Villa Aurora The Villa Aurora at 520 Paseo Miramar is located in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles and has been used as an artists' residence since 1995. It is the former home of the German-Jewish author Lion Feuchtwanger and his wife Marta. The Feuchtwanger ...

, Los Angeles * 2007:

Zurich Art Prize Zurich Art Prize is a Swiss art prize that has been awarded annually by the Museum Haus Konstruktiv together with the Zurich Insurance Group, since 2007. The award includes a cash prize (roughly $100,000 USD), and a solo exhibition in a museum. ...

* 2007: Scholarship of

Villa Massimo Villa Massimo, short for Deutsche Akademie Rom Villa Massimo ( it, Accademia Tedesca Roma Villa Massimo), is a German cultural institution in Rome, established in 1910 and located in the Villa Massimo. The fellowship of the German Academy in Rom ...

, Rome * 2012: Giga-Hertz Prize for Electronic Music of the

ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe The ZKM , Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (until March 2016: ZKM Center for Art and Media Technology), a cultural institution, was founded in 1989. and since 1997 is located in a listed industrial building in Karlsruhe, Germany, a former mun ...

(together with

) * 2015: Grand Prize of the

Japan Media Arts Festival The Japan Media Arts Festival is an annual festival held since 1997 by Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs. The festival begins with an open competition and culminates with the awarding of several prizes and an exhibition. Based on judging by a ...

, Tokyo

References

External links

Alva Noto website

Carsten Nicolai website

NOTON website

Raster-Noton website
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