Andreas Lutz (born 1981 in

Freiburg i. Br. Freiburg im Breisgau or simply Freiburg is the fourth-largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg after Stuttgart, Mannheim and Karlsruhe. Its built-up area has a population of about 355,000 (2021), while the greater Freiburg metrop ...

) is a

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Media artist New media art includes artworks designed and produced by means of electronic media technologies. It comprises virtual art, computer graphics, computer animation, digital art, interactive art, sound art, Internet art, video games, robotics, 3D pr ...

and

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. In his work, he explores the human machine relation with the approach, to create integrated and universal communication systems.

Biography

Lutz graduated from

University of Applied Sciences Offenburg The University of Applied Sciences Offenburg, with its head office in Offenburg and a branch in Gengenbach, is a German university owned by the state of Baden-Württemberg. It is one of the most important educational institutions in the southern ...

with a diploma in Media and Information engineering in 2009. His initial works refer to alternative human-machine interaction. For "Because clicking is so 90s"., a

Natural user interface In computing, a natural user interface (NUI) or natural interface is a user interface that is effectively invisible, and remains invisible as the user continuously learns increasingly complex interactions. The word "natural" is used because most c ...

controllable only with gestures and voice, he received the

Webby Award The Webby Awards (colloquially referred to as the Webbys) are awards for excellence on the Internet presented annually by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a judging body composed of over three thousand industry experts a ...

in 2010. In 2012, he founded the

interdisciplinary Interdisciplinarity or interdisciplinary studies involves the combination of multiple academic disciplines into one activity (e.g., a research project). It draws knowledge from several fields such as sociology, anthropology, psychology, economi ...

studio KASUGA, which is active in the experimental field of design, interaction and sound and develops audio-visual installations, integrated interactions systems and contemporary media art pieces. The work of Andreas Lutz has been exhibited at

The National Art Center, Tokyo (NACT) is a museum in Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. A joint project of the Agency for Cultural Affairs and the National Museums Independent Administrative Institution, it stands on a site formerly occupied by a research facility of the Univers ...

, the

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 former munitions factory in Karlsruhe, Germany. The ZKM (Germa ...

, the OpenArt Biennale in

Örebro Örebro ( ; ) is the seventh-largest city in Sweden, the seat of Örebro Municipality, and capital of Örebro County. It is situated by the Närke Plain, near the lake Hjälmaren, a few kilometers inland along the small river Svartån, and ...

(

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) and won the Excellence Award at the 19th

Japan Media Arts Festival The Japan Media Arts Festival was 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 ...

Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...

and the

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Selected works, exhibitions and performances

Works

* 2009: Because clicking is so 90s, Web application * 2014: Wutbürger, Video installation * 2016: Hypergradient, Kinetic installation * 2017: Dameon LED, Light installation * 2018: Offset XYZ, Kinetic sculpture * 2019: Soft Takeover, Kinetic sculpture * 2019: Binary Supremacy, Audio-visual live performance * 2020: Monolith YW, Kinetic sculpture * 2022: Abstract Language Model (Live), Audio-visual live performance * 2023: Abstract Language Model (Sync), Audio-visual installation * 2024: Universal Interface, Audio-visual performance with sculptural element

Solo exhibitions

* 2017: Festival de la Imágen, Soundscapes, Manizales / Colombia * 2017: Galerie Mazzoli, I_AM, Berlin / Germany * 2019:

transmediale Transmediale, stylised as transmediale, is an annual festival for art and digital culture in Berlin, usually held over three to five days at the end of January and the beginning of February. transmediale takes the form of a conference (sometime ...

CTM Festival The annual CTM Festival (from 1999 to 2011 called club transmediale) 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 gen ...

, Vorspiel, Berlin / Germany * 2024: Festival ZERO1, Cultures numériques, La Rochelle * 2024: Medialab Matadero, Mentes Sintéticas, Madrid * 2024: Maison de Rhénanie-Palatinat, Dijon * 2024: Un Singe en Hiver, Dijon

Group exhibitions

* 2013: ZKM Karlsruhe, AppArtAward Highlights for Fairgrounds Night, Karlsruhe * 2015:

KOBE Kobe ( ; , ), officially , is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. With a population of around 1.5 million, Kobe is Japan's List of Japanese cities by population, seventh-largest city and the third-largest port city after Port of Toky ...

Biennale, Suki, Kobe * 2016:

Nuit Blanche Nuit Blanche () (White Night) is an annual all-night or night-time arts festival of a city. A Nuit Blanche typically has museums, private and public art galleries, and other cultural institutions open and free of charge, with the centre of the ...

, European Quarter, Brussels * 2017: ISEA2017, Bio-creation and peace, Manizales / Colombia * 2017: FILE Festival, Galeria de Arte do Sesi, Sao Paulo * 2018:

Goethe-Institut The Goethe-Institut (; GI, ''Goethe Institute'') is a Nonprofit organization, nonprofit German culture, cultural organization operational worldwide with more than 150 cultural centres, promoting the study of the German language abroad and en ...

Italien, Dell’abitare incerto, Rome * 2018:

ROHM Theatre Kyoto Rohm Theatre Kyoto, officially known as Kyoto Kaikan, is a concert hall and performance venue located in Kyoto, Japan. The main hall was first opened in 1960 and seated 2,005 patrons. The facility closed in 2012 and was redeveloped over a four-y ...

, Ghost, Kyoto * 2019: Semibreve Festival, Semibreve Award, Braga (Portugal) * 2019: Stereolux, Scopitone, Nantes * 2020: Luch Festival, New audio-visual art, Yekaterinburg * 2021:

York Art Gallery York Art Gallery is a public art gallery in York, England, with a collection of paintings from 14th-century to contemporary, prints, watercolours, drawings, and ceramics. It closed for major redevelopment in 2013, reopening in summer of 2015. T ...

Aesthetica ''Aesthetica Magazine'' is a publication focusing on art and culture. Established in 2002, the magazine provides bi-monthly coverage of contemporary art across various disciplines, including visual arts, photography, architecture, fashion, an ...

York York is a cathedral city in North Yorkshire, England, with Roman Britain, Roman origins, sited at the confluence of the rivers River Ouse, Yorkshire, Ouse and River Foss, Foss. It has many historic buildings and other structures, such as a Yor ...

* 2022: Karachi Biennale, KB22, Karachi * 2022: Times Art Museum, Wavelength, Beijing * 2023: Sónar Barcelona, Sónar+D, Barcelona * 2024: Sónar Istanbul, Zorlu PSM, Istanbul

Performances

* 2016: Spektrum Berlin, Berlin * 2017: Festival de la Imágen, Manizales * 2018:

Vorspiel, Berlin * 2019: Stereolux Scopitone, Nantes * 2019: PRECTXE Digital Art Festival, Bucheon * 2021: Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athens * 2023: Open Source Art Festival, Sopot * 2024: Medialab Matadero, Madrid * 2024: WeSA AudioVisual Festival, Jeju

Discography

* ''Fairgrounds Night'' ( Kasuga Records; 2008) * ''Almost'' (

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; 2011) * ''Zwölftonform'' ( Kasuga Records; 2016) * ''Daemon#001'' with Hansi Raber ( Kasuga Records; 2016) * ''Daemon#002'' with Hansi Raber ( Kasuga Records; 2017) * ''Daemon#003'' with Hansi Raber ( Kasuga Records; 2018) * ''Binary Supremacy'' ( Kasuga Records; 2018) * ''Daemon#004'' with Hansi Raber ( Kasuga Records; 2018) * ''Daemon#005'' with Hansi Raber ( Kasuga Records; 2019) * ''Dyad'' ( Kasuga Records; 2020) * ''Abstract Language Model'' ( Kasuga Records; 2023) * ''Aura Trans'' ( Kasuga Records; 2025)

References

External links

Andreas Lutz website

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