Birthday:
June 11
About
When and how have you participated at SIGGRAPH Conferences? (exhibits, talks, panels, performance, screenings). OK if you have not participated.
OK
Are you a member of ACM SIGGRAPH?
No
Are you on a SIGGRAPH Committee?
No
Have you shown art in any SIGGRAPH Art Shows?
No
Have you shown in any SIGGRAPH Animation Screenings?
No
What countries do you work in?
Germany, Turkey, USA, UK, Austria
Short Bio
Stefan Kraus (* June, 11th 1974) is a German artist and director who's work is centered around audiovisual performance and augmented reality. Stefan lives and works in Weimar, Germany. Since 1999 the studied architect devoted himself to the artistic fusion of media and space. As videoartist MXZEHN he represents his work at festivals and exhibitions all over Europe. At Bauhaus-University Weimar he has been teaching and researching in digitally augmented artistic performance. In 2009 he produced his first architectural projection mapping in celebration of the Bauhaus' 90th birthday on the German National Theater in Weimar. In 2012 he founded the international Genius Loci Weimar festival for audiovisual projection mapping which is happening with growing success ever since. For the German National Theater Stefan has produced audiovisual concerts a.o. with Alva Noto. In his work Stefan blurs the boundaries between art, design, media and architecture to create an immersive Gesamtkunstwerk. He is a chairman to the Bauhaus Transfer Center and is teaching as a professor at Bauhaus Universitiy design faculty in the summer of 2015. Exhibitions and Performances (Excerpt): • MXZEHN : Der Traum des Ingenieurs (2014/15) / 6 Channel AV Installation Kunsthalle Rosenheim, Gaswerk Weimar, B-Seite Festival Mannheim • MXZEHN : Zehn mal Zehn (2013) / 5 + 14 Channel AV Performance Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar • MXZEHN : Pforte (2012) / 3 Channel AV Mapping Performance 1. Kunstpreis der Ev. Kirche in Baden-Würtemberg, St. Amandus, Bad Urach • MXZEHN : Motion Memory Machine (2010/11) / Interaktive AV Mapping and Dance Performance Upper East Hamburg, Watergate Berlin • BAUHAUSMASCHINE (2009) / Exhibition – Performance – Archive / Mobile Multimedia Lab Bauhaus Weimar, Haus der Gegenwart München, Backup Festival Weimar u.v.a. • MXZEHN (2005) / VJ Performance Sundance Film Festival, Park City, USA • MXZEHN (2004) / VJ Performances, Panels Contact Europe VJ Festival Berlin • Generic Preset (2001) / VJ Performance 5 Years of Ultraschall Club München • Architag (2000) / 4 Kanal AV Installation ECAADE Conference, Bauhaus Weimar • worldhausTV (1999) / TV Show, VJ Performances Weimar 99, Cultural Capital Europe 1999
