HOFSTETTER KURT
born on July 16th, 1959 in Linz, artist, living and working in Vienna. artistic domains: concepts, sound-, light-, computer-, video-, internet- and time sculptures, media installations in public space, expermental art videos, music compositions, mathematical reflections - tilings and patterns represented by Gallery Konzett Vienna SELECTION: 2024, Seeing the invisible to be heard - winning project of the Kunst & Bau competition for the Graz Center of Physics 2024, ZART - una cantata moebius @ performance "end.less.bow" by Bert Gstettner / Kunsthaus Zug - CH 2024, SINGULAR FIELD II @ on the irrational pattern structure - light field installation at Old School / Havelberg 2023, Suite Irrational performance @ "tense_intense extended" event at the Forum Austriaco di Cultura Roma 2023, I look up to the sky to ground myself @ Art Cologne 2023 by Gallery Konzett 2023, "tense_intense" Parallel Media - Barbara Doser | Hofstetter Kurt @ Museo Carlo Bilotti / Villa Borghese - Rome 2023, Eine Fluxus-Aktion von Hofstetter Kurt mit Barbara Doser & Bazon Brock 15 Jahre museum FLUXUS+ Potsdam 2023, EIN HOCH dem Planet der Pendler 30 years Media Art Installation @ sub- and railway station Landstrasse Wien Mitte 2022, ZART - NOW - HERE @ Utopienale 2022, Old School, Havelberg - Germany 2022, Der Mond - pardon - das Geld hält seine Wacht& X_lips @ Turn Around and spin the truth, BASEMENT - Vienna 2022, X-stills Edition & N.I.C.-manutable @ Gallery Konzett - PARALLEL EDITIONS 2022, Semper Depot - Vienna 2021, I LOOK UP TO THE SKY TO GROUND MYSELF Ausstellung und Buchpräsentation @ Gallery Konzett Vienna 2021, Suite Irrational - world premiere @ WIEN MODERN & Natural History Museum Vienna - Digitales Planetarium, Vienna 2021, orbit_one_open @ RePresent - getting closer : galeriefreihausgasse, Villach 2021, SOLENNES_CHORAL | audio-file @ round72/Angelo Roventa, Bregenz 2020, Suite Irrational - online world premiere @ WIEN MODERN & Natural History Museum Vienna - Digitales Planetarium 2020, X_sun & WW-kristallklar Installation @ VC - Vienna Contemporary Art Fair Gallery Konzett - booth C24, Vienna 2019, EIN HOCH dem Planet der Pendler Ausstellung und Buchpräsentation @ Gallery Konzett Vienna 2019, X_lips installation @ Musashino Art University - Building #9, Tokyo 2019, fACING tIME installation @ Musashino Art University Museum & Library, Tokyo 2019, "Die Logik des Irrationalen" - lecture performance mit Dirk Frettlöh @ DENKEREI von Bazon Brock - Berlin 2018, dream'sdreams installation @ "body concrete" exhibition at Museoteatro della Commenda - Genova 2018, Die Supersymmetrische Musik von Hofstetter Kurt Welturaufführung EINNIE @ Gallery Konzett Vienna 2018, RAUMZEIT KOMMUTATION participation @ from nothing to something - Symposion Lindabrunn 2018, Lecture "On the Event Horizon of Order" at Dallas Museum of Art for IARS, Horchow Auditorium - Dallas 2018, participation @ 17x24 Every Day is a Good Day - MAGAZIN 4, Bregenz 2017, Ambient Tactile Art a new art form @ festival & presentation - Gallery Konzett Vienna 2017, Wiener Walzer _ kristallklar @ SCHÖNHEIT exhibition - Gallery Konzett Vienna 2017, ZART - NOW - HERE @ Digitales Planetarium | Naturhistorisches Museum Wien 2016, New Arrivals / Neuankömmlinge @ Bildraum Bodensee Bregenz 2016, SUSYs FINGERPRINT @ Naturhistorisches Museum Wien 2016, Am Ereignishorizont der Ordnung - Neue Irrationale Muster: Ausstellung @ Galerie Freihausgasse Villach 2016, Sunpendulum fACING tIME installation @ Kanazawa Institute of Technology - Toranomon Campus Tokyo 2015, Wolfgang Pauli Lecture @ ARTEMATICA 2015 at Künstlerhaus Vienna 2015, dream'sdreams installation @ body interference exhibition at Künstlerhaus Vienna 2015, masterclass @ Punto y Raya Academy 2015, Madrid 2015, ELEOSONORE-Ouvertüre @ Carving the Sound Space - Electroacoustic Festival @ Vienna University of Technology 2014, On the Event Horizon of Order exhibition @ Sharjah Art Museum, UAE 2014, Cubic_C @ Dak'Art OFF participation - Biennale Dakar, Senegal 2014, X_lips @ electric parade - Galerie Freihausgasse, Villach 2013, inauguration: fACING tIME @ Vienna University of Technology | Faculty of Informatics, Vienna 2013, 20 years old public installation of Computer Art: Planet of the Commuters with the three time-moons, Vienna 2013, One Moment of Time - reinstallation @ ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe 2013, dream'sdreams @ body in abstraction exhibition, St John's College, Oxford, UK 2013, On the Event Horizon of Order - artistic research lecture, University of Oxford - Department of Computer Science, UK 2012, ZART - NOW - HERE Premiere @ Sound Art. Klang als Medium der Kunst, event ZKM - Cube, Karlsruhe 2012, MOEBIUS SOUNDS & VISION @ Festival October 2012 by The Electroacoustic Project, Vienna 2012, New Irrational Patterns, Vienna 2012, Cubic_C @ Caldia Cube Moscow exhibition (feb - apr 2012), Moscow 2012, One Moment of Time @ Museum im Palais, Graz 2011, Cubic_C / Die Kubische See - space #2 @ KRO ART CONTEMPORARY, Vienna 2011, f A C I N G t I M E - interactive installation @ Vienna University of Technology / Informatics Building 2011, CD-Book presentation: Hofstetter Kurt - ZART una cantata moebius, Kiesler Foundation Vienna 2011, Cubic_C @ CALDIA CUBE @ Milano, Berlin, Verona, London, Paris, ... 2010, Twilight Pendulum Clockwork / Light Art Biennial 2010 @ gallery Area53, Vienna 2010, TripleD @ VIENNAFAIR - Gallery KONZETT, Vienna 2010, N.I.C. - miniatures @ ART COLOGNE - Gallery KONZETT, Cologne 2010, Ich schaue in den Himmel, um mich zu erden. Parallelität und Kreislauf 10 - Galerie KONZETT, Vienna 2009, elementary wave @ THE GAME OF THE MIGHTY - MAK, Vienna 2009, AZZURRO @ Détournement Venise - La Biennale di Venezia 2009, Venezia 2009, CIRCUM C @ YOUser 2.0 Celebration of the Consumer, ZKM, Karlsruhe 2009, semper et @ gallery AREA53, Vienna 2008, CIRCUM C @ International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville (Biacs3), CAAC, Seville 2008, Time De Lux @ ZeitRaumZeit Ausstellung, Künstlerhaus, Vienna 2008, Dreikugelskulptur N.I.C. für Dreieinigkeitsbauwerk Kurt @ Am Puls der Stadt - Ausstellung, Wien Museum, Vienna 2008, ZART - cantata moebius @ first release, Austrian Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation, Vienna ........ events in Vienna: OST/VEST, Arsenal | Tonspur Live, MQ | ZeitRaumZeit, k-haus | Kunstradio, OE1 - ORF 2007, SPACING TIME | solstice 2007 @ paraflows 07, MAK-CAT Flakturm Arenbergpark, Vienna 2007, single field - installation @ Landpartie 2, Unter-Oberndorf, NÖ - Austria 2007, RAUMKUSS - light/sound installation , Forum Experimenteller Architektur / MQ, Vienna 2007, TWILIGHT PENDULUM - space installation, TENT Witte de With / IFFR exhibition, Rotterdam 2006, TIME DE LUX, Medienkunstlabor - Kunsthaus Graz, Graz 2006, TWILIGHT PENDULUM - sculpture, ZKM - Museum for Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe 2005, X-tense images - FTE-, CLP - sculptures, KIT - Future Design Institute, Tokyo 2005, the 'Complementary Light Pendulum' sculpture, XI. Triennale India, New Delhi 2004, ‘c light pendula’ www-client, https://www.sunpendulum.at/clp 2003, ‘pupillen sind keine schwarzen löcher’, Gasometer - G-town Vienna, Vienna 2002, ‘facing time eyes’ www-client, https://www.sunpendulum.at/fte 2001, ‘facing time eyes’ halftime installation, look around, Medienwerkstatt Wien, Vienna 2000, ‘as time goes b-eye’, sunpendulum reflection, Egyptian Embassy, Vienna 1999, ‘lips pendulum’, ‘complementary light pendulum’ personale II=0, Echoraum, Vienna 1998, ’moments in communication’, Sarajevska Zima / internat. art festival, Sarajevo 1997, ‘die Zeit pendelt durch den Raum’, Arbeit Buch Wissenschaft, Arbeiterkammer, Vienna 1997, ‘the smile that you send out returns to you’, TopCall, stock market, Vienna 1996, ‘moments underway’, art cards in Euro-City trains, Europe 1996, ‘moving moments @ pendel’, "Schrägspuren" - international video festival, Klagenfurt 1996, ‘moving moments @ pendel’, 100 Years Cinema, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna 1996, ‘moving moments @ pendel’, internat. Festival - Media Scape 4, Zagreb 1992, 'time-eye’, Im Augenblick, Haus Wittgenstein/Thurn&Taxis, Vienna/Bregenz 1991, ‘Explosion – Inplusion’, light installation, Skala, Vienna 1990, ‘Samples & Pictures’ in HPC, Industry 90, fair area - Hannover, Hannover 1989, ‘Hofstetter Pendulum Clockwork’ (HPC), World Tech Vienna, Austria Center Vienna, Vienna PERMANENT INSTALLATIONS IN PUBLIC SPACE 2016, Am Ereignishorizont der Ordnung_frontal @ Galerie Freihausgasse Villach 2009, N.I.C. - nature is cool, crossways Langegasse - Laudongasse, Vienna 2006, sunpendulum time-eye of the Marshall Islands, College of the Marshall Islands - RMI, Majuro 2005, sunpendulum time-eye of Tokyo, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Tokyo 2004, sunpendulum time-eye of Kolkata, Jadavpur University Kolkata, Kolkata 2003, sunpendulum time-eye of Hong Kong, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong 2002, sunpendulum time-eye of Dubai, Zayed University Dubai - United Arab Emirates, Dubai 2001, sunpendulum time-eye of the Azores, Universidade dos Acores - Portugal, Angra do Heroismo 2000, sunpendulum time-eye of Ensenada, Universidad de Baja California - Mexico, Ensenada 2000, sunpendulum time-eye of New Orleans, University of New Orleans, New Orleans 2000, sunpendulum time-eye of Cairo, Ain Shams University Cairo, Cairo 1999, sunpendulum time-eye of Granada, Universidad de Granada - Spain, Granada 1999, sunpendulum time-eye of Bermuda, Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute, Bermuda 1999, sunpendulum time-eye of Hawaii, Maui High Performance Computing Center, Maui / Hawaii 1994 - 2009, one moment of time, railway station "Vienna South", Vienna --------- 2009 - 2023, ZKM center for Art & Media, Karlsruhe --------- 2024, U-Station Schottentor, Vienna 1993, planet of the commuters with the 3 time-moons, rail & sub station "Landstraße - Vienna Middle", Vienna EXPERIMENTAL ART VIDEOS with Barbara Doser - PARALLEL MEDIA - videography (selection) 2011, 'dream'sdreams @ KroArtContemporary - gallery', loop - installation, 13 min , experimental 2010, 'zart_B', mini DV, b&w, 7 min, experimental 2008, 'zart_A', mini DV, b&w, 9 min, experimental 2007, 'dream'sdreams', mini DV, b&w, 13 min, experimental 2006, 'ORDER-RE-ORDER', mini DV, b&w, 7 min, experimental 2006, 'XXLux', mini DV, b&w, 37 min, experimental 2005, 'you breathe life into my bosom, Oleander', mini DV, b&w, 10 min, experimental 2003, 'SUNPENDULUM by Hofstetter Kurt', mini DV, colour, 16 min, project video 2002, 'facing time. parallel in an orbit', mini DV, b&w, 12:12 min, experimental 2001, 'runtime one', mini DV, b&w, 4:40 min, experimental 1998, 'SUNPENDULUM by Hofstetter Kurt', mini DV, colour, 16 min, project video 1995, 'crossover', HI8, colour 7:15 min, experimental | music - videography with Barbara Doser & Norbert Math: 1995, 'Mreza/Netz - a memory of the live event in Vienna', HI8, 20 min, colour and b&w, pal, stereo, documentary | music MUSIC COMPOSITIONS (selection): ------- based on "Space-Time-Commutation" -------- 2018, EINNIE - supersymmetrical composition for two guitars, 3:50 min 2018, SUITE IRRATIONAL - supersymmetrical composition for two grand pianos in five movements, 24:20 min ______supported by the commission for composition from the City of Vienna and the Federal Chancellery of Austria 2019, DEDICATA - supersymmetrical composition for two pianos in four movements, 24:26 min 2019, DIS (d#) - supersymmetrical sonate for piano, 06:34 min 2019, SUSYs FANFARE für die Denker, 01:04 min ------- based on "Möbius-sounds" -------- "Möbius-sounds" created by Hofstetter Kurt are sound units generated by two parallel sound tracks so that being played forwards and backwards sound identical - a simply temporal version of the spatial principle of the Möbius strip 2001, 'runtime one', 4' 40", media: sampling / computer / electronics music for experimental artvideo : "runtime one" by Barbara Doser & Hofstetter Kurt / PARALLEL MEDIA 2001, 'for barbara', 43", media: computer / electronics 2002, 'sarajevo-moebius-loops', 1', media: computer / electronics, piece for radiotopia @ Ars Electronica 2002 2002, 'belgrade-cafke-moebius-memory-1', 1', media: computer / electronics, piece for radiotopia @ Ars Electronica 2002 2002, 'moebius-yaomi-1', 1', media: computer / electronics 2004, 'even odd even', 7' 30", media: sampling / computer / electronics, arranged by Barbara Doser music for experimental artvideo "even odd even" by Barbara Doser 2005, 'you breathe life into my bosom, Oleander', 10', media: sampling / computer / electronics music for experimental artvideo "you breathe life into my bosom, Oleander" by PARALLEL MEDIA 2006, 'ORDER-RE-ORDER', 7', media: sampling / computer / electronics music for experimental artvideo "ORDER-RE-ORDER" by PARALLEL MEDIA 2007, 'dream'sdreams', 13', media: sampling / computer / electronics music for experimental artvideo "dream'sdreams" by PARALLEL MEDIA 2008, 'zart - a cantata moebius', 33', media: sampling / computer / electronics premiere @ Kiesler Stiftung Vienna , April 29th, 2008 2012, 'NOWHERE', 33', media: sampling / computer / electronics ------- based on parallelism and circulation -------- 1976, 'Allee' - composition for two guitars / 'ALLEE - base cut' version - 00 recorded in Ottensheim with Gary Danner / Slumberland Palace Band (1974-1978) version - 01 recorded 1987 in Vienna, since 1987 samples used in sound designs 1987, 'yumacowimi', 1', media: synthesizer, recorded in Vienna 1989, 'Konzert für Kleiderhaken', 6' 08", media: sampling keyboard, recorded in Vienna 1991, 'planet of time', 55", media: sampling keyboard / guitars / computer, recorded in Vienna music for artvideo "planet of the commuters with the 3 time-moons" by Hofstetter Kurt 1994, 'message to belgrade', 2' 16", media: sampling keyboard / e-violine, recorded in Vienna with Mia Zabelka on air: OE1 kunstradio / Radio B92 Belgrade 1995, 'cmpc', 41' 42", media: sampling / computer / electronics, by Hofstetter Kurt & Norbert Math artradio live event: "changing messages parallel crossover" by Hofstetter Kurt & Norbert Math / on air : ORF Ö1 Kunstradio / Radio Sarajevo 1995, 'crossover', 7' 15", media: sampling keyboard / computer / electronics, recorded in Vienna music for experimental artvideo "crossover" by Barbara Doser & Hofstetter Kurt 1997, 'luminers call', 27' 15", media: sampling / computer / electronics, recorded in Vienna music media performance: "luminers call - date 1" by Barbara Doser & Hofstetter Kurt, European Cultural Month - Ljubljana, SK VIDEO-, SOUND- & PROJECT PRESENTATIONS in more than 40 countries WORKSHOPS / SYMPOSIA / LECTURES / Artist in Residence (selection) 2015, Artist Talk: On the Event Horizon of Order - New Irrational Patterns @ University of Applied Arts, Vienna 2012, artist in residence @ Messschiff ELEONORE, Stadtwerkstatt Linz, Linz 2011, lecture ‘Inter Facing Time’, Kunstuniversität Linz / interface culture Institute, Linz 2011, lecture ‘Method-Perception-Vision’, Vienna University of Technology / Institute of Architecture, Vienna 2010, lecture 'Sunpendulum details', University of Applied Arts Vienna / Arts & Science Department, Vienna 2007, lecture ‘media art installations in public space’, Webster University Vienna / Art Department, Vienna 2006, lecture ‘Moebius Sounds’, Vienna University of Music / Institute of Music Theory, Vienna 2005, lecture ‘Sunpendulum - artistic intentions’, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Kanazawa 2003, lecture ‘time ? experience’, Conference - The Unifying Aspects of Cultures, Vienna 2002, lecture ‘violence and video moments’, University of Vienna / Puplizistik, Vienna 2002, ’the Sunpendulum pavilion #2 & solar cells’, European Symposium on Solar Architecture, Vienna 2002, lecture ‘Sunpendulum - artistic details’, Zayed University Dubai, Dubai 2001, presentation ‘moebius in terms of time & sound’, Medienwerkstatt Wien, Vienna 2001, ‘artistic communication – former yugoslavia’, Museum of Modern Art – East&East split reality, Vienna 2001, workshop ‘moments in communication’, Summer Academy Ricsovary / Hungary, Ricsovary 2000, lecture ‘Sunpendulum - artistic details’, University of New Orleans, New Orleans 1999, lecture ‘the sunpendulum project’, University of Vienna / Institute for Cybernetics, Vienna 1999, workshop ‘moving moments’, Summer Academy Topolcianky / Slovakia, Topolcianky COOPERATIONS (selection) since 1997 'SUNPENDULUM' - architecture, research and parallel media, with the sunpendulum kernel team 2001, 'sunpendulum halftime', presentation, documentation, reflexion, with Barbara Doser / Joseph Hartmann, Museum of Applied Arts - MAK-NITE 1997, 'Luminers Call - Date 1', media performance, with Barbara Doser, European Cultural Month 1997, Ljubljana 1996, 'pendel - datapool of moments', with Ars Electronica Center, since 1996 a www-residence project / Linz 1996, 'moving moments 96', video moments exchange via InterNet, with Barbara Doser & Norbert Math, Sarajevo - Vienna 1995, 'frame 04199401.0-4', video-infrared-sound-installation, with Barbara Doser & Norbert Math, Museum of Applied Arts - MAK, Vienna 1995, 'Changing Messages Parallel Crossover', telematisches Radio-Live-Event, with Barbara Doser & Norbert Math, TRANSIT ORF-Art Radio/ Radio Sarajevo Innsbruck 1994, 'Mreza/Netz', telephone concert, with the project group Mreza/Netz in Ljubljana, Belgrade, Pula, Sarajevo, Skopje and Vienna: Remise-Vienna 1993, 'Against Violance', dance, video- and sound performance, with Zabelka, Doser, Uveric, Carneiro, Kotterer, subway station Vienna-Middle Vienna AMONG OTHER THINGS 2002, founding member of the “II=0 / Two Congruent Zero” society. 2004, bookproject "Einen Augenblick Zeit - Parallaxe" - Verlag edition selene - ISBN 3-85266-262-1 2011, CD-book "Hofstetter Kurt - ZART una cantata moebius" - Verlag Ediciones Triton - ISBN 978-84-938482-0-0 2015, book "Hofstetter Kurt - On the Event Horizon of Order" Österreichische Nationalbibliothek 2019, book "Hofstetter Kurt - Planet der Pendler mit den drei Zeitmonden" Verlag SCHLEBRÜGGE.EDITOR - ISBN 978-3-903172-41-8 or 3903172413 2021, book "Hofstetter Kurt - I look up to the sky to ground myself" Verlag für Moderne Kunst VFMK - ISBN 978-3-903796-54-6 SCIENTIFIC PAPERS @ Proceedings of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics ISSN 0081-5438 2015, D. Frettlöh, K. Hofstetter: Inductive Rotation Tilings, Vol. 288, pp. 247-258. @ Forum Geometricorum ISSN 1534-1178: 2008, A simple compass-only construction of the regular pentagon 2008, A simple ruler and rusty compass construction of the regular pentagon 2006, A 4-step construction of the golden ratio 2005, Division of a Segment in the Golden Section with Ruler and Rusty Compass 2004, Another 5-step Division of a Segment in the Golden Section 2003, A 5-step Division of a Segment in the Golden Section 2002, A simple construction of the Golden Section @ Crux Mathematicorum ISSN: 1496-4309 (print 1706-8142): 2006, An Efficient Construction Of The Golden Section 2020, Österreichischer Kunstpreis - Medienkunst Media Art State Award of the Republic of Austria 2015, Outstanding Artist Award | Interdisciplinarity - Price of the Republic of Austria for the project On the Event Horizon of Order - New Irrational Patterns 2015, Patent of the Republic of Austria: APERIODICALLY WOVEN TEXTILE- Hofstetter Weave 2014, Patent of the Republic of Austria: TEXTILE COMPOSITE MATERIAL AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME 2011, Patent of the Republic of Austria: VERFAHREN ZUM HERSTELLEN EINER MUSTERSTRUKTUR 1996, Brunel Award Commendation - Copenhagn - international award for the permanent media installation at the railway station "Landstraße - Vienna Middle" „planet of the commuters with the three time-moons“ 1989, Patent of the Republic of Austria: Hofstetter Pendulum Clockwork a network multimedium - "installation in the Historical Museum of Vienna |