“Backstage” is a space for the presentation of artistic strategies and methods that remediate digital images within and across disciplines, sample them and rework their communicative functions. The filmmakers critically engage with the experience of reality and its reflection in technical visual media and create diverse experimental films that pose new questions in media aesthetics.

The first speaker in the series, which will be continued in 2015, is Anouk De Clercq (KASK, School of Arts University College Ghent, Brussels). Anouk De Clercq works in the fields of film, music and visual arts.

COORDINATION
Prof. Anne Quirynen, FH Potsdam

Persons

Anouk De Clercq studied piano in Ghent and film at the Sint Lukas Brussels University College of Art and Design. Her films explore the audiovisual potential of computer language to create possible worlds, many of which have a strongly architectonic character. Anouk De Clercq is affiliated to KASK, School of Arts University College Ghent as an artistic researcher. De Clercq’s work includes Tears of Melancholy (2013), which has recently been on display at KlaraFestival in Brussels. She has received several awards, including an award from the Future Imprint International Animation Competition, Taipei (2003), the International Backup Award New Media in Film, Weimar (2004) and the Illy Prize at Art Brussels (2005). Her works have been shown in Tate Modern, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Centre Pompidou, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Transmediale, Ars Electronica, Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement, among others.

Further information http://www.augusteorts.be/

Prof. Anne Quirynen works as a freelance artist in Berlin. Since 1993 she has been working as an independent video artist with William Forsythe, Enno Poppe, Antonia Baehr, Marcel Beyer, Wim Vandekeybus, Julia Eckhardt, An Kaler and others. In 1994 she co-founded De Filmfabriek, an independent production company for digital arts. In this context, collective works have been created together with An-Marie Lambrechts and Peter Missotten. Anne Quirynen has taught film, video and new media at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has recently been appointed Professor for European Media Studies at the University for Applied Sciences Potsdam and the University Potsdam. Her films and video installations were shown at international festivals, such as the Rotterdam Filmfestival, the International Festival of New Film in Split, World Wide Video Festival in Den Haag and Art & Video in Europe, Copenhagen, as well as in museums such as the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt a.M., Centre Pompidou in Paris, MoMA in New York, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, and the Nippon Cultural Centre in Tokyo.

Further information http://www.fh-potsdam.de/

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