1971 Born in Düsseldorf, Germany
1991 – 1992 Studies of Philosophy, Literature, Art History and Theology at Friedrich-Wilhelm University, Bonn.
1995 Studies of Philosophy at Sorbonne I, Paris. M.A.
1998 – 2004 Research fellow at the Academy of Arts and the Media, Cologne and the Institute for Aesthetics, Berlin.
2004 Ph.D. at the Philosphical Faculty III of Humboldt-University Berlin
2005 Guest professor and invited artist at „Le Fresnoy. Studio national des arts contemporains“, Tourcoing, France.
2006 – 2008 Research Fellow at the Center for Art and Media Technology (ZKM), Karlsruhe
2009 – 2011 Chair for Experimental Technologies in the Art Context at the Academy of (Visual) Arts HGB, Leipzig; Artistic Direction of MML (Laboratory for Machines and Media) Lives and works in Cologne, Germany.
Selected Exhibitions
2012
Desire Lines, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Southbank, Victoria, Australia
Microwave International New Media Arts Festival, Hong Kong
Genial & Geheim 9: Liebesbriefe vom Automaten, Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum, Paderborn, Germany
Das Herz der Maschine, ALEXANDER OCHS GALLERIES BERLIN | BEIJING, Berlin
LoveLetters_1.0, dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany
2010
LoveLetters_1.0. MUC=Resurrection, Computer art installation at „Fun With Software“, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK.
LoveLetters_1.0 redux, Computer art installation at „Fun With Software“, MU, Eindhoven, NL.
Relics of LoveLetters_1.0., Computer art installation at „An das Gerät!“, ACC Gallery, Weimar, Germany
2009
LoveLetters_1.0. MUC=Resurrection, Computer art installation at „YOU_ser 2.0 — Celebration of the Consumer“, ZKM, Karlsruhe.
2007
Chorus 2.0, Computer art installation at „YOU_ser – The Century of the Consumer“, ZKM, Karlsruhe.
2006
Poetry Machine 2.0, Computer art installation at the conference „Digital Media and Cultures of Science“, University of Cologne.
2005
ECHOHCE, broadcast of the concert in „studio acoustic art“ of WDR3.
MURMUR, performance at „Polyphonix“, Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing, France.
CHORUS, Computer art installation at „Panorama 6 – Casting stories“, Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing, France.
Poetry Machine 2.0, Computer art installation at „Enseigner / Produire“, Centre Georges
Pompidou, Paris and Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing, France.
2004
ECHOHCE, Concert with FM Einheit, Jamie Lidell et al. at „Algorithmic Revolution“, ZKM, Karlsruhe.
ECHOHCE (with FM Einheit), Concert at „Burroughs Cutup“, Stadtgarten, Cologne.
ECHOHCE (with FM Einheit), Concert at the opening of the „Dutch Electronic Art Festival“, Rotterdam.
Poetry Machine 2.0, Computer art installation at the exhibition „Algorithmic Revolution“,
ZKM, Karlsruhe.
Poetry Machine 2.0, Computer art installation at the exhibition „10. International
Computer Arts Festival“, Maribor, Slovenia.
Poetry Machine 2.0, Computer art installation at the exhibition „The Millenium
Dialogue“, Millennium Art Museum, Beijing, China. (DVD)
2003
Poetry Machine 2.0, Computer art installation at „Belluard Bollwerk International“, Fribourg, Switzerland.
Poetry Machine 1.5, Computer art installation at „Deaf03: Data Knitting“, V2 organisatie, Rotterdam.
2002
Poetry Machine 1.0, Computer art installation at „Typologie“, Center for Art and Media Technology (ZKM), Karlsruhe, Germany. Now part of the permanent collection of ZKM.
2001
Poetry Machine 1.0, Computer art installation at „Im Buchstabenfeld – Die Zukunft der Literatur“, Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria.
2000
Sphere, Computer art installation at „Interface5“, Kunstverein Hamburg. Red-Right-Wrong (with Erik Sleichim, BL!NDMAN KWARTET), Concert at „Temporary Autonomous Zones“, Royal Flemish Theatre, Brussels.
1999
Memory, Computer art installation at „Wiretap 5.10“, V2-Organisatie, Rotterdam. Memory, Computer art installation at „Synworld“, Public Netbase t0, Museum‘s quarter Vienna.
1998
Memory, Computer art installation at „Charleroi Danses“, Les Tanneurs, Brussels.
