Hermann Josef Hack
Hermann Josef Hack ( born June 20, 1956 in Bad Honnef ) is an artist and founder of the Global Brainstorming Project.
Work
Hack was one from 1973, at age 17, to the numerous students of Joseph Beuys at the Dusseldorf Art Academy. He graduated from 1977 to 1979 studying and training as a graduate administrative management expert at the German Federal Railroad. From 1990 to 1997 he was art Representative of the Federal Ministry for Research and Technology from 1992 to 1998 Member of the founding trustees of the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany. He became known through social policy actions such as the arms Sock carpet (1998) and the World Climate Refugee Camp, a miniature refugee camp of over 1,000 tents, which he built in the center of European capitals to draw attention to the victims of climate change. As a painter uses hack tarpaulin for figurative representations of global challenges.
Important milestones of his operation were, inter alia, the world's first interactive television project Piazza Virtuale at Van Gogh TV, which he performed together with the artist group pontoon to Documenta IX in 1992.
The first videophone link between researchers at the North Pole, the South Pole and visitors to the Art Museum Siegburg in 1994 ( the so-called " polar night " has also been included in the Guinness Book of Records), as well as the first video conference between the crew of the research vessel Polarstern in the Antarctic and visitors the Museum Koenig in Bonn were further actions he undertook to bring researchers and the general public this week.
Furthermore, and was a guest lecturer Hack et al at the Academy for Political Education in Tutzing, Hohenheim University, University of Lüneburg, and the private University of Witten / Herdecke.
Actions, exhibitions and projects
- 2000 Ultimedia, City Museum Siegburg
- 2001 action stockbrokers Bible before the stock market in Frankfurt
- 2001 Action "You're Cologne "
- 2009 Action on Urban Climate Day in Leipzig
- 2010-2012 " to Follow! - Examples to follow, " Uferhallen Berlin ( with Yes Men Group, Olafur Eliasson, Tue Greenvort others)!