Christoph Korn

Christoph Korn (* 1965 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German audio and media artists. He lives in Dusseldorf.

Christoph Korn studied philosophy and political science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University / Frankfurt aM.

In the 1980s he became involved in political contexts and worked 1988/89 as part of a liberationist project with street children in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.

In the early 1990s emerged first artistic work, although a political or historical perspective for the next artistic creation has always remained relevant.

"There is no reason for me off anything artistic bring out, not a sound, not a thought. Everything is " triggered " by a historical thinking here in the broadest sense. And that's not a conscious decision on my part. This is just like that. " O- tone portrait of a consignment of Germany Radio

Ensembles

Grain worked and works in ensembles with musicians such as Alfred 23 Harth (Imperial Hoot ), Rüdiger Carl and Oliver Augst ( blank ), Wolfgang Schliemann and Joachim Zoepf ( AQTRZ ), the group of artists TEXTxtnd ( Oliver Augst / Michaela Ehinger / Marcel Daemgen ), Lasse -Marc Riek (series -invisible ), Otomo Yoshihide ( Long live the people of the revolution ), or in an ensemble with the visual artist Raymond Pettibon ( blank meets Pettibon ).

Solo

Christoph grain solo works move at the interface of audio and media art. The main object of this work is the phenomenon of life. The realizations are based in recent years increasingly on strategies of deletion and unlawfully removed ( as in the case of the network installation forest ).

Concerts, performances, installations, publications

His artistic productions have been featured in numerous international festivals for contemporary music and media art such as in

  • Wien Modern / Vienna,
  • Ars Electronica / Linz,
  • Intermedium ZKM / Karlsruhe,
  • FILE HIPERSÔNICA / Sao Paulo,
  • Podewil Festival x-tract SCULPTURE MUSICALE / Berlin,
  • Taktlos Festival / Bern,
  • Museum of Modern Art Serralves / Porto,
  • Philharmonic Orchestra / Cologne,
  • IRCAM / Paris,
  • Whitchapell art galery / London,
  • Sraßbourg MMK, MMK Frankfurt,
  • Museum of Modern Art Arles,
  • Kunsthalle Dusseldorf,
  • Transmediale Berlin,
  • New Music Forum / Germany radio,

As well as at festivals in Spain and Portugal. Numerous radio art work for the Hessischer Rundfunk, the Sender Freies Berlin, Germany radio, Süddeutsche Rundfunk and the art radio ORF added. So far, there were more than 40 publications in the media CD, LP, Film / DVD and book.

Awards, scholarships, grants (selection)

  • 2004 Bark Hoff Scholarship (composition), "Artist Worpswede " (D).
  • 2005 Award in the international competition for radiophone sound art Phonurgia Nova ( Arles / France ) for the audio working folk song
  • 2008 Funding by the Arts Fund, Bonn (visual arts ) for the intermedia work Waldstueck
  • 2008 skate scholarship (composition) of North Rhine -Westphalia
  • 2008 Phonurgia Nova Award ( R ) in the category Intermedia for invisible series by Christoph Korn / Lasse -Marc Riek
  • 2009 Prix Ars Electronica, Honorary Mention (Digital Musics ) for the intermedia work " wooded area "
  • 2011 grant from the Federal Government, the German Study Center in Venice
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