Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Georg Klein (1 March 1964 in Germany) is a composer, sound and video artist. He lives in Berlin.The artist Georg Klein mainly works in site-specific art in public space (which he calls "sound situations") with sound, including light, texts and later also video (transition 2001, Ortsklang Marl Mitte German Sound Art Award 2002, Imperial News 2003). He created new concepts of interaction and participation in music and visual art (called "Interactive Variations"). With his project TRASA (2004/2006) he received international attention: he extended public space by connecting two cities for two months in an inter-medial way ("Bi-medial Space of Contact" in six cities of Europe). Therefore he developed a concept of interactive media art at certain urban places (subway entrance halls). With the suisse performance artist Steffi Weismann he created dialogical, interactive installations in public space (pickup 2005, takeaway 2006 and "venture doll" 2008) and in his installation turmlaute.2: watch tower (2007) he worked with a fake by founding a new political organisation which provoked strong reactions in public (see http://www.europeanborderwatch.org). In 2006 he awarded the MEDIA-Space-Prize of NRW (Germany) and got the scholarship of the German Academy in Rome (Villa Massimo / Casa Baldi). In 2010 he is "Artist in Residence" in Istanbul.Georg Klein studied sound engineering at the Technical University in Munich and Berlin, later on philosophy of religion and ethno-musicology at the Free University of Berlin. From 1991-94 he was assistant in a project on the visualizing of sound for deaf people at the Technical University of Berlin. Since 1996 he has worked freelance as composer, with film music („amor fati“, Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin 1997), solo works with live electronics, works for ensembles (International Gustav-Mahler-Composition Prize 1999, Austria), and also music for theatre (Peer Gynt with Peter Zadek / Berliner Ensemble, 2004). Studies on computer music and sensor controlled live-electronics at the Electronical Studio of the Technical University of Berlin. In 1999 founding of comaberlin: production of inter-medial art | investigation, development and realisation of sound situations. In 2003 he founded KlangQuadrat / Sound Square, Office for Sound and Media Art in Berlin with Julia Gerlach for organizing and producing sound and media projects at home and abroad. From 2001 to 2005, he was chairman of the Berlin Society of New Music (bgnm).. }
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- Georg_Klein_(composer) abstract "Georg Klein (1 March 1964 in Germany) is a composer, sound and video artist. He lives in Berlin.The artist Georg Klein mainly works in site-specific art in public space (which he calls "sound situations") with sound, including light, texts and later also video (transition 2001, Ortsklang Marl Mitte German Sound Art Award 2002, Imperial News 2003). He created new concepts of interaction and participation in music and visual art (called "Interactive Variations"). With his project TRASA (2004/2006) he received international attention: he extended public space by connecting two cities for two months in an inter-medial way ("Bi-medial Space of Contact" in six cities of Europe). Therefore he developed a concept of interactive media art at certain urban places (subway entrance halls). With the suisse performance artist Steffi Weismann he created dialogical, interactive installations in public space (pickup 2005, takeaway 2006 and "venture doll" 2008) and in his installation turmlaute.2: watch tower (2007) he worked with a fake by founding a new political organisation which provoked strong reactions in public (see http://www.europeanborderwatch.org). In 2006 he awarded the MEDIA-Space-Prize of NRW (Germany) and got the scholarship of the German Academy in Rome (Villa Massimo / Casa Baldi). In 2010 he is "Artist in Residence" in Istanbul.Georg Klein studied sound engineering at the Technical University in Munich and Berlin, later on philosophy of religion and ethno-musicology at the Free University of Berlin. From 1991-94 he was assistant in a project on the visualizing of sound for deaf people at the Technical University of Berlin. Since 1996 he has worked freelance as composer, with film music („amor fati“, Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin 1997), solo works with live electronics, works for ensembles (International Gustav-Mahler-Composition Prize 1999, Austria), and also music for theatre (Peer Gynt with Peter Zadek / Berliner Ensemble, 2004). Studies on computer music and sensor controlled live-electronics at the Electronical Studio of the Technical University of Berlin. In 1999 founding of comaberlin: production of inter-medial art | investigation, development and realisation of sound situations. In 2003 he founded KlangQuadrat / Sound Square, Office for Sound and Media Art in Berlin with Julia Gerlach for organizing and producing sound and media projects at home and abroad. From 2001 to 2005, he was chairman of the Berlin Society of New Music (bgnm).".