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Georg Klein is a composer, sound and video artist. He lives in Berlin.

The artist Georg Klein mainly works in site-specific art in public space („sound situation“) 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 („Interactive Variation“). With his project "TRASA" (2004/2006) he got well-known international: 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 2001-2005 he was chairman of the Berlin Society of New Music (bgnm).

works (selection)

amor fati (film music, Intern. Filmfestspiele Berlin 1997)
Li.. und die Erde I+II (Intern. Gustav-Mahler-Composition Prize Austria 1999)
transition - berlin junction (Sound Art Scholarship Berlin 2000/2001)
Ortsklang Marl Mitte - blaues blach - VielKunst.WenigArbeit (First German Sound Art Award 2002)
wel-come (Scholarship Art House Wiepersdorf)
Imperial News (Red Town Hall Berlin 2003, Scholarship Stiftung Kulturfonds)
PeerGynt - Stage music / Musical. Direction, Berliner Ensemble, Director: Peter Zadek, 2004–2008)
TRASA warszawa-berlin, A bi-medial Space of Contact (Warsaw-Berlin 2004)
pickup - An Intervention in a Kiosk in coop. with Steffi Weismann (Bern 2005)
DADAyama in coop. with Tetsuo Furodate (Berlin 2006)
takeaway in coop. with Steffi Weismann, sonambiente Intern. Sound Art Festival (Berlin 2006)
turmlaute.1: Hungerturm | Starvation Tower (Rom, Scholarship German Academie Villa Massimo/Casa Baldi, 2006)
turmlaute.2: Wachturm | Watch Tower (MaerzMusik Berlin 2007)
meta.stasen | meta.stases (Europ. Centre of Arts Hellerau, Dresden 2007)
thankyou China - PCAir-Medienrohr (Media-Space-Award NRW 2006)
Peregrinatio Paradiso (Hannover 2008)
sonic parole at O2-World-Arena (Berlin 2008)
venture doll in coop. with Steffi Weismann (Los Angeles 2008)
Sprich mit mir Klangstaetten|Stadtklaenge (Konsumverein, Braunschweig 2009)
Ramallah Tours (UmmElFahem / Tel Aviv 2009)
Cuts and Creeds - Young, male assassins in an oriental-occidental perspective (Berlin, 2010)
mirror songs Installation at a prison facade (Sinop, Turkey, 3rd Sinopale 2010)

Catalogs/Reviews

Don't call it art! - On strategies of media art in public space, ISEA 2010 Ruhr Conference Proceedings, Ed. J.Funke, A.Broeckmann et.al., Revolver Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86895-103-5
29 km Catalog Umm El Fahem, Ed. Shlomit Baumann, dt.-arab.-hebr., Jerusalem 2009
klangstaetten|stadtklaenge Catalog+DVD, Ed.: Allg. Konsumverein e.V., dt.-engl., Braunschweig 2009
Site-Sounds - On strategies of sound art in public space In: Organized Sound 14/1, 2009 (Cambridge University Press), ISSN 1355-7718
Deutsche Video-Kunst / Medien-Raum-Wettbewerb 2006-2008, ISBN 978-3-924790-80-6

sonambiente Sound Art Festival Catalog, 2006, ISBN 978-3-936636-93-2

The Making of Alex Catalog Urban Art Stories 2005, ISBN 3-86588-127-0

From the sound installation to the sound situation In: Organized Sound 8/2, 2003 (Cambridge University Press), ISSN 1355-7718

Electronic in New Music: Interactive Variation 2006, ISBN 978-3-936000-15-3

transition - berlin junction, eine klangsituation Catalog, 2001, ISBN 3-89727-178-8

Deutscher Klangkunstpreis Catalog, 2002, ISBN 3-924790-62-0

TRASA warszawa-berlin Katalog, 2004, ISBN 3-936636-43-5

Unter freiem Himmel - Klangkunst im öffentlichen Raum In: musik|politik, BGNM-Jahrbuch 2002. ISBN 3-89727-257-1

Prof. Kazuo Uehara Sound Art in re-unioned City of Berlin". Osaka Univers. Journal of Arts No.18, 2002
Dr. Christa Brüstle: TRASA - Kontaktraum zwischen Warschau und Berlin. In: Positionen 62 (Mühlenbeck b. Berlin, 2005)
Dr. Barbara Barthelmes: Georg Klein oder der Künstler als Orts-Seher. In: Katalog TRASA warszawa-berlin. Kehrer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 2004
Prof. Doris Kolesch: Gehör-Gänge - Zu Georg Kleins Klangsituation „transition“ in Richard Serras Skulptur „Berlin Junction“. Art lecture 2002. SFB Kulturen des Performativen, Freie Universität Berlin.
Volker Sträbel: Transition der Klänge, Frankfurter Allg. Zeitung (FAZ) 08/2001.
Dr. Sabine Sanio: im vorübergehen? kunst und eingedenken In: textbuch transition, Pfau-Verlag (Saarbrücken, 2001)

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