Klimek

Sebastian Meissner works as a media artist using sound, video and photography.Employing multiple artistic personas (Autokontrast, Autopoieses, Bizz Circuits, Klimek, Open Source, Random Industries, Random Inc), his works deal with and negotiate urban/cultural/social scenarios, randomness, historical music archives and strategies of networking. He works with computer music sources, sampling and moving photography assembling their interrelation within geographic/historical/political discourses.Over the years his works have been widely presented at festivals and by institutions such as Transmediale (D), Podewil (D), Portikus (D), Schirn Kunsthalle (D), Festival for Jewish Culture (PL), Goethe Institute Buenos Aires (AR), Goethe Institute Ramallah (PAL), Goethe Institute Almaty (KZ), Sonar (ES), Mutek (CA), OK Centrum (A), Hazira Performance Center Jerusalem (IL), Crankbrook Museum of Art (USA), Steirischer Herbst (A), Kulturhuset Stockholm (S), RAI Cinema (IT) and Forsythe Ballet (D).collaborated with: The Notwist, Hugo Race, Gez Varley, Kwartludium, Tim Hecker, Mazen Kerbaj, Ultra-Red, Terre Thaemlitz, Needle, Kit Clayton, Ran Slavin, Eran Sachs, Binyamin Oren, Vladislav Delay, Ekkehard Ehlers