Gerfried Stocker

Gerfried Stocker is the director of the Ars Electronica Center (Linz, Austria) and artistic co-director of the Ars Electronica Festival.

Since 1995 Gerfried Stocker is artistic director of the Ars Electronica Center, (Linz, Austria), and together with Christine Schöpf artistic codirector of the Ars Electronica Festival. He is media artist, musician and a graduate of the Institute for Telecommunication Engineering and Electronics in Graz. Since 1990, he has been working as an independent artist.

In 1991, he founded X-Space, a team for the realization of interdisciplinary projects. In this framework numerous installations and performance projects have been carried out in the field of interaction, robotics and telecommunication. Stocker was also responsible for the concept of various radio, TV and network projects and the organization of the worldwide radio and network project Horizontal Radio in 1995.

Projects and Installations have been shown among others at:
EXPO ‘92 Sevilla; Kunsthalle Bonn '92; Biennale Venedig '93; ISEA '93 Minneapolis; Interactive Media Festival Los Angeles '94; Digital World Conference Los Angeles '94; SIGGRAPH '94 Orlando; ISEA '94 Helsinki; Dutch Electronic Art Festival '94 Rotterdam; Steirischer Herbst '94, '95; Ars Electronica '95; SIGGRAPH '95, Los Angeles; ISEA '95 Montréal; Frankfurter Buchmesse '95; New York Digital Salon '95; Biennale Venedig '97, Millennium Dome London 2000, SIGGRAPH '02 San Antonio. He is editor of Ars Electronica catalogues since 1996.

Has participated in

1st session I+C+i. Gerfried Stocker

7 February 2007 Debate