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CV Sascha Pohflepp
1978 Born in Cologne, Germany
Education
2000 - 2006 Studies in visual communication with prof. Joachim Sauter and Jussi Ängeslevä at
the Berlin University of the Arts (UDK), graduated in July 2006
2003 - 2004 Studies with prof. Henri Foucault and Brice Dellsperger at the Ecole Nationale
Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD) and the Université Sorbonne, Paris
1998 Graduation from high school in Cologne
Activities
upcoming Export to World, workshop at Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
2007 Bursary awarded by the Royal College of Art (RCA), London
Lecture at Mediamatic Hybrid-World workshop
Workshop with Brian Eno at UDK
2006 Contributing to We-Make-Money-Not-Art.com (ongoing)
Reviewer for ACM CHI 2007 San Jose, USA
Second Blogject Workshop, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland
2005 Triggered by RFID-workshop at Mediamatic, Amsterdam
Scholarship from UDK for participation in the Electromechanical Mandala-
workshop with Douglas Irving Repetto
Future-scenario design research at Rietveld-Academie's EuroLAB hosted by Huib
Schwab in Girona, Spain
Workshop with Pipilotti Rist at UDK
2004 Teaching assistant for digital media-based design with prof. Joachim Sauter and
Jussi Ängeslevä (until 2006)
Project Arrière-Plan for Sophie Calle at ENSAD Paris
2003 Member of the New York-based designers collective Slowlab
Working as a freelance editor for de:bug-magazine
2002 Trainer-assistant for nonlinear narration with the Mediamatic foundation in Am-
sterdam at various workshops including IDFA and WWVF in Amsterdam, Docu-
mentary in Europe in Italy, and others in Portugal, Estonia, Hungary and Finland
2001 Intercultural design-research project with prof. Inge Sommer at Busan and Seoul,
South Korea
Exhibitions, screenings and awards
upcoming Mirrr at OBORO gallery Montréal, Canada
2007 Presentation at ZAIM, Yokohama, Japan
Between Blinks & Buttons at Dislocate 07, Ginza Art Lab, Tokyo, Japan
Webby-award (contributor) for We-Make-Money-Not-Art.com
Presentation at Mediamatic Salon, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Between Blinks & Buttons at Reboot 07, Copenhagen, Denmark
Between Blinks & Buttons at Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
Presentation at Transmediale 07 Salon, Berlin
Between Blinks & Buttons selected part of the permanent Processing-exhibition
2006 Between Blinks & Buttons at 23C3 Chaos Communication Congress, Berlin
Between Blinks & Buttons at NExT Copenhagen, Denmark
Between Blinks & Buttons at Pecha Kucha Berlin
Live-video performance Positionen, Klangwerkstatt 06 at Bethanien, Berlin
Firewall at Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA), Australia
Paper on Eavesdripping presented at ACM SIGGRAPH 06 Boston, USA
Bright Russian at Designtransfer gallery / Designmai 06, Berlin
Mirrr at Dorkbot.bln / Transmediale 06, C-Base Berlin
2005 Eavesdripping at RE/ACT-festival 2005, Heidelberg
Herman the Liar, Designtransfer gallery Berlin
Captured In Tones finalist at Kunstfilm-biennal, Museum Ludwig Cologne
Presentation at Reyjkavík Art Academy (Listaháskóla Íslands), Iceland
Firewall at Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Art Florence, Italy
Eavesdripping shortlisted at Radiator Festival 2005 Nottingham, UK
Honorable mention in the I.D.-Magazine student design review for participation in
Lisa Rave's Safari
Trajets edit, premiered at Karaoke Kalk-labelnight, Maria Berlin
2004 Captured In Tones awarded the Backup.Clipaward at Bauhaus Weimar
Nonlinear documentary WAVES nominated for Stuttgarter Filmpreis
Captured In Tones at Shift DOTMOV-festival, Café Soso Sapporo, Japan
2003 meandering at Transmediale 03, Berlin
WAVES at Mediamatic Supermarket, Amsterdam
2002 meander at video-biennal Tel Aviv, Israel
Participation in Florian Thalhofer's Love Story Project ar Goethe Institute, Egypt
meandering presented by Susanne Jaschko at FILE São Paulo, Brazil
Eine Zeitweise with Julius Stahl, Klangwerkstatt 02 at Bethanien, Berlin
2001 lok kom motion awarded the Kurz & Schön-award at Academy of Media Arts Co-
logne (KHM)
1998 - 2000 Three thematic group exhibitions with Kulturfeld, Cologne
Professional experience
2007 Interaction design with Innovation Labs Ltd., Berlin/London
2006 Software development and performance for Klangwerkstatt, Berlin
2003 Technical supervisor for Mediamatic foundation workshops, Amsterdam (ongoing)
2002 Exhibition design for Plex, Berlin
2001 Interaction design for PLATOON, Berlin
2000 Web design for Saban Entertainment Germany
Web design for Filmbüro nw
1999 Internships at the design departments of networks WDR and RTL media
1998-1999 Concept and web design with People United (FriendScout24.de), Cologne
1996-1998 Web design with PiroNet AG, Cologne
Bibliography
2007 Realfakewatches in FORM-magazine
Between Blinks & Buttons, Art Review-magazine
2006 Between Blinks & Buttons, PUBLIC-magazine Canada
2005 WAVES, PPP Multi Media Kunst, ISBN 3-89426-120-6 (Deutsche Bank/UDK)
Captured In Tones, ROJO Barcelona, Spain
meandering, Catalogue of slit-scan artworks, Golan Levin
Captured In Tones, IdN dotmov-Book, ISBN 9-88980-974-5 (Systems Design Ltd.)
Trajets, Abstract magazine, Switzerland
2004 meandering, ZKM Future Cinema, curated by Peter Weibel and Jeffrey Shaw, ISBN
0-262-69286-4 (MIT press)
Captured In Tones, Funkstörung Isolation-DVD, ISBN 3-89955-107-9 (Gestalten
Verlag)
Publications
2006 Numerous articles on We-Make-Money-Not-Art.com, including interviews with
Amber Frid-Jimenez and Brent Fitzgerald, Burak Arikan and Christophe Bruno
Eavesdripping: Water as physical display, proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2006
Between Blinks & Buttons documentation, UDK Libary (B 0830)
Interview with John Maeda, De:Bug-magazine
2005 Tim Hawkinson at the Whitney Museum, De:Bug-magazine
2004 Interview with PLEIX, De:Bug-magazine