| Curriculum Vitae | |
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David Link e-mail: david -obviously.an.at.sign.replacement- khm.de |
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| 2010 |
Relics of LoveLetters, Installation at "To the Tool!", Halle 14, Leipzig. |
| 2009 |
Chair for Experimental Technologies in the Art Context, Academy of Arts Leipzig. LoveLetters_1.0. MUC=Resurrection, Media art installation at "YOU_ser 2.0—Celebration of the Consumer", ZKM, Karlsruhe: Functional Replica of the first computer worldwide, the Ferranti Mark 1. It runs the original source code of Christopher Strachey's "love letters" programme from 1952. The Archaeology of Very Early Algorithms, 1948–58 — Christopher Strachey's Love Letter Generator, Lecture at London Science Museum, Computer Conservation Society UK. Algorithmic Art, Archaeology of Algorithms, Lecture at Academy of Arts Leipzig. |
| 2008 |
Rotating Letters. The Polish "bomba kryptologiczna" as Example of an Archaeology of Algorithmic Artefacts, Lecture at the "3rd International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science",
Vienna. Zâ'irja—An Archaeological Cryptanalysis of a 13th-century Sufi Algorithm, Lecture at the "5th International Variantology Workshop—Neapolitan Media", Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale "Vittorio Emanuele III". Poetry Machines and Generative Poetry, Lecture at "Honeypod. Tag und Nacht Festival für Literatur und Neue Medien", Edith-Ruß-Haus, Oldenburg. |
| 2007 |
Chorus 2.0, Media art installation at "YOU_ser—The Century of the Consumer", ZKM, Karlsruhe:
An elliptic ticker of 10 m diametre is suspended above the terrace of a cafe and reflects the topics of conversation of the visitors. Memory for Love Letters. Computer Archaeology of a Very Early Program, Lecture at the conference "re:place. Second International Conference on the Histories of Media, Art, Science and Technology", Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. |
| 2006 |
Poetry Machine 2.0,
Media art installation at the conference "Digital Media and Cultures of Science", University of Cologne: Interactive text generator that is autonomously searching for information in the internet. The generated text is typed on a keyboard as if by a ghost's hand. Distance measurement by sonar. Poesiemaschinen / Maschinenpoesie. Zur Frühgeschichte computerisierter Texterzeugung und generativer Systeme (On the Early History of Computerized Text Generation and Generative Systems). Munich: Fink, 2006. In German. Variantology 2. On Deep Time Relations of Arts, Sciences and Technologies, eds. Siegfried Zielinski and David Link. Cologne: König, 2006. From Analyser Tools, Software development OpenGL for ZKM Karlsruhe for the exhibition "Mindframes. Media Study at Buffalo 1973–1990", Steina und Woody Vasulka. |
| 2005 |
ECHOHCE, broadcast of the concert in "studio acoustic art" of WDR3, 5 March 2005, 23:05 h. MURMUR, performance at "Polyphonix", Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing, France: reading for a voice and a choir of speech synthesizers. CHORUS, media art installation at "Panorama 6—Casting stories", Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing, France. ECHOHCE, CD-publication of the concert on the label "FM 4.5.1". Poetry Machine 2.0, media art installation at "Enseigner / Produire", Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris und Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing, France. Conception and realisation of the 2. "Variantology"-conference at the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne (with Prof. Dr. Siegfried Zielinski). |
| 2004 |
ECHOHCE,
Concert with FM Einheit (perc.), Jamie Lidell (voc.), Saskia von
Klitzing (dr.) u. Volker Kamp (b.) at "Algorithmic Revolution", ZKM,
Karlsruhe: The singer and the musicians perform the text generated by the machine as it develops. ECHOHCE (with FM Einheit), Concert at "Burroughs Cutup", Stadtgarten, Cologne. ECHOHCE (with FM Einheit), Concert at the opening of the "Dutch Electronic Art Festival 04: Affective Turbulences / Open Systems", V2 organisatie, Rotterdam. Poetry Machine 2.0, Media art installation at the exhibition "Algorithmic Revolution", ZKM, Karlsruhe. On Justifying the Hypothetical Nature of Art and the Non-Identicality within the Object World, port of the media art installation by Peter Weibel from SGI GL to Open GL for the exhibition "Algorithmic Revolution", ZKM, Karlsruhe. Poetry Machine 2.0, Media art installation at the exhibition "10. International Computer Arts Festival", Maribor, Slovenia. Poetry Machine 2.0, Media art installation at the exhibition "The Millenium Dialogue. First Beijing International New Media Arts Exhibition and Symposium", Millennium Art Museum, Beijing, China. (DVD) Poetry Machines / Machine Poetry, PhD at Humboldt-University Berlin, Philosophy III, with Prof. Siegfried Zielinski, Academy of Media Arts, Cologne and Prof. Friedrich Kittler, Institute for Aesthetics, Berlin. Don't panic IV. Theoretical and practical foundations of the Turing Machine, Course at Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe, department Digital Media/ Media Art, Michael Saup. |
| 2003 |
Poetry Machine 2.0, Media art installation at "Belluard Bollwerk International", Fribourg, Switzerland. Poetry Machine 1.0 becomes part of the permanent collection of the Center for Art and Media Technology (ZKM), Karlsruhe, Germany Poetry Machine 1.5, Media art installation at "Deaf03: Data Knitting", V2 organisatie, Rotterdam Don't panic III. Theoretical and practical foundations of the Turing Machine: The Network, Course at Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe, department Digital Media/ Media Art, Michael Saup. The three princes of Serendippo, performance together with Siegfried Zielinski und Jan St. Werner, festival "Deaf03: Data Knitting", V2 organisatie, Rotterdam. Don't panic II. Theoretical and practical foundations of the Turing Machine, Course at Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe, department Digital Media/ Media Art, Michael Saup. Generative Media Art and Data Mining, Lecture at Centre for Cultural Studies Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK |
| 2002 |
Poetry Machine 1.0, Media art installation at "Typologie", Center for Art and Media Technology (ZKM), Karlsruhe, Germany: Poetry Machine 1.0, selected for “Vectors; Digital Arts of Our Time”, New York Digital Salon, New York. Poetry Machine TV at the festival "Artgenda", artgendaTV in public space and free tv, Hamburg. Grep moment *. 14 poems, selected by David Link. LAB, Jahrbuch für Künste und Apparate. Academy for Media Arts, Cologne. Don't panic. Theoretical and practical foundations of the Turing Machine, Course at Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe, department Digital Media/ Media Art, Michael Saup. |
| 2001 |
Poetry Machine 1.0, Media art installation at "Im Buchstabenfeld - Die Zukunft der Literatur", Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria: A portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Lecture at the Academy for Media Arts, Cologne. Poetry Machine - a text generator based on semantic networks, Presentation at HyperKult X, Lüneburg. |
| 2000 |
Sphere, Media art installation at "Interface5", Kunstverein Hamburg: Three-dimensional, internet based, multi-user simulation of projectiles around the globe. Users can shoot steel balls of five meters diameter onto each other. They cause real disturbances at the target location. Red-Right-Wrong (with Erik Sleichim, BL!NDMAN KWARTET), Concert at "Temporary Autonomous Zones", Royal Flemish Theatre, Brüssels. Text generating, interactive 3D VR space. The saxophonists control the virtual space of the installation by their music in realtime. |
| 1999 |
Memory, Media art installation at "Wiretap 5.10", V2-Organisatie, Rotterdam Text generating, interactive 3D VR space on three screens and VR helmet. The view of the user generates visual and textual worlds. Memory, Media art installation at "Synworld", Public Netbase t0, Museum's quarter Vienna. Artist in residence at V2-Lab, V2-Organisatie, Rotterdam (Project DataPersonalities) Foundation of Codelab, an artist group for the realization of media art projects in Berlin. |
| 1998 |
Memory, Media art installation at "Charleroi Danses", Les Tanneurs, Brussels. Art-OS, Concept for Interface 2000, Hamburg New Media and Literature (with Siegfried Zielinski), Lecture at Literarisches Colloquium Berlin. |
| 1996 - 02 |
Guest student and grant at Academy for Media Arts, Cologne |
| 1993 - 95 | Founder and editor of ARTIC, a journal for art and philosophy |