Crosstalk Video Art Festival Budapest

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Joachim Smetschka (A)

After studying "experimental visual design" he is working in the fields of still and moving images and interactive arts.
Besides this serious pursuit he was busy with commercial stuff for a couple of years as a designer and director in advertising.
As a member of Ars Electronica Futurelab in the late 90´s he was responsible for numerous projects in conception, creating and curating.

Since five years he is part of the developing- and administration-team for the branch of studies "timebased and interactive media" at the University for Art and Design in Linz, where he is teaching as well.

His work is dealing with diverse phenomenons in context of manipulation in media with a strong focus on different aspects of "time": changes in perception through manipulation of temporal structures and intermediate spaces of time.
Researching paradox aspects within dynamic systems and their counterparts, there is one big interest that is connecting his very diverse works: the question of what is happening "inbetween"...
e.g. in between the single frames of a film, in between the visible and the invisible, in between a body and the space it is moving through, in between the moment of forgetting and total oblivion, etc.