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{{Short description|German media artist and designer (1959–2021)}}
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'''Joachim Sauter''' (born 1959) is a German media artist and designer. He was appointed Professor for New Media Art and Design at the [[Berlin University of the Arts|Universität der Künste Berlin, UdK]] (Berlin University of the Arts) in 1991.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.digital.udk-berlin.de/en/people/faculty/sauter.html|title=Gestalten mit digitalen Medien|publisher=Universität der Künste Berlin|accessdate=20 November 2010}}</ref>
'''Joachim Sauter''' (16 May 1959 – 10 July 2021)<ref>{{cite news |title=IN MEMORIAM – Prof. Joachim Sauter (1959–2021) |url=https://artcom.de/en/news/in-memoriam/ |access-date=12 July 2021 |work=ART+COM Studios |date=11 July 2021 |archive-date=12 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712012216/https://artcom.de/en/news/in-memoriam/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://graftlab.com/en/news/we-mourn-the-death-of-our-friend-prof-joachim-sauter|title=We mourn the death of our friend Prof. Joachim Sauter|work=Graft Lab|date=2021-08-05|access-date=2022-01-11}}</ref> was a German media artist, designer and technology entrepreneur. He was appointed Professor for New Media Art and Design at the [[Berlin University of the Arts|Universität der Künste Berlin, UdK]] (Berlin University of the Arts) in 1991, and in 1993 he created [[Terravision (computer program)]], before pursuing a lawsuit against [[Google]] for infringing the patent.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.digital.udk-berlin.de/en/people/faculty/sauter.html|title=Gestalten mit digitalen Medien|publisher=Universität der Künste Berlin|accessdate=20 November 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091016000751/http://www.digital.udk-berlin.de/en/people/faculty/sauter.html|archive-date=16 October 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref> He became an adjunct professor at [[University of California, Los Angeles|UCLA]], Los Angeles in 2001.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|title=joachim sauter – who|url=http://www.joachimsauter.com/en/who.html|access-date=2020-10-07|website=www.joachimsauter.com}}</ref>


==Early life and education==
== Biography ==
Sauter studied design at the UdK Berlin, and studied direction and camera at the German Academy for Film and Television, [[Berlin]]. He has been using [[computers]] both as a tool and as a medium since the early stages of his work.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.media.mit.edu/events/2010/04/05/colloquium-joachim-sauter-renaissance-space|title=Colloquium: Joachim Sauter, "The Renaissance of Space"|date=April 5, 2010|publisher=MIT Media Lab|accessdate=20 November 2010}}</ref> A pioneer of [[new media]], he has developed and shaped this field with his works from the early 1980s on.
Sauter studied design at the UdK Berlin, and direction and camera at the German Academy for Film and Television, [[Berlin]]. He was using [[computers]] both as a tool and as a medium since the early stages of his work.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.media.mit.edu/events/2010/04/05/colloquium-joachim-sauter-renaissance-space|title=Colloquium: Joachim Sauter, "The Renaissance of Space"|date=April 5, 2010|publisher=MIT Media Lab|accessdate=20 November 2010}}</ref> A pioneer of [[new media]], he developed and shaped the field from the early 1980s on.
==Career==
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In 1988, he founded the new media design studio ART+COM with other designers, architects, technologists, and other artists and scientists. Their goal was to research the new medium in the realms of art and design,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://artcom.de/index.php?option=com_acteam&Itemid=121&lang=en|title=Staff|publisher=ART+COM -|accessdate=20 November 2010}}</ref> emphasizing the translation of information (easily transmissible via new media) into physical spaces, offering a more communal, reality-grounded experience than could be achieved with computer monitors alone.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://artcom.de/index.php?option=com_acteam&Itemid=121&lang=en|title=The Creators Project {{pipe}} Joachim Sauter|publisher=The Creators Project -|accessdate=7 November 2012}}</ref> As Head of Design at ART+COM, Sauter led the interdisciplinary group’s innovative experiments, using new technologies to convey complex topics while exploring their potential for spatial communication and art.<ref name="auto"/>
==Personal life and death==
Sauter was married and had a son. He died on 10 July 2021 following a serious illness.<ref>{{Cite web |date=n.d. |title= In memory of Joachim Sauter |url=https://artcom.de/en/news/in-memory-of-joachim-sauter/ |access-date=2021-10-23 |website=artcom.de}}</ref>


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==Projects with ART+COM (partial)==
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In 1988 he founded the new media design studio ART+COM, together with other designers, architects, technologists, and their ilk - more generally, artists and scientists. Their goal was to practically research this new upcoming medium in the realm of art and design.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://artcom.de/index.php?option=com_acteam&Itemid=121&lang=en|title=Staff|publisher=ART+COM -|accessdate=20 November 2010}}</ref> They have come to emphasize the translation of information (easily transmissible via new media) into physical spaces, offering a more communal, reality-grounded experience than computer monitors alone allow for.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://artcom.de/index.php?option=com_acteam&Itemid=121&lang=en|title=The Creators Project {{pipe}} Joachim Sauter|publisher=The Creators Project -|accessdate=7 November 2012}}</ref>
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'''Art:'''


* 2018 "[http://www.joachimsauter.com/en/work/petalclouds.html Petalclouds]" – kinetic installation
Joachim Sauter lives and works in Berlin.
* 2018 "[http://www.joachimsauter.com/en/work/raffael.html Raffaels Pendulum]" – kinetic installation
* 2017 "[http://www.joachimsauter.com/en/work/chronos.html Chronos XXI]" – kinetic installation


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*2013 "Symphonie Cinétique – The Poetry of Motion" – exhibition and performance in collaboration with [[Ólafur Arnalds]]
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== Projects with ART+COM (partial)==
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'''Art:'''
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*2013 "Symphonie Cinétique - The Poetry of Motion" – exhibition and performance in collaboration with [[Ólafur Arnalds]]
*2013 "Ink Drops to the Origin" — interactive installation
*2013 "Ink Drops to the Origin" — interactive installation
*2012 "Kinetic Rain" – kinetic installation
*2012 "Kinetic Rain" – kinetic installation
*2008 "Kinetic Sculpture" – kinetic sculpture
*2008 "Kinetic Sculpture" – kinetic sculpture
*2007 "Duality" – interactive environmental installation, Tokyo
*2007 "Duality" – interactive environmental installation, Tokyo
*2002 "Behind the Lines" - interactive installation
*2002 "Behind the Lines" – interactive installation
*1999-2002 "[http://www.joachimsauter.com/en/work/thejewofmalta.html The Jew of Malta]" – medial stage
*1999–2002 "[http://www.joachimsauter.com/en/work/thejewofmalta.html The Jew of Malta]" – medial stage
*1995-now "The Invisible Shapes of Things Past" – architectural sculptures made of films
*1995–2008 "The Invisible Shapes of Things Past" – architectural sculptures made of films
*1992 "De-Viewer" – interactive installation
*1992 "De-Viewer" – interactive installation


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*2005 "documenta mobil" – mobile exhibition
*2005 "documenta mobil" – mobile exhibition
*2004 "floating.numbers" – interactive table installation
*2004 "floating.numbers" – interactive table installation
*2004 "Austrian Flag" - interactive flag
*2004 "Austrian Flag" – interactive flag
*1995– ? "timescope" – low-tech augmented reality device<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.joachimsauter.com/en/work/timescope.html|title=joachim sauter – work – timescope &#124; 1996-now|website=www.joachimsauter.com|accessdate=16 March 2022}}</ref>
*1996 "Terravision" – interactive installation
*1994 "[[Terravision (computer program)|Terravision]]" – interactive installation showing a virtual representation of the Earth using satellite imagery, commissioned in 1994 by Deutsche Telekom<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.joachimsauter.com/en/work/terravision.html|title=joachim sauter – work – terravision &#124; 1994|website=www.joachimsauter.com|accessdate=16 March 2022}}</ref>
*1995-now "timescope" - low-tech augmented reality device


== Exhibitions (partial)==
==Exhibitions (partial)==
*2013 "LeBains", Paris, France
*2013 "LeBains", Paris, France
*2011 "Matter Light II", Borusan Center for Culture and Arts, Istanbul, Turkey
*2011 "Matter Light II", Borusan Center for Culture and Arts, Istanbul, Turkey
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*1998 “Portable Sacred Grounds”, ICC, Tokyo, Japan
*1998 “Portable Sacred Grounds”, ICC, Tokyo, Japan
*1996 “Wunschmaschine, Welterfindung”, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria
*1996 “Wunschmaschine, Welterfindung”, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria
*1996 “Under the Capricorn”, Steijdilik Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
*1996 “Under the Capricorn”, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
*1995 “Anew Europe”, [[Venice Biennale]], Italy
*1995 “Anew Europe”, [[Venice Biennale]], Italy
*1993 “Artec”, Museum of Modern Art, Nagoya, Japan
*1993 “Artec”, Museum of Modern Art, Nagoya, Japan
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*[[Installation art]]
*[[Installation art]]


== References ==
==References==
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== External links ==
==External links==
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*[http://www.joachimsauter.com/ Joachim Sauter’s Website]
*[http://www.joachimsauter.com/ Joachim Sauter’s Website]
*[http://www.thecreatorsproject.com/en-uk/creators/joachim-sauter Interview at ''The Creators Project'']
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20101130084745/http://thecreatorsproject.com/en-uk/creators/joachim-sauter Interview at ''The Creators Project'']
*[http://www.gestalten.tv/motion/artcom Interview at Gestalten TV]
*[http://www.gestalten.tv/motion/artcom Interview at Gestalten TV]
*[http://creative.arte.tv/de/magazin/joachim-sauter-artcom-ueber-das-ende-des-internets-und-die-wiedergeburt-des-raumes Interview at ARTE Creative]
*[http://creative.arte.tv/de/magazin/joachim-sauter-artcom-ueber-das-ende-des-internets-und-die-wiedergeburt-des-raumes Interview at ARTE Creative] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130801181242/http://creative.arte.tv/de/magazin/joachim-sauter-artcom-ueber-das-ende-des-internets-und-die-wiedergeburt-des-raumes |date=2013-08-01 }}


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Joachim Sauter
Joachim Sauter in 2010
Born16 May 1959 Edit this on Wikidata
Schwäbisch Gmünd Edit this on Wikidata
Died10 July 2021 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 62)
OccupationArtist, sculptor, university teacher Edit this on Wikidata
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Joachim Sauter (16 May 1959 – 10 July 2021)[1][2] was a German media artist, designer and technology entrepreneur. He was appointed Professor for New Media Art and Design at the Universität der Künste Berlin, UdK (Berlin University of the Arts) in 1991, and in 1993 he created Terravision (computer program), before pursuing a lawsuit against Google for infringing the patent.[3] He became an adjunct professor at UCLA, Los Angeles in 2001.[4]

Early life and education

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Sauter studied design at the UdK Berlin, and direction and camera at the German Academy for Film and Television, Berlin. He was using computers both as a tool and as a medium since the early stages of his work.[5] A pioneer of new media, he developed and shaped the field from the early 1980s on.

Career

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In 1988, he founded the new media design studio ART+COM with other designers, architects, technologists, and other artists and scientists. Their goal was to research the new medium in the realms of art and design,[6] emphasizing the translation of information (easily transmissible via new media) into physical spaces, offering a more communal, reality-grounded experience than could be achieved with computer monitors alone.[7] As Head of Design at ART+COM, Sauter led the interdisciplinary group’s innovative experiments, using new technologies to convey complex topics while exploring their potential for spatial communication and art.[4]

Personal life and death

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Sauter was married and had a son. He died on 10 July 2021 following a serious illness.[8]

Projects with ART+COM (partial)

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Art:

  • 2013 "Symphonie Cinétique – The Poetry of Motion" – exhibition and performance in collaboration with Ólafur Arnalds
  • 2013 "Ink Drops to the Origin" — interactive installation
  • 2012 "Kinetic Rain" – kinetic installation
  • 2008 "Kinetic Sculpture" – kinetic sculpture
  • 2007 "Duality" – interactive environmental installation, Tokyo
  • 2002 "Behind the Lines" – interactive installation
  • 1999–2002 "The Jew of Malta" – medial stage
  • 1995–2008 "The Invisible Shapes of Things Past" – architectural sculptures made of films
  • 1992 "De-Viewer" – interactive installation

Design:

  • 2008 "Spheres" – mediatecture
  • 2005 "documenta mobil" – mobile exhibition
  • 2004 "floating.numbers" – interactive table installation
  • 2004 "Austrian Flag" – interactive flag
  • 1995– ? "timescope" – low-tech augmented reality device[9]
  • 1994 "Terravision" – interactive installation showing a virtual representation of the Earth using satellite imagery, commissioned in 1994 by Deutsche Telekom[10]

Exhibitions (partial)

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  • 2013 "LeBains", Paris, France
  • 2011 "Matter Light II", Borusan Center for Culture and Arts, Istanbul, Turkey
  • 2010 "moving spaces", Alva Aalto Museum, Aalborg, Denmark
  • 2008 "on cities", National Architecture Museum Stockholm, Sweden
  • 2007 “From Sparc to Pixel”, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
  • 2006 “Venice Biennale of Architecture”, German Pavilion, Italy
  • 2006 “Shanghai Biennale", China
  • 2006 “Digital Transit”, ARCO, Madrid, Spain
  • 2005 "São Paulo Biennale of Architecture", Brasil
  • 2004 “Navigator”, National Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
  • 2003 “Future Cinema”, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany/Lille, France
  • 2001 “Invisible”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
  • 1998 “Portable Sacred Grounds”, ICC, Tokyo, Japan
  • 1996 “Wunschmaschine, Welterfindung”, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria
  • 1996 “Under the Capricorn”, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 1995 “Anew Europe”, Venice Biennale, Italy
  • 1993 “Artec”, Museum of Modern Art, Nagoya, Japan
  • 1992 “Manifeste”, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "IN MEMORIAM – Prof. Joachim Sauter (1959–2021)". ART+COM Studios. 11 July 2021. Archived from the original on 12 July 2021. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
  2. ^ "We mourn the death of our friend Prof. Joachim Sauter". Graft Lab. 2021-08-05. Retrieved 2022-01-11.
  3. ^ "Gestalten mit digitalen Medien". Universität der Künste Berlin. Archived from the original on 16 October 2009. Retrieved 20 November 2010.
  4. ^ a b "joachim sauter – who". www.joachimsauter.com. Retrieved 2020-10-07.
  5. ^ "Colloquium: Joachim Sauter, "The Renaissance of Space"". MIT Media Lab. April 5, 2010. Retrieved 20 November 2010.
  6. ^ "Staff". ART+COM -. Retrieved 20 November 2010.
  7. ^ "The Creators Project | Joachim Sauter". The Creators Project -. Retrieved 7 November 2012.
  8. ^ "In memory of Joachim Sauter". artcom.de. n.d. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
  9. ^ "joachim sauter – work – timescope | 1996-now". www.joachimsauter.com. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
  10. ^ "joachim sauter – work – terravision | 1994". www.joachimsauter.com. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
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