Kurt HOFSTETTER

Nationality: Austrian

Kurt Hofstetter (born July 16, 1959, in Linz) is an Austrian artist and composer living and working in Vienna. His artistic focus includes concepts, computer, light, and Internet-based works, media art installations in public spaces, acousmatic music and sound compositions. He also creates experimental videos in collaboration with Barbara Doser as Parallel Media, alongside prints, sculptures, and irrational patterns.

His interest in composing music arose from his study of 1960s music with Gary Danner. In 1976, he created his first loop composition for two guitars, "Allee." Concurrently, he explored abstraction in art and developed a fascination for theoretical mathematics, particularly dealing with infinities, which led to surreal drawings and collages. From 1978 to 1984, he studied mathematics at the University of Innsbruck, inspiring his artistic exploration of projecting theoretical objects from virtual spaces into everyday reality, resulting in surreal photocopies and sculptures.

Since 1990, Hofstetter has been a freelance artist, and since 1991, he has operated a media art studio in Vienna. His artistic approach involves developing unique foundations to explore new and unknown concepts. In 1990, he identified "parallelism and cycle" and "Inplusion" in relation to time, light, space, and daily life as central themes in his artistic creations.

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2006 / Betacam SP / b&w / sound / single screen / 7' 00 / 25 €
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