Hecker

Florian Hecker Was Born In 1975 In Augsburg Germany. He Was Raised In Kissing Germany And Studied Computational Linguistics And Psycholinguistics At Ludwig Maximilian Universität Munich And Fine Arts At The Akademie Der Bildenden Künste Vienna Where He Received His Diploma In 2003. He Lives And Works In Vienna And Kissing Germany. In Performances Publications And Installations Hecker Deals With Specific Compositional Developments Of Post-War Modernity Electro-Acoustic Music As Well As Other Non-Musical Disciplines. He Dramatizes Space Time And Self-Perception In His Sonic Works By Isolating Specific Auditory Events In Their Singularity Thus Stretching The Boundaries Of Their Materialization. Their Objectual Autonomy Is Exposed While Simultaneously Evoking Sensations Memories And Associations In An Immersive Intensity. Solo Exhibitions Include MMK Museum Für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt Am Main Germany IKON Gallery Birmingham And Chisenhale Gallery London All In 2010. Bawag Contemporary Vienna 2009 Sadie Coles HQ London 2008 And Galerie Neu Berlin 2007. Some Of The Group Exhibitions And Projects Hecker Has Participated In Include Push And Pull MUMOK Vienna 2010 Evento Bordeaux Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary The Kaleidoscopic Eye Mori Art Museum Tokyo UBS Openings Saturday Live Characters Figures And Signs Tate Modern London And His Most Recent Collaboration With Cerith Wyn Evans No Night No Day Was Premiered At The Teatro Goldoni As Part Of Fare Mondi 53rd Venice Biennale All In 2009. Manifesta 7 Trentino - South Tyrol Italy Art Unlimited Art Basel Experiment Marathon Reykjavik Reykjavík Art Museum In 2008 And Cerith Wyn Evans Lenbachhaus Munich In 2006. Off The Record Musée D'Art Moderne De La Ville De Paris Paris And 3rd Berlin Biennale Berlin In 2004 2nd International Biennial For Contemporary Art Gothenburg 2003 And Mutations TN Probe Gallery Tokyo And Ausgeträumt... Secession Vienna Both In 2001. Hecker Has Given A Multitude Of Performances Audio Presentations And Concerts Internationally Since 1996. Amongst Many Other Places He Presented His Work At Les Spectacles Vivants Centre Georges Pompidou Paris 2012 MIT Saarinen Chapel Cambridge MA Lampo Graham Foundation Chicago Push & Pull Tate Modern All 2011 Life Is Live # 2 Listen With Pain! Hebbel Am Ufer Berlin 2010 Sound Out Of Line Urbanomic Studio Falmouth Comme Des Garçons Homme Plus Palais De La Bourse Paris 2009 Utopia Of Sound Akademie Der Bildenden Künste Vienna 2008 Bridge The Gap?4 CCA Kitakyushu And Shanghai Cut And Splice ICA London Both 2006. Casa Da Música Porto ZKM Karlsruhe No Fun Festival Brooklyn In 2005. Taktlos Dampfzentrale Bern Freunde Guter Musik Maria Am Ufer Berlin In 2006. CCA Kitakyushu Ars Electronica Brucknerhaus Linz All Tomorrows Parties Chamber Sands Sonic Light Sonic Acts Festival Amsterdam In 2003. Büro 44 Purple Institute Paris Número Festival Lisbon International Triennale Of Contemporary Art Yokohama Japan Nesh Electrowerkz London LoveBytes Sheffield All In 2001. Büro 30 Spiral Hall / CAY Tokyo Sónar MACBA Barcelona Synthèse 2000 IMEB Bourges Avanto Kiasma Museum Of Contemporary Art Helsinki Wien Modern Konzerthaus Vienna In 2000. Since 2005 Hecker Presented A Series Of UPIC Diffusion Sessions In Collaboration With Russell Haswell As “Haswell & Hecker” Performing Recordings Made Exclusively With Iannis Xenakis Graphic Input Computer Music System. Amongst Many Other Locations At Serralves Em Festa Fundação Serralves Porto 2009 Conway Hall London Patronage Of Space Lopud Donaufestival Krems Kunsthalle Zürich All In 2007 And Cubitt At City University London 2005. In 2011 Editions Mego Released Kanal GENDYN A Vinyl Record And Audio Only DVD Set Documenting A Performance Of Haswell & Hecker From 2004 Employing Exclusively Alberto De Campo’s SuperCollider 2 Version Of Xenakis’ GENDYN French For ‘GENeration DYNamique Stochastique’ Or English ‘Dynamic Stochastic Synthesis’ Sound Synthesis Procedure. Together With Artist Yasunao Tone He Performed Palimpsest At Recombinant Media Labs San Francisco Experimental Intermedia New York In 2005 MIT Media Lab Cambridge MA 2004 LAMPO 6Odum Chicago And At Spectacles Vivants Centre Georges Pompidou Paris In 2002 Amongst Other Locations. In 2009 He Collaborated On A Series Of Performances With Aphex Twin Including Amongst Others Sacrum Profanum Kraków Warp20 Cité De La Musique Paris And Bloc Weekend Minehead. read less