Christopher Bauder
Christopher Bauder (born 1973 in Stuttgart) is a German interaction designer and media artist who lives and works in Berlin. The main focus of his projects is the translation of digital information (bits and bytes) into objects and environments and vice versa.
Biography
Christopher Bauder studied in the digital class at the Berlin University of the Arts and graduated in 2003. This is when he started working in the field of interactive installation art and design. For his interactive installation ToneLadder he received the Newcomer Award “Multimedia Transfer Award”. In 2005 he was granted a Berlin Postgraduate Fund [1] to realise his interactive art installation BUGS. In 2004 Christopher Bauder founded the design studio WHITEvoid interactive art & design. The studio operates at the interface between art, design and technology. Space, object, sound and interaction are the key elements of all works. The installations and products are created for museums, exhibitions and trade fairs, festivals, concerts and nightclubs and gained worldwide recognition.[2]
Work
The artist has brought installations and performances to events and spaces like the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the MUTEK Festival in Montreal and Mexico, The National Museum of Fine Arts in Taiwan, the Fete des Lumières Light Festival in Lyon and Moscow's Tsvetnoy Central Market. His projects have received worldwide recognition and have won several awards including the Red Dot Design Award, iF Design Award, the Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Lighting Design Award. He is the inventor of Kinetic Lights and Lichtgrenze.
Art works
Awards
2014
- German Design Award for Space Frame
- red dot award for Space Frame
- LIA (Lightair International Award) for Space Frame
- if design award for FLUIDIC
2013
- Annual Multimedia Award for FLUIDIC
- Der Raum - No Award Bullshit for FLUIDIC
2012
- Interior Innovation Award for Kinetic Lights
- Red Dot Ward for Living Sculpture 3D Module System (Product Design) and Light Configurator (Communication Design)
2010
- Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany
2009
- W3 Award “Best in Show”
- iF Communication Design Award "interface"
- iF Communication Design Award "structure"
- WEBBY Award
- REDDOT Communication Design Award
Exhibitions
- FREEZE! Art Show, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts / 2009
- MUTEK Festival Montreal, Canada / 2009
- Centre Pompidou Paris, France / 2008