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 Lichtgrenze installation, tracing the path of the Berlin Wall 25 years after its Fall, November 2014

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

2013

2012

2010

2009

Exhibitions

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