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Metabolisms of Moving Image

Talk

Matter in Flux

26.3.2024

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My Want of You Partakes of Me wins

Jury Special Mention

NEW:VISION Award, CPH:DOX

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CPH:DOX

Symposium

Kunsthal Charlottenborg

20.3.2024

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CPH:DOX

Film Festival

NEW:VISION Competition

13.3 - 24.3.2024

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Two Hundred Years of Total Conversion

Essay

ECOES, Sonic Acts Publishing

2.2024

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Sonic Acts 

Symposium

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL

25.2.2024

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The Spell of the Sensuous

Biennale

Sonics Acts at W139, Amsterdam, NL

2.2 - 24.3.2024

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Science, Body, Anatomy

Screening 

Tate Modern, London, UK

25.11.2023
 

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Art Lovers Movie Club

Online screening

Artreview

6.11 - 27.11.2023

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Living Togetherness

Biennale 

Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition,

Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei

4.11.2023 - 28.1.2024

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Technical Lands

Screening

Cube Cinema, Bristol

22.10.2023

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40 Years of the Frac!

Exhibition

Frac Île-de-france

15.10.2023 - 24.02.2024 

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This Too, Is A Map

Biennale 

12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale, South Korea

23.9 - 19.11.2023

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Systems

Exhibition

Vantaa Arts Museum, Helsinki, Finland

29.9 - 10.12.2023

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More-than-human Gaze

Screening 

Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland

23.9.2023

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Ars Electronica

Exhibition

Post-City, Linz, Austria

6 - 10.9.2023

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Chromatic Wednesdays

Screening

Apartment Project, Berlin, Germany

26.7.2023

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A Demonstration / Constant

Solo Screening

Cinema Aventure, Brussels, Belgium

19.6.2023

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The Walking Trail

Masterclass

Sound Image Culture, Brussels, Belgium

19 - 22.6.2023

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Constant 

Screening

Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

5.5.2023

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InScience

Film Festival

Nijmegen, Netherlands

16-19.3.2023

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Ginzaza Edition 2: Control

Screening 

Sony Park Mini, Tokyo, Japan

1 - 13.3.2023

 

 

The Measure of the World

Exhibition

Radius CCA, Delft, Netherlands

25.2 - 14.5.2023

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Artists' Film Series 01/Calibration

Screening

Chemist Gallery, London

26.2.2023

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Hybrid Forms and Frameworks

Artist Talk

Department of Art, University of Virginia, USA

15.2.2023

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Eat the Camera, Feed the Screen

Essay

Published in e-flux Journal #133

2.2023

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CML Lab Days

Screening and talk

Critical Media Lab 

Academy of Art and Design,

Basel, Switzerland

12-13.12.2022

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Bangkok World Film Festival

Film Festival

Bangkok, Thailand

8.12.2022

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Set Phosphenes

Screening

Studio for Artistic Research

Düsseldorf, Germany

25.11.2022

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My Want of You Partakes of Me

Artist talk

ReCNTR research Center

Leiden University, The Netherlands

24.11.2022

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LIMA Presents: Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner

Screening Programme

LAB 111, Amsterdam, Netherlands

23.11.2022

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Kurzfilmfestival Köln

Film Festival

Köln, Germany

19.11.2022
 

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The Curse of Smooth Operations

IMPAKT Festival

Utrecht, Netherlands

Exhibition: 9.11.2022 - 8.1.2023

Talk: 5.11.2022

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FRONTDOC

Film Festival

Aosta, Italy

18 - 23.10.2022

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Imagine Science

Film Festival

New York, USA

14 - 21.10.2022

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Two Films by Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner

Screening

University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

18.10.2022

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Invisible Measures

Screening Program

Cineseries, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio, USA

12.10.2022

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Plasmaticness and the Boundaries of Human Perception

Book Chapter

Published in: Liquidity, Flows, Circulation: The Cultural Logic of Environmentalization, DIAPHANES Press

October 2022

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Curtocircuito Festival

Film Festival

Santiago de Compostela, Spain

1.9 - 9.9.2022

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Monsters and Measures: Selected Films by Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner

Screening Program

e-flux Screening Room, New York

27.9.2022

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EXiS Screening Programme

Asia Culture Center, Seoul South Korea

22-23.9.2022

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Interplay

Exhibition

Environmental Film Festival Australia

Gabriel Gallery, Melbourne Australia

13.9 - 29.10.2022

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Open City Documentary Festival

Film Festival

London, UK

7 - 13.9.2022


Constant wins

Best Short Documentary

Guanajuato International Film Festival 2022

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Constant wins

Jury Special Mention

EXiS Seoul 2022

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Chicago Underground Film Festival

Film Festival

Chicago, USA 

27 - 31.7.2022
 

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Guanjauto International Film Festival

International Competition

Guanajuato, Mexico

21 - 28.7.2022

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EXiS Seoul

International Competition

Film Festival

Seoul, Korea

14 - 21.7.2022
 

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New film in development selected for European Media Art Platform (EMAP)

Hosted by IMPAKT Utrecht

November - December 2022

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Olhar de Cinema

Curtiba International Film Festival, Brazil

International Shorts Competition

1.6 - 9.6.2022
 

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Interview with Madeleine Collier

Senses of Cinema

May 2022

 

 

Constant wins

Silvestre Award for Best Short Film

IndieLisboa 2022

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Prismatic Ground

Film Festival

Maysles Documentary Center, NYC

4.5 - 8.5.2022

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Indie Lisboa

Silvestre Competition

Film Festival

28.4 - 8.5.2022

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A Demonstration

joins the Criterion Collection

1.4.2022

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Interview with Jussi Parikka

BOMB Magazine

31.3.2022
 

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Courtisane

Film Festival

Ghent

30.3 - 3.4.2022

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CPH:DOX

New Visions Competition

Film Festival

26.3 - 3.4.2022

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Interview with Vadim Rizov

Filmmaker Magazine

17.3.2022

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Interview with Jonathan Marlow

Hammer to Nail 

16.3.2022

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First Look 

Film Festival

Museum of Moving Image, New York

16.3 - 20.3.2022

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Post-Industrial Metabolism and the Discorrelated Moving Image

SIAH PGR Research Seminar

Southampton Institute for Arts and Humanities

23.2.2022

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Constant in Edge Media Network

14.2.2022

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Constant in FRIEZE 

4.2.2022

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Schlaffende Infrastrukturen

Artist talk

Urbane Künste Ruhr, Bochum

2.2.2022
 

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Constant in The Film Verdict

1.2.2022

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International Film Festival Rotterdam

Tiger Shorts Competition

Rotterdam, Netherlands

26.1 - 6.2.2022

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Transmediale 

Festival Symposium

Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin

28-29.1.2022

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35th Stuttgarter Filmwinter

Film and Media Festival

Stuttgart, Germany

9-18.1.2022

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Dis/Entangling Perspectives in Material Research

Lecture

Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

3.1.2022

 

 

Visible Evidence

Lecture and Screening

Mousonturm, Frankfurt

14-18.12.2021

[e]Motion: Graduate Conference on Science 

and Technology of the Arts

Keynote Presentation

Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto

9-10.12.2021

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Repeated Apparitions

Screening

The Horse Hospital, London

26.11.2021

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Adrift: Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner

Online residency program

Los Angeles Film Forum, USA

Screening:

15.10 - 19.10.2021

Live Q&A:

17.10.2021

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New Waves Competition

Film Festival

La Roche-Sur-Yon, France

11.10 - 17.10.2021

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International 2 Sides Short Film Festival

Film Festival

Izmir, Turkey

24.9 - 30.9.2021

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18th Dokfilmwoche Hamburg

Film Festival

Hamburg, Germany

15.9 - 19.9.2021

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Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin

Film Festival

Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin

25.8.2021

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Rhythmic Exertions

Essay

Solitude Journal 3: Mutations

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19th Media Art Biennale WRO Reverso

Biennale

Wroclaw

12.5 - 15.5.2021

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56th International Festival of Science

Documentary Films

Film Festival

Olomouc, Czech Republic

26.4 - 1.5.2021 

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Liquidity, Flows, Circulation:

The Cultural Logic of Environmentalization

Conference

Leuphana University Lüneburg

22.4 - 23.4.2021

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Prismatic Ground

Film Festival

8.4 - 18.4.2021

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All Thoughts Fly: Monster, Taxonomy, Film

Online book launch

in conversation with Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk

CIAP Kunstverein, Sonic Acts

31.3.2021

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Monster as Medium:

Experiments in Perception in Early Modern Science and Film

Essay

E-flux Journal #116, March 2021

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Hybrid 

Festival

Hellerau Europäisches Zentrum der Künste

11.3 - 14.3.2021

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Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin

Film Festival

The Louvre Auditorium, Paris

World Premiere: Coal Mine in the Canary

23.2 - 28.2.2021

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Environmental Film Festival Australia

Film Festival

21.1 - 4.2.2021

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A Demonstration

Solo Exhibition

CIAP Kunstverein, Genk, Belgium

17.1 - 14.3.2021

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London Short Film Festival

Film Festival

15 - 24.1.2021

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2020: A Year in Review

Online screening

AEMI, Ireland

16.12.2020 - 30.1.2021

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lengua(S) 

Group Exhibition

Fluent, Santander, Spain

11.12.2020 - 19.2.2021

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New Nature Shorts

Online Screening

Goethe-Institut Montreal

and Museum of Moving Image New York

3 - 11.12.2020

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A Demonstration wins Best Visual Concept 

at Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival

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Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival

Film Festival

24 - 29.11.2020

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New Nature Vitrines

Exhibition

Goethe-Institut Montreal, Feldfünf Berlin

16 - 30.11.2020

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A Demonstration is nominated for the

Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis (German Short Film Prize)

Ceremony online on 25.11.2020

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Kasseler Dokfest

Film Festival

Kassel, Germany

17 - 22.11.2020

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Chicago Underground Film Festival

Shorts program 9

Film Festival

Chicago

17.11.2020

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More Light

Fundraiser

Purchase a limited edition print from the film Bilateria

Berlin Atonal

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Projections | Les parallèles du SUD : Eaux d’artifice

Screening

Videodrome2, Marseilles, France

17.10.2020

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Imagine Science XIII Edition

Shorts Competition Program Morphogenesis

Film Festival

New York

16.10 - 23.10.2020

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Work In Progress

Online group exhibition

Queer Art Projects, London

15.10.2020 - 15.1.2021

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Curtocircuito International Film Festival

Film Festival

Santiago De Compostela, Spain

3.10 - 11.10.2020

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6x6

Online distribution platform 

Interview

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Vancouver International Film Festival

Film Festival

VIFF connect, Virtual Cinema

24.9 - 7.10.2020

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Guanajuato International Film Festival

Film Festival

GIFF Online / Irapuato

19.9 - 22.9.2020

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Touch Me

Group exhibition

Kontejner, Zagreb

17.9 - 3.10.2020

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New Holland Island International Debut Film Festival

Film Festival

St. Petersburg, Russia

14.8 - 28.8.2020

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Film Festival della Lessinia

Film Festival

Bosco Chiesanuova, Italy

21.8 - 30.8.2020

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Moscow International Experimental Film Festival

Film Festival

Garage Museum, Moscow

19.8 - 25.8.2020

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Deep Rivers Run Silent

Screening

Meno Avilys in collaboration with

Vilnius International Film Festival

18.8 - 25.8.2020

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Still Voices Film Festival

Film Festival

Ballymahon, Ireland

13.8 - 16.8.2020

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Baltic Triennial 14:

Intro, The Maze and The Lighthouse

Sculpture yard, CAC Vilnius

23.7.2020

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East London Cable TV Dinner Series E04

Online program

8.4.2020

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Super Dakota Video Series

Online screening

6.4 - 13.4.2020

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Noise Bombing

Online exhibition 

30.3.2020

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Vilnius International Film Festival (postponed)

Film festival

19.3 - 2.4.2020

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Shelf Life / Canary in the Coal Mine

Public installation

commissioned by Kunsthalle Amsterdam

Buikslotermeerplein 

28.2 - 31.7.2020

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Berlinale Shorts Official Competition

Film festival

20.2 - 1.3.2020

70th Berlinale Internationale Festspiele

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High-cycle Fatigue

Group exhibition

22.2 - 19.4.2020

Künstlerhaus Bremen

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Centropia

Group exhibition

CTM Vorspiel 2020

17.1 - 26.1.2020

Centrum, Berlin

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Fragmented Landscape Film Series

Screening

Curated by Maaike Gouwenberg

14.12.2019

New Orleans Museum of Art

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Blue Screen: Toon Fibbe

Screening

11.12.2019

Level Five, Brussels

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Disagreeable Body

Screening

Performative screening 

29.11.2019

School, Vienna

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The Metabolism of Moving Image

Essay

Kunstfort Vijfhuizen Online Journal

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Berlin Atonal 2019

Exhibition

28.8. - 1.9.2019

Kraftwerk, Berlin

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State of Transparency 

Group exhibition

25.5.2019

Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam

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Rencontres Internationales

Catalogue

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Universal Syntax 

Lecture with Sasha Litvintseva

22.2.2019

Sonic Acts, Amsterdam

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Audiovisual performance

with Sasha Litvintseva and Claude Speeed

23.2.2019

Sonic Acts, Paradiso, Amsterdam

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Interstice Without Words

Group exhibition

9.12.2018

Paaygah, Tehran

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Recover in the Ether

Screening

30.11.2018

Curated by Microlights, The Open, Milwaukee

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Eindhoven Film Festival

28.11 - 2.12.2018

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November Film Festival

22 - 25.11.2018

Close-Up Cinema, London

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Gijon International Film Festival

16 - 24.11.2018

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Film screening

High Desert Test Sites > Ski Club Milwaukee

28.10.2018

Wonder Valley, California

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Honorary Award at 

Festival des Cinemas Differents de Paris

14.10.2018

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Festival des Cinemas Differents de Paris

10.10.2018

Le Grand Action, Paris

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The New Local (with Sasha Litvintseva)

9 - 13.10.2018

Muntplein, Brussels

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Moscow International Experimental Film Festival

29.9.2018

Stanislavsky Electrotheatre, Moscow

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Digesture

26.9 - 20.10.2018

Very Project Space, Berlin

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Berlin Atonal 2018 

22 - 26.8.2018

Kraftwerk, Berlin

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Front Triennial: An American City

14.7 - 30.9.2018

Cleveland, Ohio

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Watch Out Tetevo Film Festival

6.6.2018

Tetevo, Macedonia

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Invisible Invaders

14.6.2018

Environmental Humanities, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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Evening of Video Screenings

7.6.2018

Decad, Berlin

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Extracted and Circulated: Empathy

Screening with Sasha Litvintseva

10.6.2018

Moscow Biennale for Young Art

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6th Moscow Biennale for Young Art

7.6 - 30.7.2018

Moscow

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State of Statelessness

12.5 - 7.7.2018

ISELP, Brussels

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Immanent Cloud

16.5.2018

Nocturnal Reflections, Milan

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Interventions

8.4 - 1.7.2018

Kunstfort at Vijfhuizen, Amsterdam

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Artistic Research Will Eat Itself

11.4.2018

9th SAR International

Conference on Artistic Research, Plymouth, UK

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Eye Experimentals

14.3.2018

Eye Film Museum, Amsterdam

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Extracted and Circulated: Material Exchange

Solo screening with Graeme Arnfield

11.3.2018

Close-Up Cinema, London

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The Hero’s Tail (with Sasha Litvintseva)

28.11.2017

Plato, Ostrava, Czech Republic

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Outside + Asbestos

27.11.2017

Galerie AM 180, Prague, Czech Republic

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Heroic vs. Holistic - Erotic Eco Drama

16.11.2017 - 28.1.2018

Plato, Ostrava, Czech Republic

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Movimenta - Prix Jeune Création

27.10 - 26.11.2017

Movimenta, Nice, France

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Autheticity? Book Launch, Valiz

2.11.2017

San Serriffe, Amsterdam, NL

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Fireflies Issue #5 Launch

21.10.2017

Kino Wolf, Berlin, Germany

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Mind Body Dialogue, Nocturnal Reflections

15.7.2017

Santarcangelo Festival, Rimini, Italy

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Citizenfive

26 - 28.5.2017

Art Athina, Athens

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Public Program - Sasha Litvintseva & Wietske Maas

27.5.2017

Rongwrong, Amsterdam, NL

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Draft Systems, 17th Media Art Biennale WRO

15.5 - 31.7.2017

Wroclaw, Poland

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Public Program - Graham Kelly & Beny Wagner

6.5.2017

Rongwrong, Amsterdam, NL

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Like the deserts miss the rain (part 2)

28.4 - 28.5.2017

Rongwrong, Amsterdam, NL

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2017 Milwaukee Underground Film Festival

21.4 - 25.4.2017

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Forecast Platform

20.3 - 28.3.2017

Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany

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Lecture

23.2.2017

Krieg, Hasselt, Belgium

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Like the deserts miss the rain (part 1)

9.2 - 31.3.2017

Krieg, Hasselt, Belgium

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Lecture

20.2.2017

Punt WG, Amsterdam, NL

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46th International Film Festival Rotterdam

24.1 - 4.2.2017

Rotterdam, NL

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Festival Opening - Artist Talk

24.10.2016

Impakt Festival, Utrecht, NL

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Authenticity Is Dead: Long Live Authenticity

27.10 - 6.11.2016

Casco, Utrecht, NL

 

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Living Like A Local

23.10.2016

Stadsschouwburg Utrecht

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Impakt

In residence 1.9 - 30.10

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Labor Zero Labor

20.8 - 30.9.2016

Triangle France,

La Friche de la belle de Mai, Marseille, France

 

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Kristalle im Beton

10.7 - 18.9.2016

Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, Marl, Germany

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Role Play

Essay published in 60pages

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5 Moscow International Biennale for Young Art

1.7 - 10.8.2016 

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Triangle France

In residence 4.2016 - 8.2016

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Bots, Bodies, Beasts

16.3.2016

Studium General, Amsterdam, NL

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Open Studios 

10.3.2016 - 12.3.2016

Jan van Eyck, Maastricht, NL

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Digesting Light

5.2.2016

Audiovisual lecture performed at

Eye Film Museum, Amsterdam NL

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Screen Matter 

4.11.2015 - 2.2.2016

Film program, talks, lectures 

Jan van Eyck, Maastricht, NL

With: Anna Zett, Julian Ross Imri Kahn,

Beny Wagner, Ben Rivers, Aily Nash, Sven Lütticken

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