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Kurt Hofstetter | |
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 Hofstetter in 2017 | |
| Born | 1959 (age 66–67) Linz, Austria |
| Known for | New media art, installation art, composition |
| Notable work | Planet der Pendler mit den drei Zeitmonden; Einen Augenblick Zeit; Sunpendulum |
| Awards | Outstanding Artist Award for Interdisciplinarity (2015); Austrian Art Prize for Media Art (2020) |
Kurt Hofstetter (born 1959), who uses the artist name Hofstetter Kurt, is an Austrian media artist and composer based in Vienna.[1][2] He is known for computer-art installations in Vienna's public transport system, including Planet der Pendler mit den drei Zeitmonden (1993) and Einen Augenblick Zeit (1994), and for the international networked media-art project Sunpendulum.[1][3] Profil has described Hofstetter as a pioneer of computer art and Planet der Pendler as Austria's first permanent video-computer artwork in public space.[1] In 2020 he received the Austrian Art Prize for Media Art.[2]
Life and career
[edit]Hofstetter was born in Linz in 1959 and lives and works in Vienna.[2] He studied mathematics at the University of Innsbruck from 1978 to 1984.[4] He uses the reversed name form "Hofstetter Kurt" for his artistic work.[1][5]
Since 1994, Hofstetter has collaborated with video artist Barbara Doser under the name Parallel Media, producing experimental video and audiovisual works.[4]
Work
[edit]Public installations
[edit]In 1993 Hofstetter installed Planet der Pendler mit den drei Zeitmonden at the Wien Mitte/Landstraße transport station in Vienna.[1][6] Profil described it as the first permanent video-computer artwork in public space in Austria.[1] The installation uses four screens to incorporate the movement of commuters through the station, accompanied by the changing sound of footsteps.[7] The work remains installed at Wien Mitte.[6]
In 1994 Hofstetter created Einen Augenblick Zeit for the former Vienna Südbahnhof.[6] The installation consists of two computer-controlled monitor images of a male and a female eye set into stainless-steel hemispheres. The current time appears in the pupils while the eyes blink, accompanied by the ticking of an alarm clock.[6] The work remained at the Südbahnhof until 2009 and became closely associated with the station.[1][8]
After the demolition of the Südbahnhof, the installation was exhibited at the ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe and was on loan to the Universalmuseum Joanneum in Graz in 2011–2012.[6] At the end of 2024, it returned to Vienna and was reinstalled at Schottentor station.[6][8]
Sunpendulum
[edit]Hofstetter developed Sunpendulum as a networked media-art project in the late 1990s. Its concept uses video cameras directed at the sky in twelve different time zones, transmitting their images through the Internet so that daylight and darkness in different parts of the world can be viewed simultaneously.[3][9]
The first "time-eye" installations were established in 1999. Contemporary newspaper coverage accompanied installations in Bermuda and Granada. The Royal Gazette reported on the Bermuda installation at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute, while the Spanish newspaper Ideal covered the installation at the University of Granada and the project's planned international network.[10][11]
Further installations followed in Cairo, New Orleans, Ensenada, the Azores and Dubai.[3] The Dubai time-eye was inaugurated at Zayed University in 2002 and was the subject of a feature in Gulf News.[9]
In 2003 a time-eye was installed at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. The South China Morning Post described Hong Kong as the ninth location in the network and discussed Hofstetter's concept of presenting the skies of different time zones simultaneously.[3]
The project continued to attract international coverage as the network expanded. In 2006 Japanese media-art critic Itsuo Sakane discussed Sunpendulum in The Asahi Shimbun, focusing on its simultaneous views of the sky from twelve locations around the world.[12] By September 2006, twelve camera installations were connected to the project; the installation at the College of the Marshall Islands in Majuro was covered by journalist Giff Johnson in The Marshall Islands Journal.[13]
Music and audiovisual work
[edit]Hofstetter's work also includes sound and composition, both independently and in collaboration with Barbara Doser as Parallel Media.[4] His compositional work makes use of mathematical structures. In a 2021 presentation of Suite irrational at Wien Modern, Hofstetter used a square matrix based on the 88 keys of a piano and 88 units of musical time, with musical material transformed through rotations of the matrix.[5]
Critical reception
[edit]In a 2024 profile for profil, Wolfgang Paterno described Hofstetter as a pioneer of computer art and identified Planet der Pendler mit den drei Zeitmonden as Austria's first permanent video-computer artwork in public space.[1] Reporting on the reinstallation of Einen Augenblick Zeit in 2024, Die Presse described the installation as a characteristic feature of the former Südbahnhof and noted its long association with the station.[8]
Reviewing Suite irrational in 2021, Walter Weidringer of Die Presse described the composition as combining a sometimes jazz-like, rhapsodic freedom with an audible strict structural framework and discussed the relationship between its musical and visual symmetries.[5]
In February 2025, EIKON – International Magazine for Photography and Media Art published a portfolio on Hofstetter's work by German art theorist Bazon Brock.[14]
Awards
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Paterno, Wolfgang (18 December 2024). "Zweites Leben für „Milos" und „Nena" in der U-Bahnstation am Wiener Schottentor". profil (in German). Retrieved 25 August 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 "Österreichischer Kunstpreis 2020" (in German). Austrian Federal Ministry for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport. Retrieved 25 August 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 Chung, Winnie (6 April 2003). "Swinging to the rhythm of world time". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 25 August 2026.
- 1 2 3 "Hofstetter Kurt". mica – music austria (in German). Retrieved 25 August 2026.
- 1 2 3 Weidringer, Walter (5 November 2021). "Noten wie Sternbilder, Musik vom Herzen". Die Presse (in German). Retrieved 25 August 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Einen Augenblick Zeit". KÖR Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Wien. Retrieved 25 August 2026.
- ↑ ""Ich schaue in den Himmel, um mich zu erden" – Der Künstler und Mathematiker Hofstetter Kurt über Zeit und Unendlichkeit". Ö1 (in German). ORF. 1 January 2014. Retrieved 25 August 2026.
- 1 2 3 "Die Augen vom Südbahnhof hängen jetzt am Schottentor". Die Presse (in German). 24 December 2024. Retrieved 25 August 2026.
- 1 2 Abdullah, Shadian (13 February 2002). "Tracking time with sunpendulum". Gulf News.
- ↑ Stovell, Cathy (19 August 1999). "BUEI in Sunpendulum project". The Royal Gazette.
- ↑ Carrasco, Miguel (18 September 1999). "Granada, elegida, junto a otras once ciudades del mundo para formar parte de un péndulo solar". Ideal (in Spanish).
- ↑ Sakane, Itsuo (30 July 2006). 世界12地点の空を一望 [View of the sky from 12 locations around the world]. The Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese).
- ↑ Johnson, Giff (22 September 2006). "I spy, I see a little sky over Majuro". The Marshall Islands Journal. p. 18.
- ↑ Brock, Bazon (February 2025). "Hofstetter Kurt". EIKON – International Magazine for Photography and Media Art. No. 129. Retrieved 25 August 2026.
- ↑ "Outstanding Artist Awards 2015" (in German). Austrian Federal Ministry for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport. Retrieved 25 August 2026.
External links
[edit]- Official website
- Kurt Hofstetter at the Union List of Artist Names
Media related to Hofstetter Kurt at Wikimedia Commons
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