Joerg Auzinger
Joerg Auzinger is a media artist living and working in Vienna and in Graz, Austria. He studied Media Art with Peter Weibel. Previously, he graduated from the Department of Audiovisual Media Arts at Graz Ortweinschule for Art and Design with Richard Kriesche and studied Film Directing at the Vienna Film Academy under Axel Corti.
Auzinger’s work is situated between art, science and technology and deals with relationship between human, nature and machine, investigating the sociopolitical aspects of a technology-based communication society.
In interactive installations, photographic works and objects, he analyzes the function of new and old media, their construction of realities and the associated changes in our concept of reality.
Auzinger was a visiting professor at the University of Applied Arts for „Expanded Pho-tography“. He holds workshops and lectures, was artistic director of Gallery Reflector in Vienna and co-founder of Graz Art Association Support. He curated an international art prize and was the organizer of regularly held art salons in the Vienna suburb areas.
Auzinger works in the fields of interactive installations, film and media art as well as in artistic research and scientific topics. In his projects, he deals with a wide range of contemporary issues and often refers to cultural history. He pursues interdisciplinary artistic approaches and usually realizes his projects interactively and participative.
In his installations, Auzinger focuses on the viewer and creates new approaches to allow the users to interactively complete his works, by both confronting the viewer with visually formulated questions and offering space for experimentation in a playful way.
For his residency, Auzinger will explore cultural and social aspects of the territory, letting the local scene shape his ideas.