Joachim Sauter at the Berlin School

Pioneering New Media and Communication in the Digital Age

The Berlin School of Creative Leadership and ADC Germany are proud to announce the next “Presidents’s Lecture” event featuring:

Artist & Designer - Joachim Sauter.

Recently acclaimed (Gold winner at Designs Lions) for his Kinetic Sculpture (watch video) at the BMW Museum in Munich...

Joachim Sauter (*1959) is a German media artist and designer. Sauter works primarily in the domain of digital technology and since the early 80`s has played a pioneering role in shaping this field of work. Fuelled by his interests, he founded ART+COM in 1988 together with other artists, designers, scientists, and technologists. Their goal was to practically research this new up-and-coming medium in the realm of art and design.

His projects have been exhibited at 'Centre Pompidou' Paris, 'Stejdilik Museum' Amsterdam, 'Museum for Contemporary Art' Sidney, 'Deichtorhallen Hamburg', Kunsthalle Wien, 'Venice Biennial', 'ICC' Tokyo, 'Getty Center' Los Angeles and 'ZKM' Karlsruhe.


Sauter has won numerous international awards for his work, including the 'Ars Electronica Interactive Award', the 'Los Angeles Interactive Media Award', the 'Prix Pixel INA' and the 'British Academy for Film and Television Interactive Award'

Since 1991, he has been professor of "New Media Art and Design" at the 'University of the Arts' Berlin and since 2001 adjunct professor at UCLA, Los Angeles.

Joachim Sauter lives and works in Berlin.

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DATE: Thursday, August 27, 2009

TIME: 7 – 9pm

LOCATION: Berlin School of Creative Leadership, Franklinstrasse 15, 10587 Berlin School.

A reception will follow this free event.