Artists

Musical Director, Composition, Piano / Live Electronics  |  Linz

He integrates space and the electronic and/or psychological projection of musical or tonal content into his compositions. Such dimensional music that Rupert Huber has developed as a musical format is the basis of all his work. Compositions of this format has been commissioned by, among others, Wiener Festwochen (Private Exile, 2004), Centre Pompidou (Sonic Process, 2002) and Ars Electronica (Radiotopia, 2002). Rupert Huber has not only implemented his ideas artistically; he has also applied them to music composed for film (Food Design, Berggasse 19), TV (C.S.I. Miami, Sex and the City) and radio (signations for the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation - ORF).

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Live Electronics / Keyboards  |  Linz

In the world of electronic music, Richard Dorfmeister has left countless traces. Since the mid 1990s, the Vienna born artist, flute player, producer and DJ has released classic tracks and remixes with his co-partner Peter Kruder as Kruder and Dorfmeister. Records by Kruder and Dorfmeister such as the "G-Stoned EP" (on their own G-Stone Label, 1994), as well as the seminal "DJ Kicks" mix-compilation for !K7 (1996), and the "K & D Sessions" remix compilation (1998) are considered timeless masterpieces. Both "DJ Kicks" and the "K & D Sessions" have been bestsellers with each having sold more than one million copies. On the musical side, the magic Kruder and Dorfmeister sound has not faded since.

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Performance, Choreography  |  Linz

Born in New York in 1978, Dominik Grünbühel studied Contemporary Dance in Vienna and at the London Contemporary Dance School - The Place. He has been working as a freelance dancer and performer in Vienna since 2001. Since 2016 he holds an M.A. in Digital Arts from the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

During the past years he has been concentrating on his own works in the fields of choreography, video and projection. Cooperations with Luke Baio, Charlotta Ruth, Michael Bruckner, Bankett, Kònic thtr (Barcelona), Rupert Huber, Judith Unterpertinger & Katherina Weinhuber, Liz Art, Yosi Wanunu, and many more.

With his solo show "I am the Mockingbird" (TQW 2009) Dominik toured Estonia, Hungary and Sweden. Additionally, he is the bassist, MC and founding member (1999) of the band Nifty's. The band received the Austrian World Music Award (2006) and was named Ö1 Artist of the Year (Vienna, 2007). Releases: "Takeshi Express" (Extraplatte 2007), "Naftularasa" (cracked anegg records 2009), "3" (Listen Closely 2015).

Visual Concept and Design, Live Video Composition  |  Linz

• Video Artist, born 1983 in Vienna, still living there
• Founder of subsatellit, hand mit auge, Luzy Dreams, Leuchtkraft, Lux : Faktor
• and mother of 3 daughters

Primarily coming from visual arts, her way went to multimedia. Resa Lut's portfolio includes audio-visual installations, stage concepts and direction, illuminated objects, live visual performances, video production, video support for business events and conceptual work. This wide range of skills, her feeling for creating different moods and also the detail-loving way she does her work are the reasons for a long list of references. Her projects where displayed at many exhibitions, festivals, and other events.

Dance  |  Barcelona

Anna Hierro (Spain 1984), graduated in Contemporary Dance at the Theatre Institute in Barcelona. She has worked as a dancer for the following companies: Cia Plan B Danza (Arantxa Sagardoy), Gelabert Azzopardi, Contemporary Ballet of Barcelona, Cross Connection Ballet, Eulàlia Bergadà and the La Veronal company, with which she still collaborates. She has also worked as an interpreter and movement assistant with theatre directors Àlex Rigola, Nao Albet & Marcel Borràs and with visual artist Oscar Sol (Electronic Performers). Since 2013, she co-directs the sound/movement duet Ensemble Topogràfic who have published two records and presented three shows.

Accordion | Rome

Since the end of the '80s Luca Venitucci has been working as an instrumentalist, improvisor and composer, and has toured and recorded with many different projects as well as a soloist. His interests in different art forms led him to collaborate repeatedly with dancers, directors, poets and mixed media artists, and to research on the interaction between sound, visuals, performative action and words.

In 1995, with Fabrizio Spera, Elio Martusciello and Maurizio Martusciello he formed Ossatura, acknowledged as an innovating project within the italian electroacoustic improvised music scene. From 1997 to 2002 he was part of the Zeitkratzer ensemble (Artist in Residence 2000-2001 at Podewil in Berlin), for whom in 2001, together with Ulrich Krieger he transcribed and orchestrated an ensemble version of Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music, later performed by the Zeitkratzer ensemble with the composer at Maerzmusik Contemporary Music Festival in Berlin.

He has performed and recorded with a wide range of musicians including Mike Cooper, Peter Kowald, Otomo Yoshihide, Thomas Lehn, Axel Dorner, Burkhard Beins, Tim Hodgkinson, John Butcher, Jerome Noetinger, and with dancers such as Alessandra Cristiani. He took part to many projects by internationally acclaimed musicians, sound artists and composers including John Zorn, Alvin Curran, Christian Marclay, Butch Morris, Francisco Lopez, Carsten Nicolai, Phill Niblock, Thierry Thaemelitz and Zbignew Karkosky.

In 2012 he released his first solo album "Interstizio", featuring original compositions for accordion and voice. His current projects include the experimental accordion trio 300 basses, together with Alfredo Costa Monteiro and Jonas Kocher.