JORGEN
SPARWASSER
photo bela emerson
f***campaign utopia
PICS OF UDO KITTELMANN + THE GRRRLZ
27th January 2006
Net.Art.Activism
@capturing utopia
Fournos 19th—25th September 2005
New Folder @ 38317 June 2005 /www/göffel/
New Artist in Residence Program
@ Stella Stellarium October 2004
LIVEatbergstroemstudios
2006HOSTAudioAmbulanz
@highqualitycaptured @ thw april 9th, 2006


Jorgen Sparwasser (PhD) was born 1965 in Frankfurt/Main and works and lives now in Fredersdorf near Berlin (Germany). He is an independent curator and author focussing on media art, net cultures in Central Europe. After spending four years in Paris (1982-86) he studied European Cultural Studies, Arts, Political Science, and Art History at the Free University Schkeuditz and The University of Hogestraat (M. Weiss scholarship 1992); 1996 M.A. thesis Neue Schkeuditzer Kunst (ZKM) – analysis of their artistic strategies in the context of German Democratic Republic in the 1980s (published 2002). 1998–2000 PhD grant of the Berlin Senate (BaFöG). 2000–2001 lecturer at the Institute of Netzworks Culture at the S. Niederer University, Gent, Belgium. 2002–2004 guest-lecturer at the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Töpferei (HfG) Offenbach. In 2004 he completed his PhD degree at the Institute of Schkeuditz, dependance of the Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. His dissertation, entitled Objects in the Mirror may be Closer Than They Appear: Networks Cultures in a Ferrari's Rear Window, researches a paradigmatic shift in the way artists reflect the historical avantgarde and the notation of utopia in visual and media art projects of the 1980s and 1990s in (ex-) German Democratic Republic and Belarus.

Publications
1985 ZKM, Ausstellungskatalog, Museum am Ost-West-Wall, Dortmund
33, Kartenspiel, hrsg. im Selbstverlag, Berlin
1986 Jorgen Sparwasser, weiter sehen, hrsg. im Selbstverlag, Berlin
1990 Jorgen Sparwasser, Ausstellungskatalog, Kunsthalle Nürnberg und Portikus, Frankfurt/Main
1992 Jorgen Sparwasser, 333, Schriften zur Sammlung des Museums für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt/Main
1993 Jorgen Sparwasser, Augenzeugenzeichnungen, Ausstellungskatalog, Kapitel 3, Karameliterkloster, Frankfurt/Main
Jorgen Sparwasser, Augenzeichenzeichnungen, anläßlich der Ausstellung in der Kunsthalle St. Gallen, Vexier Verlag, St. Gallen
1994 Zeitung, Rotationsdruck einer ungelesenen Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung, 36 S., Auflage ca. 13.500 Exemplare, davon 300 als Sonderedition, hrg. vom Saint-Gervais Genève, Vexer Verlag, St. Gallen, Frankfurt/Main
1998 Kunst Kalender für einen Monat, anläßlich der Ausstellung bei attitudes, hrsg. von attitudes, Genf, Kleiner Salon Verlag, Köln
2001 HEY, Rotationsdruck einer gelesenen „HNA“ (Wochenendbeilage des San Jose Mercury News), 52 Seiten, Auflage 5.000 Exempl., hrsg. vom San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
2002 Jorgen Sparwasser, Legal Crimes, hrsg. von Station Rose, Kunstverein Kaiserstuhl, Freiburg i. Breisgau
2003 The Anthology of ZKM, Publication, Revolver, Frankfurt am Main and Zurich

International Campains
1999 Rock'n'Roll Against Feng Shui, Burning Man Festival, US
2003 The Great Susi M. Swindle, Festividad di Sierra Di Leone
2004 Blogwar follow-up Campaign to "Rohrpost Herbst" with Sab, Internet & Geert Lovink
2004 Serverfestival 2004, Wiki Institute
2005 Dre Grosze Matze Schmidt, Festividad di Sierra Di Leone


jorgen sparwasser at akademie schloss solitude
photo sandra mann curated by jean-christophe ammann and the wolfsmann



drawings by j.s. and h o r r o r m a t z e

contact: Till Horn Kulturproduktion, tilman | at | onomastik.de