Michael Brynntrup

Born in Münster, Germany, 1959. Studied in Freiburg, Rome and Berlin. Master degree Fine Arts at the Braunschweig School of Art in 1991. Experimental poems, texts, paintings, photography, fotocopies, performances, installations and exhibitions since 1977. Over 60 experimental short films and videos since 1981, three feature films. Digital art in interactive media since 1995 (CD-ROM, DVD and internet). Film exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art New York (1987, 1992 and 1999). Numerous international exhibitions and film awards. Organisation of avantgarde and gay film events for museums,institutions and international film festivals. Publications on Super 8 and Off-Off-Cinemas. Several guest lectures since 1990, workshops, project advising and apprenticeship counselling in the area of media production and film. Since 2006 Professor for Film/Video at Braunschweig University of Art. – The artist lives and works. “This Mephistophelian manipulator of screen images is indisputably one of Germany’s most significant filmmakers today. (…) With all his aliases, Brynntrup asks us to ponder what the status of the subject is in the world of digital processing and cyberspace. (…) What makes Brynntrup so fascinating is this resistance to the virtual, cyborgesque self through the materiality of his own, unique body. Despite the digital morphing, he insists on inscribing his unique physique into his films, as if this gesture marked the very signature of his work.”(Alice Kuzniar, “The Problem of Agency in the Digital Era: From the New Media Artist Michael Brynntrup to Run Lola Run”, Rutgers German Studies – Papers Series, New Brunswick, NJ, 2003)