Joachim Sauter

Joachim Sauter (16 May 1959 – 10 July 2021) was a German media artist, designer and technology entrepreneur. He was appointed Professor for New Media Art and Design at the Universität der Künste Berlin, UdK (Berlin University of the Arts) in 1991, and in 1993 he created Terravision (computer program), before pursuing a lawsuit against Google for infringing the patent. He became an adjunct professor at UCLA, Los Angeles in 2001.

Early life and education Sauter studied design at the UdK Berlin, and direction and camera at the German Academy for Film and Television, Berlin. He was using computers both as a tool and as a medium since the early stages of his work. A pioneer of new media, he developed and shaped the field from the early 1980s on. Career In 1988, he founded the new media design studio ART+COM with other designers, architects, technologists, and other artists and scientists. Their goal was to research the new medium in the realms of art and design, emphasizing the translation of information (easily transmissible via new media) into physical spaces, offering a more communal, reality-grounded experience than could be achieved with computer monitors alone. As Head of Design at ART+COM, Sauter led the interdisciplinary group’s innovative experiments, using new technologies to convey complex topics while exploring their potential for spatial communication and art.

Projects with ART+COM (partial) Art:

2018 "Petalclouds" – kinetic installation 2018 "Raffaels Pendulum" – kinetic installation 2017 "Chronos XXI" – kinetic installation

2013 "Symphonie Cinétique – The Poetry of Motion" – exhibition and performance in collaboration with Ólafur Arnalds 2013 "Ink Drops to the Origin" — interactive installation 2012 "Kinetic Rain" – kinetic installation 2008 "Kinetic Sculpture" – kinetic sculpture 2007 "Duality" – interactive environmental installation, Tokyo 2002 "Behind the Lines" – interactive installation 1999–2002 "The Jew of Malta" – medial stage 1995–2008 "The Invisible Shapes of Things Past" – architectural sculptures made of films 1992 "De-Viewer" – interactive installation

Design: 2008 "Spheres" – mediatecture 2005 "documenta mobil" – mobile exhibition 2004 "floating.numbers" – interactive table installation 2004 "Austrian Flag" – interactive flag 1995– ? "timescope" – low-tech augmented reality device 1994 "Terravision" – interactive installation showing a virtual representation of the Earth using satellite imagery, commissioned in 1994 by Deutsche Telekom

Exhibitions (partial) 2013 "LeBains", Paris, France 2011 "Matter Light II", Borusan Center for Culture and Arts, Istanbul, Turkey 2010 "moving spaces", Alva Aalto Museum, Aalborg, Denmark 2008 "on cities", National Architecture Museum Stockholm, Sweden 2007 “From Sparc to Pixel”, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany 2006 “Venice Biennale of Architecture”, German Pavilion, Italy 2006 “Shanghai Biennale", China 2006 “Digital Transit”, ARCO, Madrid, Spain 2005 "São Paulo Biennale of Architecture", Brasil 2004 “Navigator”, National Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan 2003 “Future Cinema”, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany/Lille, France 2001 “Invisible”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal 1998 “Portable Sacred Grounds”, ICC, Tokyo, Japan 1996 “Wunschmaschine, Welterfindung”, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria 1996 “Under the Capricorn”, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands 1995 “Anew Europe”, Venice Biennale, Italy 1993 “Artec”, Museum of Modern Art, Nagoya, Japan 1992 “Manifeste”, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France