Greater Sankt Polten
FH-Prof. Mag. Markus Wintersberger * 1968 in Krems / Danube 1989 - 1995 Studies at the University of Applied Arts Vienna with Prof. Bernhard Leitner. He has been working as a freelance artist since 1995. 1996 to 2006 lecturer at the University of Applied Arts Vienna From 2006 as a professor at the St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, head of the course deputy for the master's degree in digital design, head of the master class experimental media In mid-2004 he founded the media art label medienwerkstatt006 based in Vienna and Lower Austria. In 2008 he was artistic director of the TanzMedienAkademie Weimar as part of the Festival Pèlerinages under the overall direction of Nike Wagner. In 2009 he received the recognition award for media art from the state of Lower Austria. In 2013, together with the Vienna visualist group Mediaapparat, he won the international video mapping festival “Genius Loci Weimar” with his work “Ana.Digital”. As part of the Content Award Vienna 2013, the "Ana.Digital" project was awarded the WSE Prize (Prize for Vienna's location development). In the same year he developed the music theater project "Paradise Lost. Together with the Berlin conductor Eberhard Kloke. A Midsummer Night's Dream ”for the Philharmonie Essen. In 2015 he was commissioned with the Berlin media artist Chris Noelle to implement the audiovisual opening performance for the spring festival in the Helmut List Halle Graz. As part of this, Markus Wintersberger is realizing a media facade for the Kunsthaus Graz. Since April 2017, together with the author and director Marcus Josef Weiss, he has been leading the art research project “Wearable Theater. The Art of Immersive Storytelling ”at the Institute for Creative Media Technologies at the St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, which will be presented at the“ digitalnatives19 ”festival in May 2019 at the Volkstheater in Vienna. In October 2019, the "Wearable Theater" project will be presented at the Mazovian Cultural Institute in Warsaw. Wintersberger has been leading the research project "Intermedia Motion Tracking in AR / VR (IMTA)" at IC \ M / T St. Pölten in collaboration with choreographer Andrea Nagl since January 2020.
Schwerpunkt Experimentelle Medien
Medienkunst
Video
Digitale Choreographie