Curator at KUNST HAUS WIEN
Austria
- Current
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- Curator at KUNST HAUS WIEN
- Owner and Founder at electrolyte.net
- Past
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- Member of Jury / Category "Digital Communities" at Prix Ars Electronica
- Member of curatorial team at Ars Electronica Festival
- Partner, Member of Board of Directors at IDEAL communications
- Co-Publisher, Editor-in-Chief at SUPERVISOR magazine
- Head of Legal Affairs and Administration at Austrian Federal Theatres
- Member of Office / Art, Museums & Exhibitions at City Counsellor for Culture in Vienna
- Education
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- Universität Wien
- Universität Wien
- Connections
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- Industry
- Museums and Institutions
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Andreas Hirsch’s Summary
More than 20 years of experience with the creation and development of cultural systems. Work with a focus on concepts, project development and cultural management. Marketing and cultural communication including internet communication. Strive to help make this a more just and peaceful world by putting art, culture and digital technology to the service of human development.
Clients include: Ars Electronica, Art Center College Pasadena, Global Village, Austrian Federal Theaters, City of Vienna, Creative Industries Styria, International Jazz Festivals Organisation, International Music+Media Centre, Interval Research Palo Alto, Live Performance Service, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research, matrixware, mica - music austria, Jazz Fest Wien, O.K Centrum for Contemporary Art, Oe1 Kunstradio, Vienna Festival, Wiener Secession and World Culture Forum Alliance. Cooperating Institutions include: Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Kunstverein Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Sprengel Museum Hannover.
Andreas Hirsch’s Specialties:
Finding balanced solutions integrating a broad range of different interests and mental models. Development of long perspectives, visions and strategies. Helping with change management, relaunches and trouble shooting services.
Andreas Hirsch’s Experience
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Curator
KUNST HAUS WIEN
(Museums and Institutions industry)
January 2009 — Present (7 months)
After consulting the management of KUNST HAUS WIEN in curatorial matters and development of the new program of exhibitions since 2008, I work now as a curator for this art institution, which was founded in 1991 by the Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser. My first exhibition at KUNST HAUS WIEN is "Picasso - Myths, Fables and Models".
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Owner and Founder
electrolyte.net
(Public Relations and Communications industry)
December 1999 — Present (9 years 8 months)
Founded electrolyte.net as a consultancy for internet communications, digital productions and cultural management.
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Member of Jury / Category "Digital Communities"
Prix Ars Electronica
(Museums and Institutions industry)
July 2003 — December 2007 (4 years 6 months)
Member of Jury of Category "Digital Communities", which was developed by myself together with Gerfried Stocker and Ingrid Fischer-Schreiber in 2003. Winning projects included WikiPedia, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Overmundo et al.
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Member of curatorial team
Ars Electronica Festival
(Museums and Institutions industry)
May 2001 — September 2002 (1 year 5 months)
Work in curatorial team of Ars Electronica Festvial in Linz/Austria on topics TAKEOVER - Who's doing the Art of Tomorrow" (2001) and "UNPLUGGED - Art as the Scene of Global Conflicts" (2002). Moderator of panel discussions on "Artistic Aggression" and "What happened to the Institutions of Art?"
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Partner, Member of Board of Directors
IDEAL communications
(Public Relations and Communications industry)
December 1993 — September 1999 (5 years 10 months)
Marketing and Communications Agency with a focus on clients from IT and culture. As one of three partners in the company I worked with a special focus on the culture clients and cultural projects including developments that were part of the early internet era. The company also published SUPERVISOR magazine dealing with the social and cultural implications of networked media.
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Co-Publisher, Editor-in-Chief
SUPERVISOR magazine
(Publishing industry)
February 1994 — March 1996 (2 years 2 months)
Print publication devoted to the cultural, social and economic implications of networked media in the phase of their first rise. Interviews with Louis Rosetto, William J. Mitchell, Howard Rheingold and others.
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Head of Legal Affairs and Administration
Austrian Federal Theatres
(Entertainment industry)
September 1990 — February 1992 (1 year 6 months)
As head of the department for Legal Affairs and General Administration I also assisted the Secretary General of the organization - which is the largest theatre conglomerate in the world in terms of employees and includes stages like the Vienna State Opera (Wiener Staatsoper) - in all strategic and operative affairs.
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Member of Office / Art, Museums & Exhibitions
City Counsellor for Culture in Vienna
(Museums and Institutions industry)
January 1988 — August 1990 (2 years 8 months)
Member of the Office of the City Councellor for Culture, Ursula Pasterk, with a special focus on Art, Exhibitions and Art-in-the-public-space. Producer of exhibitions including "Imagen de Mexico", "Fotovision", "Moscow-Vienna-New York", "Franz West at the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien", "Landscape Soundings" and "Von der Natur in der Kunst".
Andreas Hirsch’s Education
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Universität Wien
not finished , Philosophy, Art History, Theatre Science , 1981 — 1986
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Universität Wien
Dr. , Law , 1979 — 1986
Additional Information
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Andreas Hirsch’s Interests:
art, cultural systems, digital media, internet, collaboration, social web, human development, nature
Andreas Hirsch’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- career opportunities
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- new ventures
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