re:plug + [ ] ☉ Karsten Asshauer ☉ ka☉replug☉de
Lives in Berlin and works since 1995 as Net.Artist & Web.Admin, DJ and coordinator of art events and festivals.
Works since 2001 at Humboldt University Berlin, Department of Art and Visual History (www.kunstgeschichte.hu-berlin.de/institut/edv/), for the research project REQUIEM (www2.hu-berlin.de/requiem/cms) – Chair Prof. Dr. Horst Bredekamp and since 2010 for the project Imago_Mediathek (www2.hu-berlin.de/mediathek/wiki/).
Freelance for SEQUENZ Berlin (www.sequenz.com).
Maintainer and co-founder of the web-based art-platform and network ..//modukit+ (www.modukit.com) in 1998.
Since 2001 co-organiser of the interdisciplinary workshop-symposium for art, media and network cultures – interfiction (Prof. Verena Kuni) – within the framework of the documentary film and video-festival in Kassel, Germany (www.interfiction.org).
2002 founding member and member of the council of top e.V. Berlin (www.top-ev.de), a registered association supporting cultural practices.
2008-09 working as programme-coordinator and curator for the European project Migrating Reality (www.migrating-reality.com), a conference and exhibition series about Emigration, Immigration and Migration organised by top e.V. in cooperation with KHM (Kunsthochschule für Medien Cologne – Prof. Zilvinas Lilas) and the Lithuanian Embassy in Berlin – and for the EU-project Migrating Art Academies (www.migaa.eu).
Realisation of numerous interdisciplinary projects, exhibitions and workshops in the field of net art, new media, radio, streaming and D.I.Y. (Do It Yourself) until today.
Selection of projects:
Superfactory(TM) (www.superfactory.biz), globalRADIO (www.gradio.org), globale Filmfestival 6 + 7 (www.globale-filmfestival.de), displaced dilemma (www.displaced-dilemma.de), Versuchsszenarien (www.versuchsszenarien.de), various euro (www.various-euro.com), canal-bleu (www.modukit.com/canal-bleu/), ambi in/out (www.ambi-in-out.de).
