Author: Olaf Schirm

News / 16. February 2019

Interview in GONZAI magazine with Symboter

GONZAI online magazine did an interview with me about my music and work with machines and robots. Now it has been published online in their magazine with many photos and links (french language, some links don’t work anymore). The interview spins around my thoughts and works with machinery in sound and physical art. I like the somehow funny and dystopic style of the interview text.

Here is the link to the online interview.

Here is an excerpt of the introduction: Après une pause de presque trois décennies, Olaf Schirm – son vrai nom – continue avec le même état d’esprit : d’une part jouer et expérimenter avec ses synthés, et de l’autre combattre les dérives de la machine, la paresse de la pop et le futur surinformatisé qui nous attend. Voici donc son cyber-plan de bataille.

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Press / 16. February 2019

GONZAI magazine interview with Symboter

GONZAI online magazine did an interview with me about my music and work with machines and robots. Now it has been published online in their magazine with many photos and links (french language, some links don’t work anymore). The interview spins around my thoughts and works with machinery in sound and physical art. I like the somehow funny and dystopic style of the interview text.

Here is the link to the online interview.

Here is an excerpt of the introduction: Après une pause de presque trois décennies, Olaf Schirm – son vrai nom – continue avec le même état d’esprit : d’une part jouer et expérimenter avec ses synthés, et de l’autre combattre les dérives de la machine, la paresse de la pop et le futur surinformatisé qui nous attend. Voici donc son cyber-plan de bataille.

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Press / 17. October 2018

ART THINKING keynote at DAM Gallery Berlin

I just rediscovered a short (10min) recording by a viewer of my biographic talk about ART THINKING – how an artist thinks and how this determines his actions.

The keynote took place at DAM GALLERY in Berlin, which kindly provided the venue for Wolfram Roßner’s (briefly shown at the beginning) young project: Art Thinking.

(The video was recorded in 2019, the project has been discontinued due the pandemic or is dormant).

In the keynote I summarized my entire career in bullet points for the first time and made it accessible to the public. The format was a 10 minute impulse talk. The audio is unfortunately not very good, but I think you can understand most of it (german language only). Enjoy!

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News / 28. September 2018

Exhibition “Positions 2018”

At the art fair “Positions 2018” on the occasion of Art Week 2018 in Berlin, I am represented as an exhibiting artist at the booth of Galerie Eigenheim Weimar/Berlin in the edition “Instructions for Action” shown there with my work “THE NOW REMAINS”.

Olaf Schirm – the now remains
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