Basic Info
Reinhold Bidner
currently lives in Salzburg & Vienna (AT)
tel.: +43 699 12909471
email: reinhold.bidner@gmail.com
web:
http://www.servus.at/subcute
http://www.1n0ut.com
http://www.goldextra.com


CV short Reinhold Bidner:
Reinhold Bidner was born in Salzburg. He studied at the University for applied sciences and technologies in Salzburg, (MultiMediaArt), at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Scotland, Dundee (Animation and Electronic Media) and completed his degree with merit within the scope of a Socrates Scholarship at K.O.P.P.-Film Berlin.
In 2002 he came to work at the Ars Electronica Futurelab in Linz where he became KeyResearcher in the field of TimeBasedMedia. Since 2006 he is freelancing in the fields of Video, Photography, Animation, Media Design and Media Art, either as an Individual or in the frame of the Art-Collectives 1n0ut and Goldextra, and he also co-organizes and co-curates the Austrian Flipbook Festival.
He has received both awards and scholarships for his work and has exhibited these internationally (New York, Dallas, Oslo, Seville, Madrid, Prague, Dresden, Paris, Vienna, Berlin, Linz etc.). 2006 he spent 8 months at Palac Akropolis in Prague during his "Pepinieres europeennes pour les jeunes artistes"-Map-XXL scholarship. In 2008 he won the Media Art Award Salzburg and the Music-Video-Clip-Award of the Backup-Film-Festival Weimar, both in the frame of the MediaArt Collective 1n0ut (with Robert Praxmarer). 2009 he received scholarshipfs for Paris (at Cite des Arts International) and Paliano (near Rome, IT).
Currently Reinhold lives and works in Salzburg, where he teaches at University for applied sciences and technologies Salzburg in the field of Media- and PostProduction, and Vienna, where he continues his experiments in the fields of Media, Music Visualisation, Animation, Performance, Video, Music and Photography. Since 2012 Reinhold also has a teaching assignment at Art University Linz (in the fields of Motion Graphics/Interactive Video and 2D Animation) and he is part of Salzburg county´s advisory board of fine arts.

Recent Awards
As team member of the group „gold extra“:
- Outstanding artist Award 2012 (by BMUKK, Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture) in the field of Interdisciplinary Art)
- Salzburg MediaArtAward 2012.
- Winner Robert Jungk 2012 (call by County of Salzburg)

As a member of 1n0ut (Reinhold Bidner & Robert Praxmarer) – Winner 1st prize ContentAward Vienna 2012 in the Visuals Category with the Media Dance Performance „Laban´s Nightmare“

as an Individual:
- 2nd place at Content Award Vienna´s Shorts Category for the animated Musicvideo "If we had only tried"
- Nomination: Asifa Austria Award – Best Austrian Animation (Vienna)

2013:
„Impulse“ - Winner 1st Jury prize Vienna Independent Shorts Filmfestival – Night of the Light
„Impulse“ - Winner at ContentAward Vienna 2013 (W24 Prize)

2014:
Nomination for Totem´s Sound at Content Award Vienna – Visuals Category Public Award (will be announced Nov 2014)


CV long Reinhold Bidner:

Education
2001 Diploma with distinction at University of Applied Sciences & Technologies (course: MultiMediaArt): 2d/3d-animated MusicVideo, “One Zero Hero”

2000 – 2001 Working and researching for KOPPFILM, Berlin: MotionGraphics/ Camera/VideoCompositing (Sokrates Grant)

1999 – 2000 Erasmus Scholarship at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee, Scotland, course: Animation and Electronic Media

1997 – 2001 University of Applied Sciences & Technologies, Salzburg, study program: MultiMediaArt

1995 One year studying medicine; Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz

1986 – 1994 8 years high school, Akademisches Gymnasium, Salzburg, Austria

Professional Career
2006 – 2014 working as a freelancer on various artistic and commercial projects in the field of Media Art, Media Design, Video, Animation, Music & Photography, & Teaching at the University for applied sciences and technologies in Salzburg in the field of Media- & Postproduction (2010 & 2011 & 2012), Teaching @ Art University Linz in the field of Motion Graphics & Interactive Video (2012) and Animation (2013)

2002 – 2006 working as a freelancer and later on Key Researcher in the field of Time Based Media for Ars Electronica FutureLab, Linz, Austria

Video Project Excerpt
Visuals for UEFA European Football Championship
Videojingle Productions for the TV Station LT1
Video-Compositing for the Presentation of the new Ferrari F430 (for Denzl Austria)
Visuals/Videoproduction for events of Resag and Conwert real estate agencies
Visuals for Red Bull Music Academy
Image Video Production for the City of Linz
Visual design for Ars Electronica Center Media Façades
Visualisations for Ars Electronica opening events
Visualisations for Ars Electronica´s Digital Communities Gala in New York City
Ars Electronica Festival-Jingle Productions
Video production/Animation for Swarovski´s “Kristallwelten”-Exhibition
Linz European Cultural Capital 2009 PromoVideo
Visuals for the opening of the SAP-Headquarter Berlin

Awards / Scholarships / Residencies
2009 Podium 09 Awardee for the 1n0ut Project „Versus“
2009 Art Residency in Paliano (near Rome, IT), connected to the Artists in Residency-Program of the Region of Salzburg
2009 Residency at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (Fr), connected to the Atelier-Program of the Region of Salzburg
2008 Backup Clip Award with Daisy, Backup Festival Weimar, 1st Price, 1n0ut
2007 Media Art Award of the Region of Salzburg with CPU, 1n0ut
2007 Residency art4lux: European Forum for emerging creations; European Cultural Capital of Luxemburg. tests for 1D_entity (1n0ut)
2006 Residency “Park in Progress” (Paris), Pepinieres Europeennes pour jeunes artistes, with “MeatMechanics”, 1n0ut
2006 nominated for VJ-Award FMX-Stuttgart, Germany, with “confusions”, 1n0ut
2006 1/2 year Scholarship (Pepinieres Europeennes pour jeunes artistes) under the Map XXL program at Palac Akropolis Prague (CZ)
2004 official theatre assignment 2004 of the City of Salzburg for the theatre piece “Decollage”
2001 3rd Place with „One Zero Hero“ at „Mecon New Talent Award“ (Cologne)
2001 Sokrates Scholarship for the City of Berlin
1999 Erasmus Scholarship at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee, Scotland, course: Animation and Electronic Media
1999 as a member of the collective f.r.e.d.o.e.d. winner of the Salzburg Youth Film Festival with the short film “3ex”

Projects /exhibitions/ art activities / Festivals / Events
August 16th-26th 2012: MapXXL Art for EU, 1n0ut at Park in Progress, Pannonhalma, Hungary
August 2nd 2012: Picture in Picture, Traklhaus Salzburg, "Mitgebracht II"-Exhibition
July 26th 2012: With "Madame Humtata" @ Movida Festival
June/July 2012: "In Transit" and "Still Time?" (by 1n0ut), Traklhaus Salzburg, "Mitgebracht"-Exhibition
June 8th 2012: Ballet Alcoholique @ Vienna Independent Shorts (Gartenbaukino Vienna)
May 2012: Addicted @ Sixpackfilm-Program "You´re the devil in disguise", Top Kino Vienna
April 2012: Addicted @ Angelholm International Video Art Festival (Sweden)
March 20th - 25th 2012: Diagonale Graz
March 16th 2012: Versus @ University of applied Sciences Salzburg (1n0ut)
Feb 28th 2012: Barcelona (ESP) @ Antic Teatre
Feb 25th 2012: Alcoy (ESP) @ Alcoy Theater
Feb 24th 2012: Alicante (ESP) @ University
Jan 28th 2012:
Beatshot @ Jazzit Salzburg
Dec 17th 2011: Drap Art Festival Barcelona (ES)
Dec 15th 2011: Tubeklub Salzburg, Elektronikland Awardee Show, ARGEkultur (1n0ut)
Dec 8th 2011: Parallax Festival Prague (CZ)
November 10th 2011: 1dentity @ Max Reinhardt Seminar (1n0ut)
October / November 2011: Exhibition @ Salzburger Kunstverein
October 14th 2011: Visuals @ FlucWanne Vienna, connected to Kleinrecords

October 2011: Rencontres audiovisuelles, Lille (Fr)
September 2011: Ars Electronica Festival
July 2011: 1n0ut´s Performance Versus @ BELEF Summer Festival, Belgrad, Serbia
July 2011: Kunstverein Salzburg
June 2011: Traklhaus Salzburg – Tiere in der Kunst
May 2011: "Oesterreich tanzt"-Festival / Festspielhaus St Pölten
April 2011: Curator: FLIPT! Austrian Flipbook Festival Retrospective, Salzamt Linz
April 2011: Crossing Europe Festival Linz
March 2011: 1n0ut´s Performance Versus @ ARGEKultur Salzburg (Podium Preisträger 09)
February 2011: Music Video Presentation for M185, Futuregarden Vienna
January 2011: Goldextra: Same Time Same Station, @ ARGEKultur Salzburg2010
December 2010: Kunsthalle Project Space, Vienna
November 2010: Impressions d'Europe (Nantes, FR)
October 2010 Rencontres audiovisuelles, Lille (FR)
September 2010 Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna
September 2010: Dallas VideoFest
September 2010 Künstlerhaus Salzburg
September 2010: Ars Electronica Festival
August 2010: IBUG-Festival Leipzig
July 10 FLIPT! - 3rd Austrian FlipBook Festival
Jun 10 Klangdimensionen @ Movida Festival
Jun 10 LinzTriennale
May 10 1n0ut´s CPU nominated for File Prix Lux 2010
May 10 Vienna Independent Shorts Festival
May 10 "Visuals made in Austria. Projekteure, Indivisualisten, Spielfilmer" by Olivia Macho, A, 2009, at Filmmuseum Wien
Apr 10 Picture in Picture @ Crossing Europe Festival
Apr 10 Klangdimensionen @ Konzerthaus, Wien
Mar 10 InTransit @ Diagonale, Graz
Mar 10 InTransit @ Oslo Screen Festival
Feb 10 Daisy at Kinosiska, Ljubljana
Dec 09 Video Production for an event of „Conwert“ Real Estate Agency
Dec 09 Compositing/Video Production for the Gold Extra Theatre Production „Same Time, Same Station“
Dec 09 Visuals for Tubeklub (ARGEkultur Salzburg)
Nov 09 Award Show of the art laureates of the Region of Salzburg at Residenz Salzburg
Nov 09 1n0ut´s „Versus“ (Podium 09 Awardee) at Tanzhouse Studio Salzburg
Nov 09 Art Residency in Paliano (IT, near Rome)
Oct 09 Video Production of 10 Artist-Video-Portraits for the 2009 Art Award Show of the Region of Salzburg
Oct 09 1n0ut´s CPU at Doppelgänger-Festival of the European Cultural Capital Linz 09
Oct 09 Black Box at Doppelgänger-Festival of the European Cultural Capital Linz 09
Oct 09 1n0ut´s „1dentity“ at Visionsonic Festival, Paris
Oct 09 Animation „In Transit“ at animest Festival 2009, Bukarest
Oct 09 Animation „In Transit“ at Balkanima Festival 2009, Belgrad
Sept 09 Schmiede Hallein
Aug 09 Visuals at Temp Festival
Aug 09 Photographic Project „Subtext“ (within the Frame of the artists collective Gold Extra)
July 09 Visuals/Video Production for Ars Electronicas 80+1 Project (Linz09)
July 09 1n0ut´s CPU-Showing for Polyästhetik Kongress (of the Mozarteum Salzburg)
June 09 Exhibition at Traklhaus Salzburg (1n0ut Video „Confusions“)
June 09 Visuals for Red Bull Music Academy
May 09 Video-Installation for the Concert-Evening of the band M185, at WUK Vienna
April 09 Visuals for Tubeklub (ARGEkultur Salzburg)
April 09 Crossing Europe Festival Linz, with the short animation „In Transit“
March 09 Animations for the Feature Animation Film Dobuschido
Feb 09 Acquisition of 1n0ut´s „Confusions“ Video
Jan 09 Residency at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (Fr), connected to the Atelier-Program of the Region of Salzburg
Oct 08 CPU (Central Processing Unit) – The Trial – a stereoscopic Realtime-Dance Performance (winner Media Art Award, Region of Salzburg, 1n0ut)
Oct 08 Exhibition for the opening event of Tanz_house Festival Salzburg
Oct 08 1n0uts Klangdimensionen Concert Visualisation in Hallein (at), connected to Schmiede
Sept 08 Ars Electronica Festival: Concert Visualisation: "Edgar Varese - Ameriques", Dennis Russell Davies, Brucknerorchester, Linz (At)
June 08 Daisy at Backup Festival Weimar
June 08 Acquisition of Video and Photo-Stills of the Work „CONfusions“ by the Region of Salzburg
May 08 Black Box Germany Tour
April 08 1Dentity at Digital Media Festival Valencia
April 08 Daisy at Crossing Europe Festival
Jan 08 BlackBox at Quitch, Linz
Nov 07 1D_entity at Mutamorphosis/enter3, Prague (cz) (1n0ut)
Oct 07 Stereoscopic Realtime Music Visualisation: “Klangdimensionen”; Festsaal Casino Baden & Panoptikum Wels (1n0ut)
Sept 07 Invitation to art4lux: European Forum for emerging creations; Luxemburg
Sept 07 Schmiede-Media Art Festival
Sept 07 Invitation to NMM (new media meeting Sweden, Norrköpping) (1n0ut)
April 07 Cartes Flux Finland
April 07 Athens Video Festival
April 07 Organisation of the 2nd Austrian FlipBook Festival (together with Christian Korherr)
April 07 Participation Crossing Europe Festival Linz
March 07 Dance Piece “Metamorphine” at Landestheater Linz, (1n0ut)
Dec 06 Chaos Computer Club Kongress, Avit VJ Festival, Berlin
Oct 06 Acquisition of the Videowork "Confusions" (1n0ut) by Victory Arts Museum Dallas
Oct 06 Visualisation for the Danceperformance "Destinee" at VAD Festivals, Girona, Spain, 1n0ut
Sept 06 Visualisation for 5 year jubilee Leopold Museum, Salon Leopold, 1n0ut
Sept 06 Scenic Visualisations for the Theatre Piece Black Box (Object Theatre for 8 Robots)
Sept 06 Ars Electronica Concert Visualisation: "Sound and Fury" by Philippe Manoury, Brucknerorchester, Linz (At), conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, 1n0ut
Aug 06 Workshop in Dresden (Ger), connected to Cynetart Festival
June 06 Presentation of Visualisations for the Musician „Jezis tahne na Berlin“, and Solo Exhibition of Photographs at Palac Aktopolis (Prague)
June 06 Invitation to “Park in Progress” (Paris, France), with “MeatMechanics”, 1n0ut
May 06 VJ-Award FMX-Stuttgart, Germany, with “confusions”, 1n0ut
May 06 Invitation to Lux 2006 (international VJ- and VideoArt Festival Sevilla, Spain), 1n0ut
Feb. 06 Invitation to ARCO 06 (madrid). In the Digital Transit program with the abstract videowork “confusions”, 1n0ut
Jan 06 Half year art-residency in Prague: Scholarship Pepinieres Europeennes pour jeunes artistes, under the Map XXL Program. Residency at Palac Akropolis
Sept 05 Music Visualization for the Ars Electronica05 -“Listening between the lines” evening at Brucknerhaus Linz for the Bruckner Orchestre Linz (Gyorgi Ligeti: Apparitions; together with Stefan Schilcher, Andreas Jalsovec, Friedrich Kirschner)
Sept 05 Music Visualization for the Ars Electronica05 -“Listening between the lines” evening at Brucknerhaus Linz: Muoyce (John Cage)
June 05 Videoworks for the Installation “Digital Migration” by Isabella Bordoni, exhibited at Arte Sella, Borgo Valsugana (Italy)
June 05 Organisation of the 1st Austrian FlipBook Festival (with Christian Korherr – Kooperative zur Förderung instabiler Medien)
May 05 Presentation and exhibition of the animated short film “Schnellschuss” and Photographs of this project at Landeskulturzentrum Ursulinenhof Linz (with Stefan Mittlboeck Jungwirth)
Feb 05 Start of the Collaboration with Robert Praxmarer as the collective 1n0ut (visualisations, video art, media art)
Dec 04 Beginning of Membership at the Salzburg based artists collective “Gold Extra”
Dec 04 Visualizations/Photography for the Dance-Theatre Production „Decollage“
July 04 VideoInstallation „City Obscura”, produced together with Robert Praxmarer, shown at the Liquid Musics Festival in Judenburg, Austria
June 04 Videoworks for the Installation Lacrima (e vive) by Isabella Bordoni, shown in the Sala degli Archi di Rimini, Italy
May 04 Exhibitions of the Video „Decollage“ in Los Angeles (Crazy Gallery) and in the Art Centre Chicago, produced together with Georg Hobmeier
April 04 Works for the Theatre Play „W.E.A.P.O.N.“, at the “AuaWirLeben”-Theatre-Festival in Bern, Switzerland
Feb 04 Visualisations for the Videopiece „Li dove l´ombra appare” (by Isabella Bordoni), Teatro Massari, San Giovanni in Marignano, Italy
Sept 03 Photo Solo Exhibition at Blaue Fabrik, Dresden, Germany
June 03 Together with four other artists (Isabella Bordoni, Horst Hoertner, Stefan Mittlboeck Jungwirth, Christopher Lindinger) exhibition at Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy, with the interactive sound- and video-installation “Lacrima (e vive)”
Dec 02 Participant of the Exhibition „Nah & Frisch“; Galerie 5020, Salzburg, Austria, with a Video- Installation of „Das Wasser war kalt“
Nov 02 Participant at the International Media Art Festival „CYNETART“, Dresden, with the Performance-Installation „Das Wasser war kalt“
Oct 02 Works for the „CON-TEXT“-Portrait Photography Project in New York
July 02 Participant of the „Realtime & Presence“-Workshop at Festspielhaus Dresden-Hellerau. Topic: Composition of Virtual Image-Sound-Environments
May 02 Start of the Portrait Photography Project „CON-TEXT” in London, Hamburg & Berlin
Feb. 02 Videoinstallation for the exhibition „Grenzenlos“; Brucknerhaus, Linz


Talks / Teaching activities
since 2012 Teaching @ Art University Linz in the field of Motion Graphics & Interactive Video
since 2010
Teaching @ University for applied sciences and technologies Salzburg in the field of Media- and PostProduction
Sept 07 Schmiede Hallein
Sept 07 New Media Meeting, Sweden - Norrkoepping
May 05 University of Applied Sciences & Technologies, Hagenberg