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CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
Christin Bolewski
Lives and works in Loughborough, United Kingdom
An artist ' s statement
C hristin Bolewski is a digital media artist and filmmaker from Germany. Undergraduate studies in film, video and photography, postgraduate studies in audiovisual media at Academy of Media Arts Cologne Germany. She is currently a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art Practice at Loughborough University UK and has taught digital media art and film practice at several other Universities in Europe and America.
Christin exhibits regularly at international events media art and film festivals in Europe, Asia, North and South America, including amongst others SIGGRAPH Asia, ISEA, Worldwide Video Festival Den Haag, FILE Brazil, Transmediale Berlin,‘ Manifestation on video-art and videomaking of the last 15 Years’
Rialto Filmtheatre Amsterdam, Electronic Undercurrents, Art & Video in Europe Statens Museum for Kunst Copenhagen, part of group exhibitions at Kunstmuseum Bonn, Dt. Kinemathek Berlin, awarded with UNESCO Webprize, etc.
Her artwork is a critical investigation of the potential of digital media to expand the aesthetic possibilities of audiovisual / film art. It includes video installation, genre mix, alternation and remediation of traditional art concepts and film structures, nonlinear storytelling, combination of still and moving image, video and photography. She often works with and makes reference to literature and philosophy and explores text as a third element together with moving image and sound.
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