Engineering latent matter

Henrik Mauler

b. 1974, Dresden · lives and works in Berlin

Artist and architect, with a German degree in engineering. Building generative dynamic systems since 1986. Grew up on both sides of the internet and the Iron Curtain. Of the last generation that built virtual space by hand.

Director of ZEITGUISED, the experimental art and design studio, founded in 2001.

Collection
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Awards
Ars Electronica · Oberhausen · Ottawa International Animation Festival · ARCH+ Award
Exhibited
ZKM Karlsruhe · Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein · Centraal Museum Utrecht · Design Museum Gent · HEK Basel · Yuz Museum Shanghai · Somerset House London · MOCA Barcelona · Marta Herford · Palazzo Reale Milano · MAO Torino
Teaching
University of Stuttgart, IGMA · Burg Giebichenstein, Halle · Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart · UdK Berlin, Spatial Design · Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok (DEX INDA)

For exhibitions and installations, see the list at ZEITGUISED.

Reading room

Conversations, texts, talks and press, one card per year. Tap a card to pull it out; scroll down to go back in time.

  1. Year2027

    The next layer: first editions.

    Add this card: email me henrik(at)zeitguised.com

  4. Teaches “Hybrids” in the DEX INDA programme, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, with Joris Putteneers and Deniz Güvendi.

    Alongside Anna Pla Català, Michał Jurgielewicz, Nikita Troufanov, Anete Salmane and Alexandra Lăcătușu, Kengo Skorick and Samuel Norberg, Garrett and Paul Sutherlin Santo, Kongphob Amornpatarasin and Nichakarn Vichitpunt.

  7. Digital textile designs acquired by the V&A.

  10. Invited speaker, Expanded Animation Symposium, Ars Electronica (ZEITGUISED / f°am Studio, now someform).

  12. Conceptual digital textile designs.

    Best Experimental and Best VFX, Berlin Fashion Film Festival.

    Bronze, Ciclope Festival Berlin.

    Honorary Mention, Prix Ars Electronica, Computer Animation / Film / VFX, for geist.xyz.

  14. Honorary Mention, Prix Ars Electronica, Computer Animation / Film / VFX, for Birds.

    Screening selection, Ars Electronica Animation Festival.

    • Are We Hard Yet

      PublicationBerlin What?

    • Interview

      PublicationMinimalmag

  18. Finalist, Experimental, Vimeo Festival+Awards, New York, for Peripetics.

  19. Best Experimental work, Ottawa International Animation Festival, for Peripetics.

    Best 3D Animated Film, The Hyde Tube Festival, Paris, for Peripetics.

  20. Peripetics: the expanded visual language.

  21. Teaching position at the Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart: experimental digital design class under Tom Verebes.

  22. MuVi Award, best German music video, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, for The Zoo.

    Best Design Award, Resfest.

    Performative Architecture workshop at Burg Giebichenstein, Halle.

  23. The Zoo, the landmark Funkstörung video, in a sculptural style of simulated photorealism.

  24. POP workshop with itf Grafik Design: Axel Pfänder, Claudia Kahl, Till Sperrle.

  25. Nominated for a Media Art Award, ZKM Karlsruhe.

    “Mystery of Beauty”, workshop with Matsushita by Dieter Hofmann and Burg Giebichenstein, Halle.

  26. Architecture graduation project “Popular Mechanics: Chicago Loop”: an AI-driven robotic architecture and transport system for downtown Chicago, shown with a real-time VR CAVE, 3D-printed forms and a 20-minute CG film.

    Interactive VR CAVE installation at Fraunhofer IAO.

    ZEITGUISED is founded.

    Nominated for a Media Art Award, ZKM Karlsruhe.

    First show at onedotzero, ICA London.

    Starting position as senior research fellow for digital experimental design, under Prof. Dr. Gerd de Bruyn, later alongside Mona Mahall and Stephan Trüby. University of Stuttgart, IGMA, Institute for Theory and Design of Modern Architecture.

    Gives the institute its first branding, “igmade”: a meta-branding, devised to adapt to changing staff and landscapes of thought, and to serve the institute’s prime directive, researching cutting-edge thinking in architectural design. Still in use today, it has carried the institute’s new directions, as its author intended.

  27. Freelance director at Segura Inc., Chicago.

  28. ABK Student Award for “Data Monastery”.

    Freelance director at Jangled Nerves, Stuttgart.

    Shell of the Ghost: a Silicon Graphics merch sweater, dyed blue, worn like a uniform.

  30. Studies architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart (ABK).

  31. Unauthorized exhibition. Surreal satire, b/w prints. FSG Fellbach.

  32. Abstract 3D rendering, on an Amiga 500.

    German demo scene, with the Taifun Crew.

    Airbrush murals, 1988–1994.

  33. Generative art: codes generative line art in BASIC, on a Thomson TO7-70.