John Grzinich
mixed media artist (sound/video/photo), project coordinator

born 1970 Poughkeepsie, NY
lives and works in Estonia

jg [at] maaheli.ee http://maaheli.ee/

ORGANIZER / COORDINATOR

(03-06.06) Editor/writer "Helikunsti eri" for kunst.ee magazine 2/2006 issue

(12.02-present) Media Lab Coordinator: MoKS (Estonia)

(8.01) INTERSECT 4: Multimedia Performance Series, Austin (US)

(4.01) INTERSECT 3: Multimedia Performance Series, Austin (US)

(9.99-9.00) hEXPO: Festival of Self-organizing Cultural Forms (Slovenia)


PUBLISHED SOUND WORKS

solo

CD "rudiment of two" Edition Sonoro, UK (2007)

CD "insular regions" SIRR-ecords, Portugal (2005)

CD “equal and distant lines” Cloud of Statics, Switzerland (2005)

CD “intimations” CMR recordings, New Zealand (2004)

collaborative
CD "Gyre" with Seth Nehil, Cut Records Switzerland (2006)

CD "frequency curtain" with Rick Reed & Josh Ronsen, Elevator Bath US (2002)

CD "confluence" with Seth Nehil, Intransitive Recordings US (2002)

CD "stria" with Seth Nehil, erewhon records Belgium (2002)

CD "the absurd evidence" with Michael Northam, Bobby J/Orogenetics US (1998)

CD "the stomach of the sky" with Michael Northam, Staalplaat, Netherlands (1997)

compilation works

"totemic shore" published in association with The Wire 25 (2007)

"Kruimeldief" Machinefabriek Remixed, Netherlands (2007)

"Helikunsti eri" CD published with kunst.ee magazine 2/2006 issue

"Untitled" track for Untitled Songs: 49 years from Gesang der Jünglinge
SIRR-ecords, Portugal (2005)

"Untitled" track with Frequency Curtain on INTERSECT 4
CD-R, Pale-Disc Japan (2002)

"Untitled" track on INTERSECT 3 CD-R, Pale-Disc Japan (2001)

"Melting Mirror" solo remix of Cobalt_00 -Clockwork Uterus CD-R, Human Cross, Bosnia Herzegovina (2001)

"inscribed obsolescence" ERG track; END ID compilation double CD, Digital Narcis Japan (1999)

"the heuristic dialogues" - 2xC60 ERG document from performances in Europe, Orogenetics US (1997)

"the lumbering intransitive dream of the ALIAL STRAA" - C60 with Seth Nehil, Orogenetics US (1996)
*limited CD-R re-issue on Alluvial Recordings

"Tunnel/Stairwell" - C60 with Michael Northam, Seth Nehil, and Olivia Block on Orogenetics US (1996)
*limited CD-R re-issue on Alluvial Recordings

"inheritance-based containers" - C60 with Michael Northam on Orogenetics US (1996)


EXHIBITIONS / PRESENTATIONS

Solo


(5.07) Sound Locations - Transpositions: Observatori Festival, Valencia (ES)

(12.06) Sound Locations - Transpositions: REX, Belgrade (Serbia), Studentki Centar, Zagreb (HR)

(03.05) Sound/Video Performance (w/Eku): vernalFLUX, Centre D'Art en L'ile, Geneva (CH)

(11.04) Sound/Video Performance: DEAF (Dutch Electronic Art Festival) Rotterdam (NL)

(5.04) Sound/Video Performance: Mikrostraava, Riga (LV)

(1.04) Sound/Video Performance: Interdisciplinary Salon, Tartu (EST)

equal and distant lines, live video/sound performance
(11.03) 322 Union Gallery : New York (US)
(8.03) PostsovkhoZ 3 arts symposium : Mooste (EST)
(7.03) Stazione Topoló/Postaja Topolove Festival : Topoló (IT)

(6.03) CCA/Jeleni –Prague (CZ), Buryzone –Bratislava (SK), Media Centar -Sarajevo (BiH) lectures+video presentations

(1.03) Hörbar, video screening with live sound mix, Hamburg (DE)

(12.02) Westwerk Gallery, Hamburg (DE)
Tendencies of Infinite Expansion : Sound+Video Installation

(10.02) Poland/Baltic Tour:
presentation+lectures on ‘Stillness in Time’, sound+video works 2001-2002: BWA-AVANGARD Gallery -Wroclaw (PL), Academy of Music -Krakow (PL), -Academy of Music -Warsaw (PL), Gallery NOASS -Riga (LV), Kunstmaja Monumentaalgaleriis -Tartu (EST), Tartu Art College (EST), Academy of Art -Vilnius (LT)

(7.02) Stazione Topoló/Postaja Topolove Festival: Topoló (IT)
‘ Scaling Microspace’ site-specific sound+video investigation

(1.02-2.02) Southeast Europe Tour:
presentation of 'Thermographic Sequences', sound+video works from 2001:
t0 Public Netbase -Vienna (AT), Cyberpipe -Ljublajana (SLO), Klub MaMa -Zagreb (HR), Access Centar -Sarajevo (BiH), Academy of Fine Arts -Budapest (HU), Center for Contemporary Arts -Prague (CZ), (6/02) Videomedja -Novi Sad (YU)

(4.01) INTERSECT 3: Austin (US) live sound Performance and Video screening of 'anamorphic eye no.1'
(6.00) "substance of fragments" Tour: MaMa -Zagreb, (HR); Klub Kuk -Sarajevo, (BiH); Multimedia Culture Center –Split (HR)

(7.99) Topolo Station Festival : Topolo (IT) 'Resonance Ensemble' Sound Workshop

(9.98) Lamparna: Sound performance, Labin (HR)

(9.98) Galerija Maurus: Sound Performance, Porec (HR)

Collaborative/Group

(02.07) Location Sound Films, "In the Landscape" Exhibition, Skolska28 Gallery, Prague (CZ)

“Clinamen Tides” sound performance, with Hitoshi Kojo and EKU
(7.06) Pispalan Nykytaiteen Keskus, Tampere Finland (8.06) PostsovkhoZ6 Mooste, Estonia (10.06) Gallery Saoh and Tomos, Tokyo (11.06) Abiko Open Air Exhibition (11. 06) Bridge, Osaka (11.06) Gallery Shin-bi, Kyoto

(10.06) “Sound Locations and Transpositions” with Paulo Raposo, La Sala Castello, Barcelona (ES)

(9.06) “3 Nodar Locations” with Maksims Shentelevs (LV), Antonio Della Marina (IT): Teatro Municipal, Guarda and Instituto Portugues, Viseu (PT)

(12.05) Point+Periphery: collaborative sound performances with Seth Nehil and Hitoshi Kojo
Galleria Titanik -Turku, Rajatila Galleria -Tampere, Forum Box -Helsinki (Finland)

(10.05) jgrzinich / seth nehil sound performance at Correnti Sonore 05. Hybrida Space -Tarcento (IT)

(06.05) suveFLUX, 4-way 6-hour collaborative sound performance with Michael Northam, Loren Chasse and Hitoshi Kojo at the Sõmerpalu Mansion (EST)

(05.05) "Penumbra" sound performance with Paulo Raposo, Serralves Foundation (PT)

(10.04) Sound/Video Performance for Heli+Visioon with Antonio Della Marina (EST)

(11.03) The Tonic: live sound performance with Seth Nehil, New York (US)

(5.03) Contemporary Art International Gallery, Hamburg (DE)
video screening for "Komunikations Probleme”, group exhibition

(8.01) INTERSECT 4 : Austin (US)
sound performance and Video projections with the group Frequency Curtain (Rick Reed, John Grzinich, Josh Ronsen)

(6.99) Kapelica Gallery : Ljubljana (SLO)
BIOTOPE sound installation with Borut Savski, Ludwig Zeininger and Marko Kosnik

(4.98) Movements Gallery : Austin (US)
a harvest of vectors’ sound installation and performance series with artists Michael Northam and Carmen Resendez

(11.97) C. O. F. Warehouse : Austin (US)
the center cannot hold’ sound/movement performance and film action with Luke Savisky, Michael Northam and Carmen Resendez

(7.97) Candy Factory : Austin (US)
'the stomach of the sky'- sound installation and film action with Luke Savisky, Michael Northam, Carmen Resendez and Josh Ronsen

(10.94) Seaholm Power Plant : Austin (US)
four of one’ on-site environmental sound performance for moving trains and performance artists with Carmen Resendez, David Avery, Kerthy Fix and Michael Northam

ERG : mnortham/jgrzinich
(9.98) On the Danube : Linz, (AT)
Sound performance as a part of the LAAGER festival

(9.98) Lavaud-Pacaud : Installation and Sound performance, Limoges, (FR)

(3.97) Hyde Park Theater : Sound performance, Austin (US)

(11.96) Extrapool : Nijmegen, (NL)
Sound performance as a part of the Not Exactly Noise festival

(10-11.96) European Tour: Mozg Club : Bydgoszcz, (PL), Club Artistika : Wroclaw, (PL), Horbar : Hamburg, (DE), Hfbk-the garage : Hamburg, (DE), Maison de l'Etudiant : Caen, (FR), Theater E. Petralla : Longiano, as part of the Altri Musica Altri Canti festival (IT), The Container : Florence, as part of the Incontri Musicanici festival (IT), Berner Gallerie : Bern, as part of the Denkpause group show (CH)


RADIO APPEARANCES

(3/03) Radio Gagarin FSK : interview and presentation, Hamburg (DE)

(2/03) Resonance FM: “One Hour As… A Nomadic Journey” commissioned radio work, London (UK)

(6/02) National Radio Program 1: inteview and presentation, Novi Sad, (YU)

(6/02) Radio B92 - Belgradeyard : inteview and presentation, Belgrade, (YU)

(1/00) Radio Student - Inner Space: inteview and presentation, Zagreb, (HR)

(6/99) Radio Slovenija : interview and presentation with Borut Savski, Ljubljana, (SLO)

(3.97;12.98) KOOP Radio : interview and presentation, Austin (US)

(9.98) RadioStudent : performance and interview, Ljubljana, (SLO)

(11.96) VPRO : ERG interview and presentation, Amsterdam, (NL)

(11.96) Radio 100 : Amsterdam, Netherlands
Live sound performance with Das Synthetische Mischgewebe(F), Nomex(UK), The Oval Language(D) and Hyware(NL)

(11.96) Radio Poland : Poland ERG interview and presentation, Wroclaw (PL)


RESIDENCIES

(9-12.05) Loviisa Guest Studio, Loviisa Finalnd (FI)

(8-9.02) Jeleni Studio: Center for Contemporary Art, Prague (CZ)

(9.01-5.02) Bauhaus Kolleg: ‘Serve City’ participant, Bauhaus Dessau (DE)


FESTIVAL SCREEINGS

(7.03) Festival Images Contre Nature, Marseille (FR)

(4.03) Videomedeja, Novi Sad (YU)

(4.03) Festival of Fideo and Vilm, Pärnu (EST)