von Borries Christian

Christian von Borries produces media from other media. He is a conductor, composer, filmmaker and producer of site-specific psychogeographic projects. His work has been commissioned by the Lucerne Festival, Kunstfest Weimar, Volksbühne Berlin, Kampnagel Hamburg and documenta 12, among others. His CD “Replay Debussy” won an Echo Award. His first film “The Dubai in Me” won an award at the FID Marseille Film Festival and has been screened at film festivals around the world, as well as the Yekaterinburg Industrial Biennale and the Principio Potosi exhibition in Madrid and Berlin. His second film “Mocracy” won the Klaus Wildenhahn Prize at the Documentary Film Week Hamburg. His third film “I'm M” first performed in Mexico City, was shown at the Bergen Assembly Biennale 2013. His forth film “IPHONECHINA” was shown at Festivals in Europe and in China. In 2017 he finished his last movie “DESERT OF THE REAL” which premiered at the CPH: DOX Film Festival Copenhagen. Christian von Borries is an anti-copyright activist and lives in a greenhouse in Berlin. In 2011 he was Visiting Professor of Architecture at the Art Academy in Nuremberg, in 2012 he taught at the Filmhochschule HFF in Potsdam. In 2014 he exhibited in the Central Asian Pavilion of the Venice Biennale, the Bergen Biennale and the Werkleitz Biennale in Halle. In 2015 he staged the music project “Conflict Music” for the Cologne Academy of the Arts, from which, together with Wolfgang Voigt, the CD “conflict / re-conflict” was made for the label Compact. In 2017, for the first time, he and the Dresdner Sinfoniker have performed a score that was created entirely by AI algorithms at Dresden’s Frauenkirche. At the end of 2017, he co-curated an exhibition on the digital subject entitled A BETTER VERSION OF YOU in Seoul and Beijing.