Andreas Lutz (born 1981 in Freiburg i. Br.) is a

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Media artist New media art includes artworks designed and produced by means of electronic media technologies, comprising virtual art, computer graphics, computer animation, digital art, interactive art, sound art, Internet art, video games, robotics, 3D prin ...

. In his work, he analyzes phenomena of perception versus reality and the interaction of

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and sound with audio-visual installations.

Work

Lutz graduated from University of Applied Sciences Offenburg with a diploma in Media and Information engineering in 2009. His initial works refer to alternative human-machine interaction. For "Because clicking is so 90s"., a

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controllable only with gestures and voice, he received the Webby Award in 2010. In 2012, he founded the

interdisciplinary Interdisciplinarity or interdisciplinary studies involves the combination of multiple academic disciplines into one activity (e.g., a research project). It draws knowledge from several other fields like sociology, anthropology, psychology, ec ...

studio KASUGA, which is active in the experimental field of design, interaction and sound and develops audio-visual installations, integrated interactions systems and contemporary media art pieces. The work of Andreas Lutz has been exhibited at

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, the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, the OpenArt Biennale in

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) and won the Excellence Award at the 19th Japan Media Arts Festival,

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and the iF Design Award,

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References

External links

Andreas Lutz website
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