Gerald Trimmel
Media artist, composer and sound artist, cultural scientist, art therapist
Born 1962 in Hollabrunn, Austria.
Studied electroacoustic composition with Dieter Kaufmann at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, history and German philology at the University of Vienna, and art therapy at the Sigmund Freud Private University Vienna.
Since 1985, interdisciplinary artistic practice at the intersections of sound art, visual media, and media theory. Developer of the Cybernetic Canvas concept, which explores generative image processes, expanded animation, and sound art strategies.
In the field of child and adolescent psychiatry, Trimmel developed the method of intermodal art and design diagnostics, with a special focus on processuality and self-reflection.
Electroacoustic Music in Austria – Research & Publications (selected):
– Acustica – Elektronischer Frühling (1995, with Igor Lintz-Maues): Documentation and lexicon of electroacoustic music in Austria
– Das K & K Experimentalstudio – Dieter Kaufmann & Gunda König (1996, with Armgard Schiffer-Ekhart): Visual documentation and catalogue
– 30/4 – Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art from Austria (2017, CD edition and booklet, co-editor with Igor Lintz-Maues, Andreas Weixler, Se-Lien Chuang)
Media Art Projects & Exhibitions (selection):
Long-time director of the Austrian Center for Film and Choreography at Danube University Krems and managing director of the Austrian Film Gallery (arthouse cinema, digital restoration). Participated in international exhibitions and festivals in Austria, Germany, France, Italy, Cuba, and Colombia, including:
– UNESCO, Paris
– GMEB – Groupe de Musique Expérimentale de Bourges (now IMEB)
– Museum of the 20th Century (now Belvedere 21), Vienna
– Vienna Museum of Science and Technology
– Kunstverein Alte Schmiede, Vienna
– Galerie Heidi Springfeld, Berlin
– Festival Internacional de la Imagen, Bogotá
– ArteScienza Festival, Rome (2025)
– Time Folded – International Media Art Exhibition, Independent & Image Art Space, Chongqing, China (2025)
Field recordings and photographic work in the South Pacific (Easter Island, French Polynesia, Cook Islands, Samoa, Fiji, Tasmania).
Awards:
– Prix Ars Electronica, Honorary Mention (1989)
– Luigi Russolo International Prize, Honorary Mention (1989)
– 1st Prize for Film and Television Research (1992)
– Theodor Körner Prize (1994)
