, currently based: Hong Kong
Affiliated institution: SCM CityU
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Elke Reinhuber is not your average artist, because she became a specialist on choice, decision making and counterfactual thoughts in media arts. As a decidophobic in her own life, she explores in particular alternative layers of the here and now with immersive environments and expanded photography.
2021 Assoc. Professor, SCM School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong
2014 Asst. Professor, Expanded Photography, NTU School of Art, Design and Media, Singapore
2013 - 2013 Artist in Residence at ZKM Karlsruhe
2009 - 2013 Praxis-based PhD in Media Arts at COFA/UNSW Sydney on 'Counterfactualism' / EIPRS scholarship
1999 - 2000 Meisterschülerin (Master-Class student) of Prof. Joachim Sauter, University of the Arts (UDK), Berlin
1993 - 1998 M.A. (German Diploma) in Time-Based media, University of the Arts (UDK), Berlin
1990-1993 Training as photographer
Works
- »Urban Hero« 2021
- »Garden Of Changes« 2020
- »Thermal Sleep« 2018
- »Cracks to Oases« 2018
- »Secret Detours« 2017
- »VENOMENON« 2015
- »A Standard Video« 2014
- »Face Value« 2013
- »Timeframe« 2013
- »Decidophobia« 2012
- »Blank Chance« 2012
- »Y Straight Forward« 2012
- »Decision Disc N°1« 2012
- »Eternal Return N°1« 2012
- »Decision Value« 2011
- »Message from A.« 2010
- »HDH215« 2008
- »Profilneurose« 2004
- »5 YEARS« 1999
- »Multiplicity« 1996
- »Multiplicity N°19« 1996
Reinhuber, Elke. »Garden Of Changes – An Approach To Embrace The Forking Path Structure Of Singapore’s Former Yunnan Garden In Virtual Reality.« AMPS Connections: Exploring Heritage, Architecture, Cities, Art, Media 2, no. 20 (2022): 83-90.
Reinhuber, Elke and Benjamin Seide. »Garden Of Changes – VR Experience as Meditative Divination Device.« .
Reinhuber, Elke. »Face Value – the Artistic Value of Currencies.« In Virtualities and Realities . New Experiences, Art and Ecologies in Immersive Environments, edited by Rasa Šmite and Raitis Šmits. Liepāja: RIXC/Mākslas pētījumu laboratorija, Liepāja Universitāte, 2019.
Reinhuber, Elke. »The Urban Beautician: a practice of transferring ephemeral interventions in the public space via media into a work of art.« LUMINA , no. 2 (May / August 2017): 60-81.
Reinhuber, Elke. »Decidophobia – an artistic research on the possibilities of immersive environments.« ICONO14. Journal of Communication and Emergent Technologies 12, no. 2 (August 2014): 206-229.
Reinhuber, Elke. »Counterfactualism – a new category for fine arts and humanity, dealing with the retrospective analysis of turning points in life.« Phd Thesis, COFA/UNSW, Sydney, March 2013.
Reinhuber, Elke. The Urban Beautician (Die Stadtkosmetikerin). Braunschweig, Germany: HBK (Hochschule für Bildende Künste), 2010.