Lutz Dammbeck
Lutz Dammbeck (DE) is an artist and filmmaker living in Hamburg. He became a freelance graphic artist and painter in 1974 and began making animation films, documentaries and experimental films from 1976. In 1990, he founded Lutz-Dammbeck-Filmproduktion and in 2000 set up and directed Project Class New Media at the College of Fine Arts Dresden. From 1992, he has been a visiting professor and subsequently teaching at the Fachhochschule für Gestaltung, Hamburg. Most recent solo exhibitions include: Herakles-Konzept (1997/98), presented in such venues as Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Lindenau Museum, Altenburg, Städtische Galerie Rähnitzgasse, Dresden, and Kunstverein Heidelberg; Krieg der Viren II (2000) presented in Brecht - Zentrum Berlin; and 'All Systems Go (2005) in Akademie der Künste, Berlin Berlin and Re-Reeducation at Galerie COMA, Berlin. A selection of his films includes: Herakles Hoehle (1990), Time Of The Gods (Zeit der Goetter, 1992), Herzog Ernst (1993), Duerer's Heirs (Duerers Erben, 1996) and Master Game (Das Meisterspiel, 1998), The Net (Das Netz, 2003), and Besuch bei Rudolf Arnheim (2004). For his film The Net, he received the EMAF Award European Media Art Festival Osnabrück in 2004.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutz_Dammbeck
The Net: The Unabomber, LSD and the Internet (2003)
The Net (115 mins) is a documentary that provides a subversive history of the Internet. The film takes the story of Ted Kaczynski, the infamous Unabomber, as a starting point to trace the contrasting cultural responses to the cybernetic revolution and technological progress. On the one hand, it emphasises the intrusive systems of technological control, and on the other, the utopian promises of global networking and instantaneous communication. It includes archive footage of Ken Kesey, Timothy Leary, Henry A. Murray and Norbert Wiener and interviews with John Brockman, Stewart Brand, Paul Garrin, David Hillel Gelernter, and Heinz von Foerster.
http://www.t-h-e-n-e-t.com
