Dennis
Knopf (born 1981 in Stuttgart)
Senefelderstrasse
101
70176
Stuttgart
Germany
+49
172 7758111
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Education
2005-07: European Media Master of Arts, University of
Portsmouth, UK
(graduated with special distinction).
2003-07:
German Diploma in Communication Design with emphasis on New Media, Merz
Akademie
Stuttgart.
Experience
2008
Sept-Oct: Chief Editor, Best before – A Dsico Fanzine, and www.dsico-fanzine.com.
2008
Jan-April: Editorial Fellow, Rhizome, at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City.
2007
Sept-Oct: Consultant, Blue Ocean
Entertainment AG.
2007-present:
Project Manager, UpitUp Records, Rome.
2005-06:
Film production / PR Internship, The Whitest Kids UÕ Know, New York City.
2003-04:
Dj Tutor, CAP
Academy,
Stuttgart.
Publications
2008:
Magazine Best
before – A Dsico Fanzine, limited edition, screenprinted by hand.
2007: Book You As In User – Audience Economics
And The Web, out of print, available as pdf.
2007:
Essay (in German) ÒDer
Sampler ist tot – lang lebe das SamplingÒ in Lautsprecherei. Re: Sound - Art - Design by Diedrich Diederichsen, Merz
& Solitude, 2007.
2007:
Interview with Cory Arcangel and Dragan Espenschied on Hyperground
Radio,
mp3 on request.
upcoming:
Toys, magazine
about amateur graffiti, in cooperation with Roglok.
upcoming:
Feature in Faund Magazine issue #2.
more
writing samples
2008: Article for Rhizome.org.
2007: Essay for Shake Your Tree #3
Group
Exhibitions
2008
Sept: ÒKISS PrincipleÒ, curated by Constant Dullaart, clubinternet.org.
2008
Sept: ÒLost & Found 5 Sep at de WaagÒ, curated by Julia van Mourik, Lost & Found, Amsterdam.
2008
April: ÒShake Your Tree WorldtourÒ, Westberlin Gallery, Berlin.
2008
April: ÒShake Your Tree WorldtourÒ, Galerie gez. – Raum fuer Urheber, Stuttgart.
2008 March:
ÒDark FairÒ, curated by Hanne Mugaas & Fabienne Stephan, Gallery Art Since The Summer
Of Õ69, at the
ÒDark FairÒ, Swiss Institute, New York City.
2007
ÒLautsprecherei. Re: Sound – Art - DesignÒ, Kulturverein
Dialekt e.V.,
Stuttgart.
2006
ÒShake Your Tree - The Exhibition,Ò Kulturverein Dialekt e.V., Stuttgart.
2009
(upcoming): ãMichael Jackson DoesnÕt QuitÒ, The Future Gallery, Berlin.
Music
Releases
Album The Discoghosts – ÒBADÒ, 2008. CD inside
book Shake Your Tree #3.
Feature
on Party Ruiners Vol. II, 2008, Ego Twister
Records, France.
Contribution
to a Raymond Scott tribute on New YorkÕs WFMU Radio, 2007.
Album Primix For Kids, 2006.
Preview of upcoming solo album
(unreleased).
Live
Performances as Tracky Birthday
2008
April: Picknick,
Berlin.
2007 May:
Felt Club,
Rome.
2007
April: YouTube.com.
ÒBlue Moon 4.07Ò ranked # 7 most viewed video of the day (worldwide).
Later shown on national TV in Italy.
2007
March: The Magnet,
Liverpool. With Ceephax (Rephlex Records), Milanese (Warp), Cylob (Rephlex).
2006 Oct:
Rocker 33, Stuttgart. With Dragan
Espenschied of BodenstŠndig
2000
(Rephlex).
2006 Feb:
Times Square, New York. Webcam gig, see video upitup.com/shakeyourtree
General
Fluent in
English (TOEFL-Test approved; almost perfect score), Italian, and German (mother
tongue).
Highly proficient
in most common sound/film/design software; advanced HTML / CSS knowledge.
Internet-savvy, deeply involved in online subculture.
Excellent
communication skills.
Founder & Head of UpitUp Records, 2003-present (Stuttgart/Rome/Liverpool).
Ranked among top 3 netlabels by Telepolis (heise.de), 2007.
Regular
participation in events and weekly radio show _Hyperground, Stuttgart, streaming worldwide.
Can pick
up any language quickly, play any instrument. Knows how to rap backwards.
additional comments
Olia Lialina: ÒDennis represents the third
generation of net artistsÒ
Roglok: ÒDown with the undergroundÒ
Seecoy: ÒInternet celebrityÒ
Pierlo: ÒYour main skill is being
poly-skilled!Ò
MORE
WORKS:
Internet
trackybirthday.com (MyTubeLickr) 2008
Bootyclipse 2007
Office Party 2008
Wanna Be 2008
__iwannabeonwe-make-money-not-art.com
myfathermyson.gif 2008
Beuatiful
Drwaings, Evrey Day 2008
Ultimate Souvenir 2008
Design
Yellow 2008
BG Pattern 2006
Wubatman-Tang shirt 2007
Fake Your Tee t-shirt collection 2007
Other
Photography 2005-present
Untitled 2008
GPS-Polka 2006
S.E.R.V.I.V.E. AutoKitchen 2005
TVicious 2004
VR Band 2007
Circuit Bending 2006
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