Prof. Phillip Schulze
Visiting Professor for Music Informatics
phillip.schulze@musikundmedien.net
Phillip Schulze, born 1979, studied Media Art and Stage Design at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, Germany with Anna Jermolaewa, Paul Modler, Siegfried Mauser, Michael Saup, and Penelope Werli, followed by a Master of Art in Music Composition at Wesleyan University CT, USA with Anthony Braxton, Ron Kuivila, and Alvin Lucier.
Phillip Schulze's work is oscillating between different artistic forms of expressions. On one hand, he focuses on compositions for classical instruments, electroacoustic music via synthesizer's and self constructed software instruments. On the other hand, he develops much of his work in a visual art context.
Schulze creates sound, light, and video environments, installations, and extended concert situations with an aim at finding intersection points between visual and auditory experience as well as relations among participants, objects and site.
His work has been performed or installed in Germany, France, Austria, Poland, Switzerland, Netherlands, Korea, China, Japan, Singapore, Canada and the USA at locations including the Düsseldorfer Kunstverein/Kunsthalle, Badischer Kunstverein, Art Institute Chicago, EyeBeam NYC, Musterraum München, Kunst Museum Bonn, Kumho Museum of Art, Transmediale Berlin, K21 Schmela Galerie, Ars Electronica, Moers Festival, Fluctuating Images, Diapason Gallery, Japan Media Art Festival, Kunst Film Biennale Köln, Deutschlandradio Kultur, Bains Numeriques, V2 Rotterdam and Viper Basel.
After living and working as a free artist in New York City in 2008, Schulze worked collaboratively with Louis-Philippe Demers and Armin Purkrabek as a Media-Art Research Associate at the Interaction and Entertainment Research Center of the School of Art, Design & Media, in Singapore. Research topics included interactive fine arts, augmented and mixed reality, interactive environments and interfaces – such as multi-touch tables, floors, and cylinders as well as multichannel interactive sound installations. With several of these projects, Schulze tours collaboratively around the globe, e.g. the Tiller Girls, a dance, light and sound performance with twelve autonomous robots.
Since 2006 Schulze gives talks and workshops at different academic institutions, that is for instance the University Alabama, the Wesleyan University and the Bauhaus University Weimar.
From 2009 to 2010 Phillip Schulze curated the space Mintrop 20 in Düsseldorf, a site for new experimental Media, Sound & Performance Art.
In 2010 Schulze received the Audi Art Award, as well as a Honory Mentioning in the field of Digital Musics & Sound by the Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria.
In 2011 the University of Music Düsseldorf appointed him as visiting professor of Music Informatics at the Institute For Music And Media.