Susanna Hertrich – Associated Researcher
Susanna Hertrich works at the intersection of conceptual design and contemporary art. She studied at the Peter Behrens School of Art in Düsseldorf and Tokyo University of the Arts. She received an MA degree from the Royal College of Art in London (2008). Her artistic research investigates extensions of the human senses and the role of the physical body in relation to technology-driven environments. Susanna is a recipient of numerous grants and was an invited artist in residence at the Goethe Institute’s Villa Kamogawa in Kyoto (2015), Tsinghua University Art & Science Media Laboratory in Beijing (2012) and Tokyo Wonder Site (2012). Her artworks are exhibited internationally, among others at HKW House of World Cultures, Berlin; CAFA Art Museum, Beijing; Marta Herford; FACT, Liverpool, Boston Center for the Arts and MAK, Vienna. Susanna has had teaching positions at Chiba University in Japan, Anhalt University in Dessau, University of the Arts Berlin, Academy of Art and Design in Basel and Bergen Academy of Art & Design in Norway.
Conference Papers
Hertrich, S. and Honda, A., Brighter Than A Thousand Suns: A Uniform To Detect And Display Radiation. TEI 17. New York: ACM, 2017. Pages 659-663.
Hertrich, S. und Joost, G. AAA – Automated Anchoring Device. Devices That Alter Perception in conjunction with ISMAR 2010, October 13th 2010, Seoul, South Korea.
Hertrich, S., Hemmert F., et. al. Synthetic Empathy. Devices That Alter Perception in conjunction with ISMAR 2010, October 13th 2010, Seoul, South Korea.
Hertrich, S. and Reynolds, C. (2009) Prostheses for Instincts. International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA 2009). August 23 – September 1, 2009, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Hertrich, S., Fear Tuners. Devices that Alter Perception Workshop (DAP 2008) in conjunction with UbiComp 2008, September 21st, 2008, Seoul, South Korea.
Other
Devices That Alter Perceptions, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2010
14.05.2019 Die Zukunft der Künste in Reale Utopien, Das Deutsche Hygiene-Museum, Dresden (/w Jan Claas Van Treeck)
2018 Minds, Bodies and the Machine, Presentation and Panel, Mapping Festival, Geneva (CH)
2018 Empathy and Justice, Presentation, Art Academy Munich (DE)
2017 What remains… Discussion with Martina Siegwolf, DOCK, Basel (CH)
2017 Altering Perceptions „Questioning Aesthetics Symposium: Art Research Symposium“, Transdisciplinary Aesthetics Foundation, Barcelona (ES)
2017 New Senses Dept. of Media Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin (DE)
2017 Haunted – Artist Talk (w/ Kyoko Ebata), IIDj, Tokyo (JP)
2017 Brighter Than A Thousand Suns – Artist Talk Creative Hub 131, Tokyo (JP)
2016 Poetry of Real Symposium Academy of Art and Design FHNW, Basel (CH)
2016 Human Upgrade – Artist Talk Schader-Stiftung gallery, Darmstadt (DE)
2016 The Connected Body panel discussion, ZKM, Karlsruhe (DE)
2016 Meister, Cyborgs und Maschine panel discussion, DASA, Dortmund (DE)
SOLO & DUO
2018 On the dependence of our worldview on the duration of the moment Kunstverein Mannheim (DE)
2016 Human Upgrade Schader-Stiftung gallery, Darmstadt (DE) (/w Hannes Wiedemann)
2015 Prostheses. Transhuman Life Forms Art Laboratory Berlin (DE)
2011 Berlin Wild Life Haus am Waldsee/Skulpturenpark, Berlin (DE) (/w Michiko Nitta)
2010 Gloomy Haven Felix Ringel Galerie/garage, Düsseldorf (DE)
GROUP (SELECTION)
2019 Experiment Zukunft, Kunsthalle Rostock (/w Shintaro Miyazaki)
2017–19 Hello, Robot *
— Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein (DE)
— Vienna Biennial, MAK, Wien (AT)
— Design Museum, Ghent (BE)
— 2018 Gewerbemuseum Winterthur (CH)
2018 The End is Where We Start From. On Tsunamis, Nuclear Explosions and other Fairy Tales
Balzer Projects, Basel (CH)
2017 First, I was afraid Dorsky Gallery, New York City (US)
2017 I Dread To Think… Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston (US)
2017 Kairos Castle Castle Van Gaasbeek, Gaasbeek (BE) *
2017 Arts Track TEI17 Intl. Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interactions, Yokohama (JP)
2016 Second Nature HEK – House of Electronic Art, Basel (CH)
2016 Don’t Expect Anything European Media Arts Festival, Osnabrück (DE) *
2016 The Next Big Thing Is Not A Thing Bureau Europa, Maastricht (NL) *
2015 The Ticking of Time Emaar Pavilion Gallery, Dubai (AE) *
2015 Digital Art Fest National Academy of the Arts, Sofia (BG)
2015 The Informed Body NODE Forum for Digital Arts, Mousonturm, Frankfurt (DE)
2014 III. Biennial of Contemporary Art Mérida (VE)*
2014 Intimacy Paraflows Festival, Künstlerhaus Wien (AT)*
2013 Von Tagebuch bis weblog: Tägliche Strategien in der Gegenwartskunst
Municipal gallery Bietigheim-Bissingen (DE)*
2013 O’Clock CAFA Art Museum, Beijing (CN) *
2012 Hey, Alter Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg (DE)
2012 Get some fresh AIR Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokio (JP)
2012 Revolve EMAF European Media Arts Festival, Osnabrück (DE) *
Grants, scholarships & artist residencies (selection)
2019 Atelier Mondial, full stipend for artist residency at Tokyo Arts and Space Residency, Japan
2017 Berlin Senate, support for intl. cultural projects: exhibition in New York
2017 Goethe Institute, travel grant for Boston
2015 Goethe Institute Kyoto, full stipend for artist residency at Villa Kamogawa, Kyoto
2012 Goethe Institute, full stipend for TASML Tsinghua Art & Science Media Lab, Beijing
2012 Tokyo Wonder Site, artist residency
2011 The Federal German Cultural Foundation, project grant
2010 Schering Foundation for Art & Science, exhibition grant
2005 Norwegian Arts Council, Art & Technology project grant
2005 Norwegian Research Council, travel stipend for China
1999 Japanese Ministry of Culture and Education full stipend for Tokyo National University of the Arts,
Dept. Intermedia Arts, Prof. Masaki Fujihata
2016 Visiting lecturer, Academy of Art and Design FHNW, Basel (CH)
2014 – 2015 Visiting Associate Professor, Chiba University (JP)
2013 – 2014 Course leader, MAID, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences (DE)
2011 – 2013 Visiting lecturer, University of the Arts Berlin (DE)
2002 – 2006 Associate Professor, Bergen Academy of Art and Design (NO)
