Micha Elias Pichlkastner is an Art Director, Editor, Motion Designer and award winning internationally exhibiting Media Artist currently based in between Vienna, Austria and Toronto, Canada.
Among other things, his work explores the impact of machines and virtual space on human behaviour and the significance of the human body in an altering and increasingly digital and virtual world.
Obsessed with immersive and technoid styles, especially in terms of audiovisual symbiosis; he develops installations, performances and short films. Additionally, he works on feature films, music videos, commercials and all kinds of animations for a huge variety of clients in North America and Europe.
CLIENTS & COLLABORATORS (Selection)
TikTok, Youtube, Abbott, BMW, Red Bull, Factor, Uber Eats, Intersport, Palfinger, A1, KTM
RYAN ENN HUGHES, EDGAR HONETSCHLÄGER, ELISABETH VON SAMSONOW, ARNO DEUTSCHBAUER, LUKAS IPSMILLER, GREGOR SAMS, AMINA DASCHIL, JASMIN HAGLEITNER, ALLISON BERNADETTE LONG, JAKOB BARTH, ALEX PÜRINGER, DANIEL HOLLERWEGER, CHRISTOPHER HOSP
PUBLICATIONS & FEATURES
-ART IN THE DIGITAL AGE – INTERVIEW
Revista-ARTA (Contemporary art magazine)
– CREATIVE AUSTRIANS
Federal Ministry Republic of Austria European and International Affairs
– G0D-E COMMERCIAL
Create Digital Motion
Cromoart Film Inspiration 96
From Up North
Behance – Motion
– OBGM – Pill
Vimeo Staff Pick
– 74R505
Create Digital Motion
– BODYLINE BORDERLINE
Create Digital Motion
– OBGM – Beat Up Kidz
Vimeo Staff Pick
– FRAMES
Behance – Motion
– NEVER ENDING CITY
From Up North
AWARDS & NOMINATIONS
– REPLICA
ELEKTRONIKLAND SALZBURG 2015
Best Interdisciplinary Project
CONTENT AWARD VIENNA 2016
Nomination in „Sound & Vision” 2016
– G0D-E COMMERCIAL
FILM FORUM LINZ 2012
Future Award
– DIGITAL WOUND
FILM FORUM LINZ 2012
Future Award
Future Award ADC 2013
Distinction
COFFEE2WATCH SPOTS 2012
1st Price
– EXISTENCE 2.0.
OUT OF BOX AWARD
2011 Nomination „best Adervertising Campaign“
EXHIBTIONS, PERFORMANCES & TALKS (Selection)
– EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE IN 2023/ANOTIMPURILE FEST/FDR FESTIVAL – S ECTI VE – [hol’-os]] – PERFORMANCE – Timisoara, Romania, 2023
– ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL 2023/FUTURE LAB PERFORMANCES – S ECTI VE – [hol’-os]] – PERFORMANCE – Linz, Austria, 2023
– LIVE CINEMA FESTIVAL – SECTIVE – [ˈdaːzaɪn] – PERFORMANCE – Rome, Italy, 2021
– ARS ELECTRONICA/25 YEARS OF FUTURE LAB – S ECTI VE – [ˈdaːzaɪn] – PERFORMANCE – Linz, Austria, 2021
– BRITISH COUNCIL – EUNIC ROMANIA – TALK – Bucharest, Romania, 2019
– CULTURAL MANAGEMENT ACADEMY – LECTURE – Bucharest, Romania 2019
– PATCHLAB DIGITAL ART FESTIVAL – PERFORMANCE – Krakow, Poland, 2018
– BOOK ARSENAL – TALK – Kiev, Ukraine, 2018
– CIRCLE OF LIGHT FESTIVAL – EXHIBTION – Moscow, Russia, 2017
– LIVE VISUALS – DORIAN CONCEPT – PERFORMANCE – ARS ELECTRONICA Nightline – Linz, 2017
– DRIP & COMO//XXMO – EXHIBTION – Schmiede, Hallein, 2016
– DEPARTURE CREATORS LAB – TALK – Sound:frame, Wien, 2016
– REPLICA – EXHIBTION – Spektakel, Sound:frame Closing, Wien 2015
– REPLICA – EXHIBTION – Praterauna, Wien, 2015
– LIVE VISUALS – PERFORMANCE – Linz, Wien, Hallein, 2011-2016
– BALANCE – EXHIBTION & PERFORMANCE – Schmiede, Hallein, 2014
– G0D-E & FRAMES – EXHIBTION – Celeste, Wien, 2014
– NON-PLACES – EXHIBTION – Fotohof, Salzburg, 2013
– ALLO & BODYLINE BORDERLINE – EXHIBTION & PERFORMANCE – Schmiede, Hallein, 2013
– ALLO & FRAMES – EXHIBTION – Creativity Rules, Hallein, 2013
– 74R505 – EXHIBTION – Schmiede, Hallein, 2012
SCREENINGS
DEPARTURE
– Berlin International Film Festival, BERLINALE – Germany, 2018
LABORATORY OF THE EXO/ENDO CORPUS
– Back to the Postfuture – Venice, Italy 2018
– Vienna International Film Festival, VIENNALE – Vienna, Austria, 2017
– ZKM – Zentrum für Kunst und Medien – Karlsruhe, Germany, 2017
– Athens Digital Arts Festival – Vdeo Art/Post Reality Screening – Athens, Greece, 2017
COMO//XXMO – ECLIPSE
– Manchester International Short and Animation Festival – Manchester, UK, 2017
– Athens Digital Arts Festival – Video Art/Post Reality Screening – Athens, Greece, 2017
– Canadian International Fashion Film Festival – Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 2017
– Sarajevo Fashion Film Festival – Bosnia & Herzegovina, 2016
– Chelsea Fashion & Film Festival – NY, USA, 2016