Summary
Martin Bircher was born in 1978 in Aarau, Switzerland. After an apprenticeship as an electrician he studied at the University of Applied Sciences Northwest Switzerland to receive a degree in Fine Arts with specialisation in Media Art in 2003.
In 2006 he migrated to Kouvola, Finland, where he works as a media artist and full-time lecturer for Digital Media at Kymenlaakso University of Applied Sciences. He occasionally teaches workshops in the fields of physical computing and electronic media in art.
The interest in his artistic work lies in combining antiquated items and digital technology in order to create objects with new purposes – to “objets trouvés numériques”.
Biography
Born in Aarau, Switzerland
Exhibitions
23 October 2011
Installation “Digital Enhancement”
Cable Gallery, Cable Factory, Helsinki, Finland
18. October 2011
Installation “fogli di plastica a bolle d'aria”
(co-operation with Markku Metso and Jonne Pitkänen)
Project Space of the Freies Museum Berlin Germany
24 September 2011
(co-operation with Markku Metso and Jonne Pitkänen)
Kouta-galleria in the Kouvola Art Museum, Kouvola, Finland
24. October 2010
Installation "Type Case"
Exhibition Centre WeeGee in Espoo, Finland
2. June 2007
www.saitensprung-online.ch
Interaktives Dilemma der Einsamkeit
VALIART KulturRaum in Bern, Switzerland
6. November 2005
Installation «die Hand kann nicht» (co-operation with Irene Näf)
Kunsthaus Langenthal, Switzerland
Grants
Arts Council of Southeast Finland
CARTES Centre of Art and Technology Espoo, Finland
Valiart by Valiant, Bern, Switzerland
