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Winfried Ritsch (born 1964, Tyrol) is an Associate Professor of Computer Music at the Institute for Electronic Music and Acoustics (IEM) at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz and runs the ‘Klangatelier Algorythmics’. He studied electrical engineering and sound engineering at the Graz University of Technology and the former University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. In addition to his compositions and large media art installations, he has developed innovative artistic concepts and initiated media art laboratories and the artists' initiatives FOND, TONTO, mur.at and has realized art and music theatre productions. He has been honored with art prizes for his work as a composer, including the 1994 City of Graz Prize for Composition, the Max Brandt Prize for Composition in 1997, and the Andrzej Dobrowolski Composition Prize of the Province of Styria in 2020. He tours extensively with his experimental computer music and media art performances and media art installations, in particular with robot ensembles such as the ‘ensemble mècanique’, most recently realizing robotic exhibitions at Kunsthaus Graz 2019 and Museum Fernand Léger in Biot/France. For his artistic activities in the fields of radio art, sound art, and the realization of telematic art projects, he develops robotic musical instruments, and cybernetic models for generative and interactive music and acoustics as open-source projects and has been operating his net culture servers on the Internet since 1998. |
