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MICHAEL SPAHR (VJ RHAPS)
Michael Spahr (VJ Rhaps) is an artist, filmmaker and historian from
Switzerland.
Michael Spahr was born in 1973 in Bern (Switzerland).
He studied history, philosophy and media science at the University of
Bern and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Master of Arts, 1998).
During and after his studies he took classes in audio-visual art and
filmmaking (Algemeen Cultureel Centrum Amstelveen, film history at
the University of Amsterdam, Hardware Hacking Workshop HKB Bern).
Since 1998 he works professionally with audio-visual media. He worked
as camera man, editor, assistant director, producer and videojournalist
for Dutch and Swiss TV stations (Endemol, Kanaal7, RTL, Telebärn).
Since 2003 he is an independent artist and filmmaker.
As an artist he creates interactive film backdrops for theatre, produces live visuals
for music acts and makes moving pictures for literary and art performances.
As filmmaker he directed and produced several documentary films,
short fiction, animation movies, experimental web videos and music
video clips. As a promoter he worked at Reitschule and PROGR Bern.
From 2004 until 2006 he worked at the multimedia agency Optickle,
which he co-founded. 2007 he travelled around the world.
At the moment he works on his art project «GLOBOCITY»
(awarded by Atelier Worb with the KUNSTSCHUB prize 2008).
He collaborates with the Swiss Lebanese composer and musician Mahmoud
Turkmani on the audio-visual performance «Ya Sharr Mout»
(«Oh, Evil, Die»/«Son of a bitch») and with
norient on the scientific multimedia art performance «Sonic
Traces From the Arab World». He is a member of the space rock
band Blues Horror Brigade.
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