Eku Wand
| Eku Wand | |
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| Born | October 25, 1963 Düsseldorf, Germany |
| 💼 Occupation | Designer, Multimedia director |
| 🏅 Awards | Prix Pixel INA |
Eku Wand (born October 25, 1963 in Düsseldorf as Uwe Wand) is a German Designer and Multimedia director. Wand is a professor of media design and multimedia at the Braunschweig University of Art with a research focus on Interactive Storytelling.
Career
Eku Wand studied Visual Communication in the 1980s at the Hochschule der Künste, now the Berlin University of the Arts. After working as an art director for computer animation and video production at Cinepool in Berlin, he founded Pixelpark, now Digitas Pixelpark in Berlin, in 1991 together with Paulus Neef, where he was one of the managing directors and creative director. Pixelpark was one of the first multimedia agencies in Germany in the early 1990s and pioneered the New Economy. Neef and Wand were later classified as “Internet pioneers”.[1]
With Pixelpark, Wand realized, for example, the interactive sales promotion terminal (kiosk system) MusicMaster for the department store chain Karstadt, which enabled customers to access more than 60,000 music and video titles via touch-sensitive screens.[2] In 1995, the Bertelsmann Group took a stake in Pixelpark,[3] the company transformed itself into an AG (public limited company) and went public in 1999, experiencing economic turbulence from 2001 onwards,[4] and today belongs to the international agency group Publicis.
Wand left Pixelpark as early as 1993 because the development was moving too strongly in a purely commercial direction and the growth of the agency was too fast[5][6] and he founded the multimedia studio eku interactive, which he still runs today. Here he conceived and produced interactive new media projects, designed graphical user interfaces and websites for companies in various industries, such as Bertelsmann/Telemedia, Hubert Burda Media, Daimler-Benz, BVG Berliner Transport Company, GASAG AG, Lufthansa Systems, Victoria Insurance Company and Volkswagen Group.
As author, director, producer and publisher, he designed and realized edutainment CD-ROM titles and computer games as self-published productions. Among them the award-winning interactive documentary thriller “Berlin Connection”. The innovative project of a “digital scavenger hunt”[7] combines documentary material with fiction and adventure game. Furthermore, Wand produced the interactive multimedia CD-ROM documentary “Berlin in the Underground – An Interactive Journey Through Time Under The Potsdamer Platz” together with Dietmar Arnold, First Chairman of the Berlin Underworlds Association.[8][9]
Among his best-known works is the animated visualization of poems by Austrian poet and writer Ernst Jandl, which has been shown 130 times at film festivals and exhibitions. Wand has received awards and prizes for his media design projects at IMAGINA, SIGGRAPH, Prix Ars Electronica and Europrix.
Eku Wand's artistic media design and multimedia works have been featured and permanently exhibited at media festivals and exhibitions, including the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Vienna Technical Museum in Austria, and the German Hygiene Museum in Dresden.
After teaching and guest professorships in the 1990s at the Berlin University of the Arts, Zurich University of the Arts, Academy of Media Arts Cologne and Bauhaus University Weimar, Wand has been professor of media design/multimedia at the Braunschweig University of Art (HBK) since 2001. Since 2007 he has been the senate representative for German-Indonesian university contacts with the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB). Bandung has been Braunschweig’s sister city since 1960.
From 2007 to 2014, Eku Wand headed the Institute for Media Research (IMF) at the HBK. His teaching and research interests include user experience design, design thinking, interactive storytelling, narrative environments, and game design, especially serious games, virtual reality, and social media. Wand serves as a juror on expert panels and has served on the jury of the LeadAward, Webcuts Award, World Summit Awards, Serious Games Award,[10] iF Design Awards,[11] German Designer Club DDC and the German Design Award.
From 2009 to 2014, the German Universities Excellence Initiative for the German Games Industry is being created under the leadership of Eku Wand.[12][13] In this nationwide unique cooperation, the Braunschweig University of Art and the Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences are jointly breaking new ground in the training of computer and video game developers with the Games Academy in Berlin and Frankfurt.
Between 2011 and 2017, Wand established the Indonesian citizens’ initiative “Save Bangka Island,” which aimed to prevent iron ore mining on Bangka Island (North Sulawesi) and preserve it as a habitat and nature reserve. Wand designed motifs, organized media appearances and orchestrated a long-term campaign in social media platforms and online media.
From 2013 to 2017, Eku Wand relocated to Indonesia and founded the social media management and marketing agency PT. tewa international with a German partner.
Awards and honors
- 1991: Prix Pixel INA Award, Best Student Work, IMAGINA,[14] Monte-Carlo, Monaco
- 1991: 4th Computer-Generated Film Festival, Geneva, Switzerland
- 1991: Electronic Theatre, SIGGRAPH,[15] Las Vegas, USA
- 1991: Finalist, Computer Graphics, London, England
- 1991: International Festival for Animation, Berlin, Germany
- 1991: WRO / Sound Basis Visual Art Festival, Wroclaw, Poland
- 1992: Silver BIMA Award for Business Presentations, British Interactive Multimedia Association, London, England
- 1992: Finalist Award for Interactive Multimedia, New York Festivals, New York, USA
- 1992: German Special Award, The 15th Tokyo Video Festival (by JVC), Tokyo, Japan
- 1992: Silver Award in the category Multimedia, 3rd ITVA Festival, Munich, Germany
- 1993: Honorary Mention, Prix Ars Electronica,[16] Linz, Austria
- 1998: Multimedia Award of the City of Stuttgart, 11th Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany
- 1999: 2nd place, Cin(E)-Poetry Festival, San Francisco, USA
- 2002: Nomination, Europrix Multimedia Award – Excellence in New Media, Salzburg, Austria
- 2002: Special Award, Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
- 2008: Best Children’s Film, Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
Works
- “Poems of Ernst Jandl” (direction und production). Computer animation. Berlin 1989.
- “Mediascope 1992” – Multimedia in Application. 2nd interactive multimedia CD-ROM for Apple Germany. Pixelpark, Berlin 1992.
- “Berlin Connection” – An Interactive Documentary Thriller. 2 Interactive CD-ROMs. eku interactive, Berlin 1998, ISBN 978-3-935709-00-2 Search this book on
.. - “Berlin Connection: Dangerous Game”. Crime novel. Hartmut Mechtel and eku interactive, Berlin 1999.
- “Smell and Memory” – Results from Neurobiology. Interactive media installation for 7 Hügel / 7 Hills Exhibition,[17] Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin 2000 and permanent at German Hygiene Museum.
- “Berlin im Untergrund” – An Interactive Journey Through Time Under the Potsdamer Platz. Interactive CD-ROM. eku interactive, Berlin 2001, ISBN 978-3-935709-02-6 Search this book on ..
Publications
- Wand, Eku (1998). "Design as A Gateway Drug". In Hauff, Mechtild. [email protected]?. Development – design – evaluation of new media. Media in Science. Volume 6. Münster, New York, Munich, Berlin: Waxmann Verlag. pp. 187–192. ISBN 3-89325-674-1. Search this book on
- Wand, Eku (February 1, 2002). "Interactive Storytelling: The Renaissance of Narration". In Rieser, Martin; Zapp, Andrea. New Screen Media: Cinema/Art/Narrative. (text) and “Berlin Connection” – Structure & Design: Behind The Scenes Of An Interactive Documentary Thriller (DVD-ROM contribution). London: British Film Institute/ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. pp. 163–178. doi:10.5040/9781838710910.0022. ISBN 978-0-85170-864-5. Search this book on [18]
- Wand, Eku (2002). "Artistic added value or aesthetic overkill?". In Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Gegenworte. Journal for the dispute about knowledge. Volume 9: Science and Art. Berlin. pp. 38, 75–77, 97. urn:nbn:de:kobv:b4360-1004653. Search this book on [17]
- Wand, Eku (December 2, 2004). "Stories, Storylines, Events. Model: Interactive Storytelling". In Fleischmann, Monika; Reinhard, Ulrike. Digital Transformations. Media Art as an Interface of Art, Science, Economy and Society. Heidelberg. pp. 19, 242–247, 368. ISBN 978-3-934013-38-4. ISSN 1614-6662. Search this book on
- Wand, Eku (February 17, 2005). "Poems of Ernst Jandl". In Frieling, Rudolf; Daniels, Dieter. Medien Kunst Netz 2 / Media Art Net 2. Thematische Schwerpunkte / Key Topics. Vienna and New York: Springer. doi:10.17192/ep2005.4.1563. ISBN 978-3-211-23871-4. Search this book on [18]
- Wand, Eku (March 1, 2007). "The Documentary Game "Berlin In The Underground"". In Glück, Alexander. Underground Perspectives. The Historical Use of Hidden Spaces and their Possibilities for the Future. Innsbruck: StudienVerlag. pp. 179–196. ISBN 978-3-7065-4327-9. Search this book on
- Wand, Eku (March 1, 2015). "Interview: Save Bangka Island". In Hess, Petra; Schuhmacher, Melissa. Sulawesi – On the Road and Inside Indonesia. Bangka, Pulisan & Lembeh Strait. Berlin. pp. 116–119. ISBN 978-3-00-048632-6. Search this book on
- Großmann, Kristina; Wand, Eku (February 6, 2018). "Social Media and the Successful Anti-Mining Campaign in Bangka, Indonesia". In Taylor & Francis Group. Journal of Contemporary Asia. Volume 48. Issue 5: Party-State Governance and Rule in Laos. London. pp. 835–854. doi:10.1080/00472336.2018.1432675. ISSN 0047-2336. Unknown parameter
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Literature
- Anderer, Thomas (2001). Gabler Verlag, ed. The Phoenix Phenomenon. The Development of the New Economy in Germany and What You Can Learn from It. Wiesbaden. doi:10.1007/978-3-322-82397-7. ISBN 978-3-322-82398-4. Search this book on
- Bruck, Peter A. (2003). Österreichischer Kunst- und Kulturverlag, ed. EUROPRIX Top Talents. The Book on Innovation in Multimedia. Vienna. Search this book on
- Waesche, Niko (2005). "Rational Exuberance. Economic Historical Comments on Financial Euphoria and Founder Optimism during the New Economy". In Ziegler, Dieter. Economic History Yearbook. Volume 46 Trust. Issue 1. Berlin: Akademie Verlag. ISBN 3-05-004127-7. Search this book on
- Missomelius, Petra (2006). transcript Verlag, ed. Digital Media Culture. Perception – Configuration – Transformation. Bielefeld. pp. 107–108. ISBN 978-3-89942-548-2. Search this book on
- Stapelkamp, Thorsten (January 4, 2007). Springer, ed. Screen and Interface Design. X.media.press. Design and usability for hardware and software. Berlin Heidelberg. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-32950-3. ISBN 978-3-540-32949-7. Search this book on
- Stapelkamp, Thorsten (April 29, 2010). Springer, ed. Web X.0. X.media.press. Successful Web Design and Professional Web Concepts. Design strategies, style guides and layouts for stationary and mobile media. Berlin Heidelberg. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-02072-8. ISBN 978-3-642-02071-1. Search this book on
- Stapelkamp, Thorsten (November 17, 2010). Springer, ed. Interaction and Interface Design. X.media.press. Web, game, product and service design. Usability and interface as corporate identity. Berlin Heidelberg. Bibcode:2010iuiw.book.....S. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-02074-2. ISBN 978-3-642-02073-5. Search this book on
References
- ↑ Neumann, Helmut (August 2001). "The encyclopedia of Internet pioneers" (PDF) (in Deutsch). p. 128. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
- ↑ "Karstadt wants to sell via Multimedia". Computerwoche (in Deutsch). Munich: International Data Group. August 26, 1994. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
- ↑ "1995 Bertelsmann Goes Online. Acquisition of Pixelpark". Bertelsmann Chronicle. Gütersloh: Bertelsmann. 2015–2020. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
- ↑ Kohlenberg, Kerstin (May 10, 2001). "Pixelpark: Climate Disruption". Der Tagesspiegel (in Deutsch). Berlin: Verlag Der Tagesspiegel GmbH. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
- ↑ Steinhau, Henry (1999). "It all happened too fast for me". brand eins (in Deutsch). Vol. 01/1999. Hamburg: brand eins Medien AG. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
- ↑ Krex, Alexander (2012). "Pixelpark: Not to be broken". brand eins (in Deutsch). Vol. 11/2012. Hamburg: brand eins Medien AG. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
- ↑ Brandt, Jan (August 30, 2000). "Scavenger Hunt Digital". Jungle World (in Deutsch). Vol. 35/2000. Berlin: Jungle World Verlags GmbH. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
- ↑ Ninjalicious (October 15, 2005). "Appendix: Urban Exploration Timeline". In Infiltration.org. Access All Areas. A User's Guide to the Art of Urban Exploration. Toronto: Infilpress. p. 234. ISBN 978-0-9737787-0-0. Search this book on
- ↑ Ziegert, Susanne (September 28, 2001). "Eku Wand guides virtually through the Berlin underground". Die Welt (in Deutsch). Berlin: Axel Springer SE. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
- ↑ nordmedia, ed. (March 9, 2009). "Press release: Award ceremony SGA 2009" (in Deutsch). Hannover/Berlin. Retrieved April 25, 2021.
- ↑ International Forum Design, ed. (May 1, 2012). "iF Communication Design Award 2013 announcement" (PDF) (in Deutsch). Hannover. p. 3. Retrieved April 25, 2021.
- ↑ Steinlechner, Peter (February 26, 2009). "Games Academy cooperates with Universities". Golem.de (in Deutsch). Berlin: Golem Media GmbH. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
- ↑ "Excellence Initiative for the Games Industry" (in Deutsch). Berlin: Games Academy. February 26, 2009. Archived from the original on March 8, 2009. Retrieved April 20, 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Hénon, Pierre (1991). IMAGINA, ed. "Prix Pixel-INA 1991, Category: Schools and Universities". MediaWiki - Histoire de l'image 2D et 3D française de 1980 à 2000 (in french). Monte-Carlo (Monaco): Paris ACM SIGGRAPH. Retrieved April 20, 2021.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
- ↑ SIGGRAPH Conference, ed. (July 1991). SIGGRAPH '91 conference proceedings: 28 July-2 August 1991. New York, Reading (Massachusetts): Association for Computing Machinery, Addison-Wesley. p. 375. Retrieved May 8, 2021. Search this book on
- ↑ Prix Ars Electronica Showcase, ed. (1993). "ARS ELECTRONICA ARCHIVE - PRIX". Linz: Prix Ars Electronica. Retrieved May 8, 2021.
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Wand, Eku (2002). "Artistic added value or aesthetic overkill?". Gegenworte. Journal for the dispute about knowledge (in Deutsch). Vol. 9: Science and Art. Berlin: Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. pp. 38, 75–77, 97. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (ed.). "Collection & Archives". Retrieved April 25, 2021.
External links
- Website of eku interactive
- Media by and about Eku Wand / eku interactive in the German National Library catalogue
- Video Poems of Ernst Jandl
- Profile page Archived 2021-04-27 at the Wayback Machine at Braunschweig University of Art
- Website of PT. tewa international
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