This week our guest lecturer and MAI Program Director Klaus Obermaier, invited as part of the Winter Lecture Series 2016, inspired the audience with his lecture: Works and Projects.

Klaus Obermaier creates innovative works with new media in performing arts, music and installations, highly acclaimed by critics and audience.

His inter-media performances and artworks are shown at festivals and theatres throughout Europe, Asia, North and South America and Australia.

Klaus is the co-director of the new Master in Advanced Interaction at IAAC. Since 2006 he is visiting professor at the University IUAV of Venice/Italy, since 2013 also at Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca/Romania teaching interactive arts and performances. In 2010 and 2011 he held courses for choreography and new media at the Accademia Nazionale di Danza di Roma.

Klaus worked with dancers of the Nederlands Dans Theater, Chris Harin, Robert Tannion (DV8), Desireé Konerød (S.O.A.P. Dance Theatre Frankfurt). He composed for ensembles like Kronos Quartet, German Chamber Philharmonics, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Balanescu Quartet, among others.