Bio
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Captured in a shop near Langstrasse, Zurich.

Curriculum Vitae
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Urs Hofer lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland and is happy that he finally got his M.A. in Media, Film and Computerscience.

1976 born in Hochdorf, Switzerland.
1998 Studies of film-, computer and media science at the University of Zurich.
1998 Working as freelance software developer and designer.
2001 Various projects in the fields of new media, graphic design and video in the studio Tr51 in Lucerne.
2005 Artist residency in Chicago.
2007 M.A. in Media, Film and Computerscience.

Screenings, Exhibitions
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Kurzfilmfestival Hamburg, Solothurner Filmtage, Filmfestival Locarno, Visions du Réel Nyon, Museum für Kommunikation Bern, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Forum Schlossplatz Aarau, Festival 3Moment Hochdorf, Heimat 611 Emmenbrücke, BOA Kulturzentrum Luzern, Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, Kammerspiele München, Ars Electronica 2007, La Noche en Blanco Madrid 2008

Grants / Residencies
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Grant SSA and Werkbeitrag 2003 of the City of Luzern for encyclopaedizer.net (collaboraion with PS-Culture.net), Werkbeitrag 2004 for kulturministerium.ch (collaboraion with PS-Culture.net), Werkbeitrag 2005 for Protest! (with Susanne Hofer), Residency Chicago 2005 (with Stefan Bischoff), Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2006 (for the encyclopaedizer book, collaboration with p+s Netzwerk Kultur and Raphael Koch), Werkbeitrag 2008 for PLATO and Sitemapping Grant 2009 for automatic cinema (both work in progress)