Karl Kaisel

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    Karl Kaisel

    karlkaisel@gmail.com
    @karlkaisel

         Karl works interdisciplinarily, expanding the possibilities of filmmaking through animation and exploring different technologies for storytelling and world creation. With his master’s degree from University of Applied Arts Vienna in Art & Science he thinks of art and science as not two ends of spectrums but rather two entangled fields deeply interconnected. Art invisions new worlds while science gives tools for investigating it. His works are based on artistic research appling methods of archival research, autoethnography and folk knowledge mixed with ecology.
    Karl places himself somewhere between artist, filmmaker and designer. As a designer he values aesthetics as a tool to access the viewers’ attention. His education in media design and experience working in animation, design establishes a strong technical background to his conceptual works. As an artist, Karl is interested in the relationships that humans and nonhumans have; the artificial dichotomy and tension that is dividing the world into natural and unnatural. He grew up in Estonia in a peatland forest, which is the defining aspect of his creative work. The works stem from the strong connection to the land and everything that is inhabiting it, living or nonliving. Through that connection he sees the world as an intertwined relationship expanding through every aspect of life. While this world is going through rapid changes and multiple crises it’s crucial to imagine worlds that are not only envisioning the apocalyptic scenarios but also positive and functioning worlds where different agents are inhabiting this world in symbiosis.





    Education

     2021- 2023 – University of Applied Arts Vienna, Art & Science, MA

    2016-2020 – Pallas University of Applied Sciences, Media and Advertising Design, BA

    ​ 2018 – Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Printmaking (Erasmus semester in Belgium)

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    2022 -          Design Science Summer School COHABITATION, Slovenia

    2013 - 2014 – Exchange year in South Africa, YFU program



    Projects, awards

     2024 ---------------------------------------

    YODEX - Young Designers’ Exhibition, Taiwan

    2023 ---------------------------------------

    International Students Creative Award
    Japan - 2nd Prize

    CineToro Experimental Film Festival Columbia - Winner of CAMPBELL´S SOUP SO.ART
    PÖFF Shorts
    Estonia - Official selection
    Beijing International Short Film Festival
    China - Official selection
    Animist Festival
    Estonia - Official selection

    Galleria Rajatila’s Videokoppi
    Finland - exhibitor
    Sala Terrena Group Show
    Austria - exhibitor, graphic designer
    2022 ---------------------------------------

    Art Speaks Out, COP27
    Egypt - exhibitor
    PÖFF Shorts
    Estonia - official selection
    ELO(KUVA)KUU
    Finland - Official selection
    Contemporary Art Festival VIDEOPARK
    Serbia - Official Selection
    From There Through Here, Künstlerhaus, Austria - exhibitor, graphic designer
    Liquid tools for river fiction, DTAFA Austria - participant, exhibitor
    2020----------------------------------------

    Duo exhibition “Õ+Ő”, Estonian Week
    Hungary - exhibitor
    Solo exhibition “Found & Lost” at Tapamaja Estonia - curator, artist
    “Neli” audiovisual exhibition, 
    Estonia - organiser and exhibitor


    Work experience

     02.2024 - 07.2024  –  Trajna
    intern
    10.2021 - ... – Jopp Creative
    freelance animator and designer
    05.2021 - 09.2021 – Bolt Technology multimedia designer
    02.2021 - 05.2021 – Budaörs Animation Base and Creative Space
    intern
    05.2019 - 06.2109 – Tabasco
    graphic design intern
    09.2017 - 05.2021 – Freelance designer