Karl Kaisel

Projects

A Spectre Is Haunting the City
Feral Library of Knowledge
The Blanket

About
Design

    Karl Kaisel


      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