Heiko Daxl
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| Born | 21 September 1957 Oldenburg |
| Died | 21 May 2012 (aged 54) |
| Nationality | German |
| Known for | Media Art, Video Art, Installation art, Digital Art, Electronic Art, Curator |
Heiko Daxl (21 September 1957 – 21 May 2012) was a German media artist, exhibition curator, art gallery owner and design / art collector. Born in Oldenburg, Germany, he lived and worked in Berlin and Zagreb.
Until 1976 he grew up in Varel, Dangast and Neuenburg next to Jadebusen in the (Friesland (district)). During his education at the Lothar Meyer High-School he learned about the medium film. He first studied architecture and urbanism at the Technical University Braunschweig (1978), but changed to the University of Osnabrück, which offered at that time in Germany a unique course of studies in communication and aesthetics. There he studied art history with Franz Joachim Verspohl, Walter Grasskamp, Lothar Knapp and Jutta Held as well as media studies with Joachim Paech, Werner Faulstich, Walter Fähnders, Peter von Rueden, Ingo Petzke and Wolfgang Becker,. Here he was conferred his Magister Artium degree in 1985. He also studied German Language and Literature at the Technical University Berlin and Art History at the University of Zurich.
In 1980 he founded, with others under the guidance of Ingo Petzke, the Experimental Film Workshop Osnabrück, an annual festival for experimental film art, which in 1988 became the European Media Art Festival (EMAF). Daxl was till 1992 considerably involved in the shaping of this worldwide important forum for media art. From 1987 he has participated in Goethe-Institut cultural exchange programmes, visiting more than 50 countries in Europe, America, Asia and Australia.
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