Kurt Hentschlager

Kurt Hentschlager, or Hentschläger (born in Linz, Austria, in 1960) is a Chicago-based Austrian artist who creates audiovisual installations and performances. Between 1992 and 2003, he worked in a duo called Granular-Synthesis.

From 1982–85, Hentschlager studied at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna under Peter Weibel. He began to exhibit his work in 1983, building surreal machines and then video, computer animation, and sound works. In the early stages of his career, he also worked under the name Kurt Kitzler.

In 1991 in Vienna, Hentschlager and German artist Ulf Langheinrich co-founded the duo Granular-Synthesis. The name refers to the technique of granular synthesis, which Hentschlager and Langheinrich applied to both sound and image. Their multimedia installations and performances included Modell 5 (1994), Areal (1997), Noisegate (1998) and Pol (1998). They toured worldwide, and several compilations of their works were released on DVD. They won the International Biennial competition in Nagoya, Japan, in 1995, as well as stipends in Austria and the United States.

Hentschlager has described his installations as "visceral and immersive". A recurring topic in his work is the human body; human expression; the way the brain processes the outside world; and how perception is colored by imagination and one's individual psychology. Toward this end, he follows research in psychology and neurology as well as in contemporary art and culture. His current work focuses on nature and artifice from a post-utopian, post-science-fiction perspective.

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