Lutz Dammbeck

Painter, graphician, filmmaker, intermedia artist. Born 1948 in Leipzig. In his Mediencollagen [media collages] performances presented mainly in the underground scenes in GDR in the 1980s he combined media artifacts – image, sound and text – taken from German contemporary history and cultural heritage.

Films

• Herakles, 1984.
• REALFilm, 1986.
• The Net: The Unabomber, LSD and the Internet, 2003, 115 min.

Literature

• Christine Rahn, Multimedia in der DDR. Das Herakles-Konzept von Lutz Dammbeck, Leipzig: Universität Leipzig, 2007, 134 pp. Master's thesis. (German)
• Seth Howes, "Heraklesmaschine: Lutz Dammbeck's Experimental Cinema and the Expropriation of Senses", ch 2 in Howes, Moving Images on the Margins: Experimental Film in Late Socialist East Germany, Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2019. [1] (English)

Links

• http://www.t-h-e-n-e-t.com
• http://www.herakleskonzept.de/material/index.php/biografie.html
• http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/werke/herakles-konzept/
• http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutz_Dammbeck