About /CV
Photo: Martin Söderblom
HELLO, MY NAME IS JOEL DITTRICH
I am working in an interdisciplinary approach, with projects ranging from fine art, to new media performance and installation. Furthermore I work with usability focused design and photography, such as web sites in Wordpress and other graphic communication. I am educated at Konstfack University College of Arts Crafts in and Design. I studied at the Art Teacher Education Program as well as Theories, Methods and Practices – a post graduate course on art theory and the history of ideas.
I run my own firm and I am available for freelance projects as well as lecturing and workshops. I am based in Stockholm Sweden, but at the moment I am living life in New York City for three months! On the 7th of april I will travel back to Europe for work in Denmark, Germany, UK and Sweden.
SELECTION OF CUSTOMERS
Pony Sugar Art Studio, New Media Meeting, OSC09 (Färgfabriken), Pixelvärk (2.35:1/Berns Salonger), Håkan Lidbo Audio Industries, Drumcode, Structure, Hyper Hyper, Socially Hazardous, Voltfestivalen (UKK), Norbergfestivalen, Arvikafestivalen, Hultsfredsfestivalen, Hootchy Kootchy Club (Södra Teatern), Designgalleriet, Sköna Hem, Konstfack, Sigtuna Folkhögskola, Riddarfjärdens Gymnasium, Kärrtorps Gymnasium (Bilda), Aroma Music (Goethe Institut, Schwedische Botschaft), Ström i P2 (Arts Birthday/Sveriges Radio).
CREATIVE GROUPS
I <3 AG Studios, Swedish VJ Union, Dittrich & Söderblom Utbildning/Education (Join our Facebook group for info on courses in Audio Visual Performance here!)
SELECTION OF PERFORMANCES
*Live audio visual performance: Alter Modern Times, Berlin TBA 2010
*Live visuals/VJ-ing, London TBA 2010
*Surreality In Reality Gallery – live audio visual performance: Alter Modern Times, San Francisco TBA 2010
*Live visuals/VJ-ing, New York City TBA 2010
*Uppsala Kulturnatt – live visuals/VJ-ing TBA 2010
*Voltfestivalen (Sveriges Radio) – live visuals/VJ-ing: Alter Modern Times, Uppsala Koncert & Kongress, 05.06 2010
*Hvorslev Kunstforening – live audio visual performance: Alter Modern Times, Ulstrup Castle, Denmark 16-17.04 2010
*O-Space (One Arm Red) multimedia/acoustic jam – live audio visual performance: Alter Modern Times, New York City 04.03 2010
*Share NYC (Issue Project Room) multimedia jam – live visuals/VJ-ing: Alter Modern Times, New York City 21.02 and 14.03 2010
*Drumcode – live visuals/VJ-ing, Münchenbryggeriet/Skyddsrummet, Stockholm 25.12 2009
*Färgfabriken/OSC09 – live visuals/VJ-ing, 14.08 2009
*Voltfestivalen (Sveriges Radio) – live visuals, Uppsala Koncert & Kongress 06.06 2009
*New Media Meeting – live visuals/VJ-ing, Norrköping, 30.05 2009
*Ström i P2 (Sveriges Radio) at Arts Birthday – live visuals/VJ-ing, Södra Teatern, Stockholm 16.01 2009
*Nätverket SIP – live visuals/VJ-ing, Växjö 02.12 2008
*Structure – live visuals/VJ-ing at underground club, 24.10, 69-09 2008
*Swedish VJ Union – live visuals/VJ-ing at Berns Salonger (2.35:1) with Martin Söderblom, Stockholm 17.10 2008
*New Media Meeting – live visuals/VJ-ing, Norrköping 19-20.09 2008
*Play at Berns Salonger/Arkaden – live visuals/VJ-ing, Stockholm 15.08 2008
*Norbergfestival – live visuals/VJ-ing, 24-26.07 2008
*Konstfack, live audio visual performance, with Max Sokoleski, Stockholm 23.05 2008
*Aroma Music/Stockholm-Berlin part 2 (Goethe Institut, Schwedische Botschaft) – live visuals/VJ-ing at Marie Laveau, Stockholm 11.04 2008
*Aroma Music/Stockholm-Berlin part 1 (Goethe Institut, Schwedische Botschaft) – live visuals/VJ-ing at 103 Club, Berlin 29.03 2008
*KSK at Marie Laveu – live visuals/VJ-ing, Stockholm 14.03 2008
*Pixelvärk at Berns Salonger/2.35:1 – live visuals/VJ-ing, Stockholm, 07.10 2007
*New Media Meeting – live visuals/VJ-ing, Norrköping, 21.09-22.09
*Norbergfestival – live visuals/VJ-ing at Svaj Showcase, 28.07 2007
*Arvikafestival – live action painting “Love in the forest” 2006, ”Chemicals” 2007
*Svaj Klubb – resident visual artist: live visuals/VJ-ing, Stockholm, 13 evenings 2006-2007
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
*Pony Sugar Art Studio - Stockholm TBA 2010
*Extend – paintings: Dislocation New York City, Stockholm TBA 2010
*Cafe Orwell – paintings: Dislocation New York City, Brooklyn, New York TBA 2010
*I <3 AG Studios – paintings, photography, visuals, Stockholm 26.01-27.01-2008
*Plagg & Pjuck – paintings, Stockholm, 17.01-26.02-2005
*Svaj Café – paintings, Stockholm, 08.05-31.08-2004
SELECTION OF GROUP EXHIBITIONS
*Färgfabriken – interactive sound/video sculpture: Hack, with Håkan Lidbo and Andreas Tilliander, Stockholm TBA 2010
*69-09 – film screening at Konstfack, Stockholm 08-15.01 2009
*Another Roadside Attraction Gallery, film screening, London 23.10 2008
*New Media Meeting, film screening, Norrköping 19-20.09 2008
*Re:Buzz, Växjö, 12.05-26.05 2007
*Konstfack, Stockholm, seven times 2004-2007
*Kulturhuset/Lava in Stockholm, at a fashion show, 22.10 2005
*Svaj Café, paintings, Stockholm, twice during 2005
*Street, alternative market in Stockholm, 27.08-28.08 2005
*Mondo, nightclub in Stockholm, Svaj 2-year anniversary, 04.09-05.09 2004
*Benassi Gallery in Stockholm, 15.04-15.05 2004
*Edsvik Art Centre in Sollentuna, installation, collaboration with Madeleine Lundberg 2003
SELECTION OF COMMISSIONS
*The Guerrilla Market, fashion store – graphic profile incl. web design/code 2010
*Charlotte Antser: Retromantic – runway photography, Kulturhuset/Lava, Stockholm 09.04 2010
*Chiseki: Traces of Nature – photography of art performance, 310 Lounge, New York City 07.03 2010
*Håkan Lidbo Audio Industries – web design/code, hakanlidbo.com 2009
*Divine Decadence Darling of Christina Holström – photography of alternative fashion design, London 2009
*Photography, document a private celebration, London 23.05 2009
*Designgalleriet, product and portrait photography, 2008
*Nätverket SIP/Projektor – documenting photography, Växjö 02.12 2008
*Senze Magazine, alternative fashion photography, London 04-08.09 2008
*Skelett.nu, documenting photography at Arvikafestival 2008
*Hootchy Kootchy Club (Södra Teatern) – photoshoots+edit 2008-2009
*Konstfack – photoshoot/edit/show at lectures 2008
*Ho Chi Minh Howlers, rock band – concert photograph/edit 05.01 2008
*Charlotte Antser Fashion – studio photoshoots/edit 12.01 2008
*Sköna Hem, interior design magazine – photoshoots+edit Stockholm and New York City 2007-2010
*Travel For You – webdesign 2007
*Hultsfredsfestival – painting 2007
*Q-lan – webdesigns and posters, 2005-2007
*Hultsfredsfestival 2006 – painting/sculpture: “You + me” (w Joel Wredlert)
*Joel Wredlert, furniture designer – webdesign, 2006
*High Valley, music producer collective – painting, 12.01-2006
*Plagg & Pjuck, fashion store in Stockholm – painting, 2005
EDUCATION – Konstfack University College of Arts Crafts and Design, Stockholm
*Theories, Methods and Practices, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, 30 credits 2009-2010
*Advanced Digital Image Treatment, Department of Graphic Design and Illustration, 1,5 credits 2009
*BA of Teaching in Art, Design and Visual Culture, Department of Art Teacher Education, 270 credits 2004-2009
EDUCATION OTHER
*The Fourth Dimension: Video, Space and The Broken Screen, Department of Art History, School of Visual Arts, New York City 2010
*Abstracting the figure, Department of Fine Art, The New School For Design/Parsons, New York City 2010
*Alter Modern Times [Stockholm vs. New York City], a visual culture and lifestyle design project to alter my self, MKFC Stockholm, distance 2010
*Advanced Photoshop, Dreamweaver and SketchUp 3D, Nätbildarna distance education, 2009
*German language and culture studies, Gotlands Folkhögskola distance 2009
*Nyckelviksskolan – Art Craft and Design, Stockholm, 1 year 2003-2004
*Upper secondary school; The Mediaprogram – Information and Advertising, Stockholm, 3 years 1999-2002
*Comprehensive School, Stockholm, 9 years
CONFERENCES /LECTURES /WORKSHOPS AS PARTICIPATOR
*On Notation, The New School For Design/Parsons, New York City 2010
*Mapping sound in art, Unsound Festival, New York City 2010
*The future of college art education, Sigtuna Folkhögskola/College 2008
*Lectures on real-time video manipulation, Mapping Festival, Geneva Switzerland 2008
*Creative Business Planning, SSES Konstfack, Stockholm 2006
TEACHER WORK
*Various production software workshops, TBA 2010
*Lectures and workshops on live visuals/VJ-ing, (Stockholm, Berlin) TBA 2010
*Lectures and workshops on web design with Wordpress as CMS, TBA 2010
*School of Visual Arts, lecture on how I do live visuals/VJ-ing with Modul8, School of Visual Arts, New York City 16.03 2010
*Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, artist presentation, 2009
*New Media Meeting/Nordic Visual 2, lecture and workshop on Formless visuals/VJ-ing, 30.05 2009
*Kärrtorps Gymnasium (Bilda), upper secondary school, teaching interactive media, mars-june 2009
*RHS-Gymnasiet, upper secondary school, teaching design, two weeks 2009
*Sigtuna Folhögskola, art education, lecture and workshop on the basics of live visuals/VJ-ing, 08-09.12 2008
*Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, lecture and workshop on the basics of live visuals/VJ-ing, oct 2008 (teacher training)
*Riddarfjärdens Gymnasium, upper secondary school, graphic gesign, photography and media communication, part time 2006-2007 (teacher training)
*Q-lan, recreation centre, photography and video production, four terms part time evenings and weekends, january 2005 – january 2007
*Eriksdalsskolan, secondary school, art, four terms part time 2004-2006 (teacher training)
*Sofielundskolan, secondary school, art, one term part time 2002
OTHER MERITES
*Lived and studied art in New York City jan-april 2010
*I am one of the founders of Swedish VJ Union, an organisation aiming to gain live visual/video art production, knowledge and business opportunities.
*Traveled to Mapping Festival in Geneva, and took contact with international visual artist/VJs and interviewed them for my diploma thesis.
*Internship as AD-assistant at advertising and communication agency Lowe Forever AB. Stockholm 11 mars – 31 may 2002.
MEDIA APPEARANCE
*Grooveselect.tv, interview 2010
*Cap & Design # 4, magazine interview 2009
*Bild i skolan, magazine interview 2009
*SVT, Swedish National Television, art performance “What would Jesus bomb?” 2005
*SR Metropol, Swedish National Radio interview 2008
*City, daily news magazine interview 2006
*Situation Sthlm, exhinition critique, magazine 2004
SOFTWARE
*Photoshop CS3 + Camera Raw
*Illustrator CS3
*InDesign CS3
*Dreamweaver CS3
*After Effects CS3
*Flash CS3
*Final Cut Pro 5
*Modul8 2.6 + plugins
*Resolume 2.4 + plugins
*SketchUp 7 3D
*Ableton Live 5
*Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard on MacBook Pro 17” unibody
*Windows XP on custom built tower
*Wordpress + plugins as CMS
http://www.vjunion.se/vjs-crews/vjs/joel-dittrich/
Some students written words on my teaching (my translation from Swedish): ”I think this workshop was interesting, educational and so much fun. /—/” | ”Good with lots of practice and ‘hands on-thinking’ you produce a positive and good energy. /–/” | “/—/ Thank you for creating a good atmospfere! It was sort of like a real studio!!” | “It was awesome.”