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Anke Eckardt, artist and researcher.
Born in Dresden (DE) in 1976. Lives and works in Berlin since 1994.
Her work encompasses sculptures, installations as well as a theoretical discourse on the topic of the phenomenology of sounds.

As part of her artistic research project ‘Vertical Hearing’ she gave lectures at conferences such as ‘Sound, Sight, Space and Play’ in Demontford University (Leicester, UK) and produced the sound sculpture ‘ ! ’, which was exhibited, amongst others, at ‘Hausklang’ (House of World Cultures, Berlin, DE), ‘Technological Singularity’ (Planetart, Amsterdam, NL) and ‘Esemplasticism’ (SPA, Berlin, DE, produced by Dutch organisation TAG in cooperation with Berlin based Club Transmediale).

She received the Career Advancement Grant from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research for completing her Master of Arts in Sound Studies at the University of the Arts, Berlin. Furthermore she was awarded the six months Artist-in-Residence-grant of the Saxon Ministry of Science and the Fine Arts by the CYNETART-Jury in cooperation with the Saxon capital city Dresden, which she will use to produce two new works in 2011.

In addition, Anke Eckardt has a ten year background as a professional sound technician and production manager for music and art events.