Which Ones Are The Terrorists: West-Bank.Cam

Conflict is unavoidable. We deal with it every day, with friends, and with enemies-and even in our own minds. "Which Ones Are the Terrorists?" is a compilation of unscripted commentaries, collected from the West Bank and from around the world about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, inspired by the prospect of peace in the Middle East, collected from the author's Web installation West-Bank.cam] from 2000 until 2007, and includes 18 digital paintings by the author. A short preface places the project in the context of the life of a working artist in New York City.

I am German-born American video artist, editor, director of photography and author. I was awarded the German Short Film Award, received numerous prices from international Film and Video Festivals and was selected for the DAAD scholarship. In 1992, I moved to New York City (Manhattan) to study American film productions at NYU. While studying in the USA, I met new media artist and political activist Paul Garrin, who inspired me to use the Internet to create interactive art. I worked in a variety of media and collaborated early in my carrier with art superstar Nam June Paik, who is considered to be the first video artist. I edited over 600 TV episodes for Paramount Pictures, realized many independent films, documentaries, commercials, fashion videos, corporate videos, art and dance videos and created numerous internationally shown video installations. The ＂Out of the Ordinary＂ is an element in almost all of my work. I provoke the viewer on a contextual, visual and acoustical level and I’m the author of two books. In 1996 I programmed and co-designed the political interactive technology project name.space, which was designed to expand the artificial limitation of TLDs imposed by Network Solutions and IANA. The project was honored by the ARS Electronica. Currently I work as independent filmmaker, creative editor and multi media artist. My work is distributed via television, DVD, video on demand, 235 Media, the Internet and in print. In 2006, I started scuba diving and I’m developing an increasingly enthusiasm for tech, wreck and cave diving.