Dennis Knopf CV

Skype/AIM: trackybirthday

European Media Master of Arts, University of Portsmouth, UK (graduated with special distinction)
German Diploma in Communication Design with emphasis on New Media, Merz Akademie Stuttgart.

Freelancer / Creative Director / Project Manager / Consultant / Artist / Musician / Actor / Husband / Father
Executive Director, Upitup Records, Rome, 2007-present.
Junior (Online Conception), Jung von Matt, Stuttgart, Jan-July 2009.
Chief Editor, Best before - A Dsico Fanzine, and www.dsico-fanzine.com, Sept-Oct 2008.
Editorial Fellow, Rhizome, at the New Museum, New York City, Jan-April 2008.
Consultant, Blue Ocean Entertainment AG, Sept-Oct 2007.
Film production / PR Internship, The Whitest Kids U’ Know, New York City, 2005-06.
DJ Tutor, CAP Academy, Stuttgart, 2003-04.

"Born To Fail" , essay about netlabels, Lodown Magazine issue #75, Sept 2011.
"Defriending The Web", essay in Digital Folklore by Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied, Sept 2009.
Contribution to Dutch art paper HTV De Ijsberg, the "Imaginary Property" issue (#77).
Feature in FAUND Magazine issue #4, 2009.
Article "BootyClipse" about my work by Olia Lialina in Junk Jet, 2008.
Magazine Best before - A Dsico Fanzine, limited edition, 2008.
Article for Rhizome.org, 2008.
Book You As In User - Audience Economics And The Web, out of print, 2007
Essay (in German) "Der Sampler ist tot - lang lebe das Sampling" in Lautsprecherei. Re: Sound - Art - Design by Diedrich Diederichsen, Merz & Solitude, 2007.
Essay "The Culture Pessimist" for Shake Your Tree #3, 2007.
upcoming: "Toys", magazine about amateur graffiti, in cooperation with Roglok.

"Fun Is Back", "speed show" (exhibition inside an internet cafe), curated by Aram Bartholl and Olia Lialina, Stuttgart, Jun 2011.
"My Biennale Is Better Than Yours", curated by Tolga Taluy, Xth Biennale de Lyon, France, 2009. (website)
"Screen Grab", curated by Jon Cates, Christy LeMaster, and Nicholas O'Brien, Nightingale Cinema, Chicago, Aug 2009.
"Michael Jackson Doesn’t Quit (Part 1)", curated by Ben Aqua and Mike Ruiz, The Future Gallery, Berlin, April-May 2009.
"Forms of Melancholy", curated by Chris Coy, Sego Art Center, Provo, Utah, April 2009.
"In Real Life", 4-hour residency of clubinternet.org at Capricious Space, curated by Laurel Ptak, New York City, March 2009.
"Online / Offline" at Filmwinter, co-curated by Olia Lialina & Dragan Espenschied, Stuttgart, Jan 2009.
"KISS Principle", curated by Constant Dullaart, clubinternet.org, Sept 2008.
"Lost & Found 5 Sep at de Waag", curated by Julia van Mourik, Lost & Found, Amsterdam, Sept 2008.
"Shake Your Tree Worldtour", Westberlin Gallery, Berlin, April 2008.
"Shake Your Tree Worldtour", Galerie gez. - Raum fuer Urheber, Stuttgart, April 2008.
"Dark Fair", curated by Hanne Mugaas & Fabienne Stephan, Gallery Art Since The Summer Of ’69, at the "Dark Fair", Swiss Institute, New York City, March 2008.
"Lautsprecherei. Re: Sound - Art - Design", Kulturverein Dialekt e.V., Stuttgart, 2007.
"Shake Your Tree - The Exhibition," Kulturverein Dialekt e.V., Stuttgart, 2006.

Solo album New Album, Upitup Records 2011.
Video Tracky's Music Lesson, 2009.
Solo album Animal Audition, Upitup Records 2008.
Album The Discoghosts - "BAD", UpitUp Records 2008. CD inside book Shake Your Tree #3.
Feature on Party Ruiners Vol. II, 2008, Ego Twister Records, France.
Contribution to a Raymond Scott tribute on New York’s WFMU Radio, 2007.
Interview with Cory Arcangel (Beige Records) and Dragan Espenschied on Hyperground Radio, 2007. Mp3 on request.
Album Primix For Kids, UpitUp Records 2006.

P1, Munich, January 2011.
Akademie der Kuenste, Berlin. With Paul B. Davis (Beige Records), March 2009.
Picknick, Berlin, April 2008.
Felt Club, Rome, May 2007.
The Magnet, Liverpool. With Ceephax (Rephlex Records), Milanese (Warp), Cylob (Rephlex), March 2007.
Rocker 33, Stuttgart. With Dragan Espenschied of Bodenständig 2000 (Rephlex), Oct 2006.
Times Square, New York. Webcam gig, Feb 2006. Watch video.
Alpheus, Rome, July 2003.

Fluent in English (TOEFL-Test approved; almost perfect score), Italian, and German (mother tongue). Even knows how to rap backwards.
Highly proficient in most common sound/film/design software; advanced HTML / CSS knowledge.
Expert in amateur culture and internet zeitgeist.
Excellent communication skills.
Can quickly pick up languages, software, instruments, games, etc.
Founder & Head of UpitUp Records, 2003-present (Stuttgart/Rome/Liverpool).
Regular participation in events and weekly radio show _Hyperground, Stuttgart / streaming worldwide.
Member of the Nasty Nets internet surfing club.

BootyClipse awarded best online work (€ 1000 prize) at Stuttgart Filmwinter, 2009.
UpitUp Records ranked among top 3 netlabels by Telepolis (heise.de), 2007.
Best before - A Dsico Fanzine featured in De:Bug (March 2009 issue), Groove, FACT March 2009.
"Blue Moon 4.07" ranked # 7 most viewed video of the day, YouTube.com (worldwide), April 2007. Later shown on Mediaset (national TV in Italy).

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