MuKaTo Project Karoline Riha Muzak Thomas Renoldner

MuKaTo Karoline Riha Muzak &Thomas Renoldner

#Transfer of Knowledge, #democratisation of Media, #digital Self-Empowerment

Ongoing Project in collaboration with contemporary composers, musicians, international filmmakers, children and youth.
Initiated 2008 by Muzak, Karoline Riha and Thomas Renoldner.

Strategies of image production are investigated through reinvention and restructuring imagery apart from art historical, theoretical and pop-cultural constraints.
Process and product are of equal value. The projects offer a platform for digital self empowerment, where borders between producer and viewer, authorship, artist and spectator are crossed over, and the media functions as navigator of ideas.
Resulting works are shown, nationally and internationally, within exhibition and festival context.

Since the start of the project MuKaTo has cooperated with following musicians:

Eva Reiter (2019), Daniel Riegler (2019), Stephan Prins (2019), Schmieds Pulse / Mira Lu Kovacs (2019), Klangforum Wien / Bernd Richard Deutsch / Beat Furrer / Mizato Mochizuki (2018), Squalloscope (2018), Hans Platzgummer (2018), MC Rhine (2017), Benedikt Leitner Klangforum Wien / Bernhard Lang / Beat Furrer / Bernhard Gander (2017), Elisabeth Flunger (2017), Franz Koglmann (2016), Maja Osojnik / Rdeca Raketa (2016), Pia Palme (2016), Wolfgang Mitterer (2015), Suzanna Gartmayer / Möström / Broken Heart Collector / Gemüseorchester (2015), Heike Kaltenbrunner (2015), Catch Pop String Strong (2014), Mnozil Brass (2013), Hannes Loeschl und Phil Minton (2013), Leo Riegler (2013), Angelica Castello und Burkhard Stangl (2012), Attwenger (2012), Robert Crow (2012 / 2008), Karlheinz Essl (2012), Matthias Rüegg and Vienna Art Orchestra (2011), Katharina Klement (2011), Bruno Pisek (2011), Judith Unterpertinger (2010), Christoph Dienz (2010), Eva Reiter (2010), Hüseyin Evigren (2010), Fritz Hauser (2009 Kooperation mit Festspielhaus St. Pölten), Bauchklang (2009 Kooperation mit Festspielhaus St. Pölten), Philip Quehenberger (2009), Ming Wang (2009), Andi Haller (2009), Andrea Sodomka (2009), Martin Zrost (2008), Christian Diendorfer (2008), Cordula Bösze (2008), Christian Muthspiel (2008).

MuKaTo has invited following filmmakers / artists to participate:

Martha Colburn (Filmmaker) USA/ Netherlands, Ross Hogg (Filmmaker) Scottland, Peter Millard (Filmmaker) London, Jean-Luc Slock (Producer) Camera Etc./ Belgien, Karen Miralles (Filmmaker) Labo d´Anim/ Frankreich, Andrea Martignioni (Musician) Ottomani Laboratori/ Italien, Robert Paganelli (Filmmaker) Ottomani Laboratori/ Italien, Hanna Repse (Filmmaker/ Curator) Enimation/ Slowenien, Anna-Karin Holtz (Filmmaker) Schweden, Hanna Andersson (Filmmaker) Schweden, Frida Lindberg (Filmmaker) Schweden, Laura Gines (Filmmaker) Spain

works where screened at:

Prix Ars Electronica / Austria, Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen / Germany, Vienna Independent Shorts Filmfestival / Austria, Olympia Filmfestival/ Camera Zizanio / Greece, VAFI Filmfestival / Kroatia, Enimation Filmfestival/ Slowenia, FESA Filmfestival l/ Serbia, BAB Filmfestival / Bratislava, mla:connect Filmfestival / MQ Vienna, Metro Kino, Urania Kino, Wiener Video&Filmtagen, FKX Medienfestival Stuttgard/ Germany, SNAP Internationales Symposium Bentlage / Germany, Galerie BlauGelbe Zwettel, Kunsthalle Wien, Museum Sammlung Essl, Biennale West / Vienna

projects realized in:
Slovakia, Vienna, Lower Austria, Germany and Cyprus

festival cooperations:
BAB - Bienal of Animation Bratislava, Media Litracy Award, Snap Germany, FKX Stuttgard, Vienna Shorts, Olympia Filmfestival/ Camera Zizanio, Animafest Cyprus

prizes for MuKaTo Project:
In 2015 the project was awarded with "Prämie für Innovative Kulturarbeit" / "Prize for innovative Cultural Practice" at the Outstanding Artist Awards 2015 .
2017, 2018 Ministry Culture Connected Award for the projects "Where the Wild Things Are" and "Animated Film"

prizes for young filmmakers and their films:
2020 Prix ArsElectronica / Honorable Mention u10 (Der Vogel mit dem coolen Hut / VS Kolonitzgasse)
2019 Prix ArsElectronica / Honorable Mention u19 (Fremdkörper # 3/ BORG Mistelbach / music Stephan Prinse)
2018 Prix Ars Electronica / Jury Price u10 (Max in Gefahr / VS Kindermanngasse)
2018 Videopreis mla (Monsterparty / VS Neulandschule)
2017 Prix Ars Electronica / Honorable Mention u 19 (Emoticon / BORG Mistelbach / music Möström)
2017 Jurypreis Video&Filmtage (Der Spiegel im Spiegel / BRG Henriettenplatzl)
2014 Medienbildungspreis (Trickfilme zu Musik von Catch Pop String Strong / BG Horn / music Catch Pop String Strong)
2013 Prix Ars Electronica / Honorable Mention u19 (Kompositur / BG Horn)
2013 Videopreis mla (Maria kann nicht schlafen / VS Zennerstraße / cooperation with Denspädagogiska Bryan)
2013 Videopreis mla (Leicht stressig / BRG Henriettenplatz / music Mnozil Brass)
2012 Videopreis mla (Gedscho / BG Horn / music Attwenger)
2012 Videopreis mal (Wenn ich du wär / BRG Henriettenplatz)
2012 Jurypreis Video&Filmtage (Wenn ich du wär/ / BRG Henriettenplatz)
2011 VIS / Get into Shorts Prize (Ein Film nach Bildern / PTS 10)
2011 Videopreis mla (Nicht aufnehmen da! / h12 / cooperation with Ottomani Laboratori)
2010 Videopreis mla (Als die Murmel das Regal verließ / h12)
2008 Videopreis mla (Das Geisterschloss / BRG Laa a.d.Thaya)

media:
MuKaTo-Project Film (Medienfestival ORF III 23.10-25.10.2019 / https://tv.orf.at/program/orf3/20191023)/
(MuKaTo) Bildung beginnt mit Medienkompetenz (TV Report Kultur Montag 14.9.2015 at 22:45h / ORF III)
(MuKaTo) Medienbildung (TV Report ARD alpha 2013)

the Project has kindly been supported, on a long run and in various ways, by institutions and dedicated individuals: