Higher Education:

1999 Medienkunst, Hochschule fur Gestaltung (ZKM) Karlsruhe, Germany

1993-1997 BA (HONS) FIRST CLASS FINE ART, Glasgow School of Art

Current Teaching Post:

2024 - Senior Lecturer of Contemporary Art Theory and Practice (Post-Media) at University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Previous Teaching Posts:

2016 - 2024 Lecturer of Contemporary Art Theory and Practice (Post-Media) at University of Edinburgh, Scotland

2012-2016 Tutor in Fine Art (Masters), Intermedia Art (BA) and Photography(BA) at University of Edinburgh, Scotland 2014-2015 Tutor at Phoenix Bursary Studios (Glasgow School of Art, Scotland). 2009-2010 Visiting Lecturer, BA & Master of Fine Art at Valand Academy, University of Gothen burg, Sweden. 2003-2008 Tutor in Art, Philosophy and Contemporary Practice (BA/Masters) at Dundee University, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Scotland 2002- Visiting Lecturer in various UK Art Colleges including Glasgow School of Art, Dundee School of Art and Newcastle University

Prizes, Awards and Grants:

2013 Paul Hamlyn Award. UK Awards for Artists 2012 Samsung Art+ Prize. UK Media Art Award (Shortlisted) 2011 Derek Jarman Award. UK Experimental Film Award (Shortlisted), 2010 Margaret Tait Award. Inaugural Award for experimental and innovative artists working within film and moving image. 2008 Creative Scotland Artist Award 2005 Creative Scotland Professional Practice Award 2000 Scottish Bafta Award (with Rob Kennedy). Category Best Soundtrack

Selected Commissions:

2021 Music Video Commission by Night School Records for Amor feat. Lemur 2015 Alt-w Award. (with National Gallery of Scotland and Bothy Project) 2014 BBC Moving Image Commission. 6 month Residency at the BBC Archive 2014 Commonwealth Games Film Commission. (collaboration with Glasgow Film Theatre and 85A) 2013 Olympic Games Film Commission. Moving Image Commission by IOC for the Olympics Media Art Collection. 2013 Ice Lab; New Architecture and Science in Antarctica, Moving Image Commission (by British Antarctica Survey, Art Catalyst), Otago Museum, New Zealand Transmitted Live: Nam June Paik Commission, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh 2011 Running Time, Artist Films in Scotland Commission, National Gallery of Scotland 2010 Vital Spark Award. (collaboration with Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore) 2007 Beck Fusions, Music and Art Commission by Forma, ICA, London

Selected Solo Shows, Screenings and Performances: 2019 The Modell, Sligo, Ireland Plymouth College of Art, England 2018 War of the Corners, Reid Gallery, Glasgow International 2017 Hohe Nacht der Klaren Sterne, National Galleries of Scotland/Pig Rock Bothy, Edinburgh 2016 After Images, Tate St.Ives, Portemore Studios, England 2015 Marvellous Possessions, Old Hairdresser, Glasgow 2014 Bend, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee Amen Break, Tate Britain, England At the heart of everything a row of holes, ACCA, Melbourne, Australia 2013 At the heart of everything a row of holes, Volksbühne Berlin, Germany, Inconsistent Whisper, (with the Red Note Ensemble), Counterflow Festival, Glasgow Inconsistent Whisper, Contemporary Music Festival, Huddersfield 2012 At the heart of everything a row of holes, Rio Cinema, London Special Effect, The Glue Factory, Glasgow Startle Reaction, DCA, Dundee Startle Reaction, AV FESTIVAL, Laing Gallery, Newcastle 2011 Startle Reaction, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton Lauschmann, Bradford 1 Gallery, Bradford 2009 The Darker Ages, Mary Mary, Glasgow 2008 Art Positions, Art Basel Miami Beach, USA Nought to Sixty, ICA, London Torsten Lauschmann, Arnolfini, Bristol Torsten Lauschmann, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow 2007 CAN 07 (Contemporary Art Norwich) with S1 Artspace, Sheffield 2006 Broke, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Torsten Lauschmann, Galerie Pascal Vanhoecke, Paris Torsten Lauschmann, Mary Mary, Glasgow Lauschmann, 2006 Glasgow International, Intermedia Gallery, Glasgow, 2004 TORSTEN, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow 2003 The Dust has come to stay, Independent Studios, Glasgow 2002 Pistolas Sexuales, Catalyst Gallery, Belfast 2002 Artist Software @ Kanonmedia.com, Vienna Autumn Rhythm Film, Changing Room, Stirling 2001 01game+01application (online), New Media Scotland, 1998 Places of Exposure, Kunstadapter, Wiesbaden, Germany

Selected Group Shows/Screenings 2023 #island, Broadside Gallery, Glasgow with Keith Farquahr 2022 PN Ensemble, ECA, Edinburgh 2021 Fashion Dust Umani, CCA, curated by Beagles & Ramsay, feat. Mark Leckey, Hardeep Pandhal ao., CCA, Glasgow 2021 Pine’s Eye, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh 2017 On Air, (curated by Videoclub), Shanghai Gallery of Art, China Skin, Ferenc Gallery, Hull 2016 Fantom Cinema, (with Rob Churm and Marc Baines), 2016 Glasgow International, 2015 Images Moving out Onto Space, Tate St.Ives Docfest, Kassel, Germany 2013 Assembly: A survey of recent artists’ film and video in Britain 2008–2013, ICA, London Illuminated, QUAD, Derby The Space, BBC Online Version of “Digital Clock” Transmitted Live: Nam June Paik Commission, Talbot Rice Gallery 2012 Samsung Art+ Prize 2012, The British Film Institute, London 2012 AV Festival, Newcastle Alice in Wonderland, Tate Liverpool Sound Works, ICA, London, 2011 Alice in Wonderland, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Germany Récits Anamorphiques, Frac des Pays de la Loire, France Votive, CCA, Glasgow Running Time: Artist Films in Scotland, Dean Gallery, Edinburgh Tonite, The Modern Institute, Glasgow Sculpture Show, Eastside Projects, Birmingham Soundspill, (curated by Haroon Mirza, R. Sides, T. O’Nions), West Gallery, Den Haag 2008 run, run, curated by Alex Frost & Sorcha Dallas, Collins Gallery, Glasgow 2005 51st Venice Biennale, Northern Ireland Pavilion, Italy Radiodays, De Appel, Amsterdam 2004 Beating About the Bush, South London Gallery Audio-Visual concert (with Rob Kennedy / Duncan Marquise / Andy Wake), Peacock Gallery, Aberdeen 2003 Christmas Records, (with Christian Marclay) at CCA, Glasgow 50th Venice Biennale (Scottish Pavilion), Italy 2001 New German Photography, De March-Solbiati, Milan Modell, Modell (with Michael Wilkinson & The Modern Institute), Kunstverein Aachen Germany 1998 Kino, British Short film Festival, Manchester

Other Professional Occupations and Contributions: 2018-2020 Board Member Collective Gallery, Edinburgh 2018 Panel Member 2018 Margaret Tait Award. 2017 Panel Member Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop Residency 2016 Invited Speaker at Creative Scotland Visual Art Sector Review 2016 Invited Speaker as part of Brian Eno’s Andrew Carnegie Lecture and Symposium 2015 Invited Speaker, D.I.Y. Symposium, Glasgow School of Art 2012 Member of Think Tank “Anticipatory City” with Adam Chodzko, Lindsay Seers & Liam Young hosted by Art Catalyst, London Invited Speaker, “I am seeing things” Symposium, Talbot Rice, Edinburgh 2010 Panel Member for Satellites Residency Program, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh 2009-2013 Member of New Media Research Collective N.I.P. (New interfaces for Performances), Bristol, Amsterdam, Helsinki 2005 Contributor to the Research into Gesture Control for Musical Expression, The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow 1992 Commercial Photographer based in Frankfurt/M. Work in Publishing Industry (Fashion, Food, Media) 1991-1992 Photographic Assistant, Fachverlag, Frankfurt, Germany

Private and Public Art Collections:

National Gallery of Scotland Collection (Outset Collection) Art Council of England Collection Le Frac des Pays de la Loire, France Hull Museum (Contemporary Art Society Collection) McManus Art Gallery and Museum, Dundee Private Collections in UK and Germany

Publications: Startle - Torsten Lauschmann Edited by Torsten Lauschmann and David Bellingham. Produced by Dundee Contemporary Arts in association with Film and Video Umbrella. Fully illustrated Monograph with texts by Steven Bode, Sean Cubitt, Graham Domke, Esther Leslie, and Stewart Morgan. London/Dundee, 2012 ISBN: 978-0-9558769-5-0 #island, published by Broadside Gallery with Keith Farquhar, Glasgow, 2023