Arnold Dreyblatt

Arnold Dreyblatt is an American installation and performance artist, composer, and musician. He studied composition and comparative musicology at Wesleyan University under Alvin Lucier, and media studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo with Steina and Woody Vasulka and Paul Sharits. From 1975 to 1977, he also studied composition with La Monte Young. Since 1984, Dreyblatt has lived in Berlin and has held numerous academic positions, including a professorship in Media Art at the Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel since 2009; he was elected Vice Head of the Fine Arts Section of the Academy of Arts Berlin in 2021. His recorded works include Nodal Excitation (1982), Propellers In Love (1986), Animal Magnetism (1995), and The Sound Of One String (1998), among others. Dreyblatt has presented his installations and performances internationally, and his memorial The Black List, commemorating the book burnings of 1933, was unveiled at Königsplatz in Munich in 2021.

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