| dc.description | Gerald Nestler is an artist and author who combines theory and postdisciplinary conversation with video, installation, performance, text, code, graphics, sound, and speech. He explores what he terms the "derivative condition" of contemporary social relations and its paradigmatic financial models, operations, narratives and fictions. He is developing an "aesthetics of resolution" that allows the production of counter-fictions and -imaginations as combined artistic, sociopolitical, and technological demonstrations towards "renegade activism."
Nestler graduated from the Academy of fine arts Vienna (1992) and subsequently engaged in digital media and early Internet practices. The new economy's Internet boom led him to conduct artistic research as a broker and trader (1994-97) to critically engage with financial markets and economic interests. His artistic work has been shown internationally since the early 2000s. He was awarded the Austrian State Grant for Visual Art (2003) and the Austrian residency grants for Beijing (2008) and New York/ISCP (2016), among many other grants. He has published widely on finance and art, including "Yx," an artist book/reader on finance and economy as fields of artistic research and critique (Schlebruegge.Editor, Vienna, 2007), Kunstforum International issues 200 and 201 on art and economy (co-edited with Dieter Buchhart, 2010) or the reader "Making of Finance" (co-edited with Armen Avanessian, Merve Verlag Berlin, 2015). He is the co-editor of the special issue on Art and Finance of the academic journal Finance and Society (with Suhail Malik, 2016). He holds a practice-based PhD from the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmith, University of London. | |
