Robert Seidel (1977) began studying biology at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and finished his media design diploma at the Bauhaus University (Weimar, Germany). His films have been shown in a museal context at LACMA, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, ZKM, Nabi Art Center, Wilhelm Hack Museum, Lindenau Museum and MOCA Taipeh as well as numerous of festivals (Prix Ars Electronica, onedotzero, DOTMOV, IFF Rotterdam, EMAF), galleries, magazines, books and TV programmes worldwide. They have been honoured with several prices like an Honorary Award of KunstFilmBiennale (Cologne, Germany) and the Prize for Best Experimental Film at Ottawa International Animation Festival (Ottawa, Canada).

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In his films Seidel is interested in pushing the boundaries of organic beauty and their emotional perception with visual and scientific technology. By layering different structural, spatial and temporal concepts organically he creates a slowly evolving complexity. This multifaceted perspective, a kind of narrational skeleton is filled by the viewers own memory and creates a seamless blend with the artwork itself.

Examples include the artistic visualization of split seconds of a car crash in my diploma film (_grau, Bauhaus University Weimar, 2004); the painterly reinterpretation of biological processes in a façade-based projection (processes: living paintings, Phyletic Museum Jena, 2008); a virtual sculpture made of city fragments (vellum, Art Center Nabi Seoul, 2009); or projection-based sculptures (chiral, MOCA Taipeh, 2011).

Besides his personal art he works as a director, curator and journalist with diverse clients like Chanel, Sony, Goethe Institute, Channel Five, Atlantic Records, IdN, Universal Everything, Mutabor, Sleek, ARTE/ZDF, Digital Production and Addison-Wesley. For his Zero 7 music video he was chosen as one of „30 directors to watch“ by Canada's leading commercial production magazine 'boards.

To promote the diversity of the moving image Seidel curated the video art and experimental film screening Dreaming with Open Eyes (PDF) exhibited at Image Forum Festival (Tokyo), Nabi Art Center (Seoul), Wuerttembergischer Kunstverein (Stuttgart), Museum of Contemporary Art (Taipei) and Museum of Image and Sound (Sao Paulo) in 2009/2010. He also conducted an Interview with Julian Rosefeldt (PDF) for his Exhibition World-Making (Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan 2012).