Wolfgang Georgsdorf

Wolfgang Paul Georgsdorf (born 10 September 1959 in Linz, Austria) is an Austrian media artist, director, sculptor, musician, author, researcher, and inventor based in Berlin.

He was founder and spokesman of Opal-so-nicht[1] which resulted in a successful case against Gazprom and BASF in Dahme-Heideseen Nature Park, Brandenburg, Germany.

[7] In this exhibition with the subtitle "Immersive Spaces since the 1960s," alongside artists such as Doug Wheeler, Larry Bell, Lucio Fontana, Carsten Höller, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Cyprien Gaillard, Tino Sehgal, Isabell Lewis, Nony de la Peña, Jeppe Hein, Georgsdorf premiered his Synosmy (an Osmodrama composition of scent sequences) "Quarter Autocomplete – Evolution in 12 Minutes".

[8] In 2000, after seven years of study on the topic, Georgsdorf published the first digital bi-directional dictionary for Austrian Sign Language MUDRA in nine dialects.

[12] His musical works besides his early work with Die Post include compositions for the Berliner Ensemble production of Heiner Müller's Duell-Traktor-Fatzer, compositions for his giant forest xylophone, his work as a violinist and conductor of the Berlin Improvisers Orchestra[13] as well as collaborations with protagonists of new and improvised music such as Tristan Honsinger, Alexander von Schlippenbach, Stephen Crowe, Tom Jackson, Benedict Taylor, Miya, Niko Meinhold, Alison Blunt, Hui-Chun Lin, Anna Kaluza, and Manuel Miethe.

[15] His political and social interventions include, among others, the civic movement Opal-so-nicht,[16] which he founded in 2007 as the spokesman, and which resulted in a successful case against Gazprom and BASF in Dahme-Heideseen Nature Park.