Mixed  May 19, 2024

Now

This is a NOW page, inspired by Derek Sivers. You should make one, too. My NOW page does not publish dates or news about my artistic work, but general information, as if I were telling it to a friend I haven't seen for a year.

Videos

With Hyper8 by Simon Repp, I developed the desire to manage all my videos myself and put them online. To leave all the big companies out of it for once. To go back to the roots. DIY and DIWO (Do It With Others). So I upload my videos from my Debian office computer via Hyper8 - a static site generator for video publishing - into the system via the beautiful mask and then via ftp to the best server in the world servus.at. Some links to my archive:

24 Hours - a streaming marathon by Wolfgang Dorninger (2022)

The Smiling Buddhas - videoclips, wild live stuff

drkmbnt - wired tech stuff

Wolfgang Dorninger - from Sound Art to videoclips

Monochrome Bleu - videos from the 80ies & early 90ies ...

Josef K. Noyce - videos from the 80ies & early 90ies ...

Soldering

My first band ROI (1981 - 1983) had no conventional instruments. All sound tools were self-soldered or modified cassette recorders. I felt very punk. In 2011, when I went to Dresden for the first Circuit Control Soldering and Bending Festival with students from the University of Art in Linz, I started soldering again. This state continues to this day, some of my best friends come from this very DIWO network and I travel to such events more and more often. So, if you have something exciting to solder, send me your info, thanks! On my drkmbnt page you can see some projects I soldered and also get in touch with improvised musical output.

In The Fields

In 2007 I started with the video documentary “In The Fields” where I ask artists why the microphone is their main instrument for their art production. In the beginning, things progressed quickly because I made a small round trip through Germany, Holland and Austria with a grant. In 2008 I started with the first rough cut and realized that there were still some unanswered questions. A few interviews later, the editing continued, but many other projects and still missing interviews meant that I put the project on the back burner. In 2023, I reworked the edit, which motivated me a lot to complete it in 2025 because of the good contributions from the artists. Finalization in all likelihood in autumn 2025.

Kunstuniversität Linz

I retired February 1st 2025. Unfortunately, my wonderful job as a lecturer at the Kunstuni Linz (University of Art and Design Linz) is history. It was a great time and I'm already feeling a bit melancholy. But I will still continue as a freelance artist and partner in Eisserer und Dorninger GesbR. So it will be nothing like feeding pigeons and going through life granite-faced. If you are planning exciting projects, you can still contact me.