Media in Motion - Cities, Landscapes, Sounds…
The programme presents a selection of video works, installations, and documentation from the long-standing collaboration between Ingeborg Fülepp and Heiko Daxl, who worked together from 1990 to 2012 under the name Media in Motion. As artists and curators, they connected international authors and presented contemporary media art at numerous exhibitions and festivals in Germany, Croatia, and beyond.
Ingeborg Fülepp’s presentation includes video works that Heiko Daxl created prior to their meeting, as well as works they developed together as an artistic duo. The works explore optical and acoustic phenomena and question the viewer’s perception through the interplay of technology, image, and sound.
Their oeuvre stands as a testament to continuous experimentation and openness to new media possibilities, always positioned at the intersection of art, science, and philosophy. Following Heiko Daxl’s death in 2012, Ingeborg Fülepp has continued to develop and present their shared body of work in an international context.
Five artistic videos from the Media in Motion archive will be presented, with a total runtime of 70 minutes. These works interpret movement through urban and landscape spaces in a synergistic relationship between image and music, created in collaboration with contemporary composers and painters.
Health and Civilization
1999/2000, 20:00 min
Video: Heiko Daxl
Music: Mona Mur
Explores human vulnerability and civilization, juxtaposing heroic resistance with the chaotic entanglement of individuals in societal transformations.
Kopf – Stein – Zeichen – Stadt – Lied
2000, 12 min.
Video: Heiko Daxl
Music: Georg Katzer, Paintings: Zlatko Keser
Produced by Media in Motion, supported by Akademie der Künste Berlin
A fusion of moving images, music, and graphics reflecting life, communication, and urbanism. The city becomes a super-matrix, where signs swirl among people, and music is the song of life, framed by the solidity of stone.
Operation TRG
2001, 10 min.
Video and Sound: Heiko Daxl
Produced by Media in Motion
Depicts 2nd of July 1994 in Zagreb’s main square on an extraordinarily hot day. Told in seven sequences: The Old Man – Dynamo – Man in the Crowd – Souvenir Photo – The Red Bag – The Letter – The Old Man 2.
Le cinéma – Le Train
2003, 14:00 min
Video: Heiko Daxl
Music: Tobias PM Schneid
Sound Design: Markus Lehmann-Horn
Experience is nothing but a change of memory. Film leaders and railway footage form the raw material. Through manipulation and montage in relation to the music, the work invites reflection, dreams, and memories, while transience remains its constant riddle.
Changes, Songs and Inbetweens
2004/2006, 14:00 min
Video: Heiko Daxl, Ingeborg Fülepp
Produced by Media in Motion
Music: Tobias PM Schneid
Night scenes of the city of Zagreb. Everything changes at night—speed, movement, people, and places…
About authors
Media in Motion was an organization active from 1990 to 2012 that realized numerous artistic projects, including video works, interactive new media installations, and video scenography. It also functioned as a production and curatorial platform through the organization of media art exhibitions, the publication of texts and catalogues, and participation in international festivals and conferences. The program further included lectures at universities and collaborations with artists, musicians, and curators in an international context.
www.mediainmotion.de
Heiko Daxl (1957-2012) was a German media artist, curator, and collector working across video, installation, and digital art. Born in Oldenburg, he lived and worked in Berlin and Zagreb.
He studied communication and aesthetics, art history, and media studies in Osnabrück, Berlin, and Zurich. In 1980, he co-founded the Experimental Film Workshop Osnabrück, later known as the European Media Art Festival (EMAF).
From 1990, he collaborated closely with Ingeborg Fülepp under the name Media in Motion, producing works in video art, visual music, and multimedia installation. As artists and curators, they played a key role in presenting international media art through exhibitions and festivals across Europe.
Daxl’s work explored the relationship between technology, perception, and audiovisual phenomena, positioning itself at the intersection of art, science, and experimental media practice.
Ingeborg Fülepp was born in Zagreb, where she lives and works, as well as in Berlin. She graduated in film editing from the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb and completed her postgraduate studies in film and video at Harvard University and the MIT Media Lab (Ed.M.).
She taught film and television editing at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb (1978–1993), and video and multimedia at numerous universities across the United States and Europe. From 2013 to 2019, she was Associate Professor of New Media at the Academy of Applied Arts in Rijeka.
She works as an artist, editor, and curator, creating video works as well as interactive and multimedia installations. In collaboration with Heiko Daxl, she organised international projects such as Media-Scape and Strictly Berlin. She is the founder and curator of the Glowing Globe event (Rijeka, since 2017).
Her work has been presented at numerous international exhibitions, festivals, and academic conferences, and she has participated in EU-funded projects (Creative Europe). She is a member of the Croatian Association of Fine Artists (HDLU). From 1991 to 2012, she led the Media in Motion organisation in Berlin.
She founded the Center for Innovative Media at the Academy of Applied Arts in Rijeka (2017–2024), and since 2025 has been affiliated as an external collaborator with the University of Rijeka.
www.fuelepp.com
