BABELSBERGER BUCHSALON: FIN … ES WAR EINMAL/FIN … ONCE UPON A TIME, PREVIEW ARTIST’S BOOK WITH FRANK GESSNER & GUESTS, FILM UNIVERSITY BABELSBERG KONRAD WOLF, POTSDAM, GERMANY (December 10, 2024)
Welcome Stella Donata Haag and great piano Jonasz Wiewiór. Reading and talk with Anahita Safarnejad Choobary, Anna Barbara Kurek, Lars-Ole Haag, Michael Hammon, and Frank Geßner

RIEFENSTAHL: DOCUMENTARY BY ANDRES VEIEL (DIRECTOR) AND SANDRA MAISCHBERGER (PRODUCTION), DELPHI FILMPALAST, KANTSTRASSE 12A, BERLIN, GERMANY (October 21, 2024)
Stephan Krumbiegel (Montage), Alfredo Castro Ortigoza (Montage), Olaf Voigtländer (Montage), Freya Arde (Music), Frank Geßner (Consulting), and many more

ABER/UND/ODER – WIE BESSER STREITEN? HITO STEYERL & MERON MENDEL: EN REPENSANT À CELA – ÜBERLEGUNGEN ZUR AKTUALITÄT VON GODARD/MIÉVILLE‘S FILM “ICI ET AILLEURS“ UND DESSEN VERHÄLTNIS VON TON UND BILDERN & ZWISCHEN FEINBILDERN UND SOLIDARITÄT, FILM UNIVERSITY BABELSBERG KONRAD WOLF, POTSDAM, GERMANY (July 02, 2024)
Curated and moderated by Lea Wohl von Haselberg and Frank Geßner as part of the Israel-Palestine event series at the Film University

ODRA UNPLUGGED: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY EXPERIMENTAL FILM WORKSHOP, KUHBRÜCKE, GERMANY (June 14 – 24, 2024)
Susanne Schüle (Director of Photography/Cinematography), Richard Marx (Cinematography), and Frank Geßner (Direction for Animation)

AN ESSAY: FIN … ONCE UPON A TIME: ATHENS INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH, GREECE (May 13 – 16, 2024)
22nd Annual International Conference on Communication and Mass Media, lecture essay by Frank Geßner

AFTER WORK DRAWING! MUSEUM SKETCHES (WS 2023/24)
“Theory and Practice of Visual Arts“ Mobile, Berlin and Potsdam

INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FILM FESTIVAL NIKOZI, GEORGIA: ANIMATION PROGRAM FILM UNIVERSITY BABELSBERG KONRAD WOLF (September 01 – 07, 2023)
Curated by Bishop Isaiah, Metropolitan of Nikozi and Tskhinvali. Animation program presentation by Frank Geßner

AT THE EDGE OF THE RUBICON: AN ACADEMIC CONFERENCE FOLLOWING THE WORK OF GIL ALKABETZ‘, BEZALEL ACADEMY OF ART AND DESIGN, ISRAEL (June 29, 2023)
“Every beginning is difficult: In the beginning was the line“, lecture essay by Frank Geßner

TRIBIUTE GIL ALKABETZ: 30. INTERNATIONALS TRICKFILM FESTIVAL/FESTIVAL OF ANIMATED FILM STUTTGART, GLORIA, KÖNIGSTRASSE 20, STUTTGART, GERMANY (April 28, 2023)
Selected works by Gil Alkabetz and his students. Curated by Christina Schindler and moderated by Frank Geßner

BEING SPACE‘N’EMOTION: SKETCHES ON THE ROAD (SS 2023)
“Theory and Practice of Visual Arts“ Mobile, Berlin

TRIBUTE: PETER WEIBEL (* 05.03.1944 † 01.03.2023)

TRIBUTE: BIRGIT HEIN (* 06.08.1942 † 23.02.2023)

TENT BIENNALE: HYBRID FESTIVAL OF EXPERIMENTAL FILMS & TRANS MEDIA ART, KOLKATA, INDIA (December 05 – 11, 2022)
‘Cinemareinvent‘, spherical video essay, color + b/w, English, 00:34:03, second version, 2022, assembled by Frank Geßner

NEW ENTANGLEMENTS: PHILOSOPHY, AESTHETICS AND ARTISTIC RESEARCH IN FILM, ONLINE SYMPOSIUM (December 01 – 02, 2022)
A spherical video essay draft in progress by Frank Geßner, Institute for Artistic Research at the Film University Babelsberg, research group Media Aesthetics at the University of Oslo and the Nordland School of Arts and Film

DIMENSIONS OF ANIMATION: PRESENTATION “FIN GARDEN’S PIPES“, LUCERNE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS, SWITZERLAND (November 10 – 12, 2022)
Artistic lecture performance by Frank Geßner

PILOT STUDY “DÍA DE MUERTOS“: ¡QUE VIVA MEXICO! (October 30 – November 09, 2022)
Art-based research and cooperation talks with CCC / Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica, A.C. and UNAM / Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Facultad de Artes y Diseño, Ciudad de México

CALARTS: CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS, LOS ANGELES, USA (October 25 – 29, 2022)
Visiting artist at School of Film/Video, BFA and MFA programs Character and Experimental Animation: project presentation, screening, and Q&A at Bijou Theater, October 27, 2022

OBITUARY FOR A SILENT LIGHTHOUSE: GIL ALKABETZ (* 02.12.1957 † 14.09.2022)

TRIBUTE: JEAN-LUC GODARD (* 03.12.1930 † 13.09.2022)

EXPANDED ANIMATION 2022: GLIMPSES OF A HYBRID HORIZON, UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES UPPER AUSTRIA AND ARS ELECTRONICA, LINZ, AUSTRIA (September 09 – 11, 2022)
A spherical video essay draft in progress by Frank Geßner

FLUXUS PRIZE TO BAZON BROCK: 27th TDK, “ART AND WAR“, DENKEREI BERLIN & FILM UNIVERSITY BABELSBERG KONRAD WOLF, GERMANY (May 19, 2022)
On the occasion with the opening ceremony of the “Graduate Academy“ in the framework of the 27th Transdisciplinary Colloquium, Institute for Artistic Research/IKF

TO BE OR NOT TO BE IN MUSEUM: HISTOIRE(S) DES ARTS PLASTIQUE (SS 2022)
“Theory and Practice of Visual Arts“ Mobile, Berlin

COLLISIONS: THE INTELLECTUAL AND ARTISTIC UNIVERSE OF EISENSTEIN (2020 – 2022)
Consulting, Art Work, and Set Design for the 3D reconstruction of Sergei Mikhailovitch Eisenstein’s apartment in virtual reality

TO BE OR NOT TO BE IN MUSEUM: HISTOIRE(S) DE L’IMAGE (WS 2021/22)
“Theory and Practice of Visual Arts“ Mobile, Berlin

FAB21: FESTIVAL OF ANIMATION BERLIN, CITY KINO WEDDING, GERMANY (October 01 – 03, 2021)
Opening speech by Frank Geßner

TO BE OR NOT TO BE IN CINEMA: HISTOIRE(S) DU FILM (September 21, 2021)
Impulse concept for the development of Saalbau Lichtspiele Heppenheim, Hesse

CREATING KNOWLEDGE: WORKSHOP VIDEOGRAPHIC-ESSAYISTIC RESEARCH, FILM UNIVERSITY BABELSBERG KONRAD WOLF, GERMANY (September 17, 2021)
Online video essay statement and closing discussion

‘CINEMA REINVENTÉ’ WORK IN PROGRESS: A SPHERICAL VIDEO ESSAY DRAFT, FILM UNIVERSITY BABELSBERG KONRAD WOLF, GERMANY (September 13 – 23, 2021)
Produced by Frank Geßner for the online symposium “Fabulation for the Future: Artistic Research in Film and Philosophy“

‘WERKSTADT‘ DENKEN IST PLASTIK! OPENING HOUSE 6 – REFECTORY, MOTION HALL, MODELLING SPACE, MOTION CAPTURE STUDIO ETC., FILM UNIVERSITY BABELSBERG KONRAD WOLF, GERMANY (May 7, 2021)

THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM: INTERLINKAGES BETWEEN HEALTH, RACISM & COLONIAL CONTINUITIES, CHARITÉ BERLIN, GERMANY (April 10, 2021)
Online exhibition, “Das Fremde / The Others by Jeanne Koepp”, opening speech by Frank Geßner

IT’S ONLY A COPY, BUT I LIKE IT! 24H ONLINE MUSEUM (March 20, 2021)
Prototype postcard, 2001/2021

FRANK GESSNER, BERLIN OPEN STUDIO, VOLUME I (Digital release, December 22, 2020)
Frank Gessner (ed.), free artist’s eBook prototype, sequential art, and PS by Frank Geßner, English, 226 pages, printed out 25 x 20 cm, black-and-white images, Self-Publishing, *Atelier Berlin Production, Berlin 2020, NO-ISBN

ON THE OPENING OF THE HUMBOLDT FORUM: BERLIN PALACE, GERMANY (December 17, 2020)
Art in architecture, “Night & Day”, moving sculpture, draft 2017 by Frank Geßner

BETWEEN MYTH AND REALITY: COOPERATION FILM UNIVERSITY BABELSBERG KONRAD WOLF AND KUNSTHAUS „SANS TITRE“ POTSDAM, GERMANY (December 17, 2020, January 14, 2021 and, February 10, 2021)
Curating online screening and presentation animation study program Frank Geßner

URSONETT: CROWN OF SONNETS OR CORONA SEQUENCE, 14 & 1 MAGISTRALE – SMARTINSTALLATION, BERLIN, GERMANY (October 04 – 11, 2020)
Festival of Animation Berlin: „FAB Dimensional“, Animation Expanded Group Exhibition

IN MEMORIAM SCHRÖDER: SCHRÖDER & KALENDER: 45. JOUR FIX – BERLIN, GERMANY (October 3, 2020)
Lecture essay Frank Geßner: “ALIAS YEDERBECK OUTLOOK TESTELAB & GUESTS“

GLOBE PLAYHOUSE SPACELAB: VR MASTERCLASS ARTISTIC RESEARCH (September 7 – 18, 2020)
Virtual Reality Sommerschool, Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf

INTERNATIONAL BEYOND FILMFESTIVAL: SPECIAL EDITION CLIMATE CHANGE, ZKM / CENTER FOR ART AND MEDIA KARLSRUHE, GERMANY (July 23 – 26, 2020)
Jury member Frank Geßner: Short Documentary, Short Fiction, Documentary

XCHANGE REALITY! EXPLORING THE FUTURE WITH AUGUMENTED AND VIRTUAL REALITY: ST. PÖLTEN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES, AUSTRIA (April 27 – 30, 2020) ––– Virtual Format!
Lecture essay Frank Geßner: “TESTeLAB & Guests – Animating Knowledge“

TESTELAB & GUESTS: RESEARCH ON THE MOVE, SCHRÖDER & KALENDER: 45. JOUR FIX – BERLIN, GERMANY (April 4, 2020) ––– Show Canceled!
Lecture essay Frank Geßner: “TESTeLAB & Guests – Research on the Move“

PERFORMANCE KNOWLEDGES: TRANSMISSION, COMPOSITION, PRAXIS: SCHOOL OF PERFORMING ARTS / UNIVERSITY OF MALTA & CENTRE FOR DANCE RESEARCH / COVENTRY UNIVERSITY, MALTA (March 11 – 13, 2020)
Lecture essay Frank Geßner: “TESTeLAB & Guests – Animating Knowledge“

KINDERFILMUNIVERSITÄT BABELSBERG: ANIMATION LECTURE FOR KIDS, FILM UNIVERSITY BABELSBERG KONRAD WOLF, POTSDAM, GERMANY (February 29, 2020)
A media education project for young film fans

BAUHAUS-UNIVERSITÄT WEIMAR: KUNST UND GESTALTUNG, WEIMER, GERMANY (January 27, 2020)
Concept presentation Frank Gessner: “TESTeLAB & Guests – Expanded Animation Worlds“

DAAD – GERMAN ACADEMIC EXCHANGE SERVICE: CHINA ACADEMY OF ART, HANGZHOU (November 19 – 27, 2019)
Concept presentation Frank Geßner: “BIGGER THAN LIFE: TESTeLAB & Guests – Expanded Animation Worlds“

GASTSPIEL 2019 – TOBIAS REMPP & FRANK GESSNER: ATELIER REMPP, FÜRTH, GERMANY (October 26 – 27 and November 10, 2019)

APES19 – ANIMATION AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT SYMPOSIUM: TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY, LUBBOCK, USA (September 19 – 21, 2019)
Concept presentation Frank Geßner: “TESTeLAB & Guests – Expanded Animation Worlds“

INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FILM FESTIVAL NIKOZI, GEORGIA: ANIMATION PROGRAM FILM UNIVERSITY BABELSBERG KONRAD WOLF (September 01 – 07, 2019)
Curating screening and presentation animation study program Frank Geßner

NECS – STRUCTURES AND VOICES: STORYTELLING IN POST-DIGITAL TIMES: UNIVERSITY OF GDAŃSK, POLAND (June 13 – 15, 2019)
European Network for Cinema and Media Studies, concept presentation Frank Geßner: “TESTeLAB & Guests – Expanded Animation Worlds“

THE ESSAY FILM FORM AND ANIMATION: INTERSECTIONALITY IN MOTION – DEREK JARMAN LAB, LONDON, GREAT BRITAIN (June 12 – 13, 2019)
Lecture essay Frank Geßner: “From Assisi after Padua * Atelier Berlin Manifesto – Bildkunst/Visual Arts/Plastic Arts as Meta-Language of Animation Art”

DAAD – GERMAN ACADEMIC EXCHANGE SERVICE: TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF ART, IRAN / FILM UNIVERSITY BABELSBERG KONRAD WOLF, GERMANY (April 23 – May 14, 2019 / June 23 – July 14, 2019)
Workshop Michael Hammon, Eike Schweikhardt, and Frank Geßner. Concept presentation Frank Geßner: “TESTeLAB & Guests – Expanded Animation Worlds“

ANIMATED PAINTING – PAINTINGS AS MOVIES: SPECIAL EXHIBITION DIAF / GERMAN INSTITUTE FOR ANIMATED FILM DRESDEN, GERMANY (April 11, 2019)
Opening speech and discussion Frank Geßner in the framework of the 31st Filmfest Dresden

ANIVAE: OSAKA INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION CENTER, JAPAN (March 23 – 27, 2019)
2nd Workshop on Animation in Virtual and Augmented Environments in conjunction with IEEE Virtual Reality, concept presentation Frank Gessner: “TESTeLAB & Guests – Expanded Animation Worlds“

FFK: FILMUNIVERSITÄT BABELSBERG KONRAD WOLF, GERMANY (March 07 – 09, 2019)
Film- und Fernsehwissenschaftliches Kolloquium, concept presentation Frank Gessner: “TESTeLAB & Guests – Expanded Animation Worlds“

PANORAMAVISION: EARTH SEEN FROM THE STUDIO, FRANK GESSNER, *ATELIER BERLIN PRODUCTION & REVOLVER PUBLISHING BERLIN, GERMANY (Release, December 01, 2018)
Artist’s book with texts by Fee Altmann, Franziska Bruckner, Suzanne Buchan, Frank Geßner, Kerstin Gessner, and Stefan Winter

EXPANDEDADA VINCI: SITE-SPECIFIC INSTALLATION, VIENNA, AUSTRIA (November 26, 2018 – January 15, 2019)
Opening as part of “In Wirklichkeit Animation [In Reality Animation]…“ – 4th conference on German animation research, Asifakeil, Q21/MuseumsQuartier

EISENSTEIN’S HOUSE: SERGEI EISENSTEIN AND THE GAME OF OBJECTS, BRANDENBURGISCHES ZENTRUM FÜR MEDIENWISSENSCHAFTEN (ZeM), POTSDAM, GERMANY (November 22 – 24, 2018)
Consulting and Artwork for the VR prototype “Eisenstein’s House“

ART AND INNOVATION – ELIA: EUROPEAN LEAGUE OF INSTITUTES OF THE ARTS, ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS (November 21 – 24, 2018)
Concept presentation Frank Geßner: “TESTeLAB & Guests – Expanded Animation Worlds“

TIMES AND MOVEMENTS OF THE IMAGE: CALDAS DA RAINHA SCHOOL OF ARTS AND DESIGN AND POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF LEIRIA, LISBON, PORTUGAL (November 14 – 15, 2018)
Lecture essay Frank Geßner: “Learning from Pessoa * Atelier Berlin Manifesto – Bildkunst/Visual Arts/Plastic Arts as Meta-Language of Animation Art”

SEX ROLE (5 WOMEN – 2 GENERATIONS): ARTIST TALK, SCHAU FENSTER, SPACE FOR ART, BERLIN, GERMANY (August 15, 2018)
Birgit Hein, Katarzyna Kozyra, Ann Noël, Cornelia Renz, and Johanna Smiatek in conversation with Frank Geßner

DAY OF SCIENCES: MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT, POTSDAM, GERMANY (May 05, 2018)
Concept presentation Frank Geßner: “TESTeLAB & Guests – Expanded Animation Worlds”

KINDERFILMUNIVERSITÄT BABELSBERG: ANIMATION LECTURE FOR KIDS, FILM UNIVERSITY BABELSBERG KONRAD WOLF, POTSDAM, GERMANY (April 14, 2018)
A media education project for young film fans

“… AND YET IT MOVES!”: SAS / SOCIETY FOR ANIMATION STUDIES, DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL HERITAGE, UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA, ITALY (JULY 03 – 07, 2017)
Lecture essay Frank Geßner: “Learning From Padua * Atelier Berlin Manifesto – Bildkunst/Visual Arts/Plastic Arts as Meta-Language of Animation Art”

DAY OF SCIENCES: MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT, POTSDAM, GERMANY (May 11, 2017)
Lecture essay Frank Geßner: “ALIAS YEDERBECK REDUX – Expanded Animation Cinema”

MOVING IMAGES: BEWEGTBILDER 2017, KIEL, GERMANY (May 04 – 06, 2017)
Mediality – Multimodality – Materiality: Concepts for Media and Image Studies in the Era of the “Technosphere”, lecture essay Frank Geßner: “ALIAS YEDERBECK REDUX – Expanded Animation Cinema”

DADA PRIZE TO ALEXANDER KLUGE: 20th TDK, “WHAT IS DADA ETC.? AN EVENING FOR AND BY ALEXANDER KLUGE“, FILM UNIVERSITY BABELSBERG KONRAD WOLF; GERMANY (December 6, 2016)
Awarded by Frank Geßner and Fabian Salgado in the framework of the 20th Transdisciplinary Colloquium, Institute for Artistic Research/IKF

PANORAMA VISION FINISSAGE: DIAF / GERMAN INSTITUTE FOR ANIMATED FILM, DRESDEN, GERMANY (November 12, 2016)
Context exhibition and project presentation Frank Geßner: ALIAS YEDERBECK REDUX

DAAD – GERMAN ACADEMIC EXCHANGE SERVICE: SOORE UNIVERSITY TEHRAN, IRAN / FILM UNIVERSITY BABELSBERG KONRAD WOLF, GERMANY (October 01 – 10, 2016)
Students‘ project presentation and cooperation talks; Michael Hammon and Frank Geßner

PANORAMA VISION: DIAF / GERMAN INSTITUTE FOR ANIMATED FILM, DRESDEN, GERMANY (April 17 – November 13, 2016)
Context exhibition and project presentation Frank Geßner: ALIAS YEDERBECK REDUX

THE COSMOS OF ANIMATION: SAS / SOCIETY FOR ANIMATION STUDIES, NANYANG TECHNOLOGIGAL UNIVERSITY, SINGAPORE (June 26 – 30, 2016)
Lecture essay Frank Geßner: “ALIAS YEDERBECK – Expanded Animation Cinema”

INSTITUTE FOR TIME BASED ART: BERLIN UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS, GERMANY
Lecture essay and project presentation Frank Gessner: “ALIAS YEDERBECK – Expanded Animation Cinema” (June 15, 2016)

KINDERFILMUNIVERSITÄT BABELSBERG: ANIMATION LECTURE FOR KIDS, FILM UNIVERSITY BABELSBERG KONRAD WOLF, POTSDAM, GERMANY (February 20, 2016)
A media education project for young film fans

BFX BOURNEMOUTH’S VISUAL EFFECTS, ANIMATION AND GAMES FESTIVAL: ACADEMIC CONFERENCE, BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY, GREAT BRITAIN (September 28 – October 04, 2015)
Lecture essay Frank Geßner: “ALIAS YEDERBECK – Expanded Animation Cinema”

ANIMATION AND EXPERIMENTAL FILM: WORLD FESTIVAL OF ANIMATED FILM ANIMAFEST ZAGREB / SCANNER II, CROATIA (June 10 – 11, 2015)
Lecture essay and project presentation Frank Geßner: “ALIAS YEDERBECK – Expanded Animation Cinema”

TRANSMEDIA EXPERIENCES: ANIMATION AS FINE ART – FMX / CONFERENCE ON ANIMATION, EFFECTS, GAMES AND IMMERSIVE MEDIA & FILMAKADEMIE BADEN-WÜRTTEMBERG, STUTTGART, GERMANY (May 05 – 08, 2015)
Lecture essay Frank Geßner: “ALIAS YEDERBECK – Expanded Animation Cinema”

YESBODY FOR ARTISTIC RESEARCH PRIZE TO PETER WEIBEL: 14th TDK, “A NOETIC TURN: FROM LANGUAGE TO A TOOL-BASED CULTURE“, REPRESENTATION OF THE STATE OF BRANDENBURG, BERLIN, GERMANY (December 08, 2014)
Awarded by Frank Geßner in the framework of 14th Transdisciplinary Colloquium, Institute for Artistic Research / IKF

3D-SYMPOSIUM BEYOND – FUTURE DESIGN: ZKM / CENTER FOR ART AND MEDIA KARLSRUHE & KARLSRUHE UNIVERSITY OF ARTS AND DESIGN, GERMANY (October 09 – 12, 2014)
Lecture essay and project presentation Frank Geßner: “ALIAS YEDERBECK – Expanded Animation Cinema”

30TH HAMBURG INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL, GERMANY (June 03 – 09, 2014)
Lecture essay and project presentation Frank Gessner: “ALIAS YEDERBECK – Expanded Animation Cinema”, Germany

PLAYFUL ART: PLAYABLE INTERFACES BETWEEN ART, FILM AND ANIMATION, STUTTGART INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ANIMATED FILM – GAME ZONE, GERMANY (April 22 – 27, 2014)
Lecture essay Frank Geßner: “ALIAS YEDERBECK – Expanded Animation Cinema”

KINDERFILMUNIVERSITÄT BABELSBERG: ANIMATION LECTURE FOR KIDS, HFF “KONRAD WOLF“, POTSDAM, GERMANY (February 22, 2014)
A media education project for young film fans

ALIAS YEDERBECK: EXPANDED ANIMATION CINEMA, RE:VOIR PARIS / DVD PUBLISHER, FRANCE (Release, February 02, 2014)
DVD edition, App, and book, ed. by Frank Geßner, with texts by Suzanne Buchan, Ursula Frohne, Christian Katti, Yvonne Spielmann, and Karin Wehn

¡DOCUMENTARY NOW! BIMI CINEMA, BIRKBECK, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, GREAT BRITAIN (June 19 – 20, 2013)
A conference on the contemporary contexts and possibilities of the documentary, essay Suzanne Buchan: “Identity, Authenticity and Heteronym in Frank Gessner’s Alias Yederbeck”

EXPERIMENT: INTERVIEW ANIMATION MAGAZINE CCTV, CHINA (2013)
Wu Zhi – Frank Gessner, acting manager of the dead artist Paul Yederbeck

PILOT STUDY “ART & LANGUAGE“: EMPIRE STATE BUILDING, 63RD FLOOR, NEW YORK CITY, USA (September 9 – 30, 2012)
In memory to “Empire“ from 1965, a black-and-white silent art film by Andy Warhol, Direction and Jonas Mekas, Cinematography

AVANCA CINEMA: PORTUGAL – CONFERÊNCIA INTERNACIONAL CINEMA – ARTE, TECNOLOGIA, COMUNICAÇÃO (July 25 – 29, 2012)
International symposium, lecture essay Frank Gessner: “ALIAS YEDERBECK – Expanded Animation Cinema”

INSTITUTE FOR HISTORY OF ART AND VISUAL HISTORY: HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY OF BERLIN, GERMANY & DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND CINEMA STUDIES – UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, USA (March 08 – 09, 2012)
Enchanted drawing: animation as imaging culture, international symposium, lecture essay Frank Geßner: “ALIAS YEDERBECK – Expanded Animation Cinema”

RESEARCH IN ART LABORATORY: 11th TDK, INSTITUTE FOR ARTISTIC RESEARCH – HFF “KONRAD WOLF” POTSDAM-BABELSBERG, GERMANY (February 02, 2012)
Lecture essay Frank Geßner: “ALIAS YEDERBECK – Expanded Animation Cinema” and discussion with Julian Klein, Director of the Institute for Artistic Research Berlin, Radialsystem V, in the framework of 11th Transdisciplinary Colloquium, Institute for Artistic Research / IKF

ALIAS YEDERBECK: EXPANDED ANIMATION CINEMA, KUNSTRAUM & SCHINKELHALLE POTSDAM, GERMANY (December 04, 2011 – January 15, 2012)
Exhibition and world premiere of the cinematographic installation in the framework of “Potsdam 2011 – City of Film”

INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION: COMICS & GAMES FORUM, JILIN ANIMATION INSTITUTE CHANGCHUNG, CHINA (September 01 – 04, 2011)
Research panel – concept presentation and pre-production Frank Gessner: “ALIAS YEDERBECK – Expanded Animation Cinema”

MEDIALE LEBENS(T)RÄUME: MEDIAL LIVING SPACES, BÜRGERSAAL OF THE THURINGIAN STATE CHANCELLERY – THÜRINGER LANDESMEDIENANSTALT, ERFURT, GERMANY (June 27 – July 03, 2011)
Exhibition “TESTE SANS FIN“ (excerpts) and teaser “QU’EST-CE QUE MONSIEUR TESTE?”

ANTRITTSVORLESUNG “THEORIE UND PRAXIS DER BILDKUNST“: HFF “KONRAD WOLF” POTSDAM BABELSBERG, GERMANY (May 03, 2010)
Inaugural lecture Frank Geßner: “THEORY AND PRACTICE OF VISUAL ARTS”

LUCERNE INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION ACADEMY: BOURBAKI PANORAMA, LUCERNE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS, SWITZERLAND (December 08 – 12, 2009)
Research panel – concept presentation Frank Gessner: “EXPANDED ANIMATION – TESTE SANS FIN”

BOLLYWOOD MEETS BABELSBERG: HFF DELEGATION IN MUMBAI AND PUNE, INDIA (March 28 – April 05, 2009)
International joint ventures between India and Germany in media, University of Mumbai, Whistling Woods International Mumbai, and Film and Television Institute of India Pune

GLOBAL PEACE FESTIVAL: DMZ AREA, KOREA (November 26 – December 01, 2008)
Presentation animated, documentaries, and fictional films of HFF “Konrad Wolf“

PIROSMANI AND CONTEMPORARY ART: TBILISI HISTORY MUSEUM, CARAVANSERAI, GEORGIA (October 18 – 29, 2008)
Group exhibition, Georgian-German Society & Goethe-Institut Tbilisi, Georgia

THE COW IN THE TREE: ANIMATED FILMS FOR CHILDREN BY CHRISTINA SCHINDLER, DIAF / GERMAN INSTITUTE FOR ANIMATED FILM, DRESDEN, GERMANY (OCTOBER 10, 2008 – April 05, 2009)
Opening speech by Frank Geßner

FILM AND PAINTING: DEFA FOUNDATION, BERLIN, GERMANY (September 26, 2007)
Talk between the painter and director Irma-Kinga Stellmach and Frank Geßner

SOMETIME THEY’LL GIVE AN EXHIBITION AND NOBODY WILL COME: *ATELIER BERLIN PRODUCTION, GERMANY (July 21, 2007)
Premiere, “Teste sans fin”, Block 1-10(X), 1994-2007

VIVA FOTOFILM! SYMPOSIUM & SCREENING: HFF “KONRAD WOLF“ POTSDAM-BABELSBERG, GERMANY (June, 06 – 09, 2007)
Symposium organized by Katja Pratschke & Gusztáv Hamos, moderated by Frank Geßner, Gusztáv Hamos, and Thomas Tode

DER DIGITALE KAMERAFEDERHALTER: 1st TDK / TRANSDISCIPLINARY COLLOQUIUM, HFF “KONRAD WOLF“ POTSDAM-BABELSBERG, GERMANY (April 16, 2007)
Alfred Behrens, video essay screening (work in progress), Frank Geßner, Artistic Research “Denkzettel” and moderation

BABELSBERG BGA SYMPOSIUM: WOMEN’S CAREERS IN CREATIVE MEDIA SECTOR THROUGH PROFESSIONAL INDEPENDENCE, HFF “KONRAD WOLF“ POTSDAM-BABELSBERG, GERMANY (January 16, 2007)
Opening Symposium, event organized by bga and ZukunftsAgentur Brandenburg (ZAB) in cooperation with the Institut für Berufsforschung und Unternehmensplanung (IBF)

BABELSBERG – MYTH AND REALITY: ART RESEARCH CENTER RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY & GOETHE-INSTITUT VILLA KAMOGAWA, KYOTO, JAPAN (November 08 – 09, 2006)
Lecture essay and curated screening of student works (Animation, Documentary, Fiction)

ARTBRIDGE_HFF: SEQUENTIAL ART, HFF “KONRAD WOLF“ POTSDAM-BABELSBERG, GERMANY (May 11, 2006)
Andreas Platthaus, guest lecture, Frank Geßner, moderation

BONSOIR MONSIEUR TESTE: *ATELIER BERLIN PRODUCTION, BERLIN-PRENZLAUER BERG, GERMANY (October 29, 2005)
Open studio party, Founding *Atelier Berlin Production

ARTBRIDGE_HFF: WILLIAM KENTRIDGE, DRAWINGS FOR PROJECTION, HFF “KONRAD WOLF“ POTSDAM-BABELSBERG, GERMANY (October 25 – 26, 2005)
William Kentridge, guest lecture, workshop talk, and screening, Frank Geßner, moderation

ARTBRIDGE_HFF: INTERMEDIALITÄT, THE PETER GREENAWAY SYSTEM, HFF “KONRAD WOLF“ POTSDAM-BABELSBERG, GERMANY (June 27, 2005)
Yvonne Spielmann, guest lecture, Frank Geßner, moderation

ARTBRIDGE_HFF: SAMUEL BECKETT, FILM & TV WORKS, HFF “KONRAD WOLF“ POTSDAM-BABELSBERG, GERMANY (May 02, 2005)
Robert Kudielka, guest lecture, Frank Geßner, moderation

DIFFUSION PRIMÄR ZEIT: OPEL LIVE, RÜSSELSHEIM, GERMANY (January 31 – March 4, 2004)
Group exhibition, UDK professors and students

MY FAVOURITE FILM, MY LOVELIEST SEQUENCE II: MEDIA WORKSHOP, BERLIN UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS, HARDENBERGSTR. 33, GERMANY (July 16 – 18, 2004)
Artistic research workshop, screening, open house

TOWARDS_THE_IMAGE, N_SPACE, TRANSFORMING MEDIA PHASE 1.1:
HFF “KONRAD WOLF“ POTSDAM-BABELSBERG & UNIVERSITÄT POTSDAM, GERMANY (June 18 – 19, 2004)
Artistic research showcase, house 26, Potsdam Science Park Golm

TOWARDS THE IMAGE, N_SPACE, TRANSFORMING MEDIA, PHASE 1.0:
HFF “KONRAD WOLF“ POTSDAM-BABELSBERG & UNIVERSITÄT POTSDAM, GERMANY (October 04 – 12, 2003)
Artistic research showcase, lobby, HFF „Konrad Wolf“

BLACKBOX/UDK CINEMA: “TALK ABOUT FILM“, ROSA VON PRAUNHEIM, BERLIN UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS, ROOM 158, HARDENBERGSTR. 33, GERMANY (MAY 19, 2003)
Introduction and moderation, Frank Geßner

BLACKBOX/UDK CINEMA: “WARGAMES“, BERLIN UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS, ROOM 158, HARDENBERGSTR. 33, GERMANY (SS 2003)
Film program curated by Frank Geßner

ZEICHENRAUM PRESENTS: “FRAGILITY“ BY PADMINI CHETTUR, INDIAN DANCE “LECTURE SHOW“, BERLIN UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS, ROOM 157, HARDENBERGSTR. 33, GERMANY (June 19, 2002)
Cooperation Schaubühne Berlin/Sasha Waltz & Jochen Sandig, UdK/Frank Geßner, Burkhard Held, and Robert Kudielka

ÜBER-MALEN UND ZEICHNEN: JUGENDSTRAFANSTALT BERLIN, HAUS 8 FACHBEREICH SUCHT, GERMANY (December 21, 2001 – March 20, 2002)
Documentation, self-test drawing and painting

ZEICHENRAUM PRESENTS: “THE LANGUAGE OF DANCE“ BY TATJANA ORLOB, BERLIN UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS, ROOM 157, HARDENBERGSTR. 33, GERMANY (April 23, 2001)
Frank Geßner and Burkhard Held

ZEICHENRAUM MANIFEST: BERLIN UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS, ROOM 157, HARDENBERGSTR. 33, GERMANY (March 20, 2001)
Manifesto & 24h paper museum

FRÜHSTÜCK IM ATELIER: BERLIN-PRENZLAUER BERG, GERMANY (October 29, 2000)
Action/performance, Atelier Berlin

MILLENNIUM PROBLEM: BERLIN-PRENZLAUER BERG, GERMANY (December 31, 1999 – January 01, 2000)
Opening Atelier Berlin

MODERNIZATION FOUNDATION HOUSE AND BUILDING NEW STUDIO: BERLIN-PRENZLAUER BERG, GERMANY (Completion November 15, 1999)
Planing of a social urban renewal project, collaboration Christina Bunk, Frank Geßner, and Josef Georg Geßner

AUF DER TREPPE: UNIVERSITÄTSBAUAMT WÜRZBURG, GERMANY (October 06 – November 19, 1999)
One-man show