Dirk Koy

Dirk Koy, born in 1977, is a Basel-based artist active in various fields of moving image creation.

After studying visual communication at the Academy of Art and Design in Basel, which he completed in 2002, Dirk Koy worked at KMS-Team Munich in the field of graphic design and animation, and then cofounded the visual communication studio Equipo in 2007. In 2016 he founded the experimental film studio Dirk Koy Bild und Bewegung.

His works lie at the junction between a graphic, photographic and video approach anchored in the tangible and a digital work. They propose to experience the meeting of the real world with a virtual universe, of the analogical with the digital, while revealing the pictorial quality of digital contexts. The plurality of digital technologies employed by Koy in the realization of his works, such as 2d and 3d animation, drones, photogrammetry, 3d scanning, augmented reality and virtual reality, as well as the manipulation

of the various parameters of operating software whose limits he tests, attest to his interest in experimentation. In his works representing distortions of the real world through these different digital processes, he thus gives a singular view of everyday life. His works have been shown at the Art Center Nabi in Seoul, at the HEK (Haus der elektronischen

Künste) Basel, at the festival «Supernova» in Denver or at the FILE Festival in São Paulo. He was awarded prizes such as the Prix Ars Electronica (2012), the Visual Music Awards (2015), the Basel Media Art Prize (2019) and the Prix du film «Off-Limits» (Annecy, 2022) for his animations and videos.