Awards
EXIST grant* (ca.100.000 euros), German Ministry of Economics and
Technology 2011
Finalist (second place), Digital Arts Award, Monaco Dance Forum 2006
First Prize, Interactive Art at the Berlin Transmediale 2002
First Prize, Multi-media achievement from the European CYNETart Festival
for Computer Art 2000
Innovation Award (city of Nürnberg) in the category "Culture"
1999
Honorable mention, Berlin Transmediale 1999
Facing America Award (tri-city area, Nürnerg) 1992
Additional competitive grants
Bavarian Association for Contemporary Dance (Bayrischer Landesverband
für Zeitgenössischen Tanz)
Fulbright Commission (Fulbright Fellowship)
The Goethe Institute (over ten travel grants to foreign countries)
Marshal Fund of Norway - grant
Epstein Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts (in the USA) - Meet the Composer grants
Siemens AG - grants
City of Nürnberg (1989-2007) - artists support, company support
Invitations
Palindrome has been invited to Festival Video Danza in Buenos Aires, ISEA
in Paris, Monaco Dance Forum (in 2000, 02, 04 and 06), NIME2004 and 2009,
IDAT 1999, ICMC in Berlin and Havana Cuba, Ludwigsforum Aachen, Hörkunst
Festival, SEAMUS (conference for computer music in the United States),
Hörzu in Bremen (07 and 08) ,as a part of the German government's
program for the public understanding of science (2000 and 2001) and most
recently at AMBER an international festival of digital arts in Istanbul.
The Performance Group has also performed at Centre Culturel Saint Exupéry,
Reims in France; Zentrum für Kunst u. Medientechnologien (ZKM) in
Karlsruhe; Gasteig Theater München; Hamamatsu, Japan; Podewil, Berlin;
Staatsschauspiel Dresden; Sommer Szene Salzburg; The Place Theater in
London; Pfalzbau Theater in Ludwigshaven; Transmediale Festival Berlin;
STEPS Festival Switzerland; the Washington Square Theater in New York
City; the ISIS Congress in the Washington DC; Forum für Neue Musik
Stuttgart, University of Edinburgh in Scottland, as well as festivals,
theaters, museums and conferences in San Francisco, Oslo, Tokyo, Prague,
Rome, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Vienna and virtually every major city in
Germany.
In Nürnberg, they can be seen most every year at the Tafelhalle
Theater.
In the United States Palindrome has appeared at the San Francisco International
Arts Festival as well as numerous universities including Arizona State
University, Connecticut College, American University, University of Colorado,
UCLA, Temple University, St. Olafs College, Reed College, University of
Northern Texas, San Franciso University, California State University at
Northridge, and New York University.
For commercial performances, Palindrome counts among its satsified customers
Siemens AG, Telekom AG, DATEV AG, Compunet, UIA (international architects'
society), Media Intelligence Group, Bundesministerium für Bildung
und Forschung, Vdbiol and Carl Zeiss.
* - awarded to Mr. Wechsler