Dr Beny Wagner

Beny Wagner is an artist, filmmaker and writer

Staff details

Position

Lecturer in Fine Art Critical Studies

Department

Art

Email

b.wagner (@gold.ac.uk)

Links

Website
benywagner.com

Working across moving image, text, installation and lectures, I construct non-linear narratives that explore the threshold of the human body in time. I have explored themes ranging from histories of metabolism, to the social and political histories of measurement standardization, histories of animation at the intersection of science and art. Since 2017, much of my work is produced in the context of my long term collaboration with Sasha Litvintseva.

Teaching and supervision

I have taught BA and MA students in both fine art and film practice at several universities and academies in both the UK and the Netherlands since 2016.
I am currently a lecturer on the Fine Art Critical Studies BA programme and a supervisor on MA Artist Film and Moving Image.

My supervision interests include: artist moving image, media theory, film and media archaeology, histories of science, decolonial ecology, anarchism, mysticism.

BA Fine Art Critical Studies

Publications and research outputs

Film/Video

My Want of You Partakes of Me Litvintseva, Sasha and Wagner, Beny. 2023. My Want of You Partakes of Me.
Constant Litvintseva, Sasha and Wagner, Beny. 2022. Constant.
Coal Mine in the Canary Wagner, Beny. 2021. Coal Mine in the Canary.

Show/Exhibition

My Want of You Partakes of Me (Festival World Premiere) Wagner, Beny and Litvintseva, Sasha. 2024. My Want of You Partakes of Me (Festival World Premiere). In: "CPH:DOX New:Vision Competition", Cinemateket, Copenhagen, Denmark, 18 March 2024.
The Spell of the Sensuous Litvintseva, Sasha and Wagner, Beny. 2024. The Spell of the Sensuous. In: "The Spell of the Sensuous, Sonics Acts Bienniale 2024", W139, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 3 February - 24 March 2024.
Science, Body, Anatomy Litvintseva, Sasha and Wagner, Beny. 2023. Science, Body, Anatomy. In: "Science, Body, Anatomy", Tate Modern, Starr Cinema, United Kingdom, 25 November 2023.

Living Togetherness Litvintseva, Sasha and Wagner, Beny. 2023. Living Togetherness. In: "Living Togetherness, Taiwan International Video Art Biennale", Hong-Gah Museum Taipei, Taiwan, Province of China, 4 November 2023 - 28 January 2024.
More-Than-Human Gaze Litvintseva, Sasha and Wagner, Beny. 2023. More-Than-Human Gaze. In: "More-Than-Human Gaze", Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland, 23 September 2023.
This Too is A Map, 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale Litvintseva, Sasha and Wagner, Beny. 2023. This Too is A Map, 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale. In: "12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale", Seoul Museum of Art, Korea, Republic of, 21 September - 19 November 2023.
Ars Electronica 2023 Wagner, Beny and Litvintseva, Sasha. 2023. Ars Electronica 2023. In: "(Co)Owning More-than-Truth", POSTCITY Linz, Austria, 6 - 10 September 2023.
Film Screening: Constant (solo screening) Litvintseva, Sasha and Wagner, Beny. 2023. Film Screening: Constant (solo screening). In: "Measurement, modernism and mystics", Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, 5 May 2023.
The Measure of the World Litvintseva, Sasha and Wagner, Beny. 2023. The Measure of the World. In: "The Measure of the World", Radius CCA, Delft, Netherlands, 25 February - 14 May 2023.
LIMA Presents: Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner Litvintseva, Sasha and Wagner, Beny. 2022. LIMA Presents: Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner. In: "LIMA Presents: Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner", LAB111, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 23 November 2022.
The Curse of Smooth Operations Litvintseva, Sasha and Wagner, Beny. 2022. The Curse of Smooth Operations. In: "IMPAKT Festival 2022", IMPAKT, Utrecht, Netherlands, 2 November 2022 - 8 January 2023.
In/Visible Measures Litvintseva, Sasha and Wagner, Beny. 2022. In/Visible Measures. In: "In/Visible Measures", Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, United States, 11 October 2022.
Monsters and Measures (solo programme) Litvintseva, Sasha and Wagner, Beny. 2022. Monsters and Measures (solo programme). In: "Monsters and Measures", e-flux Screening Room, New York, United States, 27 September 2022.
Open City Documentary Festival Litvintseva, Sasha and Wagner, Beny. 2022. Open City Documentary Festival. In: "Open City Documentary Festival", Genesis Cinema, London, United Kingdom, 10 September 2022.
IndieLisboa 2022 Litvintseva, Sasha and Wagner, Beny. 2022. IndieLisboa 2022. In: "Sylvestre Competition", Lisbon, Portugal, 1 May 2022.
First Look 2022 Litvintseva, Sasha and Wagner, Beny. 2022. First Look 2022. In: "First Look", Museum of the Moving Image, New York, United States, 17 March 2022.
Transmediale 2022: This is Not Anarchy, This is Chaos Litvintseva, Sasha and Wagner, Beny. 2022. Transmediale 2022: This is Not Anarchy, This is Chaos. In: "Transmediale 2022: This is Not Anarchy, This is Chaos", Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany, 28 - 29 January 2022.
Constant (Festival World Premiere) Litvintseva, Sasha and Wagner, Beny. 2022. Constant (Festival World Premiere). In: "International Film Festival Rotterdam: Tiger Shorts Competition", Rotterdam, Netherlands, January 2022.
Adrift Residency (solo programme) Litvintseva, Sasha and Wagner, Beny. 2021. Adrift Residency (solo programme). In: "Adrift Residency", Los Angeles Film Forum, United States, 15 - 19 October 2021.
A Demonstration (solo exhibition) Litvintseva, Sasha and Wagner, Beny. 2021. A Demonstration (solo exhibition). In: "A Demonstration (solo exhibition)", CIAP, Genk, Belgium, 17 January - 14 March 2021.
Work in Progress Litvintseva, Sasha and Wagner, Beny. 2021. Work in Progress. In: "Work in Progress", Queer Art Projects, London, United Kingdom, 15 October 2020 - 15 January 2021.
Baltic Triennial 14: Intro, The Maze and the Lighthouse Litvintseva, Sasha and Wagner, Beny. 2020. Baltic Triennial 14: Intro, The Maze and the Lighthouse. In: "Baltic Triennial 14: Intro, The Maze and the Lighthouse", CAC Vilnius, Lithuania, 22 - 24 July 2020.
A Demonstration (Festival World Premiere) Litvintseva, Sasha and Wagner, Beny. 2020. A Demonstration (Festival World Premiere). In: "Berlin International Film Festival: Berlinale Shorts Competition", Berlin, Germany, February 2020.
Berlin Atonal 2019 Litvintseva, Sasha and Wagner, Beny. 2019. Berlin Atonal 2019. In: "Berlin Atonal 2019", Kraftwerk Berlin, Germany, 28 August - 1 September 2019.
State of Statelessness Wagner, Beny. 2018. State of Statelessness. In: "State of Statelessness", ISELP, Brussels, Belgium, 12 May - 7 July 2018.
Outside / Eye Farm (solo exhibition) Wagner, Beny. 2018. Outside / Eye Farm (solo exhibition). In: "Outside / Eye Farm (solo exhibition)", Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen, Netherlands, 8 April - 1 July 2018.
like the deserts miss the rain (solo exhibition) Wagner, Beny. 2017. like the deserts miss the rain (solo exhibition). In: "like the deserts miss the rain", Rongwrong, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 28 April - 28 May 2017.

Article

Two Hundred Years of Total Conversion Wagner, Beny and Litvintseva, Sasha. 2024. Two Hundred Years of Total Conversion. Ecoes(6), ISSN 2772-5685
Eat the Camera, Feed the Screen Wagner, Beny. 2023. Eat the Camera, Feed the Screen. e-flux journal(133), ISSN 2164-1625
The Perceiving Agent Wagner, Beny. 2023. The Perceiving Agent. The Posthumanist(2), pp. 74-79. ISSN 2753-3360

Book Section

Plasmaticness and the Boundaries of Human Perception Wagner, Beny. 2022. Plasmaticness and the Boundaries of Human Perception. In: Mathias Denecke; Holger Kuhn and Milan Stürmer, eds. Liquidity, Flows, Circulation: The Cultural Logic of Environmentalization. Zurich: Diaphanes, pp. 203-218. ISBN 9783035805369
Never Odd or Even – On Palindromes and Metaphors Litvintseva, Sasha and Wagner, Beny. 2019. Never Odd or Even – On Palindromes and Metaphors. In: Mirna Belina, ed. Hereafter. Amsterdam: Sonic Acts Press, pp. 144-155. ISBN 9789082321654

Artist's Book

All Thoughts Fly: Monster, Taxonomy, Film Litvintseva, Sasha and Wagner, Beny. 2021. All Thoughts Fly: Monster, Taxonomy, Film.

Conference or Workshop Item

Materializing the Immaterial: Film as Seeing and Sensing Wagner, Beny; Litvintseva, Sasha; Wang, Yuyan and Umansky, Valentine. 2024. 'Materializing the Immaterial: Film as Seeing and Sensing'. In: CPH:DOX Conference. Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark 18 - 22 March 2024.
Masterclass Artist Film Wagner, Beny and Litvintseva, Sasha. 2024. 'Masterclass Artist Film'. In: DOX:ACADEMY. CPH:DOX 2024, Denmark March 2024.
Masterclass Artist Film Wagner, Beny. 2024. 'Masterclass Artist Film'. In: MFA Creative Documentary by Practice. UCL, United Kingdom March 2024.

Artist Talk Wagner, Beny and Litvintseva, Sasha. 2024. 'Artist Talk'. In: Artist Talk. ArtEZ University of the Arts, Arnhem, Netherlands March 2024.
My Want of You Partakes of Me Wilk, Elvia; Litvintseva, Sasha and Wagner, Beny. 2024. 'My Want of You Partakes of Me'. In: The Spell of the Sensuous Symposium. Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Netherlands 25 February 2024.
Artist Talk and Screening Wagner, Beny and Litvintseva, Sasha. 2024. 'Artist Talk and Screening'. In: Artist Talk and Screening. Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, United Kingdom February 2024.
Artist Talk and Screening Wagner, Beny and Litvintseva, Sasha. 2024. 'Artist Talk and Screening'. In: Artist Talk. Kingston School of Art, Department of Film & Photography, United Kingdom January 2024.
Masterclass Artist Film Litvintseva, Sasha and Wagner, Beny. 2023. 'Masterclass Artist Film'. In: Collective Session 4. SoundImageCulture, Brussels, Belgium 19 - 23 June 2023.
Artist Talk and Screening Wagner, Beny and Litvintseva, Sasha. 2023. 'Artist Talk and Screening'. In: Artist Talk. Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG), Germany May 2023.
Artist Talk and Screening Litvintseva, Sasha and Wagner, Beny. 2023. 'Artist Talk and Screening'. In: Hybrid Forms and Frameworks. University of Virginia, United States 15 February 2023.
Artist Talk and Screening Wagner, Beny and Litvintseva, Sasha. 2022. 'Artist Talk and Screening'. In: CML Lab Days. Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW, Switzerland 12 December 2022.
The Personal Equation: Measurement Moving image, Body and Environment Wagner, Beny; Litvintseva, Sasha; Holl, Ute and Mircean, Mihnea. 2022. 'The Personal Equation: Measurement Moving image, Body and Environment'. In: IMPAKT Festival 2022. Het Huis Utrecht, Netherlands 5 November 2022.
Artist Talk Wagner, Beny. 2022. 'Artist Talk'. In: Artist Talk. Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom March 2022.
Post-Industrial Metabolism and the Discorrelated Moving Image Wagner, Beny. 2022. 'Post-Industrial Metabolism and the Discorrelated Moving Image'. In: PGR Seminar Series. Southampton Institute for Arts and Humanities, United Kingdom 23 February 2022.
Materialities of Measure Litvintseva, Sasha and Wagner, Beny. 2022. 'Materialities of Measure'. In: Dis/Entangling Perspectives in Material Research Lecture Series. Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany 3 January 2022.
Monstrare: Documenting Beyond the Indexical Litvintseva, Sasha and Wagner, Beny. 2021. 'Monstrare: Documenting Beyond the Indexical'. In: Visible Evidence 2021. Frankfurt am Main, Germany 14 - 18 December 2021.
Monsters, Measures, and Movements Litvintseva, Sasha and Wagner, Beny. 2021. 'Monsters, Measures, and Movements'. In: [e]Motion: Graduate Conference on Science and Technology of the Arts. Escola das Artes Católica, Porto, Portugal 9 - 11 December 2021.
Becoming Plasmatic: From Cells to Cel Animation Wagner, Beny. 2021. 'Becoming Plasmatic: From Cells to Cel Animation'. In: Liquidity, Flows, Circulation: The Cultural Logic of Environmentalization. Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany 22 - 23 April 2021.

Thesis

Metabolisms of Moving Image Wagner, Beny. 2024. Metabolisms of Moving Image. Doctoral thesis, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton