David Tanner
Biography
David Tanner (*1999) is a musician and media artist. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Music Informatics (2024) from the Karlsruhe University of Music, Germany, and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in the same field there. In addition to his studies, he works on external projects, including a contribution to the ZKM exhibition Fellow Travellers (2025), an audiovisual installation and I Thought Karlsruhe Was Flat (Orgelfabrik Durlach, Germany, 2026), and various ongoing live coding performances.
He is currently nominated, as part of the MAD collective, for the 3rd “Peter Weibel” Art Prize in the Karlsruhe Technology Region (2027) and the KUNST.PARK 2026 organized by Kunst.Ort.Rumpenheim e. V.. In addition, he is implementing a project with sound artist Jiyeong Lee for the UNESCO City of Media Arts as part of the exhibition Media Art Is Here (2027).
In his artistic practice, Tanner explores unorthodox and recontextualizing approaches to various visual and auditory media. From a class-politics and system-critical standpoint, he combines glitch/noise aesthetics, sound design, sampling techniques, and hardware-based installations to explore the fields of tension between interpersonal relationships and the systems in which they exist.