Pascal Marcel Dreier (he/they) listens to and narrates more-than-human stories. They are visiting assistant professor of Multispecies Storytelling at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne and Director of the non-profit agency TRACES Studio for Creative Investigation






↘︎ News

● I will be livestreaming every Sunday over at twitch.tv — sometimes with special guests. Join us! 


↘︎ Select Teaching 

● Multispecies Storytelling, Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) ● Installation Art, KHM ● Multispecies Studio, KHM ● Interspecies Worldmaking, Köln International School of Design (KISD) ● Artistic Design, University of Siegen ● Digging—Methods Lab, KISD ● Multiperspective Methods & Technologies, KHM


↘︎ Select Exhibitions

2023 ‘DE PROFUNDIS’, Städtische Galerie Sindelfingen, DE ● 2022 Talk to me: Other Histories of Nature, Temporary Gallery, Köln, DE ● At the Edge of Safehouse, Safehouse, London, UK● 2021 ‘Live Stock / Live Animals’, KHM Open, Cologne, DE ●2020 ‘OCTOPUS ENCOUNTERS: An Immersive Library of Octopus Aesthetics’, Glasmoog, Cologne, DE ● ‘Perron Art Price’, Stadt Galerie Frankenthal, DE ● 2019 ‘Goodbye Cruel World, it’s Over’, Weltkunstzimmer Düsseldorf, DE ● ‘Animal Ludens’, Next-Level Festival for Games, Zollverein Essen, DE ● ‘Practices of Approximation’, Temporary Gallery, Cologne, DE ● ‘RUNDGANG’, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, DE ● ‘we, animals:  multispecies narrations’, MEINBLAU Berlin, DE


↘︎ Publications

Dreier, Pascal Marcel, and Claudia Paganini. Eco Art als Ego Art? [Spiritualität zwischen Egoismus und Engagement], in: Datterl, Monika / Guggenberger, Wilhelm / Paganini, Claudia (eds.): Wofür es sich zu leben lohnt. Zum Verhältnis von Ethik und Spiritualität (theologische trends 32). Innsbruck: Theologische Fakultät 2022, S. 113-129.
Dreier, Pascal Marcel. Closure of Openings, in: Jessica Ullrich, Frederike Middelhoff (eds.): Tierstudien Tiere und Migration [Animal Studies: Animals and Migration] 19/2021. Berlin, Neofelis, 2021.
Dreier, Pascal Marcel, and Thomas Hawranke. Capturing the Wild: Virtuelle Pferde im Computerspiel Red Dead Redemption 2 [Capturing the Wild: Virtual Horses in the Computer Game Red Dead Redemption 2], in: Jessica Ullrich, and Stefan Rieger (eds.): Tierstudien Tiere und/als Medien [Animal Studies: Animals and/as Media] 18/2020. Berlin, Neofelis, 2020.
Blöß, Janine, Ute Hörner, and Mathias Antlfinger (eds.) Goodbye Cruel World, It’s Over. Erdlings-
geschichten. Verlag der KHM, 2020.


↘︎ Affiliations
TRACES Studio for Creative Investigation 
Minding Animals Germany
● Multispecies Studio
German Society for Media Studies
OktoLab


↘︎ Education 
     
2021–2022:
MA Art and Ecology (Distinction),
Goldsmiths, University of London

2016–2021:
MFA Media and Fine Art (Distinction),
Academy of Media Arts Cologne

2019:
ERASMUS Cross-Disciplinary Strategies,
University of Applied Arts Vienna
Night at the Factory Farm — Livestream EventTwitch Livestream, Artist Talk & Panel Discussion
  • Time: 2023




Artist Talk and Game Walkthrough with the artist Pascal M. Dreier, curator Leoni Fischer, and as a special guest Professor Thomas Hawranke, PhD. Our discussion revolves around animals in video games, the animal industry, investigative aesthetics, and video games as an artistic medium. We show images from the exhibition and play the game. Visit our Twitch channel to re-watch the stream and join us when we are live again