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FLUID STATES. SOLID MATTER
Videonale 18.

On what basis do we live, think and act nowadays? And how are we shaping this basis for the future? The works of the exhibition FLUID STATES. SOLID MATTER open a discourse on these questions. How does our thinking of the relationship of human beings to their environment change when we no longer see the body as solid and autonomous - as it has been the case until now - but as fluid. As fluid bodies - or "Bodies of Water", as gender researcher Astrida Neimanis puts it -
we as human beings no longer stand above nature, but in interaction with it, with the living being, with the systems that surround us.
Image: © Ida Kammerloch, Resusci Anne, 2019/2020

Alexandra Meijer-Werner

Between 1993 and 2002 Alexandra Meijer-Werner's artistic work focused on creating video installations with multiple projectors, and combining sound, texture and interaction with the public. She also produced a number of documentaries which evidence her profound interest in personal transformation and the awakening of human consciousness.

Please have a look to an introduction of her work on blinkvideo.
Image: © Eugenia Meijer-Werner

Moving Images / Moving Bodies
Online screening programme in cooperation
with the Goethe-Institut Bulgaria

Curated by Ludwig Seyfarth

Research into the human body and interpersonal relationships remain central themes in video and moving image art. Artists from Bulgaria and Germany, whose work is related in content, will be shown in pairs over the next weeks. The exhibition planned for November 2020 in Sofia has been postponed until 2021. Instead, a consecutive presentation of selected films by artists from Moving Bodies/Moving Images is presented on blinkvideo.
image: © Elitsa Dimitrova

Shooting Ghosts
Online screening programme in cooperation
with the Goethe-Institut Bulgaria

Curators: Kalin Serapionov, Krassimir Terziev

What we propose in this programme is a highly subjective and fragmented view on current practices in moving image in the Bulgarian art scene. We focused on practices that show affinity with speculative narratives - narratives that not just record what is in front of the cinematic eye, but also capture all the ghosts that are unreachable by the apparatus, thus projecting speculative views that intend not merely to describe, but to transform the world.
image: © Veneta Androva

Featured videos

Alexandra Meijer-Werner
Kreislauf / cycle … revolution … circulation, 1997

Kreislauf is an oneiric trip about the continuous cycle of human rebirth. Our dreams create the fabric in which the threads or individual tendencies appear and disappear, only to become visible once again. The dynamic of this video is a weave of repetitions and juxtapositions of the experiences that create the dance of life. Everything is cyclic, nothing disappears; everything is perpetually mutating in landscapes of anguish and joy, violence and calm, solitude and union. The traveler is the active force of his own fate when he realizes that what is most significant in life is the act of living itself.

Björn Braun
without title (excerpt), 2012

Sandra Boeschenstein
Besuchte Linie auf Granit, 2014

I encountered the roundworm in the Alps when I attempted to repair the water catchment of the cabin after a storm. I wished for this animal found at the spring to be a visited line, then searched for potential visitors and found, just nearby, a nest of firebugs in a dried chestnut leaf, which I placed just outside of the image field. The granite slab, roundworm, bugs’ nest and a fly lived their lives within a radius of 100 meters. My part in this was to bring them into direct proximity for the duration of an hour, to focus my camera and to breathe onto the upper part of the lens, in order to increase the atmospheric depth of the picture. Finally, to come to the allegation I’ve made via the title that something was a line that actually is an animal (when normally, in a contrary approach, characteristically formed lines represent animals or the like). The combination of the simplicity in the foundation / bedrock with a simultaneous insecurity in view of scale and nature of this white line, holds my fascination.

Isabella Fürnkäs
In Ekklesia, 2015

The title, ‘In Ekklesia,’ comes from the Greek word ‘ecclesia,’ which refers to the democratic parliament that served Athens in its halcyon days by being open to male citizens every other year. Solon, an Athenian legislator and a sage, allowed all citizens to serve the parliament regardless of their social class in BC 594. The Ecclesia made decisions about war, military strategies, and all judicial and administrative issues. This work satirizes various facets of humans and machines in the 21st century, unconsciously within a dystopian environment. Isabella Fürnkäs introduces a method of combining and overlaying countless images in her work, providing the new experience of sensations that act in ambiguous flows, movements, interference, and interjection. The piece is about the new metaphysical and material connections appearing through digital conversations that are divorced from the general notion of time and space, as well as isolation and alienation. Text by Hyun Jeung Kim (Nam June Paik Art Center Seoul)

Ryan Gander
Man on a bridge - (A study of David Lange) , 2008

A digital video transferred from 16 mm film shows a number of slightly differing takes of the same short sequence: A man walks over a bridge and seems to notice something over the railing to his left hand side. As he moves in for a closer inspection, the film cuts, which is then followed by another take of the same shot.

Wim Catrysse
MSR, 2014

On the Kuwait roads the journey goes in a western direction, past military bases and a line of oil transporters. Dreary sound sequences are pumped out by the radio. In the middle of rubbish heaps by the roadside a pack of wild dogs is trying to find shelter from the wind. Wim Catrysse presents the Kuwait desert both as a post-apocalyptic setting and as protagonist. During the journey, the car window is an obstacle, made even more so by the screen. The viewer, dumped in the desert, does not manage to reach it through the window. MSR, the Main Supply Route, is the main highway used to coordinate military operations in the Gulf War in 1990/91 and the War in Iraq in 2003. Filming is forbidden here, so the pack of wild dogs carries the story at first. But their behaviour keeps on bringing the desert into focus as the principal actor. Underlined by the sound track, its seeming hostility to life awakens the impression of a dystopian timelessness reminiscent of the apocalyptic scenarios in films and makes the viewer feel ill at ease. Catrysse examines conventions, both in a political-dogmatic and in a filmic sense.Nathalie Ladermann

Johanna Reich
CRAWLER, 2020

A crawler is a searchbot in the internet which Johanna Reich uses to collect special comments or phrases about the most discussed topics during the last years like A.I., climate change, digital revolution, gender and the turn of democratic systems. Johanna Reich selects several of the collected phrases composing a robot performance: self-driving projectors move across the exhibition space and project comments about a.i., gender or climate change onto the audience and architecture.

Annika Kahrs
solid surface, with hills, valleys, craters and other topographic...., 2014

solid surface,with hills,valleys,craters and other topographic features,primarily made of ice„solid surface, with hills, valleys, craters and other topographic features, primarily made of ice“ is set in a planetarium with a projected starry sky, in the center of which is situated a light spot, that explores the space. The Film deals with the moment, shortly before the actual visualization of pluto’s surface properties, whereas the entire cupola hall of the planetarium serves as a metaphorical projection surface of Pluto. The round light spot formally points to the shape of the celestial object and functions as placeholder for its soon arising image.

Ann Oren
The World Is Mine, 2017

In cosplay of the Japanese cyber diva Hatsune Miku, the artist moved to Tokyo, seeking an identity in the world of Miku fanatics, where she was drawn into a love affair with one of the fans. Miku is a Vocaloid, a vocal synthesizer software personified by a cute animated character. Her entire persona: lyrics, music and animation – is fan created, and that's her charm. She even performs sold out concerts as a hologram. By transforming herself into a Miku character through cosplay, Oren enters a world of real hardcore fans where fantasy is more real than reality and the differentiation between the two becomes obsolete. The film examines the performative nature of cosplaying – dressing up and playing the role of fictional characters – as a hybrid space where reality blurs into fetishistic fantasies and pop culture clichés. Combining fan-made lyrics and songs, Oren's trials and tribulations in the fictional Miku world unfolds through vague erotic episodes and encounters with characters whose ontological status remains mysterious, bringing to mind the adventures of a modern Alice in a virtual Wonderland.

Jonathan Monaghan
Den of Wolves, 2020

Den of Wolves is a seamlessly-looping video installation drawing on a range of references to weave a new multi-layered mythology. The work follows three bizarre wolves through a series of increasingly surreal retail stores as they search for the regalia of a monarch. Composed of one continuous camera shot, the work is an immersive, dreamlike journey drawing connections between popular culture, institutional authority and technological over-dependence.

Stefan Panhans
HOSTEL Sequel #1: Please Be Careful Out There, Lisa Marie – H.V.Installation Mix, 2018

At transmediale, Stefan Panhans and Andrea Winkler show their work HOSTEL Sequel #1: Please Be Careful Out There, Lisa Marie – Hybrid Version, a new project that combines film, installation, and staccato stage reading (on blinkvideo we are showing a trailer of the integrated film). With everyday racism, celebrity worship, stereotypes, and the dominating power of the economic all on the rise, precariously and flexibly traveling cultural workers of different origin deliver a sort of spoken word battle about their experiences and dreams. They constantly switch roles and, at the same time, form a choir that clashes with the rapped reports of everyday life. As in a collaborative gymnastic exercise—surrounded by scenery made up of set pieces from outfits of airports, hostels, and courier services, from self-optimization tools and game show displays—they fight for a voice and to be heard, building new alliances along the way. for more information: opening of transmediale

Mariola Brillowska
Children Of The Devil, 2011

Mariola Brillowska’s animation film relates the total collapse of the family system in the 21st century. Six cartoon episodes present an unsparing account of how children become murderers of their parents.

Julia Charlotte Richter
Point Blank, 2019

“Point Blank” refers to a film scene from "The Misfits" (1961) that is now re-enacted and further contextualized. In the original scene, the recently divorced main character Roslyn (Marilyn Monroe) rises up against three worn-out cowboys and, in the middle of the desert, confronts the men with all their lacks and lost dreams. In “Point Blank”, we see a young woman wandering around in surreal desert landscapes, a journey into the remoteness of the world and her own inner life. With every step out into the desert, the girl descends into her own depths searching for a place that seems to be suitable for her emotions and words. Unlike Roslyn, the young woman now refers to absent addressees: "Liars", "Murderers" and "Dead Men" she screams and turns around wildly. The words, which spread like bullets in the air, fall back on her. Except for a faint echo, there is no resonance at this place that depicts the obsessions of a distorted, patriarchal society and has become a dramatic backdrop of yearnings within the collective history of cinema. Where Roslyn was able to elicit a terrified astonishment from the three men, the character in Julia Charlotte Richter's video remains to herself and unheard, the desert as the only witness of her manifesto, her anger and her strength.

Ulrich Polster
Frost, 2003 / 2004

The night city. Industrial ruins filmed in contrejour. Memories from childhood. Different places and times combined at the mountain. It is a hollow portrait of Eastern Europe that carries the traces of its history.

Ene-Liis Semper
FF REW, 1998

Dimitri Venkov
The Hymns of Muscovy, 2018

The film is a trip to the planet Muscovy, which is an upside down space twin of the city of Moscow. As the title of the work suggests, the journey also takes us back in time. Gliding along the surface of the planet, we look down to the sky and see historic architectural styles fly by - the exuberant Socialist Classicism aka Stalinist Empire, the laconic and brutish Soviet Modernism, and the hodgepodge of contemporary knock-offs and revivals of the styles of the past. An essential companion to this journey through time and space are Hymnic Variations on the Soviet anthem by the composer Alexander Manotskov. The anthem was written in 1943 and has undergone three editions of lyrics yet musically remained unchanged to now serve as the official anthem of the Russian Federation. Manotskov used an early recording of the anthem as source material to create three electronic variations each corresponding to an architectural style. As if in a twist of Goethe’s phrase, architecture plays its frozen music. Look closely, can you hear it?

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Biography

Christa Sommerer


Education & employment history

1982-85 Biology and Botany Study, University of Vienna, Austria
1985-90 Art Education Study, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria
1985-90 Art Study in Modern Sculpture, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Prof. Gironcoli), Austria
1990 Master of Art, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria
1991-93 Post Graduate Study, Staedelschule Institut for New Media (Prof. Peter Weibel), Frankfurt
1993-94 Artist-in-Residence, NCSA National Center for Supercomputing Application, Beckman Institute, Urbana, IL USA
1994-95 Artist-in-Residence, NTT-ICC InterCommunication Center, Tokyo Japan
1995-2001 Artistic Director & Researcher at ATR Media Integration and Communications Research Labs, Kyoto Japan
1997-99 Associate Professor at IAMAS International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences, Gifu, Japan
2000 Guest Professor at University of Art and Design (Kunstuniversitaet Linz), Linz, Austria
2001 Visiting Research Fellow at MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Cambridge/Boston, USA
2002 Ph.D. degree from CAiiA-Star (Prof. Roy Ascott), University of Wales College of Art, Newport, UK
2001-2003 Researcher & Artistic Director (part-time) at ATR Media Information Science Research Labs, Kyoto Japan
2002 Visiting Professor at Kyoto University, Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto, Japan
2001-2004 Associate Professor at IAMAS Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences, Gifu, Japan
2004-dato Professor at the InterfaceCulture Lab , Institute for Media, University of Art and Design, Linz, Austria
2014 Obel Guest Professors @ Art & Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark
2015 Chaire Internationale Paris 8 University ATI Labex

Laurent Mignonneau


Education & employment history

1986-1989 National Diplom of Art, Academy of Fine Arts Angouleme, France
1989-91 Academy of Fine Arts, Video Art study, Angouleme, France
1991 Master of Art, Academy of Fine Arts Angouleme
1992-93 Post Graduate Study, Staedelschule Institut for New Media (Prof. Peter Weibel), Frankfurt
1993-94 Artist-in-Residence, NCSA National Center for Supercomputing Application, Beckman Institute, Urbana, IL USA
1994-95 Artist-in-Residence, NTT-ICC InterCommunication Center, Tokyo Japan
1995-2001 Artistic Director & Researcher at ATR Media Integration and Communications Research Labs, Kyoto Japan
1997-99 Artist-in-Residence and Lecturer at IAMAS International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences, Gifu, Japan
2000 Guest Professor at University of Art and Design (Kunstuniversitaet Linz), Linz, Austria
2001 Visiting Research Fellow at MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Cambridge/Boston, USA
2001 Doctoral Degree Ph.D., Kobe University Department of Engineering, Kobe, Japan
2001-2003 Researcher & Artistic Director (part-time) at ATR Media Information Science Research Labs, Kyoto Japan
2001-2004 Associate Professor at IAMAS Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences, Gifu, Japan
2004-dato Professor at the InterfaceCulture Lab , Institute for Media, University of Art and Design, Linz, Austria
2015 Chaire Internationale Paris 8 University ATI Labex

Laurent Mignonneau & Christa Sommerer


Exhibitions 2013 - 2020

2020
UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Immaterial/Re-Material: A Brief History of Computing Art - Beijing, China
Sapporo Art Biennale - Sapporo, Japan
Pushkin Museum, 100 Ways to Spend a Minute Project - Moscow, Russia
New Media Gallery, Currency - Vancouver, Canada
Kunstmuseum Celle, Parallel Worlds: Art, Science & Fiction - Celle, Germany
Galerie Anita Beckers, Merry Crisis - Frankfurt, Germany

2019
Centre Pompidou, Code Creatif - Paris, France
BEALL Art Center - US Retrospective Show, Curator David Familian - Irvine, CA, USA
Es Baluard Museu dàrt Modern in Contemporani de Palma, BEEP Collection, Curated by Roberta Bosco and Stefano - Palma di Mallorca, Spain
Thoma Art Foundation, Collection - Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial Deus Ex Machina, Art and Artificial Intelligence, Curated by Karin Ohlenschläger and Pau Waelder - Gijón, Spain
Museum Sinclair House, Digital Nature, Curator Ina Fuchs - Bad Homburg, Germany
The View, Collection Show - Salenstein, Switzerland
2019 ZKM Media Museum, Writing the History of the Future, Curated by Peter Weibel and Margit Rosen - Karlsruhe, Germany
ZHI Art Museum, Growing exhibition curated by Zhang Ga - Chengdu, China
Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, The Universal Sea exhibition curated by Sanja Kojic Mladenov and Nicole Loeser - Novi Sad, Serbia
Galerie Charlot, Sound Vibes exhibition - Paris, France
Museum Sinclair Haus, Exhibition Insects in Contemporary Art, Curator: Ina Fuchs - Bad Homburg, Germany
Business Upper Austria, Organized by Ars Electronica - Munich, Germany
Business Upper Austria, Organized by Ars Electronica - Berlin, Germany
Promenaden Galerie Linz, public art project - Linz, Austria
Art Rock Festival - Saint Brieux, France
New York Live Arts Center, Live Ideas Festival, Curator: Janet Wong - New York, USA
Wood Street Gallery, Curator: Murray Horne - Pittsburgh, USA
Energie AG Art Collection - Linz, Austria

2018
100 Masterpieces with and through Media, ZKM Karlsruhe, - Karlsruhe, Germany
City University Hong Kong, Animal Show - Hong Kong Speculum Artium - Trbovlje, Slovenia
Ars Electronica - Linz / Austria
Arsenal Contemporary Art Museum, BIAN Biennale - Montreal / Canada
Artistes & Robots, Grand Palais - Paris, France
Art Paris Art Fair, Galerie Charlot - Paris, France
Festival du Code Creatif, Centre Georges Pompidou - Paris, France
Museum of Contemporary Art Lyon, Collection Exhibition - Lyon, France
Ästhetik der Veränderung - 150 Jahre Angewandte, Museum for Applied Arts - Vienna, Austria
Untitled Art Fair 2018, with Gallery Anita Beckers - San Francisco, USA

2017
ITAU Cultural, Cybernetic Consciousness - Sao Paulo, Brasil
Print Screen – Digital Arts Festival - Tel Aviv, Israel
Vasarely Museum - Aix-en-Provence, France
ETOPIA Art and Science Space - Zararagoza, Spain
Galerie Charlot - Paris, France
Untitled Art International Fair San Francisco - San Francisco, USA
"Iconomania" Maif Social Club Paris - Paris, France

2016
Electra Festival Art Numérique Arsenal Montreal, Canada - Montreal, Canada
Solo Show at the Galerie Charlot - Paris, France
Pushkin State Museum of Art, House of Impressions - Moscow, Russia
ISEA International Symposium on Electronic Arts featuring two new media façade projects “Fly High-Time Flies” and “People on the Fly” - Hong Kong
Art Paris Art Fair - Paris, France
Art Central Hong Kong, with Galerie Anita Beckers - Hong Kong, China
ARCO Madrid, with Galerie Anita Beckers - Madrid, Spain
Art Futura, Es Baluard Museum - Palma, Mallorca
HeK House of Electronic Arts, Basel - Basel, Switzerland

2015
Art Bahrain 13.-16. October 2015 represented by Galerie Peithner-Lichtenfels, Vienna - Manama, Bahrain
B3 Biennial of the Moving Image 2015 7.-11. October 2015 Museum of Applied Arts Frankfurt - Frankfurt, Germany
Parallel Art Fair 23.-27. September 2015 represented by Galerie Peithner-Lichtenfels, Vienna - Vienna, Austria
Fukuoka City Museum 29. Sept.-4. October 2015 ISMAR Data Body as Artefact Exhibition Curator: Julian Stadon - Fukuoka, Japan
Globale - Infosphere at ZKM Karlsruhe 4th Sept-31. January featuring "Portrait on the Fly" (interactive version ) Curator: Peter Weibel - Karlsruhe, Germany
Ars Electronica 2015 4.-7. September 2015 at Ars Electronica Center featuring "Portrait on the Fly" (interactive version and 12 plotter drawings) Curator: Gerfried Stocker - Linz, Austria
MOT Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo 18th July 2015 -Oct.12 2015 featuring documentation of "Haze Express" in "The Railway Series" Curator: Tomoe Moriyama - Tokyo Japan
THE VIEW Contemporary Art Collection 20th June - 2nd October 2015 featuring "Interactive Plant Growing" PDF flyer from THE VIEW _ Salenstein, Switzerland
AESTHETICA, DAM Gallery 50 Years of Computer Generated Art Galerie (30th May - 18th July 2015)(with Cory Arcangel, Aram Bartholl, Peter Beyls, Vuk Cosic, Hans Dehlinger, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Manfred Mohr, Vera Molnar, Frieder Nake, Georg Nees, Roman Verostko, Patrick Lichty, Sommerer & Mignonneau, Casey Reas, Mark Wilson) - Berlin, Germany
ISEA International Symposium of Electronic Arts 14th.-18th. August 2015 Vancouver Art Gallery featuring "Portrait on the Fly" in FUSE festival - Vancouver, Canada
Media Art Futures (15.-17. April 2015) featuring "Between the Lines (Protograph) documentation at "Digital Life" Video DOC show curated by Pau Waelder - Murcia, Spain
L'Art et le Numérique en Résonance 1/3, Convergence (15th January - 4th April 2015) at the Maison Populaire de Montreil Curator: Dominique Moulon
Artists: Samuel Bianchini, Marie-Julie Bourgeois, Emilie Brout & Maxime Marion, Patra Cortright, Olia Lialina, Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau, Samuel St-Aubin, Gwenola Wagon & Stephane Degoutin et Du Zhenjun Featuring "The Value of Art" - Paris, France
Hermès Düsseldorf, (7th - 17th January 2015) featuring "Between the lines" pour Hermès - Düsseldorf, Germany

2014
Slick Art Fair (with Galerie Charlot) (22nd-26th October), Pont Alexandre III - Port des Champs Elysées Featuring "The Value of Art" - Paris, France
Hermès Shanghai (27 November to 27nd December) featuring "Between the lines" pour Hermès - Shanghai, China
Hermès Isetan, (5th au 11th November) featuring "Between the lines" pour Hermès - Tokyo, Japan
Hermès Madison (22nd October) featuring "Between the lines" pour Hermès - New York, USA
Museum of Screen Culture (14-16 October 2014 ) "Digital Dreams" exhibition at Manege / MediaArtLabExhibition in the context of the III Moscow International Forum for Innovative Development "Open Innovations" Featuring "Eau de Jardin" - Moscow, Russia
Solo Show at the Galerie Charlot Paris, (10th September - 11th October) featuring "Escape", "Excavate" and "The Value of Art" - Paris, France
Hermès Sèvres (19th to 22nd september) featuring "Between the lines" pour Hermès - Shanghai, China
Gallerie Idem Paris (3rd July 2014) featuring "Between the lines" pour Hermès - Paris, France
öga fair (25.-27. June .2014) featuring "Interactive Plant Growing" from the ZKM - Oeschberg, Switzerland
Genoteerd ! (Noted) (from 27.2.-2.03.2014) Festival in the Concertgebouw featuring "Life Writer" Brugge, Belgium
Unpainted Art Fair (17th til 20th January) featuring "Life Writer" with Galerie Charlot - Munich, Germany
Solo show at the Galerie Charlot Paris (8th January til 22nd February) featuring "Life Writer", "Eau de Jardin" and "Phototropy" - Paris, France

2013
Arte Cibernetica at MEPE - Museum of the State of Pernambuco Itau Cultural's collection, - Recife, Brasil
New Dakota Art Museum featuring "The Value of Art" - Amsterdam, Netherlands
BBVA Foundation featuring "Escape" - Bilbao, Spain
1st Shanghai Design Exhibtion, (30th .Nobember 2013 til March 30th 2014) Shanghai Contemporary Art Museum, Featuring "Shanghai Express" - Shanghai, China
SHOW OFF 2013 (21st until 24th October 2013) Espace Pierre Cardin, Featuring "Life Writer" - Paris, France
Filmteractive festival (25.-26.September 2013) - Lodz, Poland
Laboratorio Arte Alameda (18th-21st July 2013) "Solar Insects" Workshop by Laurent Mignonneau & Christa Sommerer - Mexico City, Mexico
DAM Gallery Berlin(15. June -27. July 2013) Curator: Wolf Lieser Artists: Aram Bartholl, Constant Dullaart, Ernest Edmonds, Eduardo Kac, Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau, Evan Roth, UBERMORGEN.COM, et al. - Berlin, Germany
International Academy Traunkirchen (29th May-2nd June 2013) "Solar Insects" Workshop by Laurent Mignonneau & Christa Sommerer - Traunkirchen, Austria
Bouillants (April 7 until June 9 - 2013) - Vern-sur-Seiche, France
The Brick Lane Gallery (28. Februar bis 11. März 2013 ) Annex 93-95 Sclater St. E16HR, - London, England

Awards

2013
Jury Award of the Japan Media Arts Festival for Excavate by Mignonneau & Sommerer, Tokyo, Japan
2012
Wu Guanzhong Art and Science Innovation Prize (for "Escape") awarded by Ministry of Culture of the People’s Republic of China, the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and the China Association for Science and Technology
The prize was awarded in connection with the "Third Art & Science International Exhibition and Symposium" at the China Science and Technology Museum in collaboration with Tsinghua University Bejing. Bejing, China
2011
IRIS 2011, Environment Award (for "Solar Display") awarded by City of Linz and Ministry of Science and Research, Linz, Austria
2010
WIPO Award for Best Woman Inventor (for "Solar Display") awarded by World Intellectual Property Organization Switzerland
KIWIE2010 Womansinnovationaward Gold Medal (for "Solar Display") awarded by the Korean International Woman's Invention Exposition 2010, Korea
2009
“PRIZE 2008 – uni:invent Award” Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung, Vienna, Austria
2008
“Kunstförderungspreis für Design 2008” Linz, Austria
2001
World Technology Award - Finalist in The Arts World Technology Network , Science Museum London, England
2000
"Life 2.0 - Honorary Award" Life 2.0 competition, Telefonica Spain
1999
"Ars Electronica - Interactive Art Honorary Mention Award" Prix Ars Electronica'99, Linz, Austria
"Ars Electronica - Interactive Art Honorary Mention Award Prix Ars Electronica'99, Linz, Austria
1995
"Inter Design Award"-"Japan Inter Design Forum", Tokyo, Japan
"Ovation Award"-"Interactive Media Festival", Los Angeles, USA
1994
"Multi Media Award" Multi Media Association Tokyo, Japan
"Golden Nica Award" Prix Ars Electronica '94 for Interactive Art, Linz, Austria
"Silicon Graphics Award" at the ISEA Festival, Helsinki, Finland
1993
"interActiva Award" (Phillip Morris), Cologne, Germany
1992/93
Chicago Scholarship Ministry of Art and Science, Vienna ,Austria
1993
"National Selection - New Creators "New Creators'93" catalogue 93, Paris, France
1992/93
DAAD German Research Grant Bonn, Germany
EUROCREATION Grant "Pepiniere Europeennes", Paris, France
1992
"Prisma Award" for Computer Art at Mediale and Interface 2, Hamburg, Germany

Collections

2012
The View Contemporary Art Space interactive computer installation "Interactive Plant Growing" - Salenstein, Switzerland
2007
Braunschweig “City of Science 2007” interactive media facade "Wissensgewaechs" - Braunschweig, Germany
Itau Cultural Collection interactive installation "Life Writer" - Sao Paulo, Brasil
2006
Medien Museum of the ZKM interactive computer installation "Nano Scape" - Karlsruhe, Germany
2005
Cite des Sciences et de l'Industrie interactive installation "A-Volve" - Paris, France
Bo01 - City of Tomorrow interactive installation "The Living Room" - Malmoe, Sweden
City of Arts and Sciences Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciencies Palacio de las Artes, interactive installation "Life Spacies II" - Valencia, Spain
Miramon - Kutxaespacio de la Ciencia, Museum of Science and Technology Kutxa Museum of Science, collection "A-Volve" - San Sebastian, Spain
Ars Electronica Center interactive computer installation "Life Spacies II" - Linz, Austria
2000
Martin Gropius Bau Berlin - "Images and Signs of the 21st Century" interactive computer installation "PICO_SCAN" - Berlin, Germany
Millennium Dome London - "Play Zone- Interactive Art" interactive computer installation "Phototropy II" - London, England
1999
Cartier Foundation interactive web installation "VERBARIUM" - Paris, France
1998
Medien Museum of the ZKM interactive computer installation "Interactive Plant Growing" - Karlsruhe, Germany
1997
InterCommunication Museum - ICC-NTT Japan interactive computer installation "Life Spacies" - Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography interactive computer installation "Trans Plant" and "Trans Plant II" - Tokyo, Japan
1995 & 1996
Musee d'Art Contemporain de Lyon - Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art interactive computer installation "Intro Act" - Lyon, France
1996 - 1997
Shiroishi Multimedia Art Center interactive computer installation "Phototropy" - Shiroishi, Japan
1998
Ars Electronica Center interactive computer installation " GENMA-Genetic Manipulator" - Linz, Austria
1996
NTT Tokei - NHK interactive computer installation "A-Volve" - Nagoya, Japan


Laurent Mignonneau & Christa Sommerer
Christa SommererEducation & employment history1982-85 Biology and Botany Study, University of Vienna, Austria1985-90 Art Education Study, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria1985-90 Art Study in Modern Sculpture, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Prof. Gironcoli), Austria1990 Master of Art, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria1991-93 Post Graduate Study, Staedelschule Institut for New Media (Prof. Peter Weibel), Frankfurt1993-94 Artist-in-Residence, NCSA National Center for Supercomputing Application, Beckman Institute, Urbana, IL USA1994-95 Artist-in-Residence, NTT-ICC InterCommunication Center, Tokyo Japan1995-2001 Artistic Director & Researcher at ATR Media Integration and Communications Research Labs, Kyoto Japan1997-99 Associate Professor at IAMAS International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences, Gifu, Japan2000 Guest Professor at University of Art and Design (Kunstuniversitaet Linz), Linz, Austria2001 Visiting Research Fellow at MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Cambridge/Boston, USA2002 Ph.D. degree from CAiiA-Star (Prof. Roy Ascott), University of Wales College of Art, Newport, UK2001-2003 Researcher & Artistic Director (part-time) at ATR Media Information Science Research Labs, Kyoto Japan2002 Visiting Professor at Kyoto University, Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto, Japan2001-2004 Associate Professor at IAMAS Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences, Gifu, Japan2004-dato Professor at the InterfaceCulture Lab , Institute for Media, University of Art and Design, Linz, Austria2014 Obel Guest Professors @ Art & Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark2015 Chaire Internationale Paris 8 University ATI LabexLaurent MignonneauEducation & employment history1986-1989 National Diplom of Art, Academy of Fine Arts Angouleme, France1989-91 Academy of Fine Arts, Video Art study, Angouleme, France1991 Master of Art, Academy of Fine Arts Angouleme1992-93 Post Graduate Study, Staedelschule Institut for New Media (Prof. Peter Weibel), Frankfurt1993-94 Artist-in-Residence, NCSA National Center for Supercomputing Application, Beckman Institute, Urbana, IL USA1994-95 Artist-in-Residence, NTT-ICC InterCommunication Center, Tokyo Japan1995-2001 Artistic Director & Researcher at ATR Media Integration and Communications Research Labs, Kyoto Japan1997-99 Artist-in-Residence and Lecturer at IAMAS International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences, Gifu, Japan2000 Guest Professor at University of Art and Design (Kunstuniversitaet Linz), Linz, Austria2001 Visiting Research Fellow at MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Cambridge/Boston, USA2001 Doctoral Degree Ph.D., Kobe University Department of Engineering, Kobe, Japan 2001-2003 Researcher & Artistic Director (part-time) at ATR Media Information Science Research Labs, Kyoto Japan2001-2004 Associate Professor at IAMAS Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences, Gifu, Japan2004-dato Professor at the InterfaceCulture Lab , Institute for Media, University of Art and Design, Linz, Austria2015 Chaire Internationale Paris 8 University ATI LabexLaurent Mignonneau & Christa SommererExhibitions 2013 - 20202020UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Immaterial/Re-Material: A Brief History of Computing Art - Beijing, ChinaSapporo Art Biennale - Sapporo, JapanPushkin Museum, 100 Ways to Spend a Minute Project - Moscow, RussiaNew Media Gallery, Currency - Vancouver, CanadaKunstmuseum Celle, Parallel Worlds: Art, Science & Fiction - Celle, GermanyGalerie Anita Beckers, Merry Crisis - Frankfurt, Germany2019Centre Pompidou, Code Creatif - Paris, FranceBEALL Art Center - US Retrospective Show, Curator David Familian - Irvine, CA, USA Es Baluard Museu dàrt Modern in Contemporani de Palma, BEEP Collection, Curated by Roberta Bosco and Stefano - Palma di Mallorca, SpainThoma Art Foundation, Collection - Santa Fe, New Mexico, USALABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial Deus Ex Machina, Art and Artificial Intelligence, Curated by Karin Ohlenschläger and Pau Waelder - Gijón, SpainMuseum Sinclair House, Digital Nature, Curator Ina Fuchs - Bad Homburg, GermanyThe View, Collection Show - Salenstein, Switzerland2019 ZKM Media Museum, Writing the History of the Future, Curated by Peter Weibel and Margit Rosen - Karlsruhe, Germany ZHI Art Museum, Growing exhibition curated by Zhang Ga - Chengdu, ChinaMuseum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, The Universal Sea exhibition curated by Sanja Kojic Mladenov and Nicole Loeser - Novi Sad, SerbiaGalerie Charlot, Sound Vibes exhibition - Paris, FranceMuseum Sinclair Haus, Exhibition Insects in Contemporary Art, Curator: Ina Fuchs - Bad Homburg, GermanyBusiness Upper Austria, Organized by Ars Electronica - Munich, Germany Business Upper Austria, Organized by Ars Electronica - Berlin, GermanyPromenaden Galerie Linz, public art project - Linz, AustriaArt Rock Festival - Saint Brieux, France New York Live Arts Center, Live Ideas Festival, Curator: Janet Wong - New York, USA Wood Street Gallery, Curator: Murray Horne - Pittsburgh, USA Energie AG Art Collection - Linz, Austria2018100 Masterpieces with and through Media, ZKM Karlsruhe, - Karlsruhe, GermanyCity University Hong Kong, Animal Show - Hong Kong Speculum Artium - Trbovlje, Slovenia Ars Electronica - Linz / AustriaArsenal Contemporary Art Museum, BIAN Biennale - Montreal / Canada Artistes & Robots, Grand Palais - Paris, FranceArt Paris Art Fair, Galerie Charlot - Paris, FranceFestival du Code Creatif, Centre Georges Pompidou - Paris, FranceMuseum of Contemporary Art Lyon, Collection Exhibition - Lyon, FranceÄsthetik der Veränderung - 150 Jahre Angewandte, Museum for Applied Arts - Vienna, AustriaUntitled Art Fair 2018, with Gallery Anita Beckers - San Francisco, USA2017ITAU Cultural, Cybernetic Consciousness - Sao Paulo, BrasilPrint Screen – Digital Arts Festival - Tel Aviv, IsraelVasarely Museum - Aix-en-Provence, FranceETOPIA Art and Science Space - Zararagoza, SpainGalerie Charlot - Paris, France Untitled Art International Fair San Francisco - San Francisco, USAIconomania Maif Social Club Paris - Paris, France2016Electra Festival Art Numérique Arsenal Montreal, Canada - Montreal, CanadaSolo Show at the Galerie Charlot - Paris, FrancePushkin State Museum of Art, House of Impressions - Moscow, RussiaISEA International Symposium on Electronic Arts featuring two new media façade projects “Fly High-Time Flies” and “People on the Fly” - Hong Kong Art Paris Art Fair - Paris, France Art Central Hong Kong, with Galerie Anita Beckers - Hong Kong, China ARCO Madrid, with Galerie Anita Beckers - Madrid, SpainArt Futura, Es Baluard Museum - Palma, MallorcaHeK House of Electronic Arts, Basel - Basel, Switzerland 2015 Art Bahrain 13.-16. October 2015 represented by Galerie Peithner-Lichtenfels, Vienna - Manama, BahrainB3 Biennial of the Moving Image 2015 7.-11. October 2015 Museum of Applied Arts Frankfurt - Frankfurt, GermanyParallel Art Fair 23.-27. September 2015 represented by Galerie Peithner-Lichtenfels, Vienna - Vienna, AustriaFukuoka City Museum 29. Sept.-4. October 2015 ISMAR Data Body as Artefact Exhibition Curator: Julian Stadon - Fukuoka, JapanGlobale - Infosphere at ZKM Karlsruhe 4th Sept-31. January featuring Portrait on the Fly (interactive version ) Curator: Peter Weibel - Karlsruhe, GermanyArs Electronica 2015 4.-7. September 2015 at Ars Electronica Center featuring Portrait on the Fly (interactive version and 12 plotter drawings) Curator: Gerfried Stocker - Linz, AustriaMOT Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo 18th July 2015 -Oct.12 2015 featuring documentation of Haze Express in The Railway Series Curator: Tomoe Moriyama - Tokyo JapanTHE VIEW Contemporary Art Collection 20th June - 2nd October 2015 featuring Interactive Plant Growing PDF flyer from THE VIEW _ Salenstein, SwitzerlandAESTHETICA, DAM Gallery 50 Years of Computer Generated Art Galerie (30th May - 18th July 2015)(with Cory Arcangel, Aram Bartholl, Peter Beyls, Vuk Cosic, Hans Dehlinger, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Manfred Mohr, Vera Molnar, Frieder Nake, Georg Nees, Roman Verostko, Patrick Lichty, Sommerer & Mignonneau, Casey Reas, Mark Wilson) - Berlin, GermanyISEA International Symposium of Electronic Arts 14th.-18th. August 2015 Vancouver Art Gallery featuring Portrait on the Fly in FUSE festival - Vancouver, CanadaMedia Art Futures (15.-17. April 2015) featuring Between the Lines (Protograph) documentation at Digital Life Video DOC show curated by Pau Waelder - Murcia, SpainL'Art et le Numérique en Résonance 1/3, Convergence (15th January - 4th April 2015) at the Maison Populaire de Montreil Curator: Dominique MoulonArtists: Samuel Bianchini, Marie-Julie Bourgeois, Emilie Brout & Maxime Marion, Patra Cortright, Olia Lialina, Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau, Samuel St-Aubin, Gwenola Wagon & Stephane Degoutin et Du Zhenjun Featuring The Value of Art - Paris, FranceHermès Düsseldorf, (7th - 17th January 2015) featuring Between the lines pour Hermès - Düsseldorf, Germany2014Slick Art Fair (with Galerie Charlot) (22nd-26th October), Pont Alexandre III - Port des Champs Elysées Featuring The Value of Art - Paris, FranceHermès Shanghai (27 November to 27nd December) featuring Between the lines pour Hermès - Shanghai, ChinaHermès Isetan, (5th au 11th November) featuring Between the lines pour Hermès - Tokyo, JapanHermès Madison (22nd October) featuring Between the lines pour Hermès - New York, USAMuseum of Screen Culture (14-16 October 2014 ) Digital Dreams exhibition at Manege / MediaArtLabExhibition in the context of the III Moscow International Forum for Innovative Development Open Innovations Featuring Eau de Jardin - Moscow, RussiaSolo Show at the Galerie Charlot Paris, (10th September - 11th October) featuring Escape, Excavate and The Value of Art - Paris, FranceHermès Sèvres (19th to 22nd september) featuring Between the lines pour Hermès - Shanghai, ChinaGallerie Idem Paris (3rd July 2014) featuring Between the lines pour Hermès - Paris, Franceöga fair (25.-27. June .2014) featuring Interactive Plant Growing from the ZKM - Oeschberg, SwitzerlandGenoteerd ! (Noted) (from 27.2.-2.03.2014) Festival in the Concertgebouw featuring Life Writer Brugge, BelgiumUnpainted Art Fair (17th til 20th January) featuring Life Writer with Galerie Charlot - Munich, GermanySolo show at the Galerie Charlot Paris (8th January til 22nd February) featuring Life Writer, Eau de Jardin and Phototropy - Paris, France2013Arte Cibernetica at MEPE - Museum of the State of Pernambuco Itau Cultural's collection, - Recife, BrasilNew Dakota Art Museum featuring The Value of Art - Amsterdam, NetherlandsBBVA Foundation featuring Escape - Bilbao, Spain1st Shanghai Design Exhibtion, (30th .Nobember 2013 til March 30th 2014) Shanghai Contemporary Art Museum, Featuring Shanghai Express - Shanghai, ChinaSHOW OFF 2013 (21st until 24th October 2013) Espace Pierre Cardin, Featuring Life Writer - Paris, FranceFilmteractive festival (25.-26.September 2013) - Lodz, PolandLaboratorio Arte Alameda (18th-21st July 2013) Solar Insects Workshop by Laurent Mignonneau & Christa Sommerer - Mexico City, MexicoDAM Gallery Berlin(15. June -27. July 2013) Curator: Wolf Lieser Artists: Aram Bartholl, Constant Dullaart, Ernest Edmonds, Eduardo Kac, Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau, Evan Roth, UBERMORGEN.COM, et al. - Berlin, GermanyInternational Academy Traunkirchen (29th May-2nd June 2013) Solar Insects Workshop by Laurent Mignonneau & Christa Sommerer - Traunkirchen, AustriaBouillants (April 7 until June 9 - 2013) - Vern-sur-Seiche, FranceThe Brick Lane Gallery (28. Februar bis 11. März 2013 ) Annex 93-95 Sclater St. E16HR, - London, EnglandAwards2013Jury Award of the Japan Media Arts Festival for Excavate by Mignonneau & Sommerer, Tokyo, Japan2012Wu Guanzhong Art and Science Innovation Prize (for Escape) awarded by Ministry of Culture of the People’s Republic of China, the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and the China Association for Science and TechnologyThe prize was awarded in connection with the Third Art & Science International Exhibition and Symposium at the China Science and Technology Museum in collaboration with Tsinghua University Bejing. Bejing, China2011IRIS 2011, Environment Award (for Solar Display) awarded by City of Linz and Ministry of Science and Research, Linz, Austria2010WIPO Award for Best Woman Inventor (for Solar Display) awarded by World Intellectual Property Organization SwitzerlandKIWIE2010 Womansinnovationaward Gold Medal (for Solar Display) awarded by the Korean International Woman's Invention Exposition 2010, Korea2009“PRIZE 2008 – uni:invent Award” Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung, Vienna, Austria2008“Kunstförderungspreis für Design 2008” Linz, Austria2001World Technology Award - Finalist in The Arts World Technology Network , Science Museum London, England2000Life 2.0 - Honorary Award Life 2.0 competition, Telefonica Spain1999Ars Electronica - Interactive Art Honorary Mention Award Prix Ars Electronica'99, Linz, AustriaArs Electronica - Interactive Art Honorary Mention Award Prix Ars Electronica'99, Linz, Austria1995Inter Design Award-Japan Inter Design Forum, Tokyo, JapanOvation Award-Interactive Media Festival, Los Angeles, USA1994Multi Media Award Multi Media Association Tokyo, JapanGolden Nica Award Prix Ars Electronica '94 for Interactive Art, Linz, AustriaSilicon Graphics Award at the ISEA Festival, Helsinki, Finland1993interActiva Award (Phillip Morris), Cologne, Germany1992/93Chicago Scholarship Ministry of Art and Science, Vienna ,Austria1993National Selection - New Creators New Creators'93 catalogue 93, Paris, France1992/93DAAD German Research Grant Bonn, GermanyEUROCREATION Grant Pepiniere Europeennes, Paris, France1992Prisma Award for Computer Art at Mediale and Interface 2, Hamburg, GermanyCollections2012The View Contemporary Art Space interactive computer installation Interactive Plant Growing - Salenstein, Switzerland2007Braunschweig “City of Science 2007” interactive media facade Wissensgewaechs - Braunschweig, GermanyItau Cultural Collection interactive installation Life Writer - Sao Paulo, Brasil2006Medien Museum of the ZKM interactive computer installation Nano Scape - Karlsruhe, Germany2005Cite des Sciences et de l'Industrie interactive installation A-Volve - Paris, FranceBo01 - City of Tomorrow interactive installation The Living Room - Malmoe, SwedenCity of Arts and Sciences Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciencies Palacio de las Artes, interactive installation Life Spacies II - Valencia, SpainMiramon - Kutxaespacio de la Ciencia, Museum of Science and Technology Kutxa Museum of Science, collection A-Volve - San Sebastian, SpainArs Electronica Center interactive computer installation Life Spacies II - Linz, Austria2000Martin Gropius Bau Berlin - Images and Signs of the 21st Century interactive computer installation PICO_SCAN - Berlin, GermanyMillennium Dome London - Play Zone- Interactive Art interactive computer installation Phototropy II - London, England1999Cartier Foundation interactive web installation VERBARIUM - Paris, France1998Medien Museum of the ZKM interactive computer installation Interactive Plant Growing - Karlsruhe, Germany1997InterCommunication Museum - ICC-NTT Japan interactive computer installation Life Spacies - Tokyo, JapanTokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography interactive computer installation Trans Plant and Trans Plant II - Tokyo, Japan1995 & 1996Musee d'Art Contemporain de Lyon - Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art interactive computer installation Intro Act - Lyon, France1996 - 1997Shiroishi Multimedia Art Center interactive computer installation Phototropy - Shiroishi, Japan1998Ars Electronica Center interactive computer installation GENMA-Genetic Manipulator - Linz, Austria1996NTT Tokei - NHK interactive computer installation A-Volve - Nagoya, Japan

Laurent Mignonneau & Christa Sommerer
Portrait on the Fly (Video Portraits)

Artist Laurent Mignonneau & Christa Sommerer
Year 2014/2015
Duration 33:32 min
Edition 5 & 2AP
Technical info Computer Animation, HD, no sound
Contact
Anita Beckers Gallery
Anita Beckers
Braubachstraße 9
60311 Frankfurt am Main
Germany

Phone: +49 69 73900967
E-Mail: info@galerie-beckers.de

About the video

Portrait on the Fly (Video Portraits) consists of short video sequences where the moving portrait of well known media art pioneers, scholars, artists, theorist, gallerist and organizers are turned into a swarm of flies. These video sequences include portraits by Jeffrey Shaw, Frieder Nake, Mark Wilson, Hans Dehlinger, Edmond Couchot, Hannes Leopoldseder, Christine Schöpf, Peter Weibel, Jeffrey Shaw, Lynn Hershman, Roger Malina, Marie Hélène Tramus, Christiane Paul, Sarah Diamond, Peter d’Agostino, Gerfried Stocker, Oliver Grau, Maurice Benayoun, Paul Thomas, Jill Scott, Paul Sermon, Simon Biggs, Greg Garvey, Gebhart Sengmüller, Thecla Schiphorst, Jean-Luc Soret, Chu-Yin Chen, Dominique Moulon, Nina Czeglédy, Ellen Pau, Wolf Lieser, Tomoe Moriyama, Erkki Huhtamo, Machiko Kusahara, Hiroshi Ishii, Ryszard Kluszczynski, Annick Bureaud, Derrick de Kerckhove, Jean-Louis Boissier, Anne-Marie Duguet, Anita Beckers, Sabine Himmelsbach, Victoria Vesna, Alain Lioret, Michel Bret, Maria Grazia Mattei, Dierk Maass, Antoinette Airoldi, Valerie Hasson-Benillouche, Jens Hauser, Diego Diaz, Clara Boj, Peter Bosch, Jadwiga Charzynska, Yara Guasque, Victoria Vesna, Thecla Schiphorst, Stahl Stenslie, Rebecca Allen, Philip Dean, Maria Jose Martinez de Pison Ramon, Karin Ohlenschläger, Pau Waelder, Pau Alsina, Katharina Gsöllpointner, Sean Cubitt, Minoru Hatanaka, Masahiro Miwa, Joachim Sauter, Giaco Schiesser, Tamiko Thiel, Mariano Sardon among many others. It is a growing personal archive of media art experts, who from Sommerer & Mignonneau’s personal point of view, significantly contribute to the development and acceptance of media art within contemporary art.

Laurent Mignonneau & Christa Sommerer - Portrait on the Fly (Video Portraits)
Portrait on the Fly (Video Portraits) consists of short video sequences where the moving portrait of well known media art pioneers, scholars, artists, theorist, gallerist and organizers are turned into a swarm of flies. These video sequences include portraits by Jeffrey Shaw, Frieder Nake, Mark Wilson, Hans Dehlinger, Edmond Couchot, Hannes Leopoldseder, Christine Schöpf, Peter Weibel, Jeffrey Shaw, Lynn Hershman, Roger Malina, Marie Hélène Tramus, Christiane Paul, Sarah Diamond, Peter d’Agostino, Gerfried Stocker, Oliver Grau, Maurice Benayoun, Paul Thomas, Jill Scott, Paul Sermon, Simon Biggs, Greg Garvey, Gebhart Sengmüller, Thecla Schiphorst, Jean-Luc Soret, Chu-Yin Chen, Dominique Moulon, Nina Czeglédy, Ellen Pau, Wolf Lieser, Tomoe Moriyama, Erkki Huhtamo, Machiko Kusahara, Hiroshi Ishii, Ryszard Kluszczynski, Annick Bureaud, Derrick de Kerckhove, Jean-Louis Boissier, Anne-Marie Duguet, Anita Beckers, Sabine Himmelsbach, Victoria Vesna, Alain Lioret, Michel Bret, Maria Grazia Mattei, Dierk Maass, Antoinette Airoldi, Valerie Hasson-Benillouche, Jens Hauser, Diego Diaz, Clara Boj, Peter Bosch, Jadwiga Charzynska, Yara Guasque, Victoria Vesna, Thecla Schiphorst, Stahl Stenslie, Rebecca Allen, Philip Dean, Maria Jose Martinez de Pison Ramon, Karin Ohlenschläger, Pau Waelder, Pau Alsina, Katharina Gsöllpointner, Sean Cubitt, Minoru Hatanaka, Masahiro Miwa, Joachim Sauter, Giaco Schiesser, Tamiko Thiel, Mariano Sardon among many others. It is a growing personal archive of media art experts, who from Sommerer & Mignonneau’s personal point of view, significantly contribute to the development and acceptance of media art within contemporary art.

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