New Media Art Trajectories

New York-based Austrian artist Kurt Hentschläger creates visceral media installations and performances for both physical and virtual spaces. Between 1992 and 2003, he collaborated in the duo Granular=Synthesis. Selected presentations include: Venice Biennial, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, PS1 New York, MAC, MAK – Museum of Applied Arts Vienna, ZKM – Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, MONA Hobart, Sharjah Art, UAE, and Power Station of Art, Shanghai.

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Laurent Mignonneau and Christa Sommerer are internationally renowned media artists, researchers, and pioneers of interactive art. They have worked at the IAMAS Academy in Gifu, Japan; the ATR Research Labs in Kyoto, Japan; the MIT CAVS in Cambridge, US; and the NCSA in Champaign Urbana, IL, US. Mignonneau was Chaire Internationale at Paris 8 University. They have created around 50 interactive artworks shown in approximately 350 international exhibitions.

Monika Fleischmann is a German artist. Together with her partner Wolfgang Strauss, she was one of the first artists in Germany to work in a research context in collaboration with computer scientists. They pioneered new media art and received the Golden Nica of the Prix Ars Electronica in 1992. In 2018, they were honored with the ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art and accepted into the SIGGRAPH Academy.

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Olga Kisseleva is a professor of contemporary art at Sorbonne University, head of the Art & New Media program, and Founding director of Art & Science International Institute. An internationally renowned artist, she is one of the key figures in the global art and science field. Kisseleva has had major exhibitions at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid) Fondation Cartier for contemporary art (Paris), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao), and NCCA (Moscow). Her works are included in some of the world’s most important collections, including the Centre Pompidou, Fondation Louis Vuitton, ZKM, and MoMA New York.