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Christa Sommerer
Associate Professor, IAMAS Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences,
Gifu, Japan. Professor, University of Art and Design, Linz, Austria
Interactive Art and Culture
Christa Sommerer is an internationally renowned media artist working in
the field of interactive computer installation. She currently holds
positions as Professor for Interface Culture at the University of Art
and Design in Linz Austria and at the IAMAS International Academy of
Media Arts and Sciences in Gifu, Japan. Since 1992 Sommerer collaborates
with French media artist Laurent Mignonneau. Their interactive artworks
have been called "epoch making" (Toshiharu Itoh, NTT-ICC museum) for
pioneering the use of natural interfaces to create a new language of
interactivity based on artificial life and evolutionary image processes.
Their collaboration has been influenced by the combination of their
different fields of interest, including art, biology, modern installation,
performance, music, computer graphics and communication. Sommerer and
Mignonneau have won major international media awards, for example the
"Golden Nica" Ars Electronica Award for Interactive Art 1994
(Linz, Austria), the "Ovation Award" of the Interactive Media Festival 1995
(Los Angeles, USA), the "Multi Media Award '95" of the Multimedia
Association Japan and the World Technology Award in London (2001).
Sommerer and Mignonneau have published numerous research papers on
Artificial Life, interactivity and interface design and lectured
extensively at universities, international conferences, and symposia.
Sommerer also holds a Ph.D. degree from CAiiA-STAR, University of Wales
College of Art, Newport, UK. Sommerer is also an International Co-editor
for the LEONARDO Journal, MIT Press and in 1998, together with Laurent
Mignonneau, she edited a book on the collaboration of art and science called
"Art@Science," published by Springer Verlag Vienna/New York.
More information: http://www.iamas.co.jp/~christa/
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