Fleischmann & Strauss

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Monika Fleischmann (* 1950 in Karlsruhe ) and Wolfgang Strauss (* 1951 near Nuremberg ), Fleischmann & Strauss for short , are a German artist and scientist couple who have focused on new media / digital media as a connection between art and technology since 1987 Mixed reality deals. With their internationally exhibited interactive productions, they are considered pioneers of media art .

Life

Monika Fleischmann grew up in Donaueschingen as the daughter of the director of a cooperative that emerged from her mother's flower dynasty . After training as a fashion designer in Zurich, she studied fine arts and acting at the Berlin University of the Arts .

Wolfgang Strauss grew up in a missionary family. After an apprenticeship as a cabinet maker, he studied architecture at the Berlin University of the Arts, where he later taught as a visiting professor.

Since 1987, Fleischmann & Strauss have been working together in the field of art and computer-mediated communication as a new cultural technique and artistic-scientific basic research with a focus on visualization , sonification and interface, initially at ART + COM , since 1997 also under the acronym MARS (Media Arts Research Studies) at GMD and Fraunhofer research institutions. Since the beginning of their artistic-scientific activity they have been concerned with the computer as a tool and medium. With their work, they have made a decisive contribution to shaping digital media and interactive media art . Her best-known artistic virtual reality and mixed reality installations include “Berlin - Cyber ​​City” (1989), “Home of the Brain” (1990–92), “Liquid Views” (1992/93), “Rigid Waves "(1993)," Energie-Passagen "(2004) or the" Medienfluss "installation (2006), which the Netzspannung.org media art archive represents in streams of images and text with keywords.

In 1988 Monika Fleischmann and Wolfgang Strauss founded the first German research laboratory for art and technology ART + COM in Berlin together with Edouard Bannwart, Wolfgang Krüger, Joachim Sauter , Dirk Lüsebrink and other architects, artists, designers, physicists and hackers, where they managed the “Raumlabor “From 1988 to 1992. The aim was to research the computer medium in the fields of architecture, art, design and scientific visualization.

At the same time, they founded the “La Première Rue” association in 1990 to reconstruct the Première Rue in Le Corbusier's “ Unité d'Habitation ” in Briey-en-Forêt with 24 maisonette apartments and studios together with architects such as Pascal Schöning, Fritz and Lukas Schwarz, Hans Kolhoff and philosophers like Herbert Lachmayr. As guest artist of the association, Peter Doig painted one of his most famous pictures of the Cité radieuse de Briey-en-Forêt.

In 1992/93, Fleischmann & Strauss were fellows at the Art Academy for Media in Cologne and visiting scholars at the GMD Research Center for Information Technology in Sankt Augustin . After the death of Wolfgang Krüger, Fleischmann continued the GMD research group VizWiz, in which the Responsive Workbench is significantly developed as a further development of the interactive table real-time installation "Berlin, Cyber ​​City" by Fleischmann & Strauss. Fleischmann later founded and headed the MARS department - Media Arts & Research Studies at the GMD Institute for Media Communication and the eCulture department at the Fraunhofer Research Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems (IAIS). Strauss took on visiting professorships for digital media and media art in Saarbrücken, Kassel and Siegen. Fleischmann taught in Zurich, Basel, Krems, Siegen and as an honorary professor in Bremen.

From 1997 to 2014 both headed the artistic-scientific research on human-computer interaction at the MARS Exploratory Media Lab at the former GMD Institute for Media Communication - later under the umbrella of the Fraunhofer Society . In interdisciplinary teams, influential, artistic-scientific projects such as the online media art platform "netzspannung.org" and its "Knowledge Discovery Tools" as well as "Interfaces for the body" such as the bio-sensory interface PointScreen for contactless interaction were created. Fleischmann initiated the Digital Sparks Award as a talent scout to promote the next generation of artists and to map teaching at German-speaking universities . In numerous EU and BMBF- funded research projects, Fleischmann & Strauss designed and implemented new scientific instruments in the fields of architecture , media art , media informatics and new media . They understood digital art as a means of expanding space - to a mixed reality . Using the concept of interactivity , they investigated digital staging as an expression of content, form and narrative using digital means. They considered the interface, the user interface , as an evocative information object and the interaction or the interaction design as a process of a thought movement.

Fleischmann & Strauss have lived in Berlin and Gargnano since 2014 and conduct research as independent research artists.

In 2018 they received the ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art for their artistic life's work and were accepted into the SIGGRAPH Academy. The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) of the Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference (SIGGRAPH) is the research network for the development of computer graphics and interactive media and forms the world's largest community of researchers, artists, developers, filmmakers and scientists, who have contributed to the development of new technologies.

Works

Solo exhibitions

  • 1988 “Circuits - Stations of Approach”, Reichstag, Berlin
  • 1990 "Fleischmann & Strauss", Werkbund-Galerie, Berlin
  • 1991 "Corbusier Digital - The Aesthetics of Implosion", Architecture Forum, Zurich
  • 1992 “A Vision of Virtuality”, Birlinghoven Castle, St Augustin
  • 1999 “Fidena, Puppet Theater”, Bochum Art Museum
  • 2003 “Info-Jukebox - Make your choice”, MediaLab, Madrid, Spain
  • 2004 “Energie-Passagen”, Salvatorplatz, Literaturhaus Munich
  • 2006 “Knowledge Arts / eCulture Factory”, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen
  • 2008 “Wissensarchive”, Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art, Oldenburg
  • 2011 "Performing Data - Monika Fleischmann & Wolfgang Strauss", Laznia - Center for Contemporary Art, Danzig, Poland
  • 2012 "Inter-Facing the Archive. The Media Art Portal netzspannung.org", ZKM Medialounge, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Technology, Karlsruhe

Awards

  • 1992 Golden Nica for Interactive Art, Prix ​​Ars Electronica , Austria: "Home of the Brain"
  • 1993 Prix Pixel Ina of Imagina, Monte Carlo: "Home of the Brain" Video (nominated)
  • 1993 Unesco Award, Paris: "Rigid Waves" (nominated)
  • 1995 Sparky Award of Interactive Media Festival, Los Angeles: "Liquid Views" (nominated)
  • 1996 Grand Prix for Artists in NRW / Germany: "Monika Fleischmann" (nominated)
  • 2002 Grimme Online - Media Competence / Professional: "netzspannung.org" (nominated)
  • 2002 Prix Ars Electronica - Net Vision / Net Excellence: "netzspannung.org" (nominated)
  • 2002 Dieter Baacke Prize for Media Education for Workshop: "I see, what you hear" (PhD MARS)
  • 2002 Europrix Quality Seal: "Knowledge, Discovery and Culture for netzspannung.org"
  • 2003 Grimme Online - Web Media: "netzspannung.org" (nominated)
  • 2005 Grimme Online - Knowledge & Education: "netzspannung.org" (nominated)
  • 2005 International Media Award for Art & Science of SWR and ZKM: "Semantic Map"
  • 2005 MEDIDA-PRIX , audience award, Germany, Austria, Switzerland: "netzspannung.org"
  • 2005 IF Award Communication Design: "Energy Passages"
  • 2006 New Media Award of Stuttgarter Filmwinter: "Stadtkörper" (MA MARS)
  • 2007 Germany - Land of Ideas : "eCulture Factory"
  • 2007 ITK Innovation Award - Communication: "PointScreen"
  • 2007 IF Award Communication Design: "Media Flow" | "Media Flow" installation
  • 2007 Groundbreaking Products of 21 Century: awarded for "pioneering products of the future" by Nobel Prize winner Theodor Hänsch : "Semantic Map", "PointScreen", "Interactive Poster"
  • 2009 Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany: "Media Flow Installation" (nominated)
  • 2010 Art of Engineering: "Media Flow Browser" (finalist)
  • 2010 File Prix Lux, Electronic Language Festival, São Paulo: "Medienfluss Browser" (nominated)
  • 2010 Germany - Land of Ideas , Landmark Winner: "netzspannung.org"
  • 2013 Arte Laguna Prize - Venice, Italy: "Liquid Views" (finalist)
  • 2014 Visionary Pioneers of Media Art , Goldene Nica , Prix ​​Ars Electronica , Linz, Austria: Fleischmann & Strauss (nominated)
  • 2017 Women Inventors Award, "Monika Fleischmann" is the only artist to be awarded the Women Inventors Prize from Edition-F, Berlin
  • 2018 SIGGRAPH Lifetime Achievement Award in Digital Art: "Monika Fleischmann", Vancouver advance program , [1]

patent

Honor

  • 2008 Monika Fleischmann is appointed honorary professor for media art / media theory at the University of Bremen.
  • 2008 - 2012 Monika Fleischmann - Member of the International Advisory Board: Bringing Great Ideas to Life of the ERC European Research Council Panel "Cultures and cultural production: literature, visual & performing arts, music, cultural and comparative studies".
  • 2010 Monika Fleischmann - Member of the European Expert Network on Culture - the EENC platform
  • 2010 netzspannung.org - the first platform for interactive art and media education (online since 2001) initiated in 1998 with the CAT study by Fleischmann & Strauss is hosted permanently at ZKM - the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe
  • 2013 Monika Fleischmann - Member of MIMA University Art Board | Munich Institute of Media + Musical Arts
  • 2014 Momentum: Women / Art / Technology - the work of Fleischmann & Strauss is added to this platform that introduces a global community of female artists.

Publications

Fonts and published databases (selection)

  • "Digitale Kultur Vol. 1", feasibility study for a competence center for art, culture and new media. GMD, Sankt Augustin 1998,
  • "Digitale Kultur Vol. 2", survey and statements. GMD, Sankt Augustin 1999
  • “Current Topics in Media Art”, netzspannung.org Print / Online Journal 01. New Media Art Journals GMD, Sankt Augustin 2001
  • "Digital transformations: media art as an interface between art, science, business and society", 2004
  • "Tactile, audible, visible, bringing the digital into the room." Digital Sparks Award 06, Fraunhofer IAIS, Sankt Augustin 2006
  • "Digital stories, interactive spaces and intelligent objects." Digital Sparks Award 08, Fraunhofer IAIS, Sankt Augustin 2008
  • "Netzspannung.org", Media Art Archive & eTeaching Platform, 2001–2010

Editorships (selection)

  • "CAST01 // Living in Mixed Realities." Artistic, Cultural and Scientific Aspects of Experimental Media Spaces. Conference Proceedings. Fraunhofer IMK 2001
  • "Digital Transformations." "Media art as an interface between art, science, business and society. Book & CD-ROM with 54 articles on media art. Whois, Heidelberg 2004

Art catalogs (selection)

Web links

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ABOUT MARS MARS - MEDIA ARTS RESEARCH STUDIES. In: netzspannung.org. Fraunhofer IAIS and the authors, 2009, accessed on October 29, 2017 (de / en).
  2. ↑ Responsive Workbench. Retrieved October 29, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Monika Fleischmann: ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art . In: Sue Gollifer (Ed.): MIT Press, Leonardo . Volume 51, No. 4th
  4. ↑ Rosanne Altstatt, Gabriele Blome & Jochen Denzinger, Sabine Breitsameter, Bazon Brock, Dieter Daniels & Rudolf Frieling, Alberto de Campo & Julian Rohrhuber, Christian Dögl, Jan & Tim Edler, Sabine Flach, Monika Fleischmann, Wolfgang Strauss, Herbert W. Franke , Ursula Frohne , Thomas Goldstrasz, Oliver Grau, Hans-Jürgen Hafner, Gabriele Hartmann, Sabine Himmelsbach, Susanne Jaschko, Wilhelm Krull and Vera Szöllösi-Brenig, Katja Kwastek, Dominik Landwehr , Wolf Lieser, Sigrid Markl & Virgil Widrich, Wilfried Matanovic, Peter Matussek, Laurent Mignonneau & Christa Sommerer, Sibylle Omlin, Sebastian Peichl, Danièle Perrier, Ulrike Reinhard, Mareike Reusch, Joachim Sauter, Giaco Schiesser, Holger Schulze, Gerfried Stocker, Reinhard Storz, Georg Trogemann, Eku Wand , Peter Weibel, Ulrich Weinberg , Axel Wirths, Andrea Zapp, Christian Ziegle, Annett Zinsmeister: DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION MEDIA ART AS THE INTERFACE OF ART, SCIENCE, ECONOMY AND SOCIETY. (No longer available online.) In: netzspannung.org ISSN  1614-6662 . Monika Fleischmann, Ulrike Reinhard, December 2, 2004, archived from the original on June 19, 2012 ; accessed on October 31, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / netzspannung.org
  5. ↑ Roy Ascott, Olivier Avaro, Thea Brejzek, Bill Buxton, Manfred Faßler, Monika Fleischmann, Hans Rainer Friedrich, Lydia Hartl, Hiroshi Ishii, Natalie Jeremijenko, Martin Reiser, Jill Scott, Wolfgang Strauss, Leon van Noorden, Victoria Vesna, Laurence Wallen : cast01 // living in mixed realities. In: Conference Proceedings. Monika Fleischmann, Wolfgang Strauss, September 21, 2001, accessed on October 31, 2017 (English, netzspannung.org - Cast01 - Intro ).