Gitti Vasicek

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Gitti Vasicek (also Brigitte Vasicek ; born June 15, 1959 in Vienna ) is an Austrian artist , activist and feminist .

Life

After completing a tapestry apprenticeship, Gitti Vasicek studied from 1984 to 1990 at the University of Art and Industrial Design in Linz in the master class for visual design with Laurids Ortner . From 1987 to 1993 she worked at Ars Electronica as production manager. She then worked for the Festival of Regions as a curator in the field of visual arts and in festival organization. From 1993 to 2005 Vasicek was a member of the board of the Stadtwerkstatt Linz. In 2005 she completed her habilitation at the Art University Linz with the work meatspace , a virtual reality job project - on the subject of equal opportunities at work. Since then, Vasicek has been professor for time-based media at the Art University Linz. The artist curates and initiates exhibitions and festivals. Since 2013 she has been jointly responsible for the format development of the women's political initiative Feminism and Riot , which was awarded the City of Linz Women's Prize in 2014. In 2018 Vasicek was awarded the Käthe Leichter Prize for women's studies, gender research and equality in the world of work.

Gitti Vasicek lives and works in Linz. She is the mother of three children.

Projects (selection)

  • 1987–1992 Ars Electronica Festival , Linz, production management
  • 1990 Between intimacy and radical exposure, QUERSPUR video festival , Linz
  • 1993 Festival of the Regions , curatorial activity
  • 2000 Social Club , production by the Stadtwerkstatt ( Gabriele Kepplinger , Markus Seidl, Elfi Sonnberger, Gitti Vasicek) for Ars Electronica NEXT SEX
  • 2005 Scratch techniques and their specific meaning in the filmmaking of women , together with Gabriele Kepplinger
  • 2007 Is Art For Sale? , Vienna
  • 2008 Television in Artist Hands , Inputlecture, Salzburg
  • 2008 Nah-sehn Fern- sehn, conference and televisual art, Linz
  • 2010 Visualized orchestral concert with students of time-based and interactive media , Brucknerhaus Linz
  • Feminism and riot since 2013 , actively co-responsible for format development
  • since 2015 MORE , refugee initiative of the universities, coordination
  • since 2015 Stadtwerkstatt cultural center, chairwoman, Linz
  • 2015 Civil Media Award 2015 - TV TV TV, conversation performance
  • 2018 Secrets , city trips to hidden stories, performance format development with the factory owners , Linz

Jury activity (selection)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Feminism needs riot , interview with Gitti Vasicek and Oona Valarie Serbest in the magazine of GfK Oberösterreich (issue 1/2019, disruption. A question of culture ); accessed on March 12, 2019
  2. ^ City of Linz Women's Prize - winners since 2012 ; accessed on March 12, 2019
  3. ↑ Report on the website Die Fabrikanten ; accessed on March 12, 2019
  4. ^ Social Club at Next Sex Nights in the Ars Electronica Next Sex catalog ; accessed on March 12, 2019
  5. ↑ umbrella organization of universities ; accessed on March 12, 2019
  6. ↑ SECRETS city trips to hidden stories ; accessed on March 12, 2019
  7. ^ "Secrets": City trips to hidden stories, report in the Linzer Rundschau from October 1, 2018 ; accessed on March 12, 2019
  8. ↑ The Advisory Board on Cultural Initiatives, report in the KUPF-Zeitung from December 1, 2013 ; accessed on March 12, 2019
  9. ^ Käthe Leichter Prize of October 8, 2018; accessed on March 12, 2019
  10. ^ Website Kunstuniversität Linz Käthe-Leichter-Preis for Gitti Vasicek ; accessed on March 12, 2019
  11. ↑ The speaker: Prize winners: Käthe Leichter State Prize: Gitti Vasicek, December 5, 2018 ; accessed on March 12, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Vasicek, Gitti
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vasicek, Brigitte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian artist, activist and feminist
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria