Stefan Sonvilla-Weiss

Stefan Sonvilla-Weiss (born April 10, 1961 as Stefan Weiss in Wels ) is an Austrian media theorist and artist . He is professor for media design and head of the Institute for Art and Education at the University of Artistic and Industrial Design in Linz . From 2003 to 2014 he was a professor at Aalto University in the Institute for Art, Design and Architecture in Helsinki.

Life

After studying philosophy, art and craft education at the University of Music, Theater and Fine Arts Mozarteum , painting and animation with Maria Lassnig , computer graphics and computer animation with Peter Weibel at the University of Applied Arts Vienna , he graduated with an MA first as a visual artist and as a teacher at high schools in Vienna and Salzburg.

He is married to Barbara Sonvilla and is the father of the film director Felicitas Sonvilla and the musician Silvius Sonvilla.

In addition to numerous exhibitions, Sonvilla-Weiss has been dealing with the computer as a creative and interactive medium since the early 1990s. After a short study visit at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, he founded a media office in Vienna and developed numerous interactive CD-ROMs and web projects, mainly in the arts and education sectors. Sonvilla-Weiss completed his doctoral studies in communication theory and visual education with a dissertation on "participatory media culture in Austria's virtual educational landscape" with Manfred Faßler and obtained a doctorate in law. phil. at the University of Applied Arts Vienna . Since the mid-1990s he has been working as a media artist, university teacher, multimedia developer and initiator of numerous projects in the art-media education space. Since 2001 Sonvilla-Weiss has worked as a project manager and researcher in the virtual education sector at the EUN in Brussels.

In 2003 he was appointed professor at the Helsinki University of Art and Design , which was renamed Aalto University on January 1, 2010 . He was the head of the Master of Arts course ePedagogy Design - Visual Knowledge Building , which in 2007 was recognized by the European Commission as a success story in the context of innovative curriculum projects.

The term Visual Knowledge Building comes from Sonvilla-Weiss . In his research he tries to find answers on how interactions in globally networked real and virtual spaces can produce new forms of communicative , creative and social practices. Sonvilla-Weiss deals with the cognitive , social, technological and aesthetic dimensions of a data culture, which require new ways of conveying practices and strategies of artistic-scientific debate.

Works

• VIS-A-VIS Media.Art.Education. Realities of life and creative potential of the digital natives . Walter de Gruyter GmbH , Berlin, Boston 2017, ISBN 978-3-11-049851-6 .
• Good Artists Copy; Great Artists Steal: Reflections on Cut-Copy-Paste Culture . Routledge , London 2014, ISBN 978-0-415-71625-3 .
• Synthesis and Nullification. Works 1991-2011 . Springer Science + Business Media , Vienna, New York 2012, ISBN 978-3-7091-1028-7 , p. 204.
• Future Learning Spaces . Aalto University , Helsinki 2012, ISBN 978-952-60-4517-7 , p. 335.
• Mashup Cultures . Springer Science + Business Media , Vienna, New York 2010, ISBN 978-3-7091-0095-0 , p. 256.
• (IN) VISIBLE. Learning to Act in the Metaverse . Springer Science + Business Media , Vienna, New York 2008, ISBN 978-3-211-78538-6 , p. 168.
• (e) Pedagogy - Visual Knowledge Building. Rethinking Art and New Media in Education . Peter Lang , Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Vienna 2005, ISBN 978-3-03910-609-7 , p. 246.
• Virtual school - kunstnetzwerk.at - Participatory media culture in Austria's virtual educational landscape . Peter Lang , Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Vienna 2003, ISBN 978-3-03910-231-0 , p. 243.
• Exhibition catalog ( Memento from September 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
• Narcissus. Self-reflection or self-knowledge? Narcissism in the mirror of society . Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture - Medien Service , Vienna 1996.

Web links

• Literature by and about Stefan Sonvilla-Weiss in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture
2. ↑ DG Education and Culture - Lifelong Learning Program - Erasmus Success Stories (PDF; 2.8 MB)