Sylvia Eckermann
Sylvia Eckermann (born July 2, 1962 in Vienna , or: Syl Eckermann ) is an Austrian media artist .
Life
Sylvia Eckermann was a member of the Austrian artist group Gangart from 1987 to 1989 . From 1989 to 2004 she worked under the label fuchs-eckermann with the musician and media artist Mathias Fuchs and lived for a long time in Helsinki ( Finland ), Manchester ( UK ) and Beijing ( China ).
From 1996 to 1999 she was Art Director of derStandard.at ( online portal of the Austrian daily newspaper Der Standard ). From 2000 to 2001 she taught Game Design for Musicians at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki ( Finland ) . Eckermann lives today as a freelance, internationally active artist in Vienna ( Austria ).
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Since the end of the 1980s Eckermann has been artistically concerned with digital space , its properties and its possibilities. Projects served her to research this and to specifically address it in national and international exhibition situations. In the beginning it was only the virtual space ( fluID - arena of identities , Kulturhauptstadt Graz AT 2003, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst , Aachen D, 2005/06, Expositur - a virtual knowledge space , Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, 2003 Helsinki FI or Im Ninth Heaven , Museum Stein, Kunstmeile Krems AT, permanent installation from 2008-09), her interest shifted to the "interface" between physical and virtual space. ( Mirror cells , Ars Electronica 2007, Landesgalerie Linz , Linz AT, The Trend is your Friend!, MKL Kunsthaus Graz AT 2009). In the installation Naked Eye (Kunstraum Bernsteiner, Vienna AT 2010) the ephemeral of (projection) light was linked to the real object and the dispositive "exhibition" was examined. In the light installation Crystal Math ( paraflows .7 - Reverse Engineering, festival for digital art and culture, weisses haus, Vienna AT, 2012, and .), Eckermann used a net made of thousands of meters of nylon wire and used as a projection surface and "expressive image" Kunstraum Innsbruck AT, 2013) depicts the replacement of the financial markets from human actors to algorithms . In the Probabilis exhibition (Kunstraum Bernsteiner, Vienna AT 2013), Eckermann showed sculptures which, derived from the expression “Freeze Frame”, she called “Freeze Objects”.
Sylvia Eckermann is one of the artists who dealt with game engines . Her Game Art installations were shown in the following exhibitions (selection): synworld - Public Netbase , ISEA , GAMES computer games by artists, GameArt, artgames, cyber @ rt, medi @ terra.
Exhibitions
Participation in group exhibitions (selection)
- 1994: "ISEA 1994", ISEA - Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts , Helsinki ( Finland )
- 1999: "Synworld", curated by Konrad Becker , Museumsquartier, Vienna ( Austria )
- 2000: "The Mindzone", The Millennium Dome , London ( UK )
- 2003: "selfware-politics of identity", Graz 2003 - European Capital of Culture , Graz ( Austria )
- 2003: "cyber @ rt", Bilbao ( Spain )
- 2003: "games", computer games by artists , Hartware MedienKunstVerein , Dortmund ( Germany )
- 2004: "GameArt", Völklinger Hütte , Völklingen ( Germany )
- 2004: "ISEA 2004", ISEA - Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts , Helsinki ( Finland )
- 2005: "skylab 5", ZOOM Children's Museum , MuseumsQuartier , Vienna ( Austria )
- 2006: "artgames", analogies between art and play , Ludwig Forum for international art, Aachen ( Germany )
- 2006: "WORKING_WORLD.NET", Living and working in the Midst of Globalization , Museum Arbeitswelt , Steyr ( Austria )
- 2006: "3rd International Digital Art Festival", Changzhou ( China )
- 2006: "media @ terra", International Art + Technology Festival , Athens ( Greece )
- 2007: "Acting in Utopia", Landesgalerie Linz , Linz ( Austria )
- 2009: "MIFAN", VENUE_Room 208, NO.A3 Industrial Park-East, Shenzen, CN, organized by ASAP [1] , curated by Karel Dudesek, AnniArt Gallery, 798 Dashanzi Art District , Beijing, CN
- 2012: "paraflows.7 - Reverse Engineering", Festival for Digital Art and Cultures, Vienna A
- 2012: "PARKFAIR - ARTE NOAH", Vienna A
- 2013: “GLITCH” - OUR PENCIL WORKS WITH OUR THOUGHTS curated by Max Thoman, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck A
- 2013: "LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY DELETING", curated by: Isin Önol, GPL CONTEMPORARY Gallery Peithner-Lichtenfels, Vienna A
- 2014: "No More Fukushimas", VIENNA ART WEEK, curated by Marcello Farabegoli at Verein 08, Vienna A
- 2014: “Kunstgastgeber Gemeindebau” Robert-Uhlir-Hof, Art in Public Space Vienna, curated by Gerald Straub
- 2014: “The Great Illusion”, At STEINBRENER / DEMPF, Vienna A
- 2014: “Festival Intimate Spaces” | “On the reality of dreaming and the nightmare of reality”, IMA, Hainburg AD, curated by Elisabeth Schimana
- 2014: "NWEAMO Festival", San Diego, California, Superdome theater, Reuben H. Fleet Science Center
Works, works (selection)
- 2004: "fluID - arena of identities", Game about Identity , Kiasma , Helsinki ( Finland )
- 2004: "reservoir_bots", interperformative staging , Künstlerhaus , Vienna ( Austria )
- 2004: "reservoir_bots v.2", GameMod for a VJ , DJ: Electric Indigo
- 2006: "nowhere - a space game", collaboration Gerald Nestler , Oliver Irschitz , Christof Cargnelli , Beijing Cubic Art Center - Dashanzi Art District , Beijing ( China )
- 2006: "Plastic trade-off", collaboration with Gerald Nestler , Museum Arbeitswelt , Steyr ( Austria )
- 2007: “Mirror cells”, collaboration between Peter Szely and Doron Goldfarb , Ars Electronica 07, Linz, AT
- 2008: “In Ninth Heaven”, An Interactive Synthetic Scape , collaboration Peter Szely , Gerald Nestler , Museum Stein, Krems ( Austria ), curator Dieter Buchhart
- 2009: "Breathe My Air", an art project on intellectual and social environments and their relations. , Collaboration, Gerald Nestler , 798 Dashanzi Art District, Beijing China
- 2009: “The Trend is Your Friend”, a performative medial arrangement , collaboration, Gerald Nestler , Peter Szely , MKL, Kunsthaus Graz
- 2010: “Naked Eye”, an intermedia installation , Kunstraum Bernsteiner Vienna, Austria
- 2010: "Crystal Math", 1 channel video installation, 5.1 sound, 5000 m nylon wire, 300 × 200 cm. - "Glitch", curated by Gerald Nestler / Max Thoman with medien.kunst.tirol, Kunstraum Innsbruck AT, 2013. - "paraflows.7 - Reverse Engineering", festival for digital art and culture, curated by Judith Fegerl / Günther Friesinger , white house, Vienna AT, 2012. - kunstraum BERNSTEINER | Basement, for the exhibition ON PURPOSE. The New Derivative Order by Gerald Nestler, Vienna AT, 2012.
- 2012: "Telluric Force", computer animation, 2.0 sound, plasma screen, wooden frame, 90 × 150 cm. - “Parkfair Arte Noah”, curated by Iv Toshain / Matthias Makowsky, Vienna AT.
- 2012: “PROBABILIS”, - kunstraum BERNSTEINER, Vienna AT, solo exhibition with the following works: Integument , 2012, digital video / computer animation, wooden frame, monitor, AV player, 100 × 160. Zero Probability Event , 2012, iron, glass plate, glass cone , Metronome, fly, 111 × 100 × 10. Table for my father , 2012, wood, animal specimens, epoxy resin, 80 × 160. Shifting States , 2012, iron construction, sheet copper, light bulb, motor, 94 × 250. Floor tattoo , 2012, floor drawing , Acrylic paint, 210 × 80. Cartography of the Indefinite , 2012, chalk drawing, gray wall paint, 160 × 190.
- 2012–13: "SOUND OF SIRENS", online social platform / video portal. In collaboration with Edgar Honetschläger . Sound of Sirens (SOS) was a social network that enables and promotes the intercontinental flow of information away from the official national and international media. SOS is an inventory of how a democratic society deals with a disaster. SOS focuses on how the individual, the group, like a government, like the global public, react to a sudden event of inconceivable dimensions. An artistic investigation takes place using the example of the nuclear catastrophe, which is burned into the memory of not only Japanese society under the name Fukushima 3/11 (March 11, 2011).
- 2014: “adreamlessmind”, screen print on bed linen. - "Festival Intimate Spaces | On the Reality of Dreaming and the Nightmare of Reality", curated by IMA, Institute for Media Archeology, Hainburg a. D. AT.
- 2014: "Glykon 14", polymer mass, iron frame, 40 × 95. - "The Great Illusion", curated by Steinbrener / Dempf, Vienna AT
- 2014: “Digital Monsters Don't Bleed”, solo exhibition, space-consuming object, 1700 × 500, paper tube, sound, video, 2 gilded sculptures (15 × 50 cm). - kunstraum BERNSTEINER, Vienna AT, 2014
Awards
- 1992 participation in the Progetto Civitella d'Agliano 92, Italy
- 1996 Foreign scholarship from the Ministry of Education, Culture and the Arts, Fujino, Japan
- 1998 Artist in Residency, Durham, Canada
- 1999 Foreign scholarship from the Ministry of Education, Culture and the Arts, London, UK
- 2000/2001 teaching activity at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland
- 2005/2006 scholarship from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Art, Chengdu, China
- 2008 Project grant from the Ministry of Education, Culture and the Arts, Beijing, China
- 2010 File Prix Lux, Electronic Language Festival, São Paulo, TIYF! nominated
- 2012 Austrian State Scholarship for Video and Media Art
- 2014 Media Art Prize of the City of Vienna for the complete artistic work.
- 2018 Austrian Art Prize for Media Art
Web links
- Homepage Sylvia Eckermann
- Sylvia Eckermann: Algorithmisiert , published 2014, Czernin Verlag
- Literature by and about Sylvia Eckermann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Sylvia Eckermann at artfacts.net
- Entry Sylvia Eckermann in the catalog of basis wien
- Sylvia Eckermann's entry in the Database of Virtual Art
- Homepage artist duo fuchs-eckermann
Individual evidence
- ^ Mathias Jansson: " Interview: Sylvia Eckermann on" Hotel Synthifornia "(1998) ", in: GAMESCENES. ART IN THE AGE OF VIDEOGAMES , February 20, 2010
- ↑ " GAMES Computer Games by Women Artists ", in: netzspannung.org , May 11, 2007
- ↑ Helmut Ploebst: " Reden mit Nylonfäden ", in: Der Standard , September 14, 2012
- ↑ Edith Schlocker: " Fat finger in the computer system ", in: artmagazine , June 17, 2013
- ↑ Rebecca Cannon: " FluID - Arena of Identities ", in: selectparks , August 7, 2003
- ↑ Ursula Hentschläger: " Silence in dröhnender Zeit ", in: artmagazine , September 14, 2007
- ↑ Ursula Hentschläger: " In the mirror of the times " in: artmagazine , December 3, 2008
- ↑ Walter Seidl: " In the center of space ", in: artmagazine , January 2, 2011
- ↑ Christof Habres: " Artists as Researcher ", in: Wiener Zeitung , September 19, 2012
- ↑ Roland Schöny: “ In the network of the intangible ”, in: artmagazine , January 14, 2013
- ↑ Manisha Jothady: “ Im Takt der Stille ”, in: Wiener Zeitung , February 5, 2013
- ↑ Johanna Hofleitner " Eckermann: Against the loss of presence ", in: The press - Window November 2012 29
- ↑ Regina Patsch: " Collecting pictures after the bang ", in: ZEIT ONLINE , June 18, 2012
- ^ " Media Art Prize of the City of Vienna to Sylvia Eckermann ", in: artmagazine , November 14, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eckermann, Sylvia |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Eckermann, Syl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian media artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 2nd, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |