Waltraut Cooper

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Waltraut Cooper (born December 21, 1937 in Linz ) is an Austrian artist.

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Waltraut Cooper studied mathematics and theoretical physics at the University of Vienna and at the Sorbonne Paris . After teaching at the University of California, Santa Barbara , she began an artistic career and studied painting and graphics in Lisbon and Frankfurt am Main , followed by teaching at the Art University Linz . She speaks German , Latin , English , French , Italian , Spanish , Portuguese , Polish and Russian .

Works on the subject of art and science as well as large-scale light installations were shown at the Venice Biennale 1986 / Art and Science, Arte Laguna / Venice Biennale 1995, a project by the City of Venice for the 2009 Biennale , and Time Space Existence / Venice Architecture Biennale 2014 and at Time Space Existence / Venice Architecture Biennale 2016 as well as in Vienna , Berlin , Rome , Paris , Montreal , Boston , Washington , New York and Beijing .

Waltraut Cooper is considered a pioneer of digital art . Her "Klangmikado", which she created for Ars Electronica in 1987 , is a classic of the digital arts. She repeatedly works in cooperation with her husband, the mathematician James Bell Cooper (* 1944 in Glasgow , UK, until 2012 head of the Institute for Analysis at the Johannes Kepler University Linz ) and her daughter Angela Cooper .

Her artistic work with a focus on media , light and architecture has been awarded numerous prizes. She is a member of the International Women's Forum, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Austrian Society for Cultural Policy, a member of the International Kepes Society Hungary and a corresponding member of the Académie Européenne des Sciences, des Arts et des Lettres, Paris. On May 18, 2010 she was given the professional title of professor by the Ministry of Culture .

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"Lichtquadrat" at the Museum Ritter in Waldenbuch near Stuttgart
“Blue Lines” at the museum in the Kulturspeicher Würzburg

Cooper's first room installations were created in the mid-1970s . In doing so, the artist is increasingly breaking away from traditional forms of work and moving light into the center of her interest and work. It plays on entire buildings and facades with computer-controlled light and sound installations that create an intensive connection to public space. "Hardly any other artist has explored the field of tension between poetry and computer, between light and color, in so many ways as she".

For her major project RAINBOW TRILOGY 1999–2015 with RAINBOW OVER AUSTRIA 1999 at the end of a century with two world wars, RAINBOW FOR EUROPE in 2004 on the occasion of ten new member states joining the EU as the end of the wars in Europe and WORLDWIDE RAINBOW 2015, 70 years after the end of the world wars As a gesture of hope for world peace, the greatest challenge of our time, historically significant buildings in selected metropolises were bathed in colored light. Together they spanned a rainbow over Austria, Europe and finally over our planet with an iconic building on every continent. In 2014 the rainbow trilogy was presented at the Venice Architecture Biennale.

Exhibitions, light installations (selection)

  • 1986 Venice Biennale / Art and Science
  • 1987 Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Mathematics in Art for the Last 30 Years
  • 1987 Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum: The Art Machine
  • 1988 Montreal: Images du Future
  • 1988 Linz: Ars Electronica
  • 1988 Toulouse: FAUST
  • 1989 Boston: SIGGRAPH
  • 1991 New York: Bronx Museum: Third Emerging Expressions Biennale
  • 1995 Arte Laguna / Venice Biennale
  • 1996 Bonn: Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany: Art from Austria 1896–1996
  • 1999 Paris: Media Festival: Pour une écologie des médias
  • 1999 rainbow over Salzburg
  • “Eclair Léopold” at the Leopold Museum Vienna
    1999 rainbow over Austria
  • 2001 Rome: Galleria d´Arte Moderna: Diario
  • 2002 Copenhagen: Lux Europae
  • 2004 Warsaw, Berlin, Rome, Vienna, Brussels, Moscow: Rainbow for Europe
  • 2005 Karlsruhe: ZKM / Museum for New Art: Waterfall
  • 2006 Waldenbruch: Museum Ritter: Lichtquadrat
  • 2007 Würzburg: Museum in the Kulturspeicher: Blue Lines
  • 2007 Vienna: Austrian Parliament: Danube River
  • 2008 Beijing: Olympic Fine Arts
  • 2009 Venice, Isola Sant'Erasmo: The Light of Sant 'Erasmo.
  • 2010 Istanbul: European Capital of Culture: Light Fleet
  • 2011 Vienna: Leopold Museum: Eclairs Léopold
  • 2012 Budapest: Vasarely Museum: Chance as Strategy
  • 2014 Time Space Existence / Venice Architecture Biennale
  • 2014 Washington: Strathmore Fine Arts: WHAT'S UP: New Technologies in Art
  • 2015 Vienna, Cairo, Beijing, Sydney, New York, Curitiba: Worldwide rainbow
  • 2015 Vienna Rainbow: Hofburg, Art History Museum, Natural History Museum.
  • 2016 Time Space Existence / Venice Architecture Biennale
  • 2017 "Peace" at the Ars Electronica Center , Linz

Prices (selection)

Web links

Interviews

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Message of peace for AEC by Waltraud Cooper orf.at, December 18, 2017, accessed December 18, 2017.
  2. ^ The light art by Waltraut Cooper . Website of the ORF (Austrian Broadcasting Corporation). Retrieved May 4, 2011.
  3. ↑ Sound Mikado . Ars Electronica website. Retrieved May 4, 2011.
  4. ↑ Em.O.Univ.Prof.Dr. James Bell Cooper Website of the JKU Linz, accessed December 18, 2017.
  5. ↑ Waltraut Cooper - short biography. In: Upper Austrian news . December 12, 2009. Retrieved June 24, 2011.
  6. ^ Basis-Wien, art database accessed on May 4, 2011.
  7. ↑ Brehm, Cooper, Dorfer in the website of the Nordico City Museum in Linz, accessed on May 24, 2011.
  8. ^ German Bridge Construction Award, 2008 nominees
  9. ^ Website of the Künstlerhaus Wien
  10. ^ Prix ​​Ars Electronica, recognition 1990
personal data
SURNAME Cooper, Waltraut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz