Guest of Honor: Christa Sommerer
“It is an incredible privilege to participate in the upcoming international “Generative Art Summit” in Berlin. Starting from the work of media art and science pioneer Herbert W. Franke and his pivotal contributions to electronic art during the past 70 years, an illustrious list of presenters will discuss the history as well as the latest developments and challenges in machine-supported creativity. I look forward to this wonderful event; it will become a milestone in the history of media art and a wonderful opportunity to shape and think about the future of art.”
Biography
Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau are internationally renowned media artists, researchers and pioneers of interactive art.
They worked ten years in Japan as Associate Professors at the IAMAS Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences in Gifu, Japan and as Researchers and Artistic Directors at the ATR Advanced Telecommunications Research Lab in Kyoto Japan.
Before they were artists-in residence at the MIT CAVS in Cambridge US, artists-in-residence at the NCSA National Center for Supercomputing Applications Beckmann Institute in Champaign Urbana, IL, USA and artists-in-residence at the NTT-InterCommunication Center in Tokyo.
In 2004 they set up the department for Interface Cultures at the University of Art and Design in Linz, Austria where they are both professors. They created 50 pioneering interactive artworks that have been exhibited in around 350 international exhibitions, some of them traveling show. Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau received numerous international awards for their works.