Awards

AWARDS | HONORS |PATENT

AWARDS 


2024    AWE's XR Hall of Fame is a tribute to the pioneers whose monumental contributions have shaped and advanced the AR and VR environments: Monika Fleischmann and Wolfgang Strauss-two of the first VR artists, creators of "Home of the Brain (1989-91)"* are pioneers at the forefront of applying virtual, mixed, and augmented reality to art and culture. *Awarded Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica 1992, Home of the Brain Demo Video 1991/92, Live Video from Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria 1992, TV Austria 1992. 


2023    e-Culture Award for "Pioneers in e-Culture" for artistic and theoretical production in the field of media art as co-creative partners.


2018    ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art is awarded to Monika Fleischmann. ACM Digital Library, Proceedings, SIGGRAPH '18, August 2018. Article No.: 3 [LinkACM Siggraph History: SIGGRAPH 2018 Distinguished Artist Award [Link] » MIT Press, Leonardo, Volume 51, Issue 4, Aug 2018 [Link] » ZKM [Link] Kunstforum [Link]


2018    SIGGRAPH Academy Member - The Utah Teapot - a beautiful story [Link]


2017    25 Frauen, deren Erfindungen unser Leben verändern. Women Inventors AwardBilder. EDITION F Magazin 


2014    Prix Ars Electronica, Visionary Pioneers of Media Art, Linz, A (nominated) 


2013    Arte Laguna Prize - Venice, Italy: Liquid Views , Finalist


2010    Ort der Ideen : netzspannung.org Landmark Winner - ( Press-Info at ZKM )


2010    File Prix Lux , Electronic Language Festival, São Paulo: Medienfluss nominated


2010    Art of Engineering: Medienfluss Browser ( Finalist )


2009    Design Award of Federal Republic of Germany:  Medienfluss Installation nominated


2007    IF Communication Design Award : Medienfluss Installation | Media Flow, Press-Info


2007    ITK Innovation Award – Communication for PointScreen.


2007    Deutschland – Land der Ideen: One of 365 Landmarks for eCulture Factory


2006    New Media Award of Stuttgarter Filmwinter: Stadtkörper


2005    IF Communication Design Award: Energie-Passagen ( PR )


2005    Medida-Prix Audience Award/Publikumspreis: netzspannung.org


2005    Intern. Media Award for Art & Science of SWR & ZKM for Semantic Map


2005    Grimme Online - Knowledge & Education: netzspannung.org nominated


2003    Grimme Online - Web Media: netzspannung.org nominated


2002    Europrix Quality Seal: Knowledge, Discovery and Culture for netzspannung.org

2002    Dieter Baacke Award for Media Pedagogy for Workshop I see, what you hear

2002    Prix Ars Electronica - Net Vision/Net Excellence: netzspannung.org nominated

2002    Grimme Online - Media Competence / Professional: netzspannung.org nominated

1996    Artists in NRW/Germany: Monika Fleischmann nominated for the Grand Prix

1995    Sparky Award of Interactive Media Festival, LA: Liquid Views nominated

1993    Unesco Award: Rigid Waves nominated

1993    Prix Pixel Ina of Imagina, Monte Carlo: Home of the Brain nominated

1992    Prix Ars Electronica , Linz: Golden Nica for interactive Art for Home of the Brain (worldwide first artistic, immersive VR-installation with head-mounted displays)


HONORS

2014    Momentum: Women/Art/Technology - MF 's work is added to this platform that introduces a global community of female artists.

2013    Member of MIMA University Art Board | Munich Institute of Media + Musical Arts

2010    netzspannung.org - the first platform for interactive art and media education (online since 2001) initiated in 1998 with the CAT study (pdf) by Fleischmann & Strauss is donated to and permanently hosted by ZKM - the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe. [Link]

2010    Member of European Expert Network on Culture - the EENC platform

2008-12 Member of the International Advisory Board: Bringing Great Ideas to Life of the ERC European Research Council Panel "Cultures and cultural production: literature, visual & performing arts, music, cultural and comparative studies".

2008    MF awarded as Hon.-Prof. for Media Art Theory & Practice, University of Applied Science, Bremen

2007    Referred to as Groundbreaking Products of 21 Century: Semantic Map, PointScreen, Interactive Poster. In: 100 Produkte der Zukunft. Theodor W. Hänsch (ed), Econ

2004    New Media Advisor for the Enquete-Kommission Kultur in Deutschland of the German Bundestag in Berlin.

2003-06 Appointment to the board of directors of Fraunhofer IMK (MF in Fraunhofer IMK Direktorium berufen)

2002-07 As Chairman of the Advisory Board of the House of World Cultures in Berlin, MF takes its seat on the Supervisory Board of the KBB GmbH. (Aufsichtsrat der Kulturveranstaltungen des Bundes in Berlin)

2002-07 MF joins and chairs the Program Advisory Board of the House of World Cultures in Berlin. (Programmbeirat des Hauses der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin und übernimmt dessen Vorsitz)

1999    Fleischmann & Strauss' work is represented at ADA Archive of Digital Art (former Database of Virtual Art) initiated by Oliver Grau.

1996-03 Member of the Advisory Board for Media & New Media Art at Goethe Institute, Munich

1987-92 MF joins ART+COM e.V. Board of Directors - (Deputy) chairwoman


PATENT 

2007    ECCO "Gesture-based input device for a user interface of a computer". [Link] The interface technology ECCO was patented in the US for Monika Fleischmann, Wolfgang Strauss, Yinlin Li and Christoph Groenegress from Fraunhofer IAIS. The innovative Interface and new paradigm of - contactless - human-computer-interaction (HCI) is inspired by the Theremin, the first electronic music instrument. Both are based on Electric Field Sensing (EFS), which measure dynamic, movement and gestures of the human body. First applications were MARS Bag, Info-Jukebox and PointScreen of netzspannung.org.

History of Pen and Gesture Computing: [Link]   

» [FleischmannM07a] Fleischmann, Monika; Strauss, Wolfgang; Li, Yinlin; Groenegress, Christoph "Gesture-based input device for a user interface of a computer", US Patent 7,312,788, December 25, 2007. Hardware patent on electrostatic/capacitive non-contact digitizer, similar in principle to a theremin, to sense in-air gestures. Requires use to stand on on a grounding pad or reference pad. Hardware for iPoint device from Fraunhofer Institut. Includes one claim relating to detecting termination of a gesture by not moving.

» [Strauss06] Strauss, Wolfgang; Fleischmann, Monika "PointScreen: Interaktion ohne Berührung", http://netzspannung.org: MARS Projekte, 2006. Gesture input whiteboard from Fraunhofer Institute, technology similar to Theremin electrostatic device. In-air gestures, capacitive sensing.

PATENT RELATED PUBLICATIONS                      

Kunst an der Schnittstelle von Technik, Forschung und Gesellschaft , Monika  Fleischmann, Wolfgang Strauss. In: Digitale Transformationen, M. Fleischmann, U. Reinhard (eds.), Heidelberg 2004. PP. 139-145. Published on netzspannung.org. 

Information Jukebox – A semi-public device for presenting multimedia information content. Wolfgang Strauss, Monika Fleischmann, Jochen Denzinger, Christoph Groenegress, Yinlin Li. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Appliance Design 2003. Springer Journal on Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. London, 2003, pp. 217-220. Published on netzspannung.org.

Gesture frame – a screen navigation system for interactive multimedia kiosks. Yinlin Li; Christoph Groenegress; Wolfgang Strauss; Monika Fleischmann. In: Camurri, A. (ed). Gesture-based communication in human-computer interaction: 5th International Gesture Workshop, GW 2003, Genova, Italy, April 15 – 17, 2003; selected revised papers. Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, 2004 (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2915) ISBN: 3-540-21072-5. S.380-385. http://netzspannung.org/database/144542/de

PATENT RELATED REPORT

Interfacedesign: In Echtzeit interaktiv agieren. Tatiana Rosenstein. digital production 1/2004, S. 177-179. Published on netzspannung.org. 

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