MONIKA FLEISCHMANN
BIOGRAPHY |BIOGRAFIE
If we don't support media art and digital culture our life will be dominated by machines. 1998
MONIKA FLEISCHMANN is a German research [media] artist and scientist. Born in Karlsruhe, grown up in Donaueschingen, lived and worked in Zürich, München, Nizza, Diano Marina [Riviera dei Fiori], Berlin, today in Bonn and Gargnano. Since 2008 she is Honorary Professor of Media Theory & Digital Media Art at University of Applied Sciences in Bremen, and since 1994 Research Scientist at Fraunhofer IAIS, Sankt Augustin. Prof. Monika Fleischmann works in partnership with Wolfgang Strauss since 1987 on media art installations and the concept of interactivity: Fleischmann & Strauss on Wikipedia.
Bio netzspannung.org|en. CV as Media Archaeology en|de. Evaluation of works.
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS |BERUFLICHE TÄTIGKEITEN
Studies of Fashion Design in Zurich, Visual Arts, School- and Theatre Play, Art Education in Berlin.
» Since 1987 Studio for Architecture & Digital Media in partnership
with Wolfgang Strauss;
» 1988 - 1992 Co-founder and Artistic
Director of Art+Com e.V., Berlin. Institute for the
future of the new media in the realm of art, architecture, design & communication;
» 1990 - to date Founding Member of La Premiere Rue, European
Center for interdisciplinary cultural projects at Corbusier-Unité, Briey-en-Forêt, France;
» 1992 Golden Nica for Interactive Art for Home of the Brain, Ars Electronica, Linz, A;
» 1992 - 1993 Fellow at Academy of Media Arts Cologne [KHM] Cologne, Germany and Research Fellow, GMD-German National Research Center for IT, St Augustin;
» since 1994 - to date Research Artist and Scientist at GMD Institute for Media Communication, today Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analyze and Information System, St Augustin, D;
» 1997 - 2008 Head of Research Dept. Media Arts & Research Studies, the Fraunhofer MARS – Exploratory Media Lab;
» 2000/01 the TIME magazine ranks Monika Fleischmann among the People to Watch;
» 2002 the Fraunhofer IMK - MARS Exploratory Media Lab is internationally recognized as one of the leading 14 Art & Technology Labs.
» 2002 - 2007 Member of the Supervisory Board of the Confederation of cultural events in Berlin GmbH [KBB];
» 2003 - 2006 Member of the Board of Directors of the Fraunhofer Institute for Media Communication (IMK).
» 2007 US-Patent for PointScreen - Theremin inspired touchless technology.
» 2007 The Interactive Poster, the Semantic Map and the PointScreen are among the
"ground-breaking ideas that" change our lives. Presented in 100 Products of the Future by Nobel Laureate TW Hänsch, Econ, Berlin.
» since
2008 Honorary Professor of Media Theory
and interactive Media Art at the Digital Media
Program, Bremen; international teaching.
Research at Fraunhofer
IAIS: Knowledge Media - Arts of Knowledge and Cultural Analytics - Cultural Studies. Her
patented PointScreen technology takes in advance new cognitive models
and bio-sensory interfaces.
HONORARY APPOINTMENTS |EHRENÄMTER
» since 2009 Member of the ERC European Research Council: Bringing Great Ideas to Life.
Panel "Cultures and cultural production: literature, visual &
performing arts, music, cultural and comparative studies" for Starting Grants to support investigator-driven frontier research. Appointed by Helga Nowotny. => Research Enquiry Service» since 2008 Hon.-Prof. for Media Theory & Interactive Media Art, University of Applied Sciences, Bremen appointed by Helmut Eirund.
» 2002-07 Member of the Control Board (Aufsichtsrat): Kulturveranstaltungen des Bundes in Berlin (KKB) GmbH - for the House of World Cultures, the Berlinale and the Berliner Festspiele - appointed by the German Federal Ministers of Culture Julian Nida-Rümelin (02), Christina Weiss (03-05), Bernd Neumann (06-07).
» 2002-07 Head of Advisory Board: House of World Cultures/Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
» 2005 Evaluation-Team of the Acquin – Accreditation Institute for the Digital Media Program of Bremen Universities and Academies with Jens Geelhaar, Bernd Fröhlich, Christoph Zydorek
» 2005 Member of the Finding Commission of Christina Weiss, Federal Minister of Culture, for the new Intendant of the House of World Cultures, Berlin with Max Hollein, Elisabeth Schweeger, Joachim Sartorius2004 New Media Advisor for the Enquete-Kommission Kultur in Deutschland of the German Bundestag in Berlin.
» 2004 Reviewer of the Concept for an Institute for Digital Culture of Ars Electronica, Lentos Museum and Kunstuniversität Linz for the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft, Vienna, Austria.
» 2003-06 Member of the Board of directors of the Fraunhofer-Institute for Media Communication (IMK), Sankt Augustin, Germany, appointed by Martin Reiser.
» 2003 to date: Member of the Board of Deutschland.de www.deutschland.de.
» 2002 to date: Editorial Advisory Board for the international Journal Technoetic Arts, appointed by Roy Ascott.
» 2002 to date: Member of Advisory Board of DigiArts, Virtual Library Projects of UNESCO, appointed by Roger Malina.
» 2001 Task Force Swiss Peer-Review - Evaluation Expert for »Swiss Programme
of Media Studies«, Chair Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schmitt, Delegierter für internationale institutionelle Angelegenheiten ETH (ex Vice-President),
Zurich, Switzerland.
» 2000 Member of EU Consortium for the Research Program ExpressioN. Partner: Starlab, Brussels, Belgium.
» 1998-2002 Member of the Expert Group: Entwicklung multimedialer Gestaltungs- kompetenz, Academie Remscheid, Germany.
» 1998-99 EXPO2000 Hannover, Germany - Advisory Board Member for Knowledge: Information, Communication.
» 1997-98 Member of EU Consortium: Intelligent Information Interfaces (I3), Brussels.
» 1997 Strategic Research Foundation, Stockholm – Member of Review Board for
the evaluation of two New Media Institutes - AMIT and MIMS in Stockholm
and Malmö - with Andrew Lippmann - MIT Media Lab, Boston, Gillian
Crampton-Smith - Royal College of Art, London, Jakob Nielsen – Sun,
Denmark.
» 1996-2003 Goethe Institute«, Munich, Germany - Advisory Board Member for Media
& New Media Art with Regina Wyrwoll, Siegfried Zielinsky a.o.
» 1996 Curator of Art Gallery, ACM Multimedia, Boston: Storytelling after Cinema.
» 1996 IN ART Festival, Teneriffa, Spain. Advisory Board Member with Karin
Ohlenschläger, Roy Ascott, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Wolfgang Strauss.
Producer: Telefonica, Spain.
MONIKA FLEISCHMANN & WOLFGANG STRAUSS
The
artistic and scientific work of Monika Fleischmann and Wolfgang Strauss is internationally
recognized, exhibited and awarded. At the interface between art, science,
technology and society they develop methods, models and works to link real and virtual
space in an emerging media-culture.
In 1988 Monika Fleischmann & Wolfgang Strauss started to work on the topic of Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality combining real objects and virtual environments. In 1998 they carried out the requirements of an online competence centre for art, culture and new media. The CAT feasability study on Communication of Art & Technology was supported by the Fedral Ministry of Education & Research (BMBF) and accompanied with generous funding for the media art research archive & platform netzspannung.org.
In 2002 the Fraunhofer IMK - MARS Exploratory Media Lab was
invited by Itau Cultural in Sao Paulo, Brazil as one of the 15
internationally recognized Art & Technology Labs. Applications & tools of MFWS such as Semantic Map, PointScreen, Interactive Poster
were awarded groundbreaking products of the 21
century in 2008.
In 2008/09 their online archive for media arts is exhibited at ZKM Center for Art & Media Technology in Karlsruhe: netzspannung.org – performing the archive. At the same time one of their first media art works Liquid Views of 1992 was presented in Seville, Spain in YOUniverse at BIACS (2008/09). Liquid Views and netzspannung.org were also part of the YOUser II exibition at ZKM in Karlsruhe 2009 and of Ars Electronica History Lounge 2009.
Bio Fleischmann & Strauss on Wikipedia.
Peer review of MFWS' works: Evaluation
WORKS – PUBLICATIONS – EXHIBITIONS – AWARDS – W.STRAUSS – TOWN HOUSE