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 [Link] ACM 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 Award. Bilder. 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)
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.
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
Interfacedesign: In Echtzeit interaktiv agieren. Tatiana Rosenstein. digital production 1/2004, S. 177-179. Published on netzspannung.org.