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Michael Gleich
> Jeffrey Shaw
> Bernd Lintermann
> Lawrence Wallen
> Torsten Belschner
> Manfred Wolff-Plottegg
> Andreas Kratky
> Fabian Nicolay
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Michael Gleich (1960-) is a science writer and journalist who specializes in vivid and stimulating accounts of complex topics. His numerous publications include »Mobility – Mankind on the Move« and »Life Counts – Cataloguing Life on Earth« (co-author; in collaboration with Aventis). Among the many awards received by Gleich are the »Business Feature of the Year« (1994), the »Mobility« journalism prize awarded by the Alcatel SEL Foundation (1998), the »Science Book of the Year« (2000), and, on two separate occasions, the Federal President’s »Foreign Aid Media Award«. |
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Jeffrey Shaw (1944-) is a media art pioneer who since
the 60’s has been creating seminal interactive installations that
have been extensively exhibited and published. One of his most famous
works is »The Legible City« that allows visitors to travel
by bicycle through a virtual city consisting of words instead of buildings.
Shaw is currently Director of the Institute for Visual Media at the Center
for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany, professor at the Hochschule für
Gestaltung Karlsruhe, and Director of the iCinema Research Center at the
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. |
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Bernd Lintermann (1967-) is an artist and computer scientist who has been working at the ZKM Institute for Visual Media since 1997. He gained international recognition for »Xfrog«, a unique software program that uses genetic algorithms to generate complex natural and emergent structures. Recent major artistic works include »SonoMorphis« (with Torsten Belschner), conFiguring the CAVE (with Agnes Hegedüs, Jeffrey Shaw, and Leslie Stuck) and »Room with a View« (with Michael Bielicky). |
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Lawrence Wallen (1961-) is an architect and media artist who works with time-based media and New Music in physical space. He has an international reputation for the integration of electronic media into both stage and installation contexts. Recent opera collaborations with Thea Brejzek include: »Ariadne auf Naxos« (R. Strauss) at the Sydney Opera House and »Heptameron« (G. Winkler) at the Munich Biennale. Recent installations have been realized at the Vitra Design Museum, the Venice Architecture Biennale, the film+arc.graz, the Frankfurter Kunstverein, the Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, and the Zagreb Museum of Contemporary Art. |
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Torsten Belschner (1966-) is a sound designer and composer working at the interface between music and software, developing interactive sound installations with complex data streams in multi-channel environments. He is internationally known for his audio concept for the Bertelsmann Pavilion »Planet.m« at the Expo 2000 Hanover, for his audio environment for the interactive installation »The Room With a View« at the Skoda Pavillion of the VW Autostadt Wolfsburg, and for »SonoMorphis« (with Bernd Lintermann), which has been exhibited at media art festivals throughout Europe. |
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Manfred Wolff-Plottegg (1946-) is a pioneer of computational
architecture. He designed »The Binary House« and developed
the concept of »architecture algorithms«. He has taught on
plan-ning methods, computer concepts, electronic data processing for architects,
experimental architecture, generative architecture and CAD, and is professor
for building theory and design at the University of Technology in Vienna.
Among his distinguished awards are the Architecture Prize of the State
of Steiermark, the Aluminum Architecture Prize, the Betonbaupreis and
the Bauherrenpreis. His conceptual works connect theory, prototype production,
and art. |
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Andreas Kratky (1970-) With a series of artistic and commercial projects, Kratky is a media designer who has specialized in the planning and design of interfaces, including the user interface of the software program »Xfrog«. Recently, he co-designed the DVD disc »That’s Kyogen«, which received id magazines’ »Silver Award of the Interactive Media Design Review«. |
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Fabian Nicolay (1966-) deals with the visualization of ecological subjects, with an emphasis on corporate design, print and online media design, and corporate communication. At his Berlin usus.kommunikation design office, he produces books and magazines for customers such as, for example, Aventis, Wella, and the Komische Oper Berlin. He has received an award for a new font from the Type Directors Club in New York. He has also received several awards, among others from the Art Directors Club in New York, for the book that he co-authored and designed, »Life Counts«, published by Berlin Verlag. Nicolay developed the corporate design for the Web of Life project. |
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