{"id":266,"date":"2019-10-01T16:15:48","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T16:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archee.uqam.ca\/?p=266"},"modified":"2022-10-15T17:24:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T17:24:20","slug":"octobre-2019-interactive-living-and-aesthetic-of-participation-conversation-with-christa-sommerer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archee.uqam.ca\/octobre-2019-interactive-living-and-aesthetic-of-participation-conversation-with-christa-sommerer\/","title":{"rendered":"Octobre 2019 – Interactive Living and Aesthetic of Participation Conversation with Christa Sommerer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This conversation with Christa Sommerer focuses on some aspects of the gigantic artwork that Sommerer & Mignonneau have been building together since 1992. After a brief synthesis of their career, the conversation will address the relationship between the living and the artificial; interactivity, dynamic systems and interaction; transmission through art, teaching and coaching of young artists. Through the responses will emerge dynamics of affect and emotion, these essential fuels of art making, before considering future trends.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Artist statement<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau are internationally renowned media artists working in the field of interactive computer installation. They are professors at the University of Art and Design in Linz Austria where they head the Department for Interface Culture at the Institute for Media. Since more than 25 years they develop interactive art works that have been shown all over the world and won numerous awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Artistic path<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Interactive art pioneers, Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau persue a career as artists-professors-researchers. Their artworks, which have earned countless awards including two Ars Electronica, has been circulating around the world, since \u00ab Interactive Plant Growing \u00bb, to the most recent ones, \u00ab Egometer \u00bb and \u00ab Neuro Mirror \u00bb. At the heart of their approach is interactivity in all its forms that promotes the dynamic encounter of the participants not only with species, remotely located visitors but also with invisible energies. Playful and simple at first, each work reveals its own complexity and innovation. By crossing old and new devices, each work questions both our relationship to time, to the living and to the artifice in a changing world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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