Archive Search

  • 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
  • Media Forum 2001 -
    Media Forum is now in its second year which is certainly no anniversary. However, this brings its organizers both a great happiness and some significant difficulties. We are happy because the pilot issue of the Media Forum 2000 programme claims now
  • The two internationally renowned media artists and researchers based in Linz/Austria have been active as an artistic couple since the ‘90s and have especially pioneered in the field of interactive media art and exlporations of artificial life.
  • Living Tattoos -
    Throughout human history, people have added to their bodies iconic shapes in a way to look for identity transcendence: from flowers, dragons, snakes and butterflies, to angels and other religious figures. The Living Tattoos project is centered in a
  • SOMMERER &MIGNONNEAUThe Archive of Digital Art, 03/2023Text & Interview by Carla Zamora“A dark room. It contains plants, and there’s a large-format projection in thebackground. A group of astonished individuals are touching the plants –
  • In the first year of the coronavirus pandemic it was thought that transmission was primarily through physical contact. We were hyperaware of the surfaces we touched and of the traces that may or may not be on those surfaces. Indeed, for those alone
  • "Comestible 7-Day Meal Plan: Food as Text" combines alternative publishing with book arts and new media. It is an ecological manifesto in the form of an 84-page artist's Cookbook that infuses a critical viewpoint on the use of food as a tool for the
  • Suit on the Phone Digital print. Size: various Date created: Spring 1994 Victor: Here again is another early Soft-image 3D piece that I created when I was working in Hollywood as an IRIS print operator. This was at Klein Design in that tall thin
  • E-Sparks -
    The goal of this project is an audio-visual interactive installation to explore the creative content and suggestions that the artificial life (alife) environments have in their potentialities. The suggestion the Plancton Art Studio wants to
  • Exhibition of 20 Micro Arts Group prints, including generative art from Geoff Davis and Martin Rootes, and a story generator by Geoff Davis. The print magazine was also shown, which had the first ever view of Quantel art, by French artist Michèle