Archive Search

  • This project was a conceptual plan made as a contribution to the exhibition Seamless Media. It describes a networked installation that develops the technological and aesthetic strategies first explored in Televirtual Chit Chat (1993) and
  • Christa and Laurent Corona Diary © 2020, Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau developed for the Pushkin Museum, 2020 This movie was produced for the Pushkin Museum project "100 Ways to live a Minute". It shows the artists Christa Sommerer & Laurent
  • Transcendence Index -
    The installation consists of the following 2 parts: – a software program which analyzes texts of two periods (1900-1917 and 2000-2017) in order to calculate the index of their transcendence; – a robotic device which cooks 2 borschts (borscht is a
  • 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
  • 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
  • Patrícia Gouveia is an artist, designer, scholar, and curator with more than twenty years of research experience in arts, design, gaming, and interaction. She has been working in Interactive Arts and Design since the 1990s. Her research focuses on