Franz Fischnaller

Birthyear
1954
Website
http://www.fabricat.com/FF_home.htm
About

Franz Fischnaller was the co-founder of F.A.B.R.I.CATORS and is now the art and production Director. He is a Professor at the Università degli Studi di Firenze (University of Florence, Italy), and teaches art and multimedia on the Master of Multimedia of Florence (Italy), supported by the RAI, the national Italian TV organisation. He is also Professor at the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. Franz was the Director of 'Virtuality and Interactivity', the International Exhibit of Multimedia Art and Applied research of Mediartech (Digital Renaissance). Mediartech is a yearly international multimedia show dedicated to cultural heritage, the arts and performing arts promoted by the region of Tuscany/Italy and organised by the Tuscany Hi Tech Network. He is also the designer and Project Co-ordinator of a new Interactive art centre in Cordoba, Spain called CICOV (Centro Interactivo Cordoba Virtual).

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2001 - 2005 Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago / School of Art and Design and the Electronic Visualization Laboratory.
1999 - 2001 Professor of the Università degli Studi di Firenze (University of Florence, Italy) / at the Master of Multimedia, supported by the RAI, the national Italian TV organization of Italy
1999 Honorary Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 99 / For Robots+Avatars dreaming with virtual Illusions
1998 - 1999 Designer and Project Coordinator of the new Interactive Art Center, Cordoba, Spain, CICOV, (Centro Interactivo Cordoba Virtual)
1998 - 1999 Director and Curator of "Virtuality and Interactivity", Florence / International Exhibition of Multi Media Art and Applied Research of Mediartech (Title: Digital Renaissance)
1997 Artist in residence in AEC, Ars Electronica, Linz (Future Museum) Austria / adaptation of the Multi Mega Book for the CAVE-Linz.
1996 - 1997 Artist in residence in EVL, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA / development and design of the interactivity of the Multi Mega Book in the Cave (Virtual Reality Version)
1995 - 1996 Artist in residence in ZKM|Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe, Germany / development of the prototype of the Multi Mega Book (multimedia version).
1995 Honorary Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica / For Lautriv Chromagnon Medusa
1994 Art and Production Director, FABRICATORS, Milan
1980 - 1981 Istituto dArte delle Localita Ladine, (BZ), Italy / Diploma for Applied Arts
1979 - 1981 Study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart, Germany / Free Graphic (equivalent to Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
1974 - 1975 Teacher at the High School of Rio Pusteria, Bressanone (BZ) Italy. / Technique Application Plastic Arts
1971 - 1974 attends Istituto dArte di Ortisei (BZ), Italy / Diploma Maestro dArte, Plastic Arts and Painting
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