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MEDIAL ARTS AS KNOWLEDGE ARTS

"Without reflexive mirroring no memory, without memory no flow of ideas.
The world as metaphor visualized by interactive narrative models!

We work on interactive installations, participatory environments and public performances: The YOU_ser not only becomes a consumer, as Peter Weibel puts it, but also a Data Performer. The dispositif of the Data Performer refers to visualisation and reification of immaterial data, and to the performance of the viewer, that becomes the driving force for knowledge discovery. Being inspired by Aby Warburg’s neologisms such as “space of thought” (Denkraum) or “psychological containers of energy” (psychische Energiekonserven), we develop an aesthetic of knowledge space. The Data Performer is part of a space-time environment, that we define as walkable space of thoughts (begehbare Denkräume). The artwork becomes a laboratory that produces narrative voids (Leerstellen) for reflection. The void offers the audience an access to its own thoughts and consequently a feeling of real and virtual presence." MFWS 2010

MONIKA FLEISCHMANN & WOLFGANG STRAUSS

Research Artists Monika Fleischmann & Wolfgang Strauss work in the field of Knowledge Arts [Wissenskünste] at Fraunhofer Research Society. Their artistic based research is based on two major areas: one is, to study bodily perception with sensory interfaces in interactive environments; the other is, to discuss the notion of knowledge and how knowledge can be unfolded with digital media.

In the mid-1980s Fleischmann & Strauss became co-founders of the first German Research Laboratory for Art and Technology, ART+COM in Berlin. In 1997, they established a transdisciplinary research group (MARS) at GMD - the German National Research Center for Information Technology and started longterm collaborative projects such as "Erena - electronic arenas for art, culture, entertainment”. Since then, most of their artistic based research was supported by EU, German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), Burda Akademie, DAAD, Goethe Institute, IFA and others.

Fleischmann & Strauss hold a US patent (2001-07) for a novel interface using electrical signals of the human body for gesture based interaction (inspired by the theremin). Their artistic installations [permanent at ZKM] are intersections of architecture and performance art, that create participatory environments: YOU become a data performer.

Performing Data - Opening | Interview - Catalog | Laznia CCA, Gdansk 2011, supp. by IFA
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Home of the Brain (Video), Monika Fleischmann + Wolfgang Strauss, Golden Nica for Interactive Art, Prix Ars Electronica 1992

ONGOING EXHIBITION

» Semantic Map. In: Resonance: Looking for Mr. McLuhan. Essay and interview with curator Berta Sichel. Oct – Dec2011. Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York. (Credits)

AWARDS (selected)

» 1992 Golden Nica of Prix Ars Electronica, Austria
» 2005 International Media Award for Art & Science of SWR Baden Baden & ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany
» 2005 Medida-Prix of Germany, Austria, Switzerland
» 2007 / 2005 IF Communication Design Award, Germany
» 2007 "100 groundbreaking products of the future" awarded by Theodor W. Hänsch, Nobel Prize winning physicist, for 3 projects.
» 2009 Design Award of Federal Republic of Germany (nominated).
» 2010 / 2007 Landmark Winner of Germany - Land of Ideas.

CONTEXT 

* Raumlabor of ART + COM, Berlin
* MARS - Interactive Experience Lab at GMD, Sankt Augustin/Bonn
* eCulture Factory - Impetus & Transfer Lab for eCulture, Bremen
* Netzspannung.org - media art archive to learn, find, explore, participate with knowledge discovery tools.   
* Member of Medienwerk NRW (pdf) and other international art & academic networks

REFERENCES 

* References, Works, Artistic Based Research, Publications, Innovative Formats
* Worksshops: Interactive Media Art, Inventor and Multi-Sensory Interface
* Conferences: International e.g. CAST01 - Living in Mixed Realities or eCulture Trends
* Tools for the Art of Tomorrow, Art and Entertainment, Public Performance.
* Videos on Youtube: eCulture Factory - Fleischmann + Strauss 
* Papers on Academia.edu: Monika Fleischmann + Wolfgang Strauss 

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