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Monika Fleischmann
Monika Fleischmann ( Karlsruhe, Germany) is a pioneering german research artist, digital media scientist and a curator of new media art. She is one of the most relevant european women artist working in the field of Art Science and Technology. Prixe Art Electronic 1992 with the work "Home of the Brain” . In 2018, the Association for Computing Machinery, ACM SIGGRAPH distinguished with the Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art to Monika Fleischmann, as a research artist that has contributed to the field of interactive media art since the 1980s to the present day.

Biography
Born in Karlsruhe, grown up in Donaueschingen, lived and worked in Germany, Switzerland, Italy, today in Berlin and Gargnano. Studied art education, theatre studies, philosophy, computer graphics, fashion design in Berlin, Zurich, Vienna, Stanford. Her multidisciplinary background made her an expert in the world of digital media, new media art and media studies. Digital Culture and Knowledge Media were main research topics at Fraunhofer Research Society over decades. Studies of Fashion Design in Zurich, Visual Arts, Art Education, School- and Theatre Play inBerlin. Worked in fashion industry in Germany, France and Italy.

Fleischmann realized her work in partnership with architect Wolfgang Strauss, is ranging from fashion to architecture, with poetic + social designs that intuitively interact with people, environment + landscape since 1987.

1988 - 1992 Co-founder and Vice President of Art+Com e.V., Berlin. Institute for the future of the new media in the realm of art, architecture, design & communication;

1990 - to date Founding Member of La Premiere Rue, European Center for interdisciplinary cultural projects at Corbusier-Unité, Briey-en-Forêt, France;

1992 - 1993 Fellow at Academy of Media Arts Cologne [KHM] Cologne, Germany and Research Fellow, GMD-German National Research Center for IT, St Augustin;

Since 1994 - 1997 Leadership of research groups, Research Artist and Scientist at GMD Institute for Media Communication, Sankt Augustin (D) bit.ly/KDLcEn;

1997 - 2008 Head of Research Department Media Arts & Research Studies, the Fraunhofer IMK - MARS – Exploratory Media Lab bit.ly/188U8bd;

Fleischmann realized her work in partnership with architect Wolfgang Strauss - is ranging from fashion to architecture, with poetic + social designs that intuitively interact with people, environment + landscape. Their work on the concept of interactivitywith interactive installations and knowledge discovery tools is part of ZKM Center for Art & Media collection, Karlsruhe. In 1987 she was a founding member and Deputy Head of ART+COM in Berlin, the first research and development center for computer-aided design. Since 1993 she built up the internationally recognized MARS -

Exploratory Media Lab at GMD-Forschungszentrum Informationstechnik, from 2001 at Fraunhofer Society were she worked until 2014.

In 2008 she was appointed Honorary Professor of Media Theory and Interactive Media Art at University of Applied Sciences, Bremen. International lectures and teaching; seminars and workshops at University Siegen (DE), Donau-University Krems (AT), Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, Basel, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste and others. Further education: MOOC in Design Thinking and Artistic Research at Stanford University, Promotion in Vienna/Zurich. She is Member of the of the MIMA ART Board at MIMA University | Munich Institute of Media and Musical Arts.

2008 - 2013 Research Artist & Scientist on Digital Culture, Knowledge Media - Arts of Knowledge at Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analyze and Information System (IAIS); Since 10/2012 to date: Independent research on the international development of media art.

Their work is collected by ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. fleischmann-strauss.de.

Honors and Awards
» 1992 Golden Nica for Interactive Art for Home of the Brain, Ars Electronica, Linz, A;

» 2000/01 the TIME magazine ranks Monika Fleischmann among the People to Watch;

» 2002 the Fraunhofer IMK - MARS Exploratory Media Lab is internationally recognized as one of the leading 14 Art & Technology Labs;

» 2002 - 2007 Member of the Supervisory Board of the Confederation of cultural events in Berlin GmbH [KBB];

» 2003 - 2006 Member of the Board of Directors of the Fraunhofer Institute for Media Communication (IMK);

» 2007 US-Patent for PointScreen - Theremin inspired touchless technology, that takes in advance new cognitive models and bio-sensory interfaces;

» 2007 The Interactive Poster, the Semantic Map and the PointScreen are among the "ground-breaking ideas that" change our lives. Presented in 100 Products of the Future by Nobel Laureate TW Hänsch, Econ, Berlin;

2009 Lynn Hershman Leeson and Roman Verostko

Links
http://www.fleischmann-strauss.de/monika-fleischmann.html

https://vimeo.com/7560336

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Monika_Fleischmann

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjq13wyjhA8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBf6kHPr0HA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qg1tQYv-PQ