People/Portrait on the Fly artist talk & opening reception
22 November 2024 16:00 till 18:00 - Location: TU Delft Library, Main Hall | Add to my calendar
Internationally renowned digital artists and professors from the University of Art and Design in Linz, Laurent Mignonneau & Christa Sommerer, will give an artist talk about the two installations at the TU Delft Library.
Join us in unveiling the two interactive and live generated video works in main hall library. The combination will make you think twice about the self and flocking behaviors in a constantly moving society.
Talk followed by a reception and the chance for audience members to interact with the artists & their works.
©2015 & ©2016 Laurent Mignonneau & Christa Sommerer. Photo: Michael Maritsch, at OK Center Linz, 2022
About the speakers
Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau are internationally renowned media artists, researchers and pioneers of interactive art. They worked 10 years in Japan as Associate Professors at the IAMAS Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences in Gifu, Japan and as Researchers and Artistic Directors at the ATR Advanced Telecommunications Research Lab in Kyoto Japan. Previously they were artists-in-residence at the MIT CAVS in Cambridge, USA, artists-in-residence at the NCSA National Center for Supercomputing Applications Beckmann Institute in Champaign Urbana, IL, USA, and artists-in-residence at the NTT-InterCommunication Center in Tokyo. In 2004 they founded the Department of Interface Cultures at the University of Art and Design in Linz, Austria, where they are both professors.