Andrea Zapp

Geboren 1964 in Wittlich, Deutschland. Medienkünstlerin und Autorin. 1990 MA in Literatur, Film- und Medientheorie. Ihre digitalen Projekte und Installationen konzentrieren sich auf vernetzte erzählerische Modelle unter Einbeziehung der User/Zuschauer. Zahlreiche Vorträge bei Medien-Konferenzen und Lehrtätigkeit an internationalen Kunst-Institutionen und Universitäten, darunter John Moores University Liverpool, Filmhochschule Babelsberg, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Philipps Universität Marburg, Universität Leipzig und Arteleku (Academy of Arts), San Sebastian. Seit 2002 AHRB Postgraduate Research Fellowship an der Faculty of Art and Design an der Manchester Metropolitan University. Lebt in Manchester.

Born in 1964 in Wittlich, Germany. Media artist and author currently based in Manchester. She completed an MA in literature, film- and media theory in 1990. Her digital projects and installations focus on networked models of drama through user participation. She has been lecturing extensively at media conferences, international art institutions and universities, such as John Moores University Liverpool, Filmhochschule Babelsberg, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Philipps Universität Marburg, Universität Leipzig and Arteleku (Academy of Arts), San Sebastian. In 2002 she has been awarded an AHRB Postgraduate Research Fellowship at the Faculty of Art and Design at Manchester Metropolitan University. Lives in Manchester.

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Ausstellungen / Exhibitions 2002 The Chapman Gallery, Manchester, Solo exhibition; 2001 FILE - Festival Internacional de Linguagens Eletrônicas, MIS (Museum of Image and Sound), São Paulo; Moving Pictures - Photography and Film in Contemporary Art, 5. Internationale Foto-Triennale, Villa Merkel, Esslingen; Sculpture Now! - Art, Performance and Technology, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts; 2000-04 Update 2.0 - Current Media Art from Germany, ZKM Karlsruhe/Goethe-Institut München (K/c), touring exhibition; 2000 ISEA 2000, Forum des Images, Paris; Interférences, Festival International d'Arts Multimédia Urbain, Belfort, France; Prix Ars Electronica, Linz; Festival of Visions Hong Kong - Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Pro and Contra Net Art Show, MediaArtLab, Moscow; 1999 Connected Cities - Processes of Art in the Urban Network, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg/Zeche Ewald Herten; 1998/99 CorpoReal, Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery Carlisle, England; Laboratorio Berlino - Video, Installationi, Nuovi Media, Teatro Juvarra, Torino; 1998 Leipziger Jahresausstellung Correspondence, Museum of Applied Arts/Handelshof, Leipzig; ISEA 98, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool; The Best of the 2 Worlds, International Art Fair Madrid; Filmwinter '98, Stuttgart; 1997 Ostranenie Festival, Bauhaus Dessau; Museum of Visual Arts, Digital Salon, New York; ZKM Multimediale/Salon Digital, Karlsruhe; Ars Electronica Festival Linz; Transmediale Berlin; 1994 Medienbiennale Leipzig;

Preise, Stipendien und Residencies / Awards, Grants and Residencies 2002-05 Fellowship from the Arts and Humanities Research Board, England, for Human Avatars - research and installation project on dramatic interaction and role-playing in networked digital environments; 2002 Project Grant from The North West Arts Board, England, for The Imaginary Hotel; 2001/02 Residency at the School of Art and Design/Dept. of Visual Arts, University of Salford, Greater Manchester; Visiting Artist at the Goethe-Institutes in Latinamerica, Russia, Ukraine, Egypt; Project Grant from The Leverhulme Trust London, for The Imaginary Hotel; 2001 Nomination for the International Media Art Award, Karlsruhe, for Little Sister; 2000 Honorary Mention, Prix Ars Electronica, Category Interactive Arts, Linz, for A Body of Water; Nomination for the International Media Art Award, Karlsruhe, for A Body of Water; Distinction, Art on the Net 2000 Competition, Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo, Japan, for Little Sister; 1997 Residency at the Futurelab, Ars Electronica Center, Linz;

Bibliografie / Bibliography Kataloge / Catalogues Renate Wiehager (ed.), Moving Pictures - Photography and Film in Contemporary Art, 5. Intern. Foto –Triennale (K/c), 2001; Ch. Schöpf/H.Leopoldseder (eds.), Cyberarts - Prix Ars Electronica 2000 (K/c), Linz 2000; Söke Dinkla/Christoph Brockhaus (eds.), Connected Cities - Processes of Art in the Urban Network (K/c), Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg 1999; FACT (ed.), ISEA 98 (K/c), Liverpool 1998; Heartbeat (K/c), Tokyo 1997; Ars Electronica (ed.), Fleshfactor: Informationsmaschine Mensch (K/c), Linz 1997; Leonardo Vol. 30, No. 5: Fifth Annual New York Digital Salon (K/c), MIT Press, Cambridge, USA, 1997; Ostranenie Festival (K/c), Dessau 1997; Andrea Zapp, The Metaphor of Touch, in: ISEA '95, Proceedings, Montreal 1996; Dieter Daniels (ed.), Minima Media (K/c), Medienbiennale, Leipzig 1995;

Publikationen / Publications Martin Rieser/Andrea Zapp (eds.), New Screen Media: Cinema/Art/Narrative (book and DVD), British Film Institute (BFI), London and Center for Art and Media (ZKM) Karlsruhe, 2002; Andrea Zapp, George Legrady's Slippery Traces - Elusive Tracks and Mise en Scène, in: The Complete Artintact, DVD, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie ZKM, Karlsruhe 2002; Andrea Zapp, in: A Sense of Weightlessness, Steve Symons, Anneke Pettican (eds.), Urban Cycles (work.title), Manchester 2002 (forthcoming); Andrea Zapp, Private Views - the role of the viewer in networked digital models of narration, in: Jorge LaFerla (ed.), De la Pantalla al Arte Transgénico, Buenos Aires 2000; Andrea Zapp, Last Entry: No User – No Project, in: Leipziger Jahresausstellung (ed.), Correspondence, Leipzig 1999; Andrea Zapp, The Search for the Cyber Heroes, in: Shortfilm Festival Oberhausen (ed.), Festival Catalogue, Oberhausen 1997;

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*Abkürzungen / abbreviations: K/c: Katalog / catalogue ed.: editor eds.: editors