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curriculum vitae +
portfolio overview
Nina Wenhart
Landstraße 77
A-4020 Linz, Austria
education
2023 finished her PhD on "Speculative Archiving and Digital Art" at the University of Art and Design Linz
2012 – 2016 Cultural Studies, J.Kepler University, Linz/Austria
2006 – 2010 Media Art Histories (MA), Danube University Krems, Austria ▲
2001 - 2007 Philosophy in combination with previously mentioned programs and architecture, University of Vienna
1997 - 1999 Law, University of Linz
1995 - 1997 Media Design for Film and Video, Art University Linz
professional CV
since 2023 associate professor @ University of Art and Design Linz / department of Fashion & Technology ▲since 2015 University of Art and Design Linz / department of Fashion & Technology
2013 text / concept @ heidlmair communication ▲
2011 documentation, archiving & project management, Stadtwerkstatt Linz ▲
Dec. 2010 guest lecturer, Media Art Histories program @ Danube University Krems, Austria ▲
2010 technical writer and marketing, Fabasoft, Linz, Austria
May 2010 guest lecturer, Media Art Histories program @ Danube University Krems, Austria
Fall 2009 instructor at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC),
syllabus development and lecturing the "Prehystories of New Media" class ▲
Fall 2008 instructor at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC),
syllabus development and lecturing the "Prehystories of New Media" class ▲
April 2006 – August 2008
assistant researcher, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Media.Art.Research – concept for and digitization of the
Ars Electronica archives ▲
Sept. 2005 – Dec. 2008
creative director (text and concept), Reichl und Partner / Die Jungen Wilden advertising agency ▲ ▲
since 2002 freelance works in DVD production (exhibitions, image videos) and writing
2005 copywriter (text and concept), NETural Communication ▲
1999-2005 head of the Ars Electronica Futurelab's videostudio, building up the video archives ▲
1998-2001 camera Assistant at Upper Austrian Broadcasting Cooperation ORF ▲
conferences && presentations
since 2020 concept and organization of "uncomfortable clothes" conference series ▲2019 "Crossing Art and Science", Linz, June 2019
2013 "Glitch Art or the political dimensions of error", servus.at/devLolLinz, December 2013 ▲
"speculative archiving. on piratical ethics and shelf corpses", media art histories conference renew, Riga, October 2013 ▲
"speculative archiving", PNEK Oslo, February 2013 ▲▲
2012 "Speculative Archiving && Experimental Preservation of New Media Art" @ transmediale, Berlin, January 2012 ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲
"speculative archiving. on piratical ethics and shelf corpses", media art histories conference renew, Riga, October 2013 ▲
"speculative archiving", PNEK Oslo, February 2013 ▲▲
2012 "Speculative Archiving && Experimental Preservation of New Media Art" @ transmediale, Berlin, January 2012 ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲
2011 "Speculative Archiving && Experimental Preservation of New Media Art", Electronic Media & Visual Arts, Berlin, November 2011 ▲
"(he)art breaking to the core - zombie data and the arts of re/de/transcoding", re:wire, Liverpool, Sept. 2011 ▲
patterns & pleasures symposium, STEIM festival, September 26th 2011 ▲
"w0rdm4g1x" at ISEA 2011, Istanbul, Sept. 21st 2011 ▲
"(he)art breaking to the core - zombie data and the arts of re/de/transcoding" at ISEA 2011, Istanbul, Sept. 16th 2011 ▲
"<1ru5" at FILE SYMPOSIUM 2011, Brazil, July 2011 ▲
2010 “ARS ELECTRONICA – re:shaping a city's cultural identity” at the Artboom Festival, Krakow, Poland, June 2010 ▲
“ARS ELECTRONICA – re:shaping a city's cultural identity” at servus.at, Linz, May 2010
2009 “ARS ELECTRONICA – re:shaping a city's cultural identity” at the re:live media art histories conference, November 2009,
Melbourne, Australia ▲
“The Grammar of New Media” at MediaModes, School for Visual Arts, New York, November 2009 ▲
“The Grammar of New Media” at the upgrade!Chicago, September 2009 ▲ ▲
“IX – an automagical device” at the Hacker Space Festival, Paris, France, June 2009 ▲
2008 “The Grammar of New Media” - first presentation at the “Media in Motion” symposium, organized by DOCAM,
Montreal, Canada, October 29th 2008 ▲
2013 guest lecturer in Bruce Jenkin's class on curating Media Art, SAIC (November)
2012 guest lecturer & excursion organizer, media art histories, Danube Uni Krems (May)
2011 guest lecturer in Bruce Jenkins' class on archiving Media Art, SAIC
2010 guest lecturer at the Media Art Histories program (Danube University Krems) in May and December
2008 + 2009
instructor at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), creating a syllabus and
lecturing the “Prehystories of New Media” class ▲
2005 + 2006
AfterEffects Workshop, University of Applied Sciences, Hagenberg
2003 video workshop in Grein, Lower Austria (for theatre people)
2002 "gaming and architecture“ – Workshop for the design class at the Technical University Vienna (with Dietmar Offenhuber),
head of program: Armin Daneshgar
"(he)art breaking to the core - zombie data and the arts of re/de/transcoding", re:wire, Liverpool, Sept. 2011 ▲
patterns & pleasures symposium, STEIM festival, September 26th 2011 ▲
"w0rdm4g1x" at ISEA 2011, Istanbul, Sept. 21st 2011 ▲
"(he)art breaking to the core - zombie data and the arts of re/de/transcoding" at ISEA 2011, Istanbul, Sept. 16th 2011 ▲
"<1ru5" at FILE SYMPOSIUM 2011, Brazil, July 2011 ▲
2010 “ARS ELECTRONICA – re:shaping a city's cultural identity” at the Artboom Festival, Krakow, Poland, June 2010 ▲
“ARS ELECTRONICA – re:shaping a city's cultural identity” at servus.at, Linz, May 2010
2009 “ARS ELECTRONICA – re:shaping a city's cultural identity” at the re:live media art histories conference, November 2009,
Melbourne, Australia ▲
“The Grammar of New Media” at MediaModes, School for Visual Arts, New York, November 2009 ▲
“The Grammar of New Media” at the upgrade!Chicago, September 2009 ▲ ▲
“IX – an automagical device” at the Hacker Space Festival, Paris, France, June 2009 ▲
2008 “The Grammar of New Media” - first presentation at the “Media in Motion” symposium, organized by DOCAM,
Montreal, Canada, October 29th 2008 ▲
teaching
since 2017 teaching BA- and MA-students at Fashion & Technology, University of Art and Design Linz2013 guest lecturer in Bruce Jenkin's class on curating Media Art, SAIC (November)
2012 guest lecturer & excursion organizer, media art histories, Danube Uni Krems (May)
2011 guest lecturer in Bruce Jenkins' class on archiving Media Art, SAIC
2010 guest lecturer at the Media Art Histories program (Danube University Krems) in May and December
2008 + 2009
instructor at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), creating a syllabus and
lecturing the “Prehystories of New Media” class ▲
2005 + 2006
AfterEffects Workshop, University of Applied Sciences, Hagenberg
2003 video workshop in Grein, Lower Austria (for theatre people)
2002 "gaming and architecture“ – Workshop for the design class at the Technical University Vienna (with Dietmar Offenhuber),
head of program: Armin Daneshgar
writing && research
2022 uncomfortable clothes - 1st edition of online magazine ▲
2013 "On speculative archiving and imaginative rationalisation". In: Dekker, Annet. (2013). Speculative Scenarios, or what will happen to born-digital art in the (near) future?. Eindhoven: Baltan Laboratories. 79-86. ▲
2012 "BLOCK" - info game for the exhibition "Hitlerbauten in Linz" @ Museum Nordico ▲
2011 "repetition is a form of fucking change. the work of art(&facts) in the age of viral remixing" ▲
"100 female artists and digital media" - continuing project ▲
"<1ru5 – history of a digital punk" - research about the histories of computer viruses in art
"(he)art breaking to the core - zombie data and the arts of re/de/transcoding" - rewire and ISEA proceedings
Editor for the Database of Virtual Art ▲
2010 “w0rdM4g1x” in paraflows Mind & Matter publication (ISBN 978-3-8376-1800-6) ▲
“Ars Electronica – re:shaping a city's cultural identity” - in: ArtBoom Festival proceedings ▲
“krampus campus” - blog and teaching resources for the Media Art Histories lecture at the Danube University Krems ▲
“The Grammar of New Media”, excerpt – in: DOCAM conference proceedings
2009 “The Grammar of New Media” - Master Thesis at the Danube University Krems
“re:live” - conference proceedings (ISBN 978-0-9807186-3-8), September 2009 ▲
"Curating Media Art" – blog and collection of resources about the various aspects of curating new media, ongoing project ▲
“cutup”, a blog about networked collaboration in artistic practice,ongoing project ▲
2008 "Prehysteries of New Media" – blog and collection of resources about the developments and histories of new media, ongoing project ▲
“Exploding Arts” – interview with artist Georg Ritter ▲
2007 “re:place re:viewed” - individual and collaborative reviews of the re:place media art histories conference in Berlin ▲
"mediaarthistories" – founder of collaborative blog about the methods and histories of New Media Art ▲
2011 chicks on SPEED SHOW, September 3rd, Linz, .AT (online from September 5th 2011) ▲
BYOB Linz I + II, September 1st + 2nd, Linz, .AT ▲
Database of Virtual Arts - founder of facebook group ▲
2010 Danube University excursion to Linz - planning + organization
2008 Danube University excursion to Linz - planning + organization
Media Art Histories group on facebook - founder
2004 3rd oekonux conference, Vienna - press work ▲
artwork (selection)
DVD- and videoproductions (selection)
2007 "Ars Electronica History" – DVD compilation of seminal Ars Electronica projects
2006 "Heinz weiß": experimental video (with Dietmar Offenhuber), shown at international video festivals
2005 "Live Visuals for Sonar Festival", Barcelona (with Dietmar Offenhuber)▲ ▲
2004 "Images 4 Music": multiangle DVD production with videos for music of Steve Reich and Philip Glass ▲ ▲
2003 "Upper Austrian Regional Exhibition" in the monastery of Reichersberg. Video panorama (with Dietmar Offenhuber)
2002 "Dialtones": video and DVD production for US artist Golan Levin ▲ ▲
2002 "Carinthian Regional Exhibition" in Friesach, video installations
2001 "Active Score Music", DVD production for multiangle DVD with concerts of Masaki Fujihata and Golan Levin ▲ ▲
2001 – 2004
video documentations of the Ars Electronica festival
2000 – 2006
"Cyberarts DVD productions" ▲
2012 "BLOCK" - info game for the exhibition "Hitlerbauten in Linz" @ Museum Nordico ▲
2011 "repetition is a form of fucking change. the work of art(&facts) in the age of viral remixing" ▲
"100 female artists and digital media" - continuing project ▲
"<1ru5 – history of a digital punk" - research about the histories of computer viruses in art
"(he)art breaking to the core - zombie data and the arts of re/de/transcoding" - rewire and ISEA proceedings
Editor for the Database of Virtual Art ▲
2010 “w0rdM4g1x” in paraflows Mind & Matter publication (ISBN 978-3-8376-1800-6) ▲
“Ars Electronica – re:shaping a city's cultural identity” - in: ArtBoom Festival proceedings ▲
“krampus campus” - blog and teaching resources for the Media Art Histories lecture at the Danube University Krems ▲
“The Grammar of New Media”, excerpt – in: DOCAM conference proceedings
2009 “The Grammar of New Media” - Master Thesis at the Danube University Krems
“re:live” - conference proceedings (ISBN 978-0-9807186-3-8), September 2009 ▲
"Curating Media Art" – blog and collection of resources about the various aspects of curating new media, ongoing project ▲
“cutup”, a blog about networked collaboration in artistic practice,ongoing project ▲
2008 "Prehysteries of New Media" – blog and collection of resources about the developments and histories of new media, ongoing project ▲
“Exploding Arts” – interview with artist Georg Ritter ▲
2007 “re:place re:viewed” - individual and collaborative reviews of the re:place media art histories conference in Berlin ▲
"mediaarthistories" – founder of collaborative blog about the methods and histories of New Media Art ▲
organization
since 2012 spacebar galleries2011 chicks on SPEED SHOW, September 3rd, Linz, .AT (online from September 5th 2011) ▲
BYOB Linz I + II, September 1st + 2nd, Linz, .AT ▲
Database of Virtual Arts - founder of facebook group ▲
2010 Danube University excursion to Linz - planning + organization
2008 Danube University excursion to Linz - planning + organization
Media Art Histories group on facebook - founder
2004 3rd oekonux conference, Vienna - press work ▲
artwork (selection)
2023 "Unterschätzte Intelligenz" - group exhibition on AI and the intelligence of animals ▲
2019 "In the Lab", 40 year anniversary of Vogue Germany, Villa Stuck Munich - exhibition production ▲
2018 "de/materialize @ Ars Electronica Garden of Eden" - re-enactment of robot-fashion-performance at Ars Electronica Deep Space - exhibition production
2018 "de/materialize @ Love Me Sensor" - six shows at TU Vienna - exhibition production
2017 "Next Generation Please" - fashion exhibition at Texitle Center Haslach - exhibition production
2017 "de/materialize" - robot-fashion-performance at Ars Electronica Deep Space - concept and exhibition production ▲ ▲ ▲
2016 "Another Dimension of Fashion" - show at Ars Electronica Deep Space - exhibition production
2016 "Maybe Palermo" - website and texts for video ▲
2012 "block" - info game for the exhibition "hitlerbauten in linz" @ NORDICO museum, Linz, September 2012 ▲ ▲
2011 "breaking bad[ly]" - glitch art series ▲
"the sound of codecs" - databending obsolete video codecs ▲
"<1ru5" - installation/performance/reenactment with and of historical computer art viruses ▲
"electrocute" – EP with no input mixer recordings and engravings
2010 "open scorez" - a multiplayer online game en dérive dans l'internet ▲
2011 "breaking bad[ly]" - glitch art series ▲
"the sound of codecs" - databending obsolete video codecs ▲
"<1ru5" - installation/performance/reenactment with and of historical computer art viruses ▲
"electrocute" – EP with no input mixer recordings and engravings
2010 "open scorez" - a multiplayer online game en dérive dans l'internet ▲
"gl1th35" - my glitch art works gallery on flickr ▲
"media art ghosts" - databending seminal media art histories texts ▲
"field recordings" - minimal foundsound works
2009 "IX v04" - fourth version of the installation, exhibition at TURN*ON (Montreal) and presentation ▲
"media art ghosts" - databending seminal media art histories texts ▲
"field recordings" - minimal foundsound works
2009 "IX v04" - fourth version of the installation, exhibition at TURN*ON (Montreal) and presentation ▲
"IX v03" - third version of the installation, exhibition at Hacker Space Festival (Paris) and presentation
“very slow movie”: a timeline-video on a very slow moving real-time speed
“southbridge slow electronics”: weekly radio show on glitch.fm, participating as the guest of jonCates and Jake Elliott ▲
„Soundcloud“: participating as guest performer
„Siebenundzwanzig – eine Geistergeschichte“: participating as guest performer
2008 “zielinski - a font“ – visual/sound font of Siegfried Zielinski's keynote speech at re:place, Berlin ▲
“Leben im Strafraum” - idea and concept for a football-installation, exhibited from June to September 2008 at the Lentos museum
“Leben im Strafraum” - idea and concept for a football-installation, exhibited from June to September 2008 at the Lentos museum
of contemporary art in Linz ▲
“hacked raven input – making archives sound”, experimental music concert with jonCates and Jake Elliott @ quitch,
Linz and Chicago ▲
Linz and Chicago ▲
“IX v02”: second version of the installation, exhibition at deadtech (Chicago) and lecture at dorkbot Chicago ▲
2007 “IX v01”: an interactive, magical device to bewitch computers (a h3x3n collaborative project), for interactivos @ Media Lab Madrid ▲
“datenpunkarchive” – a digital manifesto and open archive project for media art, together with jonCates (no content online yet) ▲
2006 "ARCO Madrid": Video-Production for the Ars Electronica exhibition @ ARCO and Media Lab Madrid ▲
2005 "Climax Taiwan": curating, concept and production for screening-programs and video production ▲
2004 "Digital Avant-Garde" - video production for Ars Electronica's exhibiton in New York (Eyebeam, Center of the Moving Image, UNO) ▲
"timeline – exhibiton of 25 years of Ars Electronica": research and concept development (with Michael Naimark, Gloria Sutton and
Ars Electronica) ▲
Ars Electronica) ▲
2002 "living room" – interactive installation for the Federal School in Kirchdorf, Upper Austria; idea and concept development ▲
2001 "gullivers box" – exhibition environment for the Ars Electronica Center, still running in 2007, idea and concept development ▲
2000 "timeexplorer" – exhibition of the Ars Electronica Center for the Upper Austrian Regional Exhibition in 2000, research, coordination,
development of content and concept ▲
DVD- and videoproductions (selection)
2007 "Ars Electronica History" – DVD compilation of seminal Ars Electronica projects
2006 "Heinz weiß": experimental video (with Dietmar Offenhuber), shown at international video festivals
2005 "Live Visuals for Sonar Festival", Barcelona (with Dietmar Offenhuber)▲ ▲
2004 "Images 4 Music": multiangle DVD production with videos for music of Steve Reich and Philip Glass ▲ ▲
2003 "Upper Austrian Regional Exhibition" in the monastery of Reichersberg. Video panorama (with Dietmar Offenhuber)
2002 "Dialtones": video and DVD production for US artist Golan Levin ▲ ▲
2002 "Carinthian Regional Exhibition" in Friesach, video installations
2001 "Active Score Music", DVD production for multiangle DVD with concerts of Masaki Fujihata and Golan Levin ▲ ▲
2001 – 2004
video documentations of the Ars Electronica festival
2000 – 2006
"Cyberarts DVD productions" ▲
