Laurent Mignonneau

Most Recent Affiliation / Department / Job Title:

• Academy of Media Arts and Sciences, IAMAS, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International, and University of Art and Design Linz

Bio:

• ISEA2015

  Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau are internationally renowned media artists and researchers. They studied with media art pioneers Peter Weibel and Roy Ascott. They worked 10 years in Japan at ATR Research Laboratories in Kyoto and as Associate Professors at the IAMAS in Gifu. Currently Sommerer and Mignonneau are professor and heads of the Interface Cultures Department at the University of Art and Design in Linz, Austria. Sommerer is also a Obel Guest Professor at Aalborg University in Denmark. Mignonneau and Sommerer have created 30 pioneering interactive artworks which they have exhibited in around 250 exhibitions worldwide.

  Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau are media artists and researchers. They studied with media art pioneers Peter Weibel and Roy Ascott. After an artist-in-residency at NSCA in Champaing/Urbana, USA, they worked 10 years in Japan as researchers at ATR Research Laboratories in Kyoto and as associate professors at the IAMAS Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences in Gifu. Currently Sommerer and Mignonneau are professor and heads of the department for Interface Cultures at the University of Art and Design in Linz, Austria. Sommerer is also a Obel Guest Professor at Aalborg University’s Art &Technology Department in Denmark. Mignonneau and Sommerer have created around 20 artworks, for which they received numerous awards such the Wu Guanzhong Art and  Science Innovation Prize by the Ministry of Culture of the People’s Republic of China and the Golden Nica Prix Ars Electronica Award. They have exhibited in around 250 exhibitions worldwide and their artworks are in collections such as the ZKM Media Museum Karlsruhe, the NTT-ICC Museum Tokyo, the Itau Cultural Foundation Sao Paulo, The View Contemporary Art Space Switzerland, the Contemporary Art Museum Lyon, FR, and Hermès Paris, FR.

  ISEA2014

  Laurent Mignonneau, University of Art and Design Linz, AT

  ISEA1997

  Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau are artists and researchers working in the field of interactive computer instal­lations that combine artificial life,art, science, real-time inter­action and communication. They have received numerous awards, such as the Golden Nica Award for Interactive Art at the Ars Electronica 94 Festival, the Ovation Award at the Interactive Media Festival in Los Angeles in 1995 and many others. Their works are installed permanently in several muse­ums such as: ZKM Media museum Karlsruhe, ICC InterCommunication Museum Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. They both are researchers and artis­tic directors at the ATR Advanced Telecommunications Research Lab in Kyoto Japan and also hold a Professor position at the IAMAS Academy of Media Arts and Sciences in Gifu Japan. In 1995 they organized and chaired an international conference called ART-Science-ATR, at ATR Kyoto, and in 1997 they published and edited a book called Art C@ Science in Springer Edition Vienna/New York dealing with the recent developments in the collaboration of art and science.

  ISEA1996

  • Laurent Mignonneau‘s, France, (Laurent Mignonneau) studies include Experimental Music, Applied Arts and Design and Computer Graphics. Since 1992 Sommerer and Mignonneau collaborate in the research for new interfaces and real-time interactive computer installations and the field of “Artificial Life”

Current Location:

• Austria, France, French Republic

Additional Links:

• interface.ufg.ac.at/christa-laurent/WORKS/FRAMES/FrameSet.html