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Monika Fleischmann
Monika Fleischmann is an internationally renowned German artist and pioneer of interactive media art. Since the mid-1980s, in collaboration with Wolfgang Strauss, she has set up art-science labs in research institutions to realize their dedicated work as an artist duo. She has set up art-science labs in research institutions to realize their dedicated work. In 1987 she co-founded ART + COM in Berlin. She later initiated MARS (Media Arts and Research Studies) and the eCulture Factory at major German research institutions such as GMD, the National Research Centre for Information Technology and the Fraunhofer Institute for Media Communication and Artificial Intelligence. Her concept of the ‘performative interface’ challenges traditional paradigms of human–machine interaction, from ‘what you see is what you get’ to ‘what you get is what you haven’t seen yet’. The central theme of her projects is the motif of ‘thinking space’. It permeates her projects, prompting reflections on personal cognitive processes as a counter-design to the dehumanisation and isolation of digital environments. For Home of the Brain (1989), one of the first artistic virtual reality installations, she was awarded the Golden Nica for Interactive Art by the Prix Ars Electronica in 1992. In 2018, she received the ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art, together with Wolfgang Strauss. Monika was also inducted into the SIGGRAPH Academy.
Contact: ZKM Center for Art and Media, Lorenzstraße 19, D-76135 Karlsruhe, Germany.
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