21.10.2015 —Christa Sommerer

www.interface.ufg.ac.at/christa-laurent/

Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau are internationally renowned media artists, researchers and pioneers of interactive art. Currently they are professors 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, Denmark and Laurent Mignonneau a Guest Professor (Chaire International) at Université Paris 8 in Paris, France. They have created around 35 interactive artworks, for which they received numerous awards such the *2012* *Wu Guanzhong Art and Science Innovation Prize (for “Escape”) *awarded by Ministry of Culture of the People’s Republic of China, the Golden Nica Prix Ars Electronica, the Ovation Award of the Interactive Media Festival Los Angeles, the Multi Media Award’95 of the Multimedia Association, Japan, the World Technology Award — Finalist in The Arts of the World Technology Network, UK and the PRIZE 2008 — uni:invent Award by Ministry of Science and Research in Austria. Sommerer & Mignonneau have been exhibiting in around 250 international exhibitions, these works are part of museums and collections around the world.