research.notes.JuergenMoritz Juergen Moritz
studies in media communication at the University of Klagenfurt, studies in painting, graphics audio-visual media and communication-theory at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, studies in media art and media science at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, post-diplome of the int. research program on information, translation and communication at the Academy of Fine Arts Nantes.
Juergen Moritz is working on the development of different interface technologies and tools for the digital culture within the fields of art, interactive media and network-research. Lives and works as media artist and media researcher in Cologne.
Current project/research interests include social studies of technology, topological media, design of hybrid responsive environments, arenas of game/play, micro-performance, wireless sensing, responsive dynamical system media architectures and authoring and experimental phenomenology.
- co-founder of the media art formation monoscope - together with Timo Novotny, Norbert Pfaffenbichler, Wolfgang Hammer
- member of "apparat" - group for research in audiovisual tendencies. projects/products - the videocompilations "austrian abstracts", the CD-Rom ^Ä../=karoushi^Ó and the net art project ^Äv++^Ó, together with the cultural server the thing
- guest curator for the Norwegian Shortfilm Festival
- guest curator for the Austrian Film Festival Diagonale
- curator of the program ^Ästreaming anlogue/digital^Ó for the Digitale 99, Museum Ludwig Cologne
- responsible for the Computer Lab1 at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne
- co-founder of the travellab-associates - an informal association of artists, scientists and cultural networkers.
travellab works on concept, funding, promotion, realization, and evaluation of several international artistic and scientific projects, mainly in media, education and networking. travellab researches on society's questions in a digital age, with an epistemologic interest in artistic basic research, experimenting with the generation and the incompatibilities of cultural systems. Actual project of travellab: ICECA - 'Initiative for Cultural Exchange and Computer Arts' is an official collaborative project between the Chiang Mai University Art Museum and European artists network travellab assolciates aimed at creating an artistic Language and Media Arts laboratory in Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand. The ICECA Project will foster cross-cultural exchange by means of language, new media and collaborative networking.
//.awards_and_scholarships_//
//.1988_//
- scholarship-award "Kulturschilling" of the Galerie Freund and the City of Klagenfurt
//.1997_//
- "Prix de la creation de video" - award of the French Ministry of Culture at the Festival ^ÄVideoformes^Ó Clermont-Ferrand for the work "Instrument"
- Award of the County Tirol /University of Applied Arts Vienna for the work "distant places - still living pt. I"
- scholarship of the University of Applied Arts Vienna
//.1998_// - Award for the best experimentalvideo at the Int. Videofestival Bochum
//.1999_// - scholarship of the Federal Cancellery of Austria - Section Mediaart
//.2001_// - scholarship of the Federal Cancellery of Austria - Section Mediaart
//.2002_// - grant of the City of Nantes
- grant of the "e-matrix foundation" for the book-project "the social matrix of media art"