Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau - To Bee

Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau

"To Bee", 2022

Video (environ 3 minutes)

Ed. 1/5 + 2 EA

Artistes et chercheurs reconnus au niveau international, Laurent Mignonneau and Christa Sommerer sont des pionniers de l’art interactif.

Actuellement Mignonneau & Sommerer enseignent et dirigent le departement «Cultures des interfaces» à l’University of Art and Design de Linz, Autriche.

Laurent Mignonneau est un artiste français diplômé de l’Académie des Beaux Arts d’Angoulême en art vidéo. Christa Sommerer d’origine autrichienne a fait ses études en botanique et anthropologie à l’Université de Vienne, puis en sculpture à l’Université des Beaux-Arts de Vienne. Ils se sont rencontrés en 1991 à l’Institute for Media, dirigé par Peter Weibel, pionnier de l’art digital et aujourd’hui président du ZKM de Karlsruhe. Après une résidence artistique au NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Application), Beckman Institute, Urbana, IL USA et au NTT-ICC (Inter Communication Center), Tokyo Japon, ils ont travaillé comme chercheurs au ATR (Advanced Telecommunications Research Laboratories) à Kyoto et au IAMAS (Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences) à Ogaki, Japon. Ils sont diplômés du CAiiA-STAR à l’University of Wales College of Art, UK (avec Roy Ascott) et de l’Université de Kobe au Japon.

Leur collaboration les a amené à la création de 20 oeuvres interactives, grâce auxquelles ils ont reçu de nombreux prix comme : - «Wu Guanzhong Art and Science Innovation Prize» (pour «Escape») par le Ministre de la Culture de la Republique populaire chinoise en 2012 - «Golden Nica Prix Ars Electronica» - «Ovation Award» de l’Interactive Media Festival Los Angeles - «Multi Media Award’95» de la Multimedia Association, Japon - «World Technology Award - Finalist» à The Arts of the World Technology Network, UK - «PRIZE 2008 - uni:invent Award» prix du Ministère de la science et de la recherche en Autriche.

Leurs oeuvres font partie de collections publiques et privées dans le monde : Hermès, Paris; The View Contemporary Art Space, Salenstein, Suisse; Braunschweig “City of Science 2007”, Braunschweig, Allemagne; Itau Cultural Collection, Sao Paulo, Brésil; Medien Museum of the ZKM, Karlsruhe, Allemagne; Cite des Sciences et de l’Industrie, Paris; Bo01 - City of Tomorrow, Malmoe, Suède; City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia, Espagne; Miramon, Museum of Science and Technology, San Sebastian, Espagne; Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Autrcihe; Martin Gropius Bau Berlin, Berlin, Allemagne; Millennium Dome London, London, Royaume Uni; Cartier Foundation, Paris; Shiseido, Tokyo, Japon; Medien Museum of the ZKM, Karlsruhe, Allemagne; InterCommunication Museum - ICC-NTT Japan, Tokyo, Japon; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japon; Musee d’Art Contemporain de Lyon; Shiroishi Multimedia Art Center, Shiroishi, Japon; Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Autriche; NTT Tokei - NHK, Nagoya, Japon.

Leurs installations interactives sont symbole d’une époque («epoch making» - Toshiharu Itoh, NTT-ICC museum Tokyo) pour avoir su développer des interfaces naturelles et intuitives et appliquer des principes scientifiques comme l’intelligence artificielle, la complexité et les systèmes génératifs à leurs interfaces innovatrices. Leur travail a été exposé au cours de plus de 200 expositions internationales.

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Laurent Mignonneau and Christa Sommerer are internationally renowned media artists, researchers and pioneers of interactive art.

Laurent Mignonneau is a French artist who graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Angoulême with a degree in Video Art. Christa Sommerer, an Austrian artist, studied Botany and Anthropology at the University of Vienna, then Sculpture at the University of Fine Arts in Vienna.

They met at the Institute for Media run by media pioneer Peter Weibel in 1991. After an artist-in-residency at the National Center for Supercomputing Application (NCSA), Beckman Institute in Urbana, IL USA, and at the Inter Communication Center (NTT-ICC) in Tokyo, Japan, they worked as researchers at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Laboratories (ATR) in Kyoto and at the Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS) in Ogaki, Japan. They studied at CAiiA-STAR at University of Wales College of Art, UK (with Prof. Roy Ascott) and at Kobe University, Japan.

Currently, Mignonneau & Sommerer are professors and heads of the department for Interface Cultures at the University of Art and Design in Linz, Austria.

Their collaboration has led them to create 20 interactive artworks, thanks to which they have received numerous awards, including: - Wu Guanzhong Art and Science Innovation Prize (for «Escape») awarded by Ministry of Culture of the People’s Republic of China (2012) - the Golden Nica Prize, Ars Electronica - the Ovation Award, Interactive Media Festival, Los Angeles - the Multi Media Award’95 of the Multimedia Association, Japan - Finalist, World Technology Award, The Arts of the World Technology Network, UK - PRIZE 2008 - uni:invent Award, Ministry of Science and Research, Austria

Their artworks have been shown in around 200 international exhibitions and are part of museums and collections around the world : Hermès, Paris, France; The View Contemporary Art Space, Salenstein, Switzerland; Braunschweig “City of Science 2007”, Braunschweig, Germany; Itau Cultural Collection, Sao Paulo, Brasil; Medien Museum of the ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany; Cite des Sciences et de l’Industrie, Paris, France; Bo01 - City of Tomorrow, Malmoe, Sweden; City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia, Spain; Miramon, Museum of Science and Technology, San Sebastian, Spain; Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Austria; Martin Gropius Bau Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Millennium Dome London, London, England; Cartier Foundation, Paris, France; Shiseido, Tokyo, Japan; Medien Museum of the ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany; InterCommunication Museum - ICC-NTT Japan, Tokyo, Japan; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan; Musee d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, France; Shiroishi Multimedia Art Center, Shiroishi, Japan; Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Austria; NTT Tokei - NHK, Nagoya, Japan.

Their interactive art installations have been called a symbol of the times, ("epoch making" by Toshiharu Itoh, NTT-ICC museum Tokyo) for developing natural and intuitive interfaces, and applying scientific principles such as artificial intelligence, complexity and generative systems to the innovative interfaces that they have developed.