University of Reading

Department Member, Arts & Humanities

Dept. of Fine Art

Thesis Title: Arctificial Territory

About

Lives and works in the UK. Studied at the University of Art and Design, Linz, the University of Applied Art in Vienna and Central St. Martin’s College of Art and Design in London. Currently finalising her PhD in Fine Art at the University of Reading, UK.
Has lectured at the University of Art and Design, Linz, the University of Applied Art in Vienna and Wimbledon School of Art/ University of the Arts in London; as well as at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art/University of Oxford. Visiting artist at the University of Reading, the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, Camberwell College of Art and Design in London, Salzburg Summer Academy for Art and  currently  at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

Areas Worked in: Hybrid arts, environments, video installation and sculpture, video tapes (art, commercials, commissioned work), su8 and 16 mm film, stage design with video, photography, digital imaging, multimedia, audio art, theory, short stories, poetry.

Her films and videos have been shown at many international festivals; and she has exhibited internationally since 1981, including: ‘Videowochen im Wenkenpark”, Basel, CH, 1984; ‘Scultura Video Berri Berri’ Museum of Modern Art, Vienna, AT, 1985; ‘Junge Szene Wien’ Secession, Vienna, AT, 1987; ‘TRIGON’ Styrian Autumn, Graz, AT, 1987; ‘Aperto’ Venice Biennale, IT, 1990; ‘Take Over III’ Fabian Carlsson Gallery, London, UK. 1991; ‘International Video Biennial’, Fukui, JP, 1991; ‘Der entfesselte Blick’ Kulturzentrum Pfaeffikon and Kunsthalle Bern, CH, 1992; Ars Electronica Linz, AT, 1984, 1986, 1996; ‘Shape your body’ La Giarina, Verona, IT, 1994;  ‘A new Europe – supranational Art’ Le Zitelle, Venice Biennale, IT, 1995; ‘Lokalzeit’ Fondazione Querini, Venice, IT, 1995; ‘La Nuova Europa’ Villa Sparina, Gavi, IT, 1996; ‘MIR – Art in Space’ Museo Civico, Bolzano, IT, 1999; ‘Subway Special” The Aldwych, London, UK, 2000; ‘To Hear is to See’ Klanggalerie Berlin, DE,  ACC Gallerie Weimar, DE,  Klangturm St. Poelten, AT, 2002/03, and YYZ Artists Outlet, Toronto, CA, 2005, ACF London, UK, 2004, Triangle project space St Antonio, US, 2008; ‘Querspur forward’, (Die Fabrikanten), University of Art and Design, Linz, AT, 2010; ‘Women Shooting’ Austrian Film Archives, Metro Cinema Vienna, AT, 2011; ‘Parcours’ in Digital Hybridity, D-Marc, University of Derby, UK, 2011.

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Gudrun Bielz

“Arctificial Territory”

This research project intends to invent and describe a psychological artistic space, which I call arctificial territory. This arctificial space is inhabited by fictional obsessional compulsvie and artificial hybrids. Arctificial combines artificial with arctic, trying to describe a condition that is both emotionally and physically cold and not natural but nevertheless part of nature.

The project explores the potential of this arctificial space to harness the creative but also destructive or just repetitive potential of the behaviours of Obssessive Compulsive Disorder as a method to explore obsessions and fantasies of immortality and Artificial Life/Intelligence informed and infused by theorists and creators of Artificial Intelligence, novelists, artists, filmmakers and scientists.

The research intends to create artificial/arctificial life fictions introducing the viewer to variants of an apparently obsessive compulsive arctificial world through video, text and the internet put together in an interlinked format like hypertext and using the idea of feedback loops as an overall structure.

‘Specimen’ of arctifcial life include a series of videos that utilise and adapt technologies, which artificially extend our physical capabilities. From the voice of mission control at a shuttle launch into the unknown of space to the qualities of the microscopic and macroscopic where identities may slip, leading to fantasies of alien and possibly artificial/arctificial identities.

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