Education:
"Visuelle Gestaltung" (masterclass Prof. Laurids Ortner) at the Hochschule für künstlerische und industrielle Gestaltung Linz, Austria; Mag.art (master of fine arts) 1989
since 1993 works and projects in collaboration: Sabine Bitter (born 1960, Aigen i.M., Austria) and Helmut Weber (born 1957, Dorf/Pram, Austria);
since 1994 works on the web: www.lot.at:


Grants and Awards:
2005 MAK (Museum Applied Arts, Contemporary Arts) Schindler Artists and Architects in Residence Program in Los Angeles;
2004 Studio Grant Chicago from the Austrian Ministry for Arts;
2003 CARACASCASE, grantprogram by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes and the CaracasThinkTank, Venezuela;
1999 Photography Grant from the Austrian Ministry for Arts;
1998 Artists Residency, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada;
1995 Urban Exercises Research Grant, from the Austrian Ministry for Arts (Helmut Weber);
1994/95 P.S.1 Studio Program, New York(Sabine Bitter);
1994 Römerquelle Competition, 1st Prize Photography (Sabine Bitter);
1992 Award for artistic photography, Ministry for Cultural Affairs, Austria (Sabine Bitter);
1991 Studio Grant CitŽ des arts, Paris (Sabine Bitter);
1989 Grant for artistic photography, Austrian Ministry for Arts (Sabine Bitter);


Teaching:
2004 MFA Studio Course at UBC, University of British Columbia, Vancouver;
Visiting Professor, Emily Carr Institute for Art and Design, Vancouver (Sabine Bitter);
2002 "Kunsttransfer" teaching a course, lecture and seminar at the Architecture Department at the Technical University Vienna;
2002 Workshop on photography, with Günther Selichar, Forum Stadtpark, Graz;
1998 Guest Professor for artistic photography at the University for Applied Arts, Vienna;
1998 Summer Academy in Topolcanky, Slovakia;
1997 - 1998 School for Artistic Photography, Vienna (Sabine Bitter);
1996 Workshop at "Wienviertler Fotowochen" at FotoFluss, Austria (Sabine Bitter);
1994 Workshop at "Wienviertler Fotowochen" at FotoFluss, Austria (Sabine Bitter);


Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2005 "Live like This!", Camera Austria, Graz (Catalogue);
2005 "CARACAS, HECHO EN VENEZUELA", Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver (Catalogue);
2003 "Transformative Urbanism - from Almere to Caracas" Galeria Noua, Bucarest, Romania;
2002 "urban spin offs " MAK, Mediaspace, Vienna, Austria;
2001 "Live like this! ", 0Maschine, Vienna, A; "Metropolis transformed", IFK, Wien, A;
2000 "CITYalias/ constructing sites", De Paviljoens, Almere, Nl;
1997 "Architektur IV", with Ernst Logar, Fotogalerie Vienna (Catalogue);
1995 "Urban Exercises", Camera Austria, Forum Stadtpark, Graz;
"On Condition", Clocktower Gallery, New York City;
"zu Tisch!", Kunst.Halle.Steyr, Steyr (Catalogue);
1994 "beitrag zur beweglichkeit", with Ulrike Davis Sulikowski, Depot, Vienna;
"concept!", FFotogallery, Cardiff, (Catalogue) (Sabine Bitter);
"Material World", with Eva Schlegl, Aglaia Konrad, Photographers' Gallery, London (Sabine Bitter);
1992 "An die Wand III", Forum Stadtpark, Camera Austria, Graz (Catalogue) (Sabine Bitter);
"Der Richtung nach", Galerie Insam, Vienna (Catalogue) (Sabine Bitter);
1991 Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg (Sabine Bitter);
"no name arch.", Galerie Faber, Vienna (Sabine Bitter);
1989 "An die Wand", Galerie New Langton Arts, San Francisco (Sabine Bitter);
1988 "Unterschlüpfe", Künstlerhaus Passage, Vienna (Sabine Bitter);
"Wandstärken", Galerie De Zaak, Groningen, The Netherlands;


Selected Group Exhibitions, projects:
2004 GEEP-Atopia Projects#3.99 at Cell 77 project space, with Jeff Derksen, Edinburgh;
"Identify! or Studies on the Political Subject" at The Vera List Center for Art + Politics, curated by Andrea Geyer, New York;
"Formats", curated by Georg Schöllhammer, Galeria Noua, Bucarest, Romania (Catalogue);
"Niemandsland", Künstlerhaus Wien (Catalogue);
"susedka-NachbarIn, Austrian contemporary photography", Poprad, Slowakia (Catalogue);
2003 - "under construction", Museum der Moderne, Salzburg;, A
"Rethinking Photography", Galerie Fotohof Salzburg; Austrian Cultural Institute, Warszawa, Poland;
"CaracasCase", Sala Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela;
"IN PASSING", curated by Walter Seidl, Pavel Haus Laafeld, Austria;
Jakarta Video art Festival;
2002 "mega, manifeste der anmassung", Künstlerhaus, Wien, A;
"City Transformer", mit Jeff Derksen, Gdansk, PL;
"Multitude", Artists Space, New York;
"The village", Or Gallery, Vancouver, Canada;
"Der Blick auf WienÓ, Museum auf Abruf, Vienna, A;
"Mega, manifeste der anmassung", Künstlerhaus, Vienna, A;
2001 - "Spetani - wyzwoleni". Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw, Poland (Catalogue);
"Surround", Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, curated by Cate Rimmer;
"5.Biennale Medien + Architektur Graz", Graz, A;
"ARCHILAB Orleans 2001", Orleans, France (Catalogue);
"REkonstruktion_heimAT*", FORUM STADTPARK, Graz, Austria;
2000 - "Chile:Austria", Museo des Belles Artes, Santiago, Chile (Catalogue);
"I.C.I", Gallery W139, Amsterdam, Netherlands;
"Aus dem Umfeld", Universitätsgalerie der Kunstuniversität Linz, Austria (Catalogue);
"Individualisation" with FORM (Greg Lynn), Andreas Gursky, Kolatan Mac Donald Studio, NOX (Lars Spybroek), Architectuur Centrum Einhoven, Netherlands;
1999 - "Public Space/Private Body", De Paviljoens, Almere, The Netherlands;
"Chile:Austria", Landesmuseum Linz, Austria (Catalogue);
"Chile:Austria", Landesmuseum Klagenfurt, Ferdinandeum Innsbruck, Austria (Catalogue);
1994 - 1999 "Kunst & Bau", Ok, Centrum fŸr Gegenwartskunst, Linz, Austria (Catalogue);
1998 - "Close Echoes", Kunsthalle Krems, Galerie der Stadt Prag (Catalogue);
"Offene Grenzen", Galerie Fotohof, KŸnstlerwerkstatt Lothringerstr., MŸnchen, Germany (CD);
"Zomer van de, Fotografie", Hessenhuis, Antwerpen, Belgium (Catalogue);
"Icons", Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria (Catalogue);
"Trafik", Galerie der Stadt Eisenstadt, Austria (Catalogue);
1997 - "Transversions", 2.Biennale Johannesburg, South Africa (Catalogue);
"Biennale Photographie & Arts Visuels" Liege, Belgium (Catalogue);
"Trafik", Kunsthalle Szombathelyi, Hungary (Catalogue);
"DataPanic", Arthouse, Dublin, Ireland;
"Schauplatz Museumsquartier", Kunsthalle im Museumsquartier, Vienna (Catalogue);
1996 - "Geben und Nehmen", KŸnstlerhaus Plüschow, Germany (Catalogue);
"Radikale Bilder", Neue Galerie Graz, Austria (Catalogue);
"Hall 2 O", Kunsthalle Tirol, Hall, Austria (Catalogue);
1995 - "Athenkonferenz" die Kunst der Reise, Athens, Greece (Catalogue);
"Fisch und Fleisch", Kunst.Halle.Krems, Krems, Austria (Catalogue) (Sabine Bitter);
"Telepolis", with Juerg Meister, Mediafestival Luxemburg;
"Incidental Alterations", The Angel Orsenanz Foundation, New York (Catalogue);
"Zu Tisch!", Kunst.Halle.Krems, Austria;
1994 - Phototriennale, Art Museum Oulu, Oulu, Finland (Catalogue);
1993 "Die Arena des Privaten", Kunstverein, MŸnchen (Sabine Bitter);
"Krieg.", …sterr. Triennale zur Fotografie, Neue Galerie, Graz (Catalogue) (Sabine Bitter);
"Reise zu den Quellen", museum in progress, Vienna;
"Wandzeitung", museum in progress, Vienna;
1992 - "Kraft des Materials", Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz, Austria (Catalogue);
"Platz der Kunst", Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria (Catalogue);
"Wien in Berlin", Galerie Wohnmaschine, Berlin (Sabine Bitter);
1990 "Rastlos", Prodomo, Vienna (Catalogue) (Sabine Bitter);
Biennale for Sculptures, Obidos, Portugal (Catalogue) (Sabine Bitter);
"Platz der Kunst", Landesmuseum, Linz (Catalogue);
Project "Fischplatz", steirischer herbst '90, Graz (Sabine Bitter);
1989 International Art Meeting, Kazimirz Dolny, Poland;
1988 4 A:HREN O:STERREICH, Het Apollohuis, Eindhoven, The Netherlands;
BETON, Galerie Insam, Vienna (Sabine Bitter);


Selected Lectures:
2005 MAk Center Schindler House, UCLA; Cal Arts, Los Angeles;
2004 Graduate Program, School for the Contemporary Arts, SFU, Vancouver;
Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver;
"What is made visible", Academy of Fine Arts Vienna;
"Ansicht: Caracas", part of the lecture series "Cities and Eyes", Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;
2003 hosting and moderating the evening "Caracas, die Stadt neu verteilen", part of "Fokus on Territories", Biennial on media and architecture, Graz, Austria;
Global-Urban panel, "Producing a Future: Art & Globalization," Center for Place, Culture and Politics, CUNY Graduate Center, New York;* "CaracasCase", Central Universty, UCV, Caracas, Venezuela;
2002 Symposium "INTERACTIVE NORMALIZATION", Belgrade, Yugoslavia;
Conference "URBAN DRIFT 2002", Cafe Moskau, Berlin, Germany;
Lecture "Wednesdays 31 - Learning from Learning from Las Vegas", Architecture Center Vienna;
Symposion "Metropolis Transformed", International Research Center for Cultural Studies, IFK, Vienna;
"Getting Round Vienna" Tanzquartier Wien, Vienna;
Lecture at Nomads and Residents, New York;
2001 - Panel discussion, "Fast forward", Numero Festival, Lisbon, Portugal;
Presentation of the commissioned web project "Major Leisure" at "Spheres", the 5th Biennial on Media and Architecture, Graz, Austria;
2000 - Panel presentation "Cityscapes", ISEA2000, International Symposium on Electronic Art, Paris, France;
Round Table Architecture + Media, Institut francais d'architecture, Paris, France;
Symposium "Talking Cities", MUWA, Museum der Wahrnehmung, Graz, Austria;
1985 Ð 1999 Lecture, Hunter College, New York (Sabine Bitter); Talk, Volkshochschule Stšbergasse, Vienna (Sabine Bitter); Talk, Depot, Vienna; Archimedia, Linz, Austria; OK, Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria; Hypermedia, Diagonale, Salzburg, Austria; Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Austria; Kunstverein Salzburg, Austria; Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; University for Art and Design, Linz, Austria; Symposion Netzwerke - Oeffentlichkeit, Switzerland; Film and Arch, Festival for New Media, Graz, Austria; Symposium for Photography, Camera Austria, Graz, Austria (Sabine Bitter);


Selected Publications:
2005 "CARACAS, HECHO EN VENEZUELA", Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, Revolver Verlag, Frankfurt;
2005 public speaking, Clockshop, Los Angeles;
2004 "made in venezuela", Notizen zur "Bolivarianischen Revolution", Raul Zelik / Sabine Bitter / Helmut Weber, Assoziation A, Berlin;
"Z_on transition", Idea, Arts + society, # 15-16 2003, Cluj, Romania;
2003 "image.source", Rethinking photography, Ed. Ruth Horak, Fotohof Edition, Forum Stadtpark;
Arch +, with Raul Zelik, Architecture magazine, Berlin;
"Neuer Reduktionismus in der Fotografie", Eikon Nr.41/03;
Utopico, with Raul Zelik, Caracas, Venezuela;
2002 "SUPER_BOOKS", dŽrive, Heft 9, 2002, Vienna;
"Multitude", review, New York Times, Oct. 11, 2002, New York;
"Multitude", review, Time Out, Issue No. 365, New York;
"Live like This", CABINET magazine issue 6 spring 2002, New York;
"Wenn Bilder sprechen könnten", Text by Manuela Hötzl, in: Architektur und Bauforum, #220, 2002, Vienna;
"Metropolis Transformed", IFKnow , 1_2002, International Research Center for Cultural Studies, IFK, Vienna;
2001 Series of 4 folders, text by Jeff Derksen;
"Fast forward", Numero Magazine #11, Lisbon, Portugal;* Corpo fast forward, Porto;
2000 "CITYalias, The City as Cultural Softare", Text by Nancy Shaw, in: Eikon Nr.33/00;
"Porträt Bitter/Weber", text by Matthias Dusini, in: Falter, Stadtzeitung fŸr Wien, 40/00;
"CITYalias/almere.txt", kursiv, "Talking Cities" 6/4 99, Text by Jeff Derksen;
"CITYalias", springerin, Band VI Heft 1/00, text by Jeff Derksen;
1999 Artists Insert "CITYalias/almere.txt" Archis, Almere, leisure city, 11/99, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (in collaboration with Jeff Derksen);
"Insert: Sabine Bitter, Helmut Weber; Logik des Hier und Jetzt", text by Georg Schöllhammer, Kunstforum International #143;
1998 "Leerräumen, Landscape Holland", in: O.K. Ortsbezug: Konstruktion oder Prozess, Eds. Hedwig Saxenhuber, Georg Schöllhammer, edition selene, Vienna;
1997 On Formation On Condition, text by Georg Schöllhammer, Catalogue, Vienna;
1996 "Urban Exercises", with text from Georg Schöllhammer, Camera Austria #55;*
1995 "beitrag zur beweglichkeit", with Ulrike Davis-Sulikowski, Vienna;
1993 "Wider den demokratischen Geschmack", in: Veröffentlichte Kunst, Band Nr.2, N….Landesmuseum, ed. Katharina Blaas, Vienna;
1991 "Massnahme zur Beweglichkeit", in: Platz machen, ed. A. Brandolini, Merve Verlag Berlin, #159;
1990 "auf und davon", Steirischer Herbst magazine
since 1994: http://www.lot.at


Selected Web Projects:
2002 Collaborationn with "Mulonga- The Loop", Ars Electronica festival, "Unplugged", Linz, Austria;
Webdesign for Az W, Architecture Center Vienna, with nextroom, www.azw.at;
2001 "Major Leisure" at Spheres, 5th biennial of Media and Architecture, Graz, Austria;
Cooperation on the project www.mulonga.net, Austria/Zimbabwe;
2000 "CITYalias", Net project, www.lot.at/cityalias/;
"image.source" for www.government-austria.at;
1999 "But is it Politics?", Net project, www.lot.at/politics/;
TRUTH Site Street othe Netherlandsine magazine, http://sidestreet.org/sitestreet/green.html;
_remote viewing_, bitstreams and data~scapes, orhanized by public netbase t0 (Vienna), Museum of Modern Art, Antwerpen, Belgium;
1998 "NO NAME DC", Web project at Omnizone, Plexus, New York City;
Webarte Exhibition, at the XXIV Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil;
Webdesign, visual concept for "museum in progress", Vienna;
1997 "_remote viewing_", DataPanic, ARTHOUSE Dublin, Ireland;
1996 "silicon rally" by Jouke Kleerebezem at Stroom, The Netherlands;
Kunst & Bau documentation, www.nextroom.at/PROJEKT/Oklinz;
Webdesign, visual concept for "architecture center vienna", Vienna;
1995 "urban exercises", Architekturfestival 80 Tage Vienna, with Juerg Meister and Andrea Neuwirth;
"LOTproject: Artistic Field Work", @art gallery, curated by Nan Goggin, Kathleen Chemelewski, Joseph Squier, University Urbana Champaign, Illinois;
1994 "LOTproject: Artistic Field Work", http://www.lot.at;*

since 1994 commissions for website design (selected):
12 ceramic design (www.12er.at),
Architecture Center Vienna (www.azw.at);
museum in progress, Vienna (www.mip.at);


Selected Works on Art & Architecture, Public Space Projects:
2004 Billboardproject, Clockshop Los Angeles;
"rendering the real", Fluc, Wien, A;
2003 CARACAS, HECHO EN VENEZUELA, Billboard, metro Caracas, Venezuela;
Percentage for the Arts program, Graz, 1st Prize competition, Austria, not realized;
2002 Billboard Series "Meeting at The Lot", contribution to "City Transformers", Laznia Center of Contemporary Art, Gdansk, Poland;
2000 Percentage for the Arts program Krems, Austria;
1999 Percentage for the Arts program, Hospital Stolzalpe, realized, Graz, Austria;
1994 - 1998 Percentage for the Arts program at the OK, Center for Contemporary Arts, in collaboration with architect Peter Riepl, realized, Linz, Austria;
1998 "How to provide escape space", temporary Kunst am Bau, Porscheholding, with Kunstverein Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria;
1997 - 1998 "BRG Ramsauerstra§e", Architecture and Public Space Design, realized, Linz, Austria;


Selected Screenings:
2005 Screening of "Living Megastructures" at The Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago;
Screening of "Living Megastructures" at the Venezuelan National TV channel VIVE, Venezuela;
2004 Screening of "Living Megastructures" at Social Affairs!, filmprogram for Ministery of Social Affairs, curated by Bik Van der Pol, The Hague;
at 46th International Festival of Documentary and Short Film Bilbao, part of Megacities, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain;
at "Identify! or Studies on the Political Subject" at The Vera List Center for Art + Politics, curated by Andrea Geyer, New York;
and at Filmcasino Wien;


Positions:
2002 Board Member of the Secession, Vienna (Sabine Bitter);
2002 Member of the Association of Friends of the Kunstuniversität, Linz (Sabine Bitter);
2002 Member of the Secession, Vienna (Helmut Weber);
1997 Member of the Secession, Vienna (Sabine Bitter);
1999 Board Member- Landeskulturbeirat, Lower Austria (Sabine Bitter);
1998 Board Members- Kulturbeirat, Section Architecture, Upper Austria
1996 Jury Member, international residencies, Ministry of Cultural Affairs, Vienna (Sabine Bitter);
1993 Jury Member, photo awards, Ministry for Cultural Affairs, Vienna (Sabine Bitter);