Sabine Bitter

Sabine Bitter
bitter/weber
Lorenz Mandlgasse 33/2, A- 1160 Vienna, Austria
phone/fax 43 +1- 4928160, bit@sil.at
born 1960, Aigen i.M., Austria, lives and works in Vienna and Vancouver, Austria/Canada
since 1994 works and projects with Helmut Weber (*) since 1994 works on the web (www.lot.at) with Helmut Weber;

Education:
Magistra Artium (Master of Fine Arts). "Visuelle Gestaltung" (masterclass Prof. Laurids Ortner) at the Hochschule für künstlerische und industrielle Gestaltung Linz, Austria, 1987

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;*
Landeskulturpreis, Upper Austria Art Award;
2003 CARACASCASE, grantprogram by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes and the CaracasThinkTank, Venezuela;*
1999 Photography Grant form the Austrian Ministry for Arts;*
1998 Artists Residency, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada;*
1994 - 1995 P.S.1 Studio Program, New York;
1992 Römerquelle Competition, 1. Prize Photography
1992 Award for artistic photography, Ministry for Cultural Affairs, Austria;
1991 Studio Grant Cité des arts, Paris; 1989 Grant for artistic photography, Austrian Ministry for Arts;

Teaching:
2004 MFA Studio Course at UBC, University of British Columbia, Vancouver;*
Artist in Residence at Emily Carr Institute for Art and Design, Vancouver;
2002 "Kunsttransfer" teaching a course, lecture and seminar with Helmut Weber at the Architecture Department at the Technical University Vienna;*
2002 Workshop on photography, with Helmut Weber and 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;
1996 Workshop at "Wienviertler Fotowochen" at FotoFluss, Austria;
1994 Workshop at "Wienviertler Fotowochen" at FotoFluss, Austria;

Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2005 - Camera Austria, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria (Catalogue);*
2003 - "transformative urbanism ", Galeria Noua, Bucarest, Romania;*
2002 - "Urban spin Offs", Media room, Museum for Applied Arts (MAK), Vienna;
2001 - "Live like this!", 0maschine, Vienna;*
"Metropolis Transformed", the International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK), Vienna;*
"CITYalias", Institut francais d'architectute, Paris;*
2000 - "CITYalias/constructing sites", De Paviljoens, Almere, The Netherlands;*
"Super-Stuff", part of "Transparadiso", "Making It: a storefront presentation of new Viennese architecture", Vienna;*
1997 - "Architektur IV", with Ernst Logar, Fotogalerie Vienna (Catalogue);*
1995 - "Urban Exercises", 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, Wales (Catalogue);*
"Material World", with Eva Schlegl and Aglaia Konrad, Photographers' Gallery, London;
1992 - "An die Wand III", Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria (Catalogue); "Der Richtung nach", Galerie Insam, Vienna (Catalogue);
1991 - Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria; "no name arch.", Galerie Faber, Vienna;
1989 - "An die Wand", Galerie New Langton Arts, San Francisco; International Art Meeting, Kazimirz Dolny, Poland;
1988 - "Unterschlüpfe", Künstlerhaus Passage, Vienna;
"Wandstärken", Galerie De Zaak, Groningen, The Netherlands; Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna;

Selected Group Exhibitions:
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;*
2002 - "RETHINKING PHOTOGRAPHY", Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria;*
"Multitude", curated by Lauri Firstenberg, Artists Space, New York (Catalogue);*
"City Transformers 2002" Gdansk, Poland;*
"Der Blick auf Wien" Galerie MUSEUM AUF ABRUF, Vienna (Catalogue);*
"The Village", Or Gallery, Vancouver;*
"Mega, Manifeste der Anmassung", Künstlerhaus Vienna;*
2001 - "Spetani - wyzwoleni". Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw, Poland (Catalogue);*
"Surround", Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, curated by Cate Rimmer;*
"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, Künstlerwerkstatt Lothringerstr., München, 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 PlŸschow, 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);
"Telepolis", and Juerg Meister, Mediafestival Luxemburg, Switzerland;
"Incidental Alterations", The Angel Orsenanz Foundation, New York (Catalogue);*
"Zu Tisch!", Kunst.Halle.Krems, Austria;*
1994 - Phototriennale, Art Museum Oulu, Oulu, Finland (Catalogue);*
"Wandzeitung", museum in progress, Vienna;*
"L´espace en dialogue", Kunst.Halle.Krems, Austria (Catalogue);
1993 - "Die Arena des Privaten", Kunstverein München, Germany;
"Krieg", Österr. Triennale zur Fotografie, Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria (Catalogue);
"Reise zu den Quellen", museum in progress, Vienna;*
1992 - "Kraft des Materials", Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz, Austria (Catalogue);
"Wien in Berlin", Galerie Wohnmaschine, Berlin, Germany;
1990 - "Biennale for Sculptures", Obidos, Portugal (Catalogue);
"Platz der Kunst", Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria (Catalogue);
"Project Fischplatz", steirischer herbst '90, Graz, Austria;
"BETON", Galerie Insam, Vienna (Catalogue);
1983 - 1989 "4 A:HREN O:STERREICH", Het Apollohuis, Eindhoven, The Netherlands;
Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna; "Rastlos", Prodomo, Vienna (Catalogue); Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria with Joseph Maier;
"Wechselstrom", Palais Palffy, Vienna (Catalogue); "Wohnfreiheit", Galerie Hofstšckl, Linz, Austria (Catalogue);

Selected Lectures:
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 - 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 - 1999 Lecture, Hunter College, New York; Talk, Volkshochschule Stöbergasse, Vienna; 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;

Selected Publications:
2005 - public speaking, Clockshop, Los Angeles;*
2004 - made in venezuela, Notizen zur "Bolivarianischen Revolution", Raul Zelik / Sabine Bitter / Helmut Weber, Assoziation A - BŸro Hamburg;*
"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;*
hunch, Berlage institute report #4, Rotterdam, The Netherlands;*
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", 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;*
1994 - "Vor Ort und dahinter", in: Camera Austria 47-48;
1993 - "Wider den demokratischen Geschmack", in: Veröffentlichte Kunst, Band Nr.2, N….Landesmuseum, ed. Katharina Blaas, Vienna;
1992 - An die Wand, Edition Camera Austria, Graz; Der Richtung nach, Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna;
1991 - "Massnahme zur Beweglichkeit", in: Platz machen, ed. A. Brandolini, Merve Verlag Berlin, #159;
1990 Ð "auf und davon", Steirischer Herbst magazine

Selected Web Projects:
2002 - Collaborationn with "Mulonga- The Loop", Ars Electronica festival, "Unplugged", Linz, Austria;*
Webdesign for the Architecture Center Vienna, 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;*
Webdesign for the 12 Ceramics, www.12er.at;*
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 - "Nächste Räume", with Jürg Meister, Mailbox Gallery Bois, Austria;
1993 - "Globe", Mailbox Gallery Bois, Austria;

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 - Percentage for the Arts program for a new Cityhall, Ried, Austria;
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 Stoplzalpe, 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;*
1995 - Percentage for the Arts program, Pensionistenheim Mank, realized, Mank Austria;
1994 - "Rastlos", collaborative project with Eichinger oder Knechtl, Jasper Morrison, Andreas Brandolini, etc. on Public space proposals for the City of Vienna, not realized;
1993 - Percentage for the Arts program, Königstetten, 1st Prize competition, Austria;
1992 - Percentage for the Arts program, Pfarrgasse Horn, Horn, 1st Prize competition, Austria;
1991 - "building plant", Dublin, Ireland, not realized; Percentage for the Arts program, University of Vienna, realized, Vienna;
1990 - "Project "Fischplatz", Styrian Fall Festival, public intervention, realized, Graz, Austria;

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

Positions:
2005- Member for the acquisition jury for the collection of the city Vienna;
2004 - Selection Panel 1 Kingsway, Public Art Competition, City of Vancouver;
Board Member of the OR Gallery, Vancouver;
2002 - Board Member of the Secession, Vienna;
2002 - Member of the Association of Friends of the Kunstuniversität, Linz;
1997 - Member of the Secession, Vienna;
1999 - 2001 Board Member- Landeskulturbeirat, Lower Austria;
1998 - Board Member- Kulturbeirat, Architecture Section, Upper Austria;*
1996 - Jury Member, International Residencies, Ministry of Cultural Affairs, Vienna;
1993 - Jury Member, Photo Awards, Ministry for Cultural Affairs, Vienna;

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