Education:
Magister 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;*
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;
Teaching:
2004 MFA Studio Course at UBC, University of British Columbia, Vancouver;*
2002 "Kunsttransfer" teaching a course, lecture and seminar with Sabine
Bitter at the Architecture Department at the Technical University Vienna;*
2002 Workshop on photography, with Sabine Bitter and Günther Selichar,
Forum Stadtpark, Graz;*
1998 Summer Academy in Topolcanky, Slovakia;*
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'architecture, 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 (Catalogue);*
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", UniversitŠtsgalerie der KunstuniversitŠt 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);
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"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;*
"Reise zu den Quellen", museum in progress, Vienna;*
1992 - "Kraft des Materials", Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz, Austria (Catalogue);
"Platz der Kunst", Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria (Catalogue);
1983 - 1989 "4 A:HREN O:STERREICH", Het Apollohuis, Eindhoven, The Netherlands;
"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 Artist 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; Film and Arch, Festival
for New Media, 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;*
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;*
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;*
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- Social Affairs!, filmprogram for Ministery of Social Affairs,
curated by Bik Van der Pol, The Hague;*
46th 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;*
Positions:
2003 - Member of the Secession, Vienna;
1998 - Board Member- Kulturbeirat, Architecture Section, Upper Austria;*
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