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Selective aspects of my CV focusing on Art and Participatory Design

Professional Experience

Since 2023: Research assistant in the FFG funded project TELL, developing an ICT-based collaborative storytelling app for open youthwork (https://tell.aspc.at/) 2016 – 2023: Research assistant, in the research area of Participatory Design 2015 – 2016: Visual arts teacher 2006 – 2010: Research assistant in the EU Project IPCity (http://www.ipcity.eu/) 2002 – 2006: Professional Artist 2005-2006: Assistant of the glass artist Jack Ink in his studio at Tribuswinkel and the glass factory Oberglas in Bärnbach, Austria 2005: Member of the design team. Conducting an experimental workshop MANIPULATE MEDIA ‘Performative Development of Ubiquitous Media’, at the Centre for Comtemporary Art, Glasgow, Scottland (http://www.manipulatemedia.org/) 2001: Assistant of Prof. Gunter Damisch in the Print making class at the Summer academy in Salzburg, Austria

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Publications

2010 ParticipArt: Exploring Participation in Interactive Art Installations. IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality 2010 Arts, Media and Humanities Proceedings, 13 -16 October, Seoul, Korea (with Jaccuci, G., Wagner, I., Giaccardi, E. et al.) 2009 Supporting Community Engagement in the City: Urban Planning in the MR-Tent. Proceedings of C&T (Communities & Technologies), Penn State University, University Park, PA, USA, 185-194 (with Wagner, I., Basile, M., Ehrenstrasser, L. Maquil, V., Terrin, J.-J.) 2007 Expressive Interactions Supporting Collaboration in Urban Design, In: Proceedings of GROUP 2007, Nov 4 - 7, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA, 69-78 (with Maquil, V., Psik, T., Wagner, I.)

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Exhibitions

2007: ‘Trespassing’ (soloexhibition), SWINGR Raumaufzeit, Vienna 2005: ‚Art Bratislava’, Bratislava, Slovakia 2005: ‚Gohsts’, (soloexhibition), Club Alpha, Vienna 2004: VA-Tech Art Network’, Vienna 2003: Nonni’ (Performance: Yvonne Manfreda), Kunst Büro, Vienna 2001: Hommage à Louise Bourgeois’, Kupferstichkabinett Albertina, Vienna 2001: Junge Malerei: weiblich’, Gallery Altnöder, Salzburg 2001: Figuren’, Gallery 422, Gmunden, Austria 1997: Junge Kunst am Stein’, Kupferstichkabinett Albertina

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Education

Since 2022: Bachelor of Social Work at the Bertha von Suttner University, St. Pölten, Austria 2018 – 2022: Bachelor in Secondary Education with the subjects English and Inclusive Pedagogy at the University of Vienna (not completed) 2013 – 2014: Graduate Diploma in Education Secondary at the University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia 1997 – 2002: Masters in Painting and Graphic Art at the Academy of Fine Arts, in the master class of Prof. Gunter Damisch, Vienna, Austria

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Conferences and Workshops

2009 C&T 2009 4th International Conference on Communities and Technologies, June 25-27 2009, The Pennsylvania State University: Full paper presentation 2009, 1st PEACH Summer School 2007: ‘Presence: towards human machine confluence-Presence Technologies and Foundations’, July 4-6, 2007, Santorin, Greece: poster presentation

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