Interview with new media artist Michael Bielicky (Sven Spieker). Recorded on 11/15/09 in Los Angeles. Over the past twenty‐five years, Bielicky has participated in many international exhibitions, festivals and symposia, presenting projects that experiment with navigation, video‐communication, virtual reality, and data visualization technologies. He has collaborated with the ZKM (Karlsruhe); Ars Electronica (Linz); and High Tech Center in Berlin‐Babelsberg. Recently Bielicky has been featured in prestigious exhibitions at institutions that included the Centre Pompidou; MOMA; the National Gallery Prague; the Kunsthaus Zürich; ZKM; and Ars Electronica. In this interview, Bielicky discusses his career and background, beginning with his early days at the Düsseldorf Kunstakademie. Bielicky currently heads the New Media department at ZKM, Karlsruhe.
New In ARTMargins Print
ARTMargins Print has released its second issue, devoted to Artists' Networks in Latin America and Eastern Europe. Additional content includes an article about 1970s media art in Argentina (Karen Benezra); a review essay by Aruna D'Souza about the conference project "In the Wake of the Global Turn"; translations from Dolfi Trost's book Visible and Invisible; and an artist project by Aras Özgün. Click here for more information.