Sylvia Eckermann

In Sylvia's work, a discursive engagement with form and media culminates in critical artistic reflections about our entanglement as individuals in current socio-economic situations. She works with various media including digital and physical environments, installations, videos, objects, and sculptures. She began to work in digital art in the late 1980s and was a pioneer of Game Art. She is the first recipient of the City of Vienna Award for Media Art (2014) and was awarded the Austrian State Prize for Media Art (2018). She lives and works in Vienna.

http://syl-eckermann.net

Gerald Nestler

Gerald is an artist and researcher who combines theory and conversation with performance, installation, intervention, video, code, sound and speech. He also develops post-disciplinary formats and collaborative practices between art and other fields of expertise. His research focuses on the derivative condition of techno-capitalism: its models, technologies and narratives; aesthetics of resolution applies the semantic field of the term to the performative speech of data-driven bio-power; renegade activism addresses resistance as insurrection beyond critique and dissent. Gerald graduated from the Academy of fine arts Vienna (1992) and researched finance as a broker and trader (1994-97). His work has been shown internationally and he has published and edited widely on art, finance and technology. He is a member of the Techno-politics Working group, Vienna, and the Volatility Research Group, New York. He was a researcher at Forensic Architecture and holds a PhD from the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmith, University of London (2017).

www.geraldnestler.net