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was born in Karlsruhe in 1950. Working as a media artist and scientist, she has been the head of the MARS - Exploratory Media Lab of the Fraunhofer Institute for Media Communication (IMK) since 1997. The research group designs experimental models of networked information spaces, new forms of communication, of interface design, of access to and transmission of information and of the development and implementation of game and learning objects based on digital media. In cooperation with Wolfgang Strauss, she developed the concept of the internet platform for digital arts and culture “netzspannung.org“. Since 1999, they have been in charge of its development and implementation. Currently, she is developing the research and business unit “e-culture” for the whole of the Institute with its approximately 100 members of staff. She studied Fashion Design in Zurich and Fine Arts, Theatre, Game and Computer Graphics in Berlin. Her career comprised various exhibitions, awards, publications, lectures and teaching assignments in Germany and abroad. In 1992, she was awarded the Goldene Nica of the exhibition Ars Electronica for interactive art.
Mailto: monika.fleischmann@iais.fraunhofer.de

was born in 1951. He is an architect, media artist and scientist. He works with old and new media and creates real buildings as well as electronic architecture, knowledge spaces and digital archives. He is the head of the R & D on human-machine communication at the MARS - Exploratory Media Lab of the Fraunhofer Institute for Media Communication and uses artistic strategies to develop media architecture of time-based processes. Since 1987, he has produced a large number of media art and design works on the topics of mixed reality, networked information space and the visualisation of knowledge in cooperation with Monika Fleischmann. He studied Architecture at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin, has worked as guest professor, has had fellowships and has given talks in Germany and abroad. In 1992, he was awarded the Goldene Nica of the exhibition Ars Electronica for interactive art.

Mailto: wolfgang.strauss@iais.fraunhofer.de
http://fleischmann-strauss.de/
http://netzspannung.org/about/mars/projects/en/