Theresa Schubert studied Media Art & Design and Media Culture at the Bauhaus-University Weimar (DE), and Fine Art at the University of Newcastle (AU). Her interest lies on the tension and interplay at the nexus of art, technology and society. In her artistic practice she combines variable media to works, which can take on aesthetic expressions such as audiovisual installations, public art, objects, photographs, or works on paper. She works mainly on the topic of nature as well as on the relationship between order and chaos. Currently she explores live organic material as an artistic medium to better understand the complexity of our lives by combining biological matter with digital art. Hence she employs transdisciplinary methodologies of scientific experimentation, shared creativity, and theoretical analysis. This results in bio-poetic arrangements that offer new possibilities for visitor’s engagement and interaction.
She also is a PhD-candidate at the Bauhaus-University Weimar, Faculty of Fine Art, where she pursues research on the aesthetics and reception of technology-based installation art. Currently she lives and works as a freelance artist in Linz (AT) and in Berlin (DE). She is a member of the experimental arts & culture collective qujochÖ, and works as a researcher & project manager for the Ars Electronica Archive.

EXHIBITIONS

2011 ……………………………   physarum polycephalum experiments | Ars Electronica Center, Linz // 31.August- 7.September 11 (AT)
2011 ……………………………   Modellversuch - Fotografie, Klanginstallation | Milchhof Pavillon, Berlin-Mitte (DE)  // Februar 2011

2008 ……………………………   sonic spheres - 4-kanalige Klanginstallation | Newcastle Region Art Gallery // 16.Februar- 4.Mai 08 (AU)
2008 ……………………………   ohne Ohren - Zeichnungen, Installation | Gallery33, Berlin-Mitte (DE)  // 29.August-27. September 08

2007 ……………………………   maps, minds & places - mehrkanalige audiovisuelle Installation | Maitland Regional Art Gallery und Laden
                                                      in der Fußgängerzone  (AU) // Oktober 2007   
2007 ……………………………   Small Works - Zeichnung | bsg Brunswickstreet Gallery, Melbourne (AU)  // 09.-23. Juli 07
2007 ……………………………   Annual Emerging Artist Prize - Linoldruck | Newcastle Art Space (AU) // 05.-27. Mai 07
2007 ……………………………   virtual residency- Video | Völklingen, Unesco Weltkulturerbe(DE) // Mai-Juni 07
                                                    http://www.virtual-residency.net/exhibitions/unesco/opening.htm
2007 ……………………………   what if… - Videoinstallation | Newcastle Art Space (AU)  // 12.-29. April 2007
                                               
2006 ……………………………    Annual Mattara Art Exhibition - Zeichnung | Honeysuckle, Newcastle (AU) // Oktober 06
2006 ……………………………    Technobiography - Video | field contemporary art space, Newcastle (AU) // September 06 
2006 ……………………………    UGGACHANTA Art Exhibition - Cyanotypie | IUB Lions Club, Bremen (DE) // Mai 06
2006 ……………………………   ephemeral systems - Klanginstallation | Herbarium Hausknecht, Weimar (DE) // 6.- 9. April 06

2005 ……………………………    The Exposed Color: Pink - Video | University Art Museum of the National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo (JP)
                                                           // September 05 // Link zur Homepage der Ausstellung
2005 ……………………………    kopf über - Videoinstallation & Objekt | Glaskasten Limona, Weimar (DE) // Januar 05

2004 ……………………………   YOU. - Videoinstallation | Watt Space Gallery, Newcastle (AU) // 12.-30.Mai 04
2004 ……………………………   100 % EXTRA FREE - Intervention/Performance | Public Space Newcastle (AU)  // 02.- 06.Juni 04
2004 ……………………………    Flotsam & jetsam - Videoinstallation & Objekt | Watt Space Gallery, Newcastle (AU) // Juni 04

2003 ……………………………    Greenspace_2 - Videoinstallation | Haus am Horn, Weimar (DE) // Juli-Aug. 03 // Homepage der Ausstellung
2003 ……………………………    DNA- Neue Aufklärung - Video & Fotografie | PharmA, Weimar (DE) // Juni 03

2002 ……………………………    surreal- hyperreal - Fotografie | Galerie Herderplatz, Weimar (DE) // Juli 03  

COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS

2009 ……………………………    Dwell in the City, a selected project for Laneways By George! Hidden Networks | The Sydney Festival (AU) //
                                                       project team (Kim Bridgeland, Aline Joyce, Adrian Hill, Theresa Schubert)
2008 ……………………………    Nesting, a sound installation in public space | selected project of Back to the City | Newcastle (AU) |
                                                       in collaboration with Terras Architecture (Grit Kaeding, Shaun King) and Megan Lewis

FESTIVAL PARTICIPATIONS

2007 ………………………..….     Istanbul Art Biennial, Nightcomers  |  Istanbul  (TR) // Sept.-Nov. 2007

2006 ……………………………    This Is Not Art-Festival (TINA)  |  Newcastle (AU)  // Sept.-Oktober 2006
2006 ……………………………    VideoChannel “image vs. music” |  Auswahl für tourendes Festivalprogramm Köln (DE) //  
                                                     http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=38

2005 ……………………………    Festival audiovisual zemos  |  Seville (ES) // März 2005

2004 ……………………………    European Media Art Festival  |  Osnabrück (DE) // April 2004
2004 ……………………………    Liquidrom Berlin  |  Liquid Sound Night- Screening (DE) // Februar 2004
2004 ……………………………    Stuttgarter Filmwinter  |  Stuttgart (DE) // Januar 2004

2003 ……………………………    Exground Filmfest  |  Wiesbaden (DE) // November 2003
2003 ……………………………    Dokumentarische Etüden  |  Lichthaus Kino, Weimar (DE) // Juli 2003   
2003 ……………………………    Summer Night Tape  |  Mensa, Weimar (DE) // Juli 2003

RESIDENCIES

2011……………………………     artists-in-labs-residency at UWE Bristol (UK), International Cener for Unconventional Computing and Robotics, October 2011
2010……………………………     HORIZON artist-in-residency on the lab ship Eleonore in the Danube (AT)
2006……………………………     Awarded for a residency inside the transitlounge-program 2007, Berlin

AWARDS & GRANTS

2011……………………………     Frauenförderfond Bauhaus-University Weimar
                                                        grant for research and art projects by women
2008……………………………     NAVA (National Association of the Visual Arts Australia) & Ministry of the Arts NSW
                                                        Marketing grant for artists
2007……………………………     NAVA & Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council (www.visualarts.net.au)
                                                        Janet Holmes Artist Grant, production grant
2007……………………………     IFA – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (www.ifa.de)                                                      
                                                        Exhibition funding for the artwork „sonic spheres“
2006……………………………     Commendation for the Annual Mattara Art Prize 2006
                                                         Category Drawing, for “short circuits #1”
2006……………………………     DAAD-Auslandsreiseförderung (short-time travel bursary)
                                                        For residence in Australia
2005 ……………………………    Mitteldeutscher Rundfunkpreis 2004 (Middle-German Radio-Award)
                                                        For the radio documentary „Volksempfänger und Wunschkonzerte“
2005 ……………………………    Bauhaus-University- Award 2005
                                                        Nomination for the yearly award of the media faculty
2003 ……………………………    TLM- Hörfunkpreis 2002 (Thuringian Media-Award)
                                                        1.Prize for the radio drama “maeromat DCX 3000”