Lucia Mendelova
1983 | born in Bratislava, Slovakia, lives and works in Bremen |
2001 - 2006 | studies of Philosophy at the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia |
2006 - 2013 | doctorate in Philosophy at the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia |
2008 - 2009 | graduate research at the 'Zentrum Gender Studies' Universität Bremen |
2009 - 2013 | studies of Integrated Design at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen (HfK) and the HSLU Lucerne, Switzerland |
2013 - 2017 | masters program of Digital Media at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen |
Grants and Awards
2015 | University Award for Digital Media for the work 'Nice Nice Very Nice' |
2012 - 2013 | Artist in residence at 'Gelbes Haus' Lucerne, Switzerland |
2012 | scholarship of the European Association of Animation |
Solo Exhibitions
2013 | CafeTERRORia – satellite exhibition within the Fumetto Comix Festival in Lucerne, Switzerland |
Group Exhibitions
2017 | Metaphors for Immersive Software Visualisation – Handelskammer Hamburg |
Metaphors for Immersive Software Visualisation – VR Scientific Festival at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden |
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2016 | CYBER ISLAND – One-Night Art Show, Halle |
2015 | Nice Nice Very Nice – GENERATE! Festival for Electronic Arts, Tübingen |
As If – Office Gallery in Bremen |
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2014 | YOU DON'T DREAM ABOUT THE INTERNET – Kreuzberg Pavillon, Berlin |
WONDERFUEL ZEROMONEY – Gelbes Haus, Lucerne, Switzerland |
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2013 | I've got the Power – exhibition project in the Kunstraum Teiggi, Gelbes Haus, Lucerne, Switzerland |
Un/möglich. Kreuz und Queer. – Galerie Herold, Bremen |
Lectures
2017 | European Media Art Festival: WYDSIWYG - What You Do Not See Is What You Get: Software in VR, Osnabrück |
ArtCenter College of Design (USA): Guest speaker and mentor at Media Design Practices VR/AR Lab |
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2016 | ZKM Karlsruhe: Virtual Reality - Affects or Reflection? - Lecture at the Philosophy Symposium 'The Real of Reality' (with Tobias Matzner) |
Chaos Computer Club Conference Hamburg: 'VR and Surveillance' Assembly Group lecture and discussion |
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Spectrum - Stiftung Deutsches Technikmuseum, Berlin: 'What Is it Like to Be a ... Lobster? 90s and the hidden side of virtual materiality' |
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Public Urban Lab Bremen: Zillion City - Visuelle Semiotik der Gouvernementalität |
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2015 | Kunsthalle Bratislava: 'Visual Semiotics of Governmentality: Art, politics and criticism' |
Collaborations
since 2014 | artistic direction at D.O.C.H. |
2010 | co-founder of Kultur im Bunker e. V., Bremen |