Andrea Zapp creates digital “Networked Installation Stages”, mixing and referencing real, virtual and online spaces, combined with surveillance interfaces and technology.

Recent research includes “Media, Miniature and Shifting Scales” as another reflective format of installation architecture and digital habitat.

Current ongoing experiments take these ideas further into “Textile Media”, combining narrative and digital imagerywith fabric print and desgin, embroidery, fashion and sculpture.

Works as Sen. Lecturer at the School of Art/Manchester Metropolitan University and currently develops the MA Media Lab (postgraduate studies and practice in collaboration with external art & media centres in the UK) – to begin Oct 2009

Contact: zapp (at) snafu.de


Research and Curatorial Projects

Curator of The World is My Imagination, Media-Model-Miniature, International Media Art Exhibition, Cube Gallery Manchester, Sept to Nov 07

Curator of StoryRooms - International Exhibition on Networking and Media Art, The Museum of Science and Industry Manchester, Oct 05 to Jan 06
http://www.storyrooms.net

Unheimlich - Networked online theatre performance between Brown University Providence/Rhode Island and University of Salford/Manchester, 2005
between Siggraph exhibition, Boston, USA, and University of Salford, July 2006
in collaboration with Steve Dixon and the Chamaeleon Performance Group, Mathias Fuchs and Paul Sermon
http://creativetechnology.salford.ac.uk/unheimlich

Project contribution to The Mask - Viaje a traves de la Mascara - collaborative Netart and Research Group, University of Santiago de Chile (project leader Margarita Schultz), 2004

Symposium on Networked Narrative Environments, hosted by the FACT Media Centre Liverpool, 2003


Memberships

Jury member, Grants for Digital and Media Arts, City of Vienna (Magistrat 7, Kunst und Kultur)

Ma-net, Media Arts Network North West

Studio at Islington Mill Salford, Greater Manchester, Artists studio, exhibition and performance centre


Exhibitions of Installations (since 2000)

Maschine-Raum – A Biennial on Video, Art and Culture
Museum of Contemporary Art, Veje, Denmark, 2007 (Human Avatars)

The World is My Imagination, Media-Model-Miniature
International Media Art Exhibition, Cube Gallery Manchester, Sept to Nov 07 (Eye 2 Eye)

Interval: Electric Body
Lower Turks Head, Manchester, 2006 (05march/10:43 pm)

Siggraph Art Exhibition
Boston, 2006 (Unheimlich)

StoryRooms - Interactive Networks, Media Art and Installations
The Museum of Science and Industry Manchester, Oct 05 to Jan 06 (Human Avatars)

18th International Filmwinter
Stuttgart, Germany, 2005 (05march/10:43 pm)

VAERK 04 - Changing Territories – Exhibition
Knabstrup Kulturfabrik, Denmark, 2004 (05march/10:43 pm)

International Film Festival Rotterdam, based upon True Stories Exhibition
2003 (Little Sister)

4th Austrian Phototriennial 2003,
Graz, Austria (The Imaginary Hotel: Grazer Zimmer)

The Chapman Gallery/Cornerhouse Manchester, Folly Lancaster
2002 (The Imaginary Hotel)

FILE - International Festival of Electronic Language, Museum of Image and Sound, Sao Paulo City, Brazil, 2001 (Little Sister)

Moving Pictures - Photography and Film in Contemporary Art
5. Intern. Foto -Triennale, Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany, 2001 (Little Sister)

Sculpture Now! - Art, Performance and Technology
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, USA, 2001 (Little Sister)

Update 2.0 - Current Media Art from Germany
ZKM Karlsruhe/Goethe - Institute Munich, Catalogue and Travelling Exhibition, 2000-04 (Little Sister)


Residencies

Artist-in-Residence at Okno Gallery Cheljabinsk/Goethe-Institute Moscow, Russia, 2006

Artist-in-Residence at the Leverhulme Trust, London/School of Art and Design, Dept. of Visual Arts, University of Salford, Greater Manchester, England 2001/02


Visiting lectures

Art Academy, University Bilbao, Spain, July 2007

School of Television & Imaging/Contemporary Arts Cinema, Dundee, Scotland, 2005

Curtin University of Technology and Central TAFE, Perth, Australia, 2004

Universidad Internacional de Andalucia, Seville, Spain, 2004

University of Lancaster, Theatre and Performance Studies, England, 2004

Hull Time Based Art Centre, Hull, England, 2003


Lectures at the German Goethe-Institutes and local institutions

Cheljabinsk/Ekaterinburg, Siberia, 2006

Cairo, Egypt, 2002

Jekaterinburg/Perm/Nishnij Novgorod/Moscow, Russia, 2002

Kiev, Ukraine, 2001

Santiago de Chile, Montevideo, Uruguay, Cordoba/Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2000


Conference Presentations

Sensual Technologies, ICA, London, July 2008

Disrupting Narratives, Tate Modern, London, July 2007

Siggraph Conference Boston, 2006

Kunstverein and University Graz, Austria, 2006

Fused Space Symposium, Jan van Eyck Design Academy/Stroom Media Centre, The Hague, Netherlands, 2005

Siggraph Conference, Los Angeles, 2005

Keynote Speaker, Biennale of Electronic Arts BEAP, Perth, Australia, 2004

Research Conference North West, Liverpool John Moores University, 2004

Sonic Arts Research Centre, Belfast, 2004

Multimedia Histories Conference, University of Exeter, England, 2003

Map Case Study 02

Sofia Art Gallery, Bulgaria, 2002

ISEA 02, Nagoya, Japan, 2002

Disparates Erzaehlen, Medienforum Munich 2001

Docs online, Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam, 2001

KIMAF - Kiev International Media Art Festival, Ukraine, 2001

CIRCUS 2001: New Synergies in Digital Creativity, Glasgow, Scotland, 2001


Book and DVD Publications

StoryRooms Exhibition DVD and Booklet, Zapp!Media, Manchester, 2006

Networked narrative environments as imaginary spaces of being, published by Manchester Metropolitan University/FACT Liverpool, 2004

New Screen Media: Cinema/Art/Narrative (Book and DVD), with Martin Rieser, published by The British Film Institute (BFI), London, and Center for Art and Media (ZKM) Karlsruhe, 2002


Essays

For We are Where We are not: Mixed-Reality Narratives and Networked Installation Interfaces, in: Susanne Knaller (ed.), Realitätskonstruktionen in der zeitgenössischen Kultur. Beiträge zu Literatur, Kunst, Fotografie, Film und zum Alltagsleben. Wien, Böhlau 2008

… and in: Chris Meigh-Andrews, Aneta Krzemien (eds.), Digital Aesthetic 2, Electronic and Digital Art Unit, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, 2007

Imaginary Spaces: User Participation in Networked Narratives, in: James Lyons, John Plunkett, (eds.), Multimedia Histories. From the Magic Lantern to the Internet, University of Exeter Press, 2007

Live - A User's Manual, in: Kuenstlerische Skizzen zur Ambivalenz von Webcam und Wirklichkeit, in: Susanne Knaller, Harro Mueller (eds.): Authentizitaet, Fink Verlag, Paderborn, Germany, 2006

Andrea Zapp: Works-in-Progress, in: A Minima 10, Art Magazine, Bilbao, Spain 2005 Vernetzte Installationskunst: Fluechtige Begegnungen und imaginaere Handlungsraeume, in: Monika Fleischmann, Ulrike Reinhard (eds.), Digitale Transformationen, Whois Verlag, Heidelberg Germany, 2005

The Imaginary Hotel, in ISEA '02, Proceedings, Nagoya, Japan, 2002

A Sense of Weightlessness, in: Galina Dimitrova, Anneke Pettican, Steve Symons (eds.): Urban Cycles, Manchester, 2002

George Legrady's Slippery Traces - Elusive Tracks and Mise en Scène, in: The Complete Artintact, ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany, 2002


Grants and Awards

Exhibition Grant from the Arts Council England North West for The World is My Imagination, 2007

Project Grant from the Arts Council England North West for Unheimlich, 2006

Project Grant from the Goethe-Institute Moscow for Eye 2 Eye, 2006

Exhibition and DVD Grant from the Arts Council England North West for StoryRooms 2005/06

Project Grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Board, 2005, for Human Avatars

Professional Development Grant from the Arts Council England North West, 2004

Fellowship from the Arts and Humanities Research Board, England, 2002-2005

Project Grant from the Sektion Kunst, BKA (National Arts Council) Vienna, Austria, 2003, for The Imaginary Hotel: Grazer Zimmer

Stipend from The Leverhulme Trust London, 2001-02 for The Imaginary Hotel

Project Grant from The North West Arts Board, England, 2002, for The Imaginary Hotel