vita / about susanna schoenberg

[1967 / faenza, italy]
grew up in Bolzano/Bozen; lived in Milan and Berlin; since 1999 in Cologne

studies in social sciences (Universitá degli Studi di Milano) and cinematrographic techniques (Civica Scuola del Cinema di Milano);
phd in sociology (Universitá degli Studi di Milano);
post-graduate studies in media arts at the Academy for Media Arts Cologne (KHM)

artistic production since 1990 mainly in the fields video, photography installation, performance;

since 2002 producing also as arte-e-parte;

founded 2004 re-active platform;

founder member of the german media art magazine offtopic;

teaching and researching in social and communication sciences, methodology, data analysis, visual sociology and documentary techniques; film and videomaker;

2004-2010 assistant professor at the KHM in charge of the atelier for multimedia & performance;

seminar activities documentated under http://www.khm.de/export/re-active and http://www.livestream.com/virtual_group;

collaboration with Prof. Julia Scher documentated under:
http://blog.khm.de/surveillant_architectures.

techniques&artefacts --
media arts; computer supported installations; experimental video; documentary; photography; performance;

topics&strategies --
dramaturgic staging for non linear narrative;
time/space structures in expanded photography applying panorama and 3d-techniques;
the transfer (of meaning) by signs (using icons, gestures, telecommunication, code..);
database-structures; data analysis; reactive systems;
kartography; the linguistic image; the stichted word; gender; the productive gesture; the format and its translation; the techno-image.

www.susanna-schoenberg.net

susasch@netcologne.de

exhibitions, screenings & festivals (selection) --

returnable 20II, Noarte, San Sperate (Italy 2011)
re-active platform, MOCA Taipei (Taiwan 2011)
Translife, NAMOC Beijing (2011)
Padiglione Italia nel Mondo, Istituto Italiano di Cultura Colonia and Arsenale Biennale di Venezia (Cologne and Venice 2011)
re-active platform, C.A.R. Zeche Zollverein (Essen D 2010),
backlash, Raummusik concerts and performances, alte Feuerwache (Cologne D 2010),
re-active platform, glasmoog (Cologne D 2010),
returnable, workshop @ Paese Museo (San Sperate I January 2010),
Futurismus und so, Raummusik concerts and performances, Kunstwerk (Cologne D 2009),
returnable, workshop @ CAFA Beijing (Beijing February-March 2009),
Staged Materials, Huan Tie Art District, (Beijing 2008), deTOUR, galerie BUK (Leipzig D 2008),
Transterritoriale Generation, workshop @ Paço das Artes (Sao Paulo BR 2007),
Rencontres Internationales, (Berlin, Madrid 2007; Paris 2006),
Japan Media Arts Festival & Festival Exhibition (Tokyo 2006),
Vidéothèque Éphémère du Festival VIDEOFORMES (Clermont-Ferrand F 2006),
«restricted view», reinraum e.V. (Duesseldorf D 2006),
expanded arts no.2 (Kunstverein Kreis Guetersloh D 2005), nepdoc (Reutlingen D 2005),
tECNICHE mISTE, Istituto Italiano di Cultura (Cologne D 2004),
Festival International de Films de Femmes (Creteil F 2004), expanded arts @ art cologne (Cologne D 2004), rheinschau (Cologne, D 2004), tekfestival (Roma I 2004),
goandstop, European Media Art Festival (Osnabrueck D 2003),
Torino Film Festival (I, 2003 and 1996), portraits (in time), Taiwan International Visual Center (Taipei 2003),
zebra poetryfilm award (Berlin 2002); campus, ars electronica (Linz A 2002),
Arcipelago (Roma 2001, 1999, 1997 and 1993),
videopoems, Museo de Arte Moderna de Buenos Aires (Argentina 2000),
bff Bellaria Film Festival (Bellaria I 2001), Filmmaker (Milano I 2000 and 1998),
italian experimental, Filmmuseum Amsterdam (NL 1999),
Internationaler Videokunstpreis des ZKM (Karlsruhe D 1998),
Festival Internazionale Cinema di Locarno (Locarno CH 1998), inVideo (Milano I 1998 and 1996), Immaginale: Videoart and Photography from Italy (Berlin, Roma 1998),
Merano TV Festival (Meran I 1998 and 1997),
Festival del documentario italiano/Premio Libero Bizzarri (San Benedetto I 1998),
CortoImolaFestival (Imola I 1998 and 1997),
sala1 (Roma 1997), Teatro Ponchielli (Cremona I 1996), Florence Underground (Firenze I 1996), the Knitting Factory (NYC 1995), Museo Pecci (Prato I 1995),
Alpe Adria Cinema (Trieste I 1994),
Festival Anteprima del cinema indipendente italiano (Bellaria I 1993).