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'This new artist is an architect of the space of events, an engineer of worlds for billions of future histories, a sculptor of the virtual’ Pierre Lévy

P R O J E C T. o v e r v i e w

B r i g i t t a oZ i c s iis a media artist and A PhD student, currently focusing on interface development, interactive installations and real-time visualisation.
Her main research interest is the multi-self model in Virtual Reality.

Project site for computer based art

contemporary digital media artist

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contact: brigittaopal(at)gmail.com

NEWS

Visiting Fellow at TRANSTECHNOLOGY Research Group
University of Plymouth >>>

DATE:09. 2007

MIND CUPOLA is a Mind Control device which serves to alter human consciousness with scientific and non scientific methods. The Cupola is the special interface of Out of Body Control (New Media Art project) which creates a mental feedback loop using apart the mind cupola, face analysis and real-time visualisation.

DATE: 2007/08

PRESENTATION at the University of Sharjah during the SHARJAH BIENNIAL 8, UAE
College of Fine Arts - NEW MEDIA ART PRACTICE >>>

DATE: 9 April, 2007

>>> INTERVIEW on AXISWEB Dialogue
Art into Science into Art: Out of Body Control

DATE: January, 2007

Under development: NEW INTERACTIVE ART PROJECT
>>> OUT OF BODY CONTROL © - NEW COGNITION BASED INTERACTIVE PROJECT

START DATE: January, 2006

Nomination of the Digital Sparks Award 2006, Netzspannung.org, MARS-Exploratory Media Lab, Fraunhofer Institute for Media Communication, Germany >>> M_S -project >>>

DATE: May, 2006

Nomination for the EUROPRIX Top Talent AWARD>>>

DATE: March, 2006

FUTURE AREAS in the field Digital Art:
Presentation at the University of Sharjah, UAE
College of Fine Arts - Prof. Peter Wheler >>>

DATE: 9 September, 2005

The MIRROR_SPACE was selected for the
SIGGRAPH 2005
Emerging Technologies/ Art Gallery Los Angeles>>>

DATE: July, 2005

The updated MIRROR_SPACE (2005) was presented in the exhibition "Arts and Space" in Budapest. more information>>

DATE: 16-30 March, 2005

	T O P I C A L	main projects	Development of New Interactive Art Project is underway!
PHD RESEARCH NEW MEDIA ART		PhD activity 2004-08 Practice based research University of Wales, Newport	Research Group: INVISIBLE COLLEGE [Prof. Michael Corris] THE TRANSPARENT ACT:New Model of Media Art Practice
	Presentation	23. February 2006	"New Realities based on Creative Technologies" - Presentation of general ideas about recent work and current research on the convergence of man and machine. Invisible College, UWN, School of Art, Media and Design, UK

	updated	main projects
MA DEGREE		Mirror_SPACE interactive Installation 2004/05	Mirror_SPACE is a virtual mirror where users can experience their image transformed – not according to the rules of geometric optics, but filtered by a “real time scanning apparatus”. This generates the visitor’s “mirror image” corresponding to the information supplied via its data network.
VIDEO Uploading....		WATCH Mirror_SPACE DOC	Mirror_SPACE DOCUMENTATION LONG VERSION (8 min) >>> SHORT VERSION (2 min) >>> EUROPRIX TOP TALENT VERSION >>>
	Award	May 2004	Nomination of the Internatonal\Media\Art\Award, ZKM, Karsruhe, Germany
	Exhibition	16-30 March 2005	"Arts and Space" exhibition, organised by the C3 Foundation, Millennium Park, Hall D, Budapest, Hungary >>>
	Exhibition	31 July- 4 August 2005	SIGGRAPH 2005, Art Gallery/Emerging Technologies, Convention Centre, Room 150-152, DownTown, Los Angeles, USA >>>
	Award/Presentation	2-5 March 2006	EUROPRIX Top Talent Festival and Award, Museum Quartier/Technical Museum, Vienna, Austria >>>

		main projects	www.virtualcor.net
		VirtuAlcor Software Presentation 2003	The VirtuAlcor: accelerated evolution system from Brigitta Zics is a virtual cold storage laboratory, offering the vitrification of a biological body in shape of an avatar body for eternity. At the centre of attention is the human body mirrored in Cyberspace, but modified by algorithms.
	PRESENTATION	July 2003	Altitude 2003, Academy of Media Arts, Overstolzenhaus, Studio B, Cologne, Germany
		2-5 February 2004	IMAGINA, Imagina@MG 2004, Grimaldi Forum-Monte Carlo, France
	Scholarship	2003	Hungarian State Eötvös Fellowship, Hungarian Scholarship Board, Research Fellowship, Budapest, Hungary

		experiment, outline
		CApsule project outline 2002	Capsule-Project ist ein im VR-Raum existierendes automatisches System. Die Ereignisse, die hier stattfinden, sind bestimmt durch die Algorithmen, der Benutzer kann das hier Geschehende nur beobachten. Der VR-Raum hier ist ein komplexer Raum; die hierarchische Rheinfolge von CApsule-Browsers und TimeCApsules, die induviduell organisierte Räume bilden. CApsules sind kleine Kreaturen, die nur wenige Signale für die Beobachter von außerhalb ausstoßen.
	PRESENTATION	2002	Medienforum, Presentation of Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, Germany
	Scholarship	2002	Hungarian State Eötvös Fellowship, Hungarian Scholarship Board, Research Fellowship, Budapest, Hungary

		experiment, outline
		Plasmaport interface development 2002/04	Ein manipulierbares Plasmaport stellt die Verbindung zu einem virtuellen Lebewesen her. Durch sensorische Beeinflussung verändert und reagiert der virtuelle Körper, der sich in einem hermetisch abgeschlossenen Raum befindet.
		2004/05	Development of the Plasmaport project is still underway.



	T O P I C A L	main projects
MA DEGREE		REPETITION OF THE FUTURE interactive Installation 2001	The installation is a trip into a future of endless validity - into Dante’s Inferno - which turns into time travel through the distortion of the gravitational lens, space, and time.
	PRESENTATION	June 2001	Diploma-exhibition, 2001: science+ fiction, Young Hungarian Media Artists, Barcsay Hall of the Hungarian Academy of of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
	Award	2001	Diplom Award, Prize of National Union of Hungarian Creators, Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary

		main projects
		CREATION OF REALITY space Installation 2000	Der Gegenstand der Installation ist der Versuch, aus dem gewöhnlichen Akt der empirischen Wirklichkeit bzw. der Aufnahme des Raums auszutreten, auf solche Weise, dass man “Wirklichkeitsereignisse“ zustande bringt, so versachlicht sich der Prozess selbst, und er wird zum Kunstgegenstand.
	PRESENTATION	2000	Exhibition of the Ludwig application, Barcsay Room, Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest
	Award	2000	Ludwig Award and scholarship [informative trip to Cologne, Academy of Media Arts, Germany], Budapest, Hungary

		main projects
		EYE-BALLON real time 3D for Internet (VRML) 1998-99	This computer work attempts to present the artwork of the symbolist artist Odilon Redon through VRML. Using the special context and characteristics of virtual space, it presents an individual approach to his work. (...)
	PRESENTATION	1998	Basenoise3 Project, Dominikanus House, Pecs, Hungary
		1999	Intermedia Exhibition, "Inductive junction", P60 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
		1999	"Art in the nineties in Hungary", Academy of Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
		2000	Cologne-Budapest: KHM@Intermedia, Exhibition due to 10th anniversary of the Academy of Media Arts, Overstolzenhouse, Cologne, Germany
	PRESENTATION /CATALOGUE	2000	Sony`s heart, Young artists online, Berlin, Germany

Topic	L A S To E V E N T S
TTA nominee	Interview for Europrix Top Talen Award	5 March 2006	TTA DVD-ROM of innovation in multimedia
TTA nominee	Radio-Phone interview	4 March 2006	Campus Radio, Cologne, Germany
	Nesta Future LAB - Learning Environments for the Future	December 2005	Article Getting creative page 08- download PDF file >>>
Internet TV	Broadcast of Mirror_SPACE project in CULTURE TV	24 November 2005	www.culturetv.tv >>>
papers	Selected for Interactive Arts Program - ACM Multimedia 2005, Singapour	August 2005	>>>
Presentation	Space and Perception Conference, RIXC Media Space, Riga, Latvia	May 2005	International symposium on Mixed Reality >>>
	SPACE ART Exhibition: TV presentation/interview	14. March 2005, 19.35	MTV2, Hungarian Television, www.mtv.hu Telecast: Culture of House
media\ art\ award	TV presentation/interview	21. Oktober 2004, 0.40 26. Oktober 2004, 0.10 30. Oktober 2004, 20.15, 0.10	SWR SFR Digital ARD, Arte (...)
Mirror_SPACE		September 2004	Project scholarship of Arts Foundation NRW
	Radio interview	July 2004	Campus Radio, Cologne, Germany
	www.newformsfestival.com	July 2004	Mirror_SPACE project was selected for New Forms Festival, Vancouver, Canada
	www.medienkunstpreis.de	May 2004	NOMINATION \\ international\media\art\award 2004, ZKM, Karsruhe, Germany
		April 2004	Membership of National Union of Hungarian Creators
	www.imagina.mc	4. february 2004	Meeting with Prince Albert in Monte Carlo/IMAGINA Festival
	TV presentation/interview	February 2004	Rai2, Euronews; IMAGINA@MG, Monte Carlo

FAVOURITE web sites

intitutions/centre/labs/schools

http://artschool.newport.ac.uk/welcome.html	http://www.khm.de/	http://www.zkm.de/	http://www.miralab.ch/
http://www.media.mit.edu/	http://www.v2.nl/	http://www.c3.hu/	http://www.medialabmadrid.org/
http://www.planetary-collegium.net/	http://www.iamas.ac.jp/	http://www.i-dat.org/	http://www.mecad.org/
http://www.user-lab.com/	http://www.isea-web.org/	http://www.interaction-ivrea.it/	mitpress2.mit.edu
http://www.hmcmedialab.org/	http://www.futurelab.org.uk/	http://www.culturetv.tv/

festivals/awards/conferences

http://www.medienkunstpreis.de/	http://www.siggraph.org/	http://www.aec.at/	http://www.transmediale.de/
www.v2.nl/DEAF/	http://www.viper.ch/	http://www.emaf.de/	http://www.imagina.mc/

MEDIA ART data base

http://www.rhizome.org/	http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/	http://www.netzspannung.org/	world-information.org
portal.unesco.org/culture/	http://www.visualcomplexity.com/