Lia is an

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n software artist. Born in

Graz Graz (; sl, Gradec) is the capital city of the Austrian state of Styria and second-largest city in Austria after Vienna. As of 1 January 2021, it had a population of 331,562 (294,236 of whom had principal-residence status). In 2018, the popula ...

, she is now based in

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. Her work includes the early

Net Art upright=1.3, "Simple Net Art Diagram", a 1997 work by Michael Sarff and Tim Whidden Internet art (also known as net art) is a form of new media art distributed via the Internet. This form of art circumvents the traditional dominance of the phys ...

sites re-move.org and turux.at. In 2003 she co-curated the Abstraction Now exhibition (Internet Projects and Medialounge) at the Künstlerhaus Wien in

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, Austria. In 2003 Lia received an Award of Distinction in the Net Vision/Net Excellence Category for re-move.org. In the 1990s and early 2000s, she and her collaborator at Turux employed software normally used for multimedia

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s and Web page enhancements, notably Macromedia Director, to create animated abstract images, which "demonstrates the raw visual horsepower of these tools when they’re not yoked to some mundane purpose." Her early work has been highlighted in histories of computer and digital art, particularly for its use of novel forms of interactivity. Lia subsequently developed and released interactive

generative art Generative art refers to art that in whole or in part has been created with the use of an autonomous system. An autonomous system in this context is generally one that is non-human and can independently determine features of an artwork that w ...

pieces as iOS apps, and has discussed the ways in which her construction of digital art has evolved with changes in screen resolution. She has extensively used the programming language

Processing Processing is a free graphical library and integrated development environment (IDE) built for the electronic arts, new media art, and visual design communities with the purpose of teaching non-programmers the fundamentals of computer programming ...

, which is designed for visual design and software art. Within Lia’s latest works “''Filament Sculptures''” (2014) is a series of 3d printed objects exploring

3d printing 3D printing or additive manufacturing is the construction of a three-dimensional object from a CAD model or a digital 3D model. It can be done in a variety of processes in which material is deposited, joined or solidified under computer co ...

processes beyond the creation of simple 3d models. Lia investigates how it is possible to play with the amount of filament extruded, speed and the position of the printhead and how these parameters affect the final result. She created a

processing Processing is a free graphical library and integrated development environment (IDE) built for the electronic arts, new media art, and visual design communities with the purpose of teaching non-programmers the fundamentals of computer programming ...

application that allowed her to manipulate the parameters above and to create different types of filament sculptures. She is one of the founding members of Crónica, a "media-label" publishing and distribution project for electronic art and cultural artifacts.

Selected awards

* Outstanding Artist Award, Video- and Media-Art, Vienna, Austria, 2017 * Share Prize, Honorable mention, Turin, Italy, 2015 * Digital Graffiti Curator’s Choice Winner,

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, US, 2014 * 9th Int. Animated Film Festival Tindirindis, Honorable mention, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2011 * Live 2011 Grand Prix, Artistic Game, 2nd Prize, Turku, Finland, 2011 * State Grant for Video- and Media-Art, Austria, 2008 * Prix Ars Electronica, Honorable Mention Audio-Visual Performances, Linz, Austria, 2007 * Diagonale Film Festival, Innovative Cinema, First Prize, Graz, Austria, 2006 * Portuguese Multimedia Awards, Número Festival, Honorable Mention, Portugal, 2005 * Prix Ars Electronica, Net Excellence / Award of Distinction, Linz, Austria, 2003 * (6th) Media Arts Festival, Nomination, Tokyo, Japan, 2003 * Josef Binder Award, First Prize, Austria, 2000 * Josef Binder Award, First Prize, Austria, 1998

References

External links

Current portfolio site
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