| Leslie Huppert - huppert@virtual-residency.net | |
| Internet Projects, Communication Sculptures and Video
Installations |
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| 1990-1997 | Student of Fine Art at HBK Saar (Saar Art College) Painting under professor Bodo Baumgarten, Media Arts under professor Ulrike Rosenbach and professor Jill Scott |
| 1994 | Study year abroad at Nova Scotia College for Art and Design (NSCAD) in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Media Arts/Performance |
| 1997 | First class degree, MA |
| 1988 | Advisor for additional qualifying courses for teachers at the Institut für Bildung und Kultur (IBK) (Institute of Education and Culture), Remscheid |
| 1999-2000 | Lecturer at HBK Saar, Internet Art, Net Projects |
| 2000 | Teacher for the model project KUNST MACHT SCHULE |
Prizes, Grants, Funding and Awards |
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| 1996 | Internet Art competition "Vision 2000", ZKM Karlsruhe, highly commended |
| 1997 | “Kunststudenten stellen aus” (Art Students Exhibit),
prize winner, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn |
| 1997/98 | Holder of the town of Saarbrücken’s art scholarship |
| 2000 | Brainwash (Internet project) Comtec, CYNETart 2000 (Dresden), highly
commended, |
| 2002 | "fremde heimat" (Unknown Homeland), dna-award, digital art
competition, DigitalART Frankfurt, 2nd place for "connect" |
| 2003-2004 | Saar-STIP Berlin scholarship from May 2003 - May 2004; granted by the Saarland’s permanent representatives to the federal government in Berlin. |
One-(Wo)man Exhibitions |
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| 1997 | "The Robe" – a communication sculpture in the Johanneskirche
Saarbrücken, installation & Internet |
| 1999 | Kunsthaus Essen, Multimediale Portraits (Multimedia Portraits) |
| 2003 | "Closed Circuit" Internet and video installation, Pizzart.com,
project space in Cologne, APC-Galerie "Closed Circuit" Internet and video installation, Pizzart.com, Switzerland |
Projects |
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| 1995-1997 | “The Robe” – a communication sculpture (real exhibition project and Internet project) |
| 1996-1998 | "Nine lives of the cat" (Internet art projects) |
| 1997 | Macht & Mob (Power and the Mob) - an Internet project |
| 1998-2000 | Moving Identity and its 7 sub projects (Internet art and installation project) |
| 2000 | “Die Steinewerfer” (The Stoners), video art project and installation |
| 2001 | Conception and organisation of the international media art project "Gegenort - The-Virtual-Mine"; curatorial work together with Monika Bohr, Gertrud Riethmüller, Fevzi Konuk and Claudia Brieske – database-supported Internet platform and exhibition in the shaft complex Gegenort / Neunkirchen |
| bis 2006 | "Elsewhere - Not here, not there / Anderswo - nicht hier, nicht dort" - international exhibition project in Saarbrücken and San Francisco |
Exhibitions (selection) |
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| 1992 | "Meduse von Eric Satie" (Eric Satie’s Meduse), stage design, costumes, and video for the Schichtwechsel theatre performance |
| 1993 | "Kunstwerkberg" (Artheap), Saarberg, main administration offices, Saarbrücken |
| 1995 | "bel étage", Wilhelm-Heinrich-Straße, Saarbrücken |
| 1996 | Vision 2000, ZKM Karlsruhe Digitale 96, Photokina media art exhibition, Cologne, web art "Avatar" or "Tool20b", virtual exhibition in the "Artspace" gallery, Sydney |
| 1997 | Workshop & Ausstellung Künstler suchen Workshop &
exhibition "Künstler suchen neue Wege im Cyberspace" (Artists
in Search of New Routes in Cyberspace) in cooperation with the Centre
de Recherche Public Henri Tudor, Luxembourg "Kunststudenten stellen aus" (Art Students Exhibit), Bundeskunsthalle Bonn |
| 1998 | Multimedia Transfer 98, Karlsruhe, Learntec, Exhibition |
| 1999 | European Media Art Festival, category: Web_Internet_lounge, exhibition, Osnabrück |
| 2000 | “Visionen 2000” State Art Exhibition, Martha & Helm
Closed Circuit "Klimmzug" (Pullup), in the offices of Lynx GmbH, Münster "Stop & Go", Tufa Trier, for Tufa’s 10-year anniversary festival |
| 2001 | "Die Steinewerfer" (The Stoners), video project, video installation,
Berlin, in the Grasgrün cellars Anthology of my Internet works for the international Internet festival "File 2001" in Sao Paulo, Brazil 2001 "The Virtual Mine", at Gegenort, Neunkirchen, on the internet, www.the-virtual-mine.net Project presentation "Gegenort - The Virtual Mine" at the Biennale for Digital Media Art, Manila, Philippines, and at the Symposium for Digital Art in Sao Paulo, Brazil |
| 2002-2003 | "Stop & Go", video installation for the project "Mein
Aldi, mein Cora Delux", Saarbrücken, Metz, Luxembourg, Pirmasens,
Brussels Dna-award exhibition "fremde heimat" (Unknown Homeland) in the Dominican monastery forum |
| 2003 | Bad Emser Media Art Days, Internet lounge, Internet projects http://leslie.internett.de Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Saarländischer Künstlerbund "Die Steinewerfer" (The Stoners) |
| 2004 | 2004 State Art Exhibition, "Closed Circuit II", Internet art project, Saarlouis |
| 2005 | Digital Art, Frankfurt, DNA - Award Feel Safe be free, Ausstellung |
