Lorraine Walsh Receives New Media Award to Participate in
European Mobile Lab for Interactive Media
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Lorraine Walsh |
Walsh was selected to participate in the
European Mobile Lab for Interactive Media Artists (e-MobiLArt). The
main aim of the e-MobiLArt project is to provide selected new media
artists and scientists, coming from different cultural and artistic
backgrounds, with the opportunity to collaborate with other
artists/scientists in order to create interactive installation
artworks, through a process focusing on intercultural and
interdisciplinary dialogue. In order to achieve that, the project
will attempt to identify an optimal framework as a result of
collaboration amongst members of an international, interdisciplinary
and diversified consortium of European Organizations (cultural
operators, Universities and artists’ networks) as well as an
American software company. An ultimate objective of the project is
to build a community of artists, scientists, theorists, cultural
operators, academic institutions and ICT-related companies which
will continue to evolve and form new synergies after the completion
of the project.
During the e-MobiLArt project three separate artistic events in the
form of workshops will occur, involving hands-on creative
collaborative work as well as (technical and theoretical)
presentations, which will take place in three different European
Countries (Greece, Finland and Austria). Cultural operators (State
Museum of Modern Art of Thessaloniki, Gallery of the Academy of Fine
Arts – Katowice, Leonardo/OLATS) and Universities (National and
Kapodistrian University of Athens, University of Applied Arts Vienna
and University of Lapland, Group Haute Ecole ICHEC Saint Louis) from
six different European Countries (Greece, Austria, Finland, Poland,
France, Belgium) will co-operate in order to support the
collaborative efforts of new media artists/scientists by providing
them with scientific, technical and theoretical support.
The e-MobiLArt Project has been funded with support from the CULTURE
2007 Programme of the European Union. It is co-coordinated by the
University of Athens (Greece). The co-organizing partners are: the
University of Applied Arts Vienna (Austria) and the University of
Lapland (Finland). Associate partners are: Leonardo/OLATS (France),
Group Haute Ecole ICHEC Saint Louis (Belgium), State Museum of
Contemporary Art – Thessaloniki (Greece), The Academy of Fine Arts -
Katowice (Poland), Cycling74 (U.S.A.), and Infusion Systems Ltd.
(Canada).
Walsh joined UNC Asheville in 2002. She teaches animation,
experimental media and senior seminar/portfolio classes. As Director
of the MMAS program, she oversees new media initiatives and
day-to-day operations. Walsh’s art, inspired by the sciences, is
exhibited internationally in venues that include the Museum Ludwig,
Cologne, Germany, and the José Martí National Library, Havana, Cuba.
Additionally, her work is exhibited in a wide variety of gallery
exhibitions, and is included in many collections. As a senior
designer for the Petronas Science Center in Malaysia, she developed
graphics and interactive media for exhibition. Other projects have
included The National Geographic Society and The Smithsonian
Institution. Recent exhibitions (2007-08) include Pattern Finding,
College of Arts & Letters at Stevens Institute of Technology, NJ and
The NY Hall of Science, NY; Uncomfortable Landscapes, Primo Piano
Gallery, Italy, and Terminal: New Media Practices, Trahern Gallery,
Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN.
