ROBERT PRAXMARER
Education
- 2001 Diploma Engineer for Computer Science University of Linz Austria
- 1995 - 2001 Computer Science at Johannes Kepler University of Linz Austria
- 1992 - 1995 Scholarship for Chaos theory for highly gifted pupils
- 1987 - 1995 8 years high school
- 1983 - 1987 4 years primary school
Professional career
- 2005 Workshop for 3D Game Development at Trinity College Dublin
- Since 2004 Lecturer at the art university of Linz Interface Cultures Christa Sommerer + Laurent Mignonneau
- 2002 - 2003 Civil Service (tutor for problem kids) at Soz.pلd. Jugendwohnheim Wegscheid
- Since 2002 key researcher for computer vision in the Ars Electronica Futurelab
- Since 2001 member of the Virtual Reality Research Department of the Ars Electronica Futurelab
- Since 1998 core member of the Ars Electronica Futurelab, doing concepts, visions, realizations in the fields of science, technology and art.
- 1997 Development of a measurement system for eye surgery
- 1996 - 1997 Museums Guide in the Ars Electronica Museum
- 1996 Development of CBL systems (computer based learning)
- 1992 Programming of a industry labeling printer for cheese weight and labeling for Alpi Molkerei
- 1987 - 1990 Wrote several programs for computer magazines (Schneider CPC, DOS, CHIP)
Exhibitions
- 2005 upcoming Re:Activism Budapest Hungary
- 2005 Prog:me Festival Rio de Janeiro Brasil
- 2005 Interferenze Festival Italy
- 2005 OUTVIDEO International video-art festival in public spaces Ekaterinburg Russian Federation
- 2005 Version Festival Invincible Desire Chicago USA
- 2005 Point of View - Art Show of Digital Games and Research Association Vancouver Canada
- 2005 Entermultimediale 2 Prague Czech Republic
- 2005 Illegal Machines Artopos Center Greece
- 2005 Stuttgarter Film Winter Stuttgart, Germany
- 2004 cosign 2004 University of Split, Croatia
- 2004 "city obscura" at Liquid Music Judenburg Austria from "io" [:= Reinhold Bidner + Robert Praxmarer =:]?
- 2004 Electrofringe Newcastle Australia
- 2004 New Forms Festival Vancouver Canada
- 2004 FILE GAMES Sao Paulo Brasil
- 2004 Machinista 2004 Best Works
- 2004 StencilU? was exhibited at FocusOn? Schmiede Hallein Austria
- 2004 (t)error was exhibited at FocusOn? Schmiede Hallein Austria
- 2004 (t)error - a mixed reality persiflag on world politics shown at RebelArt? Festival at "Club der polnischen Versager" and "Galerie zur Moebelfabrik" Berlin
- 2003 Watchful portrait at "Two Responsive Portraits, Six Permanent Landscapes", Gallery of Photography, Dublin, colloboration with John Gerrard (Ireland)
- 2003 (t)error - a mixed reality persiflag on world politics shown at Violence Online Festival Version 9.0 shown at MAD 03 ind Madrid Spain
- 2003 Orgasmatron at Ars Electronica Pixelspaces Exhibition Austria
- 2003 Co.In.Cide at Ars Electronica Festival Hauptplatz and Kirchengasse together with x-space
- 2003 Co.In.Cide at Kulurhauptstadt Graz 2003 "Stadt, Land, Kunst "and Liquid Music in Judenburg together with x-space
- 2002 Baltic Art Center, Sweden
- 2001 CynetArt? Festival Dresden
- 2001 NIC 2001 Nordic Interactive Conference
Speeches
- 2004 Cosign Conference Computational Semiotics in Media, Art and Games
- 2004 Electrofringe Panel Cause & Effect: The Human in the Interface
- 2004 New Forms Festival Artist Talk
- 2003 "D.A.T.A. 14" Dublin Art and Technology Association: My works and projects in the field of media, art and technology
- 2001 Ars Electronica Festival 2001 - PixelSpaces?: Open Lab FutureLab? Production Space
- 2001 Ars Electronica Festival 2001 - PixelSpaces?: Applied Environments: CAVE Applications by the Ars Electronica FutureLab?
- 2001 CynetArt? Festival 2001 - Nukke: Religion, mysticism and cyberspace
Awards
- 2004 (t)error was honoured with the fourth place in Memefest 04 Festival for radical communication
- 2004 (t)error was juried for the Shortlist (best 30 works) of Machinista 2004 (Moscow/Glasgow)
- 2003 (t)error was honoured as upcoming artistic work with a prize from MAD 03 Madrid Spain (segundo encuentro internacional de arte experimental de madrid)
- 2003 Honorary mention from UNESCO "Digital Pluralism" - UNESCO Digital Arts Award at IAMAS Japan
- 1994 5th place in the national youth programming award of the Austrian computer society
- 1993 Participation in the Olympiad in Informatics, Mendoza Argentina
- 1993 Qualification for the international Olympiad in Informatics, Mendoza Argentina
- 1993 7th place in the national youth programming award of the Austrian computer society
Papers
- Christopher Lindinger, Florian Berger, Horst H�rtner, Pascal Maresch, Reinhold Pl�sch, Gustav Pomberger, Robert Praxmarer, Wolfgang Ziegler. ARSBOX and Palmist - Technologies for Digital Mock-up Development in Immersive Virtual Environments. Proceedings of IASTED INternational? Conference on INternet? and Multimedia Systems and Applications-EuroIMSA? 2005, Grindelwald, February 21-23 2005, Switzerland Praxmarer, R. Media Pop Art - Electronic Art as Satire on Everday's Life. CoSign? Conference Proceedings 2004 H�rtner, H., Praxmarer R., Maresh, P., Naglhofer, C. Libro Vision - Gesture-Controlled Virtual Book. Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling and Entertainment. TIDSE Conference Proceedings, Darmstadt, Germany, 2004 * Horst H�rner, Christopher Lindinger, Robert Praxmarer, and Andreas Riedler. ACM SIGGRAPH 2002, Emerging Technologies, page 64, 2002.
Interests
Media, Philosophy, Art, Literature, Psychology, Abstract Thinking