wiss. Mitarb. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Petra Gemeinböck

Petra Gemeinboeck leads the PEEK research project Dancing with the Nonhuman, funded through the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), 2019-22. At the National Institute for Experimental Arts (NIEA), University of New South Wales, AU, she leads an Australia Council Research (ARC) Discovery Project (2016-2019).

Petra’s artistic research practice crosses creative robotics, performance and feminist theory, bringing critical questions of embodiment, materiality and performativity into the arena of social robotics. In 2015, she co-founded the Machine Movement Lab with her collaborator Rob Saunders (Leiden University, NL). Previously, she developed interactive and robotic installations and virtual (CAVE) environments. Her artworks have been exhibited internationally, including at the Ars Electronica Festival; International Triennial of New Media Art at NAMOC, Beijing; MCA Chicago; and GoMA, Brisbane. Petra was a finalist of the National New Media Award 2012, AU, and received an Honorary Mention at the Live 2011 Grand Prix, Digital Turku, FI. She has been invited to speak on her artistic research practice at international institutions and events, most recently as a keynote speaker at the Performing Robots Conference 2019 in Utrecht, NL.

Petra completed her doctoral studies in Visual Culture (Vienna University of Technology, 2004) with a dissertation on ‘Negotiating the Virtual: Inhabiting Architectures of Emergence and Remoteness’. She also has a Dipl.-Ing. degree in Architecture (University of Stuttgart, 2000) and a Master of Fine Arts in Electronic Visualisation (U of Illinois Chicago, 2003).

Over the past 20 years, Petra has worked in Australia, U.S.A, UK, and France. She was awarded an EU-funded Senior Research Fellowship at Falmouth University, UK (2018-9). Since 2009 she holds a Senior Lecturer position at the Faculty of Art & Design, University of New South Wales, where she was Director of Postgraduate Research (2014-15) and Deputy Director of the NIEA Creative Robotics Lab (2013-16).

Kontakt

Office Hours: by Appointment
petra.gemeinboeck[a]uni-ak.ac.at

Portfolio Web Seite
http://www.impossiblegeographies.net/

Machine Movement Lab Web Seite:
http://machinemovementlab.net/

Exhibition (Selection)

…and the things we do. Prototipoak Biennial: International meeting of New Artistic Forms’, curated by Mike Brookes and Rosa Casado, Azkuna Zentroa, Bilbao, ES, May – Sept. 2018

‘Re/Pair, curated by Deborah Tillman, The Big Anxiety Festival @ University of NSW, Sydney, AU, Nov. 2017

‘Thingworld: International Triennial of New Media Art’, curated by Zhang Ga, National Art Museum of China (NAMOC), Beijing, CN, June – July 2014

‘Science Fiction: New Death’, curated by Omar Kholeif and Mike Stubbs, Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT), Liverpool, UK, March – June 2014

‘Accomplice’ (solo exhibition), curated by Mark Feary, Artspace Sydney, AU, May – June 2013

‘Love Lace’, group exhibition of finalists of the International Lace Award, curated by Lindy Ward, Powerhouse Museum Sydney, AU, July 2012 – April 2013

‘National New Media Art Award 2012’, group exhibition of 8 finalists, curated by Peter McKay and Amanda Slack-Smith, Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA), Brisbane, AU, Aug.– Oct. 2012

‘Zwischenräume’ (solo exhibition), curated by Ruth Schnell, Schauraum Angewandte @ MuseumsQuartier Vienna, AT, June – July 2010

‘BIENNALE CUVÉE. World Selection of Contemporary Art’, curated by Genoveva Rückert vand Martin Sturm, OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, AT, March – May 2010

‘e-MobiLArt, Thessalonica Biennale’, curated by Roger Malina, Nina Czegledy, Annick Bureaud, and Christiana Galanopoulou, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, GR, May – June 2009

‘Intensive Science’, curated by Luc Steels, Sony Science Museum, Tokyo, JP, Dec. 2006

‘Impossible Geographies 1.1: Memory’ (solo exhibition), curated by Matthew Miller, Gallery Fabrica, Brighton, UK, Nov.– Dec. 2005

‘Pressentiments II’ (solo exhibition), Centre des Arts Enghien, Enghien-les-Bains at Paris, FR, Jan.– Feb. 2003

‘La ville à nu / The naked city: Archilab 2004’, curated by Bart Lootsma, Orléans, FR, Oct.– Dec. 2004

‘CODE – The Language of Our Time: Ars Electronica Festival 2003’, Ars Electronica Center, Linz, AT, Sept. 2003

‘Version > 03 :: Digital Arts Convergence’, Festival of Digital Media Arts, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, USA, March 2003

‘SIGGRAPH 2002: Art Gallery’, San Antonio, TX, USA, July 2002

Female Century—New Polarities: Mediarama 2001, curated by Pedro Pinzolas, Sevilla, ES, Nov. 2001

‘Alive On the Grid at Takeover: Ars Electronica Festival 2001’, Ars Electronica Center, Linz, AT, Sept. 2001

The Adventure of CAVE, cur. by Dan Sandin, NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC], Tokyo, JP, June – July 2001
Publications (Selection)

Gemeinboeck, P. (in press, 2019) Dancing with the nonhuman. In J. Bennett and M. Zournazi (eds) Thinking in the world. London: Bloomsbury Academic. [Accepted 7.3.17] Final draft available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329488300_Dancing_with_the_Nonhuman

Gemeinboeck, P. (2017) Creative robotics: rethinking human machine configurations: Introduction. Special issue ‘Creative robotics: rethinking human machine configurations’, Fibreculture Journal 28: 1–7. Open Humanities Press. Available at: http://twentyeight. fibreculturejournal.org

Gemeinboeck, P. and Saunders, R. (2017) Movement Matters: How a Robot Becomes Body. In MOCO ’17 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Movement Computing, 28-30 June, London, U.K. New York, NY: ACM Press.

Gemeinboeck, P. and Saunders, R. (2016) The performance of creative machines. In J.T.K.V. Koh, B.J. Dunstan, D. Silvera-Tawil, M. Velonaki (eds.) Cultural Robotics. Heidelberg: Springer LNCS, pp. 159–172.

Bown, O., Gemeinboeck, P., and Saunders, R. (2014) The machine as autonomous performer. In L. Candy and S. Ferguson (eds) Interactive Experience in the Digital Age. Evaluating New Art Practice. Heidelberg: Springer Series on Cultural Computing, pp. 75–90.

Gemeinboeck, P. and Saunders, R. (2013) Inventing cultural machines. In A. Dong, J. Conomos and B. Buckley (eds) Ecologies of Invention. Sydney: University of Sydney Press, pp. 37–46

Gemeinboeck, P. and Saunders, R. (2011) Other ways of knowing: Embodied investigations of the unstable, slippery and incomplete. In A. Mackenzie, A. Murphie and M. Whitelaw (eds) Special issue ‘Trans’–Transversals, Transduction, Transmateriality’, Fibreculture Journal 18: 9–34. Open Humanities Press. Available at: http://eighteen.fibreculturejournal.org

Gemeinboeck, P. and Saunders, R. (2011) Urban fictions: A critical reflection on locative art and performative geographies. Special issue ‘Mobile Ubiquity Effects: Communication, Gaming, and Innovation’, Digital Creativity 22(3): 160–173.

Gemeinboeck, P. and Saunders, R. (2011) Material matters: Machine agency and performativity. In Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA2011), 14–21 September, Istanbul, Turkey. Available at: http://isea2011.sabanciuniv.edu/paper-list

Gemeinboeck, P., Traenkle, M., Dement, L., Prinzgau, B. and Saunders, R. (2010) ‘On Track’: A slippery mechanic-robotic performance. Leonardo: Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology 43(5): 488–489.

Gemeinboeck, P. and Saunders, R. (2010) Zwischenräume: The machine as voyeur. In S. Baker and P. Thomas (eds) New Imaging: Transdisciplinary Strategies for Art Beyond the New Media, Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Transdisciplinary Imaging at the Intersections between Art, Science and Culture, 5–6 November, Artspace, Sydney, pp. 63–71.

Gemeinboeck, P. (2009) Urban fiction: between map and landscape. In Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA), 23 August–1 September 2009 Belfast, UK, pp. 370–377. Available online at:

http://www.isea-archives.org/docs/2009/proceedings/ISEA2009_Proceedings.pdf

Gemeinboeck, P., Dong, A. and Veronesi, F. (2007) Who writes the city? In G. Goggin and L. Hjorth (eds) Mobile Media 2007: Proceedings of an international conference on social and cultural aspects of mobile phones, convergent media, and wireless technologies, University of Sydney, pp. 13–22.

Gemeinboeck, P. and Dong, A. (2006) Discourses of intervention: A language for art and science collaboration. In Proceedings of International Conference: New Constellations: Art, Science and Society, March 17–19, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. CD-ROM.

Gemeinboeck, P. (2005) Constituting, traversing and perforating boundaries: Embodied interaction in immersive virtual spaces. In Proceedings of the 5th ACM Creativity and Cognition Conference, Goldsmiths College, University of London. New York: ACM Press, pp. 41–48.

Gemeinboeck, P. (2004) Un element tiers, autre—Something Third, Other. In Lootsma, B. (ed.) La ville à nu / The naked city. Archilab 2004. Orléans: Editions Hyx, pp. 235-241.

Gemeinboeck, P. (2004) Virtual Reality: “Space of Negotiation”. Visual Studies Journal 19(1): 52–59, London: Routledge, April 2004.

Gemeinboeck, P. (2003) Constructing shadows in cyberspace. (Text in German). In P. Mörtenböck and H. Mooshammer (eds) Visuelle Kultur. Körper–Räume–Medien. Wien: Böhlau, pp. 191–210.
Artist Residencies / Visiting Artist

Ars Electronica Futurelab, Linz, AT, 2012

Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, FR, 2012

Artspace Sydney, AU, 2010

Bundanon Trust, NSW, AU, 2010

University of Applied Arts Vienna, Media Art Department, AT, 2010

Digital Culture Space, MuseumsQuartier Vienna, AT, 2009

Sony Computer Science Lab (CSL), Paris, FR, 2006

Do While New Media Art, Boston, MA, USA, 2005

Competence Centre Virtual Environments (CCVE), IAO Fraunhofer Stuttgart, DE, 1999-2000