Carola Unterberger-Probst

Carola Unterberger-Probst (born 9 May 1978 in Salzburg), aka [cup] or Carola Unterberger, is an internationally known Austrian media artist and philosopher of art. In addition to video installations and experimental films, her work contains Objet d'art, paintings and digital art. She specializes in the postmodern discourse, deconstruction, and questions on media and the arts. Unterberger-Probst was born in 1978 in the city of Salzburg. She studied at the Art University of Linz and at the Paris London University of Salzburg. Additionally, she undertook study trips to Paris, London, Hamburg and Cologne.

Her work has been displayed at exhibitions, screenings and festivals, such as the Ars Electronica Festival, and LinzFest; Transpublic, Posthof Linz, Kliemsteinhaus Linz, Galerie Palais Mannstorff, Wyspa Danzig, and Witte de With Rotterdam; the Netherland TV station NOS, and the Austrian TV station ORF; and in an Upperaustrian newspaper. She has received the 2005 National Culture Prize for "Art of Intercultural Dialogue for Media." She has been a guest at various events, such as the film festival Youki, Kinderfreunde Austria, Women's IT Summer Studies, Capturing the . . .Truth? (Berlinale 2005), and the Congress of the German Society of Semiotics.

Since 2006 she is involved with Ars Electronica in Linz.

Film & video

*"Staatsoper", ("State Opera"), experimental video, animation (2005)
*"Gdansk", music video (2005)
*"Bottom Up - Von Fünfen, die auszogen, Rock und Hose zu wechseln", experimental video, documentary (2004)
*"girls'day", report (2004)
*"zwischen kunst, medien, sozialem, integration, politik, jugend + bildung", documentary (2004)
*"Laufende Kamera", ("Running Camera"), experimental video (2004)
*"Nachtflug", movie (2003)
*"Urbane Befindlichkeiten", experimental video (2002)
*"Der Englische König", movie (2002)
*"flip tricks", experimental video, skating movie (2001)
*"Der Krückenmörder", movie (2001)
*" [rand:zone] ", documentary (2001)
*"Hochschul TV", ("University TV"), weekly TV series (1999 & 2000)
*"Wirklich Wahnsinnig", experimental video (1999)
*"Living in a Sexfish Cage", experimental video (1998)
*"tutlings first", experimental video (1996)

Contemporary art

*"pixel tiles", mosaic (2006)
*"walser", mural painting, material painting, pochoir (2006)
*"ein früher [cup] ", acrylic on canvas, pochoir (2006)
*"framed", teletext art, text (2006)
*"Allez Allez", ASCII art, trick film, paintings (2005)
*"Für A & F", installation (2005)
*"||: fragment :||", object, installation, video
*"Apoint", three photographs (2004)
*"Dito", photograph (2004)
*"Imagae", 12 photographs (2004)
*"women.art.bodies", object, installation, 74 photographs (2003)
*"Babadag", installation, performance (2003)
*"mtv.generation" 18 photographs (2003)
*"Unsichtbares Oberösterreich - Hochzeit", fake media (1998)
*"Fröbelstraße 13" 24 photographs (2001)
*"Wahrnehmungsveränderungen", b/w video, audiovisual installation (1997)

Curator

*"Borderline", exhibition of the Open Studio, Medea – Association of Arts & Media. Arists: Sissi Wunder, Anthony Wagner, Dietrich Killer, Elisabeth Öfner, Andrea Reisinger, Elvira Kurabasa, Martin Kollroß, Christina Hartl-Prager, Carola Unterberger-Probst. Presentation at "Borderline", group exhibition at Kliemsteinhaus, Linz, at.(2005)
*">Open Studio< On Tour", in the studio-bus through Poland, 4 studio days in Gdansk. Arists: Andrea Reisinger, Elvira Kurabasa, Martin Kollroß, Christina Hartl-Prager, Carola Unterberger-Probst. Presentations at ">Offenes Atelier< On Tour", artist in residence at Wyspa, Gdansk, pl; "Borderline", group exhibition at Kliemsteinhaus, Linz, at; "Museum Of The Essential And Beyond That", online-exhibition, Rio de Janeiro, br. (2005)

Producer of Exhibitions

*"Brucknerhaus Exhibition", exhibition during the Ars Electronica Festival "Simplicity" 2006. Institution: Ars Electronica Festival. Art director of the festival: Gerfried Stocker. Producer of the festival: Martin Honzik. Technical director of the festival: Karl J. Schmidinger. Artists of the exhibition: Jonathan den Breejen, Marenka Deenstra, Martin Frey, Aram Bartholl, Michael Aschauer, Gerhard Dirmoser, Robert Ashley, Ozawa Tsuyoshi.
*"Mobile City", exhibition during the Ars Electronica Festival 2006. Institution: Ars Electronica Festival. Art director of the festival: Gerfried Stocker. Producer of the festival: Martin Honzik. Technical director of the festival: Karl J. Schmidinger. Coproducer of the exhibition: Carmen Lauss. Artists of the exhibition: Jenny Chowdhury, Hyperwerk, M+M, Jane Mulfinger, Graham Budgett, Taylor Hokanson, Empfangshalle, Assocreation.
*"Make it Simple - Electrolobby 2006", exhibition & workshops during the Ars Electronica Festival "Simplicity" 2006. Institution: Ars Electronica Festival. Art director of the festival: Gerfried Stocker. Producer of the festival: Martin Honzik. Technical director of the festival: Karl J. Schmidinger. Curator of the exhibition: David Cuartielles. Technical adviser of the exhibition: Gustavo Valera. Artists of the exhibition: Ulrike Gollner, Jeldrik Schmuch, Castro Álvaro, Carlos Cabañero, Julio Obelleiro, Daniel Palacios Jimenez, C.J. Rósen, Alberto García Saenz, Emanuele Mazza, Magnus Johnsson, Pontus Stalin, Markus Appelbäck, Enrique Tomás, Magnus Torstensson, Livia Sunesson, Eric Sandelin. Workshop facilitors of the exhibition: Zachary Lieberman, Henrik Wrangel, Jürgen Scheible, Richard Widerberg, Marcus Hannerstig, Massimo Banzi, Hans Christoph Steiner, Koray Tahiroglu, Dave A. Mellis, Björn Wahlström, Tomek Ness, Bengt Sjölén, Graphity Research Lab, Enrique Tomás, David J. Cuartielles, Markus Appelbäck, Magnus Johnsson.
*"Everything’s Moving - A Guest Appearance Downtown", 2007 - 2008 the Ars Electronica Center is relocating to temporary facilities downtown. Institution: Ars Electronica Center. Art director: Gerfried Stocker. Management of the museum: Nicoletta Blacher. Technical adviser of the museum: Gerold Hofstadler. Implementation of the exhibition: Ars Electronica Futurelab. Exhibition architecture: Scott Ritter, Jakob Illera
*"Second City", part of theme exhibition during the Ars Electronica Festival "Goodbye Privacy" 2007. Institution: Ars Electronica Festival. Art director of the festival: Gerfried Stocker. Producer of the festival: Martin Honzik. Technical director of the festival: Karl J. Schmidinger. Main artist of the exhibition: Aram Bartholl. Artists of the exhibition: Justine Cooper, Institute for Applied Autonomy, Trevor Paglen, Maia Gusberti, Nik Thoenen, Hiraki Sawa, Dash Macdonald, Demitrios Kargotis, Shelly Eshkar, Paul Kaiser, Stuart Bowditch, Damien Robinson, Peter William Holden, Graffiti Research Lab, Janek Schaefer, Horst Hörtner, Christopher Lindinger, Doris Zachhuber, Florian Berger, Andreas Steinhauser, Pablo Valbuena, Eva & Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.org, Peter Harlander, Joachim Stein, Josef Klammer, Dietmar Offenhuber, Orkan Telhan, quintessenz, Manu Luksch. Workshop facilitors of the exhibition: Linda Kostowski, Sascha Pohflepp, Jan Northoff, Jürgen Höbarth, Tobias Leingruber, Joachim Stein, Markus Angermeier, Martin Bauer. Virtual exhibitions and tours: Tor Lindstrand, Jan Northoff, Andreas Lange, Joichi Ito, Eva and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.org, Peter Harlander, Jürgen Höbarth, Dietmar Offenhuber, Tobias Neiseke. Curator of IMA Salon #7 07: Elisabeth Schimana. Art kitchen of IMA Salon #7 07: Blumberg. Bar of IMA Salon #7 07: Robert Auberger. Artists of IMA Salon #7 07: Liesl Ujvary, Rebekah Wilson, Elisabeth Schimana, Florian Cramer, Sandra Naumann, Andrea Sodomka, Eva Ursprung, Eva Wohlgemuth, Inke Arns, Heidi Grundmann, Roberto Paci Dalò, Seppo Gründler, Mia Makela, Cordula Bösze, Günther Gessert, Lena Golovasheva, Jogi Hofmüller, Reni Hofmüller, Mary Ellen, Bute Kathy, Rae Huffman, Elisabth Zimmermann, Anne Thurmann-Jajes, Anne Wellmer, Liu Pei Wen, Andrey Smirnov, Edith Schild, gangart.

External links

* [http://servus.at/cup Homepage of the artist]
*imdb name|1204498
* [http://rhizome.org/member.rhiz?user_id=1043546 Carola Unterberger-Probst at "rhizome.org"]