Wien, 10.06.2018

Curriculum Vitae

Francine Xavier
New Media Artist, born 1956
Process art in relation to technology and the future of humans

Address: 4070 Eferding, Wagrein 82
Mail: fx(AT)kunstlabor.at
PGP Fingerprint: A241 18ED 4CD5 AA24 CA8E 28F0 FCFA 0EA9 D0A0 77AC
Publications in Versorgerin
Francine Xavier

Teaching Experience

Years Institution Details
1987-1991 University of Applied Art in Vienna Computer Graphics, Programming, Audiovisual Production
1989-1992 Lab for Visual Media, University of Applied Art Research and teaching in visual media
1993-1996 University of Graz Communication Theory
1997-2000 Silverserver Wireless Networking, Autonomous Networking

Social Context

Exhibitions

Year Location Title Description References
2022 Internet NFP Givecoin Not Fungible Picture based on own cryptocurrency NFP
2022 Hamburg Stubnitz Radiotopia Radio Art Summit - Takeover Hertzian Space Radiotopia
2021 River Traun - Linz Art Float Eleonore Free Media Free INFO - SAT Up-Downlink Free Media
2020 Internet The Third Nature Digital Word becomes the third Nature Infolab
2019 Linz 48x5 - Sandhole Build a concave sandhole to collect the past by hydrogen emission of the universe Infolab STWST48x5
2019 STWTST Servus Clubraum Entropia Quantensturm Clubraum Making noise with semiconductors and radioactive decay Infolab
2018 Biennale Taipei Patulin Mycelium Network Society, A molecular structure with mycelium as an alternative to learning about information Universes Art
2017 Linz, Amsterdam, Hamburg WSPR - JT 9 Autonomous networking in context to art Funkfeuer
2017 Graz Shifing Baselines Schaumbad - Unplugged - Randomness Kulturserver
2016 Wien Free Will Generator Schauraum - Digitale Kunst Angewandte
2015 Graz Nixe Hydrogen sound from macrocosmos Musikprotokoll
2014 Riga Fields Ghostradio - Static and dynamic field crossing RixC, Catalogue
2014 Linz Fieldworks Kunst - Wasser - Information Kunstradio - Radiokunst
2014 Haibach Q-Bit Insite and outsite of Information Felder
2013 Linz Givecoin Start of a Blockchain Currency Website
2012 Linz Stadtwerkstatt The New Currency - Gibling punkaustria
2012 - ongoing Linz S=k log W Infolab of STWST infolab.stwst.at
2010 - ongoing Linz - Amsterdam - Hamburg Artist in Residence AiR Programm on Boats Website
eleonore2.pdf
2009 - ongoing Linz Art Consultant For Stadtwerkstatt (STWST) Linz Website
2008 Linz DoNAUtic Islands - Isolated in the World of Information donautics.com
2008 Dortmund Hartware Dortmund Waves - The Art of the Electromagnetic Society Ruhrnachrichten.de
e-flux
Catalogue
2006 Riga Waves Electromagnetic Waves as Material and Medium for Arts The Next Layer
rixc.lv
Catalogue
2006 Graz medien.KUNSTLABOR 3rd Year
Curator: Netculture vs Netart.
Artists and Netactivists: Roland Jankowski, Ferdinand Götz, Bernd Schröckelsberger, Wolfgang Fuchs, Barbara Doser, Hofstetter Kurt, 5uper.net, Lesser Group Austria, sonance.net, Esel, Michael Aschauer, Sergey Yugov, IPTS, W.A.S., TEA Line, Ferdinand Schmelz, A.Dabrowski, A.List, G.Graf, J.Hofmueller, S.Sauer, C.Kummerer, E.Nindl, A.Kaplan, P.Boehm, P.Tiefenbacher, M.Priesch, C.Traxler, P.Jauernig, B.Hewis, A.Zemene, O.Gsenger, Andreas Marksteiner, R.Urban, P.Stieglecker, H.Schwabl, G.Graf, Heribert Hirschmann, Leo Schatzl, Armin Medosch, kuda.org, Reni Hofmueller, Seppo Gruendler, OR-OM, Salsaman, Dorian Santner, Tim Boykett.
medien.kunstlabor.at
kunstlabor.at
Catalogue
2005 Amsterdam Autonome Einheit In a 9-meter sailing boat, a computer, a wind generator, and several solar panels were installed. The goal was the automation of the vessel.
2005 Linz Der Mythos von Bolshevik On the river Danube, we were looking for free wireless networks with a motorboat. Our destination was a hack meeting on an island in Bulgaria. http://stroem.ung.at
Kurier
2004 Graz medien.KUNSTLABOR 1st Year
Artists and Netactivists: Udo Wid, Jaromil, Albert Weichselbraun, Marc Ries, YAVASG, Sven Guckes, Klaus Knopper, Marcus/Ruediger Krenn, ubermorgen, Franz Krahberger, Peter Ablinger, Marcus Gansberger, Cym, Richard Kriesche, Reichweite, Prima Stadtmusikanten, Sergius Kodera, Herbert Hrachovec, XXkunstkabel, Werkstadt Graz, Vanesa Cvahte, Severin Hofmann, David Moises, Winfried Ritsch, Franz Schaefer, Microgiants, KIG.
http://medien.kunstlabor.at
http://kunstlabor.at
2003 Graz medien.KUNSTLABOR Opening of the medien.Kunstlabor.
The Dataspind - an automatic server housing system for net artists and people active in net culture. The system was built like luggage lockers in a railway station.
http://kunstlabor.at/faecher.html
DerStandard.at
2003 Wien Funkfeuer Founding the association of Funkfeuer. Funkfeuer is a free wireless mesh network in Vienna. http://funkfeuer.at
Falter.at
2003 - ongoing Eferding RT03 Rebuilding of the radio telescope from 1995. xav.net
2001 Wien Funknetz - Funkfeuer Building up a wireless network routes with 15 static nodes in Vienna. http://funkfeuer.at Book
1999 Wien Fremdsteuerung In a display window (subway station: Babenbergerstrasse) was a self-made computer with 100 electrical devices. Over the Internet, users could switch on and off these domestic appliances. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Netbase
1999 Oberösterreich Mobile Platzsprecher - Festival der Regionen 10 cars with outside-mounted loudspeakers drove for one week through Upper Austria. On each car was a phone number printed. One could call this number and make public announcements. http://www.fdr.at
KronenZeitung
OOE Nachrichten
Neues Volksblatt
Catalogue
1997 Wien Funknetz - Silverserver First WiFi experiments, in cooperation with Silverserver http://funk.ung.at
1997 Linz Rearview - Contained - VOEST A radiotelescope (turnaround 180/360 degrees) has been built up. http://www.timesup.org
1997 Wien Kunsthalle Exnergasse 1. Internet surfing with a fax machine.
2. A facsimile was redrawn by a computer program written by the artist and was sent back immediately.
Der Standard
1997 Graz/Hongkong A handover project in cooperation with the Werkstadt Graz Through different ways and media, we tried to reach European friends and media. http://fax.priv.at Booklet
1996 Katzow/Ostsee Sculpturepark Katzow Built up a 30-meter concave hole. All radiations coming from the universe were concentrated in the focus. Kleine Zeitung
Kronenzeitung
1996 Plueschow Schloss Plueschow 1. The Electronic Gallery - a Fido network.
2. TIT for TAT (F.E. Rakuschan)
http://www.plueschow.at Booklet
1995 Ephessos Place of archeological excavation Behind a semitransparent mirror was a camera hidden with a sensor. From every passerby a picture was taken automatically. http://www.fabrikanten.at
1996 Ampflwang, OÖ Coalmine A memorial to the mountain. Inside the mountain, before the tunnel was shut down forever, a camera with a light was installed. The memorial was the LIVE-Picture from inside the mountain. http://www.fdr.at
1995 Wien VBS Building up the first DSL-Network in Austria. Together with VBS, ATnet, Silverserver. http://vbs.at
1995 Linz ars electronica HotelTV. You could see "The Electromic Gallery" (50 Artists in a closed FIDOnet) on one channel of the Ramada Hotel. http://www.aec.at
Das Profil
1995 Wien, Graz, Linz, Salzburg, Innsbruck Die Elektronische Galerie 50 Artists were invited to send their pictures or text-contributions over a modem or fax machine to a central computer. The slideshow of the pictures was distributed by a FIDOnet. You could see the slideshow in two ways:
1. A LCD-Display in a baroque picture frame
2. A black canvas. Inside the picture was a modem, a computer, and a small television transmitter. If you had the picture in the same room with your TV, you could see the slideshow on channel 38.
http://www.aec.at
Der Standard
Booklet
1995 Linz Stadtwerkstatt, Flugshow Wiener Neustadt On a selfmade powerfill displayarray (20kWatts) you could show figures and characters. The display was built up on a truck. The speed of the characters was inversely proportional to the speed of the truck. It seemed like the text didn't move at all in the landscape. http://stwst.at
1994 Salzburg Galerie 5020, Diagonale, Medienkunst vs Videokunst The view of the Earth from the outside via Meteosat4, together with events on Earth over the course of a year. The time events were collected via teletext and displayed under the 365 clocks hanging as a frieze on the wall. Information as the material of art. Der Standard
1994 Bregenz Magazin 4 - 72 Hours Three people, three days in a conference call. No privacy. Margarethe Jahrmann, FE Rakunschan, and Thomas Feuerstein. Bregenzer Kunstverein
V Nachrichten
Vorarlberger Nachrichten
1993 Rostock Stubnitz, Kunst Raum Schiff 1. Kunstlabor built up a typical Labsituation.
2. The Exhibition. The ORBIT: 9 TV-Monitors showing a live picture from the earth (Meteosat).
http://stub.mur.at
Die Presse
Regional
Regional2
1993 Linz ars electronica Molektronic Networking. An installation between nature and technology. http://aec.at
Picture
Kronenzeitung
Catalogue