As an international timebased media artist, Claudia Schmitz explores boundaries: Limits of perception, real and imagined barriers, liquid processes, body discourses. She explores paradigms of media translation - as a solo artist and in collaborative projects. She uses sculpture and projection, multidimensional drawing, (live) moving image and AI – in real space, virtual and augmented reality – to explore new forms of sound, space and experience. The questioning of hegemonic perception, the exploration of identity and space, exploring identity in virtual and real space, reactivity vs. interactivity, inter- and transmediality, machine learning and artificial intelligence are main topics of her current artistic research.

By passing through temporary stages, by discarding and re-inventing themselves, her pieces explore oscillating stages of being and non-being, of existence inside and outside the image. Relying on the spectators to trigger them, many of her pieces discuss the extent and possibilities of participation. Thanks to the Goethe-Institut, the German Federal Cultural Foundation and many other funding institutions, her work has already been realised and exhibited in more than 20 countries. internationally active artist and educator - won numerous awards and nominations - present in international public and private collections.

My project colleague is UTE WASSERMANN

Ute Wassermann has studied visual arts (sound installation, performance art) at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg, and singing at the University of California, San Diego. She tours the world as an improviser, she realises audiovisual voice performances / installations and compositions for soloists and ensembles. At the core of her research is an ongoing and uncompromised exploration of her voice. Ute Wassermann´s otherworldy singing transcends the human voice. She sings multidimensional sculptural sounds oscillating between electronic, animalistic, inorganic and human qualities. Sound environments are an important source for her imagination. Her performances engage with everyday objects or self invented instruments for voice which can take shape as acoustic costumes. website: https://utewassermann.com, insta: https://www.instagram.com/voicextensions/