Stefanie Wuschitz is a technologist, teacher and artist working on her doctorate in the Visual Cultures Unit of Vienna’s Technical University. Researching interactive public art produced by women artists, she uses mobile technologies to create installations and invite users to playfully experiment with the construction of unique social and collaborative spaces. After graduating with honors from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna (2006) and completing her masters at New York University’s ITP program (2008) in the United States, Wuschitz spent a year at HUMlab in Sweden working as a digital art fellow and organizing the Eclectic Tech Carnival 2009, a conference for women working with open source technology. In order to build a more established network of women artists working with electronics and digital media, she founded Miss Baltazar’s Laboratory, a series of weekly workshop sessions where guests share their knowledge of open source software and design techniques with other artists. She continues to host Miss Baltazar’s Laboratory sessions on a weekly basis at Metalab in Vienna, and it will be presented at the Ars Electronica 2010. Stefanie Wuschitz’s art has been exhibited at Worm (Rotterdam), Brienner (Munich), OKNO (Brüssel), Galleri Verkligheten, Bildmuseet and HUMlab (Umeå, Sweden), Northern Center of Photography in Oulu, Galeria Hippolyte Helsinki, Austrian Cultural Forum NYC, Videonale Kunstmuseum (Bonn), Kunsthaus Graz (Austria), Goethe Institute Damaskus (Syria), Gallery The Parlour (London), Arthall Mücanok (Budapest). She has taught at universities and art institutions internationally including the University of Applied Arts (Vienna), University of Technology (Vienna), Academy of Fine Arts (Vienna), University of Salzburg, Hyperisland (Stockholm), Umeå Institute of Design (Sweden), Campus Party (Madrid), Tactical Media Conference (Brooklyn), Metalab (Vienna), Čistírna (Prague), and HUMlab (Sweden). www.grenzartikel.com www.mzbaltazarslaboratory.org
