cym - 1973 - studied graphic design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in
Amsterdam. Since 1996 working as a webdesigner. Working together with
international mailinglist/artistsgroup "42". During 1999-2000 traveling
through Europe with a sleeping-bag and laptop, researching the relation
between virtual reality and real life. Capturing all
projects and whereabouts via thousands of photos archived at http://cym.at/home. From 2001-2003 organizing workshops at Forum Stadtpark, Graz. In 2004 traveling
around Europe again, this time with exhibition, workshop and digital camera. Since 2005 cym is transforming and old farm in a small village in Southeast Austria into a small art center, experiencing the borders between net and nature.
2008
2008 August - Presentation of the project 'Walkersdorf - Center of the World' during the Regionale08
2008 July - ISEA2008 - Presentations of the projects 'No Men's Land', 'Connected:07' and 'Walkersdorf - Center of the World' during ISEA2008 in Singapore, as well as a presentation for Aether9
2008 July - Participant in the exhibition 'Smenj smeti - Waste fair' - recycle art - in Gallery Škuc, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2008 July - Mother:Earth - Workshop with women from arabic and european countries at Wd8, Austria
2008 July - Presentation of the project 'Walkersdorf - Center of the World' during the Regionale08
2008 June - Workshop Webdesign 'Netz und Natur' at Styrian Summer Art in Pöllau bei Hartberg, Austria
2008 April-June - Workshop Flash at Famul Stuart School of Applied Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia - Creating a website for an installation about Primož Trubar that was presented at Ljubljana Castle on June 19, 2008
2008 April - Contribution for the 9th International Biennial of Miniature Art in Gornji Milanovac, Serbia
2008 April - Installation at the Kabinet of the Domestic Research Society in the courtyard behind Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2008 February - Workshop Webdesign at Famul Stuart School of Applied Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia - February 11-15, 2008
2007
2007 December - Wd8-Publication 'Connected:07 - Art in the Pigsty'
2007 November - Connected:07 at NCC07 - Live performance by cym, Lojz and the Wd8-pig at the Netart Community Convention in Graz, Austria.
2007 September - Connected:07 - The first presentation of the Connected:07 project at Wd8 is on September 29, 2007.
2007 September - Pri meni na vrtu... Cym is one of the guest-artists at the project 'Pri meni na vrtu...' by Rene Rusjan in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
2007 September - The project 'No Men's Land' is presented during the Paraflows 2007 exhibition in Vienna
2007 August - 'Going Blind' - A project by Broccoli Art Group as part of the 4th Contemporary Art Exhibition at Visionario, Udine, Italy
2007 July - Workshop recycling with children during the closing event of the Styrian Summer Art festival in Schloss Pöllau in Pöllau bei Hartberg, Austria.
2007 July - Linz in HTML - Workshop webdesign during the /etc in Linz, Austria - July 11-15, 2007
2007 May - Presentation of cym's recycling products as part of the Styrian Summer Art exhibition at Schloss Pöllau, Austria
2007 April - Coordination/hosting of the film recordings of 'Shadow on the Wall' at Wd8 - http://wd8.org/
2007 April - Workshop Photoshop at Famul Stuart School of Applied Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2007 March - Presentation of the project 'No Men's Land' at the exhibition *cyber feminism past forward* at VBKOE in Vienna, Austria
2007 March - Start of regular work for buschenschank.at - creating websites for styrian winecellars
2007 March - Preparatory meeting for In Balance in Linz, Austria - http://all-for-all.nl/balans/
2007 February-March - Website for Slovenian experimental band The Stroj - http://thestroy.net/
2007 February - Workshop Webdesign for beginners and advanced at Famul Stuart School of Applied Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2007 February - Exhbition 'Patchwork - Nano and cym in Graz' at Palaver, Graz, Austria
2006
2006 November-December - Presentation of cym's recycling products at the xmas market in Graz
2006 October - Participation in the exhibition 'Stop violence against women!', Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic
2006 October - Award: Marianne.von.Willemer Frauen.Netzkunst.Preis.06 for the work "No Men's Land"
2006 October - Workshop Flash at Famul Stuart School of Applied Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2006 September - Exhibition 'Oskar and cym in Prague' - Prague, Czech Republic
2006 August - Barajevo, Serbia - Helping to create a small Art Center in Barajevo, about 25km South of Belgrade
2006 July - Styrian Summer Art, workshops recycling, exhibition, presentation, documentation
2006 July - Cliche meeting in Lasko, Slovenia. Contact making seminar for the organization of youth programms in Europe
2006 March-May - Coordination of the first artist-in-residence project at Wd8: Magda Bielesz
2006 February - Workshop Webdesign at Famul Stuart School of Applied Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2005
2005 December - Wd8 contribution to the NetArt Community Congress in Dom im Berg, Graz, Austria - http://wd8.at/
2005 November - 'Local Image' - Artist in Residence Project at Stanica, Zilina, Slovakia, together with artists from Moks, Mooste, Estonia and Dresden, Germany
2005 October - Website for the Forum Festival, October 8-23 at Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria - http://forumstadtpark.at/forumfestival/
2005 September - 42-Gathering at Wd8 - The first event at the Wd8 Cultural Center, an initiative by cym - http://wd8.at/
2005 August - Workshop HTML/Webdesign at PostsovkhoZ 5, Mooste, Estonia
2005 July - Presentation of the project 'No Men's Land' at Stazione di Topoló - Postaja Topolove, Italy - http://cym.net/nomensland/
2005 June/July - Connected 05 - Connecting Forum Stadtpark Graz and Art Center Sredisce
2005 May - website for 'Gibanica', ongoing program at Art Center Sredisce - http://elektro.mur.at/artcenter/gibanica/
2005 May - design for [prologue] - Reclaiming Europe from a New Feminist Perspective: Theory, Activism, Criticism - A newspaper by Marina Grzinic and Reni Hofmueller
2005 March - website for the ALM12 conference in Melbourne, Australia - http://www.alm-online.org/alm12/
2005 March - workshop HTML/webdesign at Spektral, Graz, Austria
2004
2004 December - 'cym at home' - exhibition at Haus Maximilian, Ibm, Austria - http://cym.at/2004/12/03
2004 November - 'cym at home' - exhibition at Galerija Media Nox, Maribor, Slovenia - http://cym.at/2004/11/18
2004 November - participation in exhibition 'Metamorfoze',
Sredisce, Slovenia - Presentation of the work made during residency at
Art Center Sredisce, interactive 3d-installation with game - http://cym.at/2004/11/13
2004 October - workshop HTML/webdesign at Art Center Sredisce, Slovenia - http://cym.at/2004/10/13/
2004 October - participation in comic-exhibition 'GRRR!', Pancevo, Serbia & Montenegro - http://cym.at/2004/10/02
2004 September-October - artist in residence at Art Center Sredisce, Slovenia
2004 September - participation in workshop 'producing fanzines'
by Aleksandar Zograf at Comic Festival, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
- http://cym.at/2004/09/09
2004 August - 'cym at home' - exhibition at Fluss Fotowochen, Wolkersdorf, Austria - http://cym.at/2004/08/21/cymathome
2004 August - 'No Men's Land' - participation in workshop 'Niemandsland' by Alien Productions, Fluss Fotowochen, Wolkersdorf, Austria - http://cym.at/2004/08/21
2004 July-September - participation in exhibition 'Danube Streaming Show' by W.A.S. at MuseumQuartier, Vienna, Austria
2004 July - 'r3' - installation at Liquid Music, Judenburg, Austria - http://cym.at/2004/07/01
2004 June - 'cym at home' - exhibition at medien.KUNSTLABOR, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria - http://cym.at/2004/06/22
2004 May - cym in oskar v prikolico - artist in residence at 'Ready2Change', Ljubljana, Slovenia
2004 January - 'cym at home' - exhibition at Gallery P74, Ljubljana, Slovenia - http://cym.at/2004/01/27
2003
2003 December - presentation of two short videos that document the stay at Hotel Rhizom in August 2003 - http://cym.net/video
2003 December - 3 days workshop 'Net and Nature' - exploring the
city Graz and the traces left by the year 2003 when Graz was Cultural
Capital of Europe
2003 November - 'cym at home' - participant at Kunst/Trans, exhibition in Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten, Graz, Austria - curated by Werner Fenz - http://cym.at/2003/11/14/
2003 November - publication of 4 pages from the project 'cym at
home' in Lichtungen, magazine for Literature, in connection to the
exhibition Kunst/Trans
2003 October - design of the new website for Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria - http://forum.mur.at/
2003 October - co2 - a project by e l e k t r o [
http://elektro.mur.at/ ] for 'Local Task' as part of 'Graz 2003 -
Cultural Capital of Europe'. Open source software package that offers
an alternative way of connecting different installations to let them
exchange data and interfere with each other via the Internet using
Python and PD - http://co2.mur.at/
2003 October - Heimat - a project by Jean-Baptiste Fouda for
'Local Task' as part of 'Graz 2003 - Cultural Capital of Europe'.
Website with as central theme the life between two very different
cultures. The design of the website tries to connect the different
memories and experiences in a way similar how they are connected to
each other in out thoughts - http://heimat.mur.at/
2003 September-November - exhibition in Hotel Rhizom -
documentation of the stay in Hotel Rhizom in August, with installation,
video and a pancake-comic
2003 September - workshop 'Comics and Net' during the tonto comics-festival in Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria - http://tonto.at/
2003 August - Connected part 2 - 'The Third Space' - researching the possibilities during a 10 days workshop
to connect two real spaces (Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria and Pekarna,
Maribor, Slovenia) in such a way that a new, abstract 'third space'
emerges. Results of the workshop are presented via a performance and a
small exhibition at the end of the workshop in Forum Stadtpark - http://connected.mur.at/
2003 August - artist in residence at Hotel Rhizom, Graz - every
wednesday running the 'one-table-restaurant', serving pancakes in an
old-dutch-pancake-house-style
2003 June-July - 3 comics for the MiNiMAL comics-series of comics-label 'tonto' in Graz - http://cym.net/comics/
2003 June - 'Danube Streaming Show' - performance by WAS
(Womyn's Art Support) live via Kunstradio in Vienna, a take off for the
WAS-Danube-journey. The next morning cym joins the women one station on
their journey, from Vienna, Austria to Bratislava, Slovakia - http://cym.at/2003/06/15
2003 June - Connected part 1 - a network-cooperation between
Forum Stadtpark, Graz and Pekarna, Maribor - organised by Eva Ursprung
and cym - including presentation of the first public co2-network - http://connected.mur.at/ - http://co2.mur.at/
2003 April - Schleife - A comment on the Austrian Government -
exhibition at Esc im Labor, Graz. Photodocumentation of the
demonstrations in Vienna and Graz during February-June 2000 and design
of a game based on Ludo with the political situation in Austria as
central theme - http://cym.at/2003/04/26
2003 April - concept and design of 14-page children-book, together with Maria Slovakova - http://cym.at/2003/04/15
2003 April - 'Zvrgoli 2002' - installation at exhibition
'Fehlschlaege? Ein Exkurs ueber das Scheitern' in Wolkersdorf, Austria
- design of 6 analog gameboards - photos
2003 February-March - organisation of the 'Shark-Week' at Forum
Stadtpark, Graz, Austria - Presentation of the server 'shark.mur.at',
maintained by cym from March 2001 until April 2005
2002
2002 December - 'Zvrgoli 2002' - installation at exhibition
'Fehlschlaege? Ein Exkurs ueber das Scheitern' at Forum Stadtpark,
Graz, Austria - 14 days playing games with the visitors, collecting the
results 'success' and 'failure' - http://zvrgoli.net/
2002 August - RE//Konstruktion - virtual-real-3d-installation at Liquid Music 2002 in Judenburg, Austria - http://cym.net/judenburg
2002 July - 42-week at Pavelhaus, Laafeld, Austria - http://cym.net/42/pavelhaus
2002 May - Oskar Nano Ante Cosmo - http://elektro.mur.at/baska
2002 April - 42-evening in celery's_the juice bar - http://cym.net/42/celerys
2002 January-March - workshop HTML with 14 schoolgirls at highschool b(r)g Carneri, Graz, Austria - http://cym.net/carneri
2001
2001 December - 'Shadow Casters' - workshop HTML/webdesign as
part of 'Shadow Casters' workshop in Bologna, Italy -
http://cym.net/shadowcasters
2001 August-September - workshop HTML/webdesign with african-artists-group Baodo - Graz, Austria - http://baodo.mur.at/workshop
2001 August - 'cym at home' - website-presentation at the Fotowochen in Wolkersdorf, Austria - http://cym.at/home
2001 July - 'Shadow Casters' - workshop HTML/webdesign as part
of 'Shadow Casters' workshop in Zagreb, Croatia - exploring the city
transferring into a website
2001 May-June - 'web versenken / sink the web' - workshops HTML
and design of website with local people of village 'Ibm' in Austria
researching the connection between the web and the swamps - http://www.viceversa.at/webversenken
2001 May - 'Autopoiesis' - installation/performance with Ales Zemene at Pekarna, Maribor, Slovenia - connecting real life and vr
2001 March - until April 2005 maintaining the Internet-server 'shark' at Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria - http://cym.at/2001/08/28
2000
2000 December - Odzak - building a multi-media classroom in
Odzak, Bosnia & Herzegowina - workshop HTML and website with the
students - http://cym.net/odzak
2000 November - 'Somniarium' - 42 - 9 people spend 9 days together in 1 gallery, living and dreaming - Kapelica, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2000 October - 42-video-evening in Exc im Labor, Graz, Austria - http://cym.net/42/esc
2000 August-September - hEXPO - International festival of
self-organizing cultural forms - Koper-Ljubljana-Maribor, Slovenia -
http://cym.net/hexpo
2000 July - FiSoLe - Free Linux Workshop in Kunstwerk, Vienna, Austria - http://cym.net/2000/07/02
2000 March-April - Metelkova Mesto - A 3d virtual world of a real existing place - http://cym.net/metelkova
2000 January-July - Webdesigner at BIOS Internet Handels- und DienstleistungsgmbH., Vienna, Austria
2000 January - Graphics for 'Emigraphia - Balkanski Ram', a project by Katarina Pejovic - http://cym.net/emigraphia
1999 and before
1999 December - 42-video-evening in the pink container, Vienna, Austria - http://cym.net/42/container
1999 September-October - Participant with 42 in exhibition
'Net_Condition' at Steirischer Herbst 1999 in Graz, Austria - postcards
& Flash-games - http://cym.net/42/postcards
1999 September - Flash presentation for Cybertown
1999 August - 3 Images for the WorldCon 99, presented at the Cybertown Art Gallery - http://cym.net/worldcon
1999 May - VRML-multi-user-world for Elevator, with real-audio and webcam connection, AMP, Amsterdam - http://cym.net/elevator/080599
1999 February - 42-performance at Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria - http://cym.net/42/performance
1998-1999 July 1998 - August 1999 - Webdesigner at The KEY Agency, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
1998 November - 'The sound of planets colliding on dark nights
in distant galaxies' - Video by the users of mailing-list 42, made via
the Internet using real-audio, mixed in Ljubljana, Slovenia - with
animations by cym - http://cym.net/42/movie
1998 June - New York City, design of logo and poster for WASN
(Women's Agressive Skating Network) and logo for theatre group Zantian5
- http://cym.net/wasn
1997-1998 April 1997 - May 1998 - DTP-er at Graphic Dynamics, Laren, the Netherlands
1997-1998 Program-leaflets/flyers for Radio 100, Amsterdam, weekly radioshow with DFM RTV INT - http://cym.net/radio100
1996-1997 September 1996 - April 1997 - DTP-er/graphic designer at monthly newspaper MUG in Amsterdam
1996 October - Website for PH31 - cultural centre in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
1995 Catalogue for exhibition 'Bermuda Calls' with students
from Rietveld Academy and University of Communication Science in
Amsterdam
1993-1996 Flyers, posters and monthly program leaflet for cultural centre PH31 in Amsterdam
Comments
Cym is currently living in Walkersdorf, Austria and Ljubljana Slovenia.
This biography was last updated: August 24, 2008