* 1944, currently based: Sweden and France
http://teresawennberg.art
About
Teresa Wennberg is a painter and a multimedia artist. Beside her painting career, she started making video in 1978 at the Centre Pompidou Paris and is considered a pioneer in video art and computer art. A multidisciplinary background: law, economics, languages at Stockholm University combined with studies in Paris, New York an Tokyo. Her large scale multi media installations include "Oblivion Pond", "Transit Hall", "Hatters' Time", "Elusive Self", "Electronic Sacrifice" and more. She has received numerous awards and has been showing in Biennale de Paris France, Ars Electronica Linz Austria, ELECTRA Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris France, Moderna Muséet Stockholm Sweden, Hara Museum Tokyo Japan, Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon Portugal, Liljevalchs Konsthall Stockholm Sweden , ICC Tokyo Japan, Aalborg Media Lab Denmark, the VR-Cube at KTH Stockholm Sweden. From 1997 to 2015, she was an Artist-in-Residence at the Center for Parallel Computers of the Royal Institute of Technology KTH Stockholm Sweden. She is currently restoring and creating stained glass windows for the church St Martin, Corsavy France, working with VR and writing haiku poetry.
CV
2023 - 2024 the 25-screen video installation "Nuit Blanche" was shown at the Moderna Muséet Stockholm Sweden (one year)
The VR piece "MIND CATHEDRAL" was on display at the festival Vidéoformes at Clermond-Ferrand France in 2023.
1997 - 2015 Working with Virtual Reality at KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, at ICC InterCommunication center Tokyo and at Aalborg Media Lab Aalborg University, Denmark
1988 - 1997 Artist in Residence at Aoyama Computer Graphic School Tokyo, CIMA Ecole d'Architecture Paris, GAMSAU School of Architecture Marseille; Teaching at Ecole Sup de Beaux Arts de Luminy Marseille and at Konstfack Royal School of Arts, Crafts & Design Stockholm
See also: https://teresawennberg.art//teresa3.html
Works
- »Soft Factory« 2010
- »Elusive Self« 2002
- »Tokyo MA« 1986
- »Nuit Blanche« 1986
- »NO=ON« 1983
- »Swimmer« 1978
News
17.04.2021
Selected writings by the author:
Teresa Wennberg: "Japan Now - Sweden Now", Catalogue introduction, Kulturhuset, Stockholm 1988 Teresa Wennberg: "Minnesforlust i fem faser" Expressen, Kultursidan 6/8 1994 Teresa Wennberg: "Post-Computer art" The Perfect Match 3/1994 Teresa Wennberg: "The Growing Brain - The Shrinking Ego", LEONARDO Vol. 35, MIT-Press, Cambridge 1999 Teresa Wennberg: "The Expanding Brain - an attempt to redefine identity in the age of new media" Bilder och Internet, Konst- och bildvetenskapligainstitutionen, Goteborg 1999 Teresa Wennberg: "Europa och tjurarna - genusrelationer inom tidig elektronisk konst", Paletten 1/2000 Teresa Wennberg: "Virtual Life: self and identity redefined in the media age", Digital Creativity, Vol. 11, Swets and Zeitlinger, 2000. Teresa Wennberg: "Through the Electronic Labyrinth - The Meanders of a Visual Artist", LEONARDO (M.I.T.- Press2002) Teresa Wennberg: "Our Shrinking Planet: A Birds Eye Perspective on Computer Graphics and Education in France" - SIGGRAPH Newsletter + CD ROM + Web pages 2002 TERESA WENNBERG - INTO THE BRAIN: a selection from the digital production of Teresa Wennberg, with initiated texts by Roy Ascott, Derrick de Kerckhove, Olle Granath, Martin Ingvar. Printed by Almlof publishing company Sweden 2002 Teresa Wennberg:"ASEREHT - Elusive Self" text for Catalogue "Tanken Flyger" Kulturhuset Stockholm, p. 44-45, 2004 Teresa Wennberg: "Le Détronement du Cerveau?", Inter-art actuel, Ed. Intervention 2018, Québec Teresa Wennberg: "Virtual Reality - Virtual Brain: Questioning Reality", Leonardo Oct 2018 - MIT PRESS Teresa Wennberg: "Le Détronement du Cerveau?", Inter-art actuel, Ed. Intervention 2018, Québec
Selected writings by the author:
Teresa Wennberg: "Japan Now - Sweden Now", Catalogue introduction, Kulturhuset, Stockholm 1988 Teresa Wennberg: "Minnesforlust i fem faser" Expressen, Kultursidan 6/8 1994 Teresa Wennberg: "Post-Computer art" The Perfect Match 3/1994 Teresa Wennberg: "The Growing Brain - The Shrinking Ego", LEONARDO Vol. 35, MIT-Press, Cambridge 1999 Teresa Wennberg: "The Expanding Brain - an attempt to redefine identity in the age of new media" Bilder och Internet, Konst- och bildvetenskapligainstitutionen, Goteborg 1999 Teresa Wennberg: "Europa och tjurarna - genusrelationer inom tidig elektronisk konst", Paletten 1/2000 Teresa Wennberg: "Virtual Life: self and identity redefined in the media age", Digital Creativity, Vol. 11, Swets and Zeitlinger, 2000. Teresa Wennberg: "Through the Electronic Labyrinth - The Meanders of a Visual Artist", LEONARDO (M.I.T.- Press2002) Teresa Wennberg: "Our Shrinking Planet: A Birds Eye Perspective on Computer Graphics and Education in France" - SIGGRAPH Newsletter + CD ROM + Web pages 2002 TERESA WENNBERG - INTO THE BRAIN: a selection from the digital production of Teresa Wennberg, with initiated texts by Roy Ascott, Derrick de Kerckhove, Olle Granath, Martin Ingvar. Printed by Almlof publishing company Sweden 2002 Teresa Wennberg:"ASEREHT - Elusive Self" text for Catalogue "Tanken Flyger" Kulturhuset Stockholm, p. 44-45, 2004 Teresa Wennberg: "Le Détronement du Cerveau?", Inter-art actuel, Ed. Intervention 2018, Québec Teresa Wennberg: "Virtual Reality - Virtual Brain: Questioning Reality", Leonardo Oct 2018 - MIT PRESS Teresa Wennberg: "Le Détronement du Cerveau?", Inter-art actuel, Ed. Intervention 2018, Québec
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