Bady Minck Location: Vienna and Luxembourg and World Wide Web
Genres: Animation, Cyberart, Interactive art, Interdisciplinary art, Performance, Photography
Languages: Luxembourghish, French, German, English
Bio: bady minck (magistra artium), artist and filmmaker
born in luxembourg, lives in vienna and luxembourg.
she studied sculpture at vienna's academy of fine arts and experimental film at the university of applied arts. her work crosses the borders between the various artistic disciplines and is presented in movie theaters, at film festivals, in museums, galleries, public spaces and on the world wide web. she is founding member of AMOUR FOU film vienna and of MINOTAURUS film luxembourg.
bady minck is the creator of electro-breakfast, the constructor of the electro cells and the inventor of the stomach literacy actions. her intervention-art includes graffiti, performance, eat-art and mail-art in the eighties, objects, installations, net-art, political intervention-art and art-to-science-transfer.
her films have been invited to more than 300 international film festivals in 48 countries, including the festival de cannes in 1989 and 2003. they have received awards and special mentions, her latest work “in the beginning was the eye” was selected for the top ten best films of east & central europe as well as australia in 2003.
her films and artworks have been exhibited at numerous museums and art centers in europe, u.s.a., argentinia, algeria and turkey, including the musée d'art moderne at centre pompidou and the expo '98 in lisboa. her films have been purchased for fine arts collections, cinematheques and universities around the world.
as a curator she has put together film programs for festivals, cinemas, art-clubs, universities and cinematheques. she has been teaching art and film as visiting professor at universities and academies of art and science as well as giving lectures and holding workshops at festivals and symposia in several countries.