Nicole Stenger

Born in Paris. Lives in California

Prix Villa Medici

Visiting Scholar HitLab 1991-1992

Research Fellow  MIT (Visual Arts Program) 1990-1991

Research Fellow  MIT (CAVS) 1989-1990

Prix EDF Foundation/Pleias 1989

MA in Art and Technology, (Paris U)

MA in English, (La Sorbonne)

Grants from Silicon Graphics, Pixar, Wavefront; French Ministry of Culture

ART HISTORY

"From Technological to Virtual Art" Popper MIT Press 2007

"Art of the Electronic Age" Popper Abrams 1993

VR MOVIES

"Dynasty" 2007-2009

"Chambers" 2001

"Angels" 1989-1992

FAUX FILMS

"The Synthetic Family" 2003-2005, "Firefighters Will Never Die" 2002, "Bitchery" 2001, "Fresh" 2000, "LA 2000" 2000, "Nature" 2000, "Nanfei in Waspland" 2000, "LAsia" 1999, "San Francisco" 1999, "To Dream or not to Eat" 1998

3D ANIMATIONS

"Popureve" 1989

"Gallia" 1988

WEBSITES

"Love your Friends" 2003--2004

"My Faux Cinema" 1998-2003

MAGAZINE REVIEWS

New York Times, LA Times, Artforum, Art News, Flash Art, Art Papers, Art Press, Sculpture, World Art, Vogue, Elle, Cosmopolitan, Grazia, Der Spiegel, L'Express, Le Figaro, Paris Match, La Recherche, Millimeter, Computer Graphics World, etc.

ART AUCTIONS

Artprice

MUSEUM/PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Cartier Art Foundation, Chicago Museum of Science. Cite des Sciences. Private collections.

CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBITIONS

Beaux Arts, Paris

TV SHOWS

"C' est Comme Ca" by Philippe Gautier 1987 CANAL +

PERFORMANCES

Kunsthalle Bonn 1994

Rue Vers l"Art Paris 1988

LIBRAIRIES

New York Public Library

Urbana Champaign Library

(Acquisition of "Vite de la Banane")

ELECTRONIC ARTS EXHIBITIONS

Selected Exhibitions:

2010

"Celebrate" Java Museum 10 years, Cologne

2010

Electronic Language Festival, Sao Paulo

2002

Java Museum, Dusseldorf
Electronic Language Festival, Sao Paulo

Film Winter, Stuttgart
Java Museum, Dusseldorf

2000

Medi@terra, Athens
Electronic Language Festival, Sao Paulo
Siggraph Artshow, New Orleans
Beachwood Center for the Arts
VRML Art, Monterey

1999

Venice Biennale (Poetry & People)
Festival d'Aix en Provence
Skopje Museum 

1997

NTT Art Center, Tokyo

1996

Dotcom Gallery New York

1994

Icographics, Milan

1993

Kunsthalle, Bonn
Beaux Arts, Paris

1992

Siggraph Art Show
TISEA, Sydney
Cyberarts, Pasadena
London Film Festival
Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
Mostra, Cadiz

1991

Museum of Science, Chicago
Cyberarts, Pasadena
Video Festival, Santiago
Video Festival, Riga

1990

Museum der Stadt Gladbeck

1989

Siggraph Artshow
SISEA, Groningen
Eurographics
Fine Art Museum, Long Island
Palais de Tokyo
Cartier Art Foundation
Cite des Sciences
Images du Futur, Montreal
Computer Museum, Boston
SCAN, Philadelphia

1988

Cartier Foundation
Locarno Festival
Videotheque de Paris
Art Tekne, Dubai

CYBERSPACE WRITINGS

"Mind is a Leaking Rainbow" 1991 In "Cyberspace First Steps" MIT Press

"Brave New Virtual World" in SCAN Proceedings 1989

"Kitsch Commerce und Kunst" in "Vraiment Faux" Cartier 1988

"Au Dela de l' Ecran" MA thesis 1988

BLOGGING

Feed Loop 1997-1999

QUOTES/CRITICAL ESSAYS ABOUT STENGER's "Mind is a Leaking Rainbow"

"The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace" Margaret Wertheim 1999

"War of the Worlds" Slouka 1996

Also in: "The Cybercultures Reader" David Bell Barbara Kennedy, "The Social Impact of Computers" Richard Rosenberg