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Artists: Mechthild Schmidt Feist

From Engaged Media to the relation of Body – Site – Virtualities

On mutual practice of media art to awaken public’s awareness of climate change, Mechthild Schmidt Feist and Tamiko Thiel will present their most significant individual works as visual artists and educators in New York, Germany and Singapore. Mechthild Schmidt Feist has engaged herself in New York environmental movement through various projects, including ‘Mirror Garden3’ which builds artificial Flora and alludes to the Icarus saga of human’s struggle to balance exploration of and interference with nature and her current project ‘L-E-S-S  / Less of Everything – Esthetics of Sharing and Sustainability’...

Mechthild Schmidt Feist

Mechthild Schmidt Feist is Associate Professor for Digital Communications and Media at New York University. Building on fine arts and history background (Universität der Künste, Freie Universität Berlin), Mechthild has worked in digital media as an artist and designer since her DAAD graduate study grant and Whitney Museum fellowship in the mid-eighties. Her interdisciplinary works occupy real or virtual spaces between painting, animation, and 3d spaces. Her current topics are concerned with ethics and sustainability of our consumer society...