Gretta Louw Gretta Louw is a multi-disciplinary artist who has worked with artforms as varied as digital media and networked performance, installation and video art , and fibre art. She lives and works in Germany and Australia. Her artistic practice explores the potential of art as a means of investigating psychological phenomena, particularly in relation to new technologies and the internet . Her focus is on how new digital technologies are shaping contemporary experience.Biography Gretta Louw was born in South Africa and grew up in Australia. She graduated in 2001 from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Arts , and in 2002 completed her Honours degree in Psychology.Exhibitions OK. Video Flesh , Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia, 2011. Controlling_Connectivity , Art Laboratory Berlin, 2011; curators: Regine Rapp und Christian de Lutz. Video Art For All , Fundação Oriente, Macau, 2012. Moving the Still , Art Basel Miami Beach , Miami, USA , 2012; curator: Nowness . On Off Moments , Grimmuseum Berlin, 2013; curator: Amelie Wedel. Weiss auf Weiss , TEN Gallery, Mannheim, 2014; curator: Heinrich Gartentor, Solothurn, Schweiz. Hybrids , Stadtgalerie Mannheim, 2014; curator: Benedikt Stegmayer. Bitrates - GIFbites , Dar-ol-Hokoomeh Project at Shiraz Artist House, Shiraz, Iran, 2014; curators: Morehshin Allahyari und Daniel Rourke. Deltabeben , Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Germany , 2014; curator: Barbara Auer . Me Vs Internet , Stadtgalerie Mannheim, 2014; curator: Benedikt Stegmayer. Representation Vs Reality , AVU Gallery, Prague, 2014; curator: Benedikt Stegmayer. Net Work , PLATFORM Gastatelier, Munich, 2014; curator: Gretta Louw. Everybody Lies , Pixxelpoint Festival, City Gallery, Nova Gorica, Slovenia , 2014; curator: Igor Štromajer . Radiance , FORM Gallery, Perth, Australia, 2015; curator: Sharmila Wood. Jiggling Golems , Goethe Institute , Athens, 2015; curator: Mariana Ziku. Homo Faber - ARTour Biennale , Centre de la Gravure et de l’image Imprimée, La Louviere, Belgium, 2015; curator: Jacques Urbanska. 1984 , Papierfabrik, Dachau, 2015; curator: Johannes Karl. Maintenance Mode , Public Space One, Iowa, USA, 2015; curator: Beatrice Drysdale. LAB 3.0 , Unpainted Digital Art Fair, Munich, 2016; curator: Annette Doms. NARGIFSUS , Transfer Gallery , New York City , 2016; curators: Carla Gannis , Tina Sauerländer. Networking the Unseen , Furtherfield Gallery, London, 2016; curator: Gretta Louw. Monsters of the Machine , LABoral, Gijón, Spain , 2016; curator: Marc Garrett. Selfciety , whiteBOX Gallery, Munich, 2017; curator Benjamin Jantzen. No Secrets , Stadtmuseum München , Munich, 2017; curator: Rudolf Scheutle.Prizes and awards 2011: Karin Abt-Straubinger Stiftung Projektförderung 2012: Finalistin der OK.Video Art Preis 2014: Heinrich Vetter Preis der Stadt Mannheim 2016–2020: Atelier Stipendium der Landeshauptstadt München im Atelierhaus Baumstrasse 2016–2017: Bahnwärter Stipendium der Stadt Esslingen am Neckar Other projects Networking the Unseen : a curatorial project exploring contemporary indigeneity and what artists outside the European mainstream can teach us about digitalisation - with many collaborative works by Louw and the Warnayaka Art Centre (a Warlpiri Aboriginal Art and Cultural Association in Lajamanu, Northern Territory , Australia. The first iteration of the exhibition was shown at Furtherfield Gallery in London in 2016, and the second at Villa Merkel museum in Esslingen, Germany in 2017-2018. Avatar as Prosthesis : an exploration of the possibilities for artistic production and collaborative projects in the field of inclusive art practices opened up by digital avatars; Munich, 2016–2017. The Cloud : a series of ongoing tasks that incorporates performance, video, digital collages, installation etc. and addresses the marketing techniques around cloud computing. Gif Portrait : a project that allowed anyone to commission an animated digital art portrait of themselves or someone else and, in doing so, contribute to the development of a net-based gesamtkunstwerk. GIF Portrait is a radical re-thinking of the traditional genre of portraiture, capturing and representing you in a format that is fit for the digital age .
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