Stefanie Wuschitz

Stefanie Wuschitz uses interactive technology to build mobile sound and video installations. Her site-specific work invites users to experiment and play, encouraging the construction of unique social and collaborative spaces. In 2006 Stefanie Wuschitz graduated with an MFA from the University of Applied Arts Vienna and moved to New York. She lived in New York for two years, finishing a Masters degree at Tisch School of the Arts (New York University) in 2008. For a one year Digital Art fellowship at HUMlab and the Umeå Institute of Design she moved to Sweden.
Together with Karin Jangert, Ramona and Elmira Zadissa she organized the international festival "Eclectic Tech Carnival", held in Umeå from June 8th to June 12th 2009.
To establish a collective and network for women artists working with electronics and physical computing she founded "Miss Baltazar's Laboratory". In weekly workshops participants share their knowledge on Open Source Software, Arduino, art techniques as e.g. laser cutting, wearable technology and circuit building. After Stefanie Wuschitz moved back to Austria in fall 2009, she continued to host "Miss Baltazar's Laboratory" sessions on a weekly basis at Metalab in Vienna.
She started an interdisciplinary PhD at the Visual Cultures department at the Technical University Vienna, where research currently focuses on subversive public art produced by women with wireless technology. Comparing art practices in the cities Damascus (Syria), Stockholm (Sweden) and New York (USA). Her art practice includes interactive installations, animations and big scale drawings.