Petra Gemeinboeck’s practice crosses the fields of architecture, interactive installation, mobile media, robotics, and visual culture. In her current research, Petra explores the potential of robotic intervention as an investigative lens into the politics of surveillance by deploying autonomous robots, embedded into the architectural fabric of a gallery. She is a founding member of the international artist group In Serial, working with performative assemblages of choreographed robots and chemical fluids. Previously, Petra has developed immersive virtual spaces that experimented with feminist and postcolonial concepts of the body. Her locative and sensor-based interactive works explored the paradoxical ground common to both intervention and surveillance. Her works implicate participants in negotiation scenarios in which they are challenged to face, conspire with or perhaps even solicit a machine-generated co-performer. They have been exhibited internationally at venues including Archilab (FR), Ars Electronica (AT), Gallery Fabrica (UK), ICC Tokyo (JP), MCA Chicago (IL, USA), and the Thessaloniki Biennale (GR).
08–09 2007 Impossible Geographies Tin Sheds Gallery Sydney 11–12 2005 Impossible Geographies 1.1: Memory Gallery Fabrica, Brighton, UK 07–08 2005 Impossible Geographies 01: Memory Gallery Soto, Boston, MA 01–02 2003 Pressentiments II Centre des Arts Enghien, Enghien-les-Bains at Paris
03–05 2010 BIENNALE CUVÉE. World Selection of Contemporary Art, OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria (forthcoming). 10 2009 e-MobiLArt, RONDOSTUCKI Gallery, Academy of Fine Arts, Katowice, Poland 05–06 2009 Thessalonica Biennale, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki curated by Roger Malina, Nina Czegledy, Annick Bureaud, and Christiana Galanopoulou 02–03 2008 KUNSTTRESOR: Raum für Flüchtige Kunst, Stuttgart 12 2006 Intensive Science Sony Science Museum, Tokyo 10 2006 Intensive Science Maison Rouge, Paris 11 2005 Presence and Absence ICA Singapore 10–12 2004 La ville à nu / The naked city: Archilab 2004 (curated by Bart Lootsma) Orléans, France 01 2004 MAK NITE (curated by Lee Rodney) MAK Museum of Applied Arts Vienna 01 2004 MEDIA IN SPACE: 17. Stuttgarter Filmwinter 2003 Uzume becomes part of the Ars Electronica CAVE Art collection Ars Electronica Center, Linz 09 2003 CODE - The Language of Our Time: Ars Electronica Festival 2003 Ars Electronica Center, Linz 03 2003 Version > 03 :: Digital Arts Convergence Festival of Digital Media Arts, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL 12 02–01 03 Black Cube: platform for media art Badenwürttembergische Kunstverein Stuttgart 07 2002 SIGGRAPH 2002: Art Gallery San Antonio, TX 11 2001 Female Century—New Polarities: Mediarama 2001 Conference and
