Elisabeth Schimana
Works as a composer, performer and radio artist since 1983. She studied Electroacoustic and Experimental Music at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, Computer Music - Composition at the IEM, Graz and Musicology and Ethnology at the University of Vienna.
In her work she has been dealing with space / body / electronics for many years. She regularly cooperates with ORF Kunstradio and conducts research in the field of women's art and technology. Elisabeth Schimana gives lectures and composition workshops internationally.
Founded the IMA Institute for Media Archaeology
Texts by and about Elisabeth Schimana
- 2025
- Concept of whitebox ai with Seppo Gründler, IMA Institute of Media Archeology
- Jurymember Culture Awards for media art of the Province of Lower Austria
- 2024 - 2026
- Artistic research project Künstlerisches Forschungsprojekt Sound as Score
- Project management: Elisabeth Schimana - University of Music and Performing Arts (mdw)/Artistic Research Center (ARC)
- Project partners: Susanne Kogler - University of Graz (KFU)/Department of Arts and Musicology and Piotr Majdak - Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)/Acoustics Research Institute (ARI)
- This research was funded in whole or in part by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [grant DOI 10.55776/AR824].
- 2024
- 11 11 - 11 12 Artist residence at Art Music Today, Jogjakarta
- 25 11 Public Lectuer, Department of Music Composition, Indonesia Institut of the Arts, Jogjakarta
- 15 12 Artist talk, Female Composer Platform, Yakarta
- 2023
- 26 09 Musica ex Machina: Wieviel Technik braucht Musik? Nachhall #7 im Frau*feld: Musik & Technik Echoraum, Vienna
- 09 07 Current Perspectives on Microtonality Panel IV Festival Heroines of Sound, Berlin
- 25 06 Conference verflechtn Festival der Regionen, Freistadt
- 24 02 Lecture The Living Acousmonium Colloquium Festival MNM | Lectures for students at UNAM and Concordia, Montreal
- 2022
- Music Award of the City of Vienna
- Jury member for composition scholarships of the BMKÖS
- 28 09 Talk From Staircase to Virus Visiting Artist | 16 09 Buchpräsentation Hidden Alliances University of Colorado, Boulder
- 09 06 Vortrag DigiDic within the framework of Synapsentanz, Mobiles Stadtlabor, St. Pölten
- 2021 - 2025
- Concept and realization of the exhibition DigiDic – Call to Digital Self-Defense
- 01 12 2022 - 19 03 2023 Stadtmuseum St. Pölten
- 06 07 2024 - 09 03 2025 Volkskundemuseum am Paulustor, Graz
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