Susanna Schoenberg
Susanna Schoenberg is a film, media and performance artist.
Her formal interests are devoted to contingency, translation, non-linear narration, the practice of transfer, reactivity, intermediality, and build on her training as both a filmmaker and a sociologist. She holds degrees in political science (University of Milan), cinematographic techniques (Film school of Milan), media arts (Academy of Media Arts Cologne), and a PhD in sociology (University of Milan).
Her artistic production includes experimental films and video installations, public actions, recording and displaying setups. Her media practice focuses on the idea of emergence (of reality and shapes of reality), on the gesture of displaying and the techno-image.
Her works have been shown at international film and media art festivals and in group exhibitions, including Translife International Triennial of New Media Art Beijing, Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition Taipei, Japan Media Arts Festival Tokyo, International Award for Video Art ZKM, Yeosu International Art Festival, Festival Internazionale di Cinema di Locarno, Torino Film Festival, International Women‘s Film Festival Dotrmund/Cologne, Rencontres Internationales Paris, Festival International de Films de Femmes Creteil, European Media Art Festival Osnabrück, Ars Electronica Linz, Padiglione Italia Esposizione Internazionale d‘Arte della Biennale di Venezia.
As producer and curator she uses the signature arte-e-parte. She also founded and curates the media art formula re-active platform and collaborates with the improvisation collective Frequenzwechsel.
As a media artist, she has sought cooperation and exchange with disciplines that are important and context-extending for both contemporary art practice and media theory. 2010 she co-founded Paidia Institute. Since 2018 she is collaborating with the interdisciplinary research group Kompostistische Internationale.