Myriam Thyes

Myriam Thyes (* 1963 in Luxembourg ) is a Luxembourgian -Swiss media artist. She lives and works in Dusseldorf.

Biography

Myriam Thyes grew up in Zurich, attended after completion of higher education the basic year of the Higher School of Design Zurich (now ZHdK) and studied from 1986 to 1992 at the Art Academy Dusseldorf painting with Rissa and video art at Nan Hoover. She graduated with the " master class " from.

Since 1999 Thyes works primarily digital, in the fields of video art, 2D animation, photomontage and vector graphics. Since 2000, she also realized media art projects in public space: Ua she was co-founder of the artist group, Strictly Public ', which was in 2004 invited to participate in the Berlin media art festival transmediale.04. Strictly Public already showed in 2000 and 2001 video art in subway stations North Rhine-Westphalia and in 2002 at 26 main railway stations throughout Germany. Since 2005 Thyes was repeatedly invited to Urban Screens conferences on - and screenings of - media art in public space.

Known - and regularly shown in exhibitions and festivals - their participatory project, Flag Metamorphoses ', a growing since 2005 series of Flash animations on the subject of flags, the relations between countries is discussed; Artist / inside from many countries have contributed their own animations.

Myriam Thyes working on the analysis and re-evaluation of known symbols. The artist uses symbols from politics (mainly flags and world map ), architecture, and from religions (eg Yin & Yang ), and mythical characters from Hollywood movies and female figures from cultures of many countries and eras. Social and psycho-social effects of widespread symbols and myths Thyes processed by drawing, digital collage, video and animation. The characters learn transformations, dissolve, begin to communicate and explore new relationships with each other one. Quote Thyes: "Symbols for identities become elements of dialogue. "

Important exhibitions and festivals

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Publications

  • Images against the darkness - video art from the archives of imai, KIT Kunst im Tunnel, Dusseldorf, in 2012.
  • Myriam Thyes - Glasgow Styles / Magnify Malta, ed Kunstverein Duisburg, Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, in 2012.
  • Connect - Art between Media and Reality, ed Shedhalle Zurich Swiss Federal Office of Culture, Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nuremberg, 2011.
  • Pixels and Places - Video Art in Public Space, ed Catrien Schreuder, NAi Publishers, Rotterdam, 2010.
  • Re -Imagining Animation by Paul Wells Johnny Hardstaff (UK), AVA Academia publishing, Lausanne, 2008.
  • Nothing to declare, 4th Triennial of Contemporary Art Upper Swabia, exhibition catalog, Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, 2008.
  • Marler media art prices, sculptures museum showcase Marl, 2004.
  • Greenhouse 6, Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf, 1994.
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