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norbert math, foto by heinz cibulka
He studied at the University of Music, Vienna (Electroacoustics). 1998 - 2002 technical and artistic staff at the IEM, University of Music, Graz. Since 2001 curator of Fluss - NÖ. Fotoinitiative. 2005 Artist in Residence at UMAS, Canada. Since 2007 assistant professor at the Nuova Academia di Belle Arti, Milan.
Lives in Vienna.

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      Awards and Scholarships

2019Award of distinction by the state of Lower Austria for Media Arts (alien productions) 
2014CYNETART Arte Creative Commission (alien productions) 
2012Artists in Residence at European Cities of Advanced Sound Network (alien productions) 
 Artists in Residence at kunstwerk krastal, A (alien productions) 
2008Anerkennungspreis des Landes NÖ für Präsentation und Vermittlung zeitgenössischer Bildender Kunst /Non-Profit Galerien (alien productions) 
2006Award of the state of Lower Austria for Media Arts (alien productions) 
2002Award of the HGV South-Tyrol 

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      Intermediaperformances, -installations and -projects (selection)

2019metamusic PEEK finale;  installation and concerts with Grey Parrots, exhibition and talks, ARGE Papageinschutz Vösendorf (A)
2018Traktorstrahlen#11 ;  live sound performance by alien productions, Akusmonautikum Traktorfabrik Vienna (A)
2017metamusic;  Installation with Grey Parrots, kristallin#45, Salzamt Linz (A)
 4°C;  sound performance, Liquid Music fin2 Wies (A)
2013Metamusic;  zoological sound project, ECAS Network and musikprotokoll
 Social Wirtshaus Web;  Intermediainstallationen und soziale Events in einem ehemaligen Wirtshaus, Festival der Regionen OÖ (A)
2012Biochemische Tischmusik;  For the event Essen mit Tieren, HermannNitschMuseum, (A)
 Tiefensonde;  Installation in public space, [kunstwerk krastal], (A)
2011Perpetuum Mobile | Airwaves;  Installation
2010Vapor Trails of Europe;  live radio performance
2009Audiomobile;  Participation at Audiomobile by Matt Smith and Sandra Winter, Social Sound Systems, Bad Radkersburg, A
 Loud Computing;  Performance by Sylvia Egger and Norbert Math, text_ton_tage, Forum Stadtpark Graz, A
 Raptor Reloaded;  Acoustic land art in the vineyard, Viertelfestival NÖ - Weinviertel 2009, Dürnberg Wine Estate, Falkenstein, A, ORF Kunstradio
2008Alien City;  Installation; Gallery of the Austrian Embassy Tokyo, J
 Transformator;  installation by alien productions, Martin Walch (FL) and Starsky (A); Kunstraum Engländerbau, Vaduz, FL
 Tiefenrausch;  installation; air-raid shelters and OK Center for Contemporary Arts, Linz, A
 Radiation;  by Robert Adrian X und Norbert Math; HartWare Medienkunstverein; May 5 - June 29, 2008; Dortmund, D
2007Der Gedankenprojektor;  installation by alien productions; solo exhibition at Künstlerhaus Graz, A
 Transmission;  performance and installation; Viertelfestival Niederösterreich, Walzengravieranstalt, Guntramsdorf, A
 XT;  performance by alien productions and Machfeld; Fotogalerie Wien, A, ORF Kunstradio, Liquid Music, Judenburg, A
2006Crossover III, alien productions und Machfeld;  installations; solo exhibition in the Fotogalerie Wien, A
 Radiation;  by Robert Adrian X und Norbert Math; The 8th International New Media Art festival ART + COMMUNICATION 2006: WAVES August 24 - September 17, 2006; Riga, LV
2005Die wohltemperierte Küche;  cooking-performance with the ensemble die reihe; Tulln, A; in collaboration with jeunesse and musik aktuell
 interfaces – alien productions (A) und Sandor Ajzenstat (CAN);  personal show and installation The Fast Word; Gallery IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna, A
 Alien City by alien productions;  Solo Show, Durham Art Gallery, Durham, Ontario, CAN
 ART'S BIRTHDAY 2005 - permanent creation;  on air-on line-on site performance by alien productions and IFTAF and partners on line; ORFÖ1 Kunstradio, Studio 4, Vienna, A
2004Zwischenraum;  solo exhibition; Galeria Szyperska, Poznan, PL
 Die wohltemperierte Küche;  cooking-performance series on several locations in the "Weinviertel", Lower Austria; at Weinviertel-Festival 2004
 mobile:home;  interactive installation for UMTS-cellphones; Kunsthalle Vienna, A in cooperation with 3; at Virtual Frame
 The Half-Life of Art;  Installation; at Art's Birthday 04
 Die Gedächtnispumpe;  sound-installation; "TONSPUR", für einen öffentlichen raum / 3 | Erste Bank Arena, quartier21/MQ, Vienna, A
2003Die Schatten der Ideen;  web-art project; at sinnlos ("graz 2003")
 Alien City;  installation; Kloster UND, Krems, A
 The Emptiness between Stars;  performance at Dom im Berg, Graz, A, by e.a.r. (Wolfgang Temmel, Norbert Math) featuring Steven Kuusisto and Otto Lechner
2002Alien City;  DOM, Moscow, and Moussorgsky Urals State Conservatory, Yekaterinburg, RUS; performance; at Altermedium 02
 ignorama.at;  internet project by Heinz Cibulka, Hanno Millesi and Norbert Math
 La Cucina Accordata;  performances; Topolò, I; at Stazione di Topolò/Postaja Topolove IX;
2001Alien City;  performance and installation; Dom im Berg, Graz, A; at musikprotokoll im steirischen herbst 01
 Alien City;  performance and installation; musikhalle hamburg, GER; at hamburger musikfest
 Judenburger Küchen;  intermedia performance; Judenburg, A; at liquid music - checkpoints
 Der Takt von Hell und Dunkel;  sound installation; Blau Gelbe Viertelsgalerie, Mistelbach, A
 alien productions – Personale;  Medienwerkstatt Vienna, A
2000Alien City;  intermedia performance; Judenburg; at liquid music - stadtsignaturen
 Memory Loop;  electronic live performance; Generali Foundation, Vienna, A; opening performance at RE-PLAY, Anfänge internationaler Medienkunst in Österreich
 GATEways;  on line - on site - on air project; Vienna, A - Melbourne, AUS - Beograd, YU - Erfurt/Weimar, GER - Vancouver, CAN
 The Judenburg Project;  music performance; Judenburg; at liquid music - stadtsignaturen, e.a.r (Wolfgang Temmel, Norbert Math)
1999Embedded Systems - The Mix;  nstallation for 10 modified kitchen blenders; Bellevue-Saal, Wiesbaden, GER; at Klangkunstfestival UND II
 Autoregulative Räume;  computeraided biofeedbackinstallation; Alpbach, A; at Europäisches Forum Alpbach 1999
 Sound Drifting;   generative sound installation; O.K Centrum für Gegenwartskunst OÖ, A and other locations; at Ars Electronica 99 (with various artists); including the online installation Alien City by alien productions
1998Immersive Sound;  generative sound installation; Kornmarkttheater Bregenz, A, at Kunst in der Stadt 2 (with various artists)
 Autoregulative Spaces;  computeraided biofeedbackinstallation; ACE Gallery, Los Angeles, USA; at Resistance Fluctuations
 Radio Textures;  telematic live radio event; rhiz Vienna - Ars Electronica Center Linz, A (Sodomka/Bordoni/Math/Huber/Breindl - Stocker/Hörtner/Black)
 Wortstaub Partikelwelt;  computeraided biofeedbackinstallation; Museum der Wahrnehmung MUWA Graz, A
1997Embedded Systems;  installation for modified household appliances; departmentstore Kastner+Öhler, Graz, A; at 2000-3 artspace plus interface / Steirischer Herbst 97
 Virtual Feedback;  telematic live radio event; at Recycling The Future 1,Kunstradio at Hybrid Workspace, Orangerie, documentaX, Kassel, GER
 Embedded Systems - The Mix;  installation for 10 modified kitchen blenders; Radiokulturhaus Vienna, A; at Recycling the Future 4
1996Body Augmentation;  computeraided biofeedbackinstallation; Podewil, Berlin, GER; at Musik und Licht (Sodomka/Breindl/Math)
 Moving Moments 96 @ Pendel;  internet project by Barbara Doser, Hofstetter Kurt, Norbert Math, V.A.
  Die Differenzmaschine, ein event mit einem theaterraum,;  ntermedia theatre; Berliner Ensemble, Berlin, GER; at sonambiente (Breindl/Ganglbauer/Math/Mechtler/Radon/Sodomka/Walz)
 Bridgeworks;  live radio event; at Rivers & Bridges, Ars Electronica Festival 96, A (Kunstradio All Stars)
1995Channel 9;  computeraided biofeedbackperformance; ESC, Graz, A
1994State of Transition;  telematic live radio internet event; Neue Galerie Graz, A – V2 Rotterdam, NL – Internet – ORF Kunstradio; (Breindl/Math/Ryand/Sodomka/Stocker)
 Nahe Ferne. Zeitgleich 2;  intermediainstallation; Kunsthalle Tirol, Hall, A; at Zeitgleich
 Mreza/Netz;  Telefone Concert in (ex)-Yugoslavia and Vienna, by the project group mreza/netz - Participation, Organisation
1992Drill;  Intermediainstallation; Offenes Kulturhaus Linz, A; bei Im Raum Schule

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      Contributions to festivals and exhibitions (selection)

2021The Cure of Melancholy;  Sound Installation, electronic music. Kunstraum Nestroyhof Vienna (A)
2019Iterations/Operating|Exploitation;  produced by Constant at Bozar Bruxelles (B)
 Iterations/Collaboration Contamination;  esc medien kunst labor Graz (A)
 Homunculus Box;  installation, Festival The Art of Reproduction IMA St. Pölten (A)
 IMAge-to-poem Service;  online performance, contribution to Art's Birthday 2019, IMA St. Pölten (A), EBU satellite HAYDN, twitter
2017Sound Art vs. Multimedia;  Ludovit Fulla Gallery Ruzomberok (SK): 8000 Eyes Concept B
2016Dark Sounds in White Nights;  The New Stage of Alexandrinsky Theater, St. Petersburg (RU): Public Address To The Inner Ear
2015Höhenrausch 2015. The Mistery of Birds;  main installation on the roof of the OK Linz (A) with 23 parrots, series of concerts and lectures: metamusic (alien productions); sound installation Vogelkino (alien productions)
2008LightInSight;  NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC], Tokyo, J: The Thought Projector
 zeitRAUMzeit;  k/haus Vienna, A: Robert Adrian/Norbert Math: Radiation
 zeitRAUMzeit;  k/haus Vienna, A: The Thought Projector
 Ars Electronica 2008;  Landesgalerie Linz, A: The Thought Projector
 Art's Birthday 2008 - Forever Young;  Studio 3, Radiokulturhaus Vienna, A: A Tribute To E.C.
2007X-tended, Medienkunst aus Österreich;  Egon-Schiele-Museum, Neulengbach, A: Fast Word
 Soinu dimentsioa / Dimensión sonora;  Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, San Sebastian, E: Small Talk
 liquid music | ortsbilder;  \zentrum. Judenburg, A: XT
 MedienkunstpreisträgerInnen des Landes Niederösterreich 2006;  MuQua, quartier21, Freiraum, Vienna, A
 Arts Birthday 2007;  IMA salon sparkling party, Hainburg, A
 KulturpreisträgerInnen des Landes Niederösterreich 2006;  Documentary Center for Modern Art, St. Pölten, A
2006RadioRevolten;  Festival on the future of radio, Halle, D
 To Hear Is To See;  Municipial Museum, Györ, HU
 Les Mardis de l'art;  cycle des conferénces sur l'art actuel; Université du Luxembourg, LUX
2005ncc - netART community congress;  installation, project in progress; Dom im Berg, Graz, A: The Fast Word
 soused[ka];  Austrian Cultural Forum Praha, CZ: Alien City
 The Fabulous Festival of Fringe Films;  Symphony Barn, Durham, CAN: The Well-Tempered Kitchen, Canadian Version
 IMA : opening celebration;  IMA - Institute for Media Archeology, Hainburg, A: Alien City
 To Hear Is To See;  YYZ Artists' Outlet, Toronto, CAN
2004Re-Inventing Radio;  Radiokulturhaus Vienna, A
 sused[ka];  Dom Fotografie, Poprad, SK: Alien City
 private-exile;  3 Viennese appartments, Ronacher Vienna; a project by Rupert Huber for Wiener Festwochen 04
2003Listening in the Sound Kitchen 03;  Taplin Auditorium, Princeton, NJ, and The Commons, Baltimore, Maryland, USA: Alien City
 Traumlandschaften / Österreichischer Kulturmonat;  Pushkinskaja 10, St. Petersburg, RUS: Alien City
 Radioküchen - Küchenradio;  Aromat Wien, A, Internet, Radio; an event by Ö1 Kunstradio for Juniradio, Berlin
 taste 2-20;  public space, 2nd district, Vienna, A: Embedded Systems - The Mix, installation for 10 modified kitchen blenders
 Dokumentation 1;  Fotogalerie Vienna, A: Alien City
 Hören ist Sehen;  Klangturm St.Pölten, A
2002sasiad[ka];  Galeria Miejska Arsenal, Poznan, and Austrian Cultural Forum, Warszaw, PL: Alien City
 Hören ist Sehen;  Cultural Center Kammgarn – Forum Vebikus, Schaffhausen, CH
 Ars Electronica 2002;  Linz, A; Klangpark, Internet, Open Air - a Radiotopia
2001Digitale Zeiten;  Evangelische Akademie Tutzing, GER: Alien City
 Hören ist Sehen;  ACC Galerie, Weimar, and Klanggalerie im Kultursalon, Berlin, D
 7th International Festival of Computer Arts;  Gallery Media Nox, Maribor, SLO: Embedded Systems - The Mix, installation for 10 modified kitchen blenders
2000Hören ist Sehen;  Rhizom im Labor, Graz, A
 Bild Rausch;  FLUSS, NÖ Fotoiniative, Wolkersdorf, A
 Decodierung:Recodierung;  Kunsthalle project space, Vienna, A
 Oir es ver;  Universidad del Claustro de sor Juana, Mexico DF, Museo de la Ciudad de Querétaro, Sala de Exposiciones JAI-ALAI, Acapulco and Emisora de la Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, MEX
 Duymak Gormektir;  Austrian Cultural Institute – Gallery Yeniköy, Istanbul, Turkey
 Art's Birthday;  Radiokulturhaus Vienna, A; at Wiencouver 2000 - a Western Front / Kunstradio project
1999Merzmuseum - SchwittRadio;  Radiokulturhaus Wien, A; bei Wiencouver 2000 - a Western Front / Kunstradio project
1997Recycling the Future I - IV;  documenta X, Kassel, D - Ars Electronica, Linz, A - L'Arte Del Ascolto, Rimini I, Radiokulturhaus Wien, A
1995Horizontal Radio;  telematic radio / network project on over 20 radio stations

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      Electronic music, radio and sound art (selection)

2021Performing Utopia;  Radio-Opera by alien productions, ORF Kunstradio
2009Das Radio-Symphonie Orchester Wien spielt den Tarzanschrei;  (alien productions), Orchestra miniature by alien productions for the 40th anniversary of the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
2008Homogenisator;  (alien productions), composition commisioned by repertoriozero, MITO Settembre Musica, Milan, I
2007XT;  (alien productions and Machfeld)
2006ANDANTE CON FIGURE (nel verso di I.B.);  (with Isabella Bordoni), ORF Kunstradio
2004Die wohltemperierte Küche;  (alien productions feat. Steve Bradley), ORF Kunstradio
 Arbeitsmuster;  (alien productions), ORF Kunstradio
2003all you can eat, all you can hear: audio buffet;  (Bradley/Breindl/Math), click 112003, WMBC freeform radio, Baltimore
2002Radiation;  (Adrian X/Math), ORF Kunstradio
2001Tempest;  (Math/Zeininger) ORF Kunstradio
2000GATEways;  (alien productions), ORF Kunstradio
1999Wortstaub Partikelwelt. Brainwaveversion;  (alien productions), ORF Kunstradio
1997Resonator;  (TXTD.sign), ORF Kunstradio
 Embedded Systems. Eine Housemusik;  (alien productions), ORF Kunstradio
1996Die Differenzmaschine. Algebraische Muster;  (Sodomka/Breindl/Math/Mechtler/Ganglbauer),ORF Kunstradio, ORF Zeitton
 Diaphonie #1;  (Sodomka/Math/Huber), Musikprotokoll im Steirischen Herbst, ORF Zeitton, ORF Kunstradio
1995Stazione di Bolzano/Bozen;  (Math), RAI UNO, Horizontal Radio Network
 Changing Messages Parallel Crossover;  (Doser/Hofstetter/Math et.al.) ORF Kunstradio, Radio of Bosnia/Herzegowina
 The History of the Future of Memory;  (Sodomka/Breindl/Math) ORF Zeitton
1994Physical Modelling;  for four guitars
1993SCHLAFRADIO;  (V.A.) ORF Kunstradio - concept, production, composition
1991Frozen Moments - Ungefähre Wirklichkeit;  (Sodomka/Breindl/Math), ORF Studio Neuer Musik

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      Discography

2004alien productions: The Well-Tempered Kitchen;  CD pumpkin records; pump 10-2004
 Talking Crosswalks;  CD pumpkin records; pump 09-2004 - Production Manager
2002schwittCD;  CD ORF-CD 291; Norbert Math/Andrea Sodomka, BOTsonata 1st movement/Rondo; BOTsonata 2nd movement/Largo and Huber/Klammer/Math/Sodomka, Finale
 Tempest;  CD tonto; (Math/Zeininger)
2001HEIMAT;  CD pumpkin records; pump 05-2001; e.a.r. (Temmel/Math), Domovina
2000Sound Drifting, i silenzi parlano tra loro;  Wien, Triton, 2000 (media combination: publication and 2 CDs): Alien Productions, Alien City
 Hören ist Sehen - Oir es Ver - To Hear is To See - Duymak Görmektir;  CD/Catalogue; Vienna, edition ausart; Math/V.A., Schlafradio; Sodomka/Breindl, The Future of Memory
1999UND II: Klang Kunst Festival 99;  CD Verein zur Förderung Künstlerischer Projekte mit gesellschaftlicher Relevanz, Wiesbaden, D: alien productions, Embedded Systems - The Mix
1996Klangkunst: die klang-dokumentation zu sonambiente - festival für hören und sehen;  CD München, New York, Prestel-Verlag; Sodomka/Breindl/Math et al., Die Differenzmaschine
 Familie Auer;  CD ORF Kunstradio; V.A.
1995Tosca, chocolate elvis;  EP Vienna, g-stone records, Dorfmeister/Huber/Math, gemma gemma dub
 redred rosary, mesta et la dista yoma nomi;  LP Warner Chappell Austria; AuMe BRR-95-0005: Sodomka/Math, hide & seek mix
1994The Future Of Memory; Progetto Civitella d'Àgliano 1994;  CD - concept: Sodomka/Breindl; Norbert Math, Bersaglio, Sodomka/Breindl, Tempo compresso/Spazio sospeso
 Zeitgleich;  Vienna, Triton-Verlag (CD-ROM and AudioCD): Sodomka/Breindl/Math, Nahe Ferne.Zeitgleich
1993Time to Act;  CD Vienna, Aids Info Zentrale; The Aftertouch, What the Fuck
1992Tapes Of Misery & Imagination;  MC Vienna, The Real McCoy; The Aftertouch, Incense Burning - Kombinat M., 6.th District Castle Magic
1991The Aftertouch, Masters Of The Light Age;  LP/MC Schwertberg, A, nur schrec!
1989ELAKMU;  CD; HaHaRecords; HAHACD 1015: Math/Guantes, Das Zähneklappern, Andrea Sodomka, Musik für Mordinstrumente

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      DVD | CD-ROM

2009Transformator;  DVD, video-documentation of the installation by alien productions (A/I), Martin Walch (FL) and starsky (A)
 VIDEO EDITION AUSTRIA release 02;  DVD, Medienwerkstatt Vienna, A: alien productions, Arbeitsmuster
2007Dimensión Sonora/Sound Dimension;  Ed: Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea; San Sebastián, E: alien productions, Small Talk
2006VRNITEV 112_video_minuti;  DVD, Stazione di Topolo / Postaja Topolove: alien productions, La cucina accordata
2003alien productions. Alien City;  DVD; ORF Landesstudio Stmk., ORF Ö1, Zangi Music; ORF DVD 706
2000musikprotokoll im steirischen herbst '96;  CD ORF; MP96 ORF 14: Andrea Sodomka, Diaphonie # 1
19992000 minus 3: artspace plus interface;  CD-ROM; Vienna, Triton-Verlag, 1999: alien productions, Embedded Systems
1994Zeitgleich;  Vienna, Triton (CD-ROM and AudioCD): Sodomka/Breindl/Math, Nahe Ferne. Zeitgleich

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      Videography

2021IMA15. The Gala. The Video Book;  Music for the Video 2005 - AKA Medley (Sodomka/Math)
2020Klangmanifeste;  moved online to echoraaeume.klingt.org Evolving Narratives, Video

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      Music for Film and Video

2009Hommage to Béla Hamvas;  Installation and Film by Heinz Cibulka, Sound by Norbert Math, Ligét Galeria Budapest, HU
1995Mreza/Netz;  Video by Barbara Doser, Hofstetter Kurt and Norbert Math
1992Einfache Freuden;  film by Claudia Messmer

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