Manu Luksch
**Manu Luksch** is an [intermedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermedia) artist, filmmaker and digital-rights activist. Her wide-ranging [critical practice](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_practice) interrogates technological and informational infrastructures – specifically, their impact on public life and urban space – using a broad palette of media, processes, tools and participatory models. She is founder of Ambient Information Systems ([ambientTV.NET](http://ambientTV.NET)), an interdisciplinary studio collaboration with Mukul Patel extending over 20 years, and Chlorophyll arts lab. Luksch was Roberta Bowman Denning Visiting Artist and Lecturer at Stanford University (2021), Visiting Artist at Birkbeck’s School of Law, University of London (2020–21), an Open Society Fellow (2018–19), and Resident Artist at Somerset House Studios, London (2017–22). In 2023, she received the Outstanding Artist Award (Media Art) from the Austrian Ministry of Culture. Her work has been exhibited widely, including at Belvedere 21 (Vienna), CaixaForum (Madrid/Sargossa/Barcelona), ZKM Karlsruhe, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Hasselblad Foundation (Göteborg), Onassis Cultural Centre (Athens), KIASMA (Helsinki), Barbican (London), Ars Electronica Centre (Linz), and Centre Pompidou (Paris). Her award-winning films were included in competition programs at BFI London Film Festival, CPH:DOX, Seattle Int. Film Festival, Int. Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Int. Film Festival Rotterdam, Ji.hlava Int. Documentary Film Festival, Prague, to name a few. Luksch studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, the University of Vienna, [University of Fribourg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Fribourg) in Switzerland, and Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok.