Franz Thalmair - CONT3XT.NET
CONT3XT.NET is a Vienna-based organisation founded in 2006 as a collaborative platform for the discussion and presentation of issues related to Media Art. Against the background of an interdisciplinary theoretical approach to all forms of communications technologies its mission is the critical investigation and documentation of actual tendencies in Contemporary Art production. The organisation works both online and offline and offers regularly news and announcements as well as initiatives developed by its members in collaboration with artists, theorists, curators, writers and other Media Art affiliated people. The collective was founded by Sabine Hochrieser, Michael Kargl and Franz Thalmair.
Franz Thalmair is an independent art critic and curator working primarily in the field of contemporary media art. He studied Romance Philology and Linguistics at the Universities of Salzburg, Paris and Barcelona and completed a doctorate in Textlinguistics/Semiotics. His work focuses on the intersections between language, art and technology, electronic literature, conceptual Internet-based art, site-specific art as well as visual arts practice in the public realm. Ultimately he explores the transfer of Internet-based art from the virtual to the real space.