Andrea Zapp creates digital “Networked Installation Stages”, art installations that are mixing and referencing real, virtual and online spaces, combined with surveillance interfaces and technology.Recent research also includes “Media, Miniature and Shifting Scales” as another reflective format of installation architecture and digital habitat.Current ongoing experiments take these ideas further into “Textile Media”, combining narrative and digital imagery with fabric print and desgin, embroidery, fashion and sculpture. In a small label - “ZAPP! Fashion Artifacts”, based at Islington Mill Salford, she recycles vintage material, creating one-off pieces, mixing them with new fabrics, embroidery and unusual finds. She has edited two books, Networked Narrative Environments as imaginary spaces of being, MMU/FACT Liverpool, 2004; and New Screen Media, Cinema/Art/Narrative, BFI, London, 2002, (with Martin Rieser). She has curated two international Media Art exhibitions, StoryRooms, Networked Media Art & Installations, at The Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, Oct 05 to Jan 06 and The World is My Imagination, Media-Model-Miniature, at the Cube Gallery Manchester, Sept to Nov 2007.Her art works have been shown at Siggraph Boston, Ars Electronica Linz; ISEA Liverpool and Paris;Pittsburgh Center for the Arts; Festival of Visions Hong Kong - Berlin, Media Forum Moscow, Museum of Image and Sound Sao Paulo; Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts Tokyo; Kunstverein Stuttgart, Intern. Art Fair Madrid, Film Festival Rotterdamand at conferences including Tate Modern, ICA London, the Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth,Australia; Siggraph Los Angeles, ISEA 02 Nagoya; Muestra Euroamericana de Videoy Arte Digital, Buenos Aires.
In 2005 she has been appointed Senior Lecturer for Media Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University. Visit www.azapp.de for more information.