ART: Christoph Ueberhuber creates photo-based works of art in an
emotionally driven collage style. Concentrating on human faces and
bodies, Ueberhuber’s work speaks to the most intrinsic of human
concerns, love and loss.
BORN: October 26, 1946 in Vienna, Austria
PROFESSION: Professor at the Institute for Analysis and Scientific Computing,
Vienna University of Technology, Wiedner Hauptstrasse 8–10, A-1040 Wien, Austria,
Tel: +43 / 1 / 58801 10152, E-Mail: ueberhuber@tuwien.ac.at
RESEARCH WORK: Participation in numerous research projects in leading position,
for example, in the special research program SFB AURORA (1997–2007) of the
Austrian Science Fund.
SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS: 16 reference books and more than 100 journal
publications in the fields of mathematics and computer science
AWARDS: Gordon Bell Prize 2006 for the fastest running software on the
biggest computer in the world.
ARTISTIC DEVELOPMENT: Various art courses, for example, at the International
Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg (Xenia Hausner, Rivka Rinn, Ines Doujak,
Elfie Semotan) and Traunkirchen (Arnulf Rainer); artistic research in the area between
scientific imaging and artistic image conception and composition.
ART TEACHING: Since 1995 holding of advanced seminars on „Art and Computers“
at the Vienna University of Technology. Beginning with winter semester 2010
holding of an advanced seminar on artistic research for students of architecture.