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)
and Traunkirchen (Arnulf Rainer); Research work 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.