Herwig Turk

Austria (residence) °1964
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Herwig Turk is an artist in the field of new technology from Austria, he was the last decade based in Lisbon, Portugal. In the last years, beside his own successful body of work, which has been presented at venues like Georg Kargl Fine Arts Vienna, Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, TESLA Laboratory for Media Art Berlin, Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art Vienna or the Transmediale Berlin, he has been foremost involved in interdisciplinary art projects like HILUS, or the vergessen© project.

 

Between 2003 and 2010 Herwig Turk was working on another major project on the verge of art and science, blindspot, together with the Portuguese Scientist Paulo Pereira (IBILI Coimbra). 

 

From 2010 to 2013 he was artist in residence at the IMM (Institute of Molecular Medicin) in Lisbon PT.

http://www.herwigturk.net