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IMAfiction portrait #01 Liesl Ujvary – Screening
Brigitta Boedenauer Fading Creatures – Live Performance

Fading Creatures by Brigitta Bödenauer

A fragmented collage, a cacophony of forgotten whispers and faded echoes. The boundaries become blurred and reality shifts. A surreal landscape of impressions and emotions emerges: a fleeting illusion of a material world - manipulated and distorted. ‘Fading Creatures’ plays with the remaining fragments of acoustic memories and (re)creates moments of transition and decay.

Brigitta Bödenauer aka bb works in the fields of experimental animated film, installation and produces electronic music. Her activities as a DJ and organiser in the Viennese noise and experimental music scene since the early 1990s are the starting point for her visual works, which always have a strong connection to music. Her films have received awards at various international festivals and are regularly shown in the context of exhibitions. Brigitta Bödenauer writes about film and visual media and teaches in the fields of video editing, animated film and media art.

Participation in IMA projects
Hidden Alliances_versteckt verbunden
IMA.15 Die Gala - Das Videobuch

Brigitta Boedenauer


IMAfiction Portrait #01 | Liesl Ujvary
A portrait by Martin Breindl (2006)

comes from a generation for which using computers is not a matter of course. Her approach is probably best described by Martin Breindl in his text “Bewegung in Möglichkeitsformen, über Liesl Ujvarys Musik” (Movements in Probability Shapes — about Liesl Ujvary’s music):

When producing music or images the author Liesl Ujvary plays controlled games, transforming her (sound- and image-) objects from one (possible) state into another (also possible) state. She can perform these transformations because she exclusively works at the virtual machine whose integral part she herself has become as a cyborg. Her achievement as a cyborg is that she understands and exploits the potentials of this human-machine fusion from the inside out (this does not necessarily mean that she has to fully understand the technology she uses, but rather that she is able to enter the potential fields offered by this technology).(Martin Breindl)

This is my body. Right now I am here. I have certain perceptions, ideas, emotions. Right now I am doing this and this. I cause and control my thoughts and actions. I talk about and reflect upon myself. I have a conscience. I am who I was yesterday (Liesl Ujvary)

Camera: Magdalena Vetter
Film editing: Martin Breindl, Magdalena Vetter
Text, music, images: Liesl Ujvary
Format: 4:3
Language: German
Subtitles: English
Duration: 17:30 min
Bonus audio tracks: ghostengine, sprechen ohne sprache / alpha version remix / membrane als vermittler / 7 artefakte / heavy loops version / softworlds / sprache der gene / sex + tod + klangeffekte
Shot at Botanischer Garten, Belvedere, Wien and Liesl Ujvary’s Studio
Supported by Niederösterreich Kultur and Bundeskanzleramt:Kunst

Liesl Ujvary was born in 1939, in Bratislava/Slovak Republic. She came to Austria in 1945, childhood in Lower Austria and Tyrol. Studies in Vienna and Zurich (Slavic studies, old Hebraic literature, art history). Several sojourns in Moscow. Dissertation on Ilja Ehrenburg’s “Julio Jurenito.” 1968 Dr.phil. at the University of Zurich. 1969/70 university teaching position for Russian language and literature at Sophia University (Jesuit university) in Tokyo. 1970/71 one-year advanced training course for Russian teachers at the Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow. Since 1971, she works as a writer in Vienna. Poetry, prose, radio plays, photos, music. Artificial intelligence, computer art. Work commissioned by Kunstradio/ORF. Translations from Russian to German. Various awards and scholarships.

Participation in IMA projects
Hidden Alliances_versteckt verbunden
IMA.15 Die Gala - Das Videobuch

Liesl Ujvary
https://ima.or.at/de/projekt/imafiction_portrait01/