BIO

Friederike Paetzold is a digital artist based in New York City. She studied art history at the Universities of Munich and the former East Berlin and received a BA in painting (Phi Beta Kappa) from Reed College in 1988. In 1991, she interned at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, and in 1992-93, spent a year painting in a small village near Calcutta. In 1996 she decided to explore the computer as a new medium and created her first online art piece, The Compound. She received a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Computer Arts the same year. Since then, her net art works have appeared in several festivals and publications including Art in America, The European Media Art Festival and The Montreal International Festival for New Cinema/New Media. Her 1998 piece, I-Section (commissioned by Turbulence), received awards from the Stuttgart Film/New Media Festival and the Art Directors Club in New York. Her most recent project is Grey Area, which received a Jury Prize at the 2003 Stuttgart Film/New Media Festival. Friederike supports herself as a web and print designer.