Andrea Zapp creates digital “Networked Installation Stages”, art installations that are mixing and referencing real, virtual and online spaces. Recent research also includes “Media, Miniature and Shifting Scales” as another reflective format of installation architecture and digital habitat.
Current ongoing experiments take these ideas further into “Textile Media”, combining narrative and digital imagery with fabric print and desgin, embroidery and sculpture. She has edited two books, Networked Narrative Environments as imaginary spaces of being, MMU/FACT Liverpool, 2004; and New Screen Media, Cinema/Art/Narrative, BFI, London, 2002, (with Martin Rieser). She curated international Media Art exhibitions - StoryRooms, Networked Media Art & Installations, at The Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, Oct 05 - Jan 06 and The World is My Imagination, Media-Model-Miniature, at CUBE Gallery Manchester, Sept - Nov 2007; and POI – Moving, Mapping, Memory, at Cornerhouse Manchester, June 2009. Zapp has also lectured and shown her artworks at numerous international venues, exhibitions and festivals since the mid-1990s. She is a Senior Lecturer for Media Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University, School of Art and Media; and a Programme Leader of the MA Media Lab (Postgraduate Creative Media Practice in Film, Photography and Media Arts).
Last updated May 2009