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Alba D'Urbano worked in  which location from 1984 to 1990?
Alba DUrbano Alba DUrbano ( born April 13 , 1955 ) is a textile and video artist . DUrbanos most notable work was 1995s hautnah ( close to the skin ) ; a series of garments imprinted with life-size digital photographs of her own skin . After an exhibition in 1999 , critics stated she depicted nudity as fashionable , provoked voyeurism , and made skin ( the external body ) just another interface in a world . In addition to her own work , DUrbano has been a critic and an art philosopher . Since 1995 , DUrbano has been a professor at Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst , in Leipzig , Germany . Early life . DUrbano was born in Tivoli and studied philosophy at the Sapienza University of Rome from 1974 to 1978 . Her work as an artist was influenced by her affiliation with the Distracted Avantgarde ( Klemens Gruber ) , which sought to bring about a paradigm shift in the relationship between art , politics and mass communication . It was against this backdrop that Alba DUrbano produced experimental radio programmes for the alternative broadcasting station Radio Gulliver in Tivoli ( modelled on stations such as Radio Alice in Bologna and Radio Città Futura in Rome ) and founded a feminist group . In 1979 , she enrolled in a course of visual arts studies at the under , graduating in 1983 . Experimental works in collaboration with other artists date from that period . One such fellow artist was composer Alessandro Cipriani with whom she created performances , Super-8 films , and artistic events in public spaces . Alba DUrbano moved to ( West ) Berlin in 1984 and began her studies in visual communication at the Berlin University of the Arts in 1985 . In 1989 , she graduated as a master student ( Meisterschüler-Degree ) in experimental film design under . In 1990 she held a scholarship at the in Frankfurt am Main , headed by Peter Weibel . It was during that time that she met her future husband , Nicolas Reichelt . After a lectureship at the , she was appointed to teach at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig in 1995 , where she has since held a professorship in computer graphics , and has taught the class for intermedia since 1998 . In 2003–2004 , she taught at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano for one academic year . Since 2000 , she has curated numerous exhibitions at the national and international level as part of her university duties , addressing political and social issues and incorporating both process-orientated and media-reflective methods . Artistry . In the 1980s , Alba DUrbanos artistic interest focused on the drastic changes in the perception of reality brought about by the increasingly influential glut of virtual images , which are generated by the mass media and susceptible to manipulation . At the core of her artistic exploration was the relationship between the written word and the new media . Berlins urban space with its partly truncated communication paths and its insular status provided the setting for her first video works from the series Nur die Augen können ( filmed at Checkpoint Charlie , 1985 ) and Kreis , der ( filmed on , 1987 ) . For the video installations for the series Berlin Kulturstadt Europas , she focused on local communication media ; in the series of paintings entitled Prometheus she addressed the impoverished human communications and the loss of writing . In the 1990s , Alba DUrbano turned to interactive video and computer installations , to which her creative , complex , experimentally enhancing and problem-conscious approach gave significant impetus as a means of artistic impression . In her projects , some of which featured a multiplicity of media ( e.g . Lesposizione impraticabile , 1992 , 96 ; Rosa Binaria , 1993–96 ; Hautnah and Il sarto immortale , 1995–98 ) she raised the viewers awareness of mass media and their problematic nature without polemic and without affecting the aesthetic evocative force of various media [ Fußnote 2 , Künstlerlexikon ] . In a bid to counter an overwhelming array of media images , she began to toy with the viewers expectations . She substituted images with illegible strings of characters and drew the viewers attention towards the way in which media images are created and the processes they involve . She gained international renown through her multi-part projects Hautnah and Il Sarto Immortale , in which she digitally processed images of her own body and then had them printed onto fabric and transformed into items of clothing to be showcased by models on catwalks . In the interplay between clothing and nakedness , she literally exposed the commercial exploitation of womens bodies in the mass media and the fashion industry . The works she developed jointly with Tina Bara are inspired by feminist standpoints : there , the body is portrayed as a matrix inscribed into which are identities as a cultural and social construct . For the two women artists , it is always about the process of allocating normative attitudes and behaviour patterns . In a series of intermedia projects such as Portrait Alba / Tina Ritratto and Bellissima the artists also referenced biographical material . A new added element incorporated by Tina Bara is the subject of the German Democratic Republics past . The series of portraits entitled Siegerehrungen ( 2003 ) for instance features former elite GDR athletes . The project Covergirl : Wespen-Akte ( 2007-2009 ) looks at the opposition group Frauen für den Frieden , of which Tina Bara is also a member . Works in public collections ( selected ) . - Gutenberg-Museum , Mainz - Collection of the City of Frankfurt am Main - Collection of the Town of Fellbach - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Wertpapiere ( DWS ) , Frankfurt am Main - Dresdner Bank , Munich - Collection of the Contemporary Art Gallery in Termoli , Italy ( Galleria Civica dArte Contemporanea ) - Deutsche Bank , Darmstadt - ZKM | Medienmuseum , Karlsruhe - Medienhaus , Frankfurt am Main - Deutsche Guggenheim , Berlin - Art Fund of the Free State of Saxony , Dresden - Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche , Osnabrück - Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg - Museum Bellerive , Zurich Prizes and scholarships / Awards . - 1987 Grant from the editors of Das kleine Fernsehspiel ( ZDF ) for the realization of the video Kreis , der - NaFög-grant of the Universität der Künste , Berlin - Project grant of the Röhm GmbH , Darmstadt - 1990 Grant Pépinières of Eurocréation , Paris - 2006 Project grant of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes for Eine Frage ( nach ) der Geste - 2009 Project grant of the Stiftung Kunstfonds for Covergirl : Wespen-Akte Publications . - D’Urbano , Alba : La Porta . In : Il recinto e il luogo sacro ( exhibition catalogue ) , Sora 1990 . - D’Urbano , Alba : Al Caro Scomparso . In : Videoinstallationen ( exhibition catalogue ) , Berlin 1991 . - D’Urbano , Alba : Rosa Binaria . In : Gerbel , Karl ; Weibel , Peter ( ed. ) : Ars Electronica 1993 , Vienna 1993 . - D’Urbano , Alba : Der negierte Raum . In : Gerbel , Karl ; Weibel , Peter ( ed. ) : Ars Electronica 1994 , Linz 1994 . - D’Urbano , Alba : Hautnah . In : Kunstforum International , Kunstforumverlag Ruppichteroth 1995 ; also in Fotografie nach der Fotografie , Verlag der Kunst , Munich 1995 . - D’Urbano , Alba : Stoffwechsel . In : Reindl ; Dietzler ; Ummels ; Broch ( Hg. ) : Art Hansa Spezial , ( exhibition catalogue ) , Salon Verlag , Cologne 1997 . - Dieter Daniels , Alba D’Urbano : Utopie : Ursprung aller Medien . In : Andreas Broekman , *Rudolf Frieling ( ed. ) : Bandbreite-Medien zwischen Kunst und Politik , Kulturverlag Kadmos Berlin 2004 . - Alba D’Urbano/Tina Bara/Susanne Holschbach ( ed. ) : Bellissima , exhibition catalogue , Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst , Leipzig , 2006 . - Alba D’Urbano/Tina Bara ( ed. ) : Eine Frage ( nach ) der Geste , exhibition catalogue Fotohof Salzburg Edition , Salzburg , 2008 . - Alba D’Urbano : Private Property : all you need.. . In : LIVRAISON T.11 Multiples et autres/and other Multiples ( S . 16-25 ) , Rhinoceros , Strasbourg , 2008/2009 . - Alba D’Urbano : Erschreckend Schön : Körperpoetik und Körperkonstruktion . In KUNSTmagazin 1005 ( p . 8-13 ) , KUNSTverlag , Berlin 2011 . Further reading . - Wolff , Thomas : Neues aus der Raumforschung . In : Steiger , Charly ( ed. ) : Sequenz , Frankfurt am Main 1995 . - Schwarz , Hans-Peter : Touch me . In : Medien-Kunst-Geschichte , Prestel Verlag , Munich 1997 . - Ingrid Mössinger : Alba D‘Urbano . In : Barbara Wally ( Hg. ) , Skulptur , Figur , Weiblich , ( exhibition catalogue ) , Bibliothek der Provinz , Linz 1998 . - Wendt , Karin : Experimentum Loci : Virtuelle Räume . In : Hermann , Mertin , Valting ( ed. ) : Die Gegenwart der Kunst , Wilhelm Fink Verlag , Munich 1998 . - Alexandra Kolossa : Il Sarto Immortale . In : Heike Strelow ( ed. ) : Natural Reality , ( exhibition catalogue ) , Dako Verlag , Stuttgart 1999 . - Gebhard Streicher : Il Sarto Immortale : Display . In : Its now or never , ( exhibition catalogue ) , Transit I – IV , DG eV , Munich 1999 . - Benthien , Claudia : Haut . Literaturgeschichte – Körperbilder – Grenzdiskurse , Rowohlt Verlag , Reinbek 1999 . - Gertje Maaß : Alba D’Urbano . In : Barbara Hoffer , Valeria Schulte-Fischedick ( ed. ) : Crossfemale , ( exhibition catalogue ) , Berlin 2000 . - Elisabeth Hartung : Die Zweite Haut – Kunst und Kleidung , ( exhibition catalogue ) , Merano 2001 . - Michaela Völkel : Inszenierung . In : Wilhelm Hornbostel , Nils Jockel ( ed. ) : Nackt . Die Ästhetik der Blöße , ( exhibition catalogue ) , Prestel Verlag , Munich 2002 . - Günter Meißner : Alba DUrbano . In Günter Meißner ( ed. ) , Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon , Vol . 31 , p . 181ff. , Saur Verlag , Munich 2002 . - Mark Hansen : Affect as medium , or the ‘digital-facial-image’ . In : Journal of Visual Culture , Vol . 2 ( 2 ) : 205-228 , SAGE Publications , London 2003 . - Petra Leutner : Oberflächen mit Körper . In : Christian Janecke ( ed. ) : Haare Tragen , Böhlau Verlag , Cologne , 2004 . - Lorella Scacco : Alba D’Urbano . In : Estetica Mediale , Guerini Verlag , Milan , 2004 . - Alexandra Kolossa : Die Anwesenheit der Abwesenden Alba D’Urbano – Eine Annäherung . In : Alba D’Urbano : Whoami : In ordine Sparso , Verlag für Moderne Kunst , Nuremberg , 2006 . - Hubertus von Amelunxen : Einmal hören . Für Alba . In : Alba DUrbano : Whoami : In ordine Sparso , Verlag für Moderne Kunst , Nuremberg , 2006 . - Cora von Pape : Kunstkleider . Die Präsenz des Körpers in textilen Kunst-Objekten des 20 . Jahrhunderts , Transcript-Verlag , Bielefeld , 2008 . - Ingrid Loschek : Wann ist Mode ? Strukturen , Strategien und Innovationen , Dietrich Reimer Verlag , Berlin , 2007 . - Ingrid Loschek : When Clothes become Fashion . Design & Innovation Systems , Berg Publisher , Oxford , 2008 . - Jorge Lozano : La Moda : sublime menor . In : Manuel Lucena Giraldo , Ignacio Gonzales Casasnovas ( ed. ) : Amazonas y modelos : Universo femenino y cultura en el siglo XX , Instituto de Cultura , Fundacìon Mafre , Madrid , 2008 . - Reuter , Jule : Tina Bara/Alba D’Urbano , Covergirl . In : Ralf Eppenede ( ed. ) : Bewegte Welt – Erzählte Zeit 1989-2009 , ( exhibition catalogue ) , Goethe-Institute , Saint Petersburg , 2009 . - Eran Fisher : Media and New Capitalism in the Digital Age : The Spirit of Networks , Palgrave Macmillan , New York , 2010 . - Océane Delleaux : Le Multiple et les «autres» multiples . Histoire dune mutation artistique , Europe et Amérique du Nord ( 1984-2006 ) , L’Harmattan , Paris , 2010 . - Constanze Küsel : Die Made in der Schokolade ; Frankfurt University Press , Frankfurt am Main , 2010 . - Paolo Bianchi : Alba D’Urbano & Dagmar Varady »wissen – ein Werkkatalog« , in : Kunstforum 225 , March–April 2014 , p . 320-323 External links . - Website von Alba DUrbano - Alba DUrbano at the HGB Leipzig - Intermedia class at the HGB Leipzig - Intermedia class - About Alba DUrbano at the ZKM - About Alba DUrbano at the - Website of the artist duo Tina Bara and Alba DUrbano - Couture – The Collection