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Manuel Bonell is Co-Founder of Immerea – an award-winning interactive media company based in Vienna focusing on the development of VR Games and interactive Installations –, co-organizer of XRVienna and active as university lecturer.
Manuel graduated with distinction at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in June 2019, after receiving the Bachelor of Architecture at the University of Innsbruck. Manuel's work is driven by the interest for interactive applications in extended realities, ranging from XR installations, to CGI animations and VR games. His works have been exhibited in national and international festivals, among others the Ars Electronica Festival and DA Z - Digital Arts Festival Zürich.
EDUCATION:
2016-2019 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Institute for Art and Architecture (MArch). AT
2012-2015 University of Innsbruck. Institute for Architecture (BSc). AT
2010-2012 HTL Imst, Interior Design. AT
2009-2010 Spezialisierung, Chr. J. T., Brixen IT
2006-2009 Holzfachschule, Chr. J. T, Brixen IT
2022 Funding for Media Art. With Wilhelm Scherübl, Bernadette Maria Leitner and Flavia Mazzanti. Land Salzburg (AT)
2022 Content Vienna Award 2022 (Immerea). Award from the Vienna Business Agency for digital creative projects. Vienna, AT
2021 aws Creative Impact. Funding for the developing of a prototype. aws austria wirtschaftsservice. Vienna AT
2020 Content Vienna Award 2020. Award from the Vienna Business Agency for digital creative projects. Vienna AT
2020 Funding for Visual Arts and New Media, Stadt Wien Kultur, Vienna AT
2019 Nomination for the Würdigungspreis, Academic Prize for Master Thesis Project, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna AT
2016 1. Preis des Landes Tirol für Neues Bauen 2016, Prize for the project "Building", Innsbruck AT
2016 Honorable Mention - Special Prize - BLUE AWARD 2016, Prize for the project "Building", Innsbuck AT
2016 1. Preis beim Rosenheimer Holzbaupreis, Prize for the project "Building", Innsbruck AT
2022 Creative Days Vienna - part of ViennaUP'22. Group exhibition. Volkskundemuseum, Vienna (AT)
2021 DA Z - Digital Arts Festival Zurich. Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich (CH)
2021 Ars Electronica Linz. A cooperation between Bildraum, Salzamt Linz and the Ars Electronica Festival 2021. Salzamt, Obere Donaulände 15, Linz (AT)
2021 Neuro-Traces exhibited at das weisse haus, Vienna. Event organized by XRVienna + Women in Immersive Tech EU. Hegelgasse 14, 1010, Vienna (AT)
2021 Pixel, Bytes + Film: Innovative Filmkunst aus Österreich. Virtual group exhibition in cooperation with Flavia Mazzanti
for the project "Sympoietic Bodies". Event organized by BMKÖS, ORF III - Kultur und Information, sound:frame, XR
HUB Bavaria, WKO. Vienna (AT)
2020 Marasms 1985. Bez Kanalizacijas mav civilizacijas! with Helvijs Savickis, Solo Exhibition, Multimedia Installation
Riga LVA
2019 The Projected Mind. Cognitive processes and its digital traces. Master Thesis exhibition. Academy of Fine Arts,
Vienna AT
2018 Untitled ]a[ Rundgang, Group exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna AT
2018 BAR!¡CAD ]a[ Rundgang. Group exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna AT
2017 Saknes / galotnes. Group exhibition with Helvijs Savickis. Rigas makslas telpa. Curator: Marta Juriane, Valters Liberts.
Riga LVA
2017 Critical Environments III ]a[ Rundgang. Group exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna AT
2016 H33.7 Design project by timb¬ GesnbR (Manuel Bonell, Silvano Patton). Solo Exhibition. Styleconcept Design Art.
Gallerist Charly Walter, Innsbruck AT
2014 Vandalism beauty. Reading an image seeing the words. Photography group exhibition. Uni Innsbruck AT
2022 Inclusion and Accessibility in VR and interactive Media. Screen Reader. University Library, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (AT)
2022 TransArts - Flavia Mazzanti and Manuel Bonell (Immerea). Lecture. TranArts, die Angewandte, Vienna (AT)
2022 Ludic Physical Lunch: Flavia Mazzanti and Manuel Bonell (Immerea). Lecture. Experimental Game Cultures, die
Angewandte, Vienna (AT)
2022 Playing the Field III. Conference with Immerea OG. Amerikahaus Munich (DE)
2022 Un\Real. 4th Swiss Interactive Media Design Day 2022. Congress. GBS St. Gallen, School of Design (CH)
2022 Forum Innovation, Kreativität & Unternehmensgründung. Online Forum with Immerea OG.
St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences (AT)
2022 Faculty of New Media Art. Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology. Guest lecture as Immerea OG. Warsaw (PL)
2022 Un\real. 4th Swiss Interactive Media Design Day 2022. Workshop and Talk as Immerea OG. GBS St. Gallen, School of Design,
St. Gallen (CH)
2022 Forum Innovation, Kreativität & Unternehmensgründung. Online Forum as Immerea OG. St. Pölten University of Applied
Sciences, St. Pölten (AT)
2022 Culture at Play: Spaces - Colours - Stories in Digital Games. Conference with Immerea OG. University of Freiburg,
Department of English and American Studies. Online event, Freiburg (DE)
2022 Gamers4Nature. Conference with Immerea OG. University of Aveiro, Department of Communication and Art.
Online event, Aveiro (PT)
2021 iAM Lab in Kooperation mit DA Z Digital Arts Festival Zürich. Finanzmuseum, SIX-Gebäude, Zürich (CH)
2021 Start Over: An XRVienna + Women in Immersive Tech EU Meetup. Keynote Speaker. "das weisse haus", Vienna (AT)
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TALKS & SYMPOSIUMS
EXHIBITIONS (selection)
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