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Waltraut Cooper: As a mathematician, I come from a background in which technology plays a major role. Technological aspects have always fascinated me. My work with light in particular was actually an outgrowth of having seen “Other Avant-Garde”, a very large exhibition that included works from all over the world. The time when I began doing art was very much oriented on the future, and the avant-garde played a big role. There was a very pervasive spirit of optimism, and that went for women too. This was the first time that there was a huge outpouring of sentiment that women have to have the same rights as men. This was precisely when the exhibition “Other Avant-Garde” ran in the Brucknerhaus, and I was invited to contribute a work. I was so fascinated by the Brucknerhaus’ geometric exterior that I got the idea of creating diagonals of light right on the façade. That was the beginning. I found it so fascinating to work with light. And afterwards, this fascination simply grew and grew.
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https://ars.electronica.art/aeblog/en/2017/12/06/waltraut-cooper/ (19.08.2022)