tinaz/growth

Ceiba Records San Francisco (1990-now)
(electronic music/psychedelic trance record label)
Art Direction and Graphic Artist, responsible for all visual artwork
design and production of CD and Vinyl Covers, Website, Promotional material, Identity and Collateral, Apparel.

Pentagram Design Inc. (3/96-3/98)
Staff Industrial Designer in Design Consultancy
working on development of electronic and computer products.
Clients include Toshiba, Samsung, Silicon Graphics etc.)

Klöber GmbH - Überlingen, Germany (6/95-9/98)
Design and Development of Lounge Seating System ÒTezettÓ Market analysis, Concept Design and Prototype construction (1995)
design and partial programming of Klöber website (1998)

Ashcraft Design- Los Angeles (6/95-8/95)
freelance design project, audio product for harman/kardon

Siemens AG - Munich, Germany (6/94-8/94)
Internship in Design DepartmentConsumer Products Group

Bozell Jacobs Inc. - New York (6/92-8/92)
Internship in Advertising Agency, Assistant to Art Director

Klöber GmbH - Überlingen, Gemany (2/92-5/92)
Internship in Product Development Department

Mercedes Benz - Stuttgart, Germany (9/91-3/92)
Internship in Design Department

Computer

Alias Wavefront (3D modeling and Animation), Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects, Media 100, Cubase Audio, basic HTML, Dreamweaver, Flash3.

Design

product- graphic- and webdesign

Data/Source material collection

photography, video (DV, hi8), sound recording of nature, gathering of natural found objects like driftwood and stones used in digital collages and sculptures.

Traditional media

painting (acrylic, mixed media)
sculpture (metal, wood, resin, plastics)
sketching/drawing

Studio 211
Artist -in-Residency at art website Studio211.com
Summer 2000

Means:555
group show at 555 Natoma San Francisco
curated by Justin Young
april1-29 2000

Examininig Con$umeri$m
provocative media investigating commercial pressures,corporate control and consujmer choices
group show at The Art Gallery in Cesar Chavez Student Center
San Francisco State University
march 8 - april 5 2000

Abraham Lubelski Gallery New York
show of digital canvas prints and digital video
project "Aion" (explorations on universal symbols) in collaboration with Barbara Streiff (sculpture) and Peter Ziegelmeier (digital sound)
march 4-18 2000

Zavtone (www.zavtone.com)
resident contributor of artwork and writing
in Japanese Digital Art Magazine since 1997

Radio-V (www.radio-v.com)
several video documentaries and artwork
on electronic culture website

Inter-Arts Center San Francisco State University
showing of work in several shows and in IAC website gallery

Biography

Tina was born on 24th of April 1972 at Lake Constance (Germany), at one of EuropeÕs biggest lakes that connects Germany to the north, Switzerland to the south and Austria to the east.
I spend a happy childhood in this beautiful area, my parents and family took me sailing and skiing, while my grandmother would go on long walks with me through the meadows and forests explaining the plants and animals. So from early childhood on I developed a strong connection to water, mountains, earth and all organic; a love for Nature that I got consciously aware of not until a few years ago, reawakened by the raw beauty of Northern CaliforniaÕs pacific beaches, deserts and Redwood forests.
Since early childhood drawing had been one of my favorite childhood and teenage-years activities, I loved to draw comics and fantasy beings and as the time came to decide on a career path, all I knew was that I wanted to do something creative and should do something serious, so I chose an education as an industrial designer. After a couple of product- and graphic design internships I started to study product design at Art Center College of Design, first at the European campus in Switzerland, later at the main campus in Pasadena, California.
The three years of incredible work load every semester did not leave much room for intellectual or spiritual development, but it taught me many of the skills that my artwork today is based on- computers, modelmaking, sketching etc.
In Spring 1996 I moved to San Francisco to work as an Industrial Designer at Pentagram Design, designing mainly computer and electronics products. To work within the core of the digital revolution in Silicon Valley was interesting but after a while I grew creatively disillusioned with the helpless race of high-tech production, where products are obsolete the minute they reach the market, and creative expression is very limited (..is this button gonna be round or oval?) So after two years I was ready to move on and explore more adventurous realms of creativity.
In Fall 1998 I started a Master of Arts Program in Interdisciplinary Art at San Francisco State University, where I am working and learning in different media, my emphasis is digital art, (digital collage, web, video etc.) but to balance out the brain-heavy digital work I also enjoy more intuitive art making in sculpture and painting.
In San Francisco I met my partner in life and creativity Peter and since then we are sharing our love for nature, art and music with a loose, extended family, the psychedelic trance community, people connected through electronic music, travelling, all-night dance celebrations and creative, alternative technology-embracing lifestyles.
Here I found the freedom and global community that inspires me in my artwork today, an environment that embraces ancient wisdom and tribal art forms and is also interested in our current digital evolution, the human potential and the eternal mystery of Life.

Most of my artwork is spawned or incorporated in my visual work for Ceiba Records (www.ceibarec.com), the independent electronic music label in SF that Peter and a friend founded in 1996. It was the first Psychedelic Trance Label in th US and when I volunteered to make a CD cover for the first release it was the step for me to find my new area of creative expression in computer graphics and digital art. Through the record labelÕs visual identity -website, CD-covers, merchandise etc. I now have a platform to manifest my artwork without having to limit my creative freedom. While I am also focussing on creating original/one-off art-pieces, mainly sculptures and large scale digital prints, and exhibiting them through the traditional art-culture system, the connection to the electronic music culture and economy makes my artwork accessible to a wider audience and be enjoyed in less discriminating, more experimental environments.
In the future I willbe working with a group of like-minded artists from San Francisco to create multi-media events, immersive environments that include electronic music and dance with video-projection and installation, sculptures, paintings and digital print backdrops in an outdoor natural setting.
My artwork is about the celebration of Life and its mysteries and I am most happy when I experience and respond to this LifeÕs magical Essence- when I dance, when I am in Nature and when I create.