Vibeke Sorensen
2001 Fellow
Pasadena, CA
Sanctuary (2002)
Designed as an open temple, this multi-media and interactive installation explores cross-cultural interpretations of sanctuary, or safe haven.
Selected Works
Video
Maya (1993)
Concurrents (1988)
A Midsummer Night (1984)
VideOcean (1976)`
Installation
Sanctuary (2002)
Morocco Memory II (1999)
Website
Visualmusic.org/Vibeke.html
Live Internet Performance
Lemma 2 (1999)
Lemma 1 (1997)
Accomplishments
Professor, School of Cinema-Television; Founding Chair, Division of Animation and Digital Arts; Director, MFA in Film, Video and Computer Animation Program, University of Southern California, since 1995

Teaching Experience: Visual Arts Department, University of California, San Diego, 1995; Computer Animation Laboratory, CalArts, 1984-1994; Visual Art and Computer Science Departments, Princeton University, NJ, 1990, 1991 and 1993

Exhibitions: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2000; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2000, 1982; Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada, 2000; School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1997; Videothèque de Paris, Paris, 1994; Pompidou Center, Paris, 1992; San Francisco Art Institute, 1988; Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, 1983

Grants and Awards: Annenberg Center for Communication, 1996–1999; Zumberge Fellowship for Innovation in Research, University of Southern California, 1996; National Endowment for the Arts, 1984; First Prize, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1983; First Prize, International Visual Music Festival, University of California, Los Angeles, 1982
Education
1976 MAH, Center for Media Study, Sate University of New York, Buffalo
1974 BA, Royal Academy of Art and Architecture, Copenhagen, Denmark
1971, International Baccalaureate Degrees, Mathematics and English Literature, Geneva, Switzerland
Web Site
News
February - March 2006
Vibeke Sorensen was featured in “Abstraction and Visual Music: Contemporary Animation from Los Angeles Artists,” a survey of work and panel presented by the iotaCenter in LA in February.
November 2005
Vibeke Sorensen premiered Sanctuary, a multi-media and interactive installation designed as a temple that explores cross-cultural interpretations of sanctuary, or safe haven, at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada in October.
June - July 2004
Vibeke Sorensen has completed a first version of Sanctuary.  Designed as an open temple, this multi-media and interactive installation explores cross-cultural interpretations of sanctuary, or safe haven.
Interview

What would you be if you couldn't be a filmmaker / artist / writer / multimedia / installationist?

My first choice would be to be a musician.

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