LIA is a Vienna-based Austrian artist who has worked continuously in software and net art since 1995, one of the field's early pioneers. Working primarily in code, she writes formal structures that generate real-time, minimalist compositions of form, movement and colour, treating the process as a dialogue between her intent and the machine's interpretation.,
Her first major body of work, TURUX (1997), grew out of a collaboration and became one of the earliest examples of interactive generative art on the web. It won a Design Austria award in 1998 and was later shown at the Künstlerhaus Wien in 2000 and the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2003.Its follow-up, re-move.org (1999-2003), moved into more intuitive, solo experimentation, releasing ten interactive pieces with no instructions for the viewer to discover.It was distributed as a limited-edition CD-ROM in a hand-sewn cover holding fragrant orange blossoms and a transparent film, making every copy unique, and won an Award of Distinction at Prix Ars Electronica in 2003.Decades later, LIA rebuilt both projects in p5.js to keep them viewable in modern browsers, a process that revealed ephemeral, unreproducible glitches unique to the original 1990s software.,
In 2018 LIA produced a cluster of large-scale public works, including Weaving, projected onto the facade of Taipei's Dong Gallery and shown at Contemporary Istanbul, which traces the shared computational roots of textile weaving and code back to the Jacquard Loom.Fluctus, an evolving field of organic, computationally generated patterns, was displayed on an eleven-meter outdoor LED screen at Dong Gallery in Taipei in 2019 and on the facade of Lo Pati Centre d'Art in Spain in 2023.For the Klanglicht Festival in Graz that year, she worked with sound artist Damian Stewart on Silver Ratio, an audiovisual installation in which the analyzed dynamics of the soundtrack directly generated the projected visuals across the three glass walls of the Künstlerhaus.Homage to Bridget Riley (2018), a two-part video installation paying tribute to the Op Art pioneer Bridget Riley, was selected by curator Tina Rivers Ryan for “Electric Op”, traveling from the Buffalo AKG Art Museum to the Musée d'arts de Nantes in 2024 and 2025.
In 2024 she collaborated with longtime friend Joshua Davis on CORONATION, pairing a physical print with an NFT, for “Awaken, Metamagical Hands” at Gazelli Art House in London. Reflecting on the show, she recalled being dismissed by an uninformed curator in the 1990s as merely making “a screen saver”.
