Eva Fischer is an independent curator, festival director, and cultural manager in media art, immersive media, and art and technology. She studied art history and cultural management at institutions in Graz, Utrecht, and Vienna. She has been director of the media art festival Civa since 2021. In 2007 she initiated sound:frame, which became known as the Vienna Festival for Audiovisual Art and has been operating as a platform for immersive art and technology since 2016. Between 2016 and 2019 she was production manager of the Diagonale festival in Graz and between 2023 and 2025 COO of the International Screen Institute in Vienna. Since 2011 she has been teaching at various universities and universities of applied sciences in the field of experimental media and immersive art.
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