Description: Represents quantities and performs calculations.
Key Feature: Universal usage across cultures.
Example: Hindu-Arabic numerals (0-9).
Purpose: To represent numerical values and perform mathematical calculations.
Usage: Universally used in mathematics, science, commerce, etc.
Historical Context: Developed in India around the 6th century AD.
Description: A set of letters for many modern languages.
Key Feature: 26 letters in its modern form.
Example: English, Spanish, French.
Usage: Extremely widespread globally.
Historical Context: Originated in Italy around the 7th century BC.
Description: Influential writing system that led to others (Latin, Cyrillic).
Key Feature: 24 letters.
Example: Used for Greek language.
Usage: Also in math/science as symbols.
Historical Context: Around 8th century BC.
Description: Used for Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, etc.
Key Feature: Russian version has 33 letters.
Usage: Widespread in Eastern Europe and Asia.
Historical Context: Developed around 10th century AD.
Description: Consonant-based writing system with optional vowel marks.
Key Feature: 22 consonants.
Usage: Hebrew, religious texts.
Historical Context: Originated in Levant, ~10th century BC.
Description: 28 primary letters, used for Arabic, Persian, Urdu, etc.
Key Feature: Right-to-left script.
Usage: Widespread across the Middle East and beyond.
Historical Context: ~4th century AD.
Description: 32 letters to fit Persian phonemes.
Key Feature: Includes پ, چ, ژ, گ.
Usage: Persian (Farsi), Dari, etc.
Historical Context: Adapted post–Islamic conquest of Persia (7th c. AD).
Description: For native Japanese words, grammar.
Key Feature: 46 basic characters.
Usage: Combined with Kanji and Katakana.
Historical Context: Heian period (~8-12th c. AD).
Description: For foreign words, onomatopoeia, technical terms.
Key Feature: 46 basic characters.
Usage: Combined with Kanji and Hiragana.
Historical Context: Also from the Heian period.
Description: Chinese-origin characters for Japanese.
Key Feature: Thousands of characters.
Usage: Combined with Hiragana/Katakana.
Historical Context: Imported from China ~5th century AD.
Description: Reduced-stroke forms of Traditional Chinese.
Usage: Mainland China, Singapore.
Key Feature: Easier to learn, fewer strokes.
Historical Context: Mid-20th c. PRC to improve literacy.
Description: Original complex forms of Chinese characters.
Usage: Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau.
Key Feature: Historically used for centuries.
Historical Context: Ancient form, unchanged by PRC reforms.
Description: Rare, archaic forms.
Usage: Classical texts, linguistics.
Key Feature: Unique, less commonly used.
Historical Context: Shows evolution of Chinese script.
Description: Used by ancient Germanic peoples.
Key Feature: Elder Futhark has 24 characters.
Usage: By Vikings and historical Germanic tribes.
Historical Context: 2nd–8th c. AD.
Description: Symbols for elements, compounds, and processes in alchemy.
Key Feature: Non-phonetic, representing concepts.
Usage: Medieval alchemy texts.
Historical Context: From Ancient Greece, ~1st century AD onward.
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Artist, Performer and Designer.
Master in Transmedia Art, Prof. Brigitte Kowanz, University for Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria
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Exhibitions, Performances:
2024
OPEN STUDIO DAYS _ VIENNA ART WEEK / Obere Donaustraße 45 a-c, 1020 / Vienna
ARTIST STATEMENT _ PARALLEL VIENNA / Otto Wagner Areal / Baumgartner Höhe 1 / Vienna
THE GRAND ARTFIGHT PRIZE / Event, Exhibition / Forum Stadtpark / Graz
2023
„50/50“ _ Private Event, Performance, Exhibition / Galerie Krinzinger Schottenfeld / Vienna
2021
XX ART FLÂNERIE / Social Lubricant and Water Politics / Kunstbogen / Vienna
OPEN ART / Summerstage / Roßauer Lände / Vienna
2020
THISHOUSEBYLINES / toZOMIA / Bloch-Bauer Promenade 28 / Vienna
2019
(UN)FOLDING_TRACES / (Performance) / Parallel / Vienna
BLIND_MOVES / (Sound for Workshop) ImPulsTanz Festival / Vienna
UNSAFE AND SOUNDS / Festival / Steinergasse 8, Vienna
2018
INNOVATION AREA / Fachmesse für Forst, Säge, Holzbau und Tischlerei, Klagenfurt
CREATIVE ROBOTICS / Ars Electronica Center / Linz
2017
THE FIRST MEIXI INTERNATIONAL ART FESTIVAL / Changsha, Hunan, China
ÄSTHETIK DER VERÄNDERUNG / Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna
DLAF / Zhongliang Village / Chongqing, China
UPON / Museum of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
RICHTUNG / Diplomausstellung – Transmediale Kunst / Angewandte, Vienna
PREVIEW / DREISECHSFUENF #1 / Masc Foundation, Vienna
LIGHTNESS AND MATTER / Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna
2016
HOPPIN KRIEAU / Stallungen der Trabrennbahn – Krieau, Vienna
DIALOG 2016 / Technische Universität, Vienna
ONE MOMENT IN TIME / Impuls Tanz / Leopold Museum, Vienna
2014
ALL IN / Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna
AM WACHSEN – READY TO SWITCH / MUSA / Startgalerie, Vienna
URBAN / GoOn / Powerstation of Art / Design Biennale, Shanghai, China
STANDBY (Performance) / Lenikus Studios, Vienna
2013
KLANGMANIFESTE 2013 / Echoraum, Vienna
KUNSTFRISCHMARKT / Westbahnstrasse 1070, Vienna
INKUBATION / Ehemalige Manufaktur chirurgischer Instrumente, Vienna
VIERSTIMMIG / Deutschvilla, Strobl
THE ESSENCE / Kunstlerhaus, Vienna
DESIRE CREATES DISTANCE / Ve.Sch, Vienna
IN DER KUBATUR DES KABINETTS / Fluc, Vienna
TALK TO ME III / Ve.Sch, Vienna
5th S*SSESSION / La Fin c ́est Merde, Vienna
2012
SCIENTIFIC PEOPLE ON TOUR – Filmbar / Albertina, Vienna
SCIENTIFIC PEOPLE / Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna
NAKED FIRE / Kunst Pavillon and KONGRESSHAUS, Innsbruck
2011
THE ESSENCE / Locker Gallery / Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna
MOVE FESTIVAL / REMOVE-REUSE-RECYCLE / Forum Stadtpark, Graz
2010
JENNYFAIR-2010 / DEGENERATION / Kaltbecken Pratersauna – Vienna
2009
ALFRED LENZ – TOMEK VOLLMANN / Praterstrasse15, Vienna
PERFORMANCE “8-0” [8] / (Sound) – Pratersauna, Vienna
DIPLOMAUSSTELLUNG / Transmediale Kunst / Alte Markthalle, Vienna
Grants and Scholarships:
2025 _ ARBEITSSTIPENDIUM (12 Months) / MA 7 – Vienna
2024 _ THE GRAND ARTFIGHT PRIZE / Forum Stadtpark Graz
2022 _ ARBEITSSTIPENDIUM / BKA (Austrian Fed. Chancellery)
2021 _ PROJECT GRANT / BILDRECHT – Vienna
2021 _ PROJECT GRANT / BKA (Austrian Fed. Chancellery)
2020 _ STARTSTIPENDIUM – MEDIA ART / BKA (Austrian Federal Chancellery)
Collections:
WIEN MUSEUM, City of Vienna – AT
Die ANGEWANDTE, University of Applied Arts in Vienna – AT
Residencies:
2017 _ DIMENTIONS ART CENTER / Chongqing, China
Contact:
mail(at)tomaszvollmann.com
+43 681 813 810 92