Portrait #03 | Heidi Grundmann

Portrait #03 | Heidi Grundmann

IMAfiction by IMA Institute for Media Archaeology
S1 · E3
Jul 20, 2026
29:06

Episode notes

A Portrait by Roberto Paci Dalò [2007]. Language: English

https://ima.or.at/de/projekt/imafiction_portrait03/

The portrait of Heidi Grundmann reflects our close friendship of two decades. A wonderful time of collaborations and conversations filled with wine, tears, energy, projects, sounds, struggles… . It's not exactly easy for me to delve into her story, in which she has passionately influenced and supported at least three generations of radio, telecommunications, media, and network artists.

The data collected from Heidi Grundmann over 40 years of private and public life are here, quite literally, compressed into 29 dizzying minutes—29 minutes filled with touching personal memories and reflections on the situation of women in art and society. For me, this portrait is a precious document, and I am happy to have had the opportunity to create it. Roberto Paci Dalò

supported by Lower Austria Culture, Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (bm:ukk) and ORF Kunstradio

Keywords

Electronic Music Pioneers, Electroacoustic Music Sound Art, Psychoacoustics, Women in Sound, Experimental Composition, Spatial Audio, Musique Concrète, Techno Culture