Sigrun Höllrigl, born in 1966, Austrian writer and media artist, studied philosophy and literature in Vienna (MA). She edited the first art e-zine in Austria in1995 called “the machinist” and worked for many years in media arts. She was a pioneer bringing internet communication into prison in Europe during a media art project in 1998. In 2009 she founded the non-profit organisation ART VISUALS & POETRY, a group of 20 different artists working together such as visual artist, play-writer, poets, actors, performers, composers, musicians and filmmakers. As the director of ART VISUALS & POETRY she offers production opportunities for poetry films and runs a yearly poetry and performance festival in Vienna and the internet portal www.poetry.or.at. Sigrun Höllrigl recently co-founded an interdisciplinary philosophy and dialogue project in Austria. Beside her community projects she works as a writer on novels, poetry and performance texts. She also directed or produced poetry films, which were internationally screened at festivals. e.g. “Requiem on Georg Trakl” and “jumbo shampoo or Joerg Bungee vanished on the rope”.