Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau are internationally recognized as artists and media researchers. Together they have created some 20 interactive pieces classified as authentic historical milestones (Toshiharu Itoh, NTT-ICC Museum, Tokyo) for their development of natural and intuitive interfaces and for their frequent application of scientific principles such as artificial life, complexity and generative systems in their novel interface designs.

His work has been present in around 200 exhibitions around the world and has been installed in a large number of museums and collections dedicated to new media, such as the Van Gogh Museum (Amsterdam); Museum of Science and Industries (Tokyo); Karlsruhe Art and Media Center (ZKM); Cartier Foundation (Paris); Ars Electronica (Linz); NTT-ICC (Tokyo); NTT Plan-Net (Nagoya, Japan); Shiroishi Multimedia Art Center (Japan); Shiseido House (Tokyo); or the Itau Cultural Foundation (São Paulo).

They have been winners of important international awards, including a Golden Nica in the 1994 edition of the Ars Electronica Awards in the Interactive Art category (Linz, 1994). Mignonneau and Sommerer have published extensively on artificial life, complexity, interactivity and interface design, and have given numerous lectures at universities, conferences and symposiums around the world.

For a decade they worked as researchers and teachers at ATR Research Labs in Kyoto and IAMAS in Ogaki, Japan and currently direct the Department of Interface Cultures at the Linz University of Art and Design, specialized in interactive art, interactive media and interface design.