Nour Abuzaid
Researcher and Regional Liaison (MENA) at Forensic Architecture |
Nour Abuzaid is an architect and computational designer who currently works as a Researcher and a Regional Liaison (MENA) at Forensic Architecture. Her role at FA involves conducting spatial research and using architectural tools to investigate violations of human rights. As a MENA liaison, she teaches FA research methodologies to collaborators in the region as a means of supporting grassroots activism.
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Jesse Cameron Alick
Dramaturg, artistic producer, artistic researcher and Associate Artistic Director of the Vineyard Theater in NYC |
Jesse Cameron Alick is a dramaturg, producer, poet, playwright, essayist, artistic researcher and science fiction expert. Born and raised Buddhist high in the mountains of Montana, Jesse is a first generation American born of Grenadian descent. He moved to New York City at 17, began working as a spotlight operator and over the course of his first three years in the city worked for a myriad of off off broadway companies doing everything from working as a box office manager, to lighting board op, to program folder, back stage crew, theater rental manager, and hip hop poetry teacher. Jesse co-founded the Subjective Theater Company at 19, moved on to become the company’s first resident playwright and then eventually took the helm as Producer and Artistic Director. Jesse ran Subjective for 10 years and staged 15 full productions around Manhattan and Brooklyn. Jesse was at the Public Theater for 15 years and for the last 5 was the Company Dramaturg, where he planned bespoke development paths for projects, from acorn to oak. He managed a commissioning program with over 20 ongoing projects, worked on readings and workshops, was a production dramaturg, and ran programs such as the Emerging Writers Group and Public Lab/Public Studio. Jesse was involved in all the artistic development that fed plays into the Public’s season pipeline. Jesse is the Associate Artistic Director at the Vineyard Theater in NYC. Jesse is an active freelance dramaturg at various off-Broadway theaters in the city, nationwide and in the UK - as well as a program adviser and dramaturg with Sundance Institute. Jesse studied writing with Adrienne Kennedy and has taught theater courses, lectured at classes and mentored students at a myriad of programs (Lewis and Clark, NYU, Goddard, UT Austin, Primary Stages, Playwrights Horizons school, Fordham).
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Athena Athanasiou
Professor of Social Anthropology and Gender Theory at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences |
Athena Athanasiou is Professor of Social Anthropology and Gender Theory at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences (Athens, Greece), Director of the Laboratory of Anthropological Research and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences. Among her publications are the books: Agonistic Mourning: Political Dissidence and the Women in Black (Edinburgh University Press, 2017); Dispossession: The Performative in the Political (with Judith Butler, Polity Press, 2013); Crisis as a ‘State of Exception’ (Athens, 2012); Life at the Limit: Essays on Gender, Body and Biopolitics (Athens, 2007); Rewriting Difference: Luce Irigaray and 'the Greeks' (co-ed. with Elena Tzelepis, SUNY Press, 2010); Deconstructing the Empire: Theory and Politics of Postcolonial Studies (Athens, 2016); Feminist Theory and Cultural Critique (Athens, 2006); Biosocialities (Athens, 2011). She has been a fellow at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, at Brown University, and at the Center for the Study of Social Difference, at Columbia University. She is a member of the editorial advisory board of several journals (Critical Times, Feminist Formations, Journal of Greek Media and Culture, and others).
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Sotirios Bahtsetzis
Associate Professor in Contemporary Art Theory and Curating Practices, University of Thessaly; scientific advisor at ArtBOX.gr |
Sotirios Bahtsetzis is a curator, essayist, and educator. He is Associate Professor in Contemporary Art Theory and Curating Practices, Department of Culture, Creative Media and Industries, University of Thessaly (GR). He is also a Visiting Professor at the European Culture Program, Hellenic Open University, Patras (GR), and the International Postgraduate Program Museology, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki (GR). He is a Fulbright Research Scholar (2009) at Columbia University, New York. He has curated exhibitions, such as Homemade Exotica (2019), Roaming Images, 3 Thessaloniki Biennale (2011), Open Plan - 13 Art Athina (2007), Women Only (2008). Bahtsetzis has chapters in various scholarly books including Semiotics and Visual Communication III: Cultures of Branding (2019), Meta- and Inter-Images in Contemporary Visual Art and Culture (2013), and Inaesthetics (2012) as well as articles in journals such as E-flux and Afterimage. Bahtsetzis research interests include installation art, theory of curating, socially engaged art, image theory, post-industrial design, media phenomenology, and posthumanities.
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Ira Bliatka
Independent researcher and educator |
Ira is an independent researcher and educator, interested in topics of diversity and inclusion, public space, social art, and participatory methodologies. She collaborates with artists, NGOs, and associations on projects that valorise art towards more empathetic, creative societies. She is the Vice-Person of the Freiraum Platform's curatorial committee. She joined Freiraum in 2017, on a project about gentrification and its effects on ethnic and social diversity in Prague and Marseille. She holds a PhD in migration/border studies from Aberystwyth University, with a thesis on the reanimation of bordered spaces in the EU integration project, as well as a MA degree in Politics, Security, and Integration from University College London, and a BA in Political Science from Aristotle University Thessaloniki. She currently teaches artistic perspectives for social scientists in Sciences-Po Paris/Nancy, and previously taught International Politics in Aberystwyth University. She is also an amateur pianist and currently pursuing an MA degree in musicology, researching methods for musical creation and dissemination in multi-cultural urban environments.
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Lydia Chatziiakovou
Curator, ArtBOX.grPhoto: George Kogias
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Lydia Chatziiakovou is a curator. Since 2004, she co-directs ArtBOX, a creative arts management office that conceives, designs and implements contemporary art projects revolving around the exploration of art as agent of social change, based on long-term strategic planning. In this context, she conceives, curates and coordinates projects that emphasise on art for social change and the relationship between art and technology, bringing together communities, artists and institutions from Greece and abroad. Recent examples include “The New New” - Art Science Technology Festival by TIF - Helexpo, which she artistically directed (2014-2018), and “Artecitya. Envisioning the City of Tomorrow” by Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki, which she curated and coordinated (2014-2018). Between 2017-2020, she was curator and project administrator of Project LABattoir, an initiative of the Municipality of Thessaloniki, based on a concept by ArtBOX, implemented through a founding grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF). Currently, she directs and curates Common Lab, a programme implemented by Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki and ArtBOX, in collaboration with Helexpo, in the context of Goethe-Institut’s Excellency Initiatives 2020.
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Slavcho Dimitrov
Independent researcher, queer and gender theorist, curator and activist |
Slavcho Dimitrov is an independent researcher, queer and gender theorist, curator and activist from North Macedonia. He had his bachelor’s degree in Comparative Literature at the St. Cyril and Methodius University. He got his first master’s degree in Gender Studies and Philosophy at the Euro-Balkan Institute in Skopje, and his second master’s degree in Multidisciplinary Gender Studies at Cambridge University. Currently he is a PhD student at the Faculty of Media and Communications, Belgrade. He has worked as a teaching assistant at FON University, Euro-Balkan University, and FMC, Belgrade. He is the founder of the international Summer School for Sexualities, Cultures and Politics in Belgrade, and is one of founders of IPAK.Center. He has curated several art and cultural projects, and many conferences in North Macedonia, including the Skopje Pride Weekend - queer arts, culture and theory festival. Dimitrov has published many papers in regional and international journals and edited volumes. In 2020 he was awarded the Igor Zabel Award grant, and in 2019 the award of AICA Macedonia.
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George Drivas
Visual artist, film directorPhoto: Boris Kirpotin
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George Drivas was born in Athens. He represented Greece in Venice Biennale, 2017. Ιn 2020, he was nominated for the Eye Art & Film Prize (Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam). He had solo shows at Annex M, the Athens Concert Hall (2020), National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (2018 and 2009) and National Museum of Modern Art, Rome (GNAM, 2017), tributes at the International Forum of Performance Art (Drama, 2021), Lumen Quarterly Festival, Beijing, China (2017/18) and Athens International Film Festival (Greek Cinematheque 2014) and participations in over 150 group shows and festivals in Greece and abroad like ”Rencontres Internationales, New Cinema and Contemporary Art”, Louvre Museum, Paris, France (2021), “After Us”, Maxxi Museum, Rome, Italy (2021), “back forward rewind”, Media Art Lab, Moscow, Russia (2020), “Imagined Communities”, 21st Biennial of Contemporary Art_Videobrasil, São Paulo, Brazil (2019-20), “Resilient Futures”, Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki (2018), “ANTIDORON- the EMST Collection”, documenta 14, Kassel, Germany (2017), “As Rights Go By”, Q21 International, MuseumsQuartier Vienna, Austria (2016), Festival du nouveau cinéma, Montreal, Canada, (2015), “future past – past future”, Transmediale Festival, Berlin, Germany (2014).
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Ewa Doroszenko
Jacek Doroszenko Visual artists |
Ewa Doroszenko is a Warsaw-based visual artist. She received a doctorate in fine arts from the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. Her artistic practice is characterised by an unconventional use of digital manipulation, together with the classic photographic medium and traditional painting. Ewa Doroszenko is a winner of many international competitions, including the Fait Gallery Preview Competition, Young Lynxes – Contemporary Lynx, DEBUTS – doc! photo magazine, Debut – Lithuanian Photographers Association. She is a beneficiary of various residency programs, including Petrohradska Kolektiv in Prague, Klaipeda Culture Communication Centre, Atelierhaus Salzamt in Linz, Kunstnarhuset Messen in Ålvik, AAVC Hangar in Barcelona. Doroszenko’s work has been exhibited widely in galleries and art festivals, among others: Historic Centre of Athens, Propaganda Gallery in Warsaw, Museum of Angra do Heroismo on the Azores, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts in Vancouver, Fait Gallery in Brno, Vilnius Photography Gallery, Exgirlfriend Gallery in Berlin. Her works have been published by the likes of NEO2, The Forumist, Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography, The Calvert Journal, Daily Serving, Metal Magazine, Contemporary Lynx, YET magazine, CLOT Magazine.
Jacek Doroszenko is an artist active in visual arts, working with sound and video. The core of his activity is treating sound phenomena as legitimate material in the field of visual art and emphasising the value of listening as a practice. He received his Master of Arts degree at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. Jacek Doroszenko is a beneficiary of many residency programs, including: Petrohradska Kolektiv in Prague (Czech Republic 2018), Klaipeda Culture Communication Center (Lithuania 2017), Atelierhaus Salzamt in Linz (Austria 2016), The Island-resignified in Lefkada (Greece 2015), Kunstnarhuset Messen in Ålvik (Norway 2015), AAVC Hangar in Barcelona (Spain 2014), Fondazione Del Bianco in Florence (Italy 2006). Doroszenko presented his works, projects and performed in numerous venues, among others: Matadero Contemporary Art Center in Madrid, Casoria Contemporary Art Museum in Napoli, Centre of Contemporary Art in Toruń, Pauza Gallery in Krakow, Historic Centre of Athens, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts in Vancouver, Starak Family Foundation in Warsaw, Institut für Alles Mögliche in Berlin, Fait Gallery in Brno, The Herbert Art Gallery & Museum in Coventry, Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, Krakauer Haus in Nürnberg, Propaganda in Warsaw, FIESP Cultural Center – Ruth Cardoso in Sao Paulo. The artist performs solo music shows and plays in the Mammoth Ulthana duo. |
Adam Engler
Artist |
Adam Engler (1990, SK) received his Bachelor's degree in the studio of Soft Sculpture and his Master's degree in the studio of Photomedium at the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica (SK). He has participated in several exchanges and artist residencies in the Czech Republic, Romania, Portugal, the USA, and elsewhere. He focuses on performance art, artivist projects, unconventional material actions, text, and visuality in the field of collapsed media. His productions refer to themes such as migration, gender diversity, and intersectionality with overlaps to engaged art, human rights, social and environmental justice.
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Silvia Federici
Professor Emerita and Teaching Fellow at Hofstra University |
Silvia Federici is an Italian and American scholar, teacher, and activist from the radical autonomist feminist Marxist and anarchist tradition. She is a professor emerita and Teaching Fellow at Hofstra University, where she was a social science professor. She worked as a teacher in Nigeria for many years, is also the co-founder of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa, and is a member of the Midnight Notes Collective.
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Daniel Freund
MEP |
Daniel Freund is a Member of the European Parliament for the German Greens (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen). As a member of the Constitutional Affairs (AFCO) and Budgetary Control (CONT) Committees, he negotiated the newly created Rule of Law Conditionality Mechanism, sits on the Executive Board of the Conference on the Future of Europe and fights against corruption and for a more transparent and federal European Union. He studied political science, economics and law in Leipzig, Paris and Washington, D.C. Before starting his mandate in the European Parliament, he worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, several EU institutions and was head of advocacy at Transparency International EU.
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Catalina Gonzalez
Artist |
Catalina González has developed her multidisciplinary practice through installation, video and residual materials to give them a new meaning by showing their fragility through certain actions. To understand the implications of industrialisation in her country, she decided to live in the desert of Chile, exploring the relationship between rural landscapes and memory. Then she started a new research about the possibilities of the idea of landscapes focusing on energies and vibrations to connect with the primary elements. González received different recognitions and prices for her work in Chile and abroad and she has participated in artistic residencies such as AIR Austria, AIAV Akiyoshidai Japan, Izolyatsia Kiev and Rijksakademie in Amsterdam until 2021.
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Paolo Gerbaudo
Reader in Digital Politics
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Paolo Gerbaudo is a sociologist and political theorist. He is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Culture and Society at the Department of Digital Humanities and Director of the Centre for Digital Culture at King's College London. He is the author of Tweets and the Streets (2012), The Digital Party (2018) and The Great Recoil (2021).
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Kyriaki Goni
Artist |
Kyriaki Goni is an Athens born and based artist. Working across disciplines and technologies, she creates multimedia installations, which incorporate both real and fictional elements. In her work, she connects the local with the global by critically touching on questions of surveillance, distributed networks and infrastructures, ecosystems, human and other than human relations. Her work gets exhibited worldwide in solo and group shows. Recent solo shows were presented at Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens; Aksioma, Ljubljana; Drugo More, Rijeka. Recent group shows include the Thessaloniki PhotoBiennale2021,13th Shanghai Biennale, Ars Electronica 2021, Modern Love (or the Lone in the Age of Cold Intimacies), Transmediale, etc. Her artistic research has been published (Leonardo MIT Journal, Neural Magazine etc) and presented at conferences such as ISEA and SIGGRAPH. Her work is part of private and corporate collections. Goni teaches frequently as part of her practice. She has a BA in Fine Arts and an MA in Digital Arts (Athens School of Fine Arts). Prior to her artistic studies, she had completed graduate and postgraduate studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology (Panteion University, Leiden University).
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Ryan S Jeffery
Filmmaker |
Ryan S Jeffery (b. 1978) is an American filmmaker who lives in Los Angeles, California. His work considers how political, cultural and economic structures are imprinted within the built environment and are subsequently reproduced through the power of images. He has taught in the program of Transmedia at Syracuse University, The UCLA New Genres Program, The Department of Photography at CalState University, Long Beach and The School of Critical Studies at The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). His work has exhibited at such venues as FIDMarseille, The European Society for Literature, Science & The Arts, The European Media Arts Festival in Osnäbruck (EMAF), La Gaîté Lyrique in Paris France, The Kyiv Biennial, Ukraine, The Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (LACA), Human Resources: Climate & Infrastructure in Los Angeles California, The Museum für Fotographie in Berlin, The Transmodern Architecture Forum in Berlin and The Independiente Festival International de Cine in Lima, Peru.
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Vladan Joler
Professor, New Media Department, University of Novi Sad |
Vladan Joler is the co-founder of SHARE Foundation and professor at the New Media department of the University of Novi Sad. He is leading SHARE Lab, a research and data investigation lab for exploring different technical and social aspects of algorithmic transparency, digital labour exploitation, invisible infrastructures, black boxes, and many other contemporary phenomena on the intersection between technology and society.
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Elke Kaschl Mohni
Regional Director Southwest Europe, Delegate for European Affairs, Goethe-Institut Brussels |
Dr. Elke Kaschl Mohni took office as Regional Director of Goethe-Institut for Southwest Europe in Brussels in July 2019. She has been with Goethe-Institut for more than 15 years, holding positions as Regional Director Middle East/North Africa in Cairo and Head of Strategy in Munich headquarters, as well as directing the institutes in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. She graduated with a PhD in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Berne, with a thesis on “Dance and Authenticity in Israel and Palestine: Performing the Nation”. Her MA is in Contemporary Arab Studies from Georgetown University, with a focus on politics and cultural studies. Throughout her work with Goethe-Institut, Elke Kaschl Mohni has maintained a strong interest in trans-Mediterranean cultural engagement, enabling border-crossings and creative entanglements against the grain of established categories.
Photo: Johanna Baschke
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Nefeli Kentoni
Artist and writer |
Nefeli Kentoni (b.1998, Cyprus) is a London based interdisciplinary artist and writer. She is fascinated by the intersections between different disciplines, by the spaces where scenography and philosophy, aesthetics and theatre, filmmaking and poetry meet. The theatrical and cinematic form have been the platform in which she negotiates and experiments with the gaps between language and image, the implicit exertions that sustain the performer-viewer relationship, and the performativity of space. Nefeli graduated from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in Drama, Applied Theatre: Writing for Performance and is now completing her MA in Performance Design and Practice at Central Saint Martins UAL. She has presented her work in Prague Quadrennial (2019), Tate Modern (2020), Barbican Centre (2021), NiMac (2021) and during 2020 she was Writer in Residency at the Tate Exchange. Nefeli is currently navigating herself and creative practice in an ever-changing world.
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Tingwei Li
Artist |
Working with objects, images and videos, Tingwei is interested in phenomenon and core values in contemporary life. By addressing how human consciousness and behaviour have changed in consumer society, she deals with contemporary subject centred issues such as the self-optimisation and the 'flexible ego' under conditions of marketing. As kind of artistic research, her work undertakes a mental archeology of digital medium and its influence on our minds and bodies.
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Menelaos Lomis
Music producer |
Menelaos Lomis is a music producer. He currently lives and works at Liverpool, in UK. He comes from Corfu, Greece, and he has been making music since he was 10 years old
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Angela McRobbie
Professor FBA |
Angela McRobbie FBA is Professor of Cultural Studies Coventry University, Coventry, UK and Emeritus Professor at Goldsmith University of London. She has been a pioneer of feminist social and cultural theory since the 1970s when she studied under Stuart Hall and the Birmingham CCCS. She is the author of many books, most recently Feminism and the Politics of Resilience, 2020; Be Creative, 2016; and the Aftermath of Feminism, 2008. She is currently completing (with co-authors Carolina Bandinelli and Dan Strutt) Fashion as Creative Economy: Micro-enterprises in London, Berlin and Milan.
Photo: Mo White
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Angelos Papadopoulos
Dance artist and director |
Born in Athens (1991) Angelos Papadopoulos is a dance artist and director who steers purposely clear off the camera. Studied economics at the Athens University of Economics & Business and dance at the National School of Dance & the Greek National Opera Dance School. He’s currently studying for MRes Choreography & Performance, University of Roehampton in London with an alumni referral scholarship. Honored with Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship 2020-21 and Stegi Onassis Cultural Center Fellowship to attend a residency in June 2021 at the CND (Centre National De La Danse) in Paris. Member of ‘Room to Bloom’ platform for young feminist artists. Angelos is particularly interested in identity. He tries to find a personal language that brings out the primitiveness of human nature through formalism, dramaturgy, or abstraction. She hasn’t found yet how to express what he does for a living, and they really enjoy that. In his own work, her way of creating is based on collaborations between other artists and themself. These collaborations lead to encounters where all involved artists are engaged with a strong responsibility for the development of the diverse outcome. Her performances have been shared in Germany (Tanzahoi International Dance & Dance Film Festival), Greece (Megaron, the Athens Concert Hall), Spain (Act International Festival for Emerging Performing Artists, Guggenheim Bilbao Museum) & Taiwan (Take part in Taiwan Festival). His short films have been screened in France, Georgia, Greece, Germany (2nd most voted short film), Mexico, Portugal, South America, U.S.A. & Spain.
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Bojan Stojčić
Artist |
Bojan Stojčić (1988) is a Bosnian artist. Through his practice, Bojan explores lineages, poetics, traces and transitions of the present as well as its political modalities, embracing and examining its post-ideological performativities. Bojan often creates by elegantly intervening into a contextualized everyday, liberating the image of its graphic manifestations while complimenting its form and surrounding narratives. The lived experience of the Bosnian war and the country’s newly formed reality of European periphery brought Bojan close to extensive states of loss, displacement and transition in the most public and the most intimate ways. Nominated as the best young artist in B&H in 2014, Stojčić is featured in several collections, including the agnès b. foundation and the Deutsche Telekom Digital collection. He lives in Sarajevo, where he runs his art studio, teaches and consults.
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Petros Tatsiopoulos
Artist |
Petros Tatsiopoulos, born 1993 in Athens, Greece, is an Undergraduate student in the Visual Arts Major department of ACG Deree. He has studied two years in the Architecture BA department of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and three years in the Scenography and Exhibition Design Diploma department of the University of Arts and Design in Karlsruhe Germany. During his studies, he has completed two internships in sculpture and two in theatre scenography. Petros Tatsiopoulos often works with sound and sculpture, the combination of the two. Apart from studying, Tatsiopoulos has been working as a sculptor assistant since 2016, and he has been a member of an artist group stationed in Karlsruhe that created a one-year residency and exhibition space, funded by the group’s activities and the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg. In 2016, he designed the spatial environment for the lyric theatre play Urban Prayers written by Bjoern Bicker and performed by religious citizens, in the Baden State Theatre, Germany. In 2015, he took part in the spatial sound arts conference and exhibition InSonic, in Karlsruhe, Germany, as a student of HfG
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Ondrej Timco
Researcher,
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Dr Ondrej Timco holds PhD in Ukrainian studies from University College London for his research on corrupt politicians embezzling public assets through offshore schemes. In 2017, Ondrej joined the Freiraum project on behalf of the Institute for Democracy 21, where he was researching voting systems, and then later on behalf of the Institute H21, where he was managing the project of school participatory budgeting. Ondrej is one of the founding members of the Freiraum Platform and works currently as Scrum Master at BISim — a pioneer of NATO military training simulations.
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Emir Uysal
Artist |
Emir Uysal is an emerging artist and designer who lives in Istanbul. He works in various media to form sculptures, mainly out of wood, metal, clay, as well as resin. He intends to form thematic sequences of sculptures that could also incorporate electronic and digital elements. He is also interested in and working on depicting emotions and communicating stories through drawing, painting and animation media. Having recently graduated from Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, he completed his studies in Molecular Biology and Genetics. While studying at Boğaziçi University, Emir formed the basis of his artistic inquiry as an active and long-standing member of the collective studio initiated by artist-designer Bilal Yilmaz, as an artistic experimental production and alternative education space. Recently, Emir has been experimenting with animation, mixing his studio experiences with digital software (such as Blender 3D and Adobe After Effects) to tell stories from daily life, blending reality and fiction.
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Karen Van Den Berg
Chair of Art Theory & Curating, Zeppelin University |
Prof. Dr. Karen van den Berg has held the Chair of Art Theory & Curating at Zeppelin University since 2003 and has been the academic director of the arts programme there since 2006. She studied Art History, Classical Archaeology and Nordic Philology in Saarbrucken and Basel, where she completed her doctorate in 1995. Teaching and research stays have taken her to the University of Witten/Herdecke, the Chinati Foundation in Texas, Stanford University and the IKKM at the Bauhaus University Weimar. Van den Berg’s research focuses on art and politics; socially engaged art; theory and history of curating; educational architecture and studio practice.
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Ana Vujanović
Theorist of Performing Arts and Cultural Worker |
Ana Vujanović (Berlin / Belgrade) is a cultural worker focused on bringing together critical theory and contemporary art. She holds Ph.D. in Humanities (Theatre Studies) and post-graduate diploma in Culture and Gender Studies. She has lectured at various universities and was a visiting professor at the Performance Studies Dpt. of the University Hamburg. Since 2016, she has been a team member and mentor at SNDO – School for New Dance Development, Academy of Theatre and Dance Amsterdam. She was a member of the editorial collective of TkH [Walking Theory], a Belgrade-based theoretical-artistic platform, and editor-in-chief of the TkH Journal for Performing Arts Theory (2001-17). She participates in artworks (performance, theatre, dance, and video/film), as a dramaturg and co-author, with artists such as Marta Popivoda, Eszter Salamon, Christine de Smedt, Dragana Bulut etc., most recently documentary film Landscapes of Resistance dir. by M. Popivoda. She has published a number of articles in journals and collections and authored and edited several books, most recently A Live Gathering: Performance and Politics in Contemporary Europe, ed. with L. Piazza (Berlin: b_books, 2019). Her new book Toward a Transindividual Self, A study in social dramaturgy, with B. Cvejic is in press by Archive Books, Berlin.
Photo: Marta Popivoda
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Una Walker
Artist and writer |
Una Walker is an artist and writer based at Flax Art Studios, Belfast. She has exhibited extensively in Ireland and internationally, making site and context specific installation, audio and video works, and works on paper. Many of these works have dealt with aspects of individual memory and on the construction of collective memory. Site specific installation works have been constructed in diverse locations including military fortifications, derelict factories and a cathedral. From 2008-2015 she was a Research Fellow at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin and a member of the Digital Repository of Ireland Core Implementation Team. She was a member of research team exploring modernism in the twentieth century for the Irish Pavilion in the Venice Biennale for Architecture in 2014 and contributed to the related publication InfraEireann: Infrastructure and the Architectures of Modernity in Ireland 1916-2016 (2015). In collaboration with Dr Sarah Lappin she has published widely on design history in Ireland.
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Kay Watson
Head of Arts Technologies, Serpentine |
Kay Watson is a researcher, producer and curator working with art and advanced technologies, photography and video games. She is currently Head of Arts Technologies at Serpentine.
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