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![ MFA STUDIO AND RESEARCH ADVISOR POOL includes: Donna Akrey http://mobiusstripmall.blogspot.com/ Email: donnaakrey@hotmail.com Location: Montreal, Canada Practice : found object, chance, humor, cuts ups, urban environment, materials, suburbia, resourcefulness, Bio: Born in Toronto, Ontario Canada, Lives in Montreal, Quebec. Studied at Simon Fraser in Vancouver BC and Concordia University. Did Graduate studies at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax. Currently teaches multidisciplinary and site specific studies at Concordia University. Statement: I make work that reflects my interest in the urban environment, language and communication and the power of the habitual on our dreams and realities. I use an interdisciplinary approach to articulate ideas to create large installations and sculptural objects, single channel video, video installation and book works. I think of some of my sculptures and installations as gigantic understatements, ruminations on the spectacle of the unspectacular. Having moved across Canada numerous times, I am apt to take inspiration from my particular environment. I am excited by the prospect of gleaning inspirations and influence from where I may be and using the materials available to me corresponding with the local. My most recent shows have been installations that directly response to a particular community. In the installation Palindrome (2000) materials found during the July 1st moving weekend in Montreal were used to create a huge coliseum like structure out of discarded furniture inside a space while wooden pallets were reassigned as furniture and left in situ. In another performative installation, benefit for the doubt (2002, Halifax), visitors where invited to donate objects or materials into a 6’x6’ cube that I worked inside of. I would make composite sculptural objects of the materials, in the spirit of folk art. Havenwood Pointe Green Terrace Inc.(2003) at Truck Gallery in Calgary utilized scrap materials from the building sites of the rapidly growing suburbs surrounding the city core. Small houses were mass-produced with these materials assembly line style. They were then returned to the place where the materials were found. Iole Alessandrini Location: Seattle, Washington, USA Genres: Architecture, video, installation, light Languages: Italian, English Email: iole@blarg.net Website: http://www.iole.org She received her diploma in Fine Arts from the First State School of Fine Arts in Rome and earned two master's degrees in Architecture: one from the University of La Sapienza in Rome and the other from the University of Washington in Seattle. It is the intersection between these two creative expressions – art and architecture – through which her work moves."Through manipulation of light, digital media and physical space, I design and build ephemeral, controlled environments that people enter rather than observe from a distance. Light is energy: waves and particles of infinitesimal dimensions that are made visible by boundaries. Architecture is movement: a powerful and meaningful symbol that redefines space and invents new functions. Physical space in its states of transformation solicits emotional feelings and brings back memories. Light, being a remote projection from a time of which we have no memory, challenges these feelings.” Alessandrini's work has been supported through grants, resources, and ideas from: 911 Media Arts Center, the Bellevue Art Museum, the Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs (formerly Seattle Arts Commission), the Cultural Development Authority of King County (formerly King County Arts Commission), the Tacoma Arts Commission and others. She is the recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2002), the Betty Bowen Award (2000), the Artists Trust Fellowship (2000), the NIAUSI Fellowship (1996) and a New Media Artist in Residence at Jack Straw Production (2004). Deborah Aschheim Location: Pasadena, California, USA Genres: Interactive art, Interdisciplinary art, Art + Science Email: deborah[at]deborahaschheim.com Website: www.deborahaschheim.com Practice: medical science, neurobiology, cognitive psychology, anthropology, surveillance Bio: I make installations made of light, based on a longstanding interest in networks: neural, electronic and social. My current project, “On Memory,” is at the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, PA through 2007, and my recent series of installations, Neural Architecture, was exhibited at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, TN (2005-6,) at the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA (2005,) at Otis College for Art and Design in Los Angeles (2004), Laguna Art Museum in Laguna Beach, CA (2004), Consolidated Works in Seattle, WA (2004) and the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (2003.) I have exhibited throughout the United States and in Belgium and the U.K. I have received fellowships from the City of Los Angeles, the Pasadena Arts Commission, the Durfee Foundation, and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and I have been artist-in-residence at Headlands Center for the Arts in Northern California, at Hallwalls in Buffalo, NY, at the Bemis Center in Omaha, NE and at the Roswell Museum and Art Center. Tatiana Bazzichelli Location: Denmark, Italy Practice: social media, web 2.0, disruptive business, networking, hacktivism, art Languages: Italian, English, German Email: tati [at] trick.ca Website: www.networkingart.eu Bio: Tatiana Bazzichelli is a communication sociologist, researching on network culture, hacktivism and net art. She is Ph.D. Scholar at the Department of Information and Media Studies, Aarhus University (DK) and Visiting Scholar at the Stanford Humanities Lab, Stanford University (California, 2009). In 2001, she founded the networking project AHA:Activism-Hacking-Artivism (www.ecn.org/aha), which won the Honorary Mention for the Digital Communities category at the Ars Electronica Festival (Linz, 2007). In 2002, she initiated the aha.list, "the most popular in Italian art and hacktivism" according to Neural magazine. She wrote the book Networking. The Net as Artwork published in English by the Digital Aesthetics Research Center, Aarhus, 2008 (www.networkingart.eu/english.html). From 2003 to 2008 she was a journalist and curator based in Berlin, Germany and she organized several exhibitions and conventions on media art and hacktivism, such as Sousveillance (Aarhus, 2009), HACK.Fem. EAST (www.hackfemeast.org, Berlin, 2008), HackMIT! (Berlin, 2007), CUM2CUT (www.cum,2cut.net, Berlin, 2006-2008), Hack.it.art (Berlin 2005), Art on the Net in Italy (Berlin 2005), MediaDemocracy and Telestreet (Munich, 2004), AHA (Rome, 2002), Hacker Art Lab (Perugia, 2000). Since 2008, she lives in Aarhus, Denmark. Isak Berbić Location: Sharjah, United Arab Emirates Email: isakberbic [at] yahoo dot com Website: www.isabkberbic.com Languages: Bosnian, English Practice: photography, video, installation, performance Bio: Isak Berbić is an artist, writer and lecturer born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, at that time called Yugoslavia. In 1992 as Yugoslavia dissolved and Bosnia was under attack, he and his family became refugees, moving from Croatia, through the Czech Republic to a refugee camp in Denmark, and lastly to the United States. Isak first learned about art from his mother, father and brother. He studied Photography, Film and Electronic Media at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In Chicago, he practiced art, worked in theater, and was art director of a political monthly journal. In 2007 he moved to the Middle East; United Arab Emirates, where he currently teaches media at the College of Fine Arts and Design, University of Sharjah. He is a continuing contributor to numerous projects and publications on contemporary art. His research deals with histories, politics, tragedy, memory, humor, exile, and the limits of representation. Isak Berbic has exhibited internat ionally including: Thirst 2010, Bait Al Serkal, Sharjah Art Museum, United Arab Emirates; Dojima River Biennale 2009, Osaka, Japan; Singapore Biennale 2008; Jatiwangi Art Festival 2008, Indonesia; The First International Photography Biennial, Teheran, Iran 2007; Odavde/Otuda, From, Here/From There, Hunt Gallery, Webster University, St. Louis, USA 2007; Normalization, in honor of Nikola Tesla, Galerija Nova, WHW Zagreb, Croatia 2004. He participated in the International Symposium on Electronic Art, ISEA 2008 Singapore, the Chicago Festival of Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film 2006, Take a Deep Breath: an interdisciplinary symposium, Tate Modern, London, UK 2007. Ruth Bianco Location: Malta Website: www.ruthbianco.com Email: biancoruth[at]hotmail.com Practice: Issues of "territory", post-wall contexts, post-colonial contexts; conceptual and socio political boundaries. Spatial practice - interventions, interpolations, reconfigurations of space. Engagement with new and time-based media; rhizomatic connectivity; conceptual and visual superimpositions. The way new technologies shift the parameters of contemporary art practice; how the digital interface informs the cultural production of our age. Post-production. Bio: Interdisciplinary visual artist. Born Malta. Creates work situated in global contexts and addressing issues of territory through various media including: digital and combined media, video/sound, installation, photography, print, bookarts, research and drawing. Shows work internationally. Selection of country representations: "Breakthrough" and "Nieuwe EU Landen", The Hague, 2004; "Femme d’Europe" Saint Tropez, France, 2006; "Crossings" Amiens, France, 2007; “Virtual Residency”, Faux Mouvement – Centre d’Art Contemporain, Metz, France, 2007; Projected Visions (Video Art) Travelling show, Apollonia European Art Exchanges, Strasbourg, France, 2008; "Dans la Nuit, des Imagees" Grand Palais Paris, France, 2008. Collections include: Tate Gallery London; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Royal College, London; MCA (Malta Contemporary Art) Malta. Martin John Callanan Location: London Email: m [at] greyisgood.eu Website: http://greyisgood.eu Practice: online, networked, data, citizenship, global, knowledge, information Bio: Martin John Callanan is an artist and researcher exploring notions of citizenship within the globally connected world. Concerns include information, data, and knowledge. Martin John Callanan is an artist whose work spans numerous mediums and engages both emerging and commonplace technology. His work has included translating active communication data into music; freezing in time the earth’s water system; writing thousands of letters; capturing newspapers from around the world as they are published; taming wind onto the internet and broadcasting his precise physical location live for over two years. Martin's work is always decidedly deadpan and served with a dash of ennui. Some of his more well-known pieces include Letters 2004-2006 published by Book Works, the ambient audio installation Sonification of You, the meta-news aggregator I Wanted to See All the News From Today and Text Trends, which abstracts the casual manner in which we receive, scan and process information and language on a daily basis. Martin's work has been exhibited, published and screened at venues throughout Europe, Russia, North America, South America, Asia and Australia. Participating with, among others, Es Baluard Modern and Contemporary Art Museum, Moscow International Film Festival, Ars Electronic Centre, ISEA 2010, FutureEverything, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Riga Centre for New Media Culture, UCL Environment Institute, Science Museum (London), Tate Britain, Folly Festival of Digital Culture, Book Works, The Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture, File Prix Lux, and in several editions of the FILE Electronic Language International Festival in Brasil. Martin is currently: - Teaching Fellow in Fine Art Media (Digital Media & Print) at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London and a member of Slade Centre for Electronic Media in Fine Art (SCEMFA) and Word Image research group. - Editor, Leonardo Electronic Almanac - Publisher, Merkske. Martina Corgnati Email: martinacorgnati[at]gmail.com Location: Milan, Italy Genres: Photography, Painting Languages: Italian - English - Spanish Practice: Contemporary Art Practices and theories; Middle Eastern Art Practices; Modern and Contemporary Art in Mediterranean Areas Bio: She is currently professor of Contemporary Art at the Accademia Albertina di Torino, Italy Leah Decter Location: Winnepeg, Canada Email: ldecter[at]mts.net Website: www.leahdecter.com Practice: installation, video, sculpture, photography, performance, intervention. Bio: Based in Winnipeg, Canada, Leah Decter is an inter-media artist whose work integrates installation, video and other digital media, textiles, performance and dialogic/engaged practices. Across this range of media she employs integrative practice–led research methodologies, and productive strategies that include diverse approaches to collaboration and engagement. Decter’s work is rooted in the spaces where material conditions and lived experience intersect with social and political issues. Her ongoing investigations focus on relationships between place, identity and dis/location drawing on and critically examining both personal and historical narratives. Current projects consider trace and agency in contested urban public space through intensive social-spatial investigations, and enact interventions into reductive national narratives though intensive theoretical, digital, material and dialogic explorations. Decter has exhibited widely in Canada, and internationally in the US, UK, Australia and Europe. Video screenings include the Images Festival in Toronto, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, and Malta Contemporary Art in Marsa Malta. Her work has been supported through numerous awards and is held in the collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery as well as private collections in Canada, US and UK. Decter’s engaged practices have included large-scale collaborative public art and intervention projects in Vancouver, Toronto and Winnipeg. She holds an MFA in New Media from Transart Institute. Ellen Flanders Location: Toronto, Ontario Website: http://www.graphicpictures.org Email: graphicpictures [at] gmail.com Practice: media, photography, philosophy/aesthetics/politics Bio: Elle Flanders is a filmmaker and artist based in Toronto. She was raised in Montreal and Jerusalem and holds both an MA in Critical Theory and an MFA from Rutgers University. Her work has been screened and exhibited at the Berlin International Film Festival, the MOMA and festivals worldwide. Her most recent work includes: What Isn’t There, a 15-year ongoing photo installation project that documents Palestinian villages that no longer exist; Road Movie, an in-progress 12-screen installation on the Apartheid Roads of Palestine; Bird on a Wire; A Five City Symphony, a dual screen projection and live music performance; and the award-winning feature documentary Zero Degrees of Separation. Flanders is a PhD candidate at York University where she also teaches. Elle Flanders is a filmmaker and artist based in Toronto. She was raised in Montreal and Jerusalem and holds both an MA in Critical Theory and an MFA from Rutgers University. Her work has been screene d and exhibited at the Berlin International Film Festival, the MOMA and festivals worldwide. Her most recent work includes: What Isn’t There, a 15-year ongoing photo installation project that documents Palestinian villages that no longer exist; Road Movie, an in-progress 12-screen installation on the Apartheid Roads of Palestine; Bird on a Wire; A Five City Symphony, a dual screen projection and live music performance; and the award-winning feature documentary Zero Degrees of Separation. Flanders is a PhD candidate at York University where she also teaches. Monika Goetz Location: Berlin Email: mogoetz [at] gmx.net Website: www.monikagoetz.net Languages: English, German Practice: Installation, Light, Video Bio: Monika Goetz studied Communications Design at the University of Applied Sciences Wuerzburg and Fine Arts at the Art Academy of Kassel, Germany. She has received grants from the City of Kassel and the Cultural Council of Germany. In 1999 a grant from the DAAD brought Goetz to NYC where she has participated in the Artists in the Marketplace Program at the Bronx Museum of Arts and received grants from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Greenwall Foundation and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Art Omi International Art Center, the LMCC workspace program and the MacDowell Colony. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including venues such as P.S.1/MoMA, the Sculpture Center NY, the Queen Museum of Art and the Gwangju Biennal, South Korea. Goetz’s work explores consciousness and the boundaries of human perception. Whether by creating new environments or by intervening with already existing spaces, her work questions and challenges the perceptions of the viewer, in particular one’s sense of space and the act of seeing. Currently she lives and works in Berlin. Peter Hofer Location: Kent, UK Email: mail [at] peterhofer.org Website: www.peterhofer.org Languages: German, English, French Bio: Peter Hofer graduated from the MA Sculpture course at the RCA in 2003. He is currently working as a Lecturer in Sculpture at UCA Canterbury. His work and research interests focus on the use of sound as a plastic and sculptural medium, site and situation specific sound installations and kinetic sculpture. He has participated in group- and solo- exhibitions in the UK, France, Poland and Germany. Practice: kinetic sculpture, sound sculpture, public art and new artistis strategies Derek Holzer Location: Utrecht, the Netherlands [possibly also Berlin, Sao Paulo] Practice: Interactive art, Performance, Sound/Music, software, media art, radio, internet Email: derek[at]umatic.nl Website: www.umatic.nl + www.soundscape-fm.net berlin.soundscape-fm.net + acoustic.space.re-lab.net/lab Practice: Free + Open Source software, field recording, environmental sounds, digital signal processing, audiovisual sythesis, microsound, participatory art, web-based projects, databases, abstract video, improvisational electronic performance, Pure Data, Linux, copyleft, radio waves, networked art, hacking, process, errors, accidents... basically I'd like to advise students who are just as interested in how to get there as in where "there" is, who work across audiovisual genres and who want to really push the medium they work in to new levels, whatever that medium may be. Artists interested in exploring the free software/copyleft communities are encouraged to get in touch as well. Bio: Holzer [USA 1972] is a sound and radio artist with a background in free radio, net.radio and streaming media technologies. He was involved with some of the first net.radio experiments in Hungary (Pararadio) and Czech Republic (Radio Jeleni). He has also worked with RIXC/Re-lab, a net.radio group in Latvia who gradually shifted their focus towards broader issues of 'acoustic spaces' and networked audio communications. In August 2001, Derek helped organize the Acoustic Space Lab, which brought together an international team of 30 sound artists, community radio activists, and scientists to experiment with a 32 meter antenna, recording sounds and data from planets, communication satellites and the surrounding environment. Recently, his work has focused on capturing and transforming small, unnoticed sounds from various natural and urban locations, on the electromagnetic resonances in our everyday environment, as well as the use of free software such as Linux and Pure-Data. He has been giving workshops on Free + Open Source multimedia tools for two and a half years, in various locations in Europe, North and South America. Jayne Holsinger Location: New York City, NY Genres: Painting, Drawing Email: jayneholsinger[at]nyct.net Website: http://www.jayneholsinger.com Bio: Jayne Holsinger is a painter living and working in New York City. Working primarily in oils on wood panel her paintings have been exhibited in the United States and Europe, including the Bronx Museum of the Arts in New York, the Aljira Center for Contemporary Art in Newark, the Shedhalle in Zurich, the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul and Margaret Thatcher Projects in New York (solo show, 2007). Among awards, she has received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and was an Artist In the Marketplace Program Fellow at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. She currently teaches graduates drawing at Montclair State University, New Jersey. She received 2008 NYFA Fellowship. Phillis Ideal Location: NYC, New Mexico Genres: Interdisciplinary art, Painting, Drawing Languages: English Email: pideal[at]earthlink.net Website: www.phillisideal.com Practice: In my current work I am interested in bridging the gaps between painting, photography and assemblage; thus, opening a fluid and deepening dialogue between media to illuminate a current situation in painting. Using collage, assemblage and recollection, my work emphasizes the ecology of the 'found', in which miscellaneous objects are transformed and seen again. The work takes shape through the self-referential processes of repetition, magnification, composition, printing, indexing and photography. I come to the canvas to extend ways of questioning and re-seeing painting. Bio: My academic career spans thirty years and includes teaching positions at San Francisco State, UC Berkeley, U New Mexico and most recently Sarah Lawrence where I headed the Drawing Department. Particularly, while teaching at Sarah Lawrence, I was focused on an interdisciplinary approach which opened many doors to enable students to objectify their imaginative lives and speak to the world of today. Because of my combined teaching experience as well as professional exhibiting experience in the NY art world, I feel enthusiastic about the teaching experience in mentoring students and would bring enthusiasm and interest to the process. Stanya Kahn Location: Los Angeles Languages: English, Spanish Email: kahn.stanya [at] gmail.com Websites: www.vielmetter.com, www.eai.com, www.elizabethdeegallery.com Bio: I am an interdisciplinary media artist. Working primarily in video, with a practice that includes performance, writing, and photography, my work inhabits a space between fiction and document, and stems from an extensive background in live performance. Integrating improvisation with tightly scripted texts and scores, the work addresses issues such as agency, power, and the uses and failings of language. My kinetic relationship to the performative and to humor inform a hybrid media practice infused with pop vernacular, documentary tropes and experimental film/video praxis. With extensive training in theater, performance, and dance, my practice and my approach to pedagogy stem from core relationships with the body. An MFA in writing and 10 years of video production experience have deepened the interdisciplinary nature of the way I work, think, and teach. Currently I am preparing for a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Artizona State University. I recently worked in a collaborative team with artist Harry Dodge and my work has shown in numerous venues nationally and internationally including The Whitney Biennial (08); The California Biennial (10) at the Orange County Museum of Art; MoMA/NY; MOCA/LA; The Getty Center/LA, the Hammer Museum/LA; the Sundance Film Festival; the Center for Art and Media/Karlsrühe; PS1 Museum of Contemporary Art/NY; Contemporary Center for Art/Vilnius, Lithuania; MIT, Cambridge; ICA, Philadelphia; Kunstalle, Bonn, GDR; The Brooklyn Museum, NY; The Hayward Gallery, London; Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles and Elizabeth Dee Gallery/NY, among many others. Wilma Kiener Location: Munich, Germany Genres: Film, Video Languages: German, English Email: SpartakusIII [at] aol.com Website: www.matzkakiener.de Practice: Documentary and Ethnographic Films, Cultural Anthropology, Representations of Death in the Feature Film Bio: Wilma Kiener graduated from the Munich Film School, and received her PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Munich, with her book: The Art of Storytelling. The Narrative Mode in Documentary and Ethnographic Films. (1999). Since 2002 she is a lecturer for Cultural Anthropology at the University of Munich, and for film and video at the University of Applied Sciences and Technology in Salzburg, Austria. In 2002 she held workshops for the Goethe- Institut in Kabul and Beirut. After receiving a scolarship from the equal-opportunities-programm at the Munich University, she now is a Post-Doctoral-Fellow at the Graduiertenkolleg Postcolonial Studies in Munich. Her documentaries include (selection): "A Dream of Kabul" (1996), "Three Lives - Friderike, Lotte and Stefan Zweig" (1993), "IXOK WOMAN" (1990), "Codename Schlier" (1985); leading role and screenplay collaboration "The Backward Roll" (1982). Post-Doctoral Project (Habilitation): "Representations of Death in the Feature Film. A Cultural-Comparative Study". Caroline Koebel Location: Austin, Texas Website: www.carolinekoebel.com Email: carolinekoebel [at] gmail.com Practice: Experimental film, video art, women directors, body art, early cinema, film and feminist theory, global activism, interventionist practice Bio: Informed by conceptual art, film theory and feminism, Caroline Koebel’s films and videos provoke new modes of aesthetic and critical engagement with early cinema, commodity culture, maternity, and other subjects. Flicker On Off applies the idiom of experimental film and artist's video to big-budget movies in order to speak about world affairs, including global warming, the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, and the Haditha Massacre, in what could be described as an alternate essay format. Recent presentations of her work include Edinburgh International Film Festival (Scotland), 5th ATTITUDE Festival (Macedonia), dança em foco (Brazil), Oblò Film Festival (Switzerland), MadCat (USA), Ladyfest Toronto (Canada), European Media Art Festival (Germany), Optica International Festival of Video Art (Spain), Pantheon International Xperimental Film Festival (Cyprus), Abstracta: International Exhibition of Abstract Cinema (Italy), and Camagüey Festival of Video Art (Cuba). Koebel’s work has been supported by, among others, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Experimental Television Center, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Squeaky Wheel, Media Alliance, and the Centre for Contemporary Art at Ujazdowski Castle. Drawing breath from pioneers such as Germaine Dulac and Maya Deren, Koebel situates writing and curating firmly within her creative practice. In addition to co-authoring the acclaimed stencil graffiti book Schablone Berlin, she has published catalog essays on Carolee Schneemann and Barbara Hammer, and curated programs as a board member of the Film-Makers’ Cooperative. She holds a BA in Film Studies from University of California, Berkeley and an MFA in Visual Arts from University of California, San Diego. She is a recent transplant from Brooklyn to Austin, Texas, where she lives with publisher and poet Kyle Schlesinger and their son Alasdair. Wojciech Kosma Location: Berlin Website: http://www.wojciechkosma.com Email: wojciechkosma [at] gmail.com Practice: performance, music, logic, pornography, irony, darkness Languages: English, Polish Wojciech Kosma creates speculative and successful performances. His work could have been seen recently in the New Museum in New York, 533 Gallery in Los Angeles, KW Berlin, Overgaden in Copenhagen, Boutique Monaco in Seoul, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, IMT Gallery in London as well as in China and Argentina. He is currently a Music Composition PhD Student at the Goldsmiths University in London. Chris Kraus Location: Los Angeles Email: ckraus [at] sonic.net Website: http://semiotextes.com/?page_id=139 Practice: Fiction writer, art critic, film and video background Chris Kraus is the author of four novels, two collections of art essays, and co-author of a book on Los Angeles art. She writes regularly for Artforum and has published articles in Art in America, Art/Text, the Nation, Bookforum, Texte Zur Kunst, Index, and other magazines. She co-edited David Wojnarowicz: A Definitive History of the Lower East Side (Semiotexte, 2006). Retrospectives of her early film work have been exhibited in Berlin, Brussels, and Miami. She recently curated an exhibition of work by George Porcari and Jorge Pardo at Momenta Gallery in Brooklyn. Kraus received the CAA’ s Frank Jewett Mather Award in Art Criticism in 2007. A co-editor of Semiotexte since 1990, her forthcoming novel is Summer of Hate. Kraus has taught at the European Graduate School (EGS), UC San Diego, UC Irvine, Art Center College of Design and San Francisco Art Institute. Derek Larson Location: Florida Email: contact [at] dereklarson.net Website: http://www.dereklarson.net Bio: Larson is a multimedia artist with experience teaching sculpture, painting, video and animation. His work has been exhibited in San Francisco, Seattle, Miami, New York, and Toronto. Larson has taught at Green Mountain College in Vermont and Keene State College in New Hampshire and is currently Visiting Professor in the Art Department and the Digital Arts program at Stetson University in Florida. He was awarded the 2009 Premio Terna Prize for Connectivity from the Terna Rete Elettrica Nazionale in Italy and was nominated for the 2009 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant in New York. Practice: Digital/Multimedia (including animation, video, web art, painting and sculpture.) I'm interested in the space where narrative video meets glitch and the possibilities of thinking about video and online media in terms of aura or presence. I'm trying to address digitized aura and sculptural space in video and online signifiers by closing them in culturally dependent, feedback-loops. Most art objects have presence, so I'm using this in the infinitely reproducible media of video. The case for digital aura is best supported by the following question: “Is it as hard to delete files from your hard drive as it once was to let go of nostalgic objects?” Signs and media, once fetishized as artifacts from an event, are now created and displayed on screens at 72dpi. Media exists almost exclusively as signifiers to events without physical connection to the events themselves. What was once the accumulation of things from an event (flyers, posters, tickets, vi nyl) are now digital and saved in your hard drive. As emotions and experiences become increasingly connected to virtual signifiers, will our emotional intentions be better known? Or, is the speed at which media is delivered making it that much more fleeting? Carole Frances Lung AKA Frau Fiber Location: Huntington Beach, California Website: www.fraufiber.com Email: carolefranceslung [at] gmail.com Bio: textile worker, artist, and activist. BFA 2005 North Dakota State University, MFA 2007 School of the Art Institute Chicago, Fiber and Material Studies Dept., Solo exhibitions 2009	Hired Out, James A. Michener Art Museum, Doyelstown, PA, Simple Slow=Shade Cloth, Joshua Tree Music Festival, Joshua Tree, CA, Sewing Rebellion Regional Chapters: Ames, Iowa, Lancaster PA, New Orleans LA, Los Angeles, CA, Chicago IL, Brooklyn NY. Chris Mann Location: Berlin, Germany, New York City, USA Genres:Performance, sound/.music. Languages: English, Chinese E-mail:chrisman[at]rcn.com Website:http://www.theuse.info Interest: language, voice Bio:Chris Mann has been deconstructed, interpreted and set by Tom Buckner, John Cage, David Dunn, Gary Hill, Johnny Klimek, Annea Lockwood, Machine for Making Sense, Larry Polansky, Robert Rauschenberg, ... Recent projects include The Plato Songs using realtime spectral analysis and parsing of the voice into sixteen channels, and ‘Quadraphonic Cocktail’ for the three radio networks of the ABC. Language is the mechanism whereby you understand what I’m thinking better than I do (where ‘I’ is defined by those changes for which I is required). Elena Marcevska New Location: Northampton, UK Website: http://northampton.academia.edu/ElenaMarcevska + http://vimeo.com/user2082151 Email: elena.marcevska[at]northampton.ac.uk Bio: 2008 – present University of Northampton, PhD, Centre for Practice-led Research in the Arts, “Screen as Site of Performance- Body coded in motion”, 2003 – 2005 School of The Art Institute of Chicago-Chicago, USA MFA, Performance and New Media Studies. Her research focus is on the interactive processes between art, scientific and digital systems including interactive media, virtual reality and alternative sensors and the transferability of scientific visualization. Her special focus is how to extend digital systems into the realms of motion, touch and the kinesthetic. Karen Marshall Email: kmarshall [at] rcn.com Websites: www.karenmarshallphoto.com + web.mac.kbmarshallphoto.com Location: New York, USA Bio: New York Photographer Karen Marshall documents social issues. Since the 1970’s, she has worked on still narratives about the cultural landscape of the United States. In 1985 she began a series of long-term projects that focus on the social and psychological lives of her subjects within the American landscape. Marshall’s work often reflects a story that extends over many years. She is the recipient of artist fellowships and sponsorships through the New York Foundation for the Arts, as well as grants and support from private foundations. Her work has been widely exhibited and is part of several collections. Her photographs have been published in the United States and abroad. A freelance photographer, Marshall is an active mentor and portfolio consultant. Marshall is on the faculty of The International Center of Photography and teaches at New York University and The Maine Media Workshops, among others. She holds a BA in Photography from Hampshire College, A Certificate in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography from The International Center of Photography and an MFA in New Media from Transart Institute. Heather McReynolds Email: heathermcr [at] gmail.com H Website: www/re-title.com/artists/heather-mcreynolds.asp Location: London Interest: In my process-oriented approach to painting, I care for the physical qualities of material and surfaces. I often start with a failed painting, scraping, sanding and glazing to create a ground which is the foundation for the subsequent layers. I use different kinds of paint application to create a range of mark making; flat matte washes, scribbly lines, crisp silhouettes, stencils, sgraffito. I’m interested in the visual pleasure of discovering forms that harmonize but do not align. When laying down colours and shapes I am drawn to contrast between hard and soft forms, or between gestural and mechanical marks, destabilising expectations of style and form. I use colour to evoke different atmospheres; playful, poetic, murky, intimate, ancient. Colour can be an overall mood tone or a surprise element as when small segments of brilliant colour are dropped into fields of neutral tones. Through a series of micro aesthetic decisions I alter and edit elements in and out of the painting, seeking a balance that is both light and weighty. This physical and psychoanalytic act of re-ordering gives value to the buried layers of the painting as well as the surface. In some paintings I am destroying an image, in others I am discovering or uncovering it. This is a layered and intuitive process in which each painting hides and reveals in differing measure, inviting the viewer to linger longer in the enclosed world. Bio: 2009 Masters in Fine Art Theory and Practice, Byam Shaw@ Central St Martins, London 2008 Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art, Byam Shaw @Central St Martins, London 1989 Accademia di Belle Art di Firenze, Italy, Diploma di Pittura, 30 e lode,- BA Degree with distinction in traditional painting techniques including restoration, egg tempera and fresco. 1985 BA High Honors in Art and Art History, Smith College, Massachusetts, USA teaching experience 2010- Artist Mentor for MFA in Visual Arts Program at The Art Institute of Boston, USA 2010- Artist Mentor in painting for MA Fine Art course at Byam Shaw, London 2010 Artist in residence Rivers of the World education programme, Mayor of London and Arts Council England. 2005-11 Workshop Leader in Visual Art for art teachers in the International Baccalaureate IBEAM in Europe, Africa and the Middle East 2005-11 Visual Art External Examiner for IBO throughout Europe 2005-11 Visual Art Essay Examiner and Moderator for IBO 2003-5 Assistant Teacher Printmaking workshop at Il Bisonte School of Graphics, Florence, Italy 2003-2007 Head of Art International School of Florence, Villa la Gattaia, Italy. responsibilities include: teaching painting, drawing, and contextual studies, training new teachers, curriculum design and cross curricular and interdisciplinary coordination. Helen Mirra Location: Cambridge, MA Practice: Sound/Music, art in general Languages: English, some German Email: hmirra[at]fas.harvard.edu Bio: 1996 MFA, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL, Solo Exhibitions & Projects: 2006-9 Instance the Determination, public project, University of Chicago, IL, 2007 Grammatik, Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe, D, 2006 Break camp, Peter Freeman, New York, Cloud, the, 3, DAAD Galerie, Berlin, Käuzchensteig, Galerie Nelson, Paris, F, 2005 PIAC (Piattaforma internazionale arte contemporanea), Ragusa, I, Laws of clash, 247, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, 2004 Sudden and creeping violence, Dallas Museum of Art: Concentrations 45, TX, Miscellaneous papers, Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe, D, Hewn third, Peter Freeman, New York Linda Montano Location: New York Email: lindamontano [at] hotmail.com Website: www.lindamontano.com Bio: Linda Mary Montano is a seminal figure in contemporary feminist performance art and her work since the mid 1960s has been critical in the development of video by, for, and about women. Attempting to dissolve the boundaries between art and life, Montano continues to actively explore her art/life through shared experience, role adoption, and intricate life altering ceremonies, some of which last for seven or more years. Her artwork is starkly autobiographical and often concerned with personal and spiritual transformation. Montano’s influence is wide ranging - she has been featured at museums including The New Museum in New York, MOCA San Francisco and the ICA in London. Practice: Performance/video/writing My book “Art in Everyday Life” outlines my performance practice which includes endurances, healing focuses and humor. I believe that life begets art and art is life. One heals the other. Alison Nordström Location: New York Interest: photography and ethnography, photography and history, exhibitions Website: www.eastmanhouse.org Bio: Alison Nordström is Curator of Photographs at George Eastman House, the oldest and largest museum of photography in the United States. She was the Founding Director and Senior Curator of the Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona Beach, Florida from 1991 to 2001, and previously held positions involving photography at the Brattleboro (Vermont) Museum & Art Center and the Peabody Museum of Ethnography, Harvard. She has curated over 100 exhibitions of photography including the popular biennial series Fresh Work, and major surveys of landscape, portraiture, travel photographs and journalism. She has worked extensively with historical photographs related to the construction of race and place and is the author of numerous books, catalogue essays, and chapters, articles and reviews in academic publications. In 2006, she curated the exhibition Paris: Photographs by Eugene Atget and Christopher Rauschenberg for George Eastman House and the International Center for photography in New York City and the traveling exhibition Why Look at Animals?, a historical survey coupled with contemporary installations. Nordström holds a BA in English Literature, an MLS with museum emphasis, and a PhD in Cultural and Visual Studies. Freya Olafson Location: Winnipeg, Canada Email: curious [at] freyaolafson.com Website: www.freyaolafson.com Languages: English, French Practice: video, audio, performance, contemporary dance, drawing /painting Bio: Freya Björg Olafson is an interdisciplinary artist who works with video, audio, painting and performance. Her creations have been presented/exhibited nationally as well as internationally at festivals and galleries such as SECCA ~ The SouthEastern Center for Contemporary Art (North Carolina), Plug In Institute for Contemporary Art (Winnipeg), InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Center (Toronto), Dance: made in canada biennial (Toronto), Winnipeg Art Gallery, MONA ~ Museum of New Art (Detroit), Núna (now) Festival (Winnipeg, Toronto, Iceland), Groundswell New Music Series (Winnipeg), Tangente (Montreal), Kling&Bang Galleri (Reykjavik,Iceland), and Springboard Danse Montréal. As performer and creator, Freya blends 6 years classical training in the Professional Program of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet with the contemporary facility achieved through her completion of the Bachelor of Arts Honors degree in dance from Winnipeg’s School of Contemporary Dancers in affiliation with the University of Winnipeg. She combines her finesse in movement with the directness of her performance art, video and theory studies from the University of Manitoba School of Art and her subsequent completion of a Master of Fine Arts Degree in New Media from the Transart Institute / Donau Universitat in Krems, Austria. During her studies Freya was the recipient of awards/scholarships for her abilities from The Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Friends of The Transart Institute, Canada Iceland Foundation, University of Winnipeg Woman’s Auxiliary, The Imperial Order of Daughter’s of the Empire, and Springboard Danse Montreal. Freya was nominated in 2008 by Winnipeg’s School of Contemporary Dancers and in 2009 by Choreographer Stephanie Ballard for The Winnipeg Arts Council Artist Award “On The Rise”. In 2010, Freya was nominated as Dance Ambassador for the Winnipeg Cultural Capital of Canada Project. As well her latest work AVATAR received the Buddies in Bad Times Vanguard Award for Risk and Innovation at the Summerworks Theater Festival in Toronto. As an independent performer Freya has worked with Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers, Trip Dance Company, Adhere & Deny Theatre Company, Gearshifiting Performance Works and Stephanie Ballard. Outside of creating her own work and performing in the work of others Freya is actively involved in the community in curating. She is a member of the curatorial committee for the nuna (now) Festival and has traveled to Calgary, Iceland and Slovenia to facilitate work for the festival. In 2008 she curated a performance of 1401 IBM – A User’s Manual a collaboration between dance artist Erna Omarsdottir and composer/musician Johann Johannsson. In 2009 she worked with Kegan McFadden director of Platform Center for Photographic and Digital Arts in Winnipeg to facilitate the presentation of International performance art collective Icelandic Love Corporation (Iceland) meets The Discriminating Gentlemen’s Club (Montreal). Sabine Oosterlynck Location: Gent, Belgium Languages: Dutch, German, French, English Website: www.sofragile.wordpress.com Email: sabine.oosterlynck@gmail.com EDUCATION 1993 - 1994 Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten Antwerp 1st year Bachelor in Fashion 1994 -1998 Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten Ghent Master of Fashion and costume design PERFORMANCES 1999 Elastic Stress 13 January 1999 CJK – Ghent & 03 October 1999 Speelhoven – Aarschot 2003 Mis-arte act 1 (Performance with avocado stones) September 2003 Ghent Surprise-performance Bob Log III Boob scotch (x 3) 29 May 2003 , Botanique Brussels 2004 Elastic Meat 11 June 2004 Ghent Voelperformance Feel Estate performance festival 15 September & 17 September 2004 Gallery Jan Colle - Ghent 2005 Mis-arte act 2 Cc de Steiger – Menen April 2005 Support 1 Stadspark Leuven (B) August 2005 2006 Intimate Date March ‘Her position in transition’ Vienna (Austria) Elastic stress, mis-arte act 1, mis-arte act 2, voelperformance Mis-arte act 1 Staalkaart – Acec –Ghent 25 June 2006 Re-birth, re-naissance Mise en scène by SO Performers: Leopold en Baudouin Oosterlynck Kortenberg November 2006 2007 Mis-arte act 3 5 April www.croxhapox.com Ghent Mis-arte act 2 8 September De Werft – Geel 2008 Walls are monsters! 05/01/08 In-Between, Gynaika, Antwerp 2009 Remote Control 30/06/09 Ghent, in collaboration with Rob Visser trailer : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl15tBcQisk 2011 performance art workshop Mini – intervention for Larf! Youth Theater, Ghent. Stewart Parker Location: New York Website: www.oilandwater.org Email: oilandwater [at] hotmail.com Location: New York Practice: Fusing Traditional (Ancient) & New Media:-Drawing/Painting/Animation/Digital Video Bio: Born in Scotland. Studied at Glasgow School of Art, Scotland, and Danube University/Transart Institute (MFA), Austria. Exhibits in Europe and the United States, most recently a solo show at the Park Gallery in Falkirk, Scotland and the group show 'Spaces In Between', at ConcentArt, Berlin. Work has also appeared in ‘Conversations in Paint’ at the Painting Center in New York and he participated in ‘Conversations’ Lecture Series at the American Museum of Folk Art in New York. Work in many private collections. Clients include David Geffen Co., Sony Music, Scottish Television, MCA/Universal Group. Teaches at Pratt Institute, lives and works in New York. Christiane Paul Location: New York Genres: Cyberart, Interactive art, Interdisciplinary art Languages: English, German Email: Christiane_Paul [at] whitney.org Website: http://artport.whitney.org Practice: new media art aesthetics and history (net art, software art, interactive installation, VR, hypertext); data visualization, database aesthetics; curating, presenting, preserving new media; Bio: Christiane Paul is the Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the director of Intelligent Agent, a service organization dedicated to digital art. She has written extensively on new media arts and her book Digital Art (part of the World of Art Series by Thames & Hudson, UK) was published in July 2003. She teaches as an adjunct in the MFA computer arts department at the School of Visual Arts in New York and the Digital+Media Department of the Rhode Island School of Design and has lectured internationally on art and technology. At the Whitney Museum, she curated the show “Data Dynamics” (2001); the net art selection for the 2002 Whitney Biennial; the online exhibition "CODeDOC" (2002) for artport, the Whitney Museum’s online portal to Internet art for which she is responsible; as well as "Follow Through" by Scott Paterson and Jennifer Crowe (2005). Other curatorial work includes "Second Natures" (Eli & Edythe Broad Art Center, UCLA, LA, 2006); the blackbox at ARCO art fair, Madrid (2006); "The Passage of Mirage" (Chelsea Art Museum, New York, 2004); "Evident Traces" (Ciberarts Festival Bilbao, 2004); "eVolution -- the art of living systems" (Art Interactive, Boston, 2004); "CODeDOC II" (Ars Electronica, 2003); the New York Digital Salon's 10th anniversary exhibition (NYC, 2003); “Mapping Transitions” at the University of Boulder, Colorado (2002); "Re-Media" (Fotofest, Houston, Texas, 2002); and a net art selection for “Evo1” (Gallery L, Moscow, October 2001). Jaime Permuth Location: New York City Genres: Photography Email: jaimepermuth[at]mac.com Website: www.jaimepermuth.net Bio: Jaime Permuth is a Guatemalan photographer living and working in New York City. In 1991 he graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with a double major in Psychology and English Literature. In 1994 he received a Master of Fine Arts degree in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York. His photographs have been shown at several venues in New York City, including The Museum of Modern Art, The Queens Museum of Art, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Museum of the City of New York, The Jewish Museum, Yeshiva University Museum, El Museo del Barrio, and The Brooklyn Museum of Art. He has also exhibited internationally at the Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno in Guatemala, Casa del Lago in Mexico City, and the Israeli Parliament. Among others, his work is included in the collections of the Polaroid Corporation, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Museum of the City of New York, Yeshiva University Museum, State University of New York New Paltz, and Centro de Investigaciones Regionales Mesoamericano (CIRMA) in Guatemala. He has received commissions from El Museo del Barrio, The Queens Museum of Art, The Jewish Museum, and Queens Theater in the Park. As an Artist/Educator he is a faculty member in The School of Visual Arts' Masters of Teaching Arts Education Program and has designed workshops and taught classes for the National Center for Creative Aging, el Museo del Barrio, International Center of Photography, State University of New York New Paltz, Kean University, San Francisco Camerawork, University of Texas Permian Basin and the Maine Photographic Workshops. Pil & Galia Kollektiv Location: London Email: info[at]kollectiv.co.uk Website: www.kollectiv.co.uk Bio:2008 – present Lecturers, University of Kent, Canterbury and 2006 – present Visiting Lecturers, Goldsmiths College, London. 2008 – Arts Council England grant, 2008 – Goldsmiths College Research Award, 2007 – London Artists Film and Video Award, 2007 – Take Over Residency, Pump House Gallery, London. Interests: We are London based artists, writers and curators working in collaboration. Our work addresses the legacy of modernism and explores avant garde discourses of the twentieth century and the way they operate in the context of a changing landscape of creative work and instrumentalised leisure. We are interested in the relationship between art and politics and the role irony plays in its current articulation. We often use choreographed movement and ritual as both an aesthetic and a thematic dimension, juxtaposing consumer rites and religious ceremonies. Reading dada, Constructivism, and the Bauhaus backwards through punk and new wave, we find new uses for the failed utopias of the past. As well as making art, we write about it for several publications. We also write about music and teach at University of Kent, Goldsmiths College and elsewhere. We do not have a band. Zoran Poposki Location: Skopje, Macedonia Email: zoranpoposki@gmail.com Website: www.poposki.info Bio: Zoran Poposki is a transdisciplinary artist and theorist based in Hong Kong and Skopje, with more than 50 exhibitions internationally. In his videos, performances, and digital paintings, Poposki explores issues of liminality, identity, and public space. Artist residencies include: School of Visual Arts (New York), Wooloo (Berlin), Dia: Beacon (NY), Pacific Northwest College of Art (Portland, OR), etc. He is a recipient of CEC Artslink Fellowship, and author of a book on the intersection of new media art and activism. Poposki holds a Master of Fine Arts in New Media from Transart Institute/Donau University Krems in Austria and is completing a PhD in Philosophy and Gender Studies. He currently teaches at the Gradute Department in Architecture and Design at the University American College Skopje. Cate Rimmer Location: Vancouver Email: crimmer [at] eciad.bc.ca + caterimmer [at] hotmail.com Practice: Interdisciplinary art, Photography, Curating / Exhibition Practice. Issues around the presentation of art work. The strategies used in its public presentation, the articulation of intention, content and the critical reception of art work. Bio: Cate Rimmer is Associate Curator at the Charles H. Scott Gallery in Vancouver where she has curated numerous group and solo exhibitions. She was the founding Director/Curator of Artspeak Gallery (Vancouver), Director of Truck Gallery (Calgary) and Curator in Residence at the Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts (Montreal). Rimmer has an MLitt from the University of St Andrews, Scotland in Museum and Gallery Studies and has taught classes and workshops on exhibition practice. She has published a number of reviews, articles and catalogue texts and is co-editor of the on-line journal artfiles.ca. Melinda Rackham Location: Sydney, Australia Genres: networked art, online communities, emerging media, curation, Website: http://www.subtle.net Email: melinda.rackham [at] rmit.edu.au Bio: Melinda Rackham has engaged with sculptural distributed, emergent and responsive media artforms as a pioneering networked artist, critic, curator, consultant and cultural producer for over twenty-five years. Her extensive knowledge of the field is drawn from participation in many of the first net art and current major international media art exhibitions and festivals either as an exhibiting artist, a Jury member or conference presenter. Dr Rackham’s perspectives on emerging art practices appear in diverse academic and arts industry publications online and in print. Melinda was the first Curator of Networked Media at the Australian Centre for Moving Image (ACMI), and in 2002 she established -empyre-, one of the world’s leading online critical media art theory forums. As Director of Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) from 2005 till 2009 Melinda forged significant industry partnerships and elevated public engagement with research and practice in art, science and new technologies. Currently Adjunct Professor at RMIT University, Dr Rackham’s focus is creating, curating and writing on emerging art and cultures manifest in networked, urban screen, virtual, responsive, biological, wearable and distributed practices and environments. Jac Saorsa Location: UK Email: jacsaorsa[at]hotmail.com Websites: jacsaorsa.wordpress.com + www.academia.edu + www.artselector.com Bio: I am a British artist/writer. I hold a PhD Fine Art, from Loughborough University, an MPhil, Philosophy, from Glasgow University. I have extensive international teaching experience and I am presently Associate Professor in fine art at Frederick university in Cyprus. My research interests are based primarily in contemporary art practice,and its relation to 20th Century Continental philosophy (Heidegger, Gadamer, Deleuze, Ricouer). In my work I explore the fundamental experience of existence through emotional complexity and the multiplicity of process. Words fill spaces between thoughts and I go beyond the limitations of conventional language with imagery. With a fundamental focus on the human form but often with a deliberate fluidity of intention, I derive figure from form through a process in which it evolves over time. Brushstrokes become sinew and vein. Oil glazes become layers of skin. Charcoal suggests emotion in the ghosts of lines. The highlight changes the mood in a second. Luisa Santos Location: Portugal Website: http://www.rca.ac.uk/Default.aspx?ContentID=501028&CategoryID=36646 Email: luisa.santos [at] network.rca.ac.uk Languages: Portuguese, English, French, Spanish Bio: Luísa Santos (b. 1980) lives and works in Lisbon. Graduated in Communication Design at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Lisbon and Master in Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art, in London, with Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Arts Scholarship. Since 2006, she curates exhibitions in London, Linz, Lisbon and Oporto. Guest curator at the OK-Centrum in Linz for the Linz European Capital of Culture 2009 and resident curator at the Frankfurter Kunstverein in 2009. Since 2009, she teaches at IADE and, since 2010 at Ar.Co, both in Lisbon. PhD candidate at the Viadrina and the Humboldt Universities, in Berlin, she is currently researching how multidisciplinary projects can produce effective social change. Dread Scott Location: New York Genres: Installation, photography, screenprinting, performance, video. E-mail: dread [at] dreadscott.net Website: http://dreadscott.net Dread Scott makes revolutionary art to propel history forward. He first received national attention in 1989 when his art became the center of controversy over its use of the American flag. President Bush (the first) declared his artwork “disgraceful” and the entire US Senate denounced it as they passed legislation to “protect the flag.” His work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, PS1/MoMA, the Brooklyn Museum, and at the DeBeyerd Center for Contemporary Art in the Netherlands. He has been awarded a Creative Capital Foundation grant, a Mid-Atlantic\NEA Regional Fellowship in Photography and New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships in Sculpture as well as in Performance Art/Multidisciplinary Art. His work is in the collection of the Whitney Museum, The New Museum of Contemporary Art and the Arkon Art Museum. He works in a range of media including installation, photography, screen printing, video and performance. Analia Segal Location: Brooklyn, Boston, USA Genres: Interdisciplinary Art, Architecture, Photography, Sculpture. Languages: Spanish and English. E-mail: analiasegal[at]verizon.net Website: www.analiasegal.com Interest: I am an Argentine artist and I live and work in New York since 1999. Living in Manhattan has been a catalyst for my work. Being away from my home country has forced me to think differently about the meaning of home and the way in which we interact with our immediate surroundings. My impression of displacement and claustrophobia produced by the lack of space after moving to Manhattan thrust me to used the wall as a starting point to create a new body of work. Since the beginning of my career I have been attracted to installation art as a “multi-layered” practice that embodies the porosity of contemporary art and explore the blurry boundaries between art, design and architecture. I understand an installation as a dense web in which the artist weaves together the object, context, site and viewer. Bio: I graduated as a Graphic Designer from the University of Buenos Aires in 1985 and got my masters degree in Art from New York University in 2001. I studied at the Studio Arts Centers International in Florence, Italy from1989 to 1990 where I learnt how to use of different materials. I received the “Ann K. Meredith” Fellowship, granted by the Studio Arts Centers International of the Cleveland Institute of Art to work in Pietrasanta, Italy in 1989, Pollock Krassner Foundation grant in 2003, New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in 2003. I have beencollaborating with my work in different architectural projects and designed and line of products for Sheridan Designs in Houston, and I have recently won the First prize at 100% tiles in London. I have had many solo show: Kobo Chika Gallery, Tokyo 2005; Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires, Argentina 2003; Plus Ultra Gallery-New York 2002; Centro Cultural Borges in Buenos Aires, Argentina -1998; Argentine Consulate in New York, 1996. I have also participated in several groups shows, among them: "SUBLIME" at Galeria Animal. Santigo, Chile 2003 “Feminizing forms? Analia Segal, Ethel Shipton”, curated by Kate Greene at Finesilver gallery- San Antonio ,Texas 2003; Finding Meaning in the Moving Image at Gal Galou gallery-New York, 2003 and at ON gallery-Poland ,2003;"Regarding Gloria" curated by Lauren Ross and Catherine Morris at White Columns- New York, 2002; AIM 22- Artists in the Marketplace at the Bronx Museum of the Arts-New York, 2002. Edward A. Shanken Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands Email: eshanken [at] artexetra.com	 Website: http://www.artexetra.com	 Bio: Edward A. Shanken writes and teaches about the entwinement of art, science, and technology with a focus on interdisciplinary practices involving new media. He is Universitair Docent in New Media, University of Amsterdam, and a member of the Media Art History faculty at the Donau University in Krems, Austria. He was formerly Executive Director of the Information Science + Information Studies program at Duke University and Professor of Art History and Media Theory at Savannah College of Art and Design. Recent and forthcoming publications include essays on art and technology in the 1960s, information aesthetics, interactivity and agency, and the cultural implications of cybernetics, robotics, and biotechnology. He edited Telematic Embrace: visionary Theories of Art, Technology and Consciousness (University of California Press, 2003). His second book, Art and Electronic Media was published by Phaidon Press in 2009. Kirsten Rae Simonsen Location: Honolulu Email: simonsen.kirsten [at] gmail.com Website: http://cargocollective.com/kirstenrae Kirsten Rae Simonsen is an interdisciplinary artist whose work and research explore notions of nostalgia, desire, private versus public property, luxury culture, urban and suburban planning, and tourism and display. She received her MFA from the University of Chicago after studying traditional painting and drawing in Bali, Indonesia. She has shown her work nationally and internationally and is known for drawing on the wall installations. Most recently, she created a site-specific installation for the a Zendai Museum of Modern Art sponsored project in Shanghai, China. Research interests include colonial and post-colonial narratives, tourism and the search for the authentic (especially in Asia), and the new consumer culture and growing middle class in China. Currently she is producing a body of work for a solo show entitled "Country Living for Everyone" that explores the building of suburban middle class Tudor Revival and French Norman cottages by Califor nia immigrants in Hawai’i in the 1920s. Kirsten has taught drawing, painting, design, and film studies in Chicago, London, Amsterdam, Florence and Honolulu. She was a visiting professor at Florida State University and currently teaches at the University of Hawai’i and Hawai’i Pacific University. Alec Soth Location: St. Paul, Minnesota Genres: Photography, Bookmaking, Film, Video, Sound, Sculpture Languages: English Email: alec [at] alecsoth.com Website: http://alecsoth.com Bio: Alec Soth (b. 1969) is a photographer born and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is the recipient of several major fellowships from the Bush, McKnight and Jerome Foundations and was awarded the 2003 Santa Fe Prize for Photography. His work is represented in major public and private collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Soth's photographs have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the 2004 Whitney and São Paulo Biennials. His first monograph, Sleeping by the Mississippi, was published by Steidl in 2004 to critical acclaim. Since then Soth has published NIAGARA (2006), Fashion Magazine (2007), Dog Days, Bogotá (2007) and The Last Days of W (2008). Soth is represented by Gagosian Gallery in New York, Weinstein Gallery in Minneapolis, and is a member of Magnum Photos. André Stitt Location: London Genres: Interdisciplinary art, Performance, Sound/Music Interest: Time Based Art - Performance Art, Interdisciplinary Art Languages: English Email: Website: www.andrestitt.com Bio: Born in Belfast, N. Ireland, Stitt is considered one of Europe's foremost performance and interdisciplinary artists. He has worked as a time based artist since 1976 creating hundreds of unique performances at major galleries, festivals, alternative venues and sites specific throughout the world. His artistic output includes performance art, live work, relational activity, installations, digital print, videography, photography, painting and drawing. After living in London for nearly 20 years he relocated to Cardiff in 1999 to become head of the Time Based Art course at Cardiff School of Art. The course focuses on contemporary interdisciplinary practices - performance art, video, installation, sonic, interactive arts and web casting. In 2004 he became a professor of the University of Wales. In 2000 he opened trace: Installation Artspace in Cardiff initiating a robust programme of international time based work. www.tracegallery.org. In 2001 he curated the biggest performance art event in London for over a decade: Span2 featured a 4 week programme of 21 international artists from all over the world. Radhika Subramaniam Location: New York City Interest: Curatorial practice is cross-disciplinary and dialogic, committed to public pedagogy, critical urbanism, and political and social justice. Email: subramar[at]newschool.edu Bio: Radhika Subramaniam is the Director/Chief Curator of the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center and assistant professor of art and design history and theory at Parsons The New School for Design. Her research interests lie in South Asian urban modernity and cultures of catastrophe and her curatorial practice is cross-disciplinary and dialogic, committed to public pedagogy, critical urbanism, and political and social justice. While the director of cultural programs at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC), she commissioned several public art projects in downtown Manhattan and oversaw a program of art and ideas. Her projects include Art in Odd Places: Sign (co-curated with Erin Donnelly, October 2009), Abecedarium for Our Times (Apexart, 2008), Rods and Cones: Seeing from the Back of One’s Head (guest-curated for the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective, 2008), and Cities, Art and Recovery (LMCC, 2005–2006), a major two-year international initiative focused on art and culture in the aftermath of catastrophe. She was also the founding and executive editor of Connect: art.politics.theory.practice, an interdisciplinary art journal published by Arts International. She has a PhD in Performance Studies and a master’s degree in Anthropology. Ron Terada Location: Vancouver, B.C. Canada Genres: Graphic Design, Interdisciplinary art, Photography Languages: English Interest: Post-studio, post-conceptual. post-pop Email: ronterada[at]yahoo.ca Website: www.catrionajeffries.com Anita Thacher Location: New York Genres: Public art, installation, sculpture Languages: English Email: anita@anitathacher.com Website: www.anitathacher.com Anita Thacher is a New York-based artist known for her work in a variety of mediums--film, video, public art, multimedia, light, architectural and sculptural installation, as well as painting, photography and prints. Her art explores issues of perception both spatial and personal. Memory, childhood and domestic themes are fundamental elements in the work. She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards among them are The National Endowment for the Arts (four grants), The New York State Council on the Arts (five grants), The Ford Foundation, The American Film Institute, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, The New York Women in Film and Television Preservation Fund. Public collections include The Metropolitan Museum of Art, J. Paul Getty Museum. Los Angeles, The Museum of Modern Art, Arsenal, Internationales Forum des Jungen Films among others. Her films are distributed by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Arsenal, Berlin and Light Cone, Paris among others. Her prints are available through The Metropolitan Museum of Art store and VanDeb Editions. Her paintings are available through Butler's Fine Art, East Hampton. National and international exhibitions include The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The New York Film Festival, P.S.1, The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jeu de Paume, Paris and The Whitney Museum of American Art among others. Ms. Thacher is a MacDowell Colony Fellow, former member of its Board and a Civitella Ranieri Fellow. Annette Weintraub Location: New York Genres: Architecture, Video, Cyber Art, Graphic Design, Installation Art, Interactive Art, Interdisciplinary Art, Photography Email: annette[at]annetteweintraub.com Website: www.annetteweintraub.com Interests: the architectural environment Bio: Annette Weintraub's work explores the architectural environment. Recent work includes: Life Support (2003), a web based project exploring hospital architecture and the subjective experience of space through a hybrid of 2D and 3D representation;The Mirror That Changes (2001), a web-based sound and moving image piece exploring issues of water sustainability, commissioned by The Ruschlikon Centre for Global Dialogue; and Mirage (2001), a narrative work exploring the intersection of photography and tourism, commissioned by CEPA for the exhibition Paradise in Search of A Future. The Mirror That Changes was shown at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes 2002 International Art Biennial-Buenos Aires, in Argentina, Leonardo's Virtuatl Africa Project, "/ ///---Reload---/// ," an online project of the Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum and FILE2002, Festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletronica, Sao Paulo, Brasil. Mirage was shown at CEPA, and at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center. Other projects include Crossroads (2000), a narrative work for the Web presented by Turbulence, and Sampling Broadway (1999), a QTVR Web project commissioned by Turbulence with a grant from the Jerome Foundation. Sampling Broadway was shown in the Whitney Museum's 2000 Biennial, the first Biennial to include Internet art. Crossroads has been shown in the 5th Biennial of Media and Architecture in Graz, Austria, at ICP/International Center of Photography, and at International Film Festival Rotterdam's Cinema Online, SIGGRAPH2000 and in Bypaths at Moving Image Gallery in New York. Crossroads was the subject of the July 6, 2000 Arts[at]Large column in the New York Times online. Sampling Broadway was presented as part of WNET/Thirteen's Reel New York.Web (1999); at Il Bienal Mercosul Cyberport in Porto Alegre, Brazil; and in [techne]W3LAB. Other works for the Web (Pedestrian and Realms) were shown at The Cooper Union and The Ricco/Maresca Gallery. Pedestrian was included in Beyond Interface, an online exhibition curated for the 1998 conference on Museums and the Web. Annette Weintraub's still images have been shown in numerous national and international exhibitions including Technoseduction at The Cooper Union, Metamorphoses: Photography in the Electronic Age, curated by Aperture Magazine at the Fashion Institute of Technology and in Image Electronic at the Euphrat Museum in Cupertinco. Her work is represented in the public collections of: FMC, Prudential Insurance, The Wichita Museum, AT&T, and Peat Marwick. It has been cited in: Art in America, Newsweek magazine, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, The Boston Globe and Leonardo. Annette Weintraub received her BFA from The Cooper Union and her MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. She is Professor of Art at The City College of New York, and Director of the Robinson Center for Graphic Arts and Communication Design. 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