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Apsolutno
The association APSOLUTNO was founded in 1993 in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia. The production of the association is created through collaboration of its three members (Zoran Pantelić, Dragan Rakić and Bojana Petrić). Since 1995 the works have been signed APSOLUTNO, without any reference to personal names.
The production of APSOLUTNO started in the field of fine arts. Gradually, it has developed to include not only aesthetic, but also cultural, social and political aspects. The work of APSOLUTNO is based on an interdisciplinary research into reality, with the aim to make it open to new readings.
The choice of medium is a very important part of the creative process, as APSOLUTNO regards the medium as an equally relevant element of the work.
APSOLUTNO is a collective of three members, dealing with interdisciplinary art work and media pluralism.
Zoran Pantelic
Zoran Pantelic is an artist, producer, educator and researcher. He is currently director of the New Media Center_kuda.org, Novi Sad (Serbia and Montenegro). He holds a BA from the Academy of Fine Arts Novi Sad and MA from the same institution, as well as a certificate from the School of Media Education 2001 Faculty of Social Sciences, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
He founded the association APSOLUTNO in 1993 in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia. APSOLUTNO is a collective of three members, dealing with interdisciplinary art work and media pluralism . His work has been shown internationally in festivals and galleries in places such as Berlin, Paris, Budapest, Vienna, Frankfurt, Wroclaw, Hiroshima, San Francisco, ect.
In 2000 Zoran Pantelic founded kuda.org – new media center, in Novi Sad, which is the first of its kind in Serbia and Montenegro . The Centre_kuda.org is a content providing platform for new cultural practices, media art production and social layout. Center_kuda.org explores critical approaches towards [mis]using ICT and emphasizes creative rethinking in network society.
He curated (2001) the new media section of Belgrade October Exhibition, and most recently he co-curated New Media Festival in Belgrade. In 2003 he co-produced the World-Information.Org exhibition HYPERLINK "http://www.world-information.org" www.world-information.org, an international project by Public Netbase, Vienna, in Novi Sad and Belgrade. In 2004 was organized Trans European Picnic in Novi Sad, www.transeuropicnic.org , it was co-produced with V2 Institute from Rotterdam. Since 2005 he is teaching Media communication on Academy of Fine Arts in Novi Sad.
Shu Lea Cheang
Cheang, recognized internationally as one of the leading artists creating works that link physical and online spaces, has previously exhibited at two Whitney Biennials, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Taipei Biennale 2000, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; ICC Biennale 1997, InterCommunication Center [ICC], Tokyo, and created the Guggenheim Museum's first web based art project, entitled"Brandon." Her new project "BABY LOVE", the second part of The Locker Baby project following the installation "BABY PLAY" at ICC, will be shown at Taiwan National Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei from May 2006 after the exhibition at Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
Celine Condorelli
Celine Condorelli is an architect based in London. She is Senior Lecturer at London Metropolitan University and both her teaching and practice are concerned with architecture as interface, engaging with complex situations and combinations of spatial, urban, political and social structures. This concern has been tested with institutions working with local government as in Space Syntax, UCL in 2002, or organisations dealing with promoting architecture to the general public as in London Open House and Architectural Dialogue 2001/2002, and extensively through art and architecture collaborations as in currently theatre pieces (Tate Triennial of British Art 03/06 to 05/06) and Alterity Display (Lawrence O’Hana gallery, london, 2004). Recent works include developing Support Structure, an RSA Art for Architecture and Arts Council England project with Artist-Curator Gavin Wade, through several exhibitions including at Chisenhale Gallery, London, 2003, and The Economist, London, 2004, as well as taxi_onomy with artist Beatrice Gibson, supported by Arts Council England, the British Council and V2 Rotterdam.
Dietmar Dath
Dietmar Dath, geboren 1970, veröffentlicht seit 1990 journalistische und literarische, satirische und essayistische Texte in in- und ausländischen Zeitungen und Zeitschriften. Das Themenspektrum seiner Arbeiten in u.a. KONKRET, SPEX, TESTCARD, JUNGLE WORLD, DE:BUG, TEXT UND KUNST, MEDIAMATIC (Niederlande), GDI-IMPULS (Schweiz) und FRIEZE (Großbritannien) reicht von politischen Aspekten der Jugend- und Popkultur (Heavy Metal, Drogenpolitik, Techno, phantastisches Kino) über Wissenschaftskritik (Nanotechnik, Computerwissenschaften, Bio- und Reproduktionstechnologien) bis zu einer Reihe von Texten über bedeutende, aber weithin zu wenig bekannte Gestalten der Geistes- und Kulturgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts (wie der Architekt R. Buckminster Fuller, der Logiker und Metamathematiker Gotthard Günther, der Komponist George Antheil, die Romanautorin Ayn Rand...). Dath übersetzt regelmäßig Artikel, Romane, Abhandlungen und theoretische Werke aus dem Englischen ins Deutsche (darunter Bücher des britischen Musiktheoretikers und Journalisten Kodwo Eshun, des New Yorker Filmemachers Buddy Giovinazzo und des texanischen Horrorschriftstellers Joe R. Lansdale). Auch hier interessieren ihn vor allem Texte, die an der Schnittstelle zwischen den »zwei Kulturen«, d.h. der wissenschaftlich-technischen und der künstlerisch-literarischen Welt angesiedelt sind. Zahlreiche Vorträge im In- und Ausland (vom Antwerpener Filmzentrum »El Dorado« über die Berliner Volksbühne bis zur evangelischen Akademie Iserlohn) über Themen zwischen Spekulation und (gesellschaftlicher) Wirklichkeit. Experimentelle und phantastische (Horror, Science-Fiction) Texte in literarischen Anthologien, von Undergroundverlagen bis zur Heyne-SF-Anthologienreihe. Von 1998 bis 2000 war er Chefredakteur der traditionsreichen Zeitschrift für Popkultur SPEX. Dath hat die Romane Cordula killt Dich (1995), Die Ehre des Rudels (1996), Am blinden Ufer (2000), Skye Boat Song (2000), Phonon oder Staat ohne Namen (2001) und Schwester Mitternacht (mit Barbara Kirchner, 2002) veröffentlicht. Seit 2001 ist Dietmar Dath Redakteur der FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG.
Thomas Plischke + Kattrin Deufert
deufert + plischke gründeten 2001 die frankfurter küche. In dieser arbeiten sie als Künstlerzwilling "deufert + plischke" an verschiedenen Theaterprojekten, Dia- und Video-Installationen, sowie Text- und Video-Publikationen. Von 2001 bis 2006 entstanden ihre Theaterstücke "inexhaustible (RW)" (2003), "Sofia SP – science is fiction" (2004), "As if (it was beautiful)" (2004) sowie die Trilogie "Directories" (2003-6). deufert + plischke unterrichten regelmäßig Komposition und Ästhetik an internationalen Kunstakademien und sind im Sommer 2006 Gastprofessoren an der Universität Hamburg im Rahmen der Performance Studies. www.deufert-plischke.com
Azza El-Hassan
Azza el Hassan is an award winner independent Documentary Producer/ Director. Azza holds an MA in Television Documentary, GoldSmith College, University of London (1995) and a BA in Film and Television studies and Sociology from Glasgow University, Scotland (1994). Her films have been produced and shown by various national and international TV networks like BBC (Britain) , ARTE (France & Germany) , YLE (Finland), ARD (Germany) and many others. In addition, her films have been exhibited world wide in documentary film festivals such as Yamagata (Japan), IDFA (Holland), Marsellia (France) and many others. She is the winner of the Grierson Award Best Newcomer (The British Documentaries Awards, BBC) 2002. Other awards include winner of the Jury Especial Award, Arab Screen Independent Film Festival/ Documentary and Short Films. Al-Jazera Channel, Qatar 2001. She has also written a collection of articles in art magazines like Arc electronica and Fram work. Her films include: Kings & Extras / British title Exposed & Lost (2004), 62 minutes, Documentary, Digital Beta. 3 cm Less (2003), 6o minutes, Documentary, Digital Beta. News Time (2002), 50 minutes, Documentary, Digital Beta. Sinbad is She (1999), 30 minutes, documentary, DVcam. A Title Deed from Moses (1998), 30 minutes, documentary, DVcam. Arab Women Speak Out(1996), 30 minutes, documentary DVcam. Video art: In Search of a Death Fortold (2004), 15 minutes, Digital Beta. The Place (2000), 6 minutes, SP Betacam.
International Festival
International Festival, Tor Lindstrand and Mårten Spångberg, work together since several years and have with their radical projects in performance and architecture developed a strong reputation. Their work focus on conventions and frames as well as on the production of specific inter human relations related to performance and architecture.
Anselm Franke
Anselm Franke works as curator and critic, he lives in Berlin. In the late nineties Franke has worked as an assistant director and producer for various theatre and film projects. For directors such as Christoph Schlingensief he realised projects for institutions like the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg Platz Berlin, the Berlin Biennale, the Steirischer Herbst, the Schauspielhaus Hamburg and various film and TV projects for Alexander Kluge. Together with Hannah Hurtzig he developed new formats of thematic installations and public congresses for the Hamburg Kammerspiele ("Filiale für Erinnerung auf Zeit" www.filialefuererinnerung.de, 2001) and the Volksbühne in Berlin (International Mobile Academy, The Refugee: Services to Undesirables, 2002). Since 2001 he is a curator at Berlin's KW Institute for Contemporary Art (www.kw-berlin.de) where he co-organised events like the congress "Suchbilder" (www.suchbilder.de) and realised exhibitions such as the series "Image Archives" (among others with Harun Farocki, Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Christoph Keller) and "Productions" (with Bureau d'Etudes, Christoph Schäfer, Scheppe-Böhm-Pizzaroni, Gianni Motti, Tara Herbst/Veronika Gerhardt/Jochen Heilek and Com&Com) among various other projects and solo-exhibitions. In 2002 and 2003 Franke has been a lecturer on contemporary artistic practices at the Freie Universität Berlin, together with Sandra Umathum. In 2002 - 2004 Franke has been a curator of ‚ErsatzStadt', an initiative of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes in cooperation with the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg Platz (together with Hannah Hurtzig, Jochen Becker, Stephan Lanz; www.ersatzmedia.info), where he curated and co-curated projects like the "ErsatzRadio" (June 2003) a series of dialogues on "Architecture as Strategic Weapons" within the project "KIOSK/ KNOCK for useful knowlegde" and the congress "Total Space - the USA Patriot Act" (July 2003). In January 2003 he curated "Production Unit" at Arte Fiera, Bologna, including artists such as Thomas Demand, Tacita Dean, Monica Bonvicini, among others. He co-curated the Festival "Art & Crime" (together with Sylvia Sasse and Stefanie Wenner) for the opening of the new Hebbel am Ufer theatre in Berlin (www.kuv.dpklinik.de, October 2003). Franke curated the exhibition "Territories" at KW Berlin (July 2003), in collaboration with Eyal Weizman, Rafi Segal and Stefano Boeri. Among smaller presentations and seminars, the exhibition travelled in different versions to the Witte de With center for contemporary art in Rotterdam (www.wdw.nl/ENG/text/projects/territories/, 2003) and the Malmö Konsthall (www.konsthall.malmo.se) and will be shown at Index, Stockholm and Bezalel Tel Aviv in September 2004. May 2004 he organised the exhibition "An uneven exchange of power" by Armin Linke at New York's Storefront for Art and Architecture (www.storefrontnews.org/archives/2004_06_02_index.html). Anselm Franke has widely lectured at institutions such as the IUAV Venice, the Bezalel Academy Tel Aviv, the University of the Witswaterand, Johannesburg, Fondazione Adriano Olivetti, Rome, the Bauhaus Dessau, The House of the World Cultures, Berlin, among others.
Mansur Jacoubi
Mansūr Jacoubi lives in Beirut and works with a number of new media, art, and research initiatives. He was co-director of the online video platform for Freespeech TV, a founding member of the Indymedia network, and served as board member of Working Films. Most recently he has been developing a collaborative community website for Palestine refugees as well as an online edition for Zawaya, a pan-Arab culture, politics, and arts magazine. He is also currently a fellow in the Waag-Sarai Exchange, and working towards establishing a networked center for new media and urban practices in Beirut.
Christof Kurzmann
christof kurzmann, born 1963 in vienna/austria, presently lives in berlin/germany. musician between electropop, improvisation and "new music". sometimes soloist, he prefers to be part of an collective or an working group. concerts in all continents with the exception of australia. organizer of various events in the music- and media-genre. labelowner of the small independent label "charhizma" (www.charhizma.com). conscient objector of military- and civil-service, he still is politicly active and/or interested. he likes to travel, go to the cinemas and concerts, likes to read, even emails to charhizma@charhizma.com (he doesn´t reply all the time).
Angela Melitopoulos
Angela Melitopoulos, artist/researcher in the time based arts, realized experimental single-channel-tapes, video installations, videoessays, documentaries and sound pieces. Her work focuses on migration/mobilty, memory and narration. She conceives media art pieces in that video technology as a time based medium revealing mnemonic and micro-political processes in documentation. She studied fine arts at the Art Academy Düsseldorf with Nam June Paik. Angela Melitopoulos is collaborating in political networks in Paris, Italy, Turkey and Germany and teaches in academic institutions such as the Media Art Academy in Cologne, in the University of Potsdam or the Middle East Technology University in Ankara. She has published theoretical texts and articles in Europe, especially in collaboration with the sociologist and philosopher Maurizio Lazzarato. From 1985 her work has bee awarded and shown in international video and film festival (such as Berlinale, Film and Videofestival of Locarno, Filmfestival Rotterdam, EMAF Osnabrück, WWV Amsterdam) and in exhibitions and museums (Centre Georges Pompidou Paris, Whitney Museum NY, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Musee d’art Moderne Montreal among others.) She cofounded the label APRIL, curating exhibitions and producing publications on CD and DVD. Her last research project Timecapes /B-Zone was shown in winter 2006/2006 at the KW Institut for Contemporary Art in Berlin, accompagnied by the book publication “B-Zone” (Edition Actar)
Simon Naveh
Dr. Naveh is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and the Security Studies Program, and the director of the Cummings Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies. He is also the head of Operational Theory Research Institute of the National Defense College, IDF.
Hans Nieswandt
1964 in Mannheim geboren 1972 nach Friedrichshafen am Bodensee verzogen dortselbst ab 1978 diverse Punk-Bands, Fanzines und DJ-Gehversuche 1983 erster bezahlter DJ-Gig in Ravensburg 1984 Abitur 1985 Studium der amerikanischen Literaturwissenschaft in Hamburg; freier Autor für „tango“, Bandaktivitäten. 1987 – 89 Filmredakteur des Stadtmagazins „tango“, zunehmendes DJ-Engagement 1990 – 1993 Redakteur des Kölner Musikmagazins „Spex“, maßlos überhandnehmende DJ-Aktivitäten. Ende 1991 eigene Kölner Clubnacht „Whirlpool“, Beginn einer anhaltenden Reiseaktivität als DJ, aber auch als Musiker, Remixer und Workshopper, u.a. für das Goethe-Institut, in z.T. exotische Gegenden: Brasilien, Mexico, Südafrika. 1992 Aufnahme der Musikproduktion von Whirlpool Productions. 1995 erstes Whirlpool-Album „Brian De Palma“ 1996 zweites Whirlpool-Album „Dense Music“ 1997 „From: Disco To: Disco“ Nummer 1 in Italien. Aufnahmen für drittes Album in Jamaika 1998 drittes WPP-Album „???“ erscheint. Aufnahmen für Solo-LP „Lazer Muzik“ 1999 „Lazer Muzik“ erscheint 2000 Aunahmen viertes WPP-Album 2001 „Lifechange“ erscheint. Erstes Buch wird geschrieben 2002 „plusminusacht – DJ Tage DJ Nächte“ erscheint. Hans Nieswandt lebt mit seiner Familie in Köln.
Carl Michael von Hausswolff and Thomas Nordanstad
Carl Michael von Hausswolff is an artist, a composer and curator living in Stockholm, Sweden. Thomas Nordanstad is a film maker and a curator living in Stockholm and Bangkok.
Battery Operated
Battery Operated is a collaboration of artists that have been producing sound, video and Internet projects since 2000. Their first project Chases Through Non-Place used music in public places as its source and since then they have researched and developed projects around the social uses of functional sound and video, from ‘Muzak’ to surveillance cameras. The latest Battery Operated project - S.P.I.R.A.W.L. (Sound Proofed Institute Researching Acoustic Weapons Logistics) is a documentary about the sonic landscape and the pioneering use of sound weapons within it. It can be found at – www.batteryoperated.net/spirawl
John Palmesino
Born in Lugano, Switzerland, 1970. Architect and urbanist. Co-founder of PALMESINO RÖNNSKOG Territorial Agency, Basel. Head of research at ETH Zurich, Studio Basel / Contemporary City Institute. ETH Studio Basel is a research platform for the investigation of the transformation patterns of the city of the 21st Century. Responsible for the research activities at the Institute, with Prof. Jacques Herzog and Prof. Pierre de Meuron. Project manager of the study “Switzerland – An Urban Portrait” (Birkhäuser, November 2005). Founding member of multiplicity, a research agency on territorial transformations. The Milan based firm deals with contemporary urbanism, representation of inhabited landscape transformation, visual arts and general culture. multiplicity is a research network of architects, urbanists, social scientists, photographers, filmakers and artists. Main projects include USE Uncertain states of Europe (Mutations), SOLID SEA (documenta11), Border Devices (Biennale di Venezia). Author of the new Masterplan for the Markermeer, The Netherlands, commisioned by the Dutch Ministry for Water Management and Traffic, RIZA Reijkswaaterstaat and the IABR International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam. Initiator and curator of the research project “Neutrality”, a multidisciplinary investigation in the territorial implications of the UN-policies and the self-organisation processes of the contemporary human landscapes. Curator of “Under Construction”, a series of dialogues about different notions of transformation in several disciplines and practices, in collaboration with the Kunsthalle Basel. Author of several territorial research studies, with particular attention to the transformations in the general European context and the Swiss urban structure in particular. His research focuses on the representation of self-organisation processes in the evolution of the contemporary urban condition. Co-author of USE Uncertain states of Europe, Skira: Milano, 2003 and of Lessico Postfordista, dizionario di idee della mutazione, Feltrinelli: Milano, 2001; a interdisciplinary book on the connections between knowledge, productive structures, culture and cities in the contemporary society.
Dan Perjovschi
Dan Perjovschi born 1961 in Sibiu Romania lives and works in Bucharest. He uses drawings as a material to create temporary monumental installations. Drawing is for Perjovschi a primary and decisive medium for political and social expression. Acting also as a journalism he is deeply involved in the social tissue of the society. His recent solo exhibition include The Room Drawinf at Tate Modern, On the Other Hand at Portikus Frankfurt and May First at Moderna Museet Stockholm(2006) or Naked Drawings at Ludwig Museum Koln (2005). He participate at group shows like Sao Paolo Biennial, The Vincent at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Normalization at Rooseum Malmo in 2006 or Istanbul Biennial, New Europe. The Culture of Mixing and Politics of Representation at Generali Foundation and I Still Believe in Miracles at ARC Musee dArt Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Perjovschi received George Maciunas Prize in 2004.
Jan Ritsema
Jan Ritsema (born in the Netherlands in 1945) has directed performances for a wide variety of Dutch and Belgian theatre companies - such as Toneelgroep Amsterdam, Het Werkteater, Het Nationale Toneel, Mug met de gouden Tand, tBarre Land, Maatschappij Discordia, Het Kaaitheater, and Dito Dito - ranging from the established repertory (Marlowe, Mishima, Koltes, Shakespeare, Heiner Mzller, Elfriede Jelinek, Rene Pollesch) to staged stories (James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Henry James, Rainer Maria Rilke) as well as performances devised in collaboration with composers, dancers, and artists. With the International Theatre Bookshop, which he founded in 1978, he has published over 300 books about theatre, dance and film. Since 1995 he has also been working as a dancer, and performed a solo Pour la fin du temps for the Kunsten Festival des Arts in Brussels. He danced in several of Meg Stuart's improvisational projects called Crash Landing; he has also performed dance-actions with Boris Charmatz, the duets Weak Dance Strong Questions (with Jonathan Burrows) and Blindspot (with Sandy Williams). Ritsema has a predilection for bulky, complex, intellectual material. His theatre productions follow the traces of thinking itself, which in all of its openness, uncertainty and infiniteness demands a consistent ongoing process. Rather than the illusion-producing machine of the theatre, it is the incarnate presentation of differentiated coherences and ideas that intrigues him. His experimental approach is similar to that of the French filmmaker Godard, a director to whom he feels strongly connected. In collaboration with the performer and music-theorist Bojana Cvejic, he weaves his way between the borders of representation and 'non-performance' in productions like TODAYulysses, Pipelines, a construction, and knowH2Ow. Since 2004 Ritsema has had a research and development grant from the Siemens Arts Program, investigating the possibilities and limitations of theatre/performance by interviewing thinkers who have strong reflections on the dispositive 'theatre' in today's society. These talks are due to be published. Ritsema teaches at different theatre schools for acting and directing in the Netherlands and Belgium, and at various summer academies throughout Europe. From 1990-1995 he was a professor at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. He has been a teacher at P.A.R.T.S., the contemporary dance school of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, since its foundation. In 2006, Ritsema will begin work on PerformingArtsForum (PAF), a residency program in an old convent near the French city of Reims: a place for experimenting with other ways of producing and developing performing-arts pieces, and for rethinking formation in the performing arts.
Irit Rogoff
Irit Rogoff is Professor of Art History/Visual Culture, Historical and Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College, London University. Her research interests include: Visual Culture; contemporary art and critical theory; post-colonialism and gender.
Willem de Rooij
De Rooij's recent exhibitions with Jeroen de Rijke include: Van Abbe Museum in Eindhoven, Artists Space in New York, Badischer Kunstverein in Karlsruhe, Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt am Main, Moscow Bienale (2005), BAK in Utrecht, Museum Ludwig in Budapest, Tate Modern in London, "Busan Biennale" (2004), Kunsthalle Zürich (solo), Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven (solo), Kiasma in Helsinki, Frankfurter Kunstverein in Frankfurt am Main (2003). He lives and works in Amsterdam and Berlin.
Susan Schuppli
Susan Schuppli is an artist and cultural theorist whose work explores the latent potential of machines to short-circuit normative understandings of media and its received social, cultural, and biological encodings. Working within the domains of video, sound, and interactive media several recent projects have examined the anxieties that arise when commonplace technologies are rendered strange again. Her artwork has been exhibited throughout Canada as well as in Australia, the UK, and USA. Another strand of her research has focused upon the articulation of Canadian "identities" within film and architecture. In 2005 she guest-edited a special edition of BlackFlash journal which brought together cultural practionners from across Canada to reflect upon the legacy of Expo 67 in Montreal. This project continues with a co-curatorial initiative (Christopher Lefler) exploring the contingency of this moment in Canadian architecture and its impact upon emergent notions of "national" identity. Her doctoral research is titled "Unnatural Selections: evolving media ontologies".
Nicolas Siepen
Nicolas Siepen, geboren 1966, ist Filmemacher, Theoretiker und Mitbegründer des Projekts b_books, das einen Buchladen, Verlag und eine Filmproduktion umfasst. Als Journalist hat er für Zeitungen wie Springerin, Texte zur Kunst, Maska, Frakcija, Phase Zwei, Jungle World, FAZ (Berliner Seiten), Autonomie artistique, Starship und Artfan gearbeitet und ist Mitherausgeber der Zeitschriften A.N.Y.P. und ASSEMBLY INTERNATIONAL. In den 90er Jahren war er Teil der Künstlergruppe KlasseZwei und der Band ZigarettenRauchen und an der Entwicklung von politisch-künstlerischen Projekten wie A-Clip, INNENSTADTaktionen und microStudio-surplus beteiligt. Seit sieben Jahren arbeitet er zusammen mit Tara Herbst an Filmprojekten und ist gerade, neben der verlegerischen Tätigkeit für b_books, mit der Fertigstellung der »Nouvelle Vague Soap« Le PingPong d’amour beschäftigt.
Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss
Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss [Dipl.Ing.Arch & M.ArchII] is an architect originating from Serbia educated at University of Belgrade and Harvard University. He is the founder of the NAO as well as a founding member of the School of Missing Studies and lives and works in New York City. His work has been presented at the Royal Institute of British Architects, London (1994), Harvard GSD [1995], Dokumenta of Architecture Denmark (Copenhagen, 1996), the Columbia School of Architecture (New York, 1999), the Whitney Museum in New York (Bit Streams, 2000, and IPO lectures, 2004), Mutations at Arc en Rêve (Bordeaux, France, 2001), the Gallery of Science and Technology at the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences (Belgrade, 2001), Cities on the Move at Secession (Vienna, 1997), Urban Drift (Berlin, 2002), the Max Protetch Gallery (New York, 2002), the Stroom (The Hague, 2003), Manifesta 4 (Frankfurt, 2003), 2nd Tirana Biennial (2003), Transformers Gallery (Berlin,2003), the Werkleitz Biennial (Halle/Leipzig, 2004), and Open Source Architecture (Graz, 2004). He is currently designing Stadium Culture for kuda.org: Center for Recreation and New Media in Novi Sad, and on a book of essays and projects to be published by Editions Solitude in 2006. He has taught research, design studios, seminars and workshops at Harvard University, Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, Pratt Institute, Parsons School of Design and Delft University.
Eyal Weizman
Eyal Weizman is an architect, writer and curator. Prior to being the founding director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, he was Professor of Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He studied architecture at the Architectural Association in London and completed his PhD at the London Consortium, Birkbeck College. His architectural projects include the rebuilding of the Ashdod Museum of Art, stage sets for the theatre, and several prizes in architectural competitions. Eyal has worked with a variety of NGOs and Human right groups in Israel/Palestine. The exhibition and the publication A Civilian Occupation, The Politics of Israeli Architecture he co-edited/curated was based on his human-rights research. These projects were banned by the Israeli Association of Architects, but later shown in New York, Berlin, Rotterdam, San Francisco, Malmoe, Tel Aviv and Ramallah. Eyal has taught, lectured and organised conferences in many institutions worldwide. His books include The Politics of Verticality [forthcoming with Verso Press], A Civilian Occupation, Territories 1,2 and 3, Yellow Rhythms and many articles in journals, magazines and books. Eyal is now a Contributing Editor for Domus Magazine (Milan) and for Cabinet Magazine (New York).
Ines Weizman
Ines Weizman is an architect and critic based in London. She taught design and architectural history and theory at the Architectural Association in London and at the Berlage Institute of Architecture in Rotterdam. She also taught politics at Goldsmiths College, London University. Her doctoral research, conducted at the Architectural Association, analysed the political and cultural transformations that have occurred in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) from the post-WWII period to the present. Ines published articles on the political and ideological spectacles enacted by Soviet-era architecture, on the ‘rewriting’ of urban historiography of former cities, on western planning attitudes in the process of reunification as well as on the lost archives in former East Germany.
The association APSOLUTNO
Shu Lea Cheang
Cheang, recognized internationally as one of the leading artists creating works that link physical and online spaces, has previously exhibited at two Whitney Biennials, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Taipei Biennale 2000, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; ICC Biennale 1997, InterCommunication Center [ICC], Tokyo, and created the Guggenheim Museum's first web based art project, entitled"Brandon." Her new project "BABY LOVE", the second part of The Locker Baby project following the installation "BABY PLAY" at ICC, will be shown at Taiwan National Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei from May 2006 after the exhibition at Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
Celine Condorelli
Celine Condorelli is an architect based in London. She is Senior Lecturer at London Metropolitan University and both her teaching and practice are concerned with architecture as interface, engaging with complex situations and combinations of spatial, urban, political and social structures. This concern has been tested with institutions working with local government as in Space Syntax, UCL in 2002, or organisations dealing with promoting architecture to the general public as in London Open House and Architectural Dialogue 2001/2002, and extensively through art and architecture collaborations as in currently theatre pieces (Tate Triennial of British Art 03/06 to 05/06) and Alterity Display (Lawrence O’Hana gallery, london, 2004). Recent works include developing Support Structure, an RSA Art for Architecture and Arts Council England project with Artist-Curator Gavin Wade, through several exhibitions including at Chisenhale Gallery, London, 2003, and The Economist, London, 2004, as well as taxi_onomy with artist Beatrice Gibson, supported by Arts Council England, the British Council and V2 Rotterdam.
Dietmar Dath
Dietmar Dath, geboren 1970, veröffentlicht seit 1990 journalistische und literarische, satirische und essayistische Texte in in- und ausländischen Zeitungen und Zeitschriften. Das Themenspektrum seiner Arbeiten in u.a. KONKRET, SPEX, TESTCARD, JUNGLE WORLD, DE:BUG, TEXT UND KUNST, MEDIAMATIC (Niederlande), GDI-IMPULS (Schweiz) und FRIEZE (Großbritannien) reicht von politischen Aspekten der Jugend- und Popkultur (Heavy Metal, Drogenpolitik, Techno, phantastisches Kino) über Wissenschaftskritik (Nanotechnik, Computerwissenschaften, Bio- und Reproduktionstechnologien) bis zu einer Reihe von Texten über bedeutende, aber weithin zu wenig bekannte Gestalten der Geistes- und Kulturgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts (wie der Architekt R. Buckminster Fuller, der Logiker und Metamathematiker Gotthard Günther, der Komponist George Antheil, die Romanautorin Ayn Rand...). Dath übersetzt regelmäßig Artikel, Romane, Abhandlungen und theoretische Werke aus dem Englischen ins Deutsche (darunter Bücher des britischen Musiktheoretikers und Journalisten Kodwo Eshun, des New Yorker Filmemachers Buddy Giovinazzo und des texanischen Horrorschriftstellers Joe R. Lansdale). Auch hier interessieren ihn vor allem Texte, die an der Schnittstelle zwischen den »zwei Kulturen«, d.h. der wissenschaftlich-technischen und der künstlerisch-literarischen Welt angesiedelt sind. Zahlreiche Vorträge im In- und Ausland (vom Antwerpener Filmzentrum »El Dorado« über die Berliner Volksbühne bis zur evangelischen Akademie Iserlohn) über Themen zwischen Spekulation und (gesellschaftlicher) Wirklichkeit. Experimentelle und phantastische (Horror, Science-Fiction) Texte in literarischen Anthologien, von Undergroundverlagen bis zur Heyne-SF-Anthologienreihe. Von 1998 bis 2000 war er Chefredakteur der traditionsreichen Zeitschrift für Popkultur SPEX. Dath hat die Romane Cordula killt Dich (1995), Die Ehre des Rudels (1996), Am blinden Ufer (2000), Skye Boat Song (2000), Phonon oder Staat ohne Namen (2001) und Schwester Mitternacht (mit Barbara Kirchner, 2002) veröffentlicht. Seit 2001 ist Dietmar Dath Redakteur der FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG.
Thomas Plischke + Kattrin Deufert
deufert + plischke gründeten 2001 die frankfurter küche. In dieser arbeiten sie als Künstlerzwilling "deufert + plischke" an verschiedenen Theaterprojekten, Dia- und Video-Installationen, sowie Text- und Video-Publikationen. Von 2001 bis 2006 entstanden ihre Theaterstücke "inexhaustible (RW)" (2003), "Sofia SP – science is fiction" (2004), "As if (it was beautiful)" (2004) sowie die Trilogie "Directories" (2003-6). deufert + plischke unterrichten regelmäßig Komposition und Ästhetik an internationalen Kunstakademien und sind im Sommer 2006 Gastprofessoren an der Universität Hamburg im Rahmen der Performance Studies. www.deufert-plischke.com
Azza El-Hassan
Azza el Hassan is an award winner independent Documentary Producer/ Director. Azza holds an MA in Television Documentary, GoldSmith College, University of London (1995) and a BA in Film and Television studies and Sociology from Glasgow University, Scotland (1994). Her films have been produced and shown by various national and international TV networks like BBC (Britain) , ARTE (France & Germany) , YLE (Finland), ARD (Germany) and many others. In addition, her films have been exhibited world wide in documentary film festivals such as Yamagata (Japan), IDFA (Holland), Marsellia (France) and many others. She is the winner of the Grierson Award Best Newcomer (The British Documentaries Awards, BBC) 2002. Other awards include winner of the Jury Especial Award, Arab Screen Independent Film Festival/ Documentary and Short Films. Al-Jazera Channel, Qatar 2001. She has also written a collection of articles in art magazines like Arc electronica and Fram work. Her films include: Kings & Extras / British title Exposed & Lost (2004), 62 minutes, Documentary, Digital Beta. 3 cm Less (2003), 6o minutes, Documentary, Digital Beta. News Time (2002), 50 minutes, Documentary, Digital Beta. Sinbad is She (1999), 30 minutes, documentary, DVcam. A Title Deed from Moses (1998), 30 minutes, documentary, DVcam. Arab Women Speak Out(1996), 30 minutes, documentary DVcam. Video art: In Search of a Death Fortold (2004), 15 minutes, Digital Beta. The Place (2000), 6 minutes, SP Betacam.
International Festival
International Festival, Tor Lindstrand and Mårten Spångberg, work together since several years and have with their radical projects in performance and architecture developed a strong reputation. Their work focus on conventions and frames as well as on the production of specific inter human relations related to performance and architecture.
Anselm Franke
Anselm Franke works as curator and critic, he lives in Berlin. In the late nineties Franke has worked as an assistant director and producer for various theatre and film projects. For directors such as Christoph Schlingensief he realised projects for institutions like the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg Platz Berlin, the Berlin Biennale, the Steirischer Herbst, the Schauspielhaus Hamburg and various film and TV projects for Alexander Kluge. Together with Hannah Hurtzig he developed new formats of thematic installations and public congresses for the Hamburg Kammerspiele ("Filiale für Erinnerung auf Zeit" www.filialefuererinnerung.de, 2001) and the Volksbühne in Berlin (International Mobile Academy, The Refugee: Services to Undesirables, 2002). Since 2001 he is a curator at Berlin's KW Institute for Contemporary Art (www.kw-berlin.de) where he co-organised events like the congress "Suchbilder" (www.suchbilder.de) and realised exhibitions such as the series "Image Archives" (among others with Harun Farocki, Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Christoph Keller) and "Productions" (with Bureau d'Etudes, Christoph Schäfer, Scheppe-Böhm-Pizzaroni, Gianni Motti, Tara Herbst/Veronika Gerhardt/Jochen Heilek and Com&Com) among various other projects and solo-exhibitions. In 2002 and 2003 Franke has been a lecturer on contemporary artistic practices at the Freie Universität Berlin, together with Sandra Umathum. In 2002 - 2004 Franke has been a curator of ‚ErsatzStadt', an initiative of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes in cooperation with the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg Platz (together with Hannah Hurtzig, Jochen Becker, Stephan Lanz; www.ersatzmedia.info), where he curated and co-curated projects like the "ErsatzRadio" (June 2003) a series of dialogues on "Architecture as Strategic Weapons" within the project "KIOSK/ KNOCK for useful knowlegde" and the congress "Total Space - the USA Patriot Act" (July 2003). In January 2003 he curated "Production Unit" at Arte Fiera, Bologna, including artists such as Thomas Demand, Tacita Dean, Monica Bonvicini, among others. He co-curated the Festival "Art & Crime" (together with Sylvia Sasse and Stefanie Wenner) for the opening of the new Hebbel am Ufer theatre in Berlin (www.kuv.dpklinik.de, October 2003). Franke curated the exhibition "Territories" at KW Berlin (July 2003), in collaboration with Eyal Weizman, Rafi Segal and Stefano Boeri. Among smaller presentations and seminars, the exhibition travelled in different versions to the Witte de With center for contemporary art in Rotterdam (www.wdw.nl/ENG/text/projects/territories/, 2003) and the Malmö Konsthall (www.konsthall.malmo.se) and will be shown at Index, Stockholm and Bezalel Tel Aviv in September 2004. May 2004 he organised the exhibition "An uneven exchange of power" by Armin Linke at New York's Storefront for Art and Architecture (www.storefrontnews.org/archives/2004_06_02_index.html). Anselm Franke has widely lectured at institutions such as the IUAV Venice, the Bezalel Academy Tel Aviv, the University of the Witswaterand, Johannesburg, Fondazione Adriano Olivetti, Rome, the Bauhaus Dessau, The House of the World Cultures, Berlin, among others.
Mansur Jacoubi
Mansūr Jacoubi lives in Beirut and works with a number of new media, art, and research initiatives. He was co-director of the online video platform for Freespeech TV, a founding member of the Indymedia network, and served as board member of Working Films. Most recently he has been developing a collaborative community website for Palestine refugees as well as an online edition for Zawaya, a pan-Arab culture, politics, and arts magazine. He is also currently a fellow in the Waag-Sarai Exchange, and working towards establishing a networked center for new media and urban practices in Beirut.
Christof Kurzmann
christof kurzmann, born 1963 in vienna/austria, presently lives in berlin/germany. musician between electropop, improvisation and "new music". sometimes soloist, he prefers to be part of an collective or an working group. concerts in all continents with the exception of australia. organizer of various events in the music- and media-genre. labelowner of the small independent label "charhizma" (www.charhizma.com). conscient objector of military- and civil-service, he still is politicly active and/or interested. he likes to travel, go to the cinemas and concerts, likes to read, even emails to charhizma@charhizma.com (he doesn´t reply all the time).
Angela Melitopoulos
Angela Melitopoulos, artist/researcher in the time based arts, realized experimental single-channel-tapes, video installations, videoessays, documentaries and sound pieces. Her work focuses on migration/mobilty, memory and narration. She conceives media art pieces in that video technology as a time based medium revealing mnemonic and micro-political processes in documentation. She studied fine arts at the Art Academy Düsseldorf with Nam June Paik. Angela Melitopoulos is collaborating in political networks in Paris, Italy, Turkey and Germany and teaches in academic institutions such as the Media Art Academy in Cologne, in the University of Potsdam or the Middle East Technology University in Ankara. She has published theoretical texts and articles in Europe, especially in collaboration with the sociologist and philosopher Maurizio Lazzarato. From 1985 her work has bee awarded and shown in international video and film festival (such as Berlinale, Film and Videofestival of Locarno, Filmfestival Rotterdam, EMAF Osnabrück, WWV Amsterdam) and in exhibitions and museums (Centre Georges Pompidou Paris, Whitney Museum NY, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Musee d’art Moderne Montreal among others.) She cofounded the label APRIL, curating exhibitions and producing publications on CD and DVD. Her last research project Timecapes /B-Zone was shown in winter 2006/2006 at the KW Institut for Contemporary Art in Berlin, accompagnied by the book publication “B-Zone” (Edition Actar)
Simon Naveh
Dr. Naveh is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and the Security Studies Program, and the director of the Cummings Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies. He is also the head of Operational Theory Research Institute of the National Defense College, IDF.
Hans Nieswandt
1964 in Mannheim geboren 1972 nach Friedrichshafen am Bodensee verzogen dortselbst ab 1978 diverse Punk-Bands, Fanzines und DJ-Gehversuche 1983 erster bezahlter DJ-Gig in Ravensburg 1984 Abitur 1985 Studium der amerikanischen Literaturwissenschaft in Hamburg; freier Autor für „tango“, Bandaktivitäten. 1987 – 89 Filmredakteur des Stadtmagazins „tango“, zunehmendes DJ-Engagement 1990 – 1993 Redakteur des Kölner Musikmagazins „Spex“, maßlos überhandnehmende DJ-Aktivitäten. Ende 1991 eigene Kölner Clubnacht „Whirlpool“, Beginn einer anhaltenden Reiseaktivität als DJ, aber auch als Musiker, Remixer und Workshopper, u.a. für das Goethe-Institut, in z.T. exotische Gegenden: Brasilien, Mexico, Südafrika. 1992 Aufnahme der Musikproduktion von Whirlpool Productions. 1995 erstes Whirlpool-Album „Brian De Palma“ 1996 zweites Whirlpool-Album „Dense Music“ 1997 „From: Disco To: Disco“ Nummer 1 in Italien. Aufnahmen für drittes Album in Jamaika 1998 drittes WPP-Album „???“ erscheint. Aufnahmen für Solo-LP „Lazer Muzik“ 1999 „Lazer Muzik“ erscheint 2000 Aunahmen viertes WPP-Album 2001 „Lifechange“ erscheint. Erstes Buch wird geschrieben 2002 „plusminusacht – DJ Tage DJ Nächte“ erscheint. Hans Nieswandt lebt mit seiner Familie in Köln.
Carl Michael von Hausswolff and Thomas Nordanstad
Carl Michael von Hausswolff is an artist, a composer and curator living in Stockholm, Sweden. Thomas Nordanstad is a film maker and a curator living in Stockholm and Bangkok.
Battery Operated
Battery Operated is a collaboration of artists that have been producing sound, video and Internet projects since 2000. Their first project Chases Through Non-Place used music in public places as its source and since then they have researched and developed projects around the social uses of functional sound and video, from ‘Muzak’ to surveillance cameras. The latest Battery Operated project - S.P.I.R.A.W.L. (Sound Proofed Institute Researching Acoustic Weapons Logistics) is a documentary about the sonic landscape and the pioneering use of sound weapons within it. It can be found at – www.batteryoperated.net/spirawl
John Palmesino
Born in Lugano, Switzerland, 1970. Architect and urbanist. Co-founder of PALMESINO RÖNNSKOG Territorial Agency, Basel. Head of research at ETH Zurich, Studio Basel / Contemporary City Institute. ETH Studio Basel is a research platform for the investigation of the transformation patterns of the city of the 21st Century. Responsible for the research activities at the Institute, with Prof. Jacques Herzog and Prof. Pierre de Meuron. Project manager of the study “Switzerland – An Urban Portrait” (Birkhäuser, November 2005). Founding member of multiplicity, a research agency on territorial transformations. The Milan based firm deals with contemporary urbanism, representation of inhabited landscape transformation, visual arts and general culture. multiplicity is a research network of architects, urbanists, social scientists, photographers, filmakers and artists. Main projects include USE Uncertain states of Europe (Mutations), SOLID SEA (documenta11), Border Devices (Biennale di Venezia). Author of the new Masterplan for the Markermeer, The Netherlands, commisioned by the Dutch Ministry for Water Management and Traffic, RIZA Reijkswaaterstaat and the IABR International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam. Initiator and curator of the research project “Neutrality”, a multidisciplinary investigation in the territorial implications of the UN-policies and the self-organisation processes of the contemporary human landscapes. Curator of “Under Construction”, a series of dialogues about different notions of transformation in several disciplines and practices, in collaboration with the Kunsthalle Basel. Author of several territorial research studies, with particular attention to the transformations in the general European context and the Swiss urban structure in particular. His research focuses on the representation of self-organisation processes in the evolution of the contemporary urban condition. Co-author of USE Uncertain states of Europe, Skira: Milano, 2003 and of Lessico Postfordista, dizionario di idee della mutazione, Feltrinelli: Milano, 2001; a interdisciplinary book on the connections between knowledge, productive structures, culture and cities in the contemporary society.
Dan Perjovschi
Dan Perjovschi born 1961 in Sibiu Romania lives and works in Bucharest. He uses drawings as a material to create temporary monumental installations. Drawing is for Perjovschi a primary and decisive medium for political and social expression. Acting also as a journalism he is deeply involved in the social tissue of the society. His recent solo exhibition include The Room Drawinf at Tate Modern, On the Other Hand at Portikus Frankfurt and May First at Moderna Museet Stockholm(2006) or Naked Drawings at Ludwig Museum Koln (2005). He participate at group shows like Sao Paolo Biennial, The Vincent at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Normalization at Rooseum Malmo in 2006 or Istanbul Biennial, New Europe. The Culture of Mixing and Politics of Representation at Generali Foundation and I Still Believe in Miracles at ARC Musee dArt Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Perjovschi received George Maciunas Prize in 2004.
Jan Ritsema
Jan Ritsema (born in the Netherlands in 1945) has directed performances for a wide variety of Dutch and Belgian theatre companies - such as Toneelgroep Amsterdam, Het Werkteater, Het Nationale Toneel, Mug met de gouden Tand, tBarre Land, Maatschappij Discordia, Het Kaaitheater, and Dito Dito - ranging from the established repertory (Marlowe, Mishima, Koltes, Shakespeare, Heiner Mzller, Elfriede Jelinek, Rene Pollesch) to staged stories (James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Henry James, Rainer Maria Rilke) as well as performances devised in collaboration with composers, dancers, and artists. With the International Theatre Bookshop, which he founded in 1978, he has published over 300 books about theatre, dance and film. Since 1995 he has also been working as a dancer, and performed a solo Pour la fin du temps for the Kunsten Festival des Arts in Brussels. He danced in several of Meg Stuart's improvisational projects called Crash Landing; he has also performed dance-actions with Boris Charmatz, the duets Weak Dance Strong Questions (with Jonathan Burrows) and Blindspot (with Sandy Williams). Ritsema has a predilection for bulky, complex, intellectual material. His theatre productions follow the traces of thinking itself, which in all of its openness, uncertainty and infiniteness demands a consistent ongoing process. Rather than the illusion-producing machine of the theatre, it is the incarnate presentation of differentiated coherences and ideas that intrigues him. His experimental approach is similar to that of the French filmmaker Godard, a director to whom he feels strongly connected. In collaboration with the performer and music-theorist Bojana Cvejic, he weaves his way between the borders of representation and 'non-performance' in productions like TODAYulysses, Pipelines, a construction, and knowH2Ow. Since 2004 Ritsema has had a research and development grant from the Siemens Arts Program, investigating the possibilities and limitations of theatre/performance by interviewing thinkers who have strong reflections on the dispositive 'theatre' in today's society. These talks are due to be published. Ritsema teaches at different theatre schools for acting and directing in the Netherlands and Belgium, and at various summer academies throughout Europe. From 1990-1995 he was a professor at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. He has been a teacher at P.A.R.T.S., the contemporary dance school of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, since its foundation. In 2006, Ritsema will begin work on PerformingArtsForum (PAF), a residency program in an old convent near the French city of Reims: a place for experimenting with other ways of producing and developing performing-arts pieces, and for rethinking formation in the performing arts.
Irit Rogoff
Irit Rogoff is Professor of Art History/Visual Culture, Historical and Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College, London University. Her research interests include: Visual Culture; contemporary art and critical theory; post-colonialism and gender.
Willem de Rooij
De Rooij's recent exhibitions with Jeroen de Rijke include: Van Abbe Museum in Eindhoven, Artists Space in New York, Badischer Kunstverein in Karlsruhe, Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt am Main, Moscow Bienale (2005), BAK in Utrecht, Museum Ludwig in Budapest, Tate Modern in London, "Busan Biennale" (2004), Kunsthalle Zürich (solo), Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven (solo), Kiasma in Helsinki, Frankfurter Kunstverein in Frankfurt am Main (2003). He lives and works in Amsterdam and Berlin.
Susan Schuppli
Susan Schuppli is an artist and cultural theorist whose work explores the latent potential of machines to short-circuit normative understandings of media and its received social, cultural, and biological encodings. Working within the domains of video, sound, and interactive media several recent projects have examined the anxieties that arise when commonplace technologies are rendered strange again. Her artwork has been exhibited throughout Canada as well as in Australia, the UK, and USA. Another strand of her research has focused upon the articulation of Canadian "identities" within film and architecture. In 2005 she guest-edited a special edition of BlackFlash journal which brought together cultural practionners from across Canada to reflect upon the legacy of Expo 67 in Montreal. This project continues with a co-curatorial initiative (Christopher Lefler) exploring the contingency of this moment in Canadian architecture and its impact upon emergent notions of "national" identity. Her doctoral research is titled "Unnatural Selections: evolving media ontologies".
Nicolas Siepen
Nicolas Siepen, geboren 1966, ist Filmemacher, Theoretiker und Mitbegründer des Projekts b_books, das einen Buchladen, Verlag und eine Filmproduktion umfasst. Als Journalist hat er für Zeitungen wie Springerin, Texte zur Kunst, Maska, Frakcija, Phase Zwei, Jungle World, FAZ (Berliner Seiten), Autonomie artistique, Starship und Artfan gearbeitet und ist Mitherausgeber der Zeitschriften A.N.Y.P. und ASSEMBLY INTERNATIONAL. In den 90er Jahren war er Teil der Künstlergruppe KlasseZwei und der Band ZigarettenRauchen und an der Entwicklung von politisch-künstlerischen Projekten wie A-Clip, INNENSTADTaktionen und microStudio-surplus beteiligt. Seit sieben Jahren arbeitet er zusammen mit Tara Herbst an Filmprojekten und ist gerade, neben der verlegerischen Tätigkeit für b_books, mit der Fertigstellung der »Nouvelle Vague Soap« Le PingPong d’amour beschäftigt.
Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss
Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss [Dipl.Ing.Arch & M.ArchII] is an architect originating from Serbia educated at University of Belgrade and Harvard University. He is the founder of the NAO as well as a founding member of the School of Missing Studies and lives and works in New York City. His work has been presented at the Royal Institute of British Architects, London (1994), Harvard GSD [1995], Dokumenta of Architecture Denmark (Copenhagen, 1996), the Columbia School of Architecture (New York, 1999), the Whitney Museum in New York (Bit Streams, 2000, and IPO lectures, 2004), Mutations at Arc en Rêve (Bordeaux, France, 2001), the Gallery of Science and Technology at the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences (Belgrade, 2001), Cities on the Move at Secession (Vienna, 1997), Urban Drift (Berlin, 2002), the Max Protetch Gallery (New York, 2002), the Stroom (The Hague, 2003), Manifesta 4 (Frankfurt, 2003), 2nd Tirana Biennial (2003), Transformers Gallery (Berlin,2003), the Werkleitz Biennial (Halle/Leipzig, 2004), and Open Source Architecture (Graz, 2004). He is currently designing Stadium Culture for kuda.org: Center for Recreation and New Media in Novi Sad, and on a book of essays and projects to be published by Editions Solitude in 2006. He has taught research, design studios, seminars and workshops at Harvard University, Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, Pratt Institute, Parsons School of Design and Delft University.
Eyal Weizman
Eyal Weizman is an architect, writer and curator. Prior to being the founding director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, he was Professor of Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He studied architecture at the Architectural Association in London and completed his PhD at the London Consortium, Birkbeck College. His architectural projects include the rebuilding of the Ashdod Museum of Art, stage sets for the theatre, and several prizes in architectural competitions. Eyal has worked with a variety of NGOs and Human right groups in Israel/Palestine. The exhibition and the publication A Civilian Occupation, The Politics of Israeli Architecture he co-edited/curated was based on his human-rights research. These projects were banned by the Israeli Association of Architects, but later shown in New York, Berlin, Rotterdam, San Francisco, Malmoe, Tel Aviv and Ramallah. Eyal has taught, lectured and organised conferences in many institutions worldwide. His books include The Politics of Verticality [forthcoming with Verso Press], A Civilian Occupation, Territories 1,2 and 3, Yellow Rhythms and many articles in journals, magazines and books. Eyal is now a Contributing Editor for Domus Magazine (Milan) and for Cabinet Magazine (New York).
Ines Weizman
Ines Weizman is an architect and critic based in London. She taught design and architectural history and theory at the Architectural Association in London and at the Berlage Institute of Architecture in Rotterdam. She also taught politics at Goldsmiths College, London University. Her doctoral research, conducted at the Architectural Association, analysed the political and cultural transformations that have occurred in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) from the post-WWII period to the present. Ines published articles on the political and ideological spectacles enacted by Soviet-era architecture, on the ‘rewriting’ of urban historiography of former cities, on western planning attitudes in the process of reunification as well as on the lost archives in former East Germany.
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