Summit contributors

2001 - 2003 Silver Server GmbH: Vienna, Austria. DNS Administrator
2003 - 2005 Mit Loidl oder Co GmbH: Graz, Austria. Technical support and constructing for projects of art and installation in Vienna and Graz + Graz2003 Kultur Hauptstadt
2003 - 2004 Mak ( Museum fuer Angewante Kunst ), Installation and exposition technician
2004 - 2006 verhuetungsmuseum, Vienna, Austria. Interactive video library and installation

I actively work in different kind of projects, server installations, network management and VoIP telephony together with the company and organization partners.

Adnan Yildiz (b.1978) is an Istanbul based artist and curator. He studied Psychology (B.A.), and Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design (MFA). Yıldız has been doing a residency (2006-07) at Curatorlab (research based curatorial residency program) this year, traveling around Stockholm, Paris, Berlin, and Istanbul and working in collaboration with IASPIS. He is granted by S.I. (Sweedish Institute). Starting as an artist, he has shown his work in different countries like Italy, Sweden, Germany and Denmark. Recently, he works as a curator focusing on the levels of curatibility, survival strategies and "mobile identities" in the context of contemporary art. Some of his previous projects are "alice vs. Alice", "Ittihad Sigorta Exhibition", "Copykiller" and "i don't know what else to do with myself!" He was one of the participants of the 12nd European Young Artists Biennial (2005) as an artist, and he also participated to the 4th Berlin Biennial (bb4) as a curator ("Fast Forward / Young Curator Workshop"). He is the co-editor of Muhtelif, Istanbul based contemporary art publication. In 2007, he collaborated with Christian Hillesoe for their project shown in the "Homecoming" exhibition (Vendsyssel Kunstmuseum, Hjorring) and he curated "Endless Possibilities" showing Marcel van Eeden and Gökçen Cabadan (Kasa Galeri/Istanbul).

Adrian Rifkin is Professor of Visual Culture at Middlesex University and formerly Professor of Fine Art at the University of Leeds, Adrian is the author of Street Noises - Parisian Pleasure 1900 - 1940(1993) and Ingres then, and now (2000).

- Research director, Korean Solidarity against Precarious Work (South Korea)
- Guest researcher, European Trade Union Institute (Brussels)

My artist-organiser practice involves working in variable roles of initiator, participant, author and curator, according to different collaborative and cross-disciplinary projects. Recently, these roles have operated inbetween the fields of media or environmental activism and socially-engaged arts; where I like to engage in the process with a devised workshop, situation, or performative event.

As a writer and practioner, I am currently interested in exploring: notions of Ernst Bloch’s Not-Yet-Become, hybrid host-guest relationships , material-virtual public spaces, Bohmian dialogue, the bare-bone folkloric story model, mapping personal mythologies, social identity politics, Open Source Culture, and peer production/distribution frameworks.

Kunsthistorikerin und Kunstvermittlerin. 1999-2003 Kunstvermittlung "Generali Foundation Wien" (http://foundation.generali.at), 2001-2003 Lehre, Schulentwicklung und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit "wiener kunst schule" (http://www.kunstschule.at), 2003-2005 Kommunikation und Projektbetreuung Kunstdokumentationszentrum "basis wien" (http://www.basis-wien.at). Seit Anfang 2007 Bibliothek "Kunsthalle Wien" (http://www.kunsthallewien.at). Ab Juni 2007: Kunstvermittlerin auf der "documenta 12" (http://www.documenta.de)

Institutionenarbeit für Kunstausbildungen. Lehraufträge zu kunsthistorischen Themen und Begriffsfragen zeitgenössischer Kunst. Aktuelle Forschungsfrage: „Konzepte von Audio-Visualität in den Arbeiten von Renate Kowanz-Kocer“.

Alejandro Duque (colombia 1970)
Artist working in the so called "new" technologies and art field. Since year 2004 Ph.D candidate at EGS (www.egs.edu). My free/libre time is spent on striving to interface place, location and trajectory across networks (pref. in a south to east axis). My dissertation topic strives to become a rough guideline to the mindset behind smuggling goods and ideas.
http://www.egs.edu

ALESSANDRO PETTI is graduated in Architecture with a thesis entitled The Venice Biennale: the exposition as a metaphor of city and society. He had been invited by Massimiliano Fuksas to be part of the Orientation Board of the IX Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2001 and later by Francesco Bonami to represent with Sandi Hilal The Palestinian Pavilion for the Art Venice Biennale in 2003. In 2006 he obtained the title of research doctorate in Urbanism under the supervision of Giorgio Agamben at the IUAV University of Venice. From 2001 to 2005 he has been teaching assistant in Visual Arts and Urban Studies. He’s a co-curator of different research projects shown internationally: Stateless Nation and Arab City Project (with Sandi Hilal), Border devices and Uncertain States of Europe (with multiplicity), Venice Utopia Seminar (with Stefano Boeri and Hans Ulrich Obrist). His projects have been published in national and international newspapers and magazines: the New York Times, Il Manifesto, Al Ayyam, Al- Quds, Art Forum, Domus, Urbanistica and Archis. His PhD research on contemporary urban condition and security has been recently published in a book entitled Archipelagos and Enclaves. The Architecture of the Contemporary Spatial Order, Bruno Mondadori 2007. Forthcoming publication “Dubai Offshore Urbanism” in Heterotopia and the City (Routledge 2007).

Project
Stateless Nation is a long term research project and an exhibition on the frontiers of citizenship. Occupied Palestinian Territories are the place where to investigate and to observe the new relations between territory, State and populations, and to reflect on the new meanings and implications on the physical and social space. SN has been shown in: European Parliament, Bruxelles 2007, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig 2006, DePaul University Art Museum, Chicago 2005, La Biennale del Paessaggio Mediterraneo, Pescara 2005, Museolaboratorio, città Sant’Angelo 2005, L'espace photographique Arthur Batut, Laburguiere 2005, Birzeit University, Berzeit 2004, Bethlehem Peace Center, Bethlehem 2004, Umm El Fahem Gallery 2004, Officina Giovani, Prato 2003, 50th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale, Venice 2003

Mi nombre es Amarela Varela, trabajo con la asociación para la libre circulación de las personas "Cornellà Sin Fronteras", que es miembro de la Asamblea por la Regularización sin Condiciones, trabajamos por la derogación de las leyes que nos extranjerízan, demandamos a Europa papeles y derechos para todos. Lo hacemos a través de prácticas de desobediencia civil.

Yo, la verdad, por ahora, más que activista del movimiento estoy escribiendo mi tesis doctoral sobre él. Un relato de 10 años de movimiento que explicará las demandas, las prácticas, las alianzas y los cambios que la acción política colectiva de los migrantes en Barcelona ha protagonizado de 1996 a la fecha.

is a researcher based in melbourne, australia. she has been examining the intersections between aesthetics and activism, specifically german activist groups that use aesthetic techniques as a means of articulating their dissent. she is also involved in the future archive project, and works with performance, installation and radio.

Angela Melitopoulos, artist in the time-based arts, realized experimental single-channel tapes, video installations, video-essays, documentaries and sound pieces. Her work focuses on migration/mobility, memory and narration.

Anselm Franke is a curator and writer based in Antwerp and Berlin. He is currently the Artistic Director of Extra City Center for Contemporary Art in Antwerp. Recent projects include Clinic: A Pathology of Gestures at Hebbel Am Ufer, Berlin, November 2006, curated with Hila Peleg and No Matter How Bright the Light, the Crossing Occurs at Night at KW Berlin, September 2006, with Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Ines Schaber and Judith Hopf. He was the curator of KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin until 2006, where he curated exhibitions such as Territories. Islands, Camps and Other States of Utopia (2003); Image Archives (2001/2002); The Imaginary Number (2005, together with Hila Peleg) and B-Zone – Becoming Europe and Beyond. He has edited and published publications with Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König and others and is a contributor to magazines such as Parkett, Cabinet Magazine, Piktogram, Domus and ARCHIS. Anselm Franke is currently a PhD candidate in Visual Cultures/Center for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths College London.

artist

Student at Goldsmiths, London.

*1968 Wien. Lebt in Berlin / Video, Installationen / Herausgeberin von Zeitschriften, darunter Artfan, Wien und Starship, Berlin / singt bei der Band "Zigaretten Rauchen", Organisation von Ausstellungen und Konferenzen

Architect and writer, PhD on Philosophy, Nanterre Paris X, assistant professor in T.A.M. (Volos School of Architecture, University of Thessaly, Greece), co-curator for the Greek Pavillion, Venice Biennale 2004, lectures in Massachussets Institute of Technology (MIT), Instituto Universitario de Architetura de Venezia (IUAV), Architectural Association, London (AA), University of Cyprous Program of Architecture.

Armin Medosch is a writer, artist and curator. From 1996 to 2002 he was
co-editor-in-chief of the online magazine Telepolis (http://www.telepolis.de). He has published, edited and contributed as a writer to many publications, including "Netzpiraten" (2001) and "Freie Netze" (2003). His latest work comprises concept and co-curation of the exhibition WAVES (2006), the action research project Commons | Tales | Rules with Kingdom of Piracy (http://kop.kein.org) and an ongoing research project about creative free and open source software developers (http://theoriebild.ung.at/).

is an artist living and working in mumbai.

Ava Caradonna - IUSW activist and member. Ava is an activist with the International Union of Sex Workers, a branch of the GMB UK specifically established for workers in the sex industry and open to all who identify as sex workers to join. Recently she has helped to establish the x:talk project - free English classes for migrant sex workers and has been active in critiquing current anti-trafficking campaigns and policies in the UK and at a European level.

Professor, Departments of Sociology and Law & Society
University of California, Santa Barbara
Co-host, No Alibis, KCSB 91.9 FM Santa Barbara

Born 1976 in Tehran/ Iran.
Work in Theatre since 1995.
Some of my Theatre works as director:
Sleepy noon, Tehran, 2001
The Seagull, Tehran, 2002
Nothing Will Ever Happen Here, News from Tehran
KunstenFESTIVALdesArts, Brussels, 2004
Ferdoasi, Saddam Hussein and the Ants’ March in the Empty City, Tehran Fajr Theatre Festival, 2005
The Moments before the Tragedy, Tehran, 2005
I also work in film productions.

Project Bordergames: a group of educators, 3D specialists and creatives working with young berlin migrants on a computergame which represents their own living space

% years in Britain as Sculptor/Performer/ Installation artist.

Graduate of Camberwell College.

Exhibited in 'When In Rome' touring exhibitions concerning Race, Place and Identity.

bankleer is karin kasböck and christoph leitner. using both documentary and fictional techniques we produce performances and videoinstallations. through contextualized artistic interventions, we try to create an awareness of the growing influence of economic processes on public life. we have consistently worked the parallel between economic, political and media structures and physical games as a way to engage the 'body' in social critique. we integrate humor and empathy into the often heavy-handed and conceptually handicapped discourse of political art.

Theatre director and art theorist, founding member of the TKH Journal and TKH theoretical-artistic platform. Works and lives in Belgrade.

Living and working in Paris. Co-founder of the project Contre-conference, an informal initiative and discussion forum at the crossing of art, technologies and politics. She was an invited artist at Agglo-situations of collective invention, a research program in network in the fields of art, education, and technologies and Atelier d'Architecture Autogérée, a project and space north Paris, for research in urbanism and self-architecture, in 2005-2006.

Beatrice Gibson is an artist/researcher based in London. Her practice revolves around the politics and poetics of everyday sites and space and is primarily concerned with questions of appropriation, mediation and intervention within and through the territory of the urban. She has implemented a number of online projects such as 'Gai Security' (2003) commissioned by Rhizome, and 'Human Capital Software Solutions' (2004) funded by the Daniel Langlois Foundation and currently works between art and architecture. Recent projects include taxi_onomy (2005-ongoing) an art architecture collaboration with architect Celine Condorelli, supported by Arts Council England, British Council, and V2 lab Rotterdam and 'if the route:' The Great learning [A Taxi Opera], in collaboration with musician and composer Jamie McCarthy, partnered by ResonanceFm, Studio Voltaire, London and funded by Arts Council England.

Gibson's phd research is entitled Social Architectures: Aurality and Public Space and examines the development of varying theories of space and civic association in experimental music practice in Great Britain, Europe and the USA from 1965 onwards.

http://www.thegreatlearning.org

berlin-based artist, writer, free-lance lecturer, interested in developing new formats of exchange, reflection, display and discussion.

Castro Varela, María do Mar, Ph.d. in Political Science, Diploma in Psychology and Pedagogy. Co-Founder of the Institute for the Study on Migration and Social Inequalities (imuf). In 2006/2007 Maria-Goeppert-Guest Professor for International Gender Studies at the University Oldenburg. In 2005 she published together with Nikita Dhawan the first German introduction into Postcolonial Studies.

Celine Condorelli is an architect based in London. Her practice is concerned with thinking with architecture as support and interface, developing critical models towards exhibition making and public space. She is Senior Lecturer at London Metropolitan University and has worked with institutions dealing with local government such as in Space Syntax, UCL 2002, or with architecture and spatial education such as London Open House and Architectural Dialogue 2001/2002, and extensively in art and architecture collaborations such as 'Revisits', Linz, Graz Architecture Forum 2007, 'theatre pieces' (Tate Triennial of British Art 2006) and 'Alterity Display' (Lawrence O’Hana gallery, london, 2004), walking one to ten (salon 3, London 2000). 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, The Economist, London 2004, GIL, Guang Zhou, Shanghai, Beijing 2007, well as taxi_onomy with artist Beatrice Gibson, supported by Arts Council England, the British Council and V2 Rotterdam, ‘Subcontingency’, Fondazione Sandretto Rebaudengo (2006, Turin, Italy), ‘Public Structures’, Special Project of the 2nd GuangZhou Triennial (november 2005, China), and ‘the thin line’ (PEAM, otc-nov 05 Pescara, Italy, and Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, dec 05 Venice, Italy). She is currently phd candidate in Research Architecture, Goldsmith London.

http://www.taxionomy.net

Director, Van Abbemuseum. Co-editor, Afterall Books and Journal. Curated Istanbul Biennial 2005, Gwangju Biennale 2002. Established protoacademy, Edinburgh, 1997-2002.
http://www.afterall.org

Charles Heller, Geneva, graduated in Fine Arts from ESBA, Ecole Supérieure de Beaux-Arts Geneva with a thesis exhibition on the politics and history of asylum in Switzerland for which he received the Liechti Foundation grant 2004. In Geneva he initiated different projects in collaboration with migrants such as a history workshop with asylum seekers and symbolic interventions in the context of public demonstrations. In 2005, he released the 40' video NEM - NEE (non-entrée en matière - Nichteintretensentscheid) on the social consequences of the new developments in Swiss asylum laws. In 2006 he directed 37’ video Crossroads at the Edge of Worlds, on transit migrants in Morocco. His current research investigates the politics of mobility while probing interactions between artistic practice and forms of social intervention.

Charles Heller’s last project is the video Crossroads at the Edge of Worlds, produced within The Maghreb Connection art and research project. The video focuses on Sub-Saharan transit migrants in Morocco, who, prevented from crossing by European and Moroccan authorities and unable or unwilling to go back, are trapped between the sea and the desert, circling Moroccan territory. This video investigates their social network, and untangles the strang¬e transnational spaces they form and interact with along Morocco’s main migration axes.

Student of philosophy

conceptual artist and writer on top of a teachers degree in science. female. berlin based. aged 55. under construction.

Researcher in media arts education, 2005/06 Visiting Professor and lecturer at the University of Art and Industrial Design Linz Austria, 2004-2006 researcher at teh department of Visual arts at the university of Flensburg in the MediaArtlab@School project.
2001-2003 researcher at the Muthesius Academy of Arts, Forum for Interdisciplinary Studies, model project "Theory and practice of integrated arts and computer science in education" (ArtDeCom) funded under the Cultural Education in the Media Age program of the BLK and the Land Schleswig-Hostein, 2004 PhD, thesis on integrated arts and computer science in education (Ästhetisch-informatische Medienbildung, Oberhausen 2006)
For projects, publications and lectures see my Web site on http://www.daniela-reimann.de/

Works as an artist, filmmaker and organizer, currently based in Berlin.

www.xeno.no

Detlef Diederichsen, Jg. 1960, seit Oktober 2006 Leiter des Bereichs Musik/ Theater/ Tanz im Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. Seit 1976 Musik- und Kulturjournalist (Sounds, Spex, taz, Die Woche, Szene Hamburg u.v.a.), seit 1980 Plattenveröffentlichungen mit der Band Die Zimmermänner (letzte Veröffentlichung: Fortpflanzungssupermarkt, März 2007), Labelgründer (Moll Tonträger, 1993), Musikproduzent (FSK, Saal 2, Ja König Ja).

Diedrich Diederichsen is an author and curator. His work has been widely published in art and culture publications. He is a regular contributor to and editor of the magazines Sounds and Spex, and he frequently writes for Texte zur Kunst, Art Forum, Tagesspiegel, Tageszeitung, Theater heute, and other publications. He is currently a professor at Merz Akademie and co-leader of the Department of Theory. His recent publications include »Golden Years Dokumente und Materialien zur queeren Subkultur 1959–1974«, (Co-Editor); Camera Austria, 2004; »Sexbeat« (new edition); »Schallplatten von 1979–1999«; »Der lange Weg nach Mitte«; »Der Sound und die Stadt«; »Loving the Alien« (Editor); »Politische Korrekturen«; »Yo! Hermeneutics–Schwarze Kulturkritik: Pop, Medien, Feminismus« (Editor); »Musikzimmer«, Köln 2005; »Personas en loop«, Buenos Aires 2005.

Dieter Lesage is a lecturer and research coordinator at the Department for Audiovisual and Performing Arts RITS (Erasmushogeschool Brussels) and visiting professor at the Piet Zwart Institute of the Willem De Kooning Academie in Rotterdam. Lesage publishes mainly within the fields of philosophy of culture and political philosophy. He is the author of several books including: Discourse on Resistance: politics in times of globalization, Amsterdam/Antwerp, Meulenhoff/Manteau, 2004; Black Thoughts On Belgium, Antwerp, Dedalus, 1998; and was co-editor of Populisme, Berchem, EPO, 2004; and The Nation as a Museum: from colonialism to globalisation, Brussels, Yves Gevaert, 1999.

Persson Perry Baumgartinger
Queer Linguistics, trans*queer theory and activisms (queer snack etc)

combines text, body and energy work within theoretical, political and spiritual positions; Queer Linguistics, transinterqueer theories and activities.

Dora Hegyi, art historian, curator
project leader tranzit.hu an association for contemporary art

independent scholar & artist interested in the dynamics of education transmitted through displays and other visual practices. have taught in project-based programs that engage students with community. currently curator of small museum on the west side of Puerto Rico focused on traditional lace making across the island. Both the community and the institution itself constitute a non-aligned initiative for education culture that crosses many types of knowledge and practices.

Eyal Weizman is an Architect based in London. He studied architecture at the Architectural Association in London and completed his PhD at the London Consortium, Birkbeck College. He is the director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Before this role, Weizman was Professor of Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. As an architect in Israel he has been working on architectural projects related to art and theatre. Weizman works with a variety of NGOs and Human right groups in Israel/Palestine. He co-curated the exhibition A Civilian Occupation, The Politics of Israeli Architecture, and co-edited the publication of the same title. These projects were based on his human-rights research, and were banned by the Israeli Association of Architects. They were later shown in the exhibition Terriories in New York, Berlin, Rotterdam, San Francisco, Malmoe, Tel Aviv and Ramallah. Weizman has taught, lectured and organised conferences in many institutions worldwide. His books include Hollow Land [forthcoming with Verso Books], A Civilian Occupation [Verso Books, 2003], the series Territories 1,2 and 3, Yellow Rhythms and many articles in journals, magazines and edited books. Weizman is a regular contributors to many journals and magazines and is an editor at large for Cabinet Magazine (New York). Weizman is the recipient of the James Stirling Memorial Lecture Prize for 2006-2007

Amy Franceschini works with notions of community, sustainable environments and a perceived conflict between humans and nature. Her work manifests "on" and "offline" in the form of dynamic websites, installations, open-access laboratories, and educational formats that collectively question or challenge the cultural, social and economic systems we live in.

Amy founded Futurefarmers in 1995, and co-founded Free Soil in 2004. Her solo and collaborative work have been included in exhibitions internationally including ZKM, Whitney Museum, NYMOMA and SFMOMA. She teaches at Stanford University, California College of the Arts and San Francisco Art Institute.

visual artist

Florian Schneider is a filmmaker, writer, and developer in the fields of new media, networking and open source technologies. In his work he focusses on bordercrossings between mainstream and independent media, art and activism, theory and technology.

As a filmmaker he directed several award-winning documentaries and designed and realized two theme-evenings for the german-french tv station arte on the topics of migration and activism. As a writer he has worked for major german newspapers and magazines such as Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

He is one of the initiators of the KEIN MENSCH IST ILLEGAL (no one is illegal) campaign at documentaX and subsequent projects such as the "noborder network". He founded, designed and supported countless online-projects, such as the european internet platform D-A-S-H and the online-network KEIN.ORG. He is the director of the new media festivals MAKEWORLD (2001), NEURO (2004), the multimedia performance project "DICTIONARY OF WAR" (2006/2007) and currently co-organizes SUMMIT--non-aligned initiaves in education culture.

He has lectured at universities, museums, and conferences worldwide and currently teaches theory at the art academy in Trondheim.

Florian Zeyfang, artist, Berlin, is a professor for Moving Image at the art academy in Umeå, Sweden. He worked on film and expanded cinema in exhibition projects like 1,2,3… Avant-Gardes, Warschau/Stuttgart/Bilbao 2006/7, Poor Man´s Expression, Berlin 2006, Moving Spirit - experimental Film in India, Halle 2006, and others.

Zeyfang´s work has been exhibited in international shows and film festivals. Recent exhibitions include: How to do Things…, CCA Kiev; Universal Experience: Art, Life and the Tourist’s Eye, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Wild Walls, Artists Space, New York. He (co)curated shows for the 8th Havana Biennial, the Fotofest in Houston, the Museum für Angewandte Kunst Vienna, the MAK Schindlerhaus in Los Angeles and the Swiss Institute New York.

Publications: I said I Love. That is the Promise. The TVideopolitics of Jean-Luc Godard (Berlin 2003), Florian Zeyfang: Fokussy (Frankfurt/M. 2004), 4D - project for Havana (Vienna/Berlin 2007), 1,2,3… Avant-Gardes (Warsaw/Berlin 2007)

Franco Berardi is a writer, mediatheorist and media-activist. Founder of the magazine A/traverso (1975-1981), he took part in the staff of Radio Alice, the first free radio station in Italy (1976/1978). He was involved in the political movement of autonomia in Italy during the '70's, then flied to Paris where he worked with Felix Guattari, in the field of schizoanalisis. During the '80's he contributed to the magazine Semiotexte (New York), Chimerees (Paris), Metropoli (Rome) and Musica 80 (Milano). In the '90 he published Mutazione e ciberpunk, (Genova, 1993), Cibernauti (roma, 1994), Felix (2001). He is currently working in the Italian network Telestreet, and is engaged in the movement against the media-dictatorship which is oppressing his country. Co-founder of the rekombinant.org e-zine.

Activist from Hamburg. Contributing and organized in networks 'no one is illegal' and euromayday. Right now planning and research period for a campaign towards precarity at the places documenta XII, ver.di - federal conference and berlinale 2008.

Franziska Bruder lebt in Berlin-Kreuzberg; Feldstudien zu abgestürzten Bartgeiern und Rassismen und Antisemitismus in Mittel- und Osteuropa, vor allem Polen und Ukraine.

trained as an artist, now educator/ curator
course director Dutch Art Institute, Enschede
head of Studium Generale, Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam

Gavin Butt is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London. He is author of Between You and Me: Queer Disclosures in the New York Art World 1948-1963 (Duke University Press) and editor of After Criticism: New Responses to Art and Performance(Blackwell). He is currently researching a new book project provisionally entitled ‘Are You Serious?: Flirtatious Acts in Contemporary Culture’.

Hae-Lin Choi promoviert an der FU Berlin zum Thema "Organisierung der Unorganisierbaren. Prekäre Beschäftigung und gewerkschaftliche Organisierungsstrategien in den USA, Italien und Südkorea". Sie ist Promotionsstipendiation der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung und als Mitglied der Bundeskommission Selbständige in der Selbständigenpolitik in ver.di aktiv.

Born in 1964 in a medium-sized industrial city in the northern south of Germany, Mannheim, Hans Nieswandt is a permanent, respected character in the world of DJ- and clubculture, of electronic music production and of quality music writing for more than 15 years.

I'm Harry Halpin - a long-term revolutionary and net activist. I am until August 2007 a visiting Fellow at Duke University, where I'm been working with Hardt among others on formulating a theory of collective intelligence and helped run the HASTAC (http://www.hastac.org) conference on the "Future of Learning".

I'm long-term a research post-graduate at the University of Edinburgh, where I helped set-up Scotland Indymedia and was very active within the anti-capitalist Dissent Network against the UK G8 2005 Summit. Lastly, I'm a member of the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) Semantic Web Co-ordination Group and a Chair of the GRDDL Working Group, where I work within the Society and Technology domain of the W3C to craft open standards for the next generation of the Web.

Philosophin und wiss. Mitarbeiterin an der Medizinuniversität Wien

Frankfurt-based architect. His internationally acclaimed work includes the Dresden Synagogue, the Hinzert Document Center and a research project for the European Kunsthalle in Cologne. His work has been shown in such exhibitions as New German Architecture in Berlin, Utopia Station at the Venice Biennale and Can Buildings Curate? at AA London/Storefront Gallery in New York.

Professor of visual culture at goldsmiths college, london university. She writes, curates and organises at the intersections of contemporary arts, politics and critical theories.

Artist working collaboratively since 2001, theme-related projects are the Faculty of Invisibility, initiated in 2005, a self-learning structure of artists and other practitioners who become specialists to their own practice and Thinktank, a groupware portal, configuration of drupal which will be offered for free to small scale projects and initiatives working collaboratively.

Jan Ritsema (The Netherlands, 1945)
Is an independant theatre director, and actor and dancer. Makes his own performances and stages repertory as well. Shows his performances mainly in Europe. Works in the field of experimental and political theatre. Develops research in theatre and teaches in art schools. Is based at PAF(PerformingArtsForum) near Reims in France.

lives in Hamburg and works as a freelance writer for frieze, Springerin, Afterall and Camera Austria.

Janna Graham is a writer, educator and organizer. She worked for many years at the Art Gallery of Ontario, developing projects with artists and community activists. She has worked on freelance writing, curating and educational projects with 16 Beaver Group; Ultra-red and FUSE Magazine among many others, and is currently a Phd Candidate at Goldsmiths College, London.

Developer of the liveCD dyne:bolic GNU/Linux and more software for creativity with multimedia and free speech, to recycle computers and protect user's privacy.
Jaromil is active on Open Source projects for the Netherlands Media Art Institute, as well hacktive as member of the Freaknet brotherhood. His productions are licensed GNU GPL and available online on dyne.org and rastasoft.org websites.

Artist, born in South Africa in 1954. She studied at the University of Natal (Painting), the Slade School of Art and the Royal College of Art, London. Ten years of participation in a Lacanian clinical workshop/forum and twenty years of psychoanalysis have informed her work. She has published and lectured extensively on the conjuncture of art and psychoanalysis. neighbouring theoretical fields. She is currently professor at the art akademie in Trondheim. http://kit.kein.org

Jeebesh Bagchi is a media practitioner with a background in the sciences and filmmaking. He is a co-initiator of Sarai and one of the editors of the Sarai Reader series. He is part of the Raqs Media Collective. He coordinated the Cybermohalla project and the knowledge and culture commons project.

From India working with non literate artisan communities and children trying to understand knowledge,knowing, learning, schooling, cognition, aesthetic sense etc See my work with children at http://my.opera.com/jinankb/albums /www.kumbham.in

Joanne Richardson is a freelance media theorist, organizer and video maker living between Cluj and Berlin. Founder of D Media, an NGO for the production and dissemination of digital media and socially engaged art in Romania. For longer bio and links to essays (on social movements, postcommunism, immaterial labor, copyleft, tactical media, video activism), http://subsol.c3.hu/subsol_2/contributors0/richardsonbio.html

John Akomfrah was born in 1957. He studied at Portsmouth Polytechnic. Akomfrah joined David Lawson, Lina Gaupaul and Reece Auguiste to found the Black Audio Film Collective in 1983, initially working in slide-tape, then 16mm film. Akomfrah has made many distinguished documentary films for television including A Touch of the Tar Brush 1991, Seven Songs for Malcolm X 1993, and Martin Luther King - Days of Hope 1997.

John Palmesino is an architect and urbanist. His researches and projects deal with the material transformation patterns of the contemporary territories. He is co-founder of PALMESINO RÖNNSKOG Territorial Agency, a practice involved in the management of international innovative transformations of the contemporary inhabited landscape and its architecture. He lead the researches of ETH Studio Basel–Contemporary City Institute and is a founding member of multiplicity, a research network dealing with contemporary architecture, urbanism, arts and general culture. He is currently researching on the implications of neutrality in the relation between polities and territorial and architectural transformations.

Organizer (verdi)
http://www.verdi.de
& Activist (kanak attak)
http://www.kanak-attak.de

I'm a lecturer in the Visual Cultures department at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Joseph Vogl has been Professor for New German Literature at the HU Berlin
since April 2006 and has translated a number of key works of the newer
generation of French philosophers (Gilles Deleuze, J.-F. Lyotard, C.
Lévi-Strauss et al.). Helmut Müller-Sievers is Professor for German and
Comparative Literature at the Northwestern University, Chicago.

Julian Kücklich is a play theorist and deludologist.

I'm an artist and I teach at the School of Fine Art at The School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds.

At Summit, Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss and I would like to discuss School of Missing Studies' Lost Highway Expedition. Currently writing her PhD on conceptual art in Yugoslavia of the 1960s and 70s, Carl was contemporary curator at The Drawing Center following her work at Dia Art Foundation and ArtsLink.

Klaus Dörre, geb. 1957, Dr.phil., Professor für Arbeits-, Industrie- und Wirtschaftssoziologie an der Friedrich Schiller-Universität Jena und Forschungsdirektor des Forschungsinstituts Arbeit, Bildung, Partizipation (FIAB).

So…what is La Lleca? Is it art, is it politics, is it everything that I've heard?

La Lleca grew out of (in 2003) a set of critiques of the then-current social situation in Mexico. The first was a critique of how social relations were being constructed post-NAFTA, that is under a form of neoliberal capitalism, specifically the alienation and utilitarian relations which we saw growing up around money, individualism, competition. The second critique was directed at the political situation of Mexico City and the new-found role of the idea of "insecurity," which, as a discourse, manages to both conceal and erase its social and economic foundations. Meanwhile, as this strange mystification progresses, the discourse of fear destroys the social fabric as it leads chilangos to view themselves first as foremost as potential victims (this being more damaging we feel than viewing everyone else as a potential aggressor). It is difficult to explain, to someone who as not lived in Mexico City, especially during this momen\t (which we would argue is on-going), the effects and the manner in which this fear has come to be substituted for social relations themselves. A secondary effect this discourse is to justify the state of control (viz Foucault), state as an institution, and the political parties that feed off it.

I am a researcher based in bangalore, and work on issues of intellectual property.

Stephen Lerner is assistant to the president of SEIU. He started as an organizer for the United Farm workers union in the 1970's, organized garment workers in the southern united states. launched and directed SEIU's Justice For Janitors campaign. He now directs SEIU's private equity project.

Lisa Fithian has been working for social change since the mid 1970’s. She has been a student, labor and community organizer on a broad range of issues from environmental justice and worker rights to peace and global justice issues. Lisa spent much of the last year organizing a grassroots direct action relief effort called Common Ground Relief in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Common Ground's efforts have been a culmination of Lisa's long-term work confronting racism, corporate greed and a lack of government accountability while building sustainable alternatives to the current social structure. Most recently Lisa helped organize a successful strike of immigrant workers in the Houston Justice for Janitors Campaign and continues with her work to end the US war on Iraq. Lisa Fithian is 46 years old and lives in Austin, TX.

I am a writer and a PhD candidate at the Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College. I am originally from Chile and I have worked both inside the academia and in a number of non academic publications overseas.

Studentin der Politikwissenschaft. Seit Mai 2005 koordiniert Evelyn Bahn die so genannten Urgent Appeals (Eilmeldungen zu Arbeitsrechtsverletzungen) der Kampagne für ‚Saubere’ Kleidung in Deutschland.

Mansur Jacoubi lives in beirut and is involved in a number of projects and initiatives relating to new media, research, and publishing, amongst other practices.

Manuela Zechner is currently based in London, where she coordinates the future archive project and works with Critical Practice Research Cluster at Chelsea College of Art www.criticalpracticechelsea.org. she collaborates on various projects in the field of media/performing arts, and frequently facilitates discussions and workshops around themes of art, politics, organization and education.

Marta Gregorčič received her Ph.D. from Faculty of Art (University of Ljubljana) in the end of 2004 with the thesis "The End of neoliberalism?" In 2002, she was – because of her outsize efforts and solidarity – voted as the most remarkable personality in Slovenia for that year (awarded by the biggest Slovenian daily, Delo). She was human shield in Iraq (2003), eyewitness in Chiapas (2005) and Oaxaca (2006).

MARTA POPIVODA (Belgrade, 1982), senior student of Film and Television Directing at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, video artist and cultural worker. Collaborator and program coordinator of TkH (Walking Theory), theoretical-artistic platform. One of the editors of TkH, journal for performing arts theory and regional web platform www.tkh-generator.net. Had several group exhibitions of photography, installations and video works. Makes video works/installations for theatre performances and opera. Publishes occasionally theoretical texts and reviews.

Marten Spangberg is an artist living and working in Berlin.

Our project as follows:
Inpex (International Performance Exchange) is an exchange platform for an expanded field of dance and performance related practices. Inpex initiate and host bifurcative projects that aim to empower users and decentralize modes of authorization within the practice. Inpex is a lateral organization initiated in Stockholm, that aim to develop new modes of organization of e.g. residencies and touring. www.inpex.se

artist

I was born in Jerusalem, Palestine in 1941. In 1948, I was expelled with my family from our home in Jerusalem and moved to Ramallah. Since I was 5 years old, I experienced two kinds of bombardment: one by planes and tanks, and another by words. Although we were cautious of the first, we embraced the second. The harm done by the second is much more subtle and much deeper. Since 1971, I have been struggling with the second kind. That led me to live with the conviction that every person is a co-author of meanings and measures and a composer of one’s life – which naturally embodies a pluralistic attitude in living.

What helped me see things clearly was the fact that I was lucky with three things in my life: I lived a good part of my life in the pre-development age; the main teacher in my life was an illiterate person; and I lived most of my life without a “national” government. The three provided me with a “worldview” that is not attainable through institutions and professionals. I feel lucky because I had to rethink constantly of dominant measures and meanings of words; because I had to be responsible for most of what I felt was needed and I could do; because we mainly had to live and work with what was available; and because our strength resided mainly in the relations we had with one another. I feel lucky because I experienced – especially during the decade of the 1970s and the first intifada (1987-91) – a way of living that, first, embodied values, convictions, and perceptions different from dominant ones, second, included knowing self and ruling and transcending it, and third, built on what is beautiful, inspiring, healthy, and abundant in people, communities, and cultures. That helped me heal from the belief in a single undifferentiated path for progress, from the consumption pattern in living, and from the belief that all praxis can be reduced to theory (i.e., the intellect can completely understand life/ being).

Filmcritic, Berlin

Philipp Misselwitz (*1974 in Jena, Germany) is an architect and curator based in Berlin. He was educated at Cambridge University and the Architectural Association London and has taught at the University of North London, the AA and the University of the Arts Berlin. He is a founding member of the Berlin based architectural research group 'urban catalyst' which serves as a platform for research activities, exhibitions, publications and debates (www.urbancatalyst.net). Philipp Misselwitz has participated in several research projects on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict including ‘Conflict in Cities’ (University of Cambridge). In 2002, he initiated the project ‘Geographies of Conflict’ which led to the publication ‘City of Collision – Jerusalem and the Principles of Conflict Urbanism (co-edited with Tim Rieniets, 2006). Together with Nikolaus Hirsch and Markus Miessen he is leading the research project 'Spaces of Production' on behalf of the European Kunsthalle Cologne (www.eukunsthalle.com). Curatorial activities include 'Shrinking Cities' (local curator, 2003-04) and ‚Liminal Spaces/ grenzraeume’ (co-curator with Galit Eilat and Reem Fadda, 2006/ 7), both funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation. In 2005, Philipp Misselwitz initiated and now coordinates a UN research project investigating development strategies for the informal urbanism of refugee camps.

Born in Italy, 1970;
Lives in New York City since 2003.
Artist, educator: currently a Principal Faculty in Arts in Context at Eugene Lang College/The New School, New York.
Education:
Diploma in Pittura, Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna, 1994
MA European Fine Art, Winchester School of Art, UK, 1996
PhD Visual Art, University of Central Lancashire, UK 2003

Involved in social movements as a ground activist and a worker in the social field. Member of the 9th Collective of Sans-Papiers based in Paris.

Carmen Carmona, Sevilla 1979.
Fine Arts Degree University Beatriz de Suavia Sevila.
In 2004 the Movalatex Trade Mark Registration is given to Carmen Carmona. With it the artist makes a manifesto, creating a legal brand (authorization by the Spanish Ministry of Industry and Commerce) that its not real in fact.

Since 2006, simultaneously with the Movalatex Project, Carmen Carmona works together with Anneke Gräper (D), Gabriele Pichler (A) y Christiane Spatt (A), taking part in the art collective PASS-PROJECT, which researches in the Psycogeography areas using internet as a plastic and visual recurse. Their most representative work is "The Instructions to be Happy in this Life", where the artist are performing in a videoconference several movements meaning different concepts, inviting the public to join them and communicating in a virtual time and place rooms that in reality are far away between each others.

http://www.pass-page.com

Organiser and technologist

Joël Verwimp, 1972 in Herentals, Belgien, geboren. Lebt und arbeitet seit 2001 in Berlin. Er ist bildender Künstler, studierte u.a. an der Academy of Performing Arts (MFA) in Prag und erhielt verschiedene Arbeits- und Projektstipendia. Von 1998 bis 2006 arbeitet er an der muffie series, eine übergreifende Untersuchungsmethode für Kunstprojekte aus den Bereichen Soziale- und Wirtschaftliche Dramaturgie entwickelt: wie interagieren Menschen in bestimmten Situationen? Wie beeinflusst die räumliche Anordnung die Art und Weise, wie Gruppen miteinander in Kontakt treten? Und wie lassen sich solche Schemata durchbrechen? einer Reihe von Arbeiten wie Rainbowland, Parkerleichterungsbüro oder Hosting Time, die in Zusammenarbeit mit Partnern wie dem Künstlerhaus Bethanien, der Flämischen Regierung, der Galerie Kunstpunkt oder Hauptstadtkulturfonds entwickelt wurden. Seit 2006, Base for artistic research on organisational quality am Flutgraben e.V., Berlin.

Estelle Nabeyrat is a curator and art critic based in Lyon and Paris. She has notably contributed to Neue Review (Berlin) and Standard (Paris).

cyberfem, work on public acces tv in the us, media activist in france, teach at l'ecole nationale superieure des beaux art bourges france. Makes cultural emergency idem, lesbian essais for canal+ or make readers of should have been translated for a long time text (feminism, art, media) into french.

Film maker, author and co founder of b_books.
http://www.bbooks.de
http://www.assembly-international.net

Nora Sternfeld ist Kunstvermittlerin und Kuratorin. Sie ist Mitbegründerin und Teilhaberin des Wiener Büros trafo.K, das mit den inhaltlichen Schwerpunkten zeitgenössische Kunst, Zeitgeschichte und Wissenschaftskommunikation an Vermittlungsprojekten, Schulungen und Workshops in Museen, Ausstellungen und im öffentlichen Raum arbeitet. http://www.trafo-k.at
2005-2006 war sie Teil des KuratorInnenteams von Verborgene Geschichte/n - remapping mozart, ein Projekt von Wiener Mozartjahr 2006. http://www.remappingmozart.mur.at/
Darüber hinaus ist sie im Kernteam des Netzwerks Schnittpunkt. Ausstellungstheorie und Praxis, http://www.schnitt.org/
Vorstandsmitglied der IG Bildende Kunst und Redakteurin des Bildpunkt - Zeitschrift der IG Bildende Kunst. http://www.igbildendekunst.at/bildpunkt
Sie ist Lehrbeauftragte an der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien. Seit dem Wintersemester 2006 ist sie Teil des Leitungsteams des postgradualen Lehrgangs ecm (exhibition and cultural communication management) an der Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien http://www.uni-ak.ac.at/ecm/
Sie publiziert zu zeitgenössischer Kunst, Vermittlung, Geschichtspolitik und Antirassismus.

reality researcher/ artist
Vienna based

Oana Tanase, curator and art critic.
Born in 1976, Galati, Romania. Based in Bucharest.
Former assistant curator at the Gallery of Contemporary Art in Leipzig (GfZK).
Recent events: Curator of the AWOL exhibition, second edition of the Biennial of Young Artists Bucharest (October – November 2006).
Co-curator of Archit-action!, GfZK Leipzig (May – June 2006), together with Barbara Steiner.
Currently working as a curator within the Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest (MNAC), and invited lecturer at the University of Arts in Bucharest (Photo-Video Department).
Since 2000: editor and contributor for various art and architecture magazines in Romania, and cultural journalist at Cultural Radio Romania.
Future event: 68 – 07. Stefan Constantinescu’s exhibition at MNAC (June – September 2007).
Main area of interest: art, architecture and society.

Oliver Marchart is a political theorist working in the fields of cultural, media and art theory. He has concptualized and worked for the education programme of Documenta 11. His latest books include: Neu beginnen. Hannah Arendt, die Revolution und die Globalisierung (Vienna 2005) and Post-foundational Political Thought (Edinburgh, forthcoming).

Director of Dispatx Art Collective (www.dispatx.com), the curatorial platform developing and presenting contemporary art & literature.

Co-Founder of platoniq.net, a group of cultural producers, curators and software developers who from the mix of their computer-technical knowledge and social interests have set up a number of independant community media projects.

May years teaching undergrad Art school. Writer of reviews, musician and producer of Collaborative Public Art Events. Completing PhD History Goldsmiths.

Peter Grabher ist Mitglied der Gruppe kinoki und organisiert seit 1998 ehrenamtlich die politische Filmreihe "kinokis mikrokino" im Wiener 7*STERN. Zusammen mit Anna Kowalska, Hirut Kiesel und Karim Duarte organisierte er für die DIAGONALE 2004 das Programm „Filme, die wir nicht sehen können“.

artist and ongoing teacher

Architect based in Paris and Reunion Island. He is cofoundator of Vuthemas ( Indian Ocean Architecture Research and Creation Institute), lecturer in Versailles School of Architecture and Marne La Vallée School of Architecture. He is also codirector of RozO architecture and environment practice. He is currently doing is PhD in the Center for Research Architecture in Goldsmith College about Creolization in Architecture.

I am a reformed 20+ year veteran of media and the arts with national and international experience in radio, broadcast, film, and photography. "Reformed" means media activist. I no longer work for commercial media, choosing instead to work in the space where audio and visual representation becomes direct action and always under the radar. I am a PhD candidate at the European Graduate School, where I am studying media and technology philosophy with a nice group of folks.

My current project is an experiment in media, culling art from the archive world wide.(i.e, IKONO .TV).

Quio, a Berlin based MC, singer, performer wants to be misunderstood and taken unseriously. Quio, started MCing in 1997 as MC LOONEY TUNES. She performed with Drum' n Bass and HipHop DJs in Berlin Germany and throughout Europe. In 1998 she met DJ G-SERVE from AUDIOTAXI in WTF together with DJ CHRISTINE LANG. They organized parties named ON BASS TRACKS. Until today QUIO is part of a radio show on Berlin's former Pirate Radio Station TWEN FM, named Underground Essentials. In 1999 Quio met AGF when they both performed in a club. Various collaborations followed. In 2003 they started QUIO. 2004 they released the first 12" on AGF Producktion and here is the full length album of the Quio. AGF and Quio have put together their different musical heritage, to come up with some uniquely new combinations, e.g. they mixed Drum&Bass MC lyrics with piano and strings into a melancholy anthem, and hiphop lyrics with experimental beats and a blues guitar. She likes to explore what is misunderstood and break up what supposedly makes sense. In misunderstandings she sees both the chance to have performer and listener create something new, and to put into question the perception of understanding something the wrong or right way. Quio is against seriousness when it is used as a tool of dominance, in the way that seriousness gives weight, means truth, means realness. Never wanting to impose meaning. She writes against preconceptions and boxing people in, especially women into premade schemes.

Rafael Horzon, born in 1970 in Hamburg, Germany, studied literature and
physics in Munich, Paris and Berlin before he started to work as a driver
for the parcel delivery unit of the German Postal Service in 1996.
In the same year he founded the legendary "galerie berlintokyo" (berlintokyo
gallery), which had a great influence on the young German pop culture.
He founded Berlin's first private academy, the Wissenschaftsakademie Berlin,
in 1997.

Two years later he established the business group modocom which has built
the financial base for the academy. Besides the Wissenschaftsakademie Berlin
the following business branches are all part of modocom: The furniture shop
Moebel Horzon, the company for encasing facades Belfas, the fashion label
Gelee Royale and the publisher www Verlag.

In 2001 he founded the design agency Redesigndeutschland which attracted
public attention by its radical approach to design that covers also basic
conditions of life such as language, measurement of time or human behaviour.

Rafael Horzon has published three books, most recently "Der Dritte Weg"
("The Third Path").

http://www.redesigndeutschland.de

Art critic and curator, based in Bucharest, Romania. She is founding editor of the contemporary art magazine e-cart, published online at http://www.e-cart.ro since 2003, and she is running the NGO E-cart.ro since 2006. She is currently coordinator of the project Spatiul Public Bucuresti │Public Art Bucharest 2007.

Reem Fadda
Curator and Academic Director at the International Academy of Art – Palestine. Fadda had held the position of Director of the Palestinian Association for Contemporary Art between 2005-07, after acquiring her MA in Curating of Contemporary Art from Goldsmiths College. She curated a number of exhibitions in Ramallah and abroad, and was co-curator of art project/ network Liminal Spaces. Her publication on Palestinian Women Artists: The Land = The Body = The Narrative, will be published in June 2007.

RELOADING IMAGES is a network of artists and theorists for collaborational research and artistic work, with the focus on the relations between Middle East and Europe. Our aim is to discuss and question the image and its perception, that “East” and “West” have of each other. Since we use art as a platform for this knowledge exchange, these questions also lead to a discussion about the general conditions of making and presenting art in these two social and political contexts.
At the moment we are organizing an artist exchange between Tehran and Berlin in July and September 2007. More information on reloadingimages.org

1976 *0110 born in Vienna/Austria

1991 foundation of the cultural society of melrose place
http://kvmp.com

1996 pharmaceutical studies
anthropological and dramaturgical studies

1998 founding and naming
http://wink.at

1999 visual media / digital art studies
university for applied arts
exhibition generali foundation "shopping"
http://shoppink.org

2000 foundation and naming of
http://0RF.at

2001 exhibition ars electronica "takeover"
exhibition kunsthalle vienna "televisions"
foundation and naming of
http://metrosau.com
http://microsau.com
http://motorsau.com
http://vektorsau.com

2002 exhibition k-haus vienna "moving out"
exhibition "visionale"
http://visionale.at
foundation of
http://BL00MBERG.com
http://FS2.at

2003 exhibition T.R.O. factory berlin "into the deep blue"
http://factory-berlin.de
exhibition kunsthalle karlsplatz wien
http://mmm.ok.ag
participation at austrian social forum
http://asf.at
foundation of
http://5uper.net
http://6am3.net

2004 diploma
productdesign for MERCK
exhibition berlin
exhibition MQ vienna
http://wien-berlin.de.tf
exhibition kuenstlerhaus vienna
http://pluserror.org
performance with ken jacobs
http://mumok.at
participation computer arts festival maribor
http://mfru.org
participation free bitflows
http://t0.or.at

2005 doctoral philosophy / cultural studies
http://sstm.de.vu
productdesign for KWIZDA
exhibition kuenstlerhaus vienna
http://underror.org
exhibition paris
http://ilivetomorrow.com

2006 participation tanzquartier wien "+odzart"
http://referatmozart2056.com
participation ELECTRONIC LANGUAGE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL BRASIL
http://www.file.org.br/
exhibition flaktower vienna "brothesen"
http://faktum.blogs.sonance.net
exhibition "getuned"
http://getuned.mur.at
exhibition "platte 2000"
http://platte.blogspot.net
"homer j. suicide"
http://saatchi.com
exhibition "h2006 - the future wars will be for water"
http://pluserror.org
performance with bill drummond
http://the17.org
performance "la petite mort" festival
http://lapetitemort.info
exhibition "sexybischen"
http://swingr.be.tt
concept/curation/organisation faktum flakturm
http://flakturm.net

Rodrigo Nunes is finishing a PhD thesis on ‘Immanence, truth and philosophy in Foucault and Deleuze’ at Goldsmiths College, University of London, with a grant from CAPES-Brazilian Government. He has worked in different popular education and community organising projects in Brazil, been involved in the organisation of the first three World Social Forums, a member of the Intergalactika Laboratory of Global Resistance/Caracol Intergalactika network, an organiser in the Justice for Cleaners campaign in London, and the Frassanito and Precarity Webring networks. His texts have appeared in publications such as Mute and Ephemera, and he recently co-edited (with Ben Trott and Emma Dowling) an issue of Ephemera on immaterial and affective labour; he is also a member of the editorial collective of Turbulence - Ideas for movement. He is currently part of a group in London developing projects that aim creating a basis on which to organise creative workers in London.

My interests are in the cultural implications of a conception of unseizable or uninfluential architectural space. Over the past years I have worked mainly on how this operates within two frameworks. Firstly: the relation of architecture to sound. This means not just music, or concert hall acoustics, though those too, but the indiscernible aesthetic and spatial-social processes caught up in the overhearing of conversation, the splash of swimming pools, the way microphones articulate architectural space, gunfire, the mewling of domestic fauna, the figuring of unexpected silences, and other enigmatic aspects of aural modernity. As a locus of new critical deportments, I have found this enormously productive. I have developed some of these in a forthcoming book 'Auditions: Architecture and Aurality' (MIT Press, 2007).
My other area of interest is in the poetics of places produced by mass-suburbanisation, and their unsettling potential. Latterly of the Visual Cultures department at Goldsmiths, I currently work as a senior research fellow in the Department of Art, Philosophy and Visual Culture at Middlesex University.

i am an artist and teacher, involved in several collective projects at the intersection of art/activism/pedagogy. Hw do we build collective capacities for radical imagination and action???? BLW is focused on workshopping re-enactment as a way of looking at the history of radical media in the US and its possibilities for us today. The Elastic Test Project tries to tap into play as a capacity for spatial self-reflexivity in relation to others. common_places and the Center for Getting Ugly are both concerned with the possibilities for cooperation and dissention, working through two primary forms: archive-making and walking.

Ruth Holdsworth is currently undertaking a collaborative PhD with Arnolfini and University of Bristol on 'Curating Risk: Dramaturgy around Live Art, experimental theatre and interdisciplinary practice.” Prior to this she worked with London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT) and Artsadmin. She lives and works between London and Bristol.

Sally Tallant is the Head of Education and Public Programmes at the Serpentine Gallery, London where she has been developing an ambitious programme of initiatives, artist’s projects and residencies. Recent projects include Disassembly with Runa Islam, Christian Boltanski, Yona Friedman and Faisal Abdu’Allah; Lets Twitch Again, Maria Y’Barra Jnr; Hearing Voices, Seeing Things: Art and Mental Health; Park Products by Kathrin Boehm and Andreas Lang, Toby Paterson, A Constructed World. She has curated and organised exhibitions in a wide range of contexts including the Hayward Gallery, Milch, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital; lectured on graduate and post-graduate courses at the Royal College of Art, Goldsmiths College, The Royal Academy, Central St. Martins, Dartington College of Art amongst others and is a regular contributor to conferences nationally and internationally.

SANDI HILAL graduated in Architecture. She works as a consultant with UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) on the Refugee Camps improvement program in West Bank. She’s a co-curator of different research projects and exhibitions shown internationally: Stateless Nation and Arab City Project (with Alessandro Petti), Border devices (with multiplicity).

Stateless Nation is a long term research project and an exhibition on the frontiers of citizenship. Occupied Palestinian Territories are the place where to investigate and to observe the new relations between territory, State and populations, and to reflect on the new meanings and implications on the physical and social space. SN has been shown in: European Parliament, Bruxelles 2007, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig 2006, DePaul University Art Museum, Chicago 2005, La Biennale del Paessaggio Mediterraneo, Pescara 2005, Museolaboratorio, città Sant’Angelo 2005, L'espace photographique Arthur Batut, Laburguiere 2005, Birzeit University, Berzeit 2004, Bethlehem Peace Center, Bethlehem 2004, Umm El Fahem Gallery 2004, Officina Giovani, Prato 2003, 50th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale, Venice 2003.

ANA VUJANOVIĆ (Belgrade, 1975) is a freelance worker (theorist, lecturer, dramaturge, organizer) in the fields of performing arts and culture. She has PhD in theatre studies. She is engaged in cultural policy issues of independent scenes in the Region (TkH, Other Scene, Clubture) and wider, and is guest lecturer at the University of Arts in Belgrade. She is editor of TkH journal for performing arts theory; publishes regularly theoretical texts; and is author of three books - the latest one Doxicid c-ToPA/4, Novi Sad: IKZS, 2007.

Kunst- und Wissensvermittlerin seit 1992 (Abt. Kunstvermittlung MUMOK); Zeithistorikerin, Künsterin; projekt www.permanentbreakfast.org und www.ritesinstitute.org
Researcjprojekt "science with all senses. The making off science and gender in the museum"

The knowledge that slips through singular disciplines seems to flow freely in an unbound space and networks. It takes a collaborative and experimental practice to scout for it, rather than wait for it. SMS is an open network for experimental study of cities marked by or currently undergoing abrupt transition.

filmmaker, artist lives in bombay. Founder of chitrakarkhana.net (picture factory/artist food), a fully independent unit for practical media.

working as freelance curator, art mediator

since 2005 PhD thesis on cultural education and social changes

art education projects (e.g.):
documenta 11 and 12, Project Migration, Halle für Kunst Lüneburg

curatorial projects (e.g.):
DRESDENPostplatz, WILD CAPITAL; notes on archives, OFFERS FOR RE_ENACTMENT

http://www.igbildendekunst.at

Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss is a lecturer in the Department of Architecture, Penn School of Design, and research architect at Herzog de Meuron Architect in Basel. His recent book, Almost Architecture, addresses the role of architecture and post-socialist urban condition in Serbia under the Milosevic regime. His work was presented at the Royal Institute of British Architects, London, Dokumenta of Architecture Denmark, Columbia School of Architecture, Whitney Museum, Mutations, Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences, Urban Drift, TN Probe Tokyo, The Stroom, Manifesta 4, 2nd Tirana Biennial, Transformers Gallery, Werkleitz Biennial, Van Alen Institute, Talking Cities, Akademie Solitude Stuttgart, and Open Source Architecture Graz. He is currently working on his PhD at Goldsmiths Center for Architectural Research, London.

author, consultant, teaching from time to time at Humboldt University Berlin - Media Studies

Stefan Roemer is professor for New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and works conceptually between art practice and theory; his works and essays are widely exhibited and published. His background is political motivated activism and documentarism with the tendency to disseminate traditional epistemological canons and dissolve academic subjects. In this framework his PhD in arthistory has the title »Artistic Strategies of Fake––Critique of Original and Forgery«.

http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/dissertationen/roemer-stefan-1998-07-09/HTML/in...

From 1999 to 2001 he researched the effects of New Media on the traditional art academies to the contemporary Bauhaus influenced artschools as a research assistant professor at the Kunsthochschule für Medien in Cologne for the Bund-Länder-Konmmission of Germany. His research is online under the title »Kunst, Informatik, Theorie« at:

http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~roemer_adbk/

There is no contemporary initiative or agenda for artschools in the so called Knowledge-societies wich is not based on the term of »competence« framed by the rhetorics of new media. This is also symptomatic for cultural, political as well as economic fields (»competence team«, »competence initiative« etc.). In the same time we are facing an enoying stand still of cultural and visual epistemological research for a new basis of education it is happening an explosion of selfexpression on picture-, text- and diary-based blogs and forums like youtube, myspace, flickr etc. which contain without question big potentials of new forms and contents of communication. Perhaps this cul-de-sac is a result of the wrong path which is based on »competence« as an accumulative cultural technique? What about a new evaluation of the epistemological directions? My interest is in between this discourse.

Stefano Harney is Reader in Strategy at Queen Mary College of the University of London. His new book is called Business World: The General Intellect at Work, forthcoming from Routledge. His last book was called State Work: Public Administration and Mass Intellectuality and was published by Duke University Press.

Soziologin, freie Journalistin, Wien

Independant artist/graphic designer/DJ/trumpetist/animator

31 years old, English, Live in Utrecht in The Netherlands. Studied Graphic Design at Central Saint Martins in London 1995-1998. First Language English (now fluent in Dutch).

susan pui san lok is an artist and writer based in London. She trained
at the Universities of Leeds and East London, and is currently
Research Associate in Visual Culture at Middlesex University. She has
exhibited in the UK and internationally since 1994, including at the
Hayward Gallery, London; Gallery 4a, Australia; and Hong Kong Arts
Centre. Publications include the artist's books NEWS (2005) and Golden
(forthcoming), and articles in the Journal of Visual Culture, Third
Text, and Parallax.

Current and recent projects include DIY Ballroom (a Cornerhouse
Manchester Bigger Picture touring commission, forthcoming); Golden
(solo exhibitions at Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester; Beaconsfield,
London, 2006); and Cruel / Loving Bodies (Hong Kong Arts Centre, 2006;
Shanghai Duolun MoMA and Beijing 798 Space, 2004).

lives and works in the fields of new media and organizing, education and democratization in eastern Europe and elsewhere. works as administrator, consultant, project manager and in other freelance situations.

Susie Pratt is a new media artist/designer, based in New Zealand, exploring sustainability and the construction of physical and digital environments to stage relations. In particular Susie is interested in the challenge of creating virtual spaces to play and test multiple propositions of how to act eco-effectively. She believes that art and design have the possibility of emotionally implicating the viewer in the consequences of their choices - it can potentially give people the ability to . see relations in a greater context, 2. envision alternative ways of living in the world and 3. provide patterns to change habits.

Tobias Thomas, born 1970, is a member of the Kompakt-family since the very early days. He is working as a DJ since 1990, was involved in many cooperations & projects like Forever Sweet, Thomas/Mayer and did a number of remixes alongside Dettinger, Superpitcher, M.Mayer and Reinhard Voigt. As an editor for the german music magazine SPEX he`s done interviews with Sven Väth, the Pet Shop Boys, Westbam, Depeche Mode, Wolfgang Tillmans, Erlend Øye, Justin Timberlake and many others. For eight years, from 1998 to 2006, he was hosting the weekly »Total Confusion«-night with Michael Mayer and Superpitcher in the famous Studio 672 club in Cologne (other resident nights included the Tanzhalle St. Pauli in Hamburg and Robert Johnson in Offenbach). As a DJ he played in more than twenty countries and on four continents. He released two Mix-CDs, »Für Dich« (1999) and »Smallville« (2003) on Kompakt and – with Forever Sweet – the album »Geben & Nehmen« on Ladomat (1998).

http://www.kompakt-agentur.net
http://www.totalconfusion.de
http://profile.myspace.com/tobiasthomas

Jole Wilcke is an Art and Cultural Theorist (MA) and independent curator who lives in Berlin. She is one of the co-founders of UNWETTER, an international organisation of artists, curators and theorists who work with the basic format of the Discursive Picnic.
In 2004-2006 she worked as part of the group who organizes Sparwasser HQ. Selected exhibition projects: “Situation: Collaborations, collectives and artist networks from Sydney, Singapore and Berlin”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2005 (with Sparwasser HQ); Co-Curator for „Art for Change – Loraine Leeson“, NGBK, Berlin, 2005; Mediator for „How to do things?“, Kunstamt Kreuzberg/ Bethanien, Sept. – Oct. 2006.

Valeria Graziano works as a writer, teacher and organizer. Nibbling on different formats of contamination and interaction, she has worked on projects with Pistoletto Foundation, Van Abbemuseum, Atelier Marionbourg, House Gallery, among others. She is currently a visiting tutor and Phd candidate in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College, London.

Valery is a union organizer and social justice activist. She has worked on the Justice for Janitors Campaign for 8 years throughout the U.S. with the Service Employees International Union.

She has been involved in local and international struggles including the zapatista movement since 1995(supporting indigenous rights and democratization in Mexico – her country of origin.) Valery has been a member of the national executive board of the Mexico Solidarity Network since 1997. She has been active in immigrant rights campaigns as the president of the State-Wide Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition and now as an activist in different European wide networks. For the past 10 years she has participated in mobilizations against the WTO, IMF, WEF, NAFTA, FTAA, WIPO, etc. She has also been a trainer with the Youth Organizing Institute since 2001 in Eastern Europe.

She’s currently working as a global organizing coordinator with SEIU throughout Europe focusing on low income workers in the service sector: London – T&G Justice for Cleaners Campaign (2005), Hamburg - Verdi security workers campaign (2006), Amsterdam – Bondgenoten Cleaners Campaign (2007).

She works and resides in Amsterdam.

Veronica Wiman is an independent curator and writer. Since some years she has curated independently internationally. Her general interest lies in the interdisciplinary in art and socially integrated projects, exploring relational expressions and public space.

Paris-based art historian and critic, and occasional curator, is correspondant in France for frieze, and frequent contributor to artforum.com's 'Critic's Picks'. A founding editor of the Journal of Visual Culture, VR teaches Contemporary Visual Culture at the School of Fine Arts in Dunkerque. Her current research focuses on the legacies of realism and political artistic engagement in Europe and the US post World War II.

Texterin, arbeitet im Bereich Antirassismus, Antidiskriminierung und Migration aus Positionen der Queer Politics und der Kritischen Diskursanalyse. // lyricist, works in the fields of Antiracism, Antidiscrimination and Migration within Queer Politics and Critical Discourse Analysis.

Beatrice von Bismarck, professor of art history and visual studies, Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, Leipzig/ Berlin. 1993 co-founder of the „Kunstraum der Universität Lüneburg“. 2000 co-founder of the „/D/O/C/K-Projektbereich (DOCK Project Space)“ at the Leipzig academy. Current research areas: Modes of cultural production connecting theory and practice; definitions of artistic work; politics of the curatorial.

The project introduces the model of a "becoming academy". It takes on the format of flexible, temporal interdisciplinary and interprofessional communities that aim at questioning and testing reformulations of existing educational conditions and values (such as practice, professionalism, excellence, creativity) through performative politics.

Education:
2006- PhD Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London, U.K
2000 MA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London, U.K
1999 PG Diploma Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London, U.K

- Currently working as an artist and a curator (based in London).
- I have been working with site-specific installtion projects, public art projects, curating projects, art-architect collboration projects.
- Works have been introduced/exhibited in Seoul, London, Taipei, New Delhi, ubon Lagatani(Thailand), Nagoya, Tokyo and Paris.
- participated in Artist-in residency program: A-I-T(Tokyo), Taipei Artist's village, Vermont Studio Center(U.S)