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Some general questions:

What is a Southeast European artist?
Why do Southeast European artists create art?
Why do Southeast European artists make exhibitions?
Why do Southeast European artists ask questions?
Do Southeast European artists ask questions?
Why do Southeast European artists expect acknowledgment?
Why do Southeast European artists earn (no) money?
Are all Southeast European artists contemporary?
Does a Southeast European artist need a dictionary?
Why do Southeast European artists not shut up?
Do Southeast European artists masturbate?
Do Southeast European artists brush their teeth in other peoples kitchen?
Can I delete the word Southeast European without changing the subject above or paste it into the following?
Does art have a national identity and is self censorship allowed?
Do Southeast European artists love Southeast European art?
Do Southeast European artists love art?
Do artists love Southeast European art?
Do artists love art?
Can art be young or is an artist a living dinosaur?
Can artists be vegan?
Can the audience be the judge?
And the price is?
Can a painting be beautiful or ugly or just good or bad?
What is the actual value of a work of art?
Is art water in wine?
Is art bread?
Who is the best artist?
Are famous artists good artists or just good in (show) business?
Can one learn art?
Do bad artists exist?
Do bad artists have good intentions?
Is art a social change of political subjects through ego binoculars (ha)?
Is a painter allowed to be blind?
Do artists have responsibilities towards their creation?
Is the remark “good show” a compliment?
Is art democratic?
Is an audience of one person big enough?
Is being an artist a calling or a profession?
Can a monkey paint?
Is art not only human?
Where is the fault between art and design today?
What is the name of the first female artist painting a black male nude on canvas?
Is art contaminating?
Did you ever cry looking at art?
Does art kill?
Did anybody die of art except artists?
Is everything allowed in art?
Is everything allowed in Art?
Do you want your child to become an artist?
Do artists retire?
Is art correct?
Is art a product?
Do artists (pretend to) see more than other humans?
Are artists agitators? challengers? Or just sick parasites from outer space?
Do artist lack responsibility?
Is black not a color?
Is art a green, clean and recyclable object?
Is the present moment a reality and does art history exist?
Can you listen to an artist and should artists be trusted?
Art is always smart?
What is the value of a cv?
Can artists touch your willy or blow your harp?
Can artists learn and listen?
Can I replace the word Southeast European artists for Norwegian dentist assistants or just people in general?
Is contemporary art in time or ahead of time?
Does art accept answers or discussion?
Can I shut up!
What is the time?

I do not expect any payment for my questions but it would be fine if someone is ready to pull the purse.

Ron Sluik (NL, 1961): lived and worked in Chisinau Moldova (2001- 2007)
Presently living and working in Bergen Norway.
www.sluik.info

GIVE TO TAKE / Intellectual Property Agency / LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

1. Kathy Rae Huffman / Curator
2. Gulsen Bal / Visual Artist / Curator / Researcher
3. Joanna Sokołowska / Curator
4. Simona Nastac / Curator / Writer
5. Ana Dzokic / Architect / Visual Artist
6. Vesna Madzoski / Theorist / Researcher
7. Marta Zarzycka / Art Historian / Researcher
8. Adela Zeleznik / Curator
9. Antonia Majaca / Curator
10. Zaneta Vangeli / Visual Artist
11. Jolanda Todorovic / Curator
12. Biljana Isijanin / Curator
13. Nada Peseva / Curator
14. Nela Milic / Researcher
15. Vesna Bukovec / Visual Artist
16. Maja Bajevic / Visual Artist
17. Melina Sadikovic / Psychologist
18. Gaia Novati / Curator
19. Tatiana Bazzichelli / Curator
20. Vesna Milicevic / Visual Artist
21. Mira Gacina / Curator
22. Branka Ćurčić / Curator
23. Tanja Lazarevic / Visual Artist
24. Iliyana Nedkova / Curator
25. Kyd Campbell / Visual Artist / Curator
26. Selena Savic / Visual Artist / Architect
27. Eleonore De Montesquiou / Visual Artist
28. Alenka Gregoric / Curator
29. Diana McCarty
30. Ivana Bago/ Art Historian / Curator
31. Sonja Soldo / Cultural Activist / Organizer / Researcher

You can leave your comments freely:::

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Question by ephemeral8

Question:
Do you think that curatorial role is needed in the Internet Art?

Answer by Kathy Rae Huffman (Curator at Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK)

Let me reply rather spontaneously, because if I sit and think about this, it might become 'a job' to do, and I think there are some very obvious ways to look at it. I'm quite bored with artists who feel curators are simply out for themselves, building their own careers on the backs of artists. In my experience, there is a real partnership between artists and curators, mutually appreciative roles (that sometimes even, become blurred). OK, here are some thoughts:

Curator issues:
1. A Curator of Internet Art might seem like an oxymoron -- after all, Art online is really interesting exactly because it bypasses institutional standards, taste and rhw gatekeepers who set the market value of art sales (i.e.: collectors, gallery and museum curators).

2. Independent curators have become more prevalent, more proactive, and many of them disassociate themselves from institutions, and take the side of the artist (sometimes the curator is also an artist, even). This curator looks for the fresh, inspiring, new work. Gallery and museum curators look at the exhibitions, selections, and texts of independents for inspiration. The Internet has helped make this category of curator visible, and more possible, and has even given a new voices of authority to 'the independent'.

Internet issues:
1. On the one hand, the internet is simply a platform for artists to explore. There are access issues across the globe which makes it more likely that Austrian artists use the Internet, for example, than Chinese artists. Internet provides opportunities that video doesn't provide, for example.

2. Internet Art exists outside the influence of the rest of the art world, both for aesthetics and for commerce. Only when artists are commissioned to create an Internet work of art, do they have a chance to realise profits (and then the artists' time consumed is rarely part of the calculation).

Curating for Internet Art.

1. In the mid-1990s, hardly anyone outside a small group of like minded artists and curators was aware of the intelligent work that artists were accomplishing on the Internet. It was a exciting, and a privilege, to curate 'exhibitions' of Internet Art, as special projects for domains such as the Ars Electronica, for festivals, and even for institutions.

2. The proliferation of websites, art portals, art projects online (don't forget those that involve real-time events), blogs, vlogs, streaming events, podcasts, sound files, ring tones by artists and so forth presents a situation of absolute oversaturation and extreme pressure to keep up. What is valuable, what is good, how do you find this work, how to you evaluate it? What is Art for the Internet worth as cultural phenomena?

3. Curating Internet Art brings the concerns that curators have (for example a theoretical position, looking at technical discipline/style, looking at national trends) together with their network of artists and audiences. This can bring about a much wider discussion, much needed critical response and a context for the work, into the discourse of the contemporary art. This can be curating by an artist (sometimes looking for like minded works to fit with their own), it can be curating for an online platform, or for an institutional venue.

4. What does a curator mean for an artist? The curatorial pov can enhance the artists intention, can bring a new audience to the work, and can help audiences understand the work by describing the value of the work (hopefully in plain language). Curators also often have the capability to commission new works.

5. Every curator has their likes and dislikes, their history, their point of view -- just as artists do also. It is the magic of finding the fit, and the resulting dedicated communication about a certain work between artist and curator that creates a bond of trust and respect. The risk that a curator is willing to take, by bringing an artist into a publically 'curated' situation, is what gains their reputation -- which allows them to continue to work and curate again and again.

Note: most curators work very hard, are dedicated to artists and their ideas, and are not selfish, pompous or lazy in their quest for answering questions raised by artists and their works.

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QUESTION 3

By: Simona Nastac (curator, London)

Question:
Do you think the concept of Eastern Europe is still appropriate within New Europe?
In your opinion, are all the members of New Europe defined as a unity, rather than in opposition to one another (especially in relation to the artworld)?

QUESTION 2

By Nela Milic

to All curators

What do you think is considered 'public art' in Eastern Europe?

QUESTION 1

by Gulsen Bal

to

How is it possible today to identify representation that renders the
form of the possible identity-form in the word "representation" as
concept and in practice within its critical inquiry?

Hvala ti na pozivu na sudjelovanje, projekt svakako ima intrigantno polaziste. Koliko shvacam tvoj projekt zapravo ponavlja istu matricu eksploatacije no ovaj put ona je ucinjena vidljivom, 'oni' i dalje dobivaju informacije, a 'mi' smo i dalje ti koji ih besplatno dajemo, a sve skupa stoji na blogu gdje je dostupno i svima drugima, sto je najsladji dio price. subverzija je u tome, koliko shvacam, da se ovaj puta 'oni' trebaju malo posramiti, meni je jedino problem sto ja nemam potrebu nikome raci da bi se trebao sramiti trazenja i besplatnog preuzimanja informacija jer smatram da je to inherentna vrijednost procesa unutar suvremenue umjetnosti i misli. Nadam se da ce se u sljedecoj fazi projekta dogoditi i neki oblik reciprociteta, s obzirom da uvijek vise vjerujem u reciprocitet nego u jednadzbe zlocina i kazne.

Antonia Majaca

Sonja Soldo / Cultural Activist / Organizer / Researcher

Born in 1976 in Zagreb, Croatia. She is cultural activist, organizer and researcher in the field of Public Art. Member of nongovernmental organization [BLOK] - Local Base for Culture Refreshment since 2001 - takes part in organizing international UrbanFestival, editor of the program since 2005. Program coordinator of Operacija: Grad in 2005, a ten day event that temporarily occupied the premises of abandoned industrial complex of the former factory ‘Badel’ and ex city slaughterhouse 'Zagrepčanka' with an extensive program by 26 organizations active in Zagreb's broader independent cultural scene. One of the coordinators of Pravo na grad, an initiative that campaigns against privatization of public space and advocates citizen’s participation in urban development of Zagreb.

Ivana Bago/ Art Historian / Curator

Ivana Bago, art historian and curator at g-mk | galerija miroslav kraljevic, Zagreb, Croatia

Diana McCarty

Diana McCarty is an agent of cultural provocation. She is a co-founder of bootlab and reboot.fm, she runs the Faces mailing list for women in media.erlin. She is a co-founder of bootlab and co-initiated the open source radio project, reboot.fm. She is an active member of the Free Cultural Radio Network, Radia.FM. Together with Valie Djordjevic, Kathy Rae Huffman and Ushi Reiter, she runs the Faces mailing list for women in media. As part of the International Women’s University server development team, she worked with Seda Gürses, Barbara Schelkle, Prof. Heidi Schelhowe, and Heiki Pisch - and also worked to develop feminist pedagogical approaches to computing.

McCarty co-founded the Nettime Mailing list and as part of the Media Research Foundation, she co-organized the MetaForum Conference Series in Budapest. Her main interests are exploiting social and technological systems for cultural use; i.e. piracy and open source software development for real life.

Tatiana Bazzichelli / Curator

Tatiana Bazzichelli a.k.a. T_Bazz (Rome, 1974), is a Communication Sociologist and an expert in Media Art, Hacktivism and Net Culture. Since the 90s she organized events and conventions such as Cum2Cut (Berlin, 2006, 2007), HackMIT! (Berlin, 2007), Hack.it.art (Berlin 2005), Art on the Net in Italy (Berlin 2005), MediaDemocracy and Telestreet (Munich, 2004) and AHA (Rome, 2002). She is the founder of 'AHA: Activism-Hacking-Artivism', a networked project based in Berlin, which received an Honorary Mention in the Digital Communities category of the Prix Ars Electronica 2007. She manages the aha@ecn.org mailing list and writes on art, media and technology for many Italian magazines. In 2006, she published the book "Networking. The net as Artwork" presented last year at Transmediale07.

www.networkingart.eu, www.ecn.org/aha, www.cum2cut.net, www.tatianabazzichelli.online.de

Gaia Novati / Curator

Gaia Novati is involved since many years in the Italian queer countercultural movement. She has worked with radio and visual media projects. Co-founder of Sexyshock, communication laboratory on gender theme and first sex-shop managed by women in Italy, she is interested since long in independent pornography. She is one of the organizers of Cum2Cut, Indie-Porn-Short-Movies Festival in Berlin (2006-2008), where she lives since 2006.
www.cum2cut.net

Alenka Gregorič / Curator

Alenka Gregorič is Artistic Director of ŠKUC Gallery in Ljubljana, Slovenia. www.galerija.skuc-drustvo.si

Eléonore de Montesquiou / Artist

Eléonore de Montesquiou is a French-Estonian artist born in 1970, she lives and works in Berlin and Tallinn.

The films of Eléonore de Montesquiou explore the identities and the borders, with a minimal formal vocabulary and an oniric esthetics. The artist, having lived a long time in Austria, Estonia, Germany, is located constantly between two languages, two cultures, two generations, two stories. She interviews the inhabitants of border areas, urban intervals, forgotten cities, and assembles their testimonys in a significant way. Her videos, of a subtle poetry, shows of a true love for the interviewed people and a singular attention for strange stories of every day life.

In 2008, Eléonore de Montesquiou was awarded the Senat Stipendium (Berlin, Germany) for a film in Moscow. In 2006, she was awarded the Villa Médicis Hors les Murs in France, and a Senat Stipendium in Berlin to realise a film and publication in Poland with women who travel between Poland and Germany to earn a living: Podroznizcki („Travellers“).

In 2005-2006, she worked on ATOM CITIES, a documentary project dealing with the Russian minorities living in ex-closed nuclear cities in Estonia.

Eléonore de Montesquiou has been working since 1998 with the Galerie Zürcher in Paris. Her work is based on a documentary approach to reality, translated in films, drawings and texts. Her previous projects dealt with the symbolism of the wedding dress in Robes (1998, France), the relationship of a women to her body regarding pregnancy in Swing, ma demeure (2003, Paris-Berlin), the relationhip to one’s home in Minu maja on minu maa (2001, Estonia) and Par exemple, Ebenthal (2004, Austria). With Olga Olga Helena (2005, St-Petersburg), Eléonore de Montesquiou was questionning the experience of political refugees and their life in exile.

Selected videography:
ATOM CITIES, 2006, Estonia
OLGA OLGA HELENA, 2005, Russia
PAR EXEMPLE, EBENTHAL, 2004, Austria
SWING, MA DEMEURE, LA PUTAIN ET LA MAMAN, 2003, France
MINU MAJA ON MINU MAA, 2001-2002, Estonia

Kyd Campbell - Artist / Curator

Kyd Campbell is a nomadic programmer and curator born in Montreal, Canada specialized in circulation, media and audio art and is also as a digital creator of public interactive situations.

She has developed a number of cultural venues in Canada and Eastern Europe including collaborations with the Upgrade! International network, Public Art Lab’s project Mobile Studios, the Pure Data community, the HTMlles festival and CTRL_ATL_DEL festival in Istanbul. With Macedonian artist, curator Toni Dimitrov she co-founder of tiny noise and contributes to digital communities and research groups focused on observing mobility and the emotional aspects of human-machine relationships.

Remaining independent allows her some freedom to speculate and experiment, to welcome all forms of collaboration and information exchange. www.frontierlab.org, www.tinynoise.com

Selena Savic / Architect / Artist

Iliyana Nedkova / Curator

Iliyana Nedkova is a curator and writer working on a range of contemporary art projects from both Edinburgh and Sofia.

Described as 'a curator of taste and critical discernment', Iliyana is also a producer and critic of contemporary art and design with more than 15 years of experience. Currently, she is a Creative Director (New Media Art) at Horsecross, Perth where she is curating the innovative Threshold artspace programme since 2004. Recently Iliyana delivered a series of large-scale international projects working as an Associate Curator at New Media Scotland (2001-04), Stills Gallery, Edinburgh (2003-04), the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT) Liverpool (1996-2001) and as Media Arts Officer at the Soros Foundation for the Arts, Sofia (part of the Soros Foundation Network) (1994-1996).

She is a founding Co-Director of ARC: Art Research Communication – a curatorial practice working nationally and internationally with artists, exhibitions, art fairs, editions and critical context since 2004. Latest curatorial projects include the international symposium of curating new media Art Place Technology, Liverpool and ARC Projects – the first commercial gallery for contemporary art in Sofia established in 2007. Currently, she is a PhD candidate exploring Curatorial Theory and Practice of Contemporary Art at Liverpool John Moores University. She is also serving as Honorary Cultural Attache at the Consulate of the Republic of Bulgaria. Iliyana regularly delivers talks at various contemporary art fora, publishes both in her native Bulgarian and in English, and sits as a consultant, assessor and advisor including at the Arts Council, the British Council and International Programme Committee of ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic Arts).

Tanja Lazarevic / Visual Artist

Born in 1967 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Lives and works in Ljubljana. She has graduated in architecture from the University of Ljubljana, works with photography, video, and the internet. Most of her projects were conceived in collaboration with Dejan Habicht. As artist in residence she spent three years in New York and Vienna. Her work is regularly exhibited in major art exhibitions in Zagreb, Sarajevo, Skopje, Budapest, Venice, Berlin and Karsruhe.

EDUCATION / RESIDENCES:
2005 Ministry of Culture of the Republic Slovenia, Berlin
2001 KulturKontakt, Vienna
1999 Ministry of Culture of the Republic Slovenia and SCCA-Ljubljana, New York
1987- 1993 School of Architecture, University of Ljubljana

RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2006 Dialogue in the Kitchen, Volume I, P74 Center and Gallery, Ljubljna
2005 The Rustling of Our Native Forests (with Dejan Habicht), P74 Center and Gallery, Ljubljana
2004 Ljubljana from Road (with Dejan Habicht and Blaz Kriznik), Museum of Modern Art-Information Cente, Ljubljana
2004 The State of Things (with Nina Mesko), City of Women, L jubljana
2003 The Big Erotic Calendar (with Dejan Habicht), P74 Center and Gallery, Ljubljna

NOMINATION & AWARD:
2001 nominations for the //international media/art award, ZKM, Karlsruhe
1995 first prize at the international competition of design, Trieste Contemporanea, Trieste

Mira Gakina / Curator

Mira Gakina was born in Skopje, Macedonia (1978), she is an art historian and art critic. Since 2005 she works for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje, Macedonia.

She has curated and organized numerous events: The best in the cultural heritage, Dubrovnik, Croatia in 2005; Close Connection, curatorial program for international curators and art critics, Amsterdam, Holland in 2006; International Partnership Among Museums, Weil Gallery-Texas and MoCA-Skopje, 2006; etc.

Gacina writes for different magazines including Large Glass, Art Republic magazine, etc. She reviews art events for daily newspaper Utrinski vesnik. Member of AICA Macedonia from 2006.

Graduated from the Institute of History of Art and Archeology at the Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje, Macedonia (2004).

Branka Ćurčić / Curator

Branka Ćurčić works as an editor in the Infocentre department at kuda.org, New Media Center from Novi Sad in Serbia www.kuda.org and as coeditor in the publishing department of the New Media Center, called "kuda.read".

Her work focuses on examining critical approaches towards new media culture, technologies, new cultural relations, contemporary artistic practice and the social realm.

She attends MA in Theory of Media and Art at the Belgrade's University of Art.

Natasa Petresin-Bachelez / Curator

Natasa Petresin-Bachelez is an independent curator and critic based in Paris and Ljubljana, Slovenia. She finished her Master studies at EHESS, where she has been a PhD candidate since 2006. At EHESS she is co-directing a seminar on artistic and curatorial practices, together with P. Falguieres, E. Lebovici and H.U. Obrist.

She has published articles on contemporary and new media art in numerous international exhibition catalogues and art magazines, and is a contributing editor for the online review ARTMargins: Contemporary Central and Eastern European Visual Culture (UC Santa Barbara). She has curated exhibitions and projects in Slovenia, Austria, Slovak Republic, Sweden, Iceland, Germany, The Netherlands and France, most recently she guest-curated the exhibition at the festival transmediale.08 in Berlin.

Between 2004 and 2006 she has been the president of the jury for intermedia arts at the Ministry of Culture of Republic of Slovenia.

Nada Peseva / Curator

Nada Peseva is Senior Officer for culture in the Department for Public Affairs in the City of Skopje, Macedonia.

Nada holds Interdisciplinary postgraduates studies in "Interculturalzam, art management and mediation on the Balkans" sponsored by UNESCO, University of Arts, Belgrade, Serbia. In 2000 she has graduated History of Art and Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of "St. Cyril and Methodious, Skopje, Macedonia.

Since 2005 Peseva is Senior officer for culture in the Department for Public Affairs in the City of Skopje. Prior to this possition she was Head of Department for protection of cultural heritage in Ministry of culture; Coordinator of the Working group for implementation of Program for revitalization of the Old Skopje Bazaar (Ministry for culture);

Since 2003 she is associate in project for comparative analysis of "Cultural policing in Serbia 1989/2003", Centre for research of cultural development, Belgrade, Serbia

She has Curated numerous exhibitions - Curator and organizer of exhibition "Biennale of youth visual artist" , Museum of contemporary art, Skopje; member of organizational team and curator for Macedonian art in international project "The Last East Exhibition Show" 17.05-16.06, Museum of contemporary art, Belgrade, Serbia, etc.

Peseva has been lecturing since 2000 and has organised numerous workshope, seminars, public discussions, etc.

Maja Bajevic / Visual Artist

Melina Sadikovic / Psychologist

Biljana Isijanin / Curator / Artist

Isijanin has graduated in Art History and Archaeology at University in Skopje, Macedonia. Since 1992 she works as an independent curator, art history lecturer and artist. She is a founder of Center for Contemporary Public Arts ELEMENTI, which has been running since 2002 and their activity was reviewed in numerous art magazines, books, broschures and internet sites, as Balkon,Budapest; Wire,London; Editing,Rome; The Big Glass, Skopje and others. From 2006 she is a curator in Gallery Magaza, Institute and Museum, Bitola, Macedonia. Since 2002 Biljana is organiser of International Festival of Video/Shortand Experimental Film/Photography in the same gallery.

Recent curated exhibitions:
National selection for World One Minute Video Exhibition in Beijjing, China, Today Art Museum
National selection for International Exhibition of Miniature Art in Gornji Milanovac, Serbia , Cultural Center
Collaboration, Japan-Macedonian Exhibition in Yokohama, Japan, Bank Art Gallery

Recent exhibitions curated for the Gallery Magaza:
Exhibition of Contemporary Norwegian Art
Exhibition of 62 Macedonian Contemporary artists
Angle 3 - Exhibition of Contemporary German Art
Angle 2 Contemporary Danish Video
Attitude , Third International Festival of Video/Shortand Experimental Film/Photography
Angle 1 - Exhibition of Contemporary Dutch Art
Attitude , Second International Festival of Video/Short and Experimental Films/Photography
Gates, Fifth International Conceptual Project in public spaces in Bitola
etc.

Jolanda Todorovic / Curator

Zaneta Vangeli / Visual Artist

Antonia Majaca / Curator

Antonia Majaca & Ivana Bago are the curators of G-MK| Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic, a non-profit contemporary art space in Zagreb, Croatia.

Nela Milic

Nela Milic started her career as a journalist at Index radio in Belgrade, Serbia. She wrote reviews, critiques and interviews for the culture and the city page of the Daily Telegraph and performing arts magazine, Ludus. With the Film and Television Direction and the History of the Theatre at the University of Belgrade, she worked as a filmmaker and a journalist at the national television station in Serbia. She is currently studying for a PhD at the first visual sociology department in the world at Goldsmiths University in London.

She is a public programme coordinator of Chisenhale Art Place. She produced many arts events from film festivals to the exhibitions and performances. She regularly speaks at symposiums on art and media. She is a member of OISTAT, NUJ and United Nations Association.

Her work centres on the theme of identity – lost and regained through leaving home. It explores the sense of belonging and the stages of adjustment to the new home. Her focus is on displacement with special reference to the emotional complexity of the refugees.

“The forced migration produces turbulent inner turmoil within these people; and I use it as a way of interpreting our world.”

Longing for home, the one the refugees left and doesn’t exist any more is a childhood memory we can all relate to. This gives Nela a vast spectrum of themes to work with in her art – past, present, future, memory, roots, migration, displacement, identity, home, belonging, a sense of place, integration, assimilation, resettlement...

She tends to present them in various forms; from moving image to fashion design, from written material to installation; from architecture to photography.

Adela Zeleznik / Curator

Adela Zeleznik is senior curator for public programmes for the Moderna galerija /Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Born in Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1962. Graduated in art history and English from the University of Ljubljana, 1990. Studied contemporary art at Goldsmiths College (Department of Social and Cultural Studies) in London as a visiting student, 1992-1993; MA from the University of Ljubljana, 2000.

From 1993 working at the Moderna galerija /Museum of Modern ArtLjubljana, Slovenia as Curator for communication, from 2005 as a senior curator for public programmes. Curated two solo exhibitions of Tacita Dean (Martyrdom of St. Agatha and Other Stories, Galerija ŠKUC, 1994 and at the Mala galerija / Moderna galerija, 2004. Participated at the exhibition Private Views, London Print Studio Gallery and Kent Institute of Art and Design, 2002.

Participatory projects in collaboration with artists:
My Beautiful Home, Moderna galerija, 1995 (together with Jože Barši and Tadej Pogačar) and All But Appearance, Moderna galerija, 2000 (together with Žiga Kariž, Damijan Kracina, Darij Kreuh and Anamarija Šmajdek), Transfers, (together with Polonca Lovšin), 2005, This is Me (Dejan Habicht), 2006, Do We Know Each Other? (Alenka Pirman), 2006-2008.

Contributes about art and its interpretation to Slovene and international magazines. e.g. Maska, May-June 2007.

Marta Zarzycka / Art Historian

Marta Zarzycka holds PhD from the Research Institute of History and Culture, Depatament of Gender Studies at Utrecht University, the Netherlands.

She teaches in the field of art history and gender studies.

Vesna Madzoski / Theorist / Researcher

Vesna Madzoski is a PhD candidate at the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis, with the topic Art That Never Happened: The Middle Voice of Contemporary Art on current processes and power relations in the art system.

Together with Adi Hollander and Tamuna Chabashvili, she is one of the initiators and organizers of projects in the artists-run project space Public Space With A Roof in Amsterdam.

Ana Dzokic / Architect / Artist

Ana Dzokic (Belgrade, 1970) is since 2000 co-initiator of STEALTH, a practice that operates in the fileds between architecture, art and cultural activism, based between Belgrade and Rotterdam. STEALTH focuses on innovative aspects of sometimes hidden, temporary or unplanned urban practices that challenge ways in which to create physical aspects of the city and of its culture.

From 1995-1998, Ana was co-initiator and co-ordinator of Projekt X, and independent art association based in Belgrade, Serbia. In 2002, she co-initiated the School of Missing Studies, an interdisciplinary network for experimental study of cities marked by or currently undergoing abrupt transition, based between New York, Rotterdam, Belgrade. Since 2005 she is a member and initiator of Centrala Foundation for Future Cities - initiator of the project Europe Lost and Found.

Simona Nastac / Curator / Writer

Simona Nastac is a curator and writer, based in London and Bucharest.

The most recent projects include How to Build a Universe That Does Not Fall Apart Two Days Later, Regensburg 2007, If You Think This World Is Bad You Should See Some Others, Prague Biennial 2007, and The Sublime Overcoming of the Ultimate Frontier of Art: It’s Rediscovery, 2nd International Art Biennial, Bucharest 2006.

Nastac is an editor of ‘e-cart.ro’ web-zine and a contributor to Flash Art, Praesens (Budapest), Vector (Iasi) and Observator cultural (Bucharest).

Joanna Sokołowska / Curator

Joanna Sokołowska is curator in Zachęta Narodowa Galeria, Warszawa, Poland.ncity.blogspot.com/

At the moment Joanna has curated exhibition entitled Another City, Another Life (9 April – 31 July 2008, Zachęta Mały Salon and public spaces of Warsaw)

The Another City, Another Life is a project that deals with the transformation of Warsaw’s urban and public space in the context of similar processes taking place in other post-socialist cities. It confronts the uncompleted processes of socialist modernisation, as well as present-day globalisation- and free market-driven changes, community utopias, and personal images or memories of another, better life.

Zachęta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki
Pl. Małachowskiego 3
00-916 Warszawa

GULSEN BAL / Visual Artist / Curator / Researcher

Gulsen Bal was born in Izmir, Turkey and lives in London and Vienna. In 1997 she graduated from London Guildhall University in the field of time based media. She studied MA degree in Critical Fine Art at Central Saint Martins College of Art &Design where she recently submitted a doctoral thesis in Fine Art under the supervision of Prof. Malcolm Le Grice and Prof. Mark Nash.
Title of the doctoral thesis: NEGATION of COMPLICATED MIRRORS - An Examination of Differential Structures within the “Production of Subject” Realised through Creative PracticeStatement

Bal is a visual artist, theoretician and works as a researcher discussing the differential structures within the ethico-aesthetic paradigm conceived in representational boundaries. Her practice/research hence has focused upon exploring the notions of the “difference of identity” and “difference,” minority and exilic discourse and border phenomena in trans-local and/or trans-national location within cultural geography.

She has exhibited, curated, published articles and participated in talks in various places and venues in the U.K. as well as in Europe and Turkey.

Recently curated; and co-participated ; Nobodies Story, :/ Seconds, Leeds 2007 | Semionauti II -produced by Border Crossing, Neon Gallery, Bologna 2007 |territories of Duration, Karsi Sanat, Istanbul 2006 | Semionauti I - produced by Border Crossing, Care/of, Fabrica del Vapore, Milan 2006 | Plateaux - out there / aus dort" Künstlerhaus MOUSONTURM(Archive), Frankfurt/Main 2005 | where It was, shall I be - wo es war, soll ich werden... , Diyarbakir 2005 | Border Crossing- Tur reTur… , Künsöffering, Oslo 2004 | Different/ciation, MiArt, Milan 2003 | Short & Sharp, Gallery 291, London 2003 | Border Crossing- Here and Somewhere else…, Gallery X, Istanbul 2003 and at the same time has taken part in numerous group exhibitions; Dialogues Méditerranéens, Saint Tropez 2007 | Looking to the Left, Contemporary Incheon Art Museum, Korea 2006 | Include me in/out, International Biennial Arts Festival, San Francisco 2005 | Blueprints, Berliner Kunstsalon, Berlin 2005 | einfache Gleichheit mit sich , prog:ME, 1st Festival of Electronic Media, Rio de Janeiro 2005 | where the streets have no names, MoNA, Third International Video Festival, Detroit 2005 | Balkan Malls, REX Cultural Center, Belgrade, 2004 and Casa Tranzit, Bucharest, 2004 | Screened Out, Liverpool Biennial 2004 - Independents section, Liverpool 2004 | The Self on the Screen, Art Beat: Battiti D'arte Sull'adriatico, Biennale Adriatica di Arti Nuove, San Benedetto del Tronto 2004 | disembodied Voice, Istanbul 2003

Kathy Rae Huffman / Curator

Kathy Rae Huffman is Director of Visual Arts at Cornerhouse / http://www.cornerhouse.org / Manchester's leading centre for contemporary art, media and cinema. From 00-02, she was the director of Hull Time Based Arts, East Yorkshire's premiere media and live-art centre for the production and presentation of artists work, and the annual ROOT festival.

She is a networker and specialist for web based initiatives, a collector of new media works, and a curator who pioneered support of artists work centered in media theory and practice.

From 1998-2000, Huffman was Associate Professor of Electronic Art, and director of EMAC, the undergraduate bachelor of science program Electronic Media Arts and Communication, at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Since 1999, Huffman has co-organized and co-curated four annual international competitions and on-line exhibitions of 3D environments Web3Dart, with Karel Dudesek (London/Vienna). The website is the largest collection of 3D online works and is the most comprehensive works of it's kind. It has featured more than 150 artists from more than 35 countries. Huffman's Internet networking projects include FACES (2000), a rapidly growing online collection of websites by women -- http://www.faces-l.org. Huffman co-initiated FACES, a mailing list for women working in the various fields of new media, in 1997. This list now numbers 300+ women working in the educational, artistic, technical, research, and social areas of media work.

As a freelance artist, curator, writer and networker, Huffman was based in Austria from '91-'98. She was a member of HILUS Intermediale Projekt Forschung, Vienna (1995-1998), where she made her media library available for research, and organized public events like the successful social office meetings 'Info-Coctails'. As a writer, Huffman has contributed to Telepolis, Rhizome, ISEA and other online journals. In 1996, Huffman collaboratively initiated the column pop~TARTS for the Telepolis online journal with Margarete Jahrmann and maintained the column until 1999 -- http://www.heise.de/tp/

Huffman was curator/producer of the Contemporary Arts Television Fund, a project that joined WGBH TV (Boston's public television station) & The Institute of Contemporary Art Boston (1984-1991). She was Curator for Media and Performing Arts at The ICA from 1989 -1991. She was Curator at the Long Beach Museum of Art, and director of it's regional media art center, with a collection that focused on the history of Southern California media art, from 1979-1983.

VESNA BUKOVEC / Visual Artist

Born on 23.03.1977 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 1995 graduated from Secondary School for Design and Photography, Ljubljana, 1995/1996 studied philosophy and cultural sociology; 1996/2000 studied sculpture at Academy of Fine Arts, Ljubljana, 1999 student exchange program in Hogeschool vor de Kunsten, Utrecht, the Netherlands; 2002 graduated at Academy of Fine Arts, Ljubljana; 2006 MA at Academy of Fine Arts, Ljubljana

Recent solo exhibitions:
2007 Special Place in the City, Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana (together with Lada Cerar and Metka Zupanič)
2006 Video Wall: Vesna Bukovec, Meduza Gallery, Obalne galerije Piran, Koper
2006 Nakupovanje/Shopping, Simulaker Gallery, Novo Mesto
2006 Special Place in the City - Graz, Galerie Centrum, medien.KUNSTLABOR (Kunsthaus), Graz (together with Lada Cerar and Metka Zupanič)

Recent group exhibitions:
2008 Videodokument & Eyedentify Yourself, The Foundation & Gallery 3,14, Bergen
2008 Fabula 2008: Podobe skritega, Photon Gallery, Ljubljana
2007 Festival do Minuto, Rio de Janeiro
2007 Every man is a curator / Jeder Mensch ist ein Kurator, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana
2007 Mobile video art, Tina B. Festival, Prague
2007 Outvideo 2007, various cities, Russia
2007 Art Genertor, Urban Arts Festival, Stip, Macedonia
2007 Editing projects, Universita Roma 3 Architettura (Ex-Mattatoio), Rome
2007 Some other city, Sarajevo winter festival, ICP Gallery, Sarajevo

Nada Prlja / Visual Artist

Nada Prlja was born in Sarajevo, moving at an early age to Skopje, Macedonia. Since 1999 she has been living and working in London. She graduated from the National School of Fine Art (A Levels) and from the Academy of Fine Arts, Skopje, Macedonia and consequently received an MPhil research degree from the Royal College of Arts, London, UK.

Nada Prlja’s work deals with the complex political and sociological situations of the contemporary world, especially focusing on the relation between Eastern Europe (SEE) and Western Europe.

Her recent exhibitions include INIVA – Institute of International Art, London; Contemporary Art Platform, London; OPTICA 2007, Spain; National Gallery of Macedonia, Skopje; Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Almati, Kazahstan, etc. Her fortcoming solo exhibition in 2008 are going to be held in Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia; Artneuland, Berlin, Germany; Public Art project in collaboration with the art collection of Erste Bank, Vinna, Austria, etc.