ARTISTS

Khaled D. Ramadan (based in Copenhagen) is a video maker, art historian, a writer and lecturer in new media. His fields of specialty are visual culture and aesthetics, including multiculturalism and gender, with diverse interests in the fields of social history, scientific research and critical theory, which have greatly influenced his work. Ramadan was Senior Research Curator at the Third Guangzhou Triennial, China (2008) and he was given the Achievement award at the 11th Cairo Biennial, 2008-09. He has curated exhibitions, film and video festivals, and is the founder of the MidEast Cut; Made in Video Festival for the Film Institute in Copenhagen; the Coding-Decoding documentary festival at Nikolaj Copenhagen Art Center, and at the Museum for Contemporary Art, Roskilde, etc.

Tanja Ostojić (based in Belgrade/Berlin) is an independent performance and interdisciplinary artist and cultural activist who uses diverse media in her artistic research, examining social configurations and relations of power. She has recently published a book entitled 'Integration Impossible? The Politics of Migration in the Artwork of Tanja Ostojić'. Her recent one women show Integration Impossible? The Politics of Migration in the Artwork of Tanja Ostojić 2000-2007 has been realized at Kunstpavillon, Innsbruck, Austria in 2008; She as well exhibited and performed in 2008 at: re.act.feminism, Akademie der Künste, Berlin (2008-09); 49th October Salon, Belgrade; Cutting Realities: Gender Strategies in Contemporary Art, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York; Šengenske ženske, ŠKUC Galerija, Ljubljana; Old News, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, USA. David Rych, (based in Berlin), is an artist and filmmaker. He studied at the University of Innsbruck, Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and Bezalel University in Jerusalem - further holding a Post-diplô me from the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Marseille.

Minouk Lim (based in Seoul) studied fine arts at Ewha Womans University in Seoul and the École Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. She concentrates on diverse faces, exploring absurd aspects of society by identifying various strategies of visual production through collaboration with artists working with various media. Her work is usually a satire of the reckless development and money-driven landscape of society. She won the 7th Hermes Korea Art Prize (2007), as well as the Gwangju Bank Prize at the 6th Gwangju Biennale (2006). Selected exhibitions include: Socially Disorganized at Experimental Art Foundation in Australia (2009), Jump Cut at Arsonje Center in Seoul (2008), An Atlas of Event at Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon(2007), 10th International Istanbul Biennial in Turkey(2007), 9th Women's Film Festival in Seoul at the Artreon Cinema in Seoul (2006), Parallel Life at the Frankfurter Kunstverein in Germany (2005).

Libia Castro and Ölafur Ölafsson (based in Rotterdam and Berlin) started their collaboration during their post-graduate studies in Visual Arts in The Netherlands in 1997. In their work, whether experiential installation environments, interventions, events, sculpture, video- or photo-works, Libia and Ölafur often collaborate with other people: groups, individuals, activists, artists and other professionals. While reflecting upon everyday life in different places in which they work, they wish to sensitize the perception of their viewers, raising questions about the human condition, focusing on existential, spatial, cultural, socio-economic and political aspects. They have participated in Manifesta 7, and exhibited at Reykjavik Art Museum, Akureyri Art Museum, CAC Málaga, CAC Vilnius, Art in General New York, De Appel CAC Amsterdam, Rotor Graz, Witte de With CAC Rotterdam, TENT Rotterdam, Kunstler Haus Bethanien Berlin, Platform Garanti CAC Istanbul, Van Abbe Museum Enschede, and the 8th Havana Biennial. They are currently shortlisted for the Prix de Rome 2009, in the Netherlands.

Raymond Taudin Chabot was boorn 1974 in The Hague. He studied at the Goldsmiths College in London and at the Gerrit Rietveld Akdemie in Amsterdam. He is interested in the definition and representation of the male gender, specifically throughout the aestheticism of the businessman‘s stereotypical masculinity. In his videos Chabot uses time, linearity and redundancy as a stilistic device, objectifying the spatial perception in such a way that the linear and cyclical do not only become a narrative but also a physical perceivable element.

Harun Farocki was born in 1944 in Novy´ Jicin (Neutitschein). He studies at the german Film and – Television Akademy Berlin (1966–68). Farocki refers in his documentaries to phenomena of every day life. Economical, political, historical and aesthetical reference-systems are constructed to explore the multiplicity of complex conditions by visualizing and analysing them within a social political context.
Lectorships in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Manila, München und Stuttgart, 1993 – 1999 visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Harun Farocki has made 90 Films, three feature films, essay films, and documentaries. Since 1990 numerous exhibitions in galleries and museums and since 2004 vistiting professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.

(e.) Twin Gabriel
Else Gabriel (1962) and Ulf Wrede (1968) have been working together since 1988.
Twin Gabriel reflects in their work their own personal situations within social-political reference-systems. Different identity patterns are performed by the family Gabriel representing different social and cultural classes. The family system is confronted with social-political systems and is transformed into different models of life realities, indicating to system-immanate contradictions. Twin Gabriel is developing the basic idea of the contradiction between scientific and artistic claims, concepts and expectations and one‘s own incapacity, physical insufficiency and physiological disorders within a social-political context.

Isaac Isitan was born in Turkey. He studied Law at the University of Istanbul before launching into a film producing and directing career. In Turkey, he founded the group Cinema du peuple and produced and directed several films on social issues. He was also an ABC correspondent in the Middle East, from 1978 to 1980. He has been living in Canada since 1980, directing more than a hundred TV reports, and producing and directing documentary films.
Isaac Isitan explores processes of change within corrupt power systems as well as opposing models of self organised cooperatives that reinvent local economies and install parallel markets. Isitan analyses financial- and power political structures and shows new possibilities of redistribution as a reaction of the breakdown of the financial system in Argentina.

Elke Marhöfer was born 1967 in Adenau/Eifel. She studied at the HdK Berlin, at the Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, at the School of the Art Institute Chicago, at the Humboldt University Berlin and at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (Independent Study Program)
Elke Marhöfer explores historic, cultural and political phenomena of society, as e.g. protest movements of minorities (feminists, sixtyeighters, postcolonialists) focussing on the identity and on the sovereignty of the individuals. In this context she reflects the question of representaion of political art and the attended danger, „that political claims could be transformed into consumable products“ (Elke Marhöfer). How can politics of desire look like, politics in which Negri's and Hardt's multitude could exist?

Barbara Musil was born 1972 in Salzburg. She studied human medicine in Graz and experimantal design at the University of Art Linz.
Musil orientates herself on the public space and works with context related interventions, initiating communicative levels. She reacts to different phenomena of every day life as well as to social-political questions, transforming them into poetic statements of participatorical practice.

Tadej Pogacar was born in 1960, Ljubljana, Slovenia. He works as a visual and performance artist, educator and curator. He graduated from Ethnology and History of Art and Painting departments at the University of Ljubljana where he continued his postgraduate studies. He is the founder and director of the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art, established in 1993. He is a theoretician of new parasitism, a model of alternative cultural and social activity.
His most recent projects involve research, urban interventions and collaboration with social minorities. He explores different systems of self organisations within urban contexts establishing supraregional reference systems


Serhat Köksal is living in Istanbul, he has continued to develop his multimedia project 2/5BZ , initiated in Istanbul in 1986, up until the present day, expressing himself in a wide range of media forms. Besides audiovisual performances like “NO Touristik NO Exotic”, which have been shown internationally on 17 country 82 cities, Serhat Köksal has produced an uncountable number of Tapes, CDs, Video-Collages ,performances ,DVDs ,Vinyls, Stickers ,Posters and Copy-Zines since 1991 . In his project “NO Pipeline NO Exotic”, Serhat Köksal aka 2/5 BZ illuminates the common cultural clichés between Orient and Occident in a critical and humorous way, investigating their effects on people’s economic or political situation and individual states of mind. He employs collage and cut-up techniques, found film material, outdoor shots and samples. The project concentrates on concepts such as “Cultural Pipeline” and “Energy Dialogue” since 2007 begin , presenting them with Sound art and “Planetcore” live visuals. Serhat Köksal aka 2/5BZ is co-curator of the International Roaming Biennial of Tehran and have interview with John Peel in 1994 for BBC world Service and have two times ‚ Peel Session ‚ in BBC Radio 1 and have interview about Turkish Pop Cinema on Channel 4 TV [Mondo Macabro television series 2001] and have selection in first wide-ranging book guide of audiovisual art and VJ culture in 2006.
http://www.2-5bz.com

Ricarda Denzer, work revolves around language, particularly the spoken word, which often serves as the focus of her investigations into the relationship between author and subject. Sound as an integral component of verbal communication, Denzer examines the tonal shifts, pauses, and utterance that often go unnoticed during the simple act of speaking. She has participated in SITE Santa Fe Biennial 2008 SITE Santa, Lange nicht gesehen MUSA Wien 2007, Moira Zoitel und Ricarda Denzer Kunsthalle 2007, It is hard to touch the real Kunstverein 2006, Reading in Absence TRAFO House, Budapest 2005, Video viennoises Betonsalon Paris 2005
http://www.ricardadenzer.net

Martin Ebner lives in Berlin. He studied at Visual Media at University of Applied Art Vienna. He is one of the co-editor of STARSHIP Magazine since 1998. Ebner examines the demarcation lines and passage ways of real and fictional journeys through national geographies, public places and private spaces reflecting a set of possible entrances and exits.
His recent exhibitions include VARIOUS SKETCHES FOR LEAVING THE ROOM, Starship, Ludlow 38, Goethe Institute, New York 2008, JULY SCREENINGS, Herald St. London, „Out in The Light“, WRITTEN ON SPIDERS, Starship, Silverman Gallery, San Francisco 2007, OUTSIDE_IN - STARSHIP, Lenbachhaus, Munich 2003.
http://www.poormansexpression.com/martin_ebner_de.htm

Matthias Fuchs
has pioneered in the field of artistic use of game engines in various game art installations. He started the first European Masters Programme in Creative Games at the School of Art & Design at the University of Salford in Greater Manchester. Creative Games is a discipline on the borderline of games, art and critical discourse. („http://creativegames.org.uk/“http://creativegames.org.uk). He is currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of Salford and Programme Leader in MA Creative Technology and MSc Creative Games. He has had sound and media installations in Vienna, London, Mexico City, Tokyo, Helsinki, Stockholm, Norwich, London, Cairo, Vancouver, Paris, and Providence. Commissioned work for ISEA94 and ISEA2004, resfest, ars electronica, PSi #11, futuresonic, EAST, the Greenwich Millennium Dome. Creative games for museums, urban planning and theatre performances.
http://creativegames.org.uk

Bernhard Loibner is a composer of electronic music, musician and media artist from Vienna, Austria. His musical compositions are characterized by the use of live electronics and computers as unique instruments based on software he writes himself. He performs live on a regular basis and he realized compositions for contemporary theatre and dance as well as video, film and radio and he extended his work into the audio-visual domain by creating sound/video compositions. Ongoing collaborations include the sound/video/voice duo «Nerve Theory»‚ with US video artist Tom Sherman as well as live concerts with musicians such as Clementine Gasser, Karlheinz Essl, o.blaat, Peter Szely, Joao Castro Pinto a.o. Commissioned work includes compositions for films by Austrian director Mara Mattuschka, the performance extravaganza of the French collective SUPERAMAS and the Austrian National Public radio.
http://www.loibner.cc

Bob Ostertag is composer, performer, historian, instrument builder and activist. Ostertag has published music CDs, two movies, two DVDs, and two books. His writings on contemporary politics have been wisely published in many languages. Electronic instruments of his own design are at the cutting edge of both music and video performance technology. He has performed at music, film, and multi-media festivals around the globe. His radically diverse collaborators include the Kronos Quartet, avant garder John Zorn, heavy metal star Mike Patton, jazz great Anthony Braxton, dyke punk rocker Lynn Breedlove, drag diva Justin Bond, Quebecois film maker Pierre Hébert, and others. He is rumored to have connections to the shadowy media guerrilla group The Yes Men. He is currently Professor of Technocultural Studies and Music at the University of California at Davis.
http://www.bobostertag.com

Florian Schmeiser,
born in Graz. He studied philosophy at the University Vienna, and finnished his studies of visual media at university of applied art vienna in classes of Valie Export, Peter Weibel, Steina Vasulka, Karel Dudesek. He is work is revolving around Media , Musik and Art in the field of public places. Susanne Schuda and Florian Schmeiser work as schuda/schmeiser in the field of public art since 1997. Their work include installations, experimental interventions, video, audio and collage. And had been shown 2008 Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Steiermark; MAK-Gegenwartskunstdepot Wien, 2007 Functionsuite Edinburgh, modernist mozart Wien; Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Wien, Artmapping Wien; 2006 Tonspur MQ-Wien, PHONON OÖ, AWO Horizonte Wien, ABC Festival Augsburg, Soho in Ottakring Wien
http://www.schudaschmeiser.net/

xurban_collective functioning as an international collective since 2000, xurban_collective has members located in Izmir, Istanbul, Linz and New York City. imam and pope‘s transatlantic collaborations take the form of on and offline new media projects and installations. Xurban_collective‘s mission is to instigate the questioning, examination, and discussion of contemporary politics, theory, and ideology. Documentary photography, video, and text are often combined in an effort to render visible the multiplicity of informative layers inherent in the subjects or situations explored. The exhibition includes IN TRANSIT, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin 2008, Neighbours in Dialogue, Feshane-i Amire, Istanbul 2007, S.i.e.g.e.c.r.a.f.t Platform Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul2006, Underfire, Ispace, Chicago 2006
http://www.xurban.net

Arye Wachsmuth born in Hamburg, raised in Tel Aviv, and lives/works in Vienna. He studied at Visual Media Design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. By identifying the interior elements chronicled with such phenomenological precision in a schematic fashion, to orbit them like phantoms of my imagination; Wachsmuth the materialization of a history from within itself in its infinite realm, both themes held together by the eternal recurrence of the small in the large. Recent exhibitions include the Austrian Cultural Institute, London, MARS at Post Gallery, Los Angeles, Europa spielt New York in Berlin at Philip Grötzinger´s exhibition space in Berlin.
http://www.s04.at/arye.html

Florian Zeyfang born 1965 in Stuttgart and lives in Berlin. He studied at the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York and he is currently Professor for Video/Installation at the Art Academy in Umeå, Sweden.  In his texts, videos and installation work, Zeyfang critically looks at the connotations of a globalized world of media signs and at the consequences for the society and the individual, taking into account historic aspects of both art and political movements. His projects are conceived within different forms of the moving image: film, video, slide projection, animation. Spacious installations as well as slide series form an important part of his discussion of “time-based media.”  His recent exhibitions includes in Kunstverein Köln, at A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and Artists Space, New York; at the 2nd Tirana Biennale, at ICA Moscow, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and Kunstverein Hannover, at the 6th Werkleitz Biennale in Halle and at the KW Berlin. Furthermore, the artist curates projects for institutions like CCA Ujazdowski Castle in Warschau, sala rekalde in Bilbao, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, the 8th Havanna.
http://www.pabelloncuba.com

Sabine Bitter /Helmut Weber– Since 1993, Vancouver and Vienna based artists Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber have collaborated on projects addressing urban geographies, architectural representations and related visual politics. www.lot.at

Their series of photo- and video-works like “Recent Geographies”, “Caracas, Hecho en Venezuela” and “LIVE LIKE THIS!” engage with specific moments and cultural logics of (neoliberal) globalization, as they are materialized in architecture as a frame for spatial meaning.

Petra Gerschner – Petra Gerschner is an artist and curator, who completed her BA in Fine Arts at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich in 1999. Her work includes projects in public space, photo and video installations, she participated in exhibitions like 25PEACES Europart, Vienna, 2006 / Double Check, Camera Austria etc and curated projects in Munich, Berlin, Calcutta, New York and Washington. In 2007, she initiated the international art project "http://www.holy-damn-it.org" in the context of the protests against the G8 summit in Heiligendamm, Germany.

Marina Grzinic/Aina Smid – Marina Grzinic and Aina Smid have been video artists since 1982. Before they had a punk band and were involved in performance art. They have collaborated in more than 40 video art projects, they made a short 16 mm film and numerous video and media installations; independently they directed several video documentaries and television productions. In 1997 they realised an interactive CD-ROM for ZKM, Karlsruhe. In their 25 years’ collaborative media work, Grzinic and Smid presented and exhibited their video works and video installations in more than 100 video festivals in the World and have received several major awards for their video productions.
 
In 2003 a retrospective of their works (1985 – 2003) was held at the Oberhausen International short film festival, Germany. In 2004, a DVD compilation of their works from 1990s until 2003 was realized in Vienna, as part of the project.
http://www.index-dvd.at/de/program/005

Andrea Ressi – Born in Graz. Andrea Ressi studied at the university of architecture and fine arts at TU Graz (master degree 1997), the academy of Art Antwerpen, as well as the Academy for Applied Arts Vienna and the University of East London which she finished in the same degree until 2000. She developed a special semantics in her artistic work according to the ever after changing modes of awareness in our point of view of the world.



Ursula Biemann is an artist, theorist and curator working on geopolitical displacement, migrant labour, and extraterritorial zones. Border and mobility are recurring themes in her video essays from Performing the Border (1999) to Contained Mobility (2004).
She initiated the collaborative project B-Zone, Kunstwerke Berlin (2005) which includes her videore search Black Sea Files (2005) on the Caspian oil geography. Her multi-channel video, Sahara Chronicle (2006-2007) tracks the trans-Saharan migration system from Niger to Morocco. She is also curator of the 2003 exhibitions Geography and the Politics of Mobility, Generali Foundation, Vienna, and The Maghreb Connection, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo (2006). The most recent video essay, XMission, examines the discourses on the Palestinian refugee camps in the Middle East. She has published numerous books and essays including a monograph of her video work Mission Reports (2008) with Cornerhouse Publishers. Biemann is a researcher at the Universities of Art and Design in Zurich and Geneva.
www.geobodies.org

hackitectura.net – Composed of Pablo de Soto, Sergio Moreno and Jose Perez de Lama (aka osfa), hackitectura.net is a group of architects and programmers developing projects and theoretical research in the intersecting fields of space, electronic flows and social networks. hackitectura.net stresses the use of real time communication, free software, collaborative work and the emancipatory use of technologies.
Their work has dealt with the creation of connected, participatory public spaces and infrastructures, including projects such as Indymedia Estrecho (2003-present; in collaboration with a wide network of social movements in Southern Spain and Northern Africa), La Multitud Conectada (Huelva 2003), Fadaiat (a trans-border medialab and event between Tarifa and Tangier, 2004 & 2005), Geografías Emergentes (Extremadura, 2007), Situation Room (Laboral, Gijon, 2008) and GISS (2005-present; a global free software video-streaming server network by Sergio Moreno and GISS team).
In 2006, hackitectura.net developed the concept of WikiPlaza for the Plaza de las Libertades – international competition (with Morales de Giles Arquitectos and Esther Pizarro), to build a 30,000 sqm public space and cultural building incorporating the free software community experiences of the last decades to a civic building in Sevilla, Spain. Two different prototypes of the project are scheduled to be implemented in Paris (Wikiplaza-Paris, May 2009) and at the Sevilla Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporaneo (October 2008).
hackitectura.net's publications include the books “Fadaiat. Libertad de movimiento/ libertad de conocimiento” (2006 – Spanish, English and Arab) and “Devenires cíborg. Arquitectura, urbanismo y redes de comunicación” (by Jose Pérez de Lama, 2006).
http://mcs.hackitectura.net

Judith Augustinovic’s work deals with the territorialisation and narrativization of spatio-bodily entanglements of (s)ex, trans/gender, sexuality and intimacy. Her trans-disciplinary projects and field studies are amongst others carried out in Rio de Janeiro and Vienna. Awards include Experimentelle Tendenzen in der Architektur* (2000), Margarethe Schütte-Lihotzky grant (2001), Joseph Binder Award for spatial design* (2003). Artist-in-residence at Akademie Schloss Solitude* (2002-2003) and Capacete, Rio de Janeiro (2004). Exhibitions and performances include Skinship N°0 (2006) in Rio de Janeiro; Skin N°2* (2004) in Stuttgart and Lille; Skin (2003) in Stuttgart; vanilla-space* (2003) in Stuttgart and Berlin; Venice Architecture Biennale* (2002). [* in cooperation with Herbert Stattler until 2004]

Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer collaborate on architecture, art and theory projects on the spatial and cultural effects of geopolitical transformation. Their projects investigate urban network processes, spaces of geocultural crises, and forms of cultural participation and self-determination. In 2005 they have initiated the Networked Cultures project, an international research platform on the potential of translocally networked spatial practices, based at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Peter Mörtenböck is professor of Visual Culture at the Vienna University of Technology and Visiting Fellow at Goldsmiths College, London. Helge Mooshammer is director of the research project Relational Architecture’ at the Vienna University of Technology and has been Research Fellow at the International Research Centre for Cultural Studies (IFK) Vienna in 2008.
www.networkedcultures.org

Oliver Ressler lives and works in Vienna. He organizes theme-specific exhibitions, projects in the public space and videos on issues such as global capitalism, forms of resistance, social alternatives, racism and genetic engineering.
The ongoing project Alternative Economics, Alternative Societies was shown at 21 different venues, including solo-presentations at Galerija Skuc, Ljubljana, 2003; Kunstraum Lueneburg, Germany, 2004; Centro Cultural Conde Duque, MediaLabMadrid, Madrid, 2004; Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, 2005 and the Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, 2005. A publication on the project was published by the Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk in 2007.
Many of Ressler’s works have been realized in collaborations: Boom! focuses on the central contradictions of globalized capitalism with David Thorne, European Corrections Corporation on the phenomenon of prison privatization with Martin Krenn, and What Would It Mean To Win? on the protests against the G8-summit in Heiligendamm with Zanny Begg. Together with Dario Azzellini, Ressler produced the films Venezuela from Below, 2004 and 5 Factories–Worker Control in Venezuela, 2006, which was presented as a 6-channel video installation at the Berkeley Art Museum, USA. Ressler has also participated in biennials in Prague, 2005; Seville, 2006; Moscow 2007 and Taipei, 2008.
http://www.ressler.at

Erinç Seymen, born in Istanbul, lives and works in Istanbul. He graduated from Department of Painting at Mimar Sinan University in 2006. The same year he began his MA Programme in the Department of Art & Design at YŠldŠz Technical University.
Seymen has produced works in diverse media such as painting, drawing, video, installation, photography, wall-painting, performance, electro-acoustic music, concerning various subjects such as militarism, nationalism, gender politics, popular iconography, power relationships.
He had three solo exhibitions at Galerist, _stanbul and has participated in several group exhibitions in _stanbul, _zmir, Berlin, Athens, Maribor, Vienna, Lisbon as well as art festivals in Basel, Madrid, London and Rotterdam. He opened his most recent solo projects in Finnish Museum of Photoghraphy in Helsinki and in Van Abbe Museum in Eindhoven. He also occasionally writes for magazines such as art-ist, Kaos GL and Siyahi, and collabrates with the queer solidarity association Lambdaistanbul.

Moira Zoitl
was born in Salzburg, lives and works in Berlin. She studied at the University Mozarteum, Salzburg, and received a master degree from Academy of Applied Arts Vienna, and moved to carry to complete her study at Academy of Fine Arts in Visual Communications, Berlin in 1997.
In her artistic practice Moira Zoitl mainly deals with issues like migration, city development, gender and (auto)biography. Her recent video and installative works focus on questions of re-presentations and self-empowerment of Philippine domestic workers in Hong Kong (Chat(t)er Gardens, Stories by and about Filipina Workers, 2004-2008) and the racial and gendered dimension of migrant labour in the global context (In winter it’s cold outside, 2006).
Furthermore she initiated several collaborative and curatorial projects like: Sexy Myth?, Ideas and Images of Artists, (2006 NGBK, Berlin, Forum Stadtpark Graz and Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig. 2007 Overbeck-Gesellschaft Kunstverein Lübeck) and Dreams of Art Spaces Collected, Künstlerbund Berlin (with Dorothee Albrecht, Andreas Schmid, et al. Hosted by the IGBK).
Exhibitions (selection): 2Show Down, Projektraum exex, St. Gallen, Moira Zoitl und Ricarda Denzer, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, As in real life, P74 Gallery, Ljubljana, work/labour* Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork Ireland, OBG Ormeau Bath Gallery and Galerie im Taxispalais Innsbruck, Equal and less Equal, Museum on the Seam, Israel.
http://www.moirazoitl.com


Personal Cinema is an International New Media Collective that calls Cinema calls for the emergence of both representation and distribution systems that are responsive to the local, the individual, and even the unprofitable. The group organizes projects and events that engage the critical mind of the public, suggesting alternatives to the new global homogeneity. It focuses attention on problems that concern the local territories and tries to explore the different cultural characteristics that constitute the social identity of the individual. Moreover, it works to develop public contexts for minority groups to express and represent themselves.
www.personalcinema.org

The erasers are a group whose work is based on the integration of various seemingly diverse elements such as: live cinema/ improvised music/ performance_actions/ the internet/ and installation techniques. The erasers are an open circuit : they are as few or as many as each project demands and they all function within the free association that the erasers are. The erasers search for the possibility of presenting their work to an open and unbiased audience has led them to work under various pseudonyms, some of these being: the instructors and the curators.

Ilias Marmaras (was born in Greece) is a new media artist and the initiator and co-fonder of Personal Cinema group. His work mostly focuses on alternative video games and online 3D virtual environments. He was the initiator of the new media cultural/political project: "the making of Balkan Wars: The game" and its core video game project: ''the Balkan Mall''. He has written and published various papers regarding critics on aesthetics, politics and New Media, in European magazines, newspapers and web sites. His recent work includes educational video-games as "Resist", a game that focuses on drug abuse prevention for adolescents. In the past, he has also exhibited worldwide as a painter and he has also worked as art director or associated producer in numerous documentary films for world wide production companies as PBS, NBC, BBC WORLD, ARTE, and WLIW.

Daphne Dragona (was born in Greece) is a new media arts curator and organiser. She was the General Coordinator of Fournos Center for Digital Culture and the Programme Curator & Coordinator of Medi@terra International Art and Technology Festival, based in Athens from 2001 - 2006. She is member of the Personal Cinema, International New Media Collective, being the spokesperson and PR person for the group. The last years her focus is mostly on gaming as a platform for social change. She was the Associate Curator for the Gameworld Exhibition in Laboral Centro de Arte y Industrial and the Curatorial Supervisor of the Gameworld LABworkshops in 2007. She is also a contributor for New Media in the free press magazine VELVET that circulates in Athens.


Sister0 is a performer working with experimental media and fine art. She manifests in Europe and Australia and sometimes South-America. Her interests include meme-hacking, metaphysical networks; giving homage to the late 19th-early 20th century manifestations of the paranormal, political cabaret and the experiential worlds they carry in their wake.
One of her latest projects "paraphernalia" exemplifies this, Gamepads are transformed into sensitive sonic objects, talisman, that among other thing, control and triggers sound, like a radio transmission coming from elsewhere, perhaps the other side?

Jesse Darlin' is a pirate, rebel, post-postmodernist, post-populist performer and "rent-a-muse." She studied fine art at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and modern mime at the Theaterschool of Amsterdam, and has variously worked as a cook, thief, wife, lover, stylist, soda jerker, circus clown, artists' model, body-double and teenage porn star. Darlin' works across the platforms of performance, live music, literature, collage, illustration and "experimental living," moving into and becoming The Spectacle in order to transcend it. Previous collaborations included musician Fyfe Dangerfield, painter Jan Maris, performance artist Sister0, photographer Cereinyn Ord, memecraft engineer/ electronic musician Decoy and fine artist Ossa Kierkegaard among others. She has lived and worked in Paris, Amsterdam, Portland, Seattle and London

XLterrestrials are creatively situated in the vicinity of Craig Baldwin and the "Artist Television Access" project in San Francisco, an important platform for media activism in the United States. They are currently based in Berlin and working on two projects: For one in collaboration with Media Decompression Berlin, they are collecting and archiving political, experimental and underground film and video work from all over the world to be collected and made accessible in a web-based and-organized archive.
Pod p Podinksi is a media activist, art organism, dj, and co-founder of the XL Terrestrials, a praxis group for psychomedia analysis and virtual exorcisms of the Military Entertainment Complex. With a background in communications, film, and theater sound design, he has worked primarily on the Indy frontiers in San Francisco and Berlin, contributing both audio, texts, film work, and tactical media applications to both art + realworld events like Next 5 Minutes, No Border Camps, Ars Electronica, WTO, G8, and a variety of local culture reclamations.

monochrom is an art/technology/philosophy cooperation, founded in 1993 by Johannes Grenzfurthner and Franz Ablinger, headquartered in the Quarter for Digital Culture in Vienna's MuseumsQuartier. Other members include Evelyn Fürlinger, Harald List, Anika Kronberger, Frank Apunkt Schneider, Daniel Fabry and Günther Friesinger, and, since 2005, Roland Grather as PR Content Manager. In 2006, Jacob Appelbaum became the official monochrom Ambassador...

Dr. Richard Barbrook is the author of Pluto Press's Spring 2007 release Imaginary Futures and has also written a number of highly influential essays on the clash between commerce and cooperation within the Internet, including 'The Hi-Tech Gift Economy', 'Cyber-communism', 'The Regulation of Liberty' and, with Andy Cameron, 'The Californian Ideology: http://www.imaginaryfutures.net

Jaesper Alvaer was born 1973 in Copenhagen, grew up in Oslo, and is now living in Prague. Throughout his career he has exhibited his works in numerous one-man and group exhibitions, including Prague, Bratislava, Oslo, Budapest, Paris, Berlin, Stuttgart, Leipzig, Belfast, Seattle, Los Angeles, Dundee, London, Lisbon, Wroclaw, Hong Kong, Kokura, Beijing, China, Chicago, New York, Delft, Graz and Vienna. He has studied in Oslo - Norway, Kitakyushu - Japan, New York City - U.S.A., Montpellier - France, but this summer he will graduate from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague - Czech Republic.

Société Réaliste is a Paris-based cooperative created by Ferenc Gróf and Jean-Baptiste Naudy in June 2004. This cooperative manages the development of several research and economical structures in fields such as territorial ergonomy, experimental economy, political design or counter-strategy. Société Réaliste's 2008 public presentations include contribution for Utopia Transfer (Kiscelli Muzeum, Budapest), Economie 0 (La Ménagerie de Verre, Paris), Transmediale 08: Conspire (Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin), conferences at La Cantine (Paris), Maison Descartes (Amsterdam), Café Pompier (Bordeaux), uqbar (Berlin), Jan van Eyck Academie (Maastricht) and articles for Journal of Visual Culture (London) and The HTV (Amsterdam).

cuntstunt is a zine, which we like to understand as a feminist "Handapparat", a subjective compilation of texts, drawings and collages, coming from the fields of feminism, anarchism, sexuality, queer theory and music. It arose from the idea to share not only the output or conclusions of our project related researches in an adequate way to ourselves and other people, but also all the other interesting stuff we found somewhere in between.
Its something like a "best of" of collected material: text and image documents from our hard disks, scribbles from our notebooks, old school collages and lyrics referring to our mp3 play lists; stuff which get usually lost. It's all about bringing it back on paper; to kind of rescue nice data from getting lost in the depth of our hard disks and paper piles. The first Issue came out in 2003, the second in 2006, the third is in production. http://cuntstunt.net

The history of Zampa di Leone is short, and their targets are even more limited. They target areas of contemporary art and cultural activism, generally limited to the Balkan region. Activity of Zampa di Leone happened at the right time and at the right place, which makes it truly historic. This work was created at the time of a fictional history (tradition) in order to negate this fabrication in the most brutal fashion. This is the case of Zampa di Leone’s first fanzine, “In the Arse of the Balkans”, which parodies an entire movement of balkanization of art practices. There was a lot of criticism of Balkan Contemporary Art exhibitions that were organized by famous curators Harald Szeemann and Rene Block.

Lukas Pusch was born 1970 in Vienna. Art studies in Vienna, Moscow and Dresden.
Lives and works in Vienna. Last exhibitions 2008 Hommage an Bianca Lehrer. Konzett, Galerie,Wien / A. 2007 Vienna Voodoo. Art is uninteresting complete. As well as Investmentfond Blue Chips. All Konzett, Galerie, Vienna / A. Tiere II. Kuhstall Moosalpe im Allgäu, D. - Presentation in Galerie Konzett. Konzett, Galerie / Kunsthandel, Wien / Österreich - ViennAfair 2007, presentation Buchhandlung Walther König. Art Cologne 2007, Köln / D - Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln / Deutschland. All the animals in the woods. SWINGR, raumaufzeit, Wien / A.. 2006 presentation of Buchhandlung Walther König. Art Cologne 2006, Köln / D. Maslow´s Cream. Anorak, Vienna / A. Strange Cargo. quartier21, Vienna / A. camp.lab 1. In fluc / FQ-Kunsthalle praterstern,. Nairobi Retour. Kunsthalle Wien, project space, Vienna / A as well as Radikal Deko. Blogger Apartment, Berlin / D.

Ira Hadzic was born in 1979 in Sarajevo (BiH). At the age of eight she became a pioneer and swore an oath to always learn and work diligently. That is why at the heart of her work lies a learning: How to think about how things might be different. As learning is living and vice versa, I.H.s biographical facts have been born out of the attempt to understand the apparently foreign and the apparently familiar and thus to explore beyond the ‘taken-for-granted’. I.H. studied Cultural Anthropology and American Culture and Literature in England and Germany. She graduated (MA) in 2005 and moved to Berlin where she currently lives. Together with another artist she ‘operates’ under the name Meereshund. Their field of work mainly includes film, photography, writing, illustration, exhibition, observation, translation and improvisation.

Stefan Rusu; Based in Chisinau, Republic of Moldova, and Bucharest, Romania he focus his practices on strategy of intervention toward unexplored spaces of Far East regions such as Central Asia, Siberia and Mongolia. Dealing with the exploration of cultural and political environments (since 2000) and with appropriation of social and cultural aspects between Far Eastern and East European regions, he follows the strategy of establishing long term collaborations between artists and art initiatives from those regions.
Trained primary as visual artist he extended his interest to curatorial practice, managing and fundraising projects, editing TV programs, producing experimental films, TV reports and documentaries. Since 2005 he was involved in development of TV project run by [KSA:K]-Contemporary Art Center from Chisinau and was appointed as editor-in-chief of AATV program. In 2005/2006 he attended the Curatorial Training Program at Stichting De Appel from Amsterdam where he co-curated Mercury in Retrograde.

Christoph Theiler lives and works as a composer, pianist and artist in Vienna. Since the mid-1980s, he has written works for orchestra, chamber music, and theatre, first of all for meyerhold unltd. Since 1997 he has also worked in radio drama (for ORF, WDR, BR, and others) as well as in experimental radio art. Beginning in 2000, his increasing interest in media art and electronic music, leads to tape compositions and multimedia sound installations. In 2001 he founded initiative zeitgenössische musik with Erik Janson. Art radio broadcasts: Ausmisten (2003), Finalbluten by Peter Pessl (2003)

Kazimir Malevich: Exhibiting since 1985 (Selection )
2005 “The International Exhibition of Modern Art” Kunstverein Aichach 2005 “East Art Museum” Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum Hagen 2004 “The International Exhibition of Modern Art” Kunsthaus Dresden 2003 “The International Exhibition of Modern Art” Venice Biennale 2002 “Fiction Reconstructed” M_csarnok, Budapest 2002 Sidney Biennial 2002 “In Search of Balkania” Neue Galerie Graz, 2001 “Fiction Reconstructed” Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade 2000 “Fiction Reconstructed” SKUC Gallery, Ljubljana 1994“Who Chooses Whom” New York, The New Museum of Contemporary Art 1993 “Kontext Kunst” Künstlerhaus Graz 1992 “Tribüne Trigon 1940-90” Stadtmuseum Graz 1987 “Trigon 87” Neue Galerie Graz 1986 “The Last Futurist Exhibition” SKUC Gallery, Ljubljana 1986 “The International Exhibition of Modern Art” Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, 1986 “The Last Futurist Exhibition” SKUC Gallery, Ljubljana 1985 “The Last Futurist Exhibition” Private space, Belgrade kontak-collection.net

Stefan Lutschinger is a proletarian bohemian and a departed on holiday. He works as an artist, curator, performer, blogger and free author on social problems or social conflicts, whose solutions are only conceivable by esthetic means. He works in the fields of digital art, recreational robotics, mass agitation art and anthropology of the posthuman.

Shazalakazoo – Balkan Breakz - making electronic music since 1998; performing it live since 2000. Shazalakazoo performed in various clubs in Belgrade, Novi Sad, Sremski Karlovci, Stara Pazova (Serbia), Zagreb, Pula (Croatia), Ljubljana, Logatec (Slovenia), Basel (Switzerland), Amsterdam, Nijmegen (Netherlands), Cologne and Dortmund (Germany). Shazalakazoo performed at various festivals: EXIT Festival (Novi Sad, Serbia), Aprilski Susreti Festival (Belgrade, Serbia), SeriousPop Festival (Vienna, Austria), Media Mediterranea Festival (Pula, Croatia), Karantena Festival (Dubrovnik, Croatia), Underwater Overground Festival (Sibenik, Croatia), Urban Fest (Osijek, Croatia), Lift Club Fest (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina), Terminal00 BalkanArt Festival (Ljubljana, Slovenia) and Golden Drum Advertising and Media Meeting (Portoroz, Slovenia). Shazalakazoo tracks were released at various compilations: Belgrade Coffeeshop (B92, Serbia), Mute Magazine (Fallout Records, UK), Bombardiranje New Yorka (Listen Loudest Records, Croatia) and Media Mediterranea (Metamedia, Croatia).
Shazalakazoo are Milan Djuric (in studio: programming, vocals, woodwinds, keyboards, guitars; live: computer, midi-controllers, vocal) and
Uros Petkovic (in studio: programming, scratching, keyboards, guitars, violin; live: computer, turntables).

Tanya Ury 1951* London, studied from 1971 Foundation in Fine Art, Central/St Martins, London (GB) BA HONS in Fine Art, first class, Exeter (GB) Masters in Fine Art, distinction, Reading University (GB) Colin Walker Fellowship in Fine Art (& guest lecturer), Sheffield Hallam University (GB). Solo Exhibitions (selection) 2002 Hochbunker Cologne-Ehrenfeld (D) 2006 Tüzraktér Independent Cultural Centre, Budapest (HU) 2006 Exhibition & workshop with pupils from the Anne-Frank-Realschule. Group Exhibitions (selection) 2007 Urys worked on the online Feminist Art Base, The Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, The Brooklyn Museum, New York With Connected, Jewish Cultural Days, Altes Museum im BIS-Zentrum (Old Museum in the BIS Centre), Moenchengladbach D) Tanya Ury’s new work in the collaborative context with Laurel Jay Carpenter during the ”Avant-Garde Dating” week at Art Forum, The New Life Shop Art Gallery (D) as well as Diaspora and Troubles curated by Tanya Ury, Kunstbunker Tumulka, Munich (D) and many more.


Petja Dimitrova is an artist based in Vienna. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Since 1996 she has been showing her work in ehibitions. Her artistic praxis is located between visual art, political and participatory cultural work also with artistic groups and NGO’s (b.a. dezentrale medien, a room of one's own, culturareisen, Public Netbase, openup, Initiative Minderheiten, MAIZ).

Kerstin Kellermann is a journalist, for previous four years editor in chief of the refugee magazine "Bunte Zeitung" and currently editor of the magazine "art in migration". She lives and works in Vienna.


Grada Kilomba is a psychologist with studies of clinical psychology and psychoanalysis in Lissboa. She teaches at the Humboldt University Berlin department for Gender Studies: “Black Skin, White Masks, Frantz Fanon and Psychoanalysis”. She researches and writes in the frame of (post)colonial studies on African diaspora, racism and trauma; race, gender, representation and film.


Martin Krenn examines and discusses in his work sociopolitical topics. He uses different media such as photography, video and internet to develop projects that are realized in exhibitions, the web and in public space. He studied at the University of Fine Arts, Vienna and at the University of Music (electronic music), Vienna.


Anne-Britt Rage is an artist and co-operator based in Oslo. She is educated at Oslo and Vienna Academy of Fine Arts where she has initiated workshops and collaborative projects. Her works deal with xenophobia, nationalism and feminism through performance, videos, installations and books. She has a BA in political science and history of ideas from the University of Oslo. She is one of the initiators and administrators of the xeno.no project.


David Rych is an artist and filmmaker based in Berlin. He studied at the University of Innsbruck, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Bezalel University Jerusalem, and holds a Post-diplôme from the École supérieure des beaux-arts Marseille. His research and practice revolves around notions of cultural identity as much as socio-political transformation. He is one of the initiators and administrators of the xeno.no project.


Mara Traumane is a researcher, art critic and curator currently working in Riga and Berlin. As a freelancer, she is collaborating with Center for New Media Culture RIXC and other creative projects ranging from recollections of 80's samizdat novels and manifestos to the development of net-based script tools. Since 2000, she curated and co-curated several exhibitions, sound and new media projects. Her PhD research is in the Latvian Academy of Art, in 2005/06 research at the Humboldt University Berlin (DAAD scholarship).


Ergin Çavusoglu (b. Bulgaria, 1968) studied at The National School of Fine Arts ‘Iliya Petrov’, Sofia in the early 1980s. He consequently received a BA in mural painting from the University of Marmara, Istanbul, and an MA from Goldsmiths, London, where he now lives and works.He represented Turkey at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003 and received widespread public attention in 2004 when he was short-listed for the Beck’s Futures Prize. Recent exhibitions include Quintet Without Borders, Haunch of Venison, Zurich, Point of Departure, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, and Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, Entanglement, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, the 8th Istanbul Biennial and British Art Show 6 and the 3rd Berlin Biennial.
http://www.haunchofvenison.com/en/index.php#page=home.artists.ergin_cavusoglu


Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer are founder members of the London and Vienna based collective ThinkArchitecture. Peter Mörtenböck is Professor of Visual Culture at Vienna University of Technology and Visiting Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London.Helge Mooshammer is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Art and Design, Vienna University of Technology and Visiting Tutor in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, London. Working as artists, architects, curators, and theorists, using texts, photography, videos, installations and multi-media, they have produced a wide range of research projects on contested urban spaces and geopolitical transformation. They have contributed to the 7th and 8th Venice Architecture Biennales 2000 and 2002, and to the XXIth and XXIIth World Congresses on Architecture, Berlin 2002 and Istanbul 2005. Their current research Networked Cultures (2008) investigates the cultural transformations under way in Europe through examining the potentials and effects of networked spatial practices.
http://www.networkedcultures.org


Nada Prlja was born in Sarajevo (1971), 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.Her recent exhibitions include INIVA – Institute of International Art, London; Contemporary Art Platform, London; OPTICA 2007, Spain; Artneuland, Berlin (forthcoming); National Gallery of Macedonia, Skopje; Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Almati, Kazahstan.
http://reunionprojects.org.uk/blog/2007/03/globalwood_by_nada_prjla.html



Vladimir Nikolic (b. in Belgrade, YU, 1974) graduated from Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 1999. Received MA from the same faculty in 2005. Lives and works in Belgrade. Nikolic works mostly in the media of video and photography. In his works he focuses on the relationship between the tradition and contemporary arts and that between regional and global cultures.
His recent exhibitions include Trafo House of Contemporary Art, Budapest (2007), The Kitchen, New York City, NY (2006) , Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart (2006), SPACE Gallery, Bratislava (2006), Artefiera Bologna 2004,Cornerhouse, Manchester (2003).
www.vladimir-nikolic.com



Tamara Moyzes (b. in Slovakia, 1975), is a video artist. She studied at the New Media AVU Prague in the studio of prof. Michal Bielicky where she received a MA in 2005. Furthermore she studied at the Institute of Arts Avni in Tel Aviv, Israel, Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava (1996-97). In 1999 she was accepted at the Academy of Fine Arts Bezalel in Jerusalem in the studio of Free Art. Between 2003-04 she received a scholarship at the Academy Bezalel in Jerusalem where she studied Video and Documentary film in the studio of Prof. Avi Mugrabi and Yair Lev. She was a curator of NOD Gallery in Prague and participated as a curator on a number of exhibitions. She lives and works in Prague. Her work is characterized by the orientation on political issues.
Her recent exhibitions include Entrance, Prague (2007), Gallery C2C, Prague, Medium Gallery, HIT Gallery Bratislava (2007), Amnesty International Exhibition, Bratislava and Prague (2006), WRO - 11. International Festival of New Media in Poland, Media festival EnterMultimediale2, Prague (2005), Wedding gallery, Berlin, Short Film Festival Oberhausen (2004), Festival Womanifesto, Bangkok,Thailand, Gallery Tel Aviv, Israel, Czech Cultural Institute, London (2003) etc.
www.tamaramoyzes.info

Sara Nuytemans (b. 1970 in Nieuwpoort, Belgium) studied Industrial Design Engineering at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands where she received a MS in Industrial Design Engineering. She consequently studied at IUA (Audiovisual Institute) of the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain where she got a MA in Digital Arts. She makes video-installations, sometimes in combination with performances. Her work always presents the tension between what we consider virtual reality and physical reality. Her video-installations always contain kinetic, or interactive, elements.
She has taken part in many residency programmes, e.g. Artist in Residence at Cemeti Arthouse in Yogyakarta, Indonesia (2006), artLAB San Servolo artist residency in Venice (2006). In 2005 she received a grant for project “Special Mission to Mongolia”. The output was presented in Stroom, Haag.

Arya Pandjalu
(b.1976 in Bandung, Indonesia) is a graphic design student at the Indonesian Art Intitute (ISI) in Yogyakarta. Arya Pandjalu’s work speaks to political and social concerns. Most recently his interests have focused on air pollution in Yogyakarta, Indonesia and the affects that it has on the quality of life in his community.
He had a solo exhibition in Yogyakarta in 2004, and has participated in group exhibitions and public art projects in San Francisco, Tokyo, Darwin, Jakarta, Bandung, Yogyakarta and Palu (Sulawesi) since 1996.
http://www.saranuytemans.net
http://www.michellechin.net/artists/arya.html


Stano Masár (b. in Bratislava in 1971) studied at the Secondary School of Graphics. In 1996 he received a MA from the Faculty of Education, Comenius University where he studied at the Department of Arts. He lives and works in Bratislava. He is a postconceptual arist working in the media of installation, object, light art and video. In his works he often uses and manipulates the most important artworks in the history of art by converting them into easy graphic language of pictograms.
His recent exhibitions include 26cc spce for cont. art, Rome (2007-8),Praguebiennale 3, Prague (2007), GJK - Synagogue, Trnava (2002, 2003), Künstlerhaus, Viena (2003), Norrebro Park, Copenhagen, 2002, Nitra Gallery, Nitra (2001,2002), Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava (2000), Space Gallery, Bratislava (2005, 2006, 2007) etc.
He was a finalist of Oskar Cepan Prize for young artists in 2002 and 2006.
www.stanomasar.com

Matús Lányi was born in Levoca in 1981. He studied at the Secondary School of Applied Arts in Kosice. In 2007 he graduated from the Technical University, Faculty Of Arts, Department of Visual Art and Intermedia where he studied graphic and experimental art in the studio of Prof. Rudolf Sikora and Zbynek Prokop. He works in the media of painting and video. He lives and works in Spisske Podhradie.
His recent exhibitions include Praguebiennale 3, Prague (2008, )SPACE gallery, Bratislava (2007), IC Culture train, Kosice and Vojtech Loffner Museum, Kosice (2006).
A confrontation of sacral themes is a principal element in many of Lanyi`s videos and paintings as in the recent series of transformed „windows“ by American Microsoft. Artist chose the form of representation that is an attribute of current society – visuality of computer programmes. Furthermore he applied them to the specific stories in the New Testament using their metaphorical resemblance. Everything is rendered in the medium of painting consistently copying graphical visual of computer environment.
http://www.lanyi.euweb.cz/

Brendan Powell Smith (b. in 1973, USA), lives in Mountain View, California. In 1995 he graduated from Boston University with a degree in Philosophy and Religion.
He is an American artist, author an atheist best known as a creator of The Brick Testament in which he illustrates stories from the Bible by photographing dioramas constructed entirely out of LEGO bricks. The Brick Testament was first launched as a website in 2001, then as a published book series in 2003. The Brick Testament is an ongoing one-man project. Smith, who bills himself as “The Reverend Brendan Powell Smith” – but who isn’t really a member of the clergy – works as a freelance web designer and illustrator.
http://www.thereverend.com/
http://www.thebricktestament.com