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SABINE HIMMELSBACH
Sabine Himmelsbach studied art history in Munich, Germany. From
1993 to 1996 she worked for galleries in Munich and Vienna and later
became project manager for exhibitions and conferences for the
Steirischer Herbst Festival in Graz, Austria. In 1999 she became exhibition
director at the ZKM | Centre for Art and Media in Karlsruhe,
Germany. Since October 2005 she has been artistic director of the
Edith-Russ-Site for Media Art in Oldenburg, Germany. Her exhibition
projects include temporal values. From Minimal to Video (2003),
Banquet. Metabolism and Communication (2003), Coolhunters
(2004), Resonances (2005), Playback – Simulated Realities (2006) as
well as SOUND//BYTES. Electronic and Digital Soundscapes (2007),
Ecomedia. Ecological Strategies in Art today (2007), Rafael Lozano-
Hemmer: Recorders (2008). As a writer, she has contributed to publications
such as Future Cinema, Making Things Public and Digitale
Transformationen. She lectures internationally on topics related to
media art and contemporary culture.
JACOB LILLEMOSE
Jacob Lillemose, PhD Researcher at the Copenhagen Doctoral
School, University of Copenhagen, working on the „Software Art
and the Aesthetics of Information Tools“ project. He works as a freelance
critic and curator specializing in integrating computer-based
contemporary art and contemporary art in general to the tradition
of conceptual art. Together with Inke Arns he curated the traveling
exhibition “Irational.org: Tools, Techniques, and Events 1996-2006.”
He has contributed texts to numerous catalogues, magazines and
anthologies, including Curating Immateriality (autonomedia, 2006)
and Read Me: Software Art and Cultures (University of Aarhus Press,
2005). He is a member of the net culture organization “Artnode,”
in conjunction with which he edited We Love Your Computer. An
Anthology on Net Art published by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts
in Copenhagen. He is currently based in Copenhagen.
RAHEL PUFFERT
Art historian and art educator; lives in Hamburg. In her doctoral
thesis at Leuphana University Lüneburg she examined “educational
paths in the art context” with a focus on “social avant-gardes” from
art historical, artistic and sociological perspectives.
1996-98 held of the pedagogical department of the Municipal Gallery
Nordhorn. Teaching activities at the universities of Lüneburg,
Kassel and Vienna as well as the Hamburg School for Adult Education.
Member of the artists’ collective “target: autonopop” (www.
targetautonopop.org), the “Kultur & Soziale Bewegung” archive
(www.archiv.glizz.net) and the “Arbeitsgruppe des Kunstverein in
Hamburg.” Co-founder and editor of THE THING Hamburg.
Focus of her publications: Distribution and forms of address as inherent
parts of artistic practice, art’s social functions, and the mediality
of (art) history.
GERALD RAUNIG
Philosopher, art theoretician, lives in Vienna; works at the eipcp
(European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies), Vienna; co-ordinator
of the transnational research projects republicart (http://republicart.
net) and transform (http://transform.eipcp.net); university
lecturer at the Institute for Philosophy, University of Klagenfurt/A;
(co-)editor of two series of books at Turia+Kant, Vienna: „republicart.
Kunst und Öffentlichkeit“ and „es kommt darauf an. Texte zur Theorie
der politischen Praxis“; member of the editorial board of the multilingual
webjournal transversal http://transversal.eipcp.net/ and the
Austrian journal for radical democratic cultural politics, Kulturrisse
(http://www.igkultur.at/kulturrisse).
Recent books: Art and Revolution. Transversal Activism in the
Long Twentieth Century, translated by Aileen Derieg, New York/
Los Angeles: Semiotext(e)/MIT Press 2007; Art and Contemporary
Critical Practice. Reinventing Institutional Critique, London: mayflybooks
2008 (Ed., with Gene Ray); A Thousand Machines, translated
by Aileen Derieg, New York/Los Angeles: Semiotext(e)/MIT Press
2009 (forthcoming).
SILKE WENK
Silke Wenk, Prof. Dr., art historian, teaches art and media as well
as “Cultural Gender Studies” (pre-doctoral courses) at Carl von
Ossietzky University Oldenburg.
Studied art history, sociology and philosophy in Freiburg and Berlin;
doctorate 1980, habilitation 1992 at Hamburg University. Before her
appointment to Oldenburg University, she taught for many years at
Berlin Arts College and had lectureships and guest professorships at
diverse universities in Germany and abroad.
Numerous publication of public sculpture of the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries, about art and cultural politics during the
period of National Socialism, on the struggle to come to terms with
the past visually, gender difference and its significance in modernist
political iconography and on problems of feminist art history and
cultural theory.
VERENA KUNI
Verena Kuni is professor for Visual Culture at Goethe University of
Frankfurt am Main (DE). She publishes widely in international print
and online media; since 1997 she runs her own art radio show on
radio x ffm. From 1995 to 1999 she was curator for Kasseler Dokumentarfilm
& Videofest; since 1999 she is ibid. director of interfiction
conferenc for art, media and network cultures.
Her research, teaching, lectures, projects & publications are devoted
to contemporary arts & media cultures, their histories & futures.
Current projects focus on D.I.Y. & prosumer cultures; media of imagination
– imagination of media; technologies of transformation;
philosophical toys; transfers between media & material cultures; and
digital decay. www.kuniver.se
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