Christiane Paul
Christiane Paul is the Director of the Media Studies Graduate Programs and Associate Professor of Media Studies at The New School, NY, and Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She has written extensively on new media arts and lectured internationally on art and technology. An expanded new edition of her book Digital Art (Thames& Hudson, UK, 2003) was published in spring 2008 and her edited anthology New Media in the White Cube and Beyond - Curatorial Models for Digital Art was published by UC Press in December 2008.
At the Whitney Museum, she curated the shows Profiling (2007) and Data Dynamics (2001); the net art selection for the 2002 Whitney Biennial; the online exhibition CODeDOC (2002) for artport, the Whitney Museum’s online portal to Internet art for which she is responsible; as well as Follow Through by Scott Paterson and Jennifer Crowe (2005). Other recent curatorial work includes Feedforward - The Angel of History (co-curated with Steve Dietz; Laboral Center for Art and Industrial Creation, Gijon, Asturias, Spain, Oct. 2009); INDAF Digital Art Festival (Incheon, Korea, Aug. 2009); Scalable Relations (Beall Center for Art and Technology, Irvine, CA; gallery@CalIT2, San Diego, CA; CN(S)I, University of California Los Angeles; MAT University of California Santa Barbara, 2008-09); SOS 4.8 (Murcia, Spain, 2008), Feedback (Laboral Center for Art and Industrial Creation, Gijon, Asturias, Spain, 2007); and Second Natures (Eli & Edythe Broad Art Center, UCLA, LA, 2006).
Dr. Paul has previously taught in the MFA computer arts department at the School of Visual Arts in New York (1999-2008); the Digital+Media Department of the Rhode Island School of Design (2005-2008); the San FranciscoArt Institute and the Center of New Media at the University of California at Berkeley (2008).
Nina Czegledy
Nina Czegledy is a media artist, curator, and writer who works internationally on collaborative art / science / technology and educational projects. She has produced time-based and digital works and her award-winning artwork has been exhibited widely. Czegledy has lead and participated in workshops, forums, and festivals worldwide, and her academic lectures have led to numerous international publications in books and journals. Czegledy's projects focus on the changing perception of the environment and the human body and are presented as online and on-site events. Among her most recent collaborative art projects are Visual Collider, Contemporary Art, Vela Luka (2009); Auerole, 2nd Thessaloniki Biennale (2009); What will you do to cool the earth?, Govett Brewster, New Plymouth (2009). Recent and upcoming curatorial projects include Device Art in Budapest,kitchen.hu (2009); Leonardo Education Forum Sessions, Arts in Society, Venice (2009); ISEA2009, Belfast; ARS Electronica 09, Linz; Re:live09, Melbourne; KepesXMalina project, Ludwig Museum, Budapest (2010); Eco Sapiens, New Plymouth (2011).
Czegledy is a Senior Fellow at KMDI, University of Toronto; Adjunct Associate Professor, Concordia University, Montreal; Honorary Fellow, Moholy Nagy University of Design, Budapest; a member of the international space art network; co-chair of the Leonardo Education Forum (LEF); executive board member of Increate.org (NZ); board member of Leonardo/ISAST; member of the OLATS scientific community; and ex-officio chair of ISEA.
Peter Tomaž Dobrila
Peter Tomaž Dobrila is an electronic and IT engineer and musician whose work focuses on the creative use of new technologies. In 1996 he co-founded the Multimedia Centre KiberSRCeLab – KIBLA (MMC KIBLA) in Maribor. Two years later he co-founded the Association for Culture and Education KIBLA (ACE KIBLA) and became its president. He managed MMC KIBLA and ACE KIBLA until 2004 and, since then, has participated in numerous congresses, conferences, and conventions on Internet, multimedia, and information culture. He is a fellow of the European Academy for Digital Media (EADIM).
In 2004 he became a mentor and advisor specializing in international collaboration projects both within Europe and among other countries, establishing collaborations specifically with Asia (since 2007). Besides initiating networks of organizations and institutions on a local, regional, and national level, he started the project X-OP – eXchange of art Operators and Producers as a European network, as well as ASEUM – Asian-Europe Media platform.
One of the most important projects in which he has been involved since 2007 is the development of Maribor's winning candidacy for European Capital of Culture 2012 together with partner cities; and the initiation of Ljubljana's winning candidacy for the World Book Capital 2010. Since June 2009, he has been working in the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, having been appointed as General Director of the Directorate for Arts.
Darko Fritz
Darko Fritz is artist and independent curator and researcher. He has curated numerous exhibitions and edited companion exhibition catalogues for print and web publication, including Reconstruction: private=public=private=public=, Belgrade, 2009; Bit International - Computers and Visual Research, [New] Tendencies, Zagreb 1961—1973, Neue Galerie, 2007 and ZKM, Karlsruhe, 2008; Variable Amnesia, Utrecht, 2006; ; <dis.location>, Zagreb, 2003; Lights from Zagreb - interactive light installations, 2001; CLUB.NL - contemporary art and art networks from the Netherlands, Dubrovnik, 2000; I am Still Alive (early computer-generated art and recent low-tech and internet art), Zagreb, 2000.
He has presented research on early digital art at various conferences, including ISEA 2000, Paris, 2000 and 2004, Helsinki; End Repeat ,Tallin, 2001; REFRESH!, Banff, 2005; RE:PLACE, Berlin, 2007; Programmation orienntee art 2, Paris Sorbonne, 2007 and Second Bremen Symposium on Early Digital Art, Bremen, 2008. As editor for media art at net portal Culturenet (since 2002), he edited related database and published A Brief Overview of Media Art in Croatia (Since the 1960s) in 2002. He published Amnesia International - Early computer art and [New] Tendencies movement at the Bitomatik by kuda.org, Novi Sad in 2004 and Vladimir Bonačić at the Leonardo magazine in 2008. Fritz directed documentary film Hong Kong Contemporary and Media Art, 2001. He is founder and programmer of the grey) (area – space of contemporary and media art since 2006.
Elena Giulia Rossi
Elena Giulia Rossi lives and works in Rome where she has been collaborating with MAXXI - Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo since 2002. She holds a degree from the University of Roma La Sapienza and an MA in Arts Administration from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago (2002). She has been collaborating with different galleries and institutions in Italy and abroad, such as P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (New York, 2001); The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago (2002); the Joan Flash Artists’ Book Collection at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago (2002); and Studio Stefania Miscetti (Rome 2003-2004). Among the exhibitions she curated are Corpi nel cyberspazio (MAXXI, Rome, 2008); Dalla video danza alla net.dance, nell’ambito del Festival MAXXI Visioni (MAXXI, Rome, 2008); Vivono e lavorano a Roma, Nordine Sajot (Studio Stefania Miscetti, Rome, 2008); Geografie di spazi (MAXXI, Roma, 2007); Improvvisazioni del software (MAXXI, Rome, 2007); Paesaggi elettronici (MAXXI, Rome 2007); Seven Ways to Say Internet with Net Art (JavaMuseum.org, 2007); Net Archives: Tempo e spazio nell’arte della Rete (MAXXI, Rome, 2006); Food in Bytes, Time in Jazz Festival (Berchidda, Sardinia, 2006); Net Archives: Arte e identita virtuale (MAXXI, Rome, 2006); Net Archives: Art Games (MAXXI, Rome, 2006); Net Archives: I pionieri del net (MAXXI, Rome, 2005); Net Archives: Contenuti e forme (MAXXI, Rome, 2005).
Elena Giulia Rossi writes for newspapers and magazines, such as L'Unita on-line (collaboration on a special on net art, 2005 – 2008), and Cura.artmagazine. Besides curating independently, she is currently working as a curator for MAXXI – Museo delle arti del XXI secolo (Rome) and for ALI-Art Institute Learning Center (Rome). She is the author of Archeonet (Lalli: Siena, 2003), one of the first Italian publications on net/web art, and the editor of Eduardo Kac: Move 36 (Filigranes Éditions: Paris, 2005).
