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Ali Akay
Ali Akay is Professor at Mimar Sinan Fine Art University, Head of
the Department of Sociology, Visiting Professor at Humboldt
University (Berlin), Paris VIII University and I.N.H.A in Paris. He
is Art Consultant of Akbank Art Centre, and founder of The Journal
of Toplumbilim (Sociology), first published in 1992 and currently
published bi-annually. Each issue focuses on a special topic,
amongst which: Gilles Deleuze (1995), Feminist Critique (2000),
Jacques Derrida (1999), Enlightement (2000), Cultural Studies
(2002), Sociology of Migration (2004), European Cinema (2005), On
Photography (2006), Visuals Arts (2007), City and Crime (2008),
Sociology of Body (2009), Postcolonial Theory (2010), Banlieues
(2011).
Joerg Bader
Joerg Bader is an artist, art critic, curator and teacher. He was
born in 1955 in Zurich, and lives and works in Geneva and Belo
Horizonte. He has been part of the teacher’s committee of the Haute
école d’art (HEART) in Perpignan since 2002, and director of the
Centre de la photographie in Geneva since 2001.
Simon Baker
Simon Baker is curator of photography and international art at the
Tate, since 2009. He is the Tate's first curator of photography,
having been Associate Professor of Art History at the University of
Nottingham, where he taught and published on subjects including the
history of photography, surrealism, and contemporary art. With Dawn
Ades, he co-curated the exhibitions, Undercover Surrealism: Georges
Bataille and DOCUMENTS (Hayward, 2006), and Close-up: proximity and
defamiliarisation in art, film, and photography (Fruitmarket, 2009).
Recent publications include the essay 'Daido Moriyama:
Autoportrait', in Daido Moriyama, Autoportrait, Tokyo: MMM, 2010.
Sabeth Buchmann
Sabeth Buchmann is an art historian and critic, based in Berlin and
Vienna. She is Professor of the History of Modern and Postmodern Art
at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. Her recent publications include
Film Avantgarde Biopolitik (ed. with Helmut Draxler and Stephan
Geene, 2009), Denken gegen das Denken. Produktion – Technologie –
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Subjektivität bei Sol LeWitt, Yvonne Rainer und Hélio Oiticica
(2007) and Art After Conceptual Art (ed. with Alexander Alberro,
2006). Co-editor of PoLyPen – a book series on art criticism,
aesthetics and political theory (b_books, Berlin). Regularly
contributes to art magazines, catalogues and anthologies.
Victor Burgin
Victor Burgin is an artist and writer. He is Professor Emeritus of
History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa
Cruz; and Emeritus Professor of Visual Arts at Goldsmiths College,
University of London. His most recent book is Parallel Texts:
interviews and interventions about art (Reaktion, 2011). His most
recent project was installed in the Istanbul Archeological Museum
last year. He is currently working on two large retrospective
exhibitions for 2013 and The Prosthetic Unconscious: Psychoanalysis
and Virtual Worlds, for Polity books.
David Campany
David Campany is a curator and writer. His books include Art et
Photographie (Phaidon 2003), Photography and Cinema (Reaktion,
2008), Jeff Wall: Picture for Women (Afterall/MIT Press, 2011) and
Walker Evans: the Magazine Work (Steidl 2011). In 2010 he co-curated
Anonymes. L'Amérique Sans Nom: Photographie et Cinéma at Le Bal,
Paris. He is a co-founding editor of PA magazine and teaches at the
University of Westminster, London.
Yann Chateigné
Yann Chateigné Tytelman (born in 1977) is a critic and curator.
Since 2009, he is Head of the Visual Arts Department at the Haute
Ecole d'Art et de Design in Geneva. Recent projects: The Mirage of
History (Kaleidoscope Project Space, Milan; LiveInYourHead, Genève,
2010-11), Fun Palace (Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2010). He regularly
collaborates with Artforum and also publishes in Frieze, Criticism
and Art Press. To be published: The Hidden Door in Joachim Koester
(2 volumes, edited by If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part Of
Your Revolution, Amsterdam and kestnergesellschaft, Hanover, autumn
2011).
Clément Chéroux
Clément Chéroux is curator of photography at the Pompidou Centre.
Historian of photography, he has a doctorate in History of Art and
is editor of the magazine Etudes photographiques. He has published
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L’Expérience photographique d’August Strindberg (Actes Sud, 1994),
Fautographie, petite histoire de l’erreur photographique (Yellow
Now, 2003), Henri Cartier-Bresson, le tir photographique (Gallimard,
2008) and Diplopie, l’image photographique à l’ère des médias
globalisés: essai sur le 11 septembre 2001 (Le Point du jour, 2009).
He curated the exhibitions Mémoire des camps. Photographies des
camps de concentration et d’extermination nazis, 1933-1999 (2001),
Le Troisième œil. La photographie et l’occulte (2004), La Subversion
des images: surréalisme, photographie, film (2009), Shoot ! La
photographie existentielle (2010), and From here on (2011).
Jean-François Chevrier
Jean-François Chevrier is an art historian and art critic, teaching
at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris since
1988. Founder and chief editor of the magazine Photographies (19821985), général adviser at Documenta X (1997), he has originated a
dozen international exhibitions, the most recent being L’Action
restreinte. L’art moderne selon Mallarmé (Barcelona and Nantes,
2004-2005). Editions L’Arachnéen has begun the publication of a
series of seven volumes gathering his writings, the first five
appearing in 2010 and 2011.
Régis Durand
Régis Durand is an art critic and independent exhibitions organiser.
Today he is the director of the Printemps de septembre in Toulouse,
a contemporary art festival. Among his recent curator’s works and
publications: La morada del hombre, Collection Martin Z. Margulies,
Fondations Colectania et Barrié de la Maza, Barcelona/ La Coroña,
May 2011; Attention à la figure, Fondation Emile Hughes/ Château de
Vence, June 2011.
Jonas Ekeberg
Jonas Ekeberg is a critic and curator based in Oslo, Norway. He is
the editor of the Nordic online journal Kunstkritikk and previously
the director of Preus Museum, Norway's national museum of
photography.
Tim Etchells
Tim Etchells is an artist and writer based in the UK. He has worked
in a wide variety of contexts, notably as the leader of the worldrenown performance group Forced Entertainment and in collaboration
with a range of visual artists, choreographers, and photographers.
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His work spans performance, video, photography, text projects,
installation and fiction.
Hal Foster
Hal Foster is Townsend Martin 1917 Professor of Art & Archaeology at
Princeton University. His most recent books are The Art-Architecture
Complex (Verso) and The First Pop Age: Painting and Subjectivity in
the Art of Hamilton, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Richter, and Ruscha
(Princeton University Press).
Maja Hoffmann
Maja Hoffmann is a Swiss-born contemporary art collector engaged for
over two decades in the support of innovative projects which include
art production, publications, film, and social and environmental
responsibilities. She was inspired in her mission through a longstanding family tradition of active philanthropy. In 2004, Maja
Hoffmann founded the LUMA Foundation (Zurich) as a vehicle to
express her on-going commitments. LUMA is involved in planning a
ground-breaking cultural site in Europe, the Parc des Ateliers in
Arles – an experimental site dedicated to the production of art and
ideas,
and
is
actively
supporting
several
institutions
and
initiatives around the world. Maja Hoffmann is a Tate trustee and
chairman of the International Council. She is President of the
Kunsthalle Zurich Foundation, and Vice-President of the Board of the
Emanuel Hoffmann-Stiftung in Basel. She is also a Board Member of
Stiftung Fotomuseum Winterthur, Stiftung für das Kunstmuseum Basel,
Palais de Tokyo in Paris and of the New Museum of Contemporary Art
and the Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies at Annandale-onHudson in New York State.
Christine Frisinghelli
Christine Frisinghelli is a curator, publisher and lecturer in
contemporary photography. She was co-founder of the journal Camera
Austria International in 1980, and its editor-in-chief for 112
issues between 1980 and 2010. She acted as artistic director of
“steirischer herbst” festival of contemporary art 1995-1999 and
currently is custodian of the Pierre Bourdieu photographic archive.
Kimberli Gant
Kimberli Gant is an Art History PhD student at the University of
Texas Austin specializing in African and African Diasporan Arts. She
was the Director of Exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary
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African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) in Brooklyn, New York, where she
curated several solo and group exhibitions. In 2010 she guestcurated There is No Looking Glass Here for Deutsche Bank. She has
also written reviews for the journal Art Lies.
Sønke Gau
Sønke Gau is a curator, critic, and guest lecturer at various art
schools and universities. Based in Zurich and Berlin, he has been
curator (with Katharina Schlieben) at Shedhalle Zurich and has been
a researcher and project manager at the Institute for Critical
Theory, Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), since 2010.
Jennifer Gonzalez
Jennifer A. González is Associate Professor in the History of Art
and Visual Culture department at the University of California, Santa
Cruz. Her critical writings have appeared in numerous periodicals
and journals including Camera Obscura, Frieze, Bomb, and Art
Journal. Her book Subject to Display: Reframing Race in Contemporary
Installation Art (MIT Press, 2008) was a finalist for the Charles
Rufus Morey Book Award.
Boris Groys
Boris Groys is a philosopher and writer (born in 1947 in East
Berlin, educated in Russia), who lives in New York. His work is
mainly concerned with the re-reading of modernity, post-modernity
and the place of the subject. Since 2009, he has taught at the
Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung de Karlsruhe and at the Arts
and Sciences faculty at New York University. Author of several
critical essays, he was the curator of the Russian pavilion at the
Venice Biennale in 2011.
Carles Guerra
Carles Guerra is Chief Curator at MACBA. Since 2009 he has directed
La Virreina Centre de l’Image where he presented
Antiphotojournalism, Bruno Serralongue and 1979 A Monument to
Radical Instants. He is also Associate Professor of Social
Structures and Cultural Tendencies at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra,
Barcelona.
Caroline Hancock
Caroline Hancock is a curator and independent art critic. Between
1998 and 2009, she worked at the Pompidou Centre and the MAMVP/ARC
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in Paris, Tate Modern and the Hayward Gallery in London, as well as
the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) in Dublin. Hancock has
recently written on the work of Lynda Benglis, Charlotte Moth, JeanLuc Moulène, and Zineb Sedira. She belongs to the collective On The
Roof which is organising the projects Synchronicity in Paris in
autumn 2011.
Makiko Hara
Makiko Hara is currently an Associate Director and curator at Centre
A: Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. Before
moving to Vancouver, she curated numerous contemporary art
exhibitions by Japanese, Canadian and international artists, and
served as project co-ordinator for several international
exhibitions, including the International Triennale of Contemporary
Art in Yokohama, 2001/2005, and the Echigo Tsumari Art Triennale,
2003. Hara was one of the curators for Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2009
in Toronto, and contributes essays to several magazines including BT
Magazine, Parachute and Fillip.
Joana Hurtado
Joana Hurtado Matheu is an art and cinema critic, and an independent
curator. Today she is exhibition curator for the Capella de Sant Roc
de Valls, with the cycle Catedrals a la capella, and in charge of
the exhibition programme of Can Felipa in Barcelona. She regularly
contributes to the supplement Cultura/s of La Vanguardia and has
contributed to magazines like Cahiers du Cinéma – España, Time Out
Barcelona and Parachute. She has designed the exhibitions Efecte
cinema (Can Felipa) and A títol propi (Sant Andreu), as well as the
cycle Cinergies (CCCB) and the Dialogue organised within the SCAN
Manifestation Photographique in Tarragone.
Shanay Jhaveri
Shanay Jhaveri is a Phd. candidate at the Royal College of Art,
London. He graduated from Brown University, concentrating on Art
Semiotics and the History of Art and Architecture. He has edited a
volume of essays titled Outsider Films on India: 1950-1990 and has
curated film programmes at Tate Modern, Frieze and Iniva. He divides
his time between Mumbai and London.
Christophe Kihm
Christophe Kihm is editor-in-chief at Art Press. He is professor at
the Haute École d'Art et de Design in Geneva. His most recent
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researches are concerned with the artistic practices of the archive
(see “Ce que l’art fait à l’archive”, Critique n° 759-60, À quoi
pense l’art contemporain?, Minuit, 2010).
Elke Krasny
Elke Krasny is a cultural theorist, curator and writer. She is a
Senior Lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. Her interests
follow the intersections of architecture, urbanism and public art as
part of an unfolding intellectual history of spatial and temporal
productions where everything comes together from cultural identities
and transnationality to politics of remembering and representation
as well as issues of knowledge production, participation and
genderedness. Her long-term research processes lead to a variety of
different formats such as exhibitions, public walks, symposia or
books.
Jacinto Lageira
Jacinto Lageira is professor of aesthetics at the Paris 1 PanthéonSorbonne University and an art critic. He has published, among other
things, L’image du monde dans le corps du texte (I, II), La Lettre
volée, 2003; L’esthétique traversée – Psychanalyse, sémiotique et
phénoménologie à l’oeuvre, La Lettre volée, 2007; La déréalisation
du monde. Fiction et réalité en conflit, Jacqueline Chambon, 2010;
Cristallisations. Monographie sur Jean-Marc Bustamante, Actes Sud,
2011.
Elisabeth Lebovici
Elisabeth Lebovici is an art historian and critic. Today she is
lecturer at the EHESS (Paris) and at Sciences-Po (Paris). She was a
journalist for a long time, writing in the cultural pages of
Libération and she has a blog on http://le.beau.vice.blogspot.com/.
With Catherine Gonnard, she co-wrote: Femmes/artistes,
artistes/femmes, Paris de 1880 à nos jours (Hazan, 2007). She has
taught and published on feminism, activism against AIDS, queer
politics in relation to images and contemporary art.
Guillaume Le Gall
Guillaume Le Gall is senior lecturer in History of contemporary art
at the Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) and has been a resident at the
Villa Medicis in Rome. He defended a thesis on Eugène Atget in 2002
and has published books and articles on the photography of the 19th
th
and 20 centuries. He has been curator of exhibitions on
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contemporary photography (Fabricca dell’immagine, Villa Médicis
(Rome), 2004), Eugène Atget (Eugène Atget, Une rétrospective,
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 2007); Martin-Gropius Bau
(Berlin), 2007-2008; Fotomuseum Winterthur (Winterthur), 2010,
Surrealist photography (La Subversion des images, Centre Pompidou,
2009; Fotomuseum Winterthur (Winterthur), 2010; Institute de Cultura
/ Fundacion Mapfre (Madrid), 2010).
Kantuta Quirós / Aliocha Imhoff
Kantuta Quirós and Aliocha Imhoff are curators, critics and
organisers of events, exhibitions, festivals and retrospectives.
Founders and artistic directors of the curating and distributing
platform for films, Le peuple qui manque, created in 2005 in Paris,
they were in 2010 associate curators at the Pompidou Centre, for, in
particular, the event Que faire? art/film/politique. Their field is
situated at the intersection of cinema, video, critical theory and
contemporary art.
Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith
Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith is a critic and curator who teaches at
University College, Dublin. He is a contributor to Afterall,
Artforum, Frieze and Parkett and has published numerous monographic
catalogue essays on the work of artists such as Thomas Demand,
Willie Doherty, Annette Kelm and John Stezaker. He has curated
exhibitions in Dublin, London, Amsterdam and New York.
Roxana Marcoci
Roxana Marcoci is a curator at the Department of Photography, The
Museum of Modern Art, New York. She holds a PhD in art history,
theory, and criticism from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York
University. Her most recent book, The Original Copy: Photography of
Sculpture, 1839 to Today (2010) won the Association of Art Museum
Curators award for Outstanding Catalogue Based on an Exhibition.
JEAN-LUC MOULÈNE
Jean-Luc Moulène lives in Paris and works on specific situations. He
practices photography as a tool to study natural and cultural
phenomena as they have been re-defined by the development of
industry, media and trade. He places photography between Fine Arts,
texts and media. Keeping at a distance from a model of communication
(a powerful functionalist utopia dreaming of infallible tools for
the appropriation of the imaginary and social practices), he
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underlines the gap between tool and imaginary to produce real poetic
alternatives.)
Jean-Luc Moulène has participated in Documenta X, Kassel in 1997,
and has exhibited at CCA, Kitakyushu (2004), Jeu de Paume and Musée
du Louvre in Paris (2005), Thomas Dane Gallery, London (2006),
Culturgest, Lisbon (2007), Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels (2007),
Carré d’art, Nîmes (2009), Galerie Chantal Crousel (2009) and many
other places since 1976.
MR PIPPIN
Mr pippin is an artist born in 1960 in Redwill. He lives and works
in London.
Rabih Mroué
Rabih Mroué is an actor, director, and playwright, and a
Contributing Editor to the Lebanese quarterly Kalamon and TDR (New
York). He is one of the founders and executive Board of Beirut Art
Center association (BAC). His works include: Grandfather, father and
son (2010); The Inhabitants of images (2008); Who’s Afraid of
Representation (2005), Looking for a Missing Employee (2003);
Biokhraphia (2002); Three Posters (2000). He lives in Beirut.
Maureen Murphy
Maureen Murphy is an art historian and lecturer at the Paris 1
Panthéon-Sorbonne University. She has published various essays on
the reception and representation of African arts in the Western
world, on the links between them and modern art as well as on
contemporary African art.
Marie Murraciole
Marie Muracciole is an art critic and curator. In 2011 she
published, among other things, “Tomorow never knows, Peter Roehr” in
20/27 n°5, M19, and “Tu comprends?” in ‘Idéo, Eric Duyckaerts,
Macval. She edits the writings of Allan Sekula for the Editions des
Beaux-arts, Paris. Co-curator of the exhibition Riffs, Yto Barrada
at the Guggenheim Berlin, then at the Wiels in Brussells, in 2011,
she wrote Du nouveau sur les fleurs, Family Tree, an essay on that
artist to be published by the Editions JPRingier. Also to be
published, Passons. Ich Sterbe, in the book on Marylène Négro for
Editions Analogues.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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Hans Ulrich Obrist is co-director of the Serpentine Gallery, London.
He has served as curator of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de
Paris and has curated 250 exhibitions worldwide. He has contributed
to over 200 book projects, his recent publications include A Brief
History of Curating and The Conversation Series (Vol. 1-20.)
Chantal Pontbriand
Chantal Pontbriand is an art critic, curator and consultant in
contemporary art, until recently Head of Exhibition Research and
Development at Tate Modern, founded and was editor from 1975 of
Parachute contemporary art magazine. She has curated international
contemporary art events: some twenty exhibitions, fifteen
international festivals and several international conferences and
discussion laboratories, mainly in photography, video, performance,
dance and multimedia installation. Her work is mainly based on the
exploration of questions of globalisation and artistic
heterogeneity, and knowledge production. From 1982 to 2003, she was
president and director of the FIND (Festival International de
Nouvelle Danse) in Montreal. She has published books and essays
internationally.
Françoise Parfait
Françoise Parfait is Professor in Arts and New Media at the
université de Paris 1, and an artist. She has published Vidéo: un
art contemporain at Éditions du Regard in 2001 (poche 2007), as well
as countless texts about historical and contemporary artists who use
video. Her researches, practical as well as theoretical, are
concerned with the question of temporary images as it happens in the
domain of art. She is the co-founder of the collective Suspended
spaces, a platform for research and production that focuses on
geopolitical spaces suspended between two moments of history.
Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez
Natasa Petresin-Bachelez is an independent art curator, an art
critic and since 2010 the co-director of the Laboratoires
d'Aubervilliers. She co-organises the seminar Something You Should
Know at the EHESS in Paris and Communisms' Afterlives at the Ecole
Publique in Paris and Bruxelles. She is the chief editor of the
third series of the Manifesta Journal (2012-2013). In 2010 she was
associate curator for the exhibition Promesses du passé at the
Pompidou Centre in Paris, and guest curator for Paris Photo.
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Christopher Philips
Christopher Phillips is a curator at the International Center of
Photography in New York City. Among the exhibitions he has organized
at ICP and elsewhere are: Between Past and Future: New Photography
and Video from China (with Wu Hung, 2004); Atta Kim: On-Air (2006),
Shanghai Kaleidoscope (2008), Heavy Light: Recent Photography and
Video from Japan (with Noriko Fuku, 2008), H20: Art on the Horizon
of Nature (2010), and Wang Qingsong: When Worlds Collide (2011).
Sébatien Pluot
Sébastien Pluot is an art historian and independent curator. He
teaches History and Theory of Art at the Ecole Supérieure des BeauxArt in Angers where he directs, with Fabien Vallos, the research lab
In Translation. His recent exhibitions were: Anarchisme sans
adjectif, sur le travail de Christopher D’Arcangelo, CAC Brétigny,
Artists Space; Fragmentations, trajectoires contre-nature, Villa
Lemot, Clisson, Musée de Saint Brieuc, 2011; Une traduction d'une
langue à l'autre, Cneai, Paris, 2011; Double Bind, Arrêtez d’essayer
de me comprendre, Villa Arson, Nice, 2010.
Adrian Rifkin
Adrian Rifkin is a Professor of Art Writing at Goldsmiths College,
London, and the author of Street Noises, Parisian Pleasure 19001940, Manchester,1993, and a number of recent articles concerning
photography, including an essay on Marianne Wex and Andres Serrano
and internet porn. See www.gai-savoir.net.
Alessandra Sandrolini
Alessandra Sandrolini is an art historian and curator. An Italian
national and ex-scholarship recipient of the Dena Foundation for
Contemporary Art, she has worked within French institutions like the
Villa Medicis in Rome and the Pompidou Centre in Paris. As an
independent curator, she has carried out projects in collaboration
with the Palais de Tokyo, the Château de Versailles, the MAX’s Grand
Hornu in Belgium, the Gwangju Biennalis in South Korea and with
visionforum (visionforum.eu).
Saskia Sassen
Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and CoChair of The Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University
(www.saskiasassen.com). Her new books are Territory, Authority,
Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (Princeton University
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Press, 2008) and A Sociology of Globalization (W.W.Norton 2007),
both translated into French by Demopolis and Gallimard,
respectively. Her books are translated into over 20 languages.
Clara Schulmann
Clara Schulmann has just completed a doctorate in film studies at
the Paris-III Sorbonne Nouvelle. She contributes to various
magazines of social sciences (Vacarme, Geste) and contemporary art
(Particules, Mouvement, May). She worked at the Pompidou Centre and
at the Maison Rouge (Paris) on various exhibition projects.
Recently, she has taken part in the publication Images
contemporaines. Arts, formes, dispositifs at the Editions Aléas.
Since October 2007, she co-runs Le Silo (www.lesilo.org), a
collective dedicated to moving images and their migrations.
Allan Sekula
Allan Sekula is an American photographer, writer, critic and, more
recently, a filmmaker. Born in Erie, Pennsylvania in 1951, he lives
and works in Los Angeles. Since the early 1970s his work has bridged
the gap between conceptual art and documentary practices,
considering the modern world through some of its blind spots as in
his huge series, Fish story, and focusing on economic and social
themes ranging from family life, work and unemployment, to schooling
and the military-industrial complex. While calling many of the
conventions of documentary into question, he continues to see
photography as a social practice, answerable to the world and its
problems.
Elena Sorokina
Elena Sorokina is a Brussels-based curator and critic. A Whitney
Museum of American Art ISP fellow, she has recently curated Etats de
l'Artifice at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2010 and
is currently working on the upcoming Curating the (post) colonial at
the Stedelijk Bureau Amsterdam. She has been writing for Artforum,
Flash Art, Moscow Art Magazine, Manifesta Journal and other
publications.
Hito Steyerl
Hito Steyerl is a filmmaker and writer. She teaches Contemporary
Media at Udk Berlin.
Sam Stourdzé
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Sam Stourdzé is the Director of the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne
(Switzerland). He has organised numerous exhibitions and published
several books, including Le Cliché-Verre de Corot à Man Ray,
Dorothea Lange and Tina Modotti retrospectives, as well as Chaplin
in Pictures. In 2009, Stourdzé curated Fellini, The Great Parade at
the Jeu de Paume in Paris.
TARYN SIMON was born in 1975 and lives in New York. Her latest work,
A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters, on view in 2011 at
Tate Modern, London, and Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, chronicles
eighteen bloodlines and their related stories. In each of the
eighteen ‘chapters’ that make up the work, the external forces of
territory, power, circumstance or religion collide with the internal
forces of psychological and physical inheritance. Her collection is
at once cohesive and arbitrary, mapping the relationships among
chance, blood, and other components of fate. The subjects
documented by Simon include feuding families in Brazil, victims of
genocide in Bosnia, the body double of Saddam Hussein’s son Uday,
and the living dead in India. In 2011, Simon’s work was also
included in the 54th Venice Biennale. Her previous work includes
Contraband (2010), An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar
(2007), and The Innocents (2003).
Alexia Tala
Alexia Tala is a curator and writer. She co-curated the first
Performance Biennial Deformes (Chile, 2006), and curated Focus
Brasil in Chile (2010). She writes for art magazines in the UK and
Latin American and is the author of Installations and Experimental
Printmaking (UK, 2009). Her research on contemporary artists using
experimental printmaking techniques has unveilded a rapidly
expanding movement in the UK and the rest of the world. She is now
co-curator of the 8th Mercosur Biennial in Brasil. She lives and
works in Santiago.
Nadia Tazi
Nadia Tazi is a writer, philosopher, and director of programmes at
the Collège International de Philosophie. She was first the editor
for Editions la Découverte, Zone Books (NY) Siruela (Madrid). She is
the co-founder of l’Autre Journal.
Brian Wallis
Brian Wallis is Chief curator and director of exhibitions at the
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International Center of Photography. He was formerly a curator at
the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, and was the senior
editor of Art in America from 1989-1996. A contributor to numerous
publications such as Artforum, Art in America, Aperture, Washington
Post, and New York Times, Wallis has also taught at Yale University,
Williams College, New York University and the City University of New
York.
Artur Walther
Artur Walther was born in Ulm (Germany), studied in Regensburg and
Harvard (Cambridge), lives in New York. Ever since his retirement
from Wall Street in 1994, Artur Walther has been involved with and
supported a number of cultural and educational institutions that
share his interests. Over the past ten years Artur Walther has
devoted his time collecting and working with modern and contemporary
photography and video. His collection has its historical foundation
in the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) and expanded from there.
Today it includes the most significant body of contemporary Chinese
and African works of photography in the world.
Peter Weibel
Peter Weibel is Chairman and CEO of the ZKM | Center for Art and
Media, Karlsruhe. In 2011 he is the Artistic Director of the Fourth
Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art. He studied literature,
medicine, logic, philosophy and film in Paris and Vienna. He became
a central figure in European media art on account of his various
activities as artist, media theorist and curator. Since 1984 he is
professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, from 1984 to
1989 he was head of the digital arts laboratory at the Media
Department of New York University in Buffalo, and in 1989 he founded
the Institute of New Media at the Städelschule in Frankfurt-on-Main,
which he directed until 1995. Between 1986 and 1995, he was in
charge of the Ars Electronica in Linz. He commissioned the Austrian
pavilions at the Venice Biennale from 1993 to 1999.
Sarah Wilson
Sarah Wilson is Professor of modern and contemporary art at the
Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. She curated Paris,
Capital of the Arts, 1900-1968 (London and Bilbao, 2002-3) and
Pierre Klossowski (London, Cologne, Paris, 2005-6). Picasso/Marx is
in preparation (Liverpool University Press). The Visual World of
French Theory: Figurations, was published by Yale University Press
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in 2010. The Visual World of French Theory: Interventions will
include a study of Ruth Francken.
Paola Yacoub
Paola Yacoub is an artist and photographer. She lives and works in
Berlin and Beirut. She studied at the Beirut Academy of Fine Arts,
and graduated from the Architectural Association School of
Architecture in London in 1993. Since then she has worked at the
Institut Français d’Archéologie du Proche-Orient in Beirut, where
she has also developed her artistic practice. She has exhibited
widely, receiving the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst
Artists Program Fellowship in 2005, and has directed numerous
workshops in European and American universities.
Dork Zabunyan
Dork Zabunyan is senior lecturer in film studies at the University
of Lille 3. He regularly contributes to various magazines (Art
Press, Trafic, Critique, Les Cahiers du cinéma). In 2011, he
published Foucault va au cinéma (with Patrice Maniglier) and Les
Cinémas de Gilles Deleuze, both with Éditions Bayard.
Giovanna Zapperi
Giovanna Zapperi is professor of Art History and Theory at Ecole
Nationale Supérieure in Bourges and Research Associate at EHESS,
Paris. She was Rudolf Arnheim Guest Professor at Humboldt University
in Berlin (2007-2009) and researcher-in-residence at the Institute
for Advanced Studies in Nantes (2009). Her writings have been
published in international journals, books and exhibition
catalogues.
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