Das _Vilém_Flusser_Archiv bewahrt und pflegt das Werk des Kulturwissenschaftlers Vilém Flusser (1920-1991). Flusser wurde in Prag geboren, emigrierte 1940 nach Brasilien und kehrte in den frühen 1970er Jahren nach Europa zurück. Das Archiv wurde von seiner Frau Edith Flusser 1992 in Den Haag eröffnet und 1998 in die Obhut von Siegfried Zielinski übergeben. 2007 zog das Archiv mit Prof. Zielinskis Lehrstuhl für Archäologie und Variantologie der Medien von der Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln an die Universität der Künste Berlin um.
Timothy Druckrey is Director of the Graduate Photographic and Electronic Media program at the Maryland Institute, College of Art and Koopman Distinguished Chair for the Visual Arts at the University of Hartford. A distinguished leading curator and writer, Druckrey lectures internationally on the social impact of photography, electronic media, the transformation of representation, and communication in interactive and networked environments. Druckrey is also series editor for Electronic Culture by MIT Press and curator of Bits and Pieces, Critical Conditions and New Media Beijing. mehr...
Martin Howse is a programmer, theorist, performer and explorer of open hardware who founded the ap project in 1998 to implement a truly artistic operating system (OS) in its most expanded sense and within a free software context. From 2007 to 2009 he hosted a regular workshop, micro-residency and salon series in Berlin, most recently under the banner of micro-research. For the last ten years he has collaborated on numerous open-laboratory style projects and performed, lectured and exhibited worldwide.
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Andrea Goetzke is curator and organizer of events like the all2gethernow, a platform on new strategies in music and culture. She works on open approaches, digital culture and activism in diverse ways. She initiated and organized the openeverything events in Berlin, curated open design workshops, collaborated on a programme to promote open source software skills in African countries, and hosts a free culture radio show on reboot.fm. Andrea is one of the owners and project leaders of the Berlin-based agency newthinking communications. mehr...
The French media artist and programmer Antoine Schmitt uses computer programming as an essential artistic material for his installations, web projects and performances. His works have been exhibited at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs and at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Additionally, they have received several awards in international festivals such as transmediale, Ars Electronica and UNESCO International Festival of Video-Dance. Schmitt is also speaker and editor of the gratin.org portal.
Herman Asselberghs is a Belgian artist focusing on the question of border areas between sound and image, world and media, poetry and politics. His video works have been shown among others at Muhka, Antwerpen; International Film Festival Rotterdam; Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin. He is the winner of the transmediale Award 2007, with the video Proof of Life (2006). Herman Asselberghs teaches at the film department of Hogeschool Sint-Lukas Brussel and is a founding member of the Brussels production platform Auguste Orts.
Influenced by philosophy and science, American-born artist and filmmaker Reynold Reynolds works primarily with 16mm and Super 8mm film as an art medium. He has developed a common film grammar based on transformation, consumption and decay. Reynolds' depictions frequent disturbed psychological and physical themes, increasingly provoking the viewer's participation and dismay. He was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 2003 and in 2004 he was invited to The American Academy in Berlin. He has received numerous awards, including the Distinction Award at transmediale.09. mehr...
