Biography
From its eighth edition on 2010, the International Festival of Contemporary Art ART STAYS, is accompanied by the Summer Academy, which is held in Ptuj each year in second half of July. Summer Academy consist of lectures and workshops on the practices and theories of arts taught by international professors, curators and artists. Last year 2010,1st edition of Summer Academy was dedicated to the relations and differences between art, sound, territory, science and technology as hosted between others as international professor:Lynn Book (sound performance artist and Professor at the Transart Institute in Berlin), BridA/Sendi Mango, Tom Kersevan, Jurij Pavlica (art group), Giancarlo Busato (Director of Stamperia d'arte Busato. Vicenza, Italy), S. Chandrasekaran (Head of the Department of Fine Arts at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore), Gary Cass (Professor at the Faculty of Natural & Agricultural Sciences, Teaching Laboratories, University of Western Australia, Perth), Mauro Ceolin (artist), Raphael Di Luzio (Associate Professor of New Media at the University of Maine New Media Program), Dušan Fišer (Artist, Curator and Professor Gimnazija Ptuj), Manuel Frara (Professor of New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts, Venice), Omar Mirza (art curator, Nitra Gallery, Nitra), Igor Molin (Painter, Professor at the Gymnassium Riva, Trento), Domenico Papa (Architect, Curator and Psychology of Arts Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Venice), Laszlo Revesz (Artist, Curator and Professor at the Budapest Academy of Fine Arts).
