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Katya García-Antón was curator of the Spanish Pavilion in 2011 at the 54th Venice Biennial with ‘The Inadequate’ by Dora Garcia. For 9 years Garcia-Anton was director of the Centre d'Art Contemporain in Geneva (2002-2011), one of the most prestigious Swiss institutions dedicated to contemporary visual arts. She graduated in Art History at The Courtauld Institute of Art , London, and has worked in important international institutions including: MNCARS, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; the Museum of Arte Moderna of São Paulo, Brasil; ICA, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, and IKON, Birmingham, United Kingdom. She curated one of the sections of the 2nd Prague Biennale (Prague, 2005) as well as the Spanish representation at the 26th São Paulo Biennale (2004). She has organized and curated over 50 exhibitions featuring both artists who have played a pivotal role in the history of 20th century art-Tony Cragg, On Kawara , Yves Klein and Joan Jonas , among others-as well as more recent exponents- Francis Alys, Ernesto Neto , Jean-Luc Moulène , Fernando Sánchez Castillo , or Gillian Wearing . She has formed part of the editorial council of Third Text magazine, which is dedicated to art in developing nations, and she has been an art critic for BBC World Service, in addition to contributing to numerous catalogues and monographs.

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Irina Chmyreva, PhD. Born in Krasnodar, lives in Moscow, Russia, is currently senior researcher of photography in Department of Russian Art of XX c, teaching since 1996 in different education programs in many countries, making portfolio review at different international and local photo-events. Since 1999 she is an assistant professor (docent) at the Department of Art Book Design at Moscow State University of Printing Arts, head researcher at the Department of Photographic Projects and Collections in ROSIZO State Center for Museums and Exhibitions of the Ministry of Culture of Russian Federation (1999-2003). Before she worked as head researcher at Photography and Multi-Media Department of Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA).

She was co-founder and art-director of 1st edition of PANDUS contemporary art festival in Moscow (2007) and art-director of International festival of photography PhotoVisa in Krasnodar, Russia www.photovisa.ru (2008, 2009). Now Irina is co-founder of Russian web-server on photography www.Photographer.ru (1999), member of international editorial boards of Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Russia USA, France magazines.

She has organized several exhibitions of Russian old and contemporary photography as for MMOMA as for other institutions in Denmark (2008), China (2009) etc.

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Michael Connor is a New York-based writer and curator with a focus on cinema and media art. His past projects as curator include: 'Screen Worlds', a permanent exhibition at ACMI in Melbourne, Australia; 'Essential Cinema', the opening exhibition at the Toronto Film Festival's new venue; 'The New Normal,' a touring exhibition of artworks that used private information as raw material and subject matter. Connor previously worked as Curator at FACT, Liverpool and Head of Exhibitions at BFI Southbank in London. While at the BFI, he developed an interactive moving image archive designed by Adjaye/Associates as well as a gallery dedicated to artists' film, video, and new media. From 2002 to 2005, Connor worked as a curator at FACT in Liverpool.

Curatorial projects
2011 - Gregory Crewdson at Toronto Film Festival;Persol Magnificent Obsessions 2011; Wild Sky at Edith Russ Haus.
2010 - Essential Cinema at TIFF Bell Lightbox; Marian Spore | Industry City.
2009 - 1001 Nights: Art from Palestine; ACMI Screen Worlds.
2008 - Optimism at Westport Arts Center; The New Normal | Artists Space | iCI.
2007 - Jennifer and Kevin McCoy at BFI Southbank, London, UK.

Writing - articles, essays and reviews include article about artist Ming Wong; Interview with Terry Gilliam; Melanie Crean Publication; The Vasulkas: Video as Pure Signal; Fernseh-galerie and Jan Dibbets’ TV as Fireplace.
Press - Rhizome Review of Marian Spore; Marian Spore in the Wall Street Journal; TimeOUt signalled Michael in 'Young Curators to Watch'; Review in The Varsity.

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Born in Rome in 1976, art historian, critic and independent curator. Since 2009 Micol has been editor in chief of the online magazine GlobArtMag. Since 2007 Micol is artistic director of the Dora Diamond Contemporary Art Gallery in Rome. Since 2005 she collaborates with several art galleries and public spaces to promote and support young artists and projects which involve multi-media and artistic contaminations. She has edited and written art catlogues and Drome Magazine.

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Maymanah Farhat is an art historian who has written widely on modern and contemporary Arab art. Her most recent publications include oversized monographs on seminal Palestinian painter Samia Halaby and leading Syrian painter Safwan Dahoul. As part of her ongoing research, she has begun working on a manuscript that examines the multidimensional nature of Islamic art as it relates to contemporary culture.

In addition to her extensive writing career, she has curated several group exhibitions in New York City, where she is based, and is currently a consultant with the New York Foundation for the Arts Doctor’s Hours program, a monthly service that is offered to local artists.

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Lara Khaldi was born in Jerusalem sometime in the eighties. She received her B.A in Archaeology and Art History with a minor in English literature in 2005. Khaldi co-curated the Jerusalem Show IV: On/Off Language, Al Ma'mal Foundation, October 2011 and will be co-curating the next one in November 2012. She held the position of Assistant Director for programmes at the Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE from 2009 - 2011. Khaldi Co-edited Provisions I&II (Sharjah Biennial 10 catalogues). And has curated; film and video programme "In the Name of the Father" in 2011 and "Cinema of Independence" in 2009 and 2011 as part of the Arab Shorts initiative by Goethe, Cairo. She was also Assistant Curator for the exhibition “Disorientation II” at Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, 2009. Khaldi also worked as Assistant Director at Al Riwaq Art Gallery in Bahrain in 2007. She was Assistant curator for the exhibition “Never Part”, Bozar, Brussels, 2007. And has Co-curated the exhibition Reconsidering Palestinian Art, Fundacion Antonio Perez, Cuenca, Spain 2006. Lara lives between Jerusalem, Beirut and Amman.

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Eva González-Sancho (Spain, 1970) is a curator based in France. She was director and curator at FRAC Bourgogne (Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain, Dijon, France) from 2003 to 2011 and at Etablissement d'en Face Projects (Art Projects Office, Brussels, Belgium) from 1998 to 2003.

Her interests have always revolved around the many issues today being raised by public space, as well as the perception and function of space as evidenced in exhibition projects with artists such as Guillaume Leblon, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Lara Almarcegui, Jonas Dahlberg, Katrin Sigurdardottir, Knut Asdam, Peter Downsbrough, Gaylen Gerber, Rita McBride, Koenraad Dedobeeleer, and also in acquisitions of new work for the FRAC Bourgogne collection by Francis Alÿs, Jordi Colomer, Henrik Håkansson, Marcelo Cidade.

Linked with this primary area of research, her projects also enter into relationships with language, and sometimes with text, through artworks which are part and parcel of a broader questioning about issues of awareness, the conditions and forms of self-perception and selfconsciousness in a given place, or in the readings of History as illustrated in different ways by the works of Imogen Stidworthy, Frances Stark, Stefan Brüggemann, Dora García or Matthew Buckingham.

She defines her curatorial work as focussing on ‘Non-Authoritarian’ art practices, in other words, those which offer the public an extremely broad margin for manoeuvre and interpretation, nonspectacular approaches that acknowledge the viewers own protagonism, individuality and responsibility.

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Jack Persekian is a curator and producer who lives in Jerusalem and in Sharjah, U.A.E. He is the founding director of Anadiel Gallery, the Al-Ma’mal Foundation for Contemporary Art in Jerusalem, and XEIN Productions. Exhibitions he has curated include the Official Palestinian Representation to the São Paulo Bienal (1998), In weiter ferne, so nah, neue palastinensische kunst at Ifa Galleries in Bonn, Stuttgart, and Berlin (2002), Disorientation: Contemporary Arab Artists from the Middle East at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2003), Reconsidering Palestinian Art in Cuenca, Spain (2006), The Jerusalem Show in Jerusalem (2007 and 2009), and DisOrientation II: The Rise and Fall of Arab Cities, at Abu Dhabi Art (2009). He was chief curator of the 7th Sharjah Biennial (2005) and artistic director of the 8th and 9th Sharjah Biennials (2007 and 2009). He has also directed and produced the Millennium Celebrations in Bethlehem, in 2000 and the Palestinian Cultural Evening at the World Economic Forum in the Dead Sea, Jordan (2004).

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Lýdia Pribišová was born in 1980, in Bratislava, Slovak Republic, is a curator and art historian, and since 2006 she is working as an editor of Flash Art Czech & Slovak Edition. She is a member of Slovak AICA.Since 2007 she has lived in both Rome and Bratislava and has collaborated with the following galleries: MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art, Valentina Moncada Gallery, Museo Laboratorio d’arte Contemporanrea and VM21 Artecontemporanea, Studio Stefania Miscetti, Studio Trisorio in Rome and Naples and with SPACE in Bratislava.
She is currently a candidate for a PhD (in the third year of research) at the University La Sapienza under the tutorship of Professor Simonetta Lux and is working on research entitled La Quadriennale di Roma Dall’Ente autonomo alla Fondazione. Una riflessione sulla trasformazione. Quadriennale of Rome. From Public Body to Foundation. Reflection on transformation. In 2010 she was awarded by the Lemmermann Foundation for this research.

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Since 2011 Nigel Prince is executive director of Vancouver’s Contemporary Art Gallery. His previous collaborations include, curator of the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham (UK), working with the Power Plant in Toronto (Canada), in addition to the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich (Germany); the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam (Holland); the Venice Biennale; and the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. He has launched many Canadian artists on the international scene, including Marcel Dzama, Steven Sherer, and Roy Arden.

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Since 2011 María Inés Rodríguez is Chief Curator of the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo – UNAM en Mexico City. From 2009 to 2011, she was the Cieh Curator of the MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (Spain). She directed the collection Arte y Arquitectura AA MUSAC, created in 2010 and published the monographs: Modernidad Tropical, Alexander Apóstol and Yona Friedman, as well as co-edited the magazine RADAR, arte y pensamiento MUSAC.

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I am passionate about connecting artists with the resources they need to make manifest their creative goals. In 2005 I began working for chashama, a not-for-profit arts organization that transforms temporarily vacant real estate into workspace for artists. As Programming Director of chashama from 2006-2009, I curated hundreds of installations and performances in myriad locations around New York City. Since leaving chashama, I have continued my work as a curator and development consultant for several arts organizations in Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan. I continue to specialize in site-specific work and projects that take place in non-traditional spaces. This fall I will curate an exhibition of art and design in Brooklyn at the BRIC Rotunda Gallery as well as a small group show at RAC on the Lower East Side. In September I will begin a fellowship at the Pratt Institute graduate program for City and Regional Planning with a focus on art and social change.

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Curator of FONLAD’s Festival and UAVM Virtual Museum. Artist with exhibitions since 1982 in Portugal, Brazil, Spain, France, Italy, UK, Romenia, Mexico, Argentina, United States, etc and curator of several exhibitions and festival’s in Portugal.

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Eric Dunlap is co-director of Forward Motion Theater founded in 1995 with media artist Holly Daggers. The company's is to explore the combination of movement and technology through live performance and digital media. FMT has created choreoworks that incorporate lasers, fiber optic costumes, electroluminescent lighting and live-mix video, incorporating themes of cloning, cyborgs, the mating rituals of Martian plant life, a futuristic human garden, and a bondage fairy tale. Using structured improvisation and formalized composition for each work to generate a specialized vocabulary of movement to relay these ideas. Eric spent his formative years touring nationally and internationally as a principle dancer with the Alwin Nikolais / Murray Louis Dance Company. Currently dancing with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, he has worked with various companies in New York. Eric is also curator of multi-disciplinary performance through FMT's EyeWash, an exhibition series featuring VJs and video artists working in collaboration with audio and movement artists. Through Eyewash, FMT has presented over 150 artists in the past six years.

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In 2001 I co-founded the electronic art collective Otolab. Since then I've performed all around Italy and Europe. A short list includes: Netmage 04 (Bologna), Live! Ixem (Mestre), Dissonanze 08 (Rome), Mixedmedia (Milano), REC (Reggio Emilia), Cimatics (Bruxelles), Italian Renaissance (Reggio Emilia), Sonica 2007 (La Spezia), Panorama Festival (Napoli), Sonic Acts XII (Amsterdam), Share Festival (Torino), Sincronie 04/05/06 (Milano), Dissonanze 08 (Rome). With LCM, together with Fabio Volpi (Dies_), I've won the fist prize in Celeste Prize Live Media Section, 2009 (Berlin). Even if otolab tent to conceive its performances as a whole audiovisual project and to develop its contents on its own, sometimes it happens to work with other musicians, authors or performers. This is the reason why I've made specific visuals for experimental music (Staubgold, Staalplat, Icarus Ensemble and Pansonic and composers such as Nova, Taglietti, Agostini, Prati, Viel, Aralla, Malavasi, Trevisi, Otto Von Scirach, Errorsmith, etc) and for more dance oriented performances (Franko B, Tigerskin, The Bug and many others). My videos have been screened in video, cinema and art festivals all around the world. I teach "Theory and Practice of Audiovisual Performance" in NABA and in the Otolab Winter School and Summer School.

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Claudio Sinatti (Milan 1972) is an italian director and multimedia artist. He focuses on spatial video systems and human interaction, creating livemedia performances, large scale videoprojections, video set designs and interactive installations. Claudio works for both personal and commercial projects, moving between art festivals, brand events, pop concerts, television, fashion, cinema, theatre... His passion for music has led him to collaborate on live performances with artists such as Christian Fennesz, Stephan Mathieu, Scanner, Negramaro, Ligabue, Zucchero, AGF, Vladislav Delay, Byetone, Renato Zero and many more. He has created projects for brands such as Nike, MTV, Pirelli, BMW, Heineken, Rolex, Breil, Kenzo, Vodafone, Strenesse... Claudio holds frequent lectures and workshops internationally and teaches experimental multimedia in different schools in Milansuch as IED.

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Alessandro Ludovico is a media critic and editor in chief of Neural magazine since 1993. He's one of the founders of the 'Mag.Net (Electronic Cultural Publishers organization). He also served as an advisor for the Documenta 12's Magazine Project. He has ben guest researcher at the Willem De Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. He teaches at the Academy of Art in Carrara. With Ubermorgen and Paolo Cirio he developed a couple of controversial (net) art projects (Google Will Eat Itself and Amazon Noir).