FAIR PLAY FILM & VIDEO Award 2008 2 3 Production & Concept: PLAY Platform for Film & Video Berlin ABOUT FAIR PLAY

FAIR_PLAY FILM & VIDEO award 2008 2 3 production & concept: PLAY_ platform for film & video berlin ABOUT FAIR_PLAY

7 CINEMA LUX The Award 10 concept 11 history 11 curatorial commitee artists 13 15 17 Carte Blanche

45 ovni – presentation with Joan Leandre & Simona Marchesi 45 Focus 48 Rossella Biscotti Oliviero Toscani 80 Fine Arts Unternehmen AG Productions 82 Francesco Jodice 84 86 K10 88 Noah Stolz Andrea Lissoni 90 Marco Scotini 94 96 98

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Founded in Berlin in 2003 as a curated screening platform, to foster the use of filmic language in art. Fair_Play awards contemporary artistic efforts in blurring technical and aesthetic distinction between art and film. Goal of the award is to reveal new layers of communication between film and art and to stimulate the development of new visual languages and narratives. Fair_Play focuses on film and video works which are conceived specifically for a single-channel, wide screen projection. Through the screening of film and video works, Fair_Play aims to create an international, multilateral platform of discussion about the relationship between art and film and to serve as a meeting point for a diverse and international group of professionals from the fields of contemporary art, film and video to engage and exchange in critical discourse.

CURATORIAL committee_ Submission of works is by invitation only. Artists are proposed for submission of their most recent works by a Curatorial Committee, which is composed by independent curators, institution directors, artists and experts from the film industry. Each member of the curatorial committee brings expert knowledge in their respective fields and geographic locations, securing the widest possible range of international, talented artists nominated to participate to the competition.

AWARD committee (JURY)_ The Award Committee is composed by 7 experts, exceptionally experienced in the field of video-art and film. Members of the committee are professionals of the film industry, curators, academics and artists. The committee will award a first, second and a third prize in money as follows: first prize euro 5.000, second prize euro 3.500, third prize euro 2.000.

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Founded in Berlin in 2003 as a curated screening platform, to foster the use of filmic language in art. Founded in Berlin in 2003 as a curated screening platform, to foster the use of filmic language in art. Fair_Play awards contemporary artistic efforts in blurring technical and aesthetic distinction between Fair_Play awards contemporary artistic efforts in blurring technical and aesthetic distinction between art and film. Goal of the award is to reveal new layers of communication between film and art art and film. Goal of the award is to reveal new layers of communication between film and art and to stimulate the development of new visual languages and narratives. Fair_Play focuses on film and to stimulate the development of new visual languages and narratives. Fair_Play focuses on film and video works which are conceived specifically for a single-channel, wide screen projection. and video works which are conceived specifically for a single-channel, wide screen projection. Through the screening of film and video works, Fair_Play aims to create an international, multilateral Through the screening of film and video works, Fair_Play aims to create an international, multilateral platform of discussion about the relationship between art and film and to serve as a meeting point platform of discussion about the relationship between art and film and to serve as a meeting point for a diverse and international group of professionals from the fields of contemporary art, film and for a diverse and international group of professionals from the fields of contemporary art, film and video to engage and exchange in critical discourse. video to engage and exchange in critical discourse.

CURATORIAL committee_ CURATORIAL committee_ Submission of works is by invitation only. Artists are proposed for submission of their most Submission of works is by invitation only. Artists are proposed for submission of their most recent works by a Curatorial Committee, which is composed by independent curators, recent works by a Curatorial Committee, which is composed by independent curators, institution directors, artists and experts from the film industry. Each member of the curatorial institution directors, artists and experts from the film industry. Each member of the curatorial committee brings expert knowledge in their respective fields and geographic locations, securing committee brings expert knowledge in their respective fields and geographic locations, securing the widest possible range of international, talented artists nominated to participate to the competition. the widest possible range of international, talented artists nominated to participate to the competition.

AWARD committee (JURY)_ AWARD committee (JURY)_ The Award Committee is composed by 7 experts, exceptionally experienced in the field The Award Committee is composed by 7 experts, exceptionally experienced in the field of video-art and film. Members of the committee are professionals of the film industry, curators, of video-art and film. Members of the committee are professionals of the film industry, curators, academics and artists. The committee will award a first, second and a third prize in money as follows: academics and artists. The committee will award a first, second and a third prize in money as follows: first prize euro 5.000, second prize euro 3.500, third prize euro 2.000. first prize euro 5.000, second prize euro 3.500, third prize euro 2.000.

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FAIR_Play 2003

AWARD COMMITTEE_ Ahu Antmen (TR) art critic and curator, Angelika Richter (DE) independent curator and art historian based in Berlin and Halle (Saale), Charlotte Mailler (CH) indipendent curator, Edgar Schmitz (UK) visiting tutor at Goldsmith University and London based artist and writer, Heike Munder (CH) director of the Migros Museum in Zurich, Michael Darling (USA) modern and contemporary curator at Seattle Art Museum, Frédéric Moser & Philippe Schwinger (CH) artists, Patrick Huber (CH) director International Experimental Film & Video Festival Videoex Zürich. CURATORIAL commIttee_ Ellen Pau (HK), Francesco Manacorda (GB), Kathrin Becker (Germany), Leng Lin (China), Michael Courtesy the artists, 2006 Darling (USA), Michelle Maccarone (USA), Milovan Farronato (Italy), Ombretta Agro (USA). ARTISTS_ Jonah Freeman (USA), Matt Saunders (USA), Margaret Salmon (GB), Vesna Bukovec (SLO), Cecilia Lundqvist (SVE), Jón Saemundur Auòrson (IS), Shahram Entekhabi (IRAN), Debora Hirsch (BRA), Nuno Cera (PT), Johannes Maier (D), Nicolàs Serrano (ESP), Zhao Liang (CHINA), Wu Ershan (CHINA), Stella So (HK), GUP-py (JP), Sayaka Kasahara & Kenji Kamoshida (JP), Cacciagrilli (ITA), Gina Tornatore (AUS), Chiara Pirito (ITA).

FAIR_Play 2005

AWARD COMMITTEE_ Anne Barlow (UK) curator at the New Museum, NYC, Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield (UK) director Centre for Contemporary Art Research, University of Southampton, Bernd Milla (D) director Deutscher Kuenstler- bund e.V., Berlin, Thomas Munz (D) editor & program curator transmediale - festival for art and digital culture, Theo Ligthart (D) artist, film director and author. CURATED BY_ Virginia Hackermann (UK) artist and critic. ARTISTS_ Courtesy Virginia Hackermann, 2005 Bankleer (D), Ellen Bornkessel (D), Vesna Bukovec (SLO), Nicole Cohen (USA), Joe Frazer (UK), Javier Gálan (ESP), HK119 (FIN), Matthew Horne (USA), Dawn Kasper (USA), Lauren Lavitt (USA), Dominik Lejman (PL), Pia Lindman (FIN), Victor Lucas (USA), Jens Lüstraeten (D), Trine Lise Nedreaas (UK), Monika Oechsler (D), Tracey Rose (ZA), Prem Sahib (UK), Daniel Segerberg (S), Ninia Sverdrup (S), Akram Zaatari (RL).

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FAIR_Play 2006 FAIR_Play 2007

AWARD COMMITTEE_ AWARD COMMITTEE_ Nathalie Angles (FR/US) director of Location One's International Residency Program, NY, Harm Lux Knut Asdam (NO) artist, Joan Leandre (ES) member of the OVNI Archives, Herbert Schwarze (DE) member of (NL/ DE) independent curator based in Berlin, Chus Martinez (ES/DE) director of the Frankfurter Kunstverein, the selection committee for the International Film Festival Oberhausen, Berta Sichel (ES) director of the Depar- Frankfurt am Main, Birgit Kohler (DE) film expert and programme-curator at Kino Arsenal in Berlin, Sven Wör- tment of Audiovisuals at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, Maria Rosa Sossai (IT) art ner (DE) founder of the Cinémathèque Leipzig, Ivica Pinjuh (BA) theatre and film critic, editor of the magazine critic and curator, Gabriel Soucheyre (FR) director of Videoformes, Clermont-Ferrand, Noah Stolz (CH) curator of La ‘SINEAST’ and assistant professor at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Sarajevo, Marc Glöde (DE) Rada – space for contemporary art based in Locarno and editor for the art magazine Kunst-Bulletin. curator and assistant professor & research fellow in the Department of Film Studies at the Freie Universität, Berlin, Peter Zorn (DE) film maker and media art curator, curator at Werkleitz Biennale. CURATORIAL commIttee_ Miguel Amado (PT), Nathalie Angles (FR/US), Javier Duero (ES), Ovul Durmusoglu (TR/AT), Gridthiya Gaweewong (TH), Marc Glöde (DE), Katerina Gregos (GR/BE), Andrea Lissoni (IT), Gene- CURATORIAL commIttee_ viève Loup (CH), Tom Morton (GB), Talal Moualla (SY/AE), Natasa Petresin (SI), Lorenza Pignatti (IT), Pelin Ahu Antmen (TR), Luca Beatrice (IT), Yann Beauvais (FR), Madeleine Bernstorff (DE), Ricardo Mbarkho (LB), Uran (TR), Fatos Üstek (TR/DE), Sven Wörner (DE), Adnan Yildiz (TR), Tirdad Zolghadr (US/DE). Mihnea Mircan (RO), Thomas Munz (DE), Nestor Olhagaray (CL), Barbara Perea (MX), Mark Webber (UK). ARTISTS_ ARTISTS_ Yuri Ancarani (IT), Katia Bassanini (CH), Rossella Biscotti (IT/NL), Flavio Bonetti (IT), Jaco Bouwer (ZA), Ziad Abillama (LB), Jean-Noël Aoun (LB), Emilie Aussel (FR), Edson Barrus (BR), Rossella Biscotti (IT/NL), François Bucher (CO/DE), Sébastien Caillat (FR), Nuno Cera (PT/DE), Alexandra Crouwers (NL), Manon De Sebastian Bodirsky (DE), Robert Cauble (US), Filipa César (PT/DE), Raffaella Crispino (IT/DE), Edgar Boer (NL/BE), Andrea Dojmi (IT), Isil Egrikavuk (TR/US), Esra Ersen (TR/GB), Cécile Evans & Ari Allansson Endress (CL), Mariam Ghani (US), Kinda Hassan (LB), Nina Hoffmann (DE), Nesrine Khodr (LB), (FR), Douglas Fishbone (US/UK), Elise Florenty (FR/DE), Stefania Galegati (IT), Amirali Ghasemi (IR), Tamar B. Antonella Kurzen (CH/DE), Jannicke Låker (NO), Sukran Moral (TR/IT), Ciprian Muresan (RO), Matthew Guimarães (BR/SE), GUP-py/Yoko Hata (JP/DE), Invernomuto & Moira Ricci (IT), Michael Koch (CH/DE), Noel-Tod (GB), Tiziana Panizza (CL), Emily Richardson (GB), Manuel Saiz (ES/UK), Özlem Sulak (TR), Andreas Rebecca Lennon (UK/DE), Max Luz (DE), Lynne Marsh (CA/DE), Edward McHenry (UK), Vincent Meessen Templin (DE), Luis Emilio Valdés Rodriguez (MX), Vatamanu / Tudor (RO/CH), Ingken Wagner (DE), (US/BE), Kevin Murphy (US/SE), Triny Prada (FR), Marco Raparelli (IT), Aldo Runfola (IT), Marinella Senatore (IT), Yamashita / Kobayashi (JP/CH). Nico Vascellari (IT), Mariana Vassileva (BG/DE), Warman & Laukemper (NL/DE), Carlo Zanni (IT), Zapruder (IT).

Courtesy Al Fadhil, 2006 Granados, 2003 - © Javier Peñafiel

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_Ellen Blumenstein

Freelance curator and critic, lives and works in Berlin, Barcelona and Sao Paulo. Ellen Blumenstein lives and works as a freelance curator and critic in Berlin, Barcelona and Sao Paulo. Currently she is involved in the following projects: “Männerfantasien”, exhibition at Chung King Project, Los Angeles (September 2007) and COMA Berlin (March 2008) and Summer academy “Agulhas Negras” in Brazil (October 2008, with Carla Zaccagnini). She is writing her PhD about the political potential of exhibitions.

_Ilaria Bonacossa

Curator at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin. Ilaria Bonacossa is curator at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin. She curated “D-Segni” (2004 –2005), a series of five monographic exhibitions by emerging international artists, and “Subcontingent, The Indian Subcontinent in Contemporary Art” (2006) together with Francesco Manacorda. At Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo she has also curated together with Latitudes “Greenwashing. Environment: Perils, Promises and Perplexities”, an international group show of artists working on environmental issues. She was a Golden Lion jury member at the 52nd Venice Biennale (2007) and is a member of the Technical Committee for Acquisitions of Frac Provence- Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Marseille. Bonacossa is the Italian Correspondent for Contemporary, London, and has published numerous catalogue texts, recently editing the publication “Marlene Dumas” for the series Supercontemporanea (Electa Mondadori, 2006).

_Waling Boers

Director of Universal Studios Bejing. Waling Boers is a curator, writer and founding Director of BüroFriedrich-Berlin and Universal Studios-Beijing.

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_Andris Brinkmanis _Pablo León de la Barra

Latvian curator based in Milan. Mexican artist and curator based in London. Born in Riga, Latvia, he works as a freelance art critic and curator based in Milan and Venice. He Pablo León de la Barra was born in Mexico City, lives and works in London. He is an artist and has collaborated with various art magazine, like “ Studija” (LV) and the weekly magazine “Cultural curator. He is director of Blow de la Barra, an art shop with critical aesthetical content and runs Forum” (LV). Among recent exhibitions he curated are: “October. Exit, memory and desire”, with the program of the White Cubicle Toilet Gallery, in George and The Dragon pub in London; at the Marco Scotini, Artra Gallery, Milan, Italy, 2007; “Mortals. Anton Corbijn”, Latvian State Art same time, he is the solo editor of Pablo International Magazine. Museum Exhibition hall Arsenals, Riga, Latvia, 2005; “The Dream Island”, Art galleries, “ Noass” , “Betanovuss”, AB Dambis open air space, Riga, Latvia 2004; “Adaptation. Latvian contemporary art now” Estonian State Art Museum Exhibition hall Rotterman Salt storage, Tallinn, Estonia 2003. _Anke Hoffmann He has collaborated with Estonian pavilion for the 52nd Venice Biennale and with curator Marco Scotini for the exhibitions “Der Prozess. Collective memory and social history”, Prague biennale 4, Prague, Czech Republic, 2007 and “Disobedience archive” presented within the exhibition Freelance curator and critic in Berlin. “Forms of resistance” at Van Abbemueum in Eindhoven, Netherlands, 2007. Anke Hoffmann works as a freelance curator and critic in Berlin. After studying sociology, politics and cultural studies in Berlin and London, she has been realizing various cultural projects as a freelance, publishing texts in art catalogs and participating in juries of various festivals. Between 1999 and 2001 she worked as a curator for the new media art festival transmediale in Berlin; from _Luca Cerizza 2001 to 2004 she worked at Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie in Karlsruhe (Germany). In collaboration with the group RealismusStudio she curated following exhibitions at Neuen Curator and writer, currently based in Berlin Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, NGBK Berlin: “tainment” (2004), “Auflösung” (2006) and “Der Luca Cerizza is author of several essays, articles and interviews (on Robert Barry, Blinde Fleck” (2008). She was a member of the curatorial team of 7. Werkleitz Biennale “Happy Roberto Cuoghi, Tomas Demand, Job Koelewijn, Guillaume Leblon, Jonathan Monk, Believers”. Diego Perrone, Florian Pumhösl, Daniel Roth, Tomas Saraceno, Tino Sehgal, Rudolf Stingel, Mario Garcia Torres, Luca Trevisani, Patrick Tuttofuoco among others) and editor of a number of publications, including “Don’t Expect Anything” (catalogue of a group show _Gauthier Huber including Robert Barry, Tino Sehgal and Ian Wilson, 2004), and monographs on John Armleder, Robert Barry, Massimo Bartolini, Daniel Buren, Liam Gillick and Daniel Roth. His book, “Alighiero e Boetti. Mappa”, has been recently published by Afterall. He is a regular Curator and professor based in Neuchâtel, in Switzerland. contributor to Frieze and Mousse and teaches at NABA academy in Milan. He is curator at BSI Art Gauthier Huber is a curator and professor based in Neuchâtel, in Switzerland. Among the recent Collection, Lugano and at Fondazione Ratti, Como. exhibitions he organized at CAN (Center for art Neuchâtel) are “Le wall painting en Suisse” (2004) and “Accélération” (with Arthur de Pury, 2007). Currently he is preparing the exhibition “When fears become form” (with Francisco da Mata, June 2008). He is a regular contributor for specialized art magazines and catalogs.

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_Dan Kidner _Nat Muller

Curator, writer and director of City Projects, London. Independent curator and critic. Dan Kidner is a curator and writer. He is director of City Projects, a London-based Nat Muller is an independent curator and critic based in Rotterdam. She has held positions contemporary art commissioning agency. As a critic he has written for Frieze, Untitled as staff curator at V2_, Institute for Unstable Media (Rotterdam) and De Balie, Centre for Culture and regularly contributes to the Spanish magazine Exit Express. He is currently researching new and Politics (Amsterdam). Her main interests include: the intersections of aesthetics, media and forms of critical and political filmmaking. politics; (new) media and art in the Middle East. She has published articles in off- and online media; is a regular contributor for Springerin and Bidoun, and has given presentations on the subject of (new) media art (inter)nationally. Her latest projects include “The Trans_European Picnic - The Art and Media of Accession” (Novi Sad, 2004), DEAF_04: “Affective Turbulence: The _Tobi Maier Art of Open Systems” (Rotterdam, 2004); “INFRA_ctures” (Rotterdam, 2005), “Xeno_Sonic: a series of experimental sound performances from the Middle East” (Amsterdam, 2005), DEAF07 Curator at Frankfurter Kunstverein. (Rotterdam, 2007), the workshop “Between a Rock and a Hard Place? Negotiating Artistic Practice, Audiences, Representation and Collaboration within Local and International Frameworks” Tobi Maier has been a co-founder of curatorial partnership dosensos, London (2002-2005) (Amman, 2007). She has curated video screenings for projects and festivals in a.o. Amsterdam, and during this time organised several exhibitions and public art projects as well as over 100 Rotterdam, Berlin, New York, Istanbul, Copenhagen, Grimstad, and Beirut. She recently co-edited radio programs for art radio station Resonance 104.4FM. After graduating from the MA Curating the “Mag.net Reader2: Between Paper and Pixel” with Alessandro Ludovico (2007), and is Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art in London he worked as curatorial intern at the 27th working on “Mag.net Reader3: Processual Publishing, Actual Gestures”, based on a series of Biennial of Sao Paulo. Since October 2006 he is a curator at Frankfurter Kunstverein. He is also debates organized at Documenta XII. She is co-initiator of the Upgrade! Amsterdam, and has active as a writer for art magazines such as Exit Express in Madrid and Untitled, London. taught at the Willem de Kooning Academy (NL), ALBA (Beirut) and the Lebanese American University (Beirut). She serves as an advisor on Euro-Med collaborations for the European Cultural Foundation (ECF) and the Service Centre for International Cultural Activities (SICA), both based in _Maria Morata The Netherlands. This year she was a jury member for the Berlin-based media festival Transmediale. She will be the first curator-in-residence at the Townhouse Gallery in Cairo from April 2008 to April 2009. Independent curator and film and video programmer. Born in Madrid. Studies of audiovisual communication, experimental film and visual arts in Madrid, Paris and Berlin. Independent curator and film and video programmer. In 2007 guest lecturer at the University of the Arts (Udk) in Berlin. She works currently for arsenal experimental in Berlin, and is co-programmer for the audiovisul departement of Intermediæ, Space for Contemporary Art in Madrid.

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_Fabiola Naldi _Marlene Riegler

Curator and art critic based in Bologna. Curator and marketing manager at Argos Center for Art and Media in Brussels. Fabiola Naldi is a curator and art critic based in Bologna. She teaches phenomenology of Art historian and scholar in cultural studies born in Vienna. After many years working in the the image at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, collaborates with the department of visual arts exhibition organization in Paris and as a freelance art agent, since the beginning of 2008 she has (class of contemporary art history) and with the department of history of fashion (history of art been working at Argos Center for Art and Media in Brussels as a curator and marketing manager. and fashion exhibitions) of the liberal-arts college of the University of Bologna. She is a regular contributor for Flash Art, Around Photography and Sentire Ascoltare.Com. She is the author of: “Contemporary African Art between traditions and new technologies”, in “African Art between Culture and Market”, curated by G uido Candela, Skira, Milano, 2007; “My _Scintilla Robina e Norberto Dalmata street continues and lives today more than ever. Writing in Bologna from the end of the 70s until today”, in “Atlas of contemporary cultural movements in Emilia Romagna 1968-2007. Writing, Art Indipendent curators based in Italy. and Counter culture, Clueb, Bologna, 2007. “Scrubbing Video”, in “Vertigo. The century of Off Art Scintilla Robina works as a curator and contributor for various magazines (among others Donna – Medias from Futurism to the web”, curated by Germano Celant and Gianfranco Maraniello, Skira, Oggi and Fitness and culture). Since 2005 she has been art curator at the Diesel store in New Milan, 2007, “The Fair of Freaks. The visual world of Floria Sigismondi & Chris Cunningham”, in York, where she currently lives and works. Norberto Dalmata is a critic and philosopher. He “Sound and Vision”, curated by Luca Beatrice, Damiani Editori, 2006; “Floria Sigismondi. studied at the Moderna University of Siena. He collaborates with many art magazines, like Brufolo Immaculate Conception”, The Bookmakers Ed., Turin, 2005; “Rapport 1957-1977”, in P. and Flash Art Slovakia. He lives in Rome. He curated shows like “As a Drop of water on a K-way” SORCINELLI (curated by), “Gli anni del Rock”, Bup, Bologna, 2005; “I’ll be your mirror. at Care Of Milan and Uqbar Berlin, and a series of artist books, a.o. “The Necklace Norby and Photographic camouflage”, Cooper & Castelvecchi, Rome, 2003. Scinty friends and relatives”, Purple room, Rome.

_Hermann Nöring _Berta Sichel (BR/ES) Hermann Noering: co-director of the European Media Art Festival in Osnabrück. Director of the Department of Audiovisuals and Chief-Curator Film and Video at Museo Nacional Born in Germany, he studied Sciences of Communication and Political History in Osnabrück and Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid. London. From 1984 to 1988 he was curator of videoart shows, experimental films and installations; since 1988 he has been curator and co-director of the European Media Art Festival in International art curator and consultant, researcher, art and cultural writer, lecturer, instructor. Osnabrück. He made several lectures on arts in new media, film and video. He was also producer Area: contemporary art, specialized in Media Arts (working in the field since 1983); extensive and director of several tv-features on knowledge of trends in art and art issues and sensitivity to diverse audiences. electronic arts for German television NDR, RTL and Kanal 4. Experienced in all phases of exhibition activities, including: developing and implementing short- and long-term curatorial projects; planning and developing exhibitions; supervising installations; fundraising, grant writing; catalogues and/or related publications and educational programs. Editor and writer for art publications; advisor to foundations, cultural institutions, private and public collections on art acquisitions and exhibitions.

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_Necmi Sönmez _Guo Xiaoyan & Emma Guo

Indipendent curator and director of the Kunstverein Arnsberg. Curator at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art. Born in Istanbul, he works between Turkey and Germany. After his PhD in Art History and many Guo Xiaoyan is curator at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art. Previously the head of the years experience as a free lance curator, he worked as a curator of contemporary art at Museum curatorial department of Guangdong Museum of Art (from 2002-2007), she achieved major Folkwang, Essen between 2001 and 2005. Currently he is the Art Director of Kunstverein Arnsberg exhibitions of contemporary artists from China and abroad (in collaboration with Hou Hanru and e.V., member of the technical commission of FRAC Franche Comté and guest curator at Elgiz Hans-Ulrich Obrist for the “2nd Guangzhou Triennial” and the”D-lab, Contemporary Art Exhibition Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul. in Northeast China”, for instance). She wrote extensively on artists issues. Guo Xiaoyan also worked as co-curator with Colin Chinnery and Pi Li for the “Aftershock-Contemporary British art 1990-2006” (2006) exhibition and for “City -Net Asia”, Seoul Museum of Art (2007). In 2007 she received a Curatorial Excellence award by ACC (Asian Culture Center). _Maria Rosa Sossai Emma Guo is assistant curator at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art. She curated exhibition- related programs (panel discussion, artists talk and film screenings) including “’85 New Wave: Freelance curator and art critic based in Rome. The Birth of Chinese Contemporary Art”, “Lawrence Weiner in 2007. She worked as an assistant curator for “Asia-net City”, Seoul Museum of Art, Oct,2007. Maria Rosa Sossai lives and works in Rome. She is an art critic and freelance curator. She curates exhibitions of contemporary art in galleries, foundations, and institutions. Since 2005 she has been collaborating with MAN Museum for contemporary art in Nuoro, Italy. She holds regularly conferences and lessons in public and private universities. She writes for art magazines such as Flash Art and Artkey. Her critic contributions have been published in various catalogs and publications. Her book “Artevideo. Storie e culture del video d’artista in Italia“ (Art and video. Histories and cultures of artist videos in Italy, Silvana Editoriale, Milan) was published in 2002. Her next book “Cinema d’artista, i nuovi linguaggi delle immagini in movimento” (Artistic Cinema, new languages of moving images, Silvana Editoriale, Milan) will be published soon.

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_Hans D. Christ

Co-director of Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart. He studied Art and literature science in Dortmund, Germany. In 1996 he founded hartware medien kunst verein as an independent platform for the presentation of contemporary art. Since 2005 he has been Director of the Württembergischen Kunstverein in Stuttgart. Among recent exhibitions and projects he curated or organized are: Stan Douglas. Past Imperfect, Works 1986 – 2007, Stuttgart, 2007; Anna Oppermann, Revisions of “Ensemble Art”, Stuttgart, 2007; SonArc:project, Jan Peter E.R. Sonntag, Stuttgart, 2007; Peter Bogers. Play–Rev.–Play, 2006, Muntadas:Protokolle, 2006; Michaël Borremans, Fernando Bryce, Dan Perjovschi, drawings, Stuttgart, 2006; On Difference #2: Grenzwertig, Stuttgart, 2006; Contenance, Fassung Bewahren, Marina Abramovic / Ulay, Valérie Belin, Gary Carsley, Daniel Herskowitz, Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler, Lee Se-jung, Loretta Lux, Frédéric Moser / Philippe Schwinger, Shahryar Nashat, Carolina Saquel, Stuttgart, 2005; The 3rd Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Media_city Seoul 2004; games. Computer games of artists, Dortmund, 2003;

_Christopher Eamon

Curator of the Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection and Director of New Art Trust in New York and San Francisco. Christopher Eamon is Director of the New Art Trust, San Francisco, and Curator of the Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection, San Francisco. He was previously the Assistant Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and has curated shows of video and new media art at PS1/MOMA, ICA London, and SFMOMA, among others. In 2006 he co-curated the exhibition "Beyond Cinema: The Art of Projection. Film, Videos and Installations from 1963 to 2005" at Hamburger Bahnhof Museum for Contemporary Art Berlin.

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_Raphie Etgar

Curator at Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem. Raphie Etgar is the Art Director and Curator of the Museum on the Seam in Jerusalem, a sociopolitical contemporary art museum, unique in Israel which he founded in 1999 moved by the pressing need to bring about change and foster dialogue, understanding and coexistence in the region. In 2000 he initiated the international traveling outdoor art exhibition, currently still traveling the world, entitled COEXISTENCE, which calls for mutual respect and attempts to make a contribution to the universal dilemma confronting all of us of how to exist together. Raphie Etgar is also an artist and during the 1980's he was one of the leading poster artists in Israel, receiving international recognition and during the 1990's working extensively in the theater world.

_Marco Scotini

Director of M.A. in Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies NABA in Milan. Marco Scotini is an art critic and independent curator. He lives in Milan. He is director of the Visual Arts School and director of MA in Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies at Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti (NABA) in Milan. He is Professor of Contemporary Art History. He regularly collaborates with Flash Art and other journals in the field. His writings and interviews have appeared in Springerin, Domus, Moscow Art Magazine, Espacio and many exhibition catalogues. He is the co-curator of the international lecture series “The Utopian Display” on contemporary exhibition models. Among recent exhibitions he has curated are “Cities from Below”, Teseco Foundation, Pisa 2006-2007; “Direct Architecture. Politics and space”, Borgovico 33, Como 2007; “Der Prozess. Collective memory and social history”, Prague Biennale 3, Prague 2007. He is also curator of the ongoing project “Disobedience” (Berlin 2005; Mexico DF 2005; Barcelona 2006; Eindhoven 2007). He has curated important solo shows for public institutions and private galleries with Meschac Gaba, Gianni Motti, Anibal Lopez, Vedovamazzei, Marc Bijl, Radek Community, Regina José Galindo, Oliver Ressler, Michel Verjux, David Ter-Oganyan, Iosif Kiraly. In addition he is director of the Gianni Colombo Archive in Milan.

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_Mohammed Soudani

Filmmaker. Mohammed Soudani was born in El-Assam, Algeria. After graduating from IDHEC, he worked as a cameraman for Algerian Radio Television from 1970 to 1971. He moved to Switzerland in 1972, where he worked as a cameraman at Polivideo SA in Locarno. After training in the USA in 1987, he began directing. He shot numerous television programmes, as well as operas from the Arena in Verona and various musical programmes. For the cinema, he was responsible for the camerawork on various awarded films, amongst others, Antigone, Le trésor dans la cheminée, or Au nom du Christ by Roger Gnoan M'Bala. He also did camera work on many publicity films and African documentaries. As a director, besides the conception of advertising spots, video clips and credit sequences for Ivory Coast Television, he has directed various news reports for Italian Swiss Television. Among his documentaries are three 16mm short subjects, Nawa, l'homme et l'eau (1989), Yiribakro (1991) and Abidjan, ville de contraste (1991), and two full-length documentaries: Hommages (1992), devoted to the construction of the Yamoussoukro basilica in the Ivory Coast, and Murales (1992). The latter, linked to the 700th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' discovery of America, portrays four American mural painters whose work deals with the consequences of colonisation. Filmed in Senegal and Italy, Waalo Fendo (Where the Earth Freezes) in his first feature length fiction. His newest work is the feature film "ROULETTE" (2008).

_Andrei Ujica

Filmmaker and Director of the Filminstitut of ZKM Karlsruhe. Born in Timisoara, Romania, he lives and works in Berlin and Karlsruhe. With a background in literature, Andrei Ujica has published a number of stories and essays since 1968, such as "Television/Revolution Das Ultimatum des Bildes" (The Ultimatum of the Image). He has lived and worked in Germany since 1981 where he teaches literature, film and media theory. In 1990 Ujica decided to devote himself to cinema and created "Videogramme einer Revolution" (Videograms of a Revolution, 1992) in collaboration with Haroun Faroki, which became a landmark film on the relationship between political power and the media in Europe in the End of Cold War Europe. His second film "Out of the Present" (1995), tells the story of cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, who spent ten months aboard the space station Mir, while on earth, the Soviet Union ceased to exist. Lately, Andrei Ujica has also been interested in the convergence between cinematographic views and artistic scenes, thus his films became part of notorious exhibitions.

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_Mirjam Varadinis

Curator at Kunsthaus Zürich. Mirjam Varadinis is art historian and curator at Kunsthaus Zürich since September 2002. Here she has organized various exhibitions, among others with Erik van Lieshout, Aleksandra Mir, Nedko Solakov, Moser/Schwinger, Urs Fischer, Mark Handforth, David Shrigley. She has published numerous catalogues and art books. In 2006 she co-curated the festival “Printemps de Septembre” in Toulouse. In 2005 she launched together with Annie Wu the Internet-Platform www.azple.com.

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