Biographies Humboldt Lab Dahlem: Probebühne 3 Project “Fotografien berühren” Dr. Michael Kraus Michael Kraus is an ethnologist and exhibition curator, and Akademischer Rat at the Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. He has participated as a curator in exhibitions in Berlin, Marburg, Grünberg, and Brasília, among others. He was a member of the curatorial team of the show “WeltWissen. 300 Jahre Wissenschaften in Berlin” (Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, 2010) and “Novos Mundos - Neue Welten. Portugal und das Zeitalter der Entdeckungen” (Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, 2007). In 2008 he stood in as professor of ethnology at the Philipps-Universität Marburg. From 2011-2013 Michael Kraus worked as a research assistant in the DFG project on historical photography from Latin America at the Ethnologisches Museum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. His main work and research focuses are on the history of sci- ence, indigenous cultures in the Amazon region, museum ethnology/museum practice, visual anthropology, and material culture. chezweitz For more than ten years, the studio for scenography directed by Detlef Weitz and Sonja Beeck has been de- signing art and theme-related exhibitions. It was responsible for, among others, the design of the anniversary show “Modell Bauhaus” in 2009 at Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, and the 2011 exhibition “Arbeit. Sinn und Sorge” at the Deutsches Hygienemuseum Dresden initiated by the German Federal Cultural Foundation. The studio was awarded the Designpreis der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in Gold 2011 for the Andy Warhol exhibition “Other Voices, Other Rooms” at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. chezweitz is currently work- ing on the new permanent exhibition of the DB Museum in Nuremberg, an interactive “European Class- room” for the Route Charlemagne of the City of Aachen, as well as – together with the FEZ-Berlin – the children’s exhibition “POP-UP Cranach” in the Gemäldegalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. www.szenografie.org Project „Mensch – Objekt – Jaguar“ Sebastián Mejía Born in Columbia in 1980, lives and works in Düsseldorf. He studied art from 1999 to 2004 at the Universi- dad Javeriana, Bogota, Columbia, and from 2007 to 2009 at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden. His objects, photographs, videos, and installations are experimental arrangements. Exhibitions at, among others, Künstlerhaus Ziegelhütte Darmstadt and ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, as well as the art fairs Scope Miami Art Show, Volta, New York, The Others Art Fair, Turin, and Preview, Berlin. www.sebastianmejia.de Andrea Scholz Andrea Scholz studied ethnology, sociology and Romance studies in Bonn and conducted research in Mex- ico (2004) and Venezuela (2007–2009). The theme of her dissertation was the recognition of indigenous territories in Guayana/Venezuela and was published in 2012 under the title “Die Neue Welt neu ermessen”. In the course of her field studies, she has dealt with the material culture of the Guayana region. Since 2012 Andrea Scholz has been working at the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin and the University Göttingen. In addition to her work on the planning process of the Humboldt-Forum and for the Humboldt Lab Dahlem, Andrea Scholz is engaged with ethnographies from South America. Seite 2, <Titel des Dokuments> Project “24h Dahlem” Clara Jo Artist Clara Jo (1986, USA) received a Meisterschüler degree (2013) in the class of Olafur Eliasson (Institut für Raumexperimente, UdK Berlin). She received a B.A. in Photography from Bard College (New York) in 2008. Collaborative performance and film works with artist James Gregory Atkinson have been shown at MMK Museum Für Moderne Künste Frankfurt, Kunsthalle Krems, Club Transmediale, Hessische Kunsthal- le Frankfurt, West Germany (received grant from Kulturamt Kreuzberg/Friedrichshain), and HAU2. Group exhibitions include White Columns (New York) and the Swiss Institute (New York). www.raumexperimente.net/participant/clara-jo Robert Lippok Since his youth, Robert Lippok has been active as a musician and fine artist in various formations. In the 1990s, he, his brother Ronald, and Stefan Schneider founded the band to rococo rot, which became known worldwide with releases on the labels Kitty-Yo, City Slang and Staubgold, among others. With to rococo rot, Robert Lippok also developed sounded pieces for artists including Olaf Nicolai (Bonner Kunstverein, 2000, Palais de Tokyo, 2002, HAU Berlin, 2006), Doug Aitken (Serpentine Gallery, London, 2001) and Takehito Koganezawa (“On the way to the peak of normal“, Montevideo and Amsterdam, 2000). In addition, to ro- coco rot has collaborated in radio plays for the Bayerischer Rundfunk, among others, and composed a new version of Walter Ruttmann’s sound montage “Weekend”. Lippok also performs as a solo artist and with the electronic duo Tarwater. As a fine artist, he deals with architectural spaces and audio concepts. He partici- pated in the show “space to face“ at the Westfälischen Kunstverein (Münster, 2004), among others. www.raster-noton.net.