‘Cinema U 2

Mauricio Sanhueza (Peru,1978) studied at the University of Lima from 1996 until 2000. He then continued his studies at the Lima visual arts school, Corriente Alterna, graduating in 2006 with top honors. In 2011 he obtain a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from San Marcos University. Since 2004 he has participated in several collective art exhibits and festivals in Peru and abroad. Mauricio’s videos have been screened at many international video-art and experimental short-film festivals and have won many awards.

KATYA KAN
An idiosyncra-c specimen of globaliza-on, I was born in Almaty, Kazakhstan, my father being North Korean and my mother being Russian. Having caught a glimpse of the ex-USSR, I have a nostalgic, conflic-ng percep-on of poli-cal and cultural systems. Devoid of a homeland, I focus my art on the themes of ethnical atomiza-on, emp-ness and nostalgia. Unable to fully assimilate into any one culture, I find myself as an outsider with an eclec-c ar-s-c taste. Art represents the act of seeking, assembling and immortalizing beauty. Through my ar-s-c prac-ce, I recreate the state of inspira-on and emancipa-on, experienced during my childhood. My works strive to capture the ephemeral impressions. The concepts, which I explore in my work, include the globaliza-on, surveillance, nostalgia, utopia and ero-cism.

DIANNE HARRIS
Dianne Harris is an interna-onal new media Ar-st and founding director and curator of Kine-ca Museum. Dianne has exhibited na-onally and internationally over the past 20 years, her work is collected privately and commissioned and has been included in the temporary & permanent collec-ons of Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art, Science Museum London, Taipai Na-onal Museum of Science Taiwan, Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology Cambridge, Kine-ca Museum, Canary Wharf, FSA Collec-on, George Iacobescu Collec-on, Millennium Dome, Bri-sh Council and in many galleries throughout UK,
Europe and America. She has curated over 20 large-scale ‘concept’ exhibi-ons for Kine-ca from 2006 – 2021 including the annual Kine-ca Museum feature exhibi-ons at Kine-ca Art Fair (2009 – 2014). In 2003 – 2004, Dianne opened a gallery in Westbourne Studios ‘The Luminaries’ which was the first kinetic and interac-ve gallery space in London which became the forerunner to Kine-ca. Dianne has collaborated on many installa-ons and new commissions with ar-sts, audiovisual and music groups including; Hex, Hexsta-c, Coldcut, Future Sound of London, Amorphous Androgynous and more recently with Holotronica, Paul Friedlander and Kima-ca Studio. In 1991 when Dianne was at St Mar-ns School of Art she and Madhew Slotover co-founded Frieze magazine.

In this video, natural imagery unfolds into a surreal cycle of destruction, death, and rebirth. The fragmented footage, taken from three coastlines in the United States, is edited into new forms – accentuating nature’s close interplay with itself and us. The soundtrack, taken from the ambient sound of the source footage, is manipulated and layered with synth drones – reinforcing the intense and uncanny relationship between memory and reality. By dramatizing these natural moments a light is cast on our environmental impact and the overall power, horror, and beauty of nature itself.

Mikey Peterson
is a Chicago-based video/audio artist. His imagery, influenced by pre-CGI science fiction films, arthouse horror, experimental cinema, and sound collage, aims to disturb the viewer’s self-perception and sense of place. Footage is taken out of its original natural context and manipulated to relay other truths about the world that it is from – unveiling themes of memory, environmental preservation, evolution, disorientation, and fear. His work has shown in festivals, galleries and museums including NYC’s Museum of the Moving Image; Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Photography; the Chicago Cultural Center; the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum; Rome’s MAXXI Museum; the LA Art Show; South Korea’s CICA Museum, Seattle’s Northwest Film Forum; SIGGRAPH Conference, Lucca Film Festival, London’s Visions in the Nunnery, CURRENTS New Media, Germany’s The Wake Up ! Memorial, Paris’ STREETVIDEOART, Athen’s Digital Arts Festival, NYC’s Ende Tymes Festival, NYC’s Under The Subway Video Art Night, and NYC’s VAEFF festival at Tribeca Cinemas. Peterson teaches courses at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Snow City Arts.

Adamo Macri
is a Montreal-based contemporary artist who works in the fields of sculpture, photography, painting, video and drawing. In his work, distinct themes such as identity, contamination, and the staging of nature are explored. Macri has presented works in numerous art institutions worldwide.

Carolyn Kane
is a video and electronic artist whose work has been shown in the U.S., Canada and Europe. Her work is concerned with issues of affect, perception, and new technologies. Carolyn teaches at Hunter College (CUNY) and is currently completing her book Chromatic Algorithms: Synthetic Color, Computer Art, and Aesthetics after Code (in contract with the University of Chicago Press).

Andreas Papadopoulos
is an artist who graduated with a Masters of Arts in Photography degree from the University of the Arts in London in 2005. He participated in video and photography exhibitions at various venues around the world, including File Festival, Art Video Koeln, Matt Roberts Arts and Thessaloniki Museum of Photogaphy, among others. He lives and works in Athens.

Masa Hilcisin Dervisevic
interests include documentary film and video with emphasis on social issues and different aspects of violation of human rights. Her documentary films have been screened at many film festivals around the world including LGBTI Film Festival in Mumbai, Frameline in San Francisco, Berlinale, MIX in NYC, Filmmor in Istanbul, and others.
Filmography: Not If You Can But You Must (2006, short documentary), directed; Queer Sarajevo Festival 2008 (2009, short documentary), co-directed; Home (2012, video), author; A (2012, video), author; Ken (feature documentary, work in progress)…
Ph.D. candidate at Masaryk University in the department of Film Studies and Audio-Visual Culture.

Liu Wei
was born in China in1965, He is an independent artist living and working in Beijing. He graduated from the China Central Academy of Drama, Beijing, China, and studies in philosophy form the University of Beijing. He participated in the 8th Gwangju Bienniale(2010), 9th Sharjah Biennial(2009), WRO 09 Media Art Biennale, the Taipei Biennial(2008) etc. He has also participated in numerous film/Documentary/video festivals, including Rotterdam Film Festival (2002, 2010), Milano Film Festival(2010), International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam(2005), Cinema du Reel(2006, 2010), Viper Basel – International festival for film video and new media (2003), and Transmediale (2006) etc.

Silvia De Gennaro
lives and works in Rome, Italy. Since 1999 she is a founding member of “Assaus” together with the architect Alessio Scarale. For twenty years she has been dealing with digital art, video art and animation. Her works have participated in several video art exhibitions and film festivals around the world, such as:
Bnl Media Art Festival, IT; Video Formes , FR; Current New Media, U.S.A.; F.I.L.E. , BRA; Visionaria, IT; Madatac, ES; Invideo, IT; Magmart, IT; Athens Video Art Festival, GR; Brooklyn Film Festival, U.S.A.; ECU, FR; Interfilm Berlino, D; Nastri d’Argento, IT.
Currently her work is divided between the realization of social and political themed video and a project about the city and the perception of the traveler, entitled “Travel Notebooks”.

Jared Katsiane (USA) – Before War, 2010, 5:40
Boston, 1951: uncle Tommy makes home movies… then brings along his camera as a soldier in the Korean War.

Jared Katsiane
US filmmaker teaches flmmaking in the same public housing development where he grew up in Boston. His award-winning films have screened at 250 international festivals.

Max Hattler
lives in London where he’s a Doctorate in Fine Art candidate at University of East London, and teaches at Goldsmiths and University of the Arts London. Hattler has had solo exhibitions and retrospectives at Schaustelle/Pinakothek der Moderne Munich, Playgrounds Festival, Lumen Eclipse, Image Forum Festival, Fredrikstad Animation Festival, Go Short Nijmegen, Media Art Friesland and others. His films, video installations and audiovisual performances challenge the tensions between abstraction and figuration, aesthetics and politics, sound and image, precision and improvisation.

IAAAI ( id : TAFANI Lisa): eyes, scream, laughter in public space; spy /Later cumulating cultural signs it playing a virtual persistent auxiliary storage, a public memory ::: IAAAI : IMAGINARY ATTENTIVE ABOUT INTRUSIV ACTIONS/ His mission, since 30112003 : play spy record collective behaviors thanks to numerical files process : from images series capture, to Internet edition. High technology like a witness of human condition; Daily shorts serials photovideo tailed and edited through public spaces/

Alessandro Amaducci
Born in Turin (Italy) in 1967. Since 1991 he worked with the National Film Archives of Resistence (Turin), where he realized documentaries about the Second World War, the Resistance, about workers struggle and other subjects relevant to the activity of the Archive. Since 1995 he worked with Theater Juvarra in Turin in the realization of multimedia shows and videoperformances. He also works as a teacher of video language and practice in DAMS (Department of Art, Music and Performing arts), a Department of the University of Turin, Italy. He wrote several books about videoart; video technics and aesthetics of electronic arts. Since 1989 he realizes experimental videos, documentaries, music videos, videoinstallations, multimedia shows and videoscenographies for dance performances.

Alexander Satim Timofeev
Was born in 19.04.1977 in Saint-Petersburg (Russia).
Designer, animator, digital-artist. The art-director of TOONDRA animation studio. Festival of Computer Art and Advertising ¦Gaura Days¦, MACHINISTA 2004 International
Festival, Multimatograf-2004 Festival, Festival of Computer Arts ¦Chaos Constructions-2004¦, EGGSposition design action, “Russia as seen by young people”, AVANCA-2005 Festival

Anatol Kraczyna (Italy) – Citizens Need, 2004, 3:13
Can the use of violence justify the removal of a dictatorship? According to the words of JF Kennedy, citizens have a right to be armed to defend themselfs from a tirranical goverment, but…who can decide who will be considered a rebel and who a terrorist?

Anatol Kraczyna
Born in Florence, Italy on Feb.3, 1965 – Studies in Architecture – Works in (boring) transport engineering company – Started making experimental videos in 2002

Silvio De Gracia (Junín, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
He is writer, visual artist, performer, video artist and independent curator. Since 2002, through Hotel DaDA – Action Art, he works in the production of international events of video art, visual poetry, mail art and performance. He has been director and curator of the festivals of action art Interferencias (2005/2007), Video Art Festival PLAY (2004/2006) and of the Video & Performance Festival man in transit (2008). Also, he coordinates the Videoplay Project, a curatorial instance of interchange with institutions and events dedicated to the dissemination of video art and action art. He has presented his performances, conferences and urban art projects in Canada, Italy, United Kingdom, Serbia, Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Chile and Cuba. As video artist, he has exhibited his work in important shows and festivals in Mexico, France, Spain, Argentina, USA, Cuba, Russia, Belgium, Italy, Serbia, Romania, Japan, Estonia and Portugal. As a theoretical, he has published essays and articles in specialized magazines and in several Internet sites. He is author of the book “La estética de la perturbación” (Aesthetic of disquietude), an essay on interference, an innovating concept of performance art that conveys his singular contribution to the Latin American action art scene. He is organizer, theoretical and researcher of performance art. Among his contributions as invited curator and co-curator are Performance Present Future, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2008); the International Biennial of Performance DEFORMES, in Santiago, Chile (2006); the Nagano International Video Art Festival, Japan (2006); VideoChannel 06, Cologne, Germany (2006); International Digital Art Exhibit and Colloquium, La Habana, Cuba (2005/2006); etc. At 2009 he has been invited to the Tenth Havana Biennial “Integration and resistance in the global era”.

Nicola Bergström Hansen
Born in 1983. Works and lives in Stockholm, Sweden.

This album, this sequence of sound is a collaboration between Frédéric Iriarte (France/Sweden), Jair-Rôhm Parker Wells (USA/Germany) and Katarina Andersson (Norway/Sweden) and Igor Goldkind (USA).
It is a kaleidoscope of images, of sounds, of beats, of words. Of intakes of breath, of exhalations, declarations, lamentations and celebrations.
Of sounds, images and words colluding to find meaning.
Between breaths. Between beats. Between small events and catastrophes. Between the moments of our life. Where we can all meet. Alone and Breathless. When we cannot make love instead of war, we make art.

Katarina Andersson
Katarina Andersson was born in 1964 in Stockholm, lived in Västervik (Sweden) 1982-2008 where, in addition to painting, I had horse activities. I paint as soon as I get the chance.
I am self-taught and have had exhibitions in Västervik and Stockholm. I like to experiment with films, color, shape and material.

Arthur Woods
is an astronautical artist. His goal has been to introduce, nurture and expand a cultural dimension to humanity’s astronautical endeavors. Beginning in 1985, he initiated a number of art-in- space projects including the Cosmic Dancer – an investigation of sculpture in weightlessness (1993) and Ars
Ad Astra – the 1st Art Exhibition in Earth Orbit (1995) both realized on the Russian Mir space station. In 2016, he initiated the Greater.Earth project which introduces a new perception of our planet and is his personal space program and online platform where he is developing additional art interventions designed
for space.
His involvement with space activities began when he personally witnessed the beginnings of the U.S. space program while living in the immediate vicinity of Cape Canaveral and the Kennedy Space Center (1959 – 1970). There he held summer jobs at the space center in 1967 & 1968 during the Apollo program.
His work has been exhibited in a number of international space and art exhibitions including Art Basel (1987, 1988, and 1989), All Design – Leben im schwerelosen Raum, Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich (2002), Abenteuer Raumfahrt. Aufbruch ins Weltall, Grosse Sonderausstellung des Landes Baden-Württemberg im Landesmuseum für Technik und Arbeit in Mannheim (2006), Falling Without Fear, The Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, New Mexico, USA (2012-13), Free Enterprise: The Art of Citizen Space Exploration, California
Museum of Photography, UCR-University of California Riverside, USA (2013). Revolutions: The Inexorable Evolution of Art (2013), Canadian Space Society in Calgary, Canada, The Universe and Art, ArtScience Museum, Singapore (2017), and Personal Structures – Open Borders exhibition curated by the Global Art Affairs Foundation in the context of the Venice Art Biennale (2017).

Maryam Muliaee
is a media artist-researcher, got her MA in Intermedia from University of Arts in Poznan, Poland in 2014, and now is doing her PhD in Media Study at University at Buffalo, New York since 2015. Her works are multidisciplinary, ranges from video/sound installations, locative media including site-specific soundwalks and mapping practices, in which she draws upon themes such as place/space, erasure, absence, history, memory, and remembrance. Maryam’s works have been exhibited/screened in more than 30 galleries and juried exhibitions throughout Poland, Italy, Germany, Japan, England, Croatia, Belgium, Iran and US since 2007.

Cody Healey-Conelly
is a Brooklyn based multimedia artist primarily working with video and projection. His work deals with the relationships between technology, humans, and the environment, often incorporating new technologies and applications to push the boundaries of our visual experiences.

Perry Bard & Richard Sullivan (USA) – NO FLAK, 2017, 7’23
NO FLAK is a text/image animation that links the attitudes of Dada and the Theatre of the Absurd to the present moment. In the aftermath of an election where the internet offers the opportunity for rants on social media and absurd tweets from the U.S. president the work scours past and present for bits of humor and philosophy to define a science of the imaginary, an approach to these troubled times. With quotes from Alfred Jarry, Jonathan Crary, George Orwell, Plato, Aristotle, Elena Gorokhova and new rules from the U.S. president.

Perry Bard & Richard Sullivan
Perry Bard’s videos and installations have been presented internationally at museums, film festivals, biennials and public screens worldwide: including MoMA and MoMA PS1 NY, Guggenheim Museum, New Museum, Reina Sofia Museum, MOCA Zagreb, the Toronto, Rotterdam, IDFA Film Festivals, Ars Electronica, Transmediale, FILE, Share, the Sao Paolo, Montreal and Cartagena Biennials. Her crowdsourced project Man With A Movie Camera:The Global Remake has been presented in over 50 venues to date.

Richard Sullivan’s films and animations have screened at the Reina Sofia Museum, Ann Arbor Film Festival, San Francisco Cinemathèque, Millenium, Ocularis, Dumbo Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives NY.

Robert Frankle
is a Luxembourgish-American artist living between Luxembourg and Venice. Hus artistic research is inspired by personal questions. He develops works communicating aspects of these questions in a more universal manner. Also, hge often relates hus work to art history, particularly contemporary art. He selects the media based on what corresponds best to the idea. However, ge usually works with video, photography, and installation. he has an MFA from the Venice Fine Arts Academy – additionally a bachelors in Political Science/International Relations from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an MBA from Monterey Institute of International Studies.

Isabelle Schneider
Born in 1958 near Verdun. Lives in the south of France. Studies history. Conducts parallelement works in painting and video on the subject of the body and war. Works in co-operation with experimental theater companys. (German, Greek and French)

Sherri Lee Richardson
Born in 1963 in London, Lives in the south of France, Independant artist. Translator.
Works in collaboration with danse, theater, music and video creators as a performer and/or composer. A singer/songwriter working with accoustic instruments and MAO.
Translates french to english for theater and video.

Unnur Andrea Einarsdottir (Iceland) – The Albino’s Melamcholia, 2004, 2:34

Unnur Andrea Einarsdottir
Born in Reyjavik, Iceland 1981. Graduated from the Icelandic Academy of the Arts 2005, with a B.A. degree in Fine arts. Pesented on numerous FESTUVALS/exgitions in Iceland and abroad)

Johanna Reich
1977 born in Minden, Germany
2000 Academy of Fine Arts Muenster (Kunstakademie Münster) | Prof. Andreas Köpnick, Prof. Guillaume Bijl
2003 Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg (HfbK Hamburg) | Prof. Wim Wenders
2005 Studium an der Facultat de Belles Arts Barcelona, Spain
2007 Postgraduate studies at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne | Prof. Mischa Kuball, Prof. Matthias Müller
Johanna Reich lives and works in Cologne, Germany.

Shahar Marcus
Shahar Marcus (b. 1971) is an Israeli-based artist who primarily works in the medium of performance and video art. His initial works dealt with the exploration of his own body and its limitations-
incorporating various perishable materials, such as dough, juice, and ice. His most recent works deal nwith local political issues, by approaching iconic Israeli landmarks with a critical and humorous point of view. Thus, Marcus reflects on his own heritage, environment, and the creation of local historical narratives. His works are influenced by the visual language of cinematography along with familiar themes and tributes to art – history, and artists, such as Ives Klein, Paul McCarthy, Peter Greenway, and Jackson pollock.

Krista Faist (USA) – Kaleidoscope, 2021, 0:52
Disquieting yet nurturing, Kaleidoscope evokes the sensation of tumbling weightlessly while being gently looked down upon. It invites the viewer to expand their frame of reference and explore life’s possibilities.

Krista Faist
Krista Faist is a virtual reality artist based in Columbus, Ohio. She has lived all over the United States and loves to travel and see the world. She holds a BFA in New Media from Penn State University and expects to graduate with her MFA in Visual Arts from Columbus College of Art & Design in 2023. Her background is in oil painting, computer science, and nonprofit development. She also creates intricate, colorful sculptures and encaustic paintings on plate glass as well as immersive video experiences. Her work explores childhood wonderment, sentimentality and liminal states of reality.

Manuela Barile
Manuela Barile is an Italian multidisciplinary artist and vocal performer who lives in Portugal. Her artistic research is based on a project-oriented work that combines vocal sounds with different media (performance art, field recordings, video, photography, etc) using various presentation formats (video and sound installations, concert-performance, multi-media performance). The art of Manuela Barile is a continue investigation on the reality, on being in the world, on experience. Her works are developed on and for places, taking in account several aspects, such as the natural conformation of the land, tradition, memory, ritual and sacred symbolizations deposited as signs in the ground.

Anthony Rousseau
Born in Mayenne (France) in 1972, artist Rousseau Anthony lives and works in Rennes. He studied the arts at the Fine Arts School of Rennes, obtained the Multimedia Mastère (ERBAR, 2001), and DNSEP (ERBAR, 2000).
Rousseau has shown his work in National festivals : centre d’art contemporain de Basse Normandie (Hérouville st clair, 2004 & 2005), Videoformes (Clermont Ferrand, 2002), Bandits-mages (Bourges, 2001), Pink TV (French Gay & Lesbian TV, 2004 & 2005)… and international festivals : Senef (Korea, 2005), Optica (Spain, 2005), LUFF ( Switzerland, 2005), Microcinema Independent & Mobile Exposure (USA & International 2006-2007) … and Le Cube (Issy-les-Moulineaux, 2007), Magda Danysz Gallery (2006)…

Henry Gwiazda
is a new media artist/composer whose artistic trajectory has taken him from sampling, sound effects, and immersive technologies to his current work with new media. This new work is a comprehensive artistic approach that has resulted in work that is multimedia in nature and focused on movement. Gwiazda’s works are regularly screened in festivals and galleries throughout the world. His work is available on Innova Recordings.

Ausín Sáinz
Trained at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Salamanca where he completed the specialties of Painting, Sculpture, Graphic Design and Audiovisual Communication, Ausín Sáinz has come a long way from his beginnings to his latest video creations and urban installations. His work, with its figurative and baroque aesthetics, disturbing and not at all accommodating, has been seen in numerous spaces both in Spain and in other countries.

Gabriel Hosovsky
was born in 1966 in Poprad, in Slovak Republic, he lives and works in Bratislava. He is graduated in Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava, Department of Architecture and he is active from eighties, when he worked on the field of painting and sculpture. In 1988 he founded with Martin Knut, Miloš Novák and Rudolf Sikora the artist group Syzýgia, a significant representative of Transavanguardia movement in former Czechoslovakia. From 2004 he starts to realize projects in various media – photography, public art, video and self edited visual and text projects

Albano Ruela (Portugal) – Icarus, 2015, 03:47
The Icarus myth is about fallen heroes who reached too far…

Albano Ruela
Has several distinctions and awards in photography and video art. Exhibits regularly in painting, sculpture and photography since 1990 to present both on the national scene and internationally. It has regular presence in national and international festivals of experimental cinema and animation in which has also won some awards. Is dedicated among other projects to book illustration, graphic design and has been editor of two magazines linked to the art world.

Finn Harvor (South Korea) – Meat: New Cut, 2022, 2:32
This is a long version of “Meat” (a poem of mine originally published in the literary magazine Former People) and “The Wargasm 1” (originally published in the literary magazine The Asses of Parnassus). They have been remixed and knitted together with a third poem, “Sick Angel”. The artwork is from a variety of projects, including two illustrated novels I’m working on. The music was composed on GarageBand.

The building blocks of the videopoem were put together during the summer of 2017, when tension between North Korea and the United States was at its terrifying height. One could walk the streets if Seoul (where my wife and I live) and see couples, young families, and realize all were living simply at the mercy of military systems primed to detonate at any second. But some of the eerie terror of life on the Korean Peninsula has more complicated roots: some of these are in the Korean War itself — the first of the Cold War’s proxy wars, and guided (as a geopolitical conflict rather than the civil war it began as) by the administration of Harry Truman and his Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Truman and Acheson were in turn responding to what they saw as Cold War machinations by Joseph Stalin’s Soviet Union. Finally, we are the point of a new war — this time in Ukraine. And this conflict too has historical roots. The events of the past keep echoing.

The other theme in this work is the role played in modern war making by the arms industry— those high-tech industrialists for whom War is a business. And, in this case, a business with dizzyingly high profits. Profits in that scale arouse appetites; in this case, an appetite for meat….
Finn Harvor
award-winning artist, writer, filmmaker. Screenings in South Korea, China, India, Greece, the US, UK, and elsewhere.

Oleg Kharch Group
Oleg Kharch Group|Olga Shuvalova,Oleg Kharch. Comprehend in a common artistic practice an angular question to a person. Who are we? Where did they come from and where are we going?

Dimitris Argyriou (Greece) – 5 Minutes Silence, 2018, 10:00
5 Minutes Silence for Yazidis’ grief.

Dimitris Argyriou
Dimitris Argyriou has written, directed and produced 9 short films, which have won more than 50 awards & screened in more than 800 international film festival and exhibitions.

Marek Wasilewski
is a graduate of Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland, and Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design in London. He has been awarded the British Council, Fulbright and Kosciuszko Foundation scholarships. he works on the field of video art, photography and installation. He exhibited his works in places such as the Artist House in Tel Aviv, Whitebox Gallery in New York, CAFA Museum in Bejing, Golden Thread Gallery in Belfast and many others.

Vito Alfarano
He started his carrer as freelance dancer working with various choreographers. He created choreographies for dance companies and festival: Fabula Saltica, SIDance (Seoul International dance festival), Biennale danza in Venice, KoDance. With his choreographies he won first prizes in international competitions. He is the director of AlphaZTL Company of Dynamic Art based in Brindisi (Italy) deals of contemporary dance, video art and publishing working also with prisoners, immigrants, psychiatric detention patients, deaf people, and with Down Syndrome. As video dance director, his videos are selected and screened in over 55 world festivals receiving a special mention from the former President of the Italian Republic Giorgio Napolitano.

Francesca Lolli
Born in Perugia, Francesca moved to Milano in 1998 after her brief philosophy studies in Perugia. She graduated the school of acting ‘Teatro Arsenale’ as an actress and shortly thereafter attended the ‘Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera’, graduating magna cum laude as a scenographer.
While she was attending school, she worked on stage as an actress with Teatro Arsenale’s company and participated in countless shows (‘Jeux de massacre’ by E. Ionesco, ‘il berretto a sonagli’ by L. Pirandello, ‘Pulp’ by C. Bukowsky, ‘L’eglise’ by L. F. Celine etc..). For her dissertation she decided to shoot a documentary about a famous nyc photographer : Andres Serrano. Since that moment she decided to completely change her life and dedicate herself completely to video art. Her research is aimed on gender- and socio-political issues.
Her works are projected in different national and international festivals.

Marcantonio Lunardi
Graduated in documentary direction, since 2001 Lunardi has been involved in social and political documentation working on installations, documentaries and video art works. After the masters at the Festival dei Popoli in Florence with Michael Glawogger, Sergei Dvortsevoy,Thomas Heise and Andrés Di Tella, he began a journey in the field of moving images, experimenting with languages on the border between real cinema and video art. His works have been exhibited in prestigious international institutions such as the National Art Center in Tokyo, Galeri Nasional Indonesia in Jakarta, the Video Tage Center in Hong Kong, and the Museum on the Seam in Jerusalem , the Videoart Yearbook of the Visual Arts Department of the University of Bologna. Lunardi was also a guest of various experimental film festivals and video art such as N Minutes Video Art Festival in Shanghai, the Cairo Video Festival in Cairo, the Invideo Festival in Milan, Video Art & Experimental Film Festival – Tribeca Cinemas of New York. In addition there are numerous biennials of contemporary art including the Bi del Fin del Mundo in Chile and Argentina, the Chongqing International Biennial of Contemporary Art in China and the Bienal Internacional de Videoarte y Animación in Mexico

Isabel Pérez del Pulgar
Born in Granada (Spain) with residence in France since 2015. Degree in Geography and Stories with the specialty of Art by the University of Granada. In the mid-2000s she adopted as a way of creating and expressing the video. Video as an experimentation vehicle, where the movement is combined, sound and pictorial vision. At the same time, performance is acquiring a greater presence as a means of work. The body like protagonist element and narrative driver. Architecture of stressed physicality of space – time.
Her work as an artist in the fields of painting, photography, and especially his work in video art and short films has been the object of numerous international exhibitions: Rencontres Traverse Video (France), Videomedeja (Serbia), Fonland (Portugal), Art Miden festival (Greece), TEA (Canary Islands), Retransmision (Mexico), Fivac (Cuba), Actions on the margin (Colombia), Femmes Videoart Festival (USA), IVAHN (Spain), MADATAC (Spain)….
Awards and Distinctions: – 2018 Audience Award. – ATLANTICA VISUAL-ART Vol. IX. Islantilla Cineforum International Film Festival, culture patio of Islantilla Huelva (Spain) – 2018 Honorary Mention. International Biennial of Video Art and Animation (VEA), Puebla 2018 (Mexico) – 2018 Prize for the best audiovisual creation work + Special Mention of the Jury for the best experimental work 5th edition of the European Audiovisual Creation Contest CTL 59’’…

Justyna Maluchnik
was born in Poland in 1985 and lives nad works in London. She is a photographer, video artist and graphic designer. In 2009 she graduated Academy of Humanities and Economics in Lodz/Poland and gained MA in Audiovisual Communication. Her primary medium is photography and video. In the centre of her research and inspiration is always a human being. The visual aspect of the human body as well as human thoughts, feelings and beliefs are very significant for her. She always try to fathom what he or she represents to the viewer or outside world. There are different ways of interpretation of the same subject which in her opinion deserves our consideration. Her works explore relations of the human being from a psychological, social and physical point of view.

Harold Charre (France)
Jazz pianist since 15 years, I make videos with original music. My work melt some footages of public domain, drawings and own footages.

Susanne Layla Petersen
is an interdisciplinary artist based in Frederiksberg, Denmark

Marie Magescas
Marie Magescas lives and works in Paris. She studied theater, created her own theater company and wrote and directed plays.
In 1992, Marie began to paint and draw and had her first exhibitions in1993.
Alongside her painting, she began to work with video in 2000. Today, Marie exhibits her paintings in France and her videos in festivals, biennials and galleries, across the world.

HERNANDO URRUTIA Born 1964.
Multidisciplinary Artist, Researcher, Designer, Curator and Cultural Manager, of Basque roots and Portuguese nationality. PhD. in Digital Media-Art. Collaborating Researcher at CIAC. Researcher invited by M-ITI. He has completed 103 post-graduate training courses and 2 artistic residencies. Curator in 31 artistic projects. He has received Awarded 219 Acknowledgements and 8 prizes. He has been special guest in several Contemporary Art Salon and International Festivals He has been exhibiting professionally since 1986, participating in several projects and more than 400 group exhibitions and 17 solo exhibitions in 36 countries. He is represented in more than 209 important Public Collections and in more than 180 Private Collections. He has been published in more than 140 books, magazines, newspapers and catalogues.

Claudi Piripippi (Italy)
I was born in Germany and raised in Italy. My cultural formation developed btw Italy, Germany, the UK and the US. I am currently working on personal transformation as a socially engaged project. Small intimate gestures provide the lens through which I explore the intersectionality of social/cultural constructions in relation to body and environment.

Mauricio Saenz (Matamoros, Mexico 1977)
pursued a BA in Studio Art from the University of Texas and a MA in Artistic Production from the Polytechnic University of Valencia in Spain. In 2011 he received the purchase award from the Yucatan Biennial in the videoart category and has participated in solo and group shows in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Spain, Germany, France, Colombia, Ecuador, Cuba, Venezuela and Argentina. His work focuses on the concept of impossibility and its relativity by means of elements that emphasize abandonment and confinement interlaced to a paradoxical factor that would revert it through disciplines as videoart, installation, and performance art.

Irina Gabiani
Irina Gabiani, Italian artist of Georgian origin, born in Tbilisi (Georgia) in 1971.
Based in Luxembourg, she works with drawing, painting, installation, video and performance. Her works have been exhibited in more than 40 countries. In 2011, Irina Gabiani participated to the Venice Biennale.
Main solo video exhibitions: Georgian National Museum, Rustaveli Theater, Tbilisi Pantomime Theater, Conservatorio di Milano. Her videos have been shown in several video projects and festivals held at Museums and public Institutions, including Time is Love, Cologne Off, Video Dia Loghi, Festinova, Human Emotion Project, Sguardi sonori, Toronto Urban Film Festival, Artisterium, Venice Biennale etc.

Anna Kryvenko,
(1986, Ukraine) is a video and fine art photography artist. She is a student of the last year of the Centre for Audio-visual Studies at Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU, Prague). Before she studied theatre directing at KNUTKT(UKR) and alternative theatre directing at DAMU (CZ).
Her films and performances were screened at Fluidum Festival, Famufest student Film Festival, Jihlava Documentary Film Festival, Intermedia BB (Slovakia) etc. She participated in several group exhibitions. With her found-footage film Silently Like a Comet she won the prize for the Best Experimental Act at FAMUFEST, Prague (CZ). Her last film Listen to the Horizon won prize for the Best Czech Experimental Documentary, Jihlava IDFF (CZ).

Oleg Chorny
Born in 1963, Graduated from the film director’s department of the State Institute of Theatre and cinema in 1985. Worked at the Olexander Dovzhenko State Film Studio in Kyiv, various governmental and non-governmental film and video studios. Shot a number of feature shorts, documentaries, ecological and promo films, musical video clips and art videos. His short feature movies, documentaries and art videos participated at the programs at the Ukrainian and international festivals. He is member of the Ukrainian Filmmakers Union and Ukrainian Film Academy.

Oleksiy Khoroshko
Was born in 1985.
-1993 – 1998 – Studying in Luhansk college of Culture and Art (faculty of easel painting).
-1998 –2003 – Studying in Lviv Academy of Arts (faculty of monumental painting).
Participates in many group exhibitions, plein-airs and projects in Ukraine (Lviv, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Luhansk, Odesa), and abroad (Poland, Russia, Slovakia, France).
Sphere of interests: vidoart, installation, experimental graphic arts, monochromatic painting, (theatre) set design.

Laura Cabrera Díaz and Sira Cabrera Díaz
were born in Cáceres, Spain, in 1947. They are twins. Both have degrees in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of
Madrid. Laura also studied sculpture and engraving in Buenos Aires at the Prilidiano Pueyrredón and La Cárcova Schools. And they have dedicated themselves to the teaching of Plastic Expression in Institutes and in Teaching at the same time that they made exhibitions of painting, sculpture and engraving. Since 2009 they have made 38 pieces of video art and have participated in more than 100
international video art festivals.

Neil Ira Needleman
born in Brooklyn, New York in 1957, he began shooting 8mm movies shortly after that. “When I was young, I thought that it would be fun to try to develop a sense of vision. Then I got married, started a career (in advertising), and raised a couple of kids. Now that an unreasonable amount of time has passed, I’ve rededicated myself to trying to develop a sense of vision. I hope it’s not too late.”

Belinda Subraman
is a poet, artist and musician living in El Paso, Texas on the border of Mexico. She is a widely published poet and edits a journal and video show called GAS: poetry, Art and Music.

Agricola de Cologne @ http://and.nmartproject.net/?p=82
chief curator of The Peace Letters to Ukraine Project

curator of media art, designer of culture, interdisciplinary media artist, director of experimental shortfilms and videos
founder and director of
– The New Museum of Networked Art – the experimental platform for art and new media (2000)
– The Audiovisual Art Collections @ The New Museum of Networked Art (2005)
– artvideoKOELN – the curatorial initiative „art & moving images“ (2005)
– CologneOFF – The New Institute for Contemporary Art & Moving Images 2005/2020
– creator/curator of The W:OW Project – We Are One World – global networking project (2017) & The 7 Memorials for Humanity (2018)

Besides for a broad bandwidth of dynamic curatorial contexts he is initiating in physical & virtual space like JavaMuseum (2001), NewMediaFest (2002), Violence Online Festival (2003), SoundLAB & VideoChannel (2004), CologneOFF (2005), netEX (2007), AVMCI (2012), Agricola de Cologne is standing also for the co-curator & co-organiser of events like festivals & exhibitions of contemporary art, but also for the jury member of divers festivals.

Since its introduction in 2000, Agricola de Cologne is represented as an artist & curator on more than 800 festivals and media art exhibitions in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Knoxville, Pittsburgh, Toronto, Montreal, Mexico City, Guadalajara, Merida, Caracas, Maracaibo, Buenos Aires, Rosario, Montevideo, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Santiago de Chile, Quito, Bogota, London, Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Toulouse, Madrid, Gijon, Sevilla, Valencia, Barcelona, Lisbon, Oslo, Bergen, Stockholm, Helsinki, Tampere, Kopenhagen, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Tokyo, Nagoya, Seoul, Manila, Hongkong, Bangkok, Phnom Penh, New Delhi, Guwahati, Mumbai, Kolkata, Jakarta, Perth, Melbourne, Casablanca, Rabat, Marrakesh, Addis Abeba, Istanbul, Ankara, Yerewan, Tblissi, Damaskus, Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv, Bethlehem, Gaza, Basel, Zurich, Vienna, Linz, Salzburg, Graz, Kiev, Kharkiv, Riga, Tallinn, Vilnius, Moscow, St.Petersburg, Kansk, Perm, Yekaterinburg, Sofia, Varna, Bukarest, Arad, Timisoara, Budapest, Belgrade, Zagreb, Split, Lubljana, Rome, Naples, Milan, Pescara, Venice, Torino, Bologna, Berlin, Cologne, Münster, Düsseldorf, Karlsruhe, Nuremberg & elsewhere, but also on Biennials like Venice Biennale 2003, 2005, Biennale of New Media Art Merida/MX 2003, Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth/Australia (2004), Biennale de Montreal (2004), Biennale of Video & New Media Santiago de Chile (2005), ISEA Nagoya (2002), ISEA Singapur (2008), ISEA Belfast (2009), Kochi Musziris Biennial (2016/2017)

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The New Museum of Networked Art –> http://www.nmartproject.net