Year 2001/2002: series of lectures: lectures / conversations with lecturers / lecturers
 

Course for curators of contemporary art: course participants / study excursions / program collaborators
 
/ exhibition / co-workers and funders

Boris Buden
Boris Buden is a philosopher, researcher and writer on art, culture and politics. After his initial start in Zagreb he moved to Vienna in 1990 where he currently lives and works. He was the editor of the Zagreb newspaper Arkzin , and currently he is one of the editors of the Viennese newspaper Springerin . He co-operated at numerous projects, amongst others at the platforms of Documenta 11 in Vienna, New Delhi and Kassel. He translated a number of books (amongst others Freud, Helmut Dahmer, etc.), wrote various articles (amongst others for Polet , Quorum , Feral Tribune , etc.) as well as published three books (a collection of political and cultural criticism essays Barikade (Barricades) in 1996, a revised and extended edition Barikade 2 (Barricades 2) in 1997 and a book of cultural and social criticism essays Kaptolski kolodvor (Kaptol Railway Station) in 2001).

Douglas Davis
Douglas Davis is a pioneer of video art and new media, a theorist, performer, pedagogue and advisor for digital media strategies. As an artist he specialized for the 'wrong use' of new media: he convinced the video to touch, the printer to talk, the Internet to lay down in the visitor's lap like a puppy, etc. In 1994 he created one of the first web art works that reached a broader audience. Since the 1970's he has been using traditional and advanced technology in his work - from radio, film to satellites. In the 1976 project Art from a Distance he was the first artist to use satellites for personal, artistic purposes. A year later he (in co-operation with Joseph Beuys and Nam June Paik) performed the first global live transmission of a video performance for Documenta 6 . He wrote a number of books on the relation between contemporary art and technology, he taught art of the new media at over 25 universities and received numerous rewards for his work.
Web art:
- The World's First Collaborative Sentence (commissioned by Lehman College Art Gallery; collection Whitney Museum of American Art gift of Barbara and Eugene M. Schwartz): http://here.is/THESENTENCE
- MetaBody (The World's First Collaborative Visions of the Beautiful) (commissioned by George Waterman III Collection; co-sponsored by P.S.1/The Institute of Contemporary Art, New York; Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell, Ithaca; Municipal Art Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland; Center for Contemporary Art,Warsaw, and others, 1997: http://this.is/METABODY
- Terrible Beauty (an Evolving Work of Ineractive Global Theater), 1997-2000, performed to date in New York, Dublin, San Francisco, and Berlin: http://here.is/TERRIBLEBEAUTY
- http://this.is/DOUGLASDAVIS, 1997-to date, evolving.
- http://here.is/RODCHENKORISING, 2000
- http://go.to/INNOCENCEDOTCOM, 2001 (redirect for http://moralpornography.com, a double site hosted/designed in Copenhagen, Denmark and New York City (required to avoid censorship in institutional computers in the U.S.A only)

Charles Esche
Charles Esche is a curator and writer. From 2004 he is director of Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven and from 2001 a research fellow at Edinburgh College of Art where he works with the 'proto academy', an academic project aimed at discovering more conversational and effective models for advanced art education. He is also editor of Afterall , an art journal published twice yearly by Central St.Martins College of Art and Design, London and CalArts, LosAngeles. He curated several exhibitions, among them: 2000 - Intelligence - New British Art , Tate Gallery (London) and Amateur - Variable ResearchInitiatives , Konstmuseum in Konsthall (Göteborg); in 2001 he was one of the curators of f the English section at ARCO 2001, Madrid; in 2002 he curated the Gwangju Biennale in Korea with Hou Hanru. He is an advisor at Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, curatorial advisor to the Foundation of Art and Creative Technology, Liverpool, and a board member of the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation, Basel and has written for numerous catalogues and magazines in Europe. From 1993-1997 he was Visual Arts Director at Tramway, Glasgow. From 2001-2004 he was director of the Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö. He has curated international exhibitions and events around art and new technology.

Ivana Keser
Ivana Keser studied at Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb. She makes public interventions and produces her own newspapers in which she conveys news from private and public life and which are freely distributed. In her work she questions the borders between local and global, propaganda and indoctrination, activism and consumerism. She participates in the project Weekend Art Hallelujah the Hill with A. Battista Iliæ and T. Gotovac (1995-ongoing). In 2001, together with A. Battista Iliæ, she initiated Community Art - permanent public forum, a long term project which consists of public discussions, workshops, Community Art School and publishing activities.
Exhibitions:
1996 - Manifesta I , Rotterdam; Radical Images , 2nd Austrian Triennial on Photography, Neue Galerie, Graz. 1997 - The Exhibition of the Local Newspapers , Central Park, New York; The Exhibition of the Local Newspapers , Institute of Art, Cleveland. 1999 - After the Wall , Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Aspects/Positions , Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna. 2000 - Vida Politica / Political Life Fundacio La Caixa , Barcelona; Indoctrination, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb; Sous les ponts , le long de la rivière, Casino Luxembourg Furum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg. 2001 - Marking the Territory , The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. 2002 - Helle Nächte , Stadtkino/Kunsthale Basel; In Search of Balkania , Neue Galerie, Graz. 2003 - Local News , Mamco - Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Genève; 25th Biennial of Graphic Arts , Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana; Carte Blanche , Tanzquartier, Vienna; Kyoto biennial , Kyoto. 2004 - East-West , Tanzquartier, Vienna.

Jurij Krpan
Jurij Krpan, architect by profession, has become the artistic director of Kapelica Gallery (www.kapelica.org) in Ljubljana in 1994. In seven years of his leadership the gallery has gained international reputation of one of the most active and conceptually focused art spaces in Slovenia. Through international projects the gallery systematically presents new media, artistic interventions in gallery space, and extreme body-art practices. It has succeeded to generate its constant and potentially collaborative public, consequently establishing a specific art scene.

Viktor Misiano
Viktor Misiano is one of the most eminent (Russian) art critics, theorists and curators. He is a great expert on contemporary art and the mechanisms that run it. He is known especially for his critical analysis of the relations within the art system, his innovative curatorial practice within the frame of the concept Community Moscow-Ljubljana as well as for his intensive co-operation with the Irwin group. His comparative analysis between the Eastern and Western European understanding of communication, institutions and values in contemporary art gained a large international response. He spoke about the strategies of his operations in the 1990's on the examples of two of his projects which he organised within the frame of the Centre of Contemporary Art in Moscow in the mid 1990's, both of which had a strong impact on the Moscow art scene: The Hamburg project (a workshop with Russian artists) and the Visual Anthropology Workshop with the Russian philosopher Valery Podoroga

WHW
WHW (What, How & for Whom) is a non-profit organization for visual culture and curator's collective formed in 1999 and based in Zagreb, Croatia. Among their projects are international projects and exhibitions: What, How & for Whom, On the Occasion of 152nd Anniversary of Communist Manifesto (Zagreb / Vienna), Broadcasting Project, Dedicated to Nikola Tesla (Zagreb), START (Ljubljana/Zagreb), Looking Awry (apexart, New York), Side-Effects (Salon of Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade), INeed a Radical Change (Gallery Nova, Zagreb) … All WHW projects have been conceived as a platform for discussing relevant social issues through art, theory and media, as well as a model of collaboration and exchange of know-how between cultural organizations of different backgrounds. Besides exhibitions, WHW projects encompass lectures and public discussions conducted by international artists, curators and cultural theorists; publications and a book edition on contemporary curatorial practice and cultural theory; radio broadcasts and interventions; screenings and live acts. From 2003 WHW has been directing the Gallery Nova in Zagreb, whose focus is not only on producing and presenting contemporary visual arts, but also on establishing links between visual culture and other forms of cultural production with civil, activist and NGO scene. Besides exhibitions, the program is characterised by series of events that are designed to turn the gallery into a vivid cultural centre, and includes concerts, theatre performances, film screenings and public discussions. Currently WHW is working on an exhibition on collective practices & group enjoyment called Collective Creativity to be held in May 2005 in Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel.