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Bios Livre / MUTATIONS Ali Akay Ali Akay is Professor
Bios Livre / MUTATIONS Ali Akay Ali Akay is Professor at Mimar Sinan Fine Art University, Head of the Department of Sociology, Visiting Professor at Humboldt University (Berlin), Paris VIII University and I.N.H.A in Paris. He is Art Consultant of Akbank Art Centre, and founder of The Journal of Toplumbilim (Sociology), first published in 1992 and currently published bi-annually. Each issue focuses on a special topic, amongst which: Gilles Deleuze (1995), Feminist Critique (2000), Jacques Derrida (1999), Enlightement (2000), Cultural Studies (2002), Sociology of Migration (2004), European Cinema (2005), On Photography (2006), Visuals Arts (2007), City and Crime (2008), Sociology of Body (2009), Postcolonial Theory (2010), Banlieues (2011). Joerg Bader Joerg Bader is an artist, art critic, curator and teacher. He was born in 1955 in Zurich, and lives and works in Geneva and Belo Horizonte. He has been part of the teacher’s committee of the Haute école d’art (HEART) in Perpignan since 2002, and director of the Centre de la photographie in Geneva since 2001. Simon Baker Simon Baker is curator of photography and international art at the Tate, since 2009. He is the Tate's first curator of photography, having been Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Nottingham, where he taught and published on subjects including the history of photography, surrealism, and contemporary art. With Dawn Ades, he co-curated the exhibitions, Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and DOCUMENTS (Hayward, 2006), and Close-up: proximity and defamiliarisation in art, film, and photography (Fruitmarket, 2009). Recent publications include the essay 'Daido Moriyama: Autoportrait', in Daido Moriyama, Autoportrait, Tokyo: MMM, 2010. Sabeth Buchmann Sabeth Buchmann is an art historian and critic, based in Berlin and Vienna. She is Professor of the History of Modern and Postmodern Art at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. Her recent publications include Film Avantgarde Biopolitik (ed. with Helmut Draxler and Stephan Geene, 2009), Denken gegen das Denken. Produktion – Technologie – 1 Subjektivität bei Sol LeWitt, Yvonne Rainer und Hélio Oiticica (2007) and Art After Conceptual Art (ed. with Alexander Alberro, 2006). Co-editor of PoLyPen – a book series on art criticism, aesthetics and political theory (b_books, Berlin). Regularly contributes to art magazines, catalogues and anthologies. Victor Burgin Victor Burgin is an artist and writer. He is Professor Emeritus of History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz; and Emeritus Professor of Visual Arts at Goldsmiths College, University of London. His most recent book is Parallel Texts: interviews and interventions about art (Reaktion, 2011). His most recent project was installed in the Istanbul Archeological Museum last year. He is currently working on two large retrospective exhibitions for 2013 and The Prosthetic Unconscious: Psychoanalysis and Virtual Worlds, for Polity books. David Campany David Campany is a curator and writer. His books include Art et Photographie (Phaidon 2003), Photography and Cinema (Reaktion, 2008), Jeff Wall: Picture for Women (Afterall/MIT Press, 2011) and Walker Evans: the Magazine Work (Steidl 2011). In 2010 he co-curated Anonymes. L'Amérique Sans Nom: Photographie et Cinéma at Le Bal, Paris. He is a co-founding editor of PA magazine and teaches at the University of Westminster, London. Yann Chateigné Yann Chateigné Tytelman (born in 1977) is a critic and curator. Since 2009, he is Head of the Visual Arts Department at the Haute Ecole d'Art et de Design in Geneva. Recent projects: The Mirage of History (Kaleidoscope Project Space, Milan; LiveInYourHead, Genève, 2010-11), Fun Palace (Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2010). He regularly collaborates with Artforum and also publishes in Frieze, Criticism and Art Press. To be published: The Hidden Door in Joachim Koester (2 volumes, edited by If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution, Amsterdam and kestnergesellschaft, Hanover, autumn 2011). Clément Chéroux Clément Chéroux is curator of photography at the Pompidou Centre. Historian of photography, he has a doctorate in History of Art and is editor of the magazine Etudes photographiques. He has published 2 L’Expérience photographique d’August Strindberg (Actes Sud, 1994), Fautographie, petite histoire de l’erreur photographique (Yellow Now, 2003), Henri Cartier-Bresson, le tir photographique (Gallimard, 2008) and Diplopie, l’image photographique à l’ère des médias globalisés: essai sur le 11 septembre 2001 (Le Point du jour, 2009). He curated the exhibitions Mémoire des camps. Photographies des camps de concentration et d’extermination nazis, 1933-1999 (2001), Le Troisième œil. La photographie et l’occulte (2004), La Subversion des images: surréalisme, photographie, film (2009), Shoot ! La photographie existentielle (2010), and From here on (2011). Jean-François Chevrier Jean-François Chevrier is an art historian and art critic, teaching at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris since 1988. Founder and chief editor of the magazine Photographies (19821985), général adviser at Documenta X (1997), he has originated a dozen international exhibitions, the most recent being L’Action restreinte. L’art moderne selon Mallarmé (Barcelona and Nantes, 2004-2005). Editions L’Arachnéen has begun the publication of a series of seven volumes gathering his writings, the first five appearing in 2010 and 2011. Régis Durand Régis Durand is an art critic and independent exhibitions organiser. Today he is the director of the Printemps de septembre in Toulouse, a contemporary art festival. Among his recent curator’s works and publications: La morada del hombre, Collection Martin Z. Margulies, Fondations Colectania et Barrié de la Maza, Barcelona/ La Coroña, May 2011; Attention à la figure, Fondation Emile Hughes/ Château de Vence, June 2011. Jonas Ekeberg Jonas Ekeberg is a critic and curator based in Oslo, Norway. He is the editor of the Nordic online journal Kunstkritikk and previously the director of Preus Museum, Norway's national museum of photography. Tim Etchells Tim Etchells is an artist and writer based in the UK. He has worked in a wide variety of contexts, notably as the leader of the worldrenown performance group Forced Entertainment and in collaboration with a range of visual artists, choreographers, and photographers. 3 His work spans performance, video, photography, text projects, installation and fiction. Hal Foster Hal Foster is Townsend Martin 1917 Professor of Art & Archaeology at Princeton University. His most recent books are The Art-Architecture Complex (Verso) and The First Pop Age: Painting and Subjectivity in the Art of Hamilton, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Richter, and Ruscha (Princeton University Press). Maja Hoffmann Maja Hoffmann is a Swiss-born contemporary art collector engaged for over two decades in the support of innovative projects which include art production, publications, film, and social and environmental responsibilities. She was inspired in her mission through a longstanding family tradition of active philanthropy. In 2004, Maja Hoffmann founded the LUMA Foundation (Zurich) as a vehicle to express her on-going commitments. LUMA is involved in planning a ground-breaking cultural site in Europe, the Parc des Ateliers in Arles – an experimental site dedicated to the production of art and ideas, and is actively supporting several institutions and initiatives around the world. Maja Hoffmann is a Tate trustee and chairman of the International Council. She is President of the Kunsthalle Zurich Foundation, and Vice-President of the Board of the Emanuel Hoffmann-Stiftung in Basel. She is also a Board Member of Stiftung Fotomuseum Winterthur, Stiftung für das Kunstmuseum Basel, Palais de Tokyo in Paris and of the New Museum of Contemporary Art and the Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies at Annandale-onHudson in New York State. Christine Frisinghelli Christine Frisinghelli is a curator, publisher and lecturer in contemporary photography. She was co-founder of the journal Camera Austria International in 1980, and its editor-in-chief for 112 issues between 1980 and 2010. She acted as artistic director of “steirischer herbst” festival of contemporary art 1995-1999 and currently is custodian of the Pierre Bourdieu photographic archive. Kimberli Gant Kimberli Gant is an Art History PhD student at the University of Texas Austin specializing in African and African Diasporan Arts. She was the Director of Exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary 4 African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) in Brooklyn, New York, where she curated several solo and group exhibitions. In 2010 she guestcurated There is No Looking Glass Here for Deutsche Bank. She has also written reviews for the journal Art Lies. Sønke Gau Sønke Gau is a curator, critic, and guest lecturer at various art schools and universities. Based in Zurich and Berlin, he has been curator (with Katharina Schlieben) at Shedhalle Zurich and has been a researcher and project manager at the Institute for Critical Theory, Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), since 2010. Jennifer Gonzalez Jennifer A. González is Associate Professor in the History of Art and Visual Culture department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her critical writings have appeared in numerous periodicals and journals including Camera Obscura, Frieze, Bomb, and Art Journal. Her book Subject to Display: Reframing Race in Contemporary Installation Art (MIT Press, 2008) was a finalist for the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award. Boris Groys Boris Groys is a philosopher and writer (born in 1947 in East Berlin, educated in Russia), who lives in New York. His work is mainly concerned with the re-reading of modernity, post-modernity and the place of the subject. Since 2009, he has taught at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung de Karlsruhe and at the Arts and Sciences faculty at New York University. Author of several critical essays, he was the curator of the Russian pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2011. Carles Guerra Carles Guerra is Chief Curator at MACBA. Since 2009 he has directed La Virreina Centre de l’Image where he presented Antiphotojournalism, Bruno Serralongue and 1979 A Monument to Radical Instants. He is also Associate Professor of Social Structures and Cultural Tendencies at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. Caroline Hancock Caroline Hancock is a curator and independent art critic. Between 1998 and 2009, she worked at the Pompidou Centre and the MAMVP/ARC 5 in Paris, Tate Modern and the Hayward Gallery in London, as well as the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) in Dublin. Hancock has recently written on the work of Lynda Benglis, Charlotte Moth, JeanLuc Moulène, and Zineb Sedira. She belongs to the collective On The Roof which is organising the projects Synchronicity in Paris in autumn 2011. Makiko Hara Makiko Hara is currently an Associate Director and curator at Centre A: Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. Before moving to Vancouver, she curated numerous contemporary art exhibitions by Japanese, Canadian and international artists, and served as project co-ordinator for several international exhibitions, including the International Triennale of Contemporary Art in Yokohama, 2001/2005, and the Echigo Tsumari Art Triennale, 2003. Hara was one of the curators for Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2009 in Toronto, and contributes essays to several magazines including BT Magazine, Parachute and Fillip. Joana Hurtado Joana Hurtado Matheu is an art and cinema critic, and an independent curator. Today she is exhibition curator for the Capella de Sant Roc de Valls, with the cycle Catedrals a la capella, and in charge of the exhibition programme of Can Felipa in Barcelona. She regularly contributes to the supplement Cultura/s of La Vanguardia and has contributed to magazines like Cahiers du Cinéma – España, Time Out Barcelona and Parachute. She has designed the exhibitions Efecte cinema (Can Felipa) and A títol propi (Sant Andreu), as well as the cycle Cinergies (CCCB) and the Dialogue organised within the SCAN Manifestation Photographique in Tarragone. Shanay Jhaveri Shanay Jhaveri is a Phd. candidate at the Royal College of Art, London. He graduated from Brown University, concentrating on Art Semiotics and the History of Art and Architecture. He has edited a volume of essays titled Outsider Films on India: 1950-1990 and has curated film programmes at Tate Modern, Frieze and Iniva. He divides his time between Mumbai and London. Christophe Kihm Christophe Kihm is editor-in-chief at Art Press. He is professor at the Haute École d'Art et de Design in Geneva. His most recent 6 researches are concerned with the artistic practices of the archive (see “Ce que l’art fait à l’archive”, Critique n° 759-60, À quoi pense l’art contemporain?, Minuit, 2010). Elke Krasny Elke Krasny is a cultural theorist, curator and writer. She is a Senior Lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. Her interests follow the intersections of architecture, urbanism and public art as part of an unfolding intellectual history of spatial and temporal productions where everything comes together from cultural identities and transnationality to politics of remembering and representation as well as issues of knowledge production, participation and genderedness. Her long-term research processes lead to a variety of different formats such as exhibitions, public walks, symposia or books. Jacinto Lageira Jacinto Lageira is professor of aesthetics at the Paris 1 PanthéonSorbonne University and an art critic. He has published, among other things, L’image du monde dans le corps du texte (I, II), La Lettre volée, 2003; L’esthétique traversée – Psychanalyse, sémiotique et phénoménologie à l’oeuvre, La Lettre volée, 2007; La déréalisation du monde. Fiction et réalité en conflit, Jacqueline Chambon, 2010; Cristallisations. Monographie sur Jean-Marc Bustamante, Actes Sud, 2011. Elisabeth Lebovici Elisabeth Lebovici is an art historian and critic. Today she is lecturer at the EHESS (Paris) and at Sciences-Po (Paris). She was a journalist for a long time, writing in the cultural pages of Libération and she has a blog on http://le.beau.vice.blogspot.com/. With Catherine Gonnard, she co-wrote: Femmes/artistes, artistes/femmes, Paris de 1880 à nos jours (Hazan, 2007). She has taught and published on feminism, activism against AIDS, queer politics in relation to images and contemporary art. Guillaume Le Gall Guillaume Le Gall is senior lecturer in History of contemporary art at the Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) and has been a resident at the Villa Medicis in Rome. He defended a thesis on Eugène Atget in 2002 and has published books and articles on the photography of the 19th th and 20 centuries. He has been curator of exhibitions on 7 contemporary photography (Fabricca dell’immagine, Villa Médicis (Rome), 2004), Eugène Atget (Eugène Atget, Une rétrospective, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 2007); Martin-Gropius Bau (Berlin), 2007-2008; Fotomuseum Winterthur (Winterthur), 2010, Surrealist photography (La Subversion des images, Centre Pompidou, 2009; Fotomuseum Winterthur (Winterthur), 2010; Institute de Cultura / Fundacion Mapfre (Madrid), 2010). Kantuta Quirós / Aliocha Imhoff Kantuta Quirós and Aliocha Imhoff are curators, critics and organisers of events, exhibitions, festivals and retrospectives. Founders and artistic directors of the curating and distributing platform for films, Le peuple qui manque, created in 2005 in Paris, they were in 2010 associate curators at the Pompidou Centre, for, in particular, the event Que faire? art/film/politique. Their field is situated at the intersection of cinema, video, critical theory and contemporary art. Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith is a critic and curator who teaches at University College, Dublin. He is a contributor to Afterall, Artforum, Frieze and Parkett and has published numerous monographic catalogue essays on the work of artists such as Thomas Demand, Willie Doherty, Annette Kelm and John Stezaker. He has curated exhibitions in Dublin, London, Amsterdam and New York. Roxana Marcoci Roxana Marcoci is a curator at the Department of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, New York. She holds a PhD in art history, theory, and criticism from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Her most recent book, The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today (2010) won the Association of Art Museum Curators award for Outstanding Catalogue Based on an Exhibition. JEAN-LUC MOULÈNE Jean-Luc Moulène lives in Paris and works on specific situations. He practices photography as a tool to study natural and cultural phenomena as they have been re-defined by the development of industry, media and trade. He places photography between Fine Arts, texts and media. Keeping at a distance from a model of communication (a powerful functionalist utopia dreaming of infallible tools for the appropriation of the imaginary and social practices), he 8 underlines the gap between tool and imaginary to produce real poetic alternatives.) Jean-Luc Moulène has participated in Documenta X, Kassel in 1997, and has exhibited at CCA, Kitakyushu (2004), Jeu de Paume and Musée du Louvre in Paris (2005), Thomas Dane Gallery, London (2006), Culturgest, Lisbon (2007), Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels (2007), Carré d’art, Nîmes (2009), Galerie Chantal Crousel (2009) and many other places since 1976. MR PIPPIN Mr pippin is an artist born in 1960 in Redwill. He lives and works in London. Rabih Mroué Rabih Mroué is an actor, director, and playwright, and a Contributing Editor to the Lebanese quarterly Kalamon and TDR (New York). He is one of the founders and executive Board of Beirut Art Center association (BAC). His works include: Grandfather, father and son (2010); The Inhabitants of images (2008); Who’s Afraid of Representation (2005), Looking for a Missing Employee (2003); Biokhraphia (2002); Three Posters (2000). He lives in Beirut. Maureen Murphy Maureen Murphy is an art historian and lecturer at the Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. She has published various essays on the reception and representation of African arts in the Western world, on the links between them and modern art as well as on contemporary African art. Marie Murraciole Marie Muracciole is an art critic and curator. In 2011 she published, among other things, “Tomorow never knows, Peter Roehr” in 20/27 n°5, M19, and “Tu comprends?” in ‘Idéo, Eric Duyckaerts, Macval. She edits the writings of Allan Sekula for the Editions des Beaux-arts, Paris. Co-curator of the exhibition Riffs, Yto Barrada at the Guggenheim Berlin, then at the Wiels in Brussells, in 2011, she wrote Du nouveau sur les fleurs, Family Tree, an essay on that artist to be published by the Editions JPRingier. Also to be published, Passons. Ich Sterbe, in the book on Marylène Négro for Editions Analogues. Hans-Ulrich Obrist 9 Hans Ulrich Obrist is co-director of the Serpentine Gallery, London. He has served as curator of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and has curated 250 exhibitions worldwide. He has contributed to over 200 book projects, his recent publications include A Brief History of Curating and The Conversation Series (Vol. 1-20.) Chantal Pontbriand Chantal Pontbriand is an art critic, curator and consultant in contemporary art, until recently Head of Exhibition Research and Development at Tate Modern, founded and was editor from 1975 of Parachute contemporary art magazine. She has curated international contemporary art events: some twenty exhibitions, fifteen international festivals and several international conferences and discussion laboratories, mainly in photography, video, performance, dance and multimedia installation. Her work is mainly based on the exploration of questions of globalisation and artistic heterogeneity, and knowledge production. From 1982 to 2003, she was president and director of the FIND (Festival International de Nouvelle Danse) in Montreal. She has published books and essays internationally. Françoise Parfait Françoise Parfait is Professor in Arts and New Media at the université de Paris 1, and an artist. She has published Vidéo: un art contemporain at Éditions du Regard in 2001 (poche 2007), as well as countless texts about historical and contemporary artists who use video. Her researches, practical as well as theoretical, are concerned with the question of temporary images as it happens in the domain of art. She is the co-founder of the collective Suspended spaces, a platform for research and production that focuses on geopolitical spaces suspended between two moments of history. Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez Natasa Petresin-Bachelez is an independent art curator, an art critic and since 2010 the co-director of the Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers. She co-organises the seminar Something You Should Know at the EHESS in Paris and Communisms' Afterlives at the Ecole Publique in Paris and Bruxelles. She is the chief editor of the third series of the Manifesta Journal (2012-2013). In 2010 she was associate curator for the exhibition Promesses du passé at the Pompidou Centre in Paris, and guest curator for Paris Photo. 10 Christopher Philips Christopher Phillips is a curator at the International Center of Photography in New York City. Among the exhibitions he has organized at ICP and elsewhere are: Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China (with Wu Hung, 2004); Atta Kim: On-Air (2006), Shanghai Kaleidoscope (2008), Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan (with Noriko Fuku, 2008), H20: Art on the Horizon of Nature (2010), and Wang Qingsong: When Worlds Collide (2011). Sébatien Pluot Sébastien Pluot is an art historian and independent curator. He teaches History and Theory of Art at the Ecole Supérieure des BeauxArt in Angers where he directs, with Fabien Vallos, the research lab In Translation. His recent exhibitions were: Anarchisme sans adjectif, sur le travail de Christopher D’Arcangelo, CAC Brétigny, Artists Space; Fragmentations, trajectoires contre-nature, Villa Lemot, Clisson, Musée de Saint Brieuc, 2011; Une traduction d'une langue à l'autre, Cneai, Paris, 2011; Double Bind, Arrêtez d’essayer de me comprendre, Villa Arson, Nice, 2010. Adrian Rifkin Adrian Rifkin is a Professor of Art Writing at Goldsmiths College, London, and the author of Street Noises, Parisian Pleasure 19001940, Manchester,1993, and a number of recent articles concerning photography, including an essay on Marianne Wex and Andres Serrano and internet porn. See www.gai-savoir.net. Alessandra Sandrolini Alessandra Sandrolini is an art historian and curator. An Italian national and ex-scholarship recipient of the Dena Foundation for Contemporary Art, she has worked within French institutions like the Villa Medicis in Rome and the Pompidou Centre in Paris. As an independent curator, she has carried out projects in collaboration with the Palais de Tokyo, the Château de Versailles, the MAX’s Grand Hornu in Belgium, the Gwangju Biennalis in South Korea and with visionforum (visionforum.eu). Saskia Sassen Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and CoChair of The Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University (www.saskiasassen.com). Her new books are Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (Princeton University 11 Press, 2008) and A Sociology of Globalization (W.W.Norton 2007), both translated into French by Demopolis and Gallimard, respectively. Her books are translated into over 20 languages. Clara Schulmann Clara Schulmann has just completed a doctorate in film studies at the Paris-III Sorbonne Nouvelle. She contributes to various magazines of social sciences (Vacarme, Geste) and contemporary art (Particules, Mouvement, May). She worked at the Pompidou Centre and at the Maison Rouge (Paris) on various exhibition projects. Recently, she has taken part in the publication Images contemporaines. Arts, formes, dispositifs at the Editions Aléas. Since October 2007, she co-runs Le Silo (www.lesilo.org), a collective dedicated to moving images and their migrations. Allan Sekula Allan Sekula is an American photographer, writer, critic and, more recently, a filmmaker. Born in Erie, Pennsylvania in 1951, he lives and works in Los Angeles. Since the early 1970s his work has bridged the gap between conceptual art and documentary practices, considering the modern world through some of its blind spots as in his huge series, Fish story, and focusing on economic and social themes ranging from family life, work and unemployment, to schooling and the military-industrial complex. While calling many of the conventions of documentary into question, he continues to see photography as a social practice, answerable to the world and its problems. Elena Sorokina Elena Sorokina is a Brussels-based curator and critic. A Whitney Museum of American Art ISP fellow, she has recently curated Etats de l'Artifice at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2010 and is currently working on the upcoming Curating the (post) colonial at the Stedelijk Bureau Amsterdam. She has been writing for Artforum, Flash Art, Moscow Art Magazine, Manifesta Journal and other publications. Hito Steyerl Hito Steyerl is a filmmaker and writer. She teaches Contemporary Media at Udk Berlin. Sam Stourdzé 12 Sam Stourdzé is the Director of the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne (Switzerland). He has organised numerous exhibitions and published several books, including Le Cliché-Verre de Corot à Man Ray, Dorothea Lange and Tina Modotti retrospectives, as well as Chaplin in Pictures. In 2009, Stourdzé curated Fellini, The Great Parade at the Jeu de Paume in Paris. TARYN SIMON was born in 1975 and lives in New York. Her latest work, A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters, on view in 2011 at Tate Modern, London, and Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, chronicles eighteen bloodlines and their related stories. In each of the eighteen ‘chapters’ that make up the work, the external forces of territory, power, circumstance or religion collide with the internal forces of psychological and physical inheritance. Her collection is at once cohesive and arbitrary, mapping the relationships among chance, blood, and other components of fate. The subjects documented by Simon include feuding families in Brazil, victims of genocide in Bosnia, the body double of Saddam Hussein’s son Uday, and the living dead in India. In 2011, Simon’s work was also included in the 54th Venice Biennale. Her previous work includes Contraband (2010), An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar (2007), and The Innocents (2003). Alexia Tala Alexia Tala is a curator and writer. She co-curated the first Performance Biennial Deformes (Chile, 2006), and curated Focus Brasil in Chile (2010). She writes for art magazines in the UK and Latin American and is the author of Installations and Experimental Printmaking (UK, 2009). Her research on contemporary artists using experimental printmaking techniques has unveilded a rapidly expanding movement in the UK and the rest of the world. She is now co-curator of the 8th Mercosur Biennial in Brasil. She lives and works in Santiago. Nadia Tazi Nadia Tazi is a writer, philosopher, and director of programmes at the Collège International de Philosophie. She was first the editor for Editions la Découverte, Zone Books (NY) Siruela (Madrid). She is the co-founder of l’Autre Journal. Brian Wallis Brian Wallis is Chief curator and director of exhibitions at the 13 International Center of Photography. He was formerly a curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, and was the senior editor of Art in America from 1989-1996. A contributor to numerous publications such as Artforum, Art in America, Aperture, Washington Post, and New York Times, Wallis has also taught at Yale University, Williams College, New York University and the City University of New York. Artur Walther Artur Walther was born in Ulm (Germany), studied in Regensburg and Harvard (Cambridge), lives in New York. Ever since his retirement from Wall Street in 1994, Artur Walther has been involved with and supported a number of cultural and educational institutions that share his interests. Over the past ten years Artur Walther has devoted his time collecting and working with modern and contemporary photography and video. His collection has its historical foundation in the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) and expanded from there. Today it includes the most significant body of contemporary Chinese and African works of photography in the world. Peter Weibel Peter Weibel is Chairman and CEO of the ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe. In 2011 he is the Artistic Director of the Fourth Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art. He studied literature, medicine, logic, philosophy and film in Paris and Vienna. He became a central figure in European media art on account of his various activities as artist, media theorist and curator. Since 1984 he is professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, from 1984 to 1989 he was head of the digital arts laboratory at the Media Department of New York University in Buffalo, and in 1989 he founded the Institute of New Media at the Städelschule in Frankfurt-on-Main, which he directed until 1995. Between 1986 and 1995, he was in charge of the Ars Electronica in Linz. He commissioned the Austrian pavilions at the Venice Biennale from 1993 to 1999. Sarah Wilson Sarah Wilson is Professor of modern and contemporary art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. She curated Paris, Capital of the Arts, 1900-1968 (London and Bilbao, 2002-3) and Pierre Klossowski (London, Cologne, Paris, 2005-6). Picasso/Marx is in preparation (Liverpool University Press). The Visual World of French Theory: Figurations, was published by Yale University Press 14 in 2010. The Visual World of French Theory: Interventions will include a study of Ruth Francken. Paola Yacoub Paola Yacoub is an artist and photographer. She lives and works in Berlin and Beirut. She studied at the Beirut Academy of Fine Arts, and graduated from the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London in 1993. Since then she has worked at the Institut Français d’Archéologie du Proche-Orient in Beirut, where she has also developed her artistic practice. She has exhibited widely, receiving the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst Artists Program Fellowship in 2005, and has directed numerous workshops in European and American universities. Dork Zabunyan Dork Zabunyan is senior lecturer in film studies at the University of Lille 3. He regularly contributes to various magazines (Art Press, Trafic, Critique, Les Cahiers du cinéma). In 2011, he published Foucault va au cinéma (with Patrice Maniglier) and Les Cinémas de Gilles Deleuze, both with Éditions Bayard. Giovanna Zapperi Giovanna Zapperi is professor of Art History and Theory at Ecole Nationale Supérieure in Bourges and Research Associate at EHESS, Paris. She was Rudolf Arnheim Guest Professor at Humboldt University in Berlin (2007-2009) and researcher-in-residence at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Nantes (2009). Her writings have been published in international journals, books and exhibition catalogues. 15