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PETKO DOURMANA

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Petko Dourmana is an artist from Sofia, Bulgaria, who has been actively involved in the world art scene since 1997. He is the founder and member of the board of Cult.bg Foundation, a co-founder and member of InterSpace Association and a co-founder of XXL Gallery, all located in Sofia, Bulgaria. In the last years, he has been present mostly in Bulgaria and Germany on solo and group exhibitions. Occasionally also in Hungary, Great Britain, Estonia and Portugal, just to list the selected ones. In the frame of the European Culture project TRIBE, he was enrolled in a group exhibition organized by a partner organization BIS from Istanbul. His video was presented at Sundance Film Festival in the USA. He also took part in a series of exhibitions in China and the USA. He was nominated for several awards and fellowships, among them for American ArtsLink and CEC ArtsLink for independent projects. Besides being involved in the TRIBE artist residency in Istanbul and Cyprus, he collaborated with European residency Exchange program of new media art by the Hull organization in Great Britain.

Works presented:

- The ranking project

– Jingo Karaoke

OHIRA + BONILHA

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Luciana Ohira and Sergio Bonilha graduated in Fine Arts at the Escola de Comunicações e Artes at the University of São Paulo. Since 2005, they have been working in a tandem. With solo and group exhibitions, they are actively present in galleries, museums and festivals all over the world, and they also work as curators. Their current topics of interest are psychotronics, telepathy and transcommunication.

Work preseneted: The Unknown – A Hypothesis About Immanence

Essay about the exhibition: Freeing the understanding of technology

Interview

Núria Güell

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Núria Güell (Vidreres, 1981)

With strict positioning oriented to create mechanisms for dissent, Núria Güell’s work addresses and reformulates the limits of legality. By studying the established legality, Núria detects the abuse of power committed by institutions. Her projects develop as disruptive tactics in specific contexts that engage and collaborate with agents and institutions, creating multidisciplinary networks.
She graduated in Arts from the University of Barcelona, and furthered her studies at the Cátedra de Arte de Conducta in Havana. Currently, she has just finished a residency in the SOMA of Mexico D.F. Her work has been exhibited at the biennials of Havana, Pontevedra, Ljubljana, Liverpool, Tallinn, as well as in museums in Barcelona, London, Paris, New York, Chicago, Stockholm, Madrid, Hertogenbosch, Istanbul, Leipzig, Bucharest, Zagreb, Cali, Lima, and elsewhere, and in self-managed social centres.

www.nuriaguell.net

Selected work: Displaced Legal Application #1: Fractional Reserve

Interview

NIK NOWAK

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Nik Nowak (Mainz, 1981) currently lives in Berlin. He is a Bachelor of the Berlin University of the Arts, and studied as a master’s degree student under Lothar Baumgarten. In 2008, he received the Georg Meistermann Scholarship. Among many classes Nowak took all over the world, he also participated in a sculpture class by Xiang Jing at the Shanghai Normal University in the same year. He takes part in solo and group exhibitions around the world. His artworks are part of the following collections: Montblanc Cutting Edge Art Collection, HSH Nordbank and MARTa Herford Museum Collection.

Manual: How to hack public space with sound

Markus Jeschaunig

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Markus Jeschaunig (Graz, 1982) lives and works in Unterpremstätten, Graz, and the Biosphere. Jeschaunig’s art practice deals with issues of the relation between culture and environment. Inspired by the dynamics and forces of the lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere and biosphere, the artist seeks to decipher natural, social, spatial and economic systems to formulate a critique of the inertia of the current system. In the language of contemporary art, his works evolve between the poles of ecology, landscape, urbanism and technology, as well as public space and activism.

Jeschaunig studied art and architecture at the University of Art and Design Linz, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Istanbul, and Vienna University of Technology from 2002 to 2010. He graduated in architecture from the University of Art and Design Linz in 2010 and participated in the Change Course Conference, organised by the Club of Rome in Winterthur in 2012.

He has received various prizes for his work, such as the Arbeitsstipendium für bildende Kunst der Stadt Graz in 2013, the forum-Stipendium of the University of Art and Design Linz and KEBA AG, Linz, the Umwelt-Preis der Landeshauptstadt Graz in 2012, or the “honourable mention” of the Outstanding Artist Award in 2010 from the Ministry for Education, Art and Culture in Vienna.

www.agnecyinbiosphere.com

Presented work: Atatürk-Interface

Interview

KARINA SMIGLA BOBINSKI

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Karina Smigla-Bobinski lives and works as a freelance artist in Munich and in Berlin in Germany. She studied painting and visual communication at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland and Munich, Germany. She works as an intermedia artist with analogue and digital media. She produces and collaborates on projects ranging from interactive and mixed reality art in form of installations, objects, in-situ and online-art projects, art interventions and multimedia physical theatre performances, to digital and traditional painting, analogue interactive installations or kinetic sculptures. Since 2013, she is a member of The Dream Team by DiBari Innovation Design, a unique Associated Studio bringing together architects, artists and designers from all over the world to design the city of the future, today. She is also a lecturer in the Department of Art and Design at the University of Applied Sciences in Augsburg (Germany).

Her works have been shown in 36 countries on 5 continents at festivals, galleries and museums internationally, including GARAGE Center for Contemporary Culture in Moscow (Russia), ZERO1 Biennial in Silicon Valley (US), FILE Electronic Language International Festival in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), FACT in Liverpool (UK), Busan Biennale (South Korea), GAK – Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst in Bremen (Germany), and the Bangkok University Gallery (Thailand).

Her collaborative performances have been shown at the Festival Montpellier (France), Festival in Ramallah (Palestine), Grand Théâtre (Luxembourg), Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon (Portugal), Festival in Kabul (Afghanistan), GoDown Art Center in Nairobi (Kenya), National School of Drama in Delhi (India), Festival Caracas (Venezuela), Fadjr-Festival in Tehran (Iran), Art Festival (South Korea), Haus der Kunst in Munich (Germany), Teatro Sesc in São Paulo (Brazil), Biennale de la danse in Paris (France), Berliner Festspiele (Germany) and Biennale di Venezia – Arsenale, Venice (Italy).

Presented work: ADA

Interview

JAN VORMANN

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Jan Vormann (1983) lives and works in Berlin. He quickly earned a reputation in the art world for his kinetic sculptures and installations, and in recent years, particularly with his project Dispatchwork, an intervention in the public space, with which he in a witty way repairs, patches and builds in holes with a material of popular culture – the well known Lego plastic construction pieces. It is not superfluous information that Vormann studied monumental art and restoration. For three years, he has been travelling the world with an extremely successful project and has repaired old buildings and monuments, including the Great Wall of China and buildings in Venice. He has exhibited worldwide in the last six years, in galleries in Paris, Berlin, Barcelona, Linz, Taipei, Atlanta, New York, St. Petersburg, Belgrade, Tel Aviv, Moscow, Rome, Tehran, Amsterdam and elsewhere. Vormann is a resident of the TRIBE international residency project at Sonica Festival and currently participates in the final exhibition of the TRIBE project at MoTA Point.

Presented work: Dispatchwork

Interview

GABEY TJON A THAM

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Gabey Tjon a Tham is an installation artist working with a variety of media and art forms. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts (Royal Academy of Art) and a Master’s degree in ArtScience (Royal Conservatoire of the Hague).
During her years in Fine Arts, her work developed from two-dimensionality towards interdisciplinary attitudes. During this time, she realized the potential of sound and site-specific installations to engage the audience in a given space.
Her work consists of re-contextualized excerpts from reality that acquire their form within an architectural space. In the midst of this dialogue, the perceiver is reverted to a process of contemplating about its own thoughts, memories and dreams. Within this spaceless and timeless sanctuary, the elements of the piece develop new relations to each other and their surroundings.

Presented work: SYNC

Interview

PETER FLEMMING

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Peter Flemming is a Canadian artist based in Montréal. His work makes use of improvisational kinetics and intuitive electronics, most recently exploring the idea of resonance through electromagnetically activated materials, mechanical performers and makeshift amplification devices. In 2012, variations of Instrumentation, a situational sound installation, toured internationally, notably in the first Montréal International Biennial of Digital Art, the monumental Emergências exhibition (Portugal) and the highly regarded Meta.morf, Biennale for Art in Technology (Norway). Past work has included lazy machines, solar powered artwork and hypnotically repetitive automata. He has exhibited extensively internationally and been the recipient of numerous grants and residencies. In 2013 he was long-listed for the Sobey Art award for Québec.

Flemming is a prolific educator, teaching creative electronics at institutions across Canada and in workshops internationally, as both an extension of his art practice and as a hands-on method of critically understanding technology. He studied under Norman White at the Ontario College of Art in the 90s and completed his MFA at the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design in 2001, where he taught their first ever Electronics For Artists course, effectively establishing a unique school of thought and influencing subsequent generations of emerging artists. In 2003 he moved to Calgary, founding the electronics lab and associated curriculum at the Alberta College of Art & Design. As of 2005, he teaches at Concordia University in Montréal.

Presented work: Rods and Coils

CHRISTINE SWINTAK

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Christine Swintak is an interdisciplinary artist who works in a number of media, including performance, intervention, installation and multimedia. Her projects include building a full scale ship through collective improvisation, running an election party campaign for the Irish underworld, transforming a dumpster into a luxury boutique hotel, promoting urban quicksand pits to condo developers, and producing a series of impossible project proposals.
She has exhibited at galleries, festivals and museums across Canada and internationally, including HMK Mariakapel (Holland), Model Niland (Ireland), DCR Guest Studios (Holland), YYZ Artist’s Outlet (Toronto), Toronto Free Gallery (Toronto), Nuit Blanche (Toronto), Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), ArtCity Festival of Art and Architecture (Calgary), Khyber Centre for the Arts (Halifax), Dalhousie University Art Gallery (Halifax) and Rockefeller Centre (New York).
Swintak has also presented numerous independent public interventions and relational happenings in places like Amsterdam, Banff, Vancouver, Teslin, New York, Salt Lake City, Death Valley, and Los Angeles. She graduated from NSCAD University in 2003, and was awarded the Canada Council International Residency in Paris, France at the Cité Internationale des Arts in 2011, and a fellowship at the Headlands Centre for the Arts.

Presented work: Rods and Coils