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Peter Lukan

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Peter Lukan (Kranj, 1982) studied comparative literature and English language at the University of Ljubljana and got a degree in 2007. He also studied physics at the University of Ljubljana and got a degree in 2012. He is currently a PhD student of philosophy of science at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, and is preparing a thesis on the philosophy of probability. He has published articles in the fields of philosophy of science and history of philosophy.

Dunja Kukovec

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Dunja Kukovec (1975) is a curator, publicist and producer based in Ljubljana. She has curated, co-curated and organised international cultural events and exhibitions such as: Area Kolaborativa (2004), Get Together (2006) and Share! Like a receipt! at the Škuc Gallery and the P74 Gallery in Ljubljana; Coded Cultures at Freiraum (2004), Museumsquartier in Vienna; Haip Festival of open source art at Cyberpipe (2003) in Ljubljana, international exhibitions at the 12th and the 13th Computer Art Festival in Maribor (2005, 2006), and Pixxelpoint Festival of digital arts in Nova Gorica (2004). She worked as an interim curator at Manifesta 3 in Ljubljana and the assistance curator of Igor Zabel at Individual Systems at Venice Bienniale (2003); from 2004 until 2005, she worked as a project manager at Liffe, the Ljubljana International Film Festival. Together with Katja Kobolt, she was a programme co-director of City Of Women – International Festival of Contemporary Arts (2006, 2007). From 2008 until 2011, she ran the Igor Zabel Association for Theory and Culture. She finally settled down within Red Min(e)d, the feminist curatorial group formed together with Katja Kobolt, Jelena Petrović and Danijela Dugandžić Živanović. In 2013, Red Min(e)d curated the 54th October Salon in Belgrade. Dunja Kukovec is a freedom advocate, art utopist, digital art fan, non-academic creative thinker and a feminist by heart.

Katarina Lajtman

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Katarina Lajtman was born in 1989 in Čakovec, Croatia. She recieved a Master’s Degree in Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in 2014. She is currently working on her Master’s Thesis in Educational Sciences at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. In 2013, she completed an

internship at the library of Halle Saint Pierre museum, Paris. In 2014, she completed an internship at the MoTA Mediatheque, Museum of Transitory Art, Ljubljana. She speaks fluent English and French. Besides her main interest in museum education, her current interest is the pedagogy of family.

Nika Grabar

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Nika Grabar (Celje, 1978) graduated from the Ljubljana Faculty of Architecture in 2003. The following year, she began her work as a researcher at the Institute for Architecture and started postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Architecture in Ljubljana. In 2007, she was awarded a Fulbright scholarship and continued her research in the field of architecture and politics at the Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation in New York for two years as a visiting researcher. She defended her PhD thesis in 2009 at the Ljubljana Faculty of Architecture. From October 2009 to May 2014, she was teaching at the Academy of Design in Ljubljana and continued to research in the field of architecture, politics, and public space. From October 2010 to February 2012, she participated in the European Culture Project “Unfinished Modernisations”; in 2012, she prepared a research project “Stories of the Slovene Parliament” and was involved in the preparation of the architectural research for the 2013 Slovenian pavilion at the Art Biennale in Venice. Since 2013, she has been working at the Faculty of Architecture in Ljubljana.

Research topics: history and theory of architecture, art and architecture, public space, architecture and media, design and sustainability

Neja Tomšič

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Neja Tomšič is a visual artist and writer from Ljubljana, Slovenia. Since graduating from the painting department at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, she has been part of individual and group exhibitions for drawing and media, performing and publishing poetry and prose, among others. She is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy and Theory of Visual Culture at the University of Primorska, researching documentary cinema and related practices in the contemporary art context. She is the co-founder of MoTA – Museum of Transitory Art, a research and production space devoted to transitory art, where she has been working since 2006. She is the manager and editor of the ArtistTalk project (www.artisttalk.eu).

Ida Hiršenfelder

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Ida Hiršenfelder is a media art critic, curator for media art, and theorist. From 2007 to 2013, she was an archivist at SCCA – Centre for Contemporary Arts, Ljubljana, constructing the DIVA Station digital archive of video art. She collaborates with Ljudmila – Ljubljana Digital Media Lab as an artistic advisor and curator for media art production. Lately, she has been soldering small electronic noise gadgets, driven by the love for machines, electronics, devices and noise/drones as a member of the Theremidi Orchestra. She co-created the ČIPke initiative for women working in the field of technology, science and art, together with the media artist Saša Spačal that is predominantly focused on organising women-only workshops at Rampa Lab (Kersnikova 4, Ljubljana). Recently, in 2014, she started to collaborate with MG+MSUM – Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova for the Network Museum online aggregator of contemporary art archives.

Luka Zagoričnik

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Luka Zagoričnik (Kranj, 1975) has been writing about music, organizing concerts and sound events, giving and organizing lectures, preparing radio shows, moderating TV shows, working as a journalist, writing reviews, articles and essays for various Slovene and foreign magazines and publications for more than 10 years. He has been working for one of the oldest independent radio stations in Europe, Radio Študent, for the last five years as a musical editor. He is currently the editor of the internet-based music magazine Odzven. He has been writing for the musical monthly magazine Muska, for the biggest Slovene newspaper Delo, and the weekly magazine Mladina, among others. For many years, he has been working as a moderator, journalist and music critic for the national Slovene television RTV Slovenija, and he organizes lectures and sound events of contemporary experimental music in a sound series Bitshift in Galerija Kapelica in Ljubljana. He has been running a small independent label for experimental music L’Innomable since 2005 and organizing concerts in Ljubljana. From 2012, he is a co-curator of the Sonica festival organized by MoTA – Museum of Transitory Art.

Blaž Kosovel

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Blaž Kosovel (1981, Slovenia) has been collaborating with MoTA since 2009 as a producer, researcher and event organizer. He is also a PhD candidate in Cultural Studies, researching the differences of the notion of culture between modernism and postmodernism, and between Europe and USA. He participated in a Fulbright Exchange at CUNY in New York in 2013. He is also a member of the editorial board of Razpotja, a quadrennial in-depth magazine about culture and society that has become the leading magazine in its field in Slovenia.

Sabin Borş

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Sabin Borş is an independent curator and editor, and an art, architecture and design critic. He is the founder of Xpose Art Collective, a not-for-profit organization conceived as an independent cultural agency specialized in high quality print and digital publishing. He is the founder, curator and editor of the anti-utopias thematic online catalogue of contemporary art. He is a PhD candidate with a thesis on disability and representation in contemporary art and culture.

Taking a wide interest in contemporary art and philosophy, architecture and design, photography and digital media, Sabin Borş previously worked as associate editor for Igloo, Arhitext and ArhiForum magazines, and collaborated with a series of specialized publications in Romania and abroad (Omagiu, Arta, The Institute, Conditions). Over the years, he published more than 90 project presentations and articles on critical theory. He presented papers at several conferences in Romania and abroad, and his essays are published and due to be published in various art catalogues in Germany, South Korea, Germany, and the United States.

Barbara Tomšič

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Barbara Tomšič was born in 1977. She finished her bachelor’s degree in cultural studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences in Ljubljana, and then enrolled in a master’s programme in sociology at the same faculty. Her work experience has mainly been in non-governmental organisations, volunteering and commerce. She was the head of the Association of Friends of Youth Ajdovscina for seven years and also works as a mentor of study circles (ACS) and extra-curricular workshops for children and youth in Ajdovscina, and recently also in Ljubljana. Since 2012, she has been collaborating with MoTA – Museum of Transitory Art, in operation and coordination. She is self-employed in culture as a producer and critic.