SPEAKERS

Branka Cvjeticanin (multimedia artist, Zagreb)

Branka Cvjeticanin, multimedia artist born in Zagreb, Croatia. Her educational background is based on the performing arts and site-specific installations (MAPA – Academy for Performing Arts Amsterdam, etc.). In 2005/06 she has accomplished PhD on Bauhaus Kollege Dessau. In 1999 she initiated the Polygon – Center for Research and Project Development, working on artists exchange programs and setting up research/pre.production residencies, but also questioning the “architecture” of an art organization itself. She did numerous collaborative works with international artists (Robert Wilson (USA), Chao Fei (China), Ludovic Nobileau (FR), Andrey Bartanev (RU) Gary and Lena Anderson, (GB)... She is a member of the HZSU - Croatian Association of Independent Artists Recent activities

Maja and Reuben Fowkes



Maja and Reuben Fowkes are curators and art historians who deal with issues of memory, ecology and translocal exchange.  They have curated and written extensively on the issue of contemporary art and sustainability.

Ralo Mayer (artist, Vienna)

Born in 1976 on the Austrian side of the Iron Curtain, lives mostly in Vienna. Past artistic works investigated aspects of social reality like migration, globalization and post-Fordist production, breeding unruly monsters in various substrates like film, performance, installation and text. Continous interests include higher dimensional geometries and outer space as a giant projection screen for rather mundane salmagundi. From 2003-2008 Mayer has been a Fellow at Manoa Free University, initiating collective projects about artistic research practices and self-organisation. A considerable interest in the widespread quirk of HOW TO DO THINGS WITH WORLDS has lead to a eponymous research series at MFU; since 2016 publication of "multiplex fiction", a shapeshifting science fiction magazine in the literal sense of the words. Currently he is working on a translation of "The Ninth Biospherian", a historical SciFi novel about Biosphere 2. In this context he has shown works at Secession/Vienna, Transmission Gallery/Glasgow, Argos/Brussels and collaborated with Krõõt Juurak for a theatre performance in brut/Vienna.

Ruben Mnatsakanian (CEU, Budapest)

Ph.D. (Moscow State University): Head of Department, Director of UNEP GEO Collaborating Center: State of the environment and pollution problems in the countries of the region; environmental policy; global environmental issues, sources of environmental information.

Csaba Nemes (artist, Budapest)

Csaba Nemes is a Budapest-based artist whose work has dealt with issue such as the notion of communist heritage, contemporary nationalism and the role of the mass media, through painting, animation and films. He has exhibited widely including in Knoll Gallery Vienna/Budapest, SMAK Gent, Rotor Graz, Museum Kiscell Budapest and the Gallery of Extended Media Zagreb.

Igor Stokfiszewski (curator/critic/playwright, Warsaw)

photo Emilia Socha

Igor Stokfiszewski is a literary, theatre, art critic, curator and dramatist. He studied literature in Lodz and Cracow. Between 2001-2006 he was the editor of the literature section in the Interdisciplinary Cultural Magazine „Ha!art”, Cracow. Since 2006 he works for the leftist bi-monthly „Krytyka Polityczna” (Political Critique, Warsaw). As a critic he writes for daily newspapers, weekly magazines, literary and theatre magazines. As a dramatist in he worked on plays of Bertolt Brecht, Heiner Müller, Federico García Lorca and Heinrich von Kleist. As a books reviewer he works for the programme Reading-room on Polish Television Cultural Channel. He published the book with essays on transformation of contemporary culture and social life entitled The Political Turn (2009).

Alan Watt (CEU, Budapest)

Alan Watt is a lecturer in environmental philosophy and the development of environmental thought at the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at Central European University.

Stephen Wright (art theorist, Paris)

Stephen Wright is an art writer, independent researcher and curator and professor of art history and theory at the École européenne supérieure de l'image (Angouleme / Poitiers). Former research fellow in the "Art and Globalisation" programme at the Institut national d'histoire de l'art (Paris) and programme director at the Collège international de Philosophie (Paris), he is a founding user of the Usual College of the Academy of Decreative Arts. He has organised conferences at Tate Modern (London), Columbia University (New York), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), INHA (Paris), Musée d'art contemporain (Montreal), Aksanat (Istanbul), Videobrasil (Sao Paulo)... Member of the International Art Critics Association, former European Editor of the Montreal-based contemporary art journal Parachute (1997-2005), and editorial board member of the London-based journal Third Text, he has written widely on emergent art and art-related practice as forms of knowledge production in a context of globalisation. As a curator, he has produced a series of exhibitions and publications dealing with art practices with low coefficients of artistic visibility, including The Future of the Reciprocal Readymade (New York, 2004), Dataesthetics (Zagreb, 2007), Rumour as Media (Istanbul, 2006), Palestinian Products (Cairo, 2005), Recomposing Desire (Beirut, 2008) and Diggers All! (Montreal, forthcoming 2010). Laureat t of the European Art Essay competition (2008), he is currently working on the book-length essay Arbitrating Attention, and is putting together a collection of essays, Specific Visibility. A selection of his writings are available on the blog n.e.w.s. to which he is an active contributor, http://northeastwestsouth.net/node/56

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