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Cristiano Berti (Italy)

Cristiano Berti (1967) is an artist based in Jesi (Italy) mainly working with photography, video and installation. He graduated at the Faculty of Architecture in Turin. Alongside his artistic activity, he studied history of technology, publishing various specialist papers. From the mid-1990s he worked on a mobile unit for health risk reduction among migrant sex workers, an experience which, years later, was to form the basis of various visual art works. At the end of the 1990s he stopped working as an outreach worker, though continuing to be active in the sphere of social inclusion and gender (...)

David Boardman (Italy)
	David Boardman is a designer and media artist. David was born in Italy. David is now located in Brooklyn, NY. Tweet

Di Bernardo-Rietti-Toppeta (Italy)

Francesco Di Bernando was born on 24th August 1975 in Penne, where he lives and works. Degree at Accademia di Belle Arti specialization in Decoration, got in L’Aquila. Alessandro Rietti was born on 16th December 1970 in Penne where he lives and works. Diploma at Mario dei Fiori Art school in Penne, specialization in Metals art and jewelry. Francesco Toppeta was born on 12th February 1982 in Penne where he lives and works. Degree in painting at Accademia di Belle Arti in L’Aquila. The group made up by Francesco Di Bernardo I Alessandro Rietti I Francesco Toppeta, which has been active for a couple of years, works in order to create various monothematic projects, experimenting almost every art discipline: painting, sculpture, installation, photography, graphics, and video art.

Fatmi Mounir (France)

Born 1970, Tangier, Morocco Lives and works in Paris, France. Mounir Fatmi constructs visual spaces and linguistic games that aim to free the viewer from their preconceptions. His videos, installations, drawings, paintings and sculptures bring to light our doubts, fears and desires. They directly address the current events of our world, and speak to those whose lives are affected by specific events and reveals its structure. His work deals with the desecration of religious object, deconstruction and the end of dogmas and ideologies. He is particularly interested in the idea of death of the (...)

Mario Santamaria (Spain)

Mario Santamaria (Spain, 1985) works about the visibility, the image´s production regime and it´s accesibility in real time. This area frequently uses manifestations or symbolic strategies from the past, and his aim is to test them in a delegitimisation of cultural practices and as meaning factories. Mario's media are photo, video, internet and multi-media instalations. Since 2010 has been grouped a series of works under the name of Streaming Actions. A different set of online actions, based on interference and forks on video signals in real-time, all work virally on the net.

Benna (Italy)
	BENNA - Multidisciplinary Artist EITHER ECLECTICISM OR BOREDOM Up-to-date résumé: http://bennanetii.has.it/ Tweet

Martin Sjölander (Sweden)

MAKING IS THINKING / 05/12-12 Solo Exhibition “SHY is dead, long live SjolanderHelpsYou” at Galleri Lili, Stockholm 11/06-12 Sound Engineer and Boom Operator at feature film “A Perfect Film” in Sundsvall 18/01-11 Front of House, Australian Contemporary Centre Of Art ,Melbourne 23/01-11 Published at Portable_tv /w visual short "VEM", also screened at Cannés Court Métrage & GIFF New Talent 19/09-10 Release the compilation "Martin Sjölander, Two Years of Thinking". Screening at YAP; Skövde 08/09-10 Photo documentary THEMF. Screening at SjolanderHelpsYou 02/09-10 (...)

Emilio Vavarella (Italy)

My work is based on issues of biopolitics and contemporary technological power. I'm interested in the aesthetics of error, subjectivity, mediated identity and socila control. I want to highlight thwe ambiguos spaces of power, such as unexpected errors and unpredictability. I believe that doing so, the intrinsic logic and hidden structures of power are revealed and an intellectual resistance in formed. In choosing to use photography or other mediums, I research materials that give shape to my questions, and ideas that shape the materials. I seek an ambiguos, and, at the same time, enlightening result which leads to new questions.

Thiago Hora (Brazil)
	Thiago Hora is a student of audiovisual, and since 2006 has served as Technical Audiovisual exerting various activities within the audiovisual production chain in the state of Sergipe and Pernambuco, Brazil. Delighted with the human capacity to make a film with the lens of the mind, he can transpose it in plastic images, materializing desires, dreams and philosophic thoughts. Tweet

Giang Nguyen Hoang (Vietnam)
	I'm a 24 year old film maker/video artist based in Hanoi, Vietnam. I'm now currently a member of HanoiDoclab - a center for documentary and video art in Hanoi. My works vary from fictional to experimental film/short videos. Tweet

Ulf Kristiansen (Norway)
	Ulf Kristiansen (b. 1969-11-03, Norway) is a painter and video-artist. Ulf Kristiansen is currently living at Nesodden, a peninsula outside of Oslo, Norway. While starting out as a figurative painter, Ulf is now mainly focusing on 3d animation and machinima. His films have partaken in numerous international video festivals and exhibitions. Tweet

Isabelle Rouquette (Belgium)
	A universe « of personal lives (which may be of any grade of complication, and superhuman or infrahuman as well as human), variously cognitive of each other […], genuinely evolving and changing by effort and trial, and by their interaction and cumulative achievements making up the world » William James Tweet

Ian Harris (United Kingdom)

Since 2003 I have produced a series of short films that explore the interplay between music, narrative and image. My films have been screened at various festivals, galleries and events in the UK and Europe. I was selected as a finalist in the Francesco Pasinetti Video Competition in Venice with my film ‘Mayavada’, in 2011. I have also released ‘The Wisdom Of Winter’, a CD of my music in 2009. I am currently focusing on multi-media projects for the classical guitar.

Izabella Retkowska (Poland)
	Born in Torun, Poland. Studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Copernicus University in Torun (1993-1998). Deals with printmaking, computer graphics, animation and photography. Tweet

Matteo Campulla (Italy)

(Iglesias, Sardinia - 1982) His research is developed and articulated through the man and the experience - protagonist in the paintings, as a spectator in the videos: ways and different mediums to investigate the human soul through the chaos and the oracle to endless and obsessive research of a contaminant epiphany. Since May 2009 he's part of MOVIMENTO OSCURANTISTA - a collective of painters with obscure tones openly sided against the system of contemporary art. Instead, in the early months of 2012 that comes SCARS, a experimental project of Videoart that occurs for the first time in the XXV International Festival of Performing Arts "InterAzioni"

José Simões (Portugal)

Born in Mozambique, Beira one year and four days after the Carnation Revolution. Graduated in Fine Arts – Sculpture, in the Fine Arts Faculty of Oporto University – Portugal. Signed in Master of Urban Design: Art, City, Society in the Fine Arts Faculty of Barcelona University - Spain. A sculptor, graphic/illustration artist, installation artist, video artist and photographer, live and work in Oporto. Participate in some video projects residencies in Benevento, Italy; Barcelona, Spain and Den Bosch, Netherlands around issues like Environment, Youth Work and Art Activism. A experimental s (...)

Sinasi Gunes (Turkey)

Güneş was born in 1968 and lives & works in Istanbul. Having completed his Master at Marmara University, Fine Art Faculty, Department of Painting in 1992, he works across different disciplines such as installation, painting, video art, mail art, street art, sculpture and photography. He exhibits his works internationally, nationally, and in regional museums and galleries. He also curated the Audio-Video Art Festival "Obsession" in 2005 and “Visitors” International Video Art Activity in 2010. He has published a variety of books such as “Cruises”, “New York and Cheving gum” ,� (...)

Sissi Kaplan (France)
	*1974. Lives and works in Paris, France. Sissi Kaplan is a visual artist working with photography and video. Most of her works are inspired by experiences collected during her travels in interaction with different cultures and places. Based on subtile observations of reality she reveals hidden aspects of human relationships and depicts particularities of our contemporary societies. Tweet

Harvey Goldman and Jing Wang (United States)

#1 Harvey Goldman is a multidisciplinary artist. He has created critically acclaimed work in the fields of ceramics, digital imaging, animation and music. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. Goldman received his BFA from the University of Illinois and his MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He teaches digital media in the Design Department at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where he currently holds the position of Chancellor Professor of Design. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Ford Foundation and the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and (...)

Isabelle Rozenbaum (France)

Isabelle Rozenbaum uses photography and video to explore identity, origin and self-portrait. She reaches into an intimate sphere to create a mysterious and poetic vision of the subjects she treats. Her “Portraits” open up secret, interior worlds, bringing out a certain anxiety of physical representation, perfectly matching the universe of David Lynch. Her “Landscapes” evoke hidden spaces, both underground ones and those that have sprung from the beyond. The molten, almost misty light recalls a mineral and vegetal nature, radiant but chimerical: it displays itself, effectively, in its own right, whilst remaining blurred in its reality, rather like the memory of an instant of which we are uncertain whether it was truly experienced – or dreamed.

Michael Gaddini (Italy)

The activity 'Michael Gaddini film begins in 2002/03 as an autodidact making short films in analogue format vhs-c or hi8. In 2004 Goes Digital with his first short film genre horrorifico. From that moment creates "CinevorteX" compoasta by a group of young amateurs with which he created several short films, from 2004 until 2008, of various kinds and duration. He graduated from the Art School A. Passaglia (Lu) and follows meetings in parallel with studies on the role of extra-curricular videomaker, workshops, contests and participate in film festivals under 30. In 2010, collaborates with Mir (...)

Gruppo Sinestetico (Italy)

Gruppo Sinestetico (Albertin M., Sassu A., Scordo G.) 1999 Fondazione Gruppo Sinestetico (manifesto ) Albertin M. Perseghin M. Sassu A. ) Torreglia Pd Italy 2001 49th Biennale di Venezia Bunker Poetico and Happening Virtual Venice Italy 2001 PERFORMANCE a cura di Inga Pin , E.Miccini , E.Jappe , Mantova Italy 2002 Manifesta 4 Frankfurt Project FREE MANIFESTA (curator Sal Randolph ) Kunstverein Frankfurt Germany 2002 London Biennale 2002 Actions Synesthetics (video) director David Medalla , London Inghilterr 2002 Liverpool Biennial 2002 Project “ Liberarti “ (video) cura (...)

José Pedro Lopes (Portugal)
	Born in 1982 in Oporto (Portugal), José is a journalist and a filmmaker. He founded in 2011 the production company Anexo 82. He debuted as a director with the splatter comedy 'O Risco' (2011) that played heavly in film festivals worldwide. 'Survivalismo' is his second film. Tweet

Chokra (United Arab Emirates)

CHOKRA is a performance artist from the United Arab Emirates. His multi-dimensional performances integrate multi-lingual rap rhymes uttered in Arabic, Urdu and English, live surrealistic visuals combined with digital and analogue sound, an algorithmic processing of electronic operatives via custom software and a heightened build of the theatrical with transnational costume. CHOKRA's performances also accelerate the hyper sensory with an epic propagation of aromatic scent, neon pyromania, flares, brilliant hues in exploding pigments, petroleum and crushed gold. CHOKRA has performed at SALT A (...)

Gilivanka Kedzior and Barbara Friedman (France)

As visual artists working with performance, video, sound and photography, Gilivanka Kedzior and Barbara Friedman analyze the confrontation to otherness and its inter-thematic with subjects such as: social yokes; dominant/dominated relationships; codes and what happens to them out of their context; gender and its limits and ambiguities; issues of the double and of the multiple characters under a single skin; or yet the identity, status and image of Woman. Recent performances, exhibitions and screenings include DIMANCHE ROUGE Festival of Experimental Performances and the Moretti & Moretti Gallery in Paris, the Dreamspace Gallery and the Prince Charles Cinema in London, the Naherholung Sternchen ArtSpace in Berlin, as well as the CAM - Casoria Contemporary Art Museum in Naples. They currently live and work in Toulouse, France.

Gianluca Melappioni (Italy)
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Paolo Bandinu (Italy)

NOTE BIOGRAFICHE Paolo Bandinu nasce a San Gavino (CA) il 16 08 1984. Diplomato presso il liceo artistico di Cagliari nel 2003-04 ha in seguito conseguito il diploma di laurea in pittura presso l’ Accademia di Belle Arti di Sassari e nel 2011 consegue la laurea specialistica in arti visive e linguaggi multimediali presso l’Accademia di belle arti di Firenze ,. Momentaneamente domiciliato a Mùnchberg Lindenstrasse 7. città dove vive e lavora. Il mio lavoro si muove attraverso delle storie pittoriche, che prendono forma sulla tela e si evolvono per mezzo di un montaggio video dove (...)

Mikey Peterson (United States)

Mikey Peterson is a Chicago-based video-audio artist, singer-songwriter, and art educator. He creates experimental video art that focuses on sound, distortion and organic abstraction having shown work internationally at festivals such as the Lucca Film Festival in Lucca, Italy, the StreeTVideOart exhibition in Paris, France, the Video Art And Experimental Film Festival at Tribeca Cinemas in New York City, and at the Performance Intermedia and DokumentART Festivals in Szczecin, Poland. His work has shown at the Chicago Cultural Center, at the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum, and is exhibited on the Paris-based television channel, Art Television, and the New York-based website, Videoart.net. Additionally, Peterson writes and performs sparse yet melodic songs with his band The Trust, and as The Duende Bros has partnered with poet Eric Elshtain to develop an inimitable form of musical dance poetry.

Sávio Leite (Brazil)

Sávio Leite is Brazilian. He studied communication, visual arts, cinema and video. He’s a video-artist, director of short-films, teacher and coordinator of video and image workshops, and he has collaborated in several cinema projects. His works have been screened at a number of festivals in Brazil and South America. He is one of the producers of Mumia - Underground World Animation Festival.

Dagan Wald (Israel)

My artistic statement is actually considered as a mess, inside my mind combined from cinematic influences, studying, theories and viewing, along with an artistic education, and mixing together as DJ beats set. I try to set the 'tracks' as a language through a shot of a night and day life inside a frame. Although I have been studying and working in films and media since the age of 14, I am still in the process of developing personal artistic language and test my own boundaries. While I believe to posses strong directing and writing skills, in addition to editing, sound mixing and shooting, I (...)

Mikhail Basov (Russian Federation)

Mikhail Basov (b.1977) The spheres of his activity are cinema & videoart. His videoart has been exhibited internationally and in Russia in festivals, gallery exhibitions. In 2009 Michael Basov took part in collateral exhibition of the 53rd Venice Biennale of Visual Arts "Parallel Worlds: Fleeting Realities"; The 6 th Busan International Video Festival; International Installation/ video / performance festival (Busan city hall Gallery; organizer:Busan artist association), International Video-art Festival of Cadaqués "Tramuntana 09", & other. Filmography. 1. "Digital sandglass" (in collabora (...)

Emilio Rizzo (Italy)

I attended an Academy somewhere in this country, not in New York nor in a foreign country, even if actually it's very cool studying somewhere around there. I attended an Italian Academy, i got it right, that is quite enough, i graduated from that Academy, i had a specialization course and i have been happy for a while till i didn't get drunk i caught the wrong bus and i fell in Naples. When i realized i was there and i couldn't get out anymore. This happened some times ago, since then i have rented a dismal apartament in a suburb, i live together with a cockroach who thinks he's a errant knigh (...)

Benjamin Ochse (Germany)

Benjamin Ochse, son of an art photographer, has worked since 1982 as a multimedia Designer and as a documentary filmmaker since 2008. Between 2002 and 2006 he lived in New Zealand, where amongst other things he worked as an Exhibitions Manger and Designer for the Museum of Puke Ariki in New Plymouth. Since 2006 he has been involved with the collection of Maori musical instruments based in Europe. In connection to this subject Benjamin made his first documentary film in 2008/9 about traditional Maori musical instruments from the Cook/Forster Collection in Göttingen with the well know New Zealand musician Dr. h.c Richard Nunns. In 2010, under the guidance of Paul Watson (BBC), he was invited to be a juror at the Prix Europe for the Documentary Film category. At present Benjamin is working on other documentary film projects.

Pierre et Jean Villemin (France)

Pierre and Jean Villemin work together since 2002 Jean Villemin is an artist. State commissions of the Ministry of Culture, Foundation of France Prize-winner of several competitions of sculpture Works in FRAC from Alsace and Particular collections Author of works: - Discours sur la faîtière (narrative) Environ l'infini, Lyon, 1995 (Exhausted) -Petit déluge (roman). éd. Pierron, 2000 -La ligne de partage des eaux, éd. Manuscrit.com -Le Glacier -Roman avec Golem, éd. Unibook -L’arbre de mille ans, éd. Unibook Pierre Villemin teaches video at the Fine Art School of Metz. Since 1999, he directed about ten short films diffused and awarded in many of International Festival. Mémoire carbone command of the mine of coal's museum of Wendel. He develops a poetic and experimental writting on the last mine of coal in Lorraine (eastern France). He is in charge of Les Yeux de l'Ouïe a screening venue network for visual art and sound in Lorraine.

Jean Detheux (Canada)

Born in Belgium, graduated from the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts (Liège), Detheux immigrated to Canada in 1971 where he taught at various art schools (including in the U.S.) such as: the Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, Alberta (Canada), Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec (Canada), The NY Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, NY (USA), New York University, NY (USA), etc... Exhibited his paintings and drawings in solo and group shows in Europe, Lebanon, the Americas, where his work is found in many private and public collections. Many articles (English & French) on art/animation, reviews of festivals, symposiums, books and software (published by AWN, Sage Publications, Int. Journal Art & Technology, etc.). Forced by allergies to quit natural media, he embraced digital technology which brought him almost “naturally” to "time art." His films are now found in festivals around the globe.

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