The invited guests will give a brief overview of their current activities and projects in their contributions. In the podium discussion to follow, participants will discuss how this relates to the project Remediate, as well as what directions and tendencies can be derived from the extended topics for the development of film and new media.
The event will be moderated by Prof. Dr. Ute Holl, professor of media studies at the University of Basel.
MICHEL VUST
Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Since 2012 project director of the impulse program “Digital Culture” at the Swiss arts council pro helvetia. As co-director of the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival (NIFFF) between 2006-2011, he directed the symposium “Imaging the Future,” which concerned the development of the digital image in film, computer games, and science.
JO DE WITTE
Brussels, Belgium
Jo de Witte is press and communications manager at the City Museums (Musée de la Ville; Musée du Costume et de la Dentelle) and City Archives in Brussels. His activities include developing communication and marketing strategies.
PROF. DR. TIMON BEYES
Lüneburg
Timon Beyes is a professor at the Institute for Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media at Leuphana University in Lüneberg and coordinates the research program there with a focus on digital media. His main research area is the theory of organization, with particular attention to non-profit sectors, processes of spatial production, as well as questions of aesthetics and artistic interventions.
PROF. OLIA LIALINA
Stuttgart
Olia Lialina is a professor and director of Pathways New Media at the Merz Academy. In 1993 she graduated from the Moscow State University in journalism. In her 1996 work My Boyfriend Came Back From The War, she developed a particular narrative technique using the language of elements of web browsers and is thus considered one of the founders of the genre of net.art.
ISABELLE ARVERS
Meyrargues, France
Isabelle Arvers is a curator of media art, specializing in the areas of video and computer games, web animation, digital cinema, retrogaming, 8 bit, and machinima. She is a contributing writer to Digital Art, Game Art, and Machinima. She also organizes and curates exhibitions and events and has appeared at numerous festivals with her live performances as WJs.
AMIE SIEGEL
New York, USA
Amie Siegel was born in Chicago in 1974 and currently lives and works in Berlin, New York, and Stuttgart. She has shown her work internationally in group exhibitions, including at MoMA/PS1 (New York), at the Hayward Gallery (London), at the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), at the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), and at KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin). Her films and videos have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art (New York), at the Cannes International Film Festival, the Berlin International Film Festival, at BFI Southbank (British Film Institute), as well as at the Harvard Film Archive. She was a recipient of the Berlin artist program of the DAAD and the Guggenheim Foundation, as well as the winner of the 2010 James and Audrey Foster Prize at the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art) in Boston. In 2009/2010 Amie Siegel was a fellow at the Academy Schloss Solitude.
REYNOLD REYNOLDS
Berlin
Reynold Reynolds’s works are part of the collections at MoMa, New York, the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, the Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart, Australia, and the Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf. Reynolds was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and his installations have been exhibited internationally, including at the 4th Berlin Biennale (2006), the 3rd Moscow Biennale (2009), at Transmediale, Berlin (2009 und 2010), at the Berlinische Galerie (2010), at Kunsthalle Wien (2011), and at the House of World Cultures, Berlin (2011). In 2010/2011 Reynolds was a fellow at the Academy Schloss Solitude.
PROF. DR. UTE HOLL
Basel, Switzerland
Ute Holl is professor of media studies with a focus on perception at the University of Basel. Her research focuses on the history of cinema and perception, the intellectual history of audiovisual media, and the media history of acoustics and electro-acoustics.