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Bio:
\nGraduated from The Vienna International School in 1996, he studied Law at the Milan State University where he dropped out in 2001. He graduated with a degree in Graphic Design from the Istituto di Arti Grafiche Rizzoli Milan in 2003. And he received a fine art scholarship in 2011\/2012 at the SMFA \u2013 School of the Museum of Fine Art, Boston (MA, USA). He is based in Milan but likes to travel a lot and to spend some months abroad painting. He has experienced painting in places like Tel Aviv; Halle, Leipzig; Chemnitz and Berlin; Boston and New York.<\/p>\n
Work:<\/p>\n
He says spontaneity is the solid foundation of his work. The need for an outlet leads him to paint and the need for movement leads him to often work in large dimensions. His work depicts his emotions and his life. He often uses the paper to symbolize the fragility of man. He is determined with different types of walls and materials, even more if old, tired and crumbling. He draws bicycles and cyclists because they represent life: movement, fatigue, arrival and departure and landscapes and views that excites him. He works to evolve and often returns to where he began. His work is precise, sometimes abstract, sometimes naive or nervous. And he uses oil pastels, vinyls, acrylics, sprays, mixing and improvising styles and materials.<\/p>\n
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Robert Deutsch studied illustration and communication design at Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle and has been a freelance illustrator and artist for national and international clients since 2012, winning numerous awards and exhibiting his work in Leipzig, Berlin, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Porto, Montpellier and many other places.<\/p>\n
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\u201cA sweet, almost cute impulse emanates from the works of the Leipzig artist. The pastel, colourful palette suggests innocence and the round, soft shapes something childlike and playful. However, the contents of these supposedly naive pictorial worlds add a bitter note to the sugary taste. Thus, despite the bright pink and powdery light balus, the viewer inevitably becomes aware that this is a coquettish reaction to the conditions surrounding them, a mirror of society – a wolf in the cosiest sheep’s clothing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Robert Deutsch plays with art historical and social image codes. Very directly, he illustrates themes of personal relevance through exaggeration. A reference battle with pop cultural codes, mixed with the cultural memory of the Occident and the great themes of humanity – sex, love, violence and death. The codes he uses are catchy and spread smiles, followed by the feeling of being caught. They are very personal insights into the mind of an individual and yet reflect something like the common-sense of our present.<\/p>\n
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(born in Dresden, Germany) lives and works as an author and artist in Leipzig.<\/p>\n
She studied art, theatre and film history in Naples and lives as an author and artist in Leipzig. She works at the interface between text, art and film and teaches storytelling and creative writing at the Kunsthochschule Kassel. Public space playsan important role in her work. In spring 2021, she published her poems in Leipzig’s urban space with a grant from the Kulturstiftung Sachsen. She regularly gives lectures on language and memory culture, most recently at the Lentos Museum Linz and the Sepulkralmuseum Kassel. Her main topics are transformation and independence, equality and new language images, emphatic memory culture, sexuality and community. In 2020, she was a fellow of the Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki and in September, October and November 2021, she will present the resulting works as installations in Thessaloniki (GR), Santo Stefano di Magra (IT) and Leipzig (DE). In the past, she has published short stories and essays in “PS – Politisch Schreiben”, various international magazines and is a guest author of the “ZEIT ONLINE” column “10 nach 8”.<\/p>\n
UNSPOKEN FORMS – RECLAIMING SPEECH<\/p>\n
The poetic forces are at the centre of Klara Charlotte Zeitz’s installation work: ethical and aesthetic strategies of making oneself heard, which culminate in a sensory perception. How can we perceive more sensuously, empathically and empathic perception and perceive words in a different way in order to get into with something or someone? Above all, the works represent an emancipatory, global and ‘female\u02bb perspective. What connects the narrative of contemporary women, timeless, transnational and independent of origin? Unspoken Forms – Reclaiming Speechattempts to give a subjective answer to this. A critical and at the same time playful observation between the personal and the political, the affective and the analytical.<\/p>\n
The voices and images presented are meant to remind us, that common geopolitical demarcations and rigorous juxtapositions of coherent cultures are based on fiction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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is a trained designer and social pedagogue. She has been working in the social sector in Berlin since 2011 and volunteers at cultural events and in street social work.<\/p>\n
She loves and lives art. She loves the details of life and likes to capture them in photos and occasionally handwritten texts.<\/p>\n
Her fascination with the blending of the digital and real worlds recently led her to explore augmented reality for the first time at a summer school at Panke Galerie Berlin and to contribute her part to the “openAR” exhibition. She says that in the digital age, one should not lose sight of the wonderful world of real uniqueness and become more sensitive to how people can use the virtual world.<\/p>\n
She thinks about herself that there are many jobs and credentials, but rarely the right one to feel confident about one’s freedom. All you should know about her is that she is a human being – certificate unknown.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
She leads workshops with passion and empathy, which makes them a great success. For years she led the education department at ibug. In the summer of 2020, Saxon art educators therefore met at the ibug festival for further training on the topic of urban art and the sustainable use of brownfields. They received new impulses and took ideas for dealing with the topic back to their art lessons. In 2021, 42 studentsfrom the 7th and 8th grades of the Helmholtzschule Leipzig learned about the history of the VEB Buntpapierfabrik Flo\u0308ha in several workshops as part of the RESCUEproject. They dealt with the stories of theformer employees and the conditions at the time. With the help of collages, installations and storytelling, they created works of art and breathed new life into old names and objects. These creative works will be exhibited both online and at the ibug festival, which the students will visit as part of school tours.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Bio:<\/p>\n
Xuan is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music and has studied Media Spaces at the BTK University of Art and Design in Berlin. She’s currently teaching experimental filmmaking as an Adjunct Professor of Humanities at Eastman and works as a freelance video artist.<\/p>\n
She had performances at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the MCA Chicago, the Smithsonian Institution, University of South Carolina, Carnegie Mellon University, Constellation, SF Jazz, Le Poisson Rouge, and the Indie Grits Film Festival. Recent projects in interactive design have been exhibited at the ErsterErster Gallery in Berlin, DE, the ibug Urban Art Festival in Reichenbach, DE, and Design Biennale 2019 in Zu\u0308rich, CH.<\/p>\n
Work:<\/p>\n
Xuan is a new media artist, filmmaker, and pianist working at the intersection of music, visual art, and technology. Her work includes experimental animation, abstract scenography, narrative documentaries, music videos, videography, interactive installations and real time audio-visual programming. With a background as a contemporary classical pianist, she actively develops innovative, cross-disciplinary projects that broaden the immersive scope of new music through technology.<\/p>\n
Current projects include Art on theMART in Chicago, USA, a projection installation on the largest projection surface in the world, in collaboration with GRAMMY-winning ensemble Eighth Blackbird; installation at ibug urban art festival in Flo\u0308ha, Germany, and at the RESCUE Residency in Santo Stefano di Magra, Italy.<\/p>\n
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Born 1968 in Graz, Styria (AT).<\/p>\n
Mag. Phil. History of Art \/ media and graphic design \u2013 diploma 1995<\/p>\n
School of Friedl Kubelka \/ Vienna \u2013 artistic photography class, diploma 2012 Mag.Art<\/p>\n
Art and photography \u2013 diploma 2017<\/p>\n
Akademie der bildenden K\u00fcnste Vienna, class of Prof. Martin Guttmann<\/p>\n
light projections \u2013 experimental lighting, analogue and digital photography<\/p>\n
Graphic design. Painting. Sculpture. Short cut video. Sound installations \/ performances & interventions<\/p>\n
Memberships and affiliations – rotor Graz, Kunstverein Graz, Plafond+Fluss, Lower Austrian Iniatiatve for photography and media art<\/p>\n
bebafink@gmail.com<\/a> \/ t. 0043.0.664.4814707[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row content_placement=”top” row_content_width=”grid” content_text_aligment=”center” css=”.vc_custom_1590402363873{margin-bottom: 5% !important;padding-top: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”4908″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n He is one of the most active, creative and verstile drummers, composers and improvisers on slovenian music scene in the last ten years. In 2006 he released his debut album with Samo \u0160alamon and Achille Succi for italian label Splasch records. Since 2014 till today he is regulary publishing music for prepared drums that he is constructing by himself. His albums are regulary reviewed by international media on improvisation and electroacoustic music. He is part of experimental project Partija with visual artist Matej Stupica, member of bands Ludovik Material and Darla Smoking. Performed in independent theatre shows Gremo Vsi!, Novo mesto Readymade and Nein. Toured with EBM legends Borghesia. In 2015 he released an album of graphic composition Treatise by Cornelius Cardew. In 2016 he performed his most complex piece Audiable life stream tentet for ten musicians. In 2017 finished a tour and released second album with international trio with Rieko Okuda and Antti Virtaranta. Currently he is performing free jazz with Mezei \u0160alamon Berger trio, D\u017euklje Berger duo and \u0160alamon D\u017eukljev Berger \u2013 Fresh Dust trio, has just released his new electro acoustic album dedicated to composer Morton Feldman with pianist Dejan Berden, Fresh Dust trio album at FMR records UK and integrating modular synth into his preapred drumset.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”42px”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”4909″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Austrian violinist, vocalist and composer Mia Zabelka is at the forefront of international electro-acoustic performance art. She developed her unique musical language in a process she calls \u201cautomatic playing\u201d, where the music grows out of her body and gestures and finds its expression in her electric violin with electronic devices, alien objects, vocals, and\/or acoustic violin. Using this set up she is given the opportunity to expand the sound range so extensively that the violin itself becomes an interface, an electronic sound generator and thus a sound machine. miazabelka.com<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”4910″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Composer and musician (clarinets \/ live electronics), film maker, theatre director, visual and sound artist, author and radiomaker active for years on the international scene, creates his work starting with sound and drawing, then expanding to sculpture, installation, music, film, performance, and collaborative projects, between institution, the independent scene, and pop culture.<\/p>\n Art, science, and nature\u00a0are the key words of his oeuvre. A pioneer in the use of\u00a0Internet\u00a0and in integrating analogical and digital technologies, his work areas include: radio transmission, telematic networks, persistence of classical tradition in contemporaneity, psychoacoustics , robotics, cybernetics, man-machine interaction, real-time sound-image elaboration, sound cartography., music (from early music to new stuff) on stage, persistence of classical tradition in present time, image and sound relationship, digital culture, interaction, body languages, social design, projects for the public space & site-specific, collaborative & participatory projects. Paci Dal\u00f2 is active as\u00a0performer\u00a0(clarinets \/ electronics \/ sampler) also involved in collaborations and improvised music.<\/p>\n In defining his own work Paci Dal\u00f2 coined the definitions:\u00a0media dramaturgy\u00a0and theatre of listening. He frequently creates his works in various fields, further investigating different aspects of perception of the same material. Thus scene and music works often become radio pieces or interactive sound\/video installations and online projects.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row content_placement=”top” row_content_width=”grid” content_text_aligment=”center” css=”.vc_custom_1590402370483{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 5% !important;padding-top: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”4911″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n She is a musician and composer from Pakistan and London. She lives and works in Austria (since 2001) and also spends time in the UK, Croatia and Pakistan. Her work includes compositions for solo instruments, voices and ensembles, radio art, sound installations as well as electro-acoustic and inter-medial performances. https:\/\/www.zahramani.com\/<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”4944″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Maja Hodo\u0161\u010dek <\/b>(1984) is an author of video works, installations, initiates workshops, and curates exhibitions. Her practice is research-based and experimental, focusing on performance, behavior, and modes of learning. She finished her MA at the Dutch Art Institute in Arnhem, NL. Her work was shown widely on international group exhibitions such as Hidden Curriculum<\/i>, tranzit.sk, Bratislava; Silence is Deafness Here<\/i>, Gallery Podroom, Belgrade; Beyond the Globe<\/i>, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana; South by South East<\/i>, Guangdong Times Museum, China; Pipe Dream<\/i>, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna; Travelling Communiqu\u00e9<\/i>, Museum of Yugoslav History, Belgrade. She presented her work on solo exhibitions in Dom omladine, Belgrade, Museum of Contemporary Art \u2013 MSUM, Ljubljana, Miroslav Kraljevi\u0107 Gallery, Zagreb, \u0160KUC Gallery Ljubljana, Gallery Gregor Podnar, Ljubljana, etc. In 2020 she received the national award Rihard Jakopi\u010d for artistic achievements, and in 2010 she won OHO Award. She was an artist in residence in Tabakalera \u2013 International Centre for Contemporary Culture in San Sebastian (2019) and ISCP New York (2010).<\/span><\/p>\n http:\/\/www.hodoscek.com\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”4949″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Tomo Podsten\u0161ek<\/b> (1981) is an established Slovenien prosaist. He writes novels and short stories, as well as children\u2019s literature and plays. His short stories have been published in literary magazines in Slovenia, Hungary, Croatia, Austria, Macedonia, Serbia, Poland etc. Many of them were award-winning or broadcast on RTV Slovenija radio shows.<\/span> His novel Sodba v imenu ljudstva<\/i> (The verdict on Behalf of People<\/i>) (2012) was longlisted for the best Slovenian novel of the year award, Kresnik. In 2017 his novel Papir, kamen, \u0161karje<\/i> (Rock, Paper, Scissors<\/i>) was shortlisted for the same award.<\/span> In 2018 his book Ribji krik<\/i> (The<\/i> Scream of the Fish<\/i>) was shortlisted fort the best Slovenian collection of short stories award.<\/span> Apart from writing, Podsten\u0161ek occasionally takes the role of a director of children and adult theatre groups, mentors creative writing workshops, organises different literary events etc. He lives and works in Maribor.<\/span><\/p>\n https:\/\/tomopodstensek.com\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n https:\/\/drustvo-dsp.si\/pisatelji\/tomo-podstensek\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\nJAKA BERGER<\/strong><\/h3>\n
MIA ZABELKA<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nHer previous collaborators include Elliott Sharp, D\u00e4lek, Phill Niblock, Pauline Oliveros, Robin Rimbaud, Electric Indigo, John Russell, Maggie Nicols and Lydia Lunch.
\nShe has given concerts and performances at many Festivals throughout Europe, America and Asia. Numerous CD, vinyl and video releases. Recipient of highly regarded prizes (3- time winner of the Prix Ars Electronica) and awards. she was a guest of the DAAD\u2019s (German Academic Exchange Service\u2019s) international artists\u2019 programme in Berlin and the Fulbright Commission in New York. Recently Mia Zabelka was awarded The Akademia Music award 2018 for her composition \u201cFor Pauline Oliveros\u201d, commissioned by Steirischer Herbst\/ Musikprotokoll and Austrian Cultural Forum New York.
\nMia Zabelka\u00a0is currently the artistic director of Phonofemme Festival Vienna and Klanghaus Untergreith in the region of South Styria.<\/p>\nRoberto Paci Dal\u00f2<\/strong><\/h3>\n
ZAHRA MANI<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nShe plays the double bass, various guitars and the piano, and briefly studied Indian classical music in Pakistan, where she was introduced to the tabla and sitar.
\nIn her compositions and performances, she uses electronics whilst always focussing on \u201corganic” sound, only working with analogue sounds and field recordings she collects in an ever-growing archive. Zahra Mani\u2019s works are imbued with her distinctive compositional voice, which continues to grow out of a fundamental openness in hearing and listening, always trying to include every acoustically perceptible moment in the creative process. Her approach to sound characterises her musical language, which carries in it a continuous and subtle pulse, and which constantly calls into question traditional aspects such as melody, rhythm, time structure and acoustic aesthetics.<\/p>\nMaja Hodo\u0161\u010dek<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n
Tomo Podsten\u0161ek<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n