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Apsolutno
The association APSOLUTNO was founded in 1993 in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia. The production of the association is created through collaboration of its three members (Zoran Pantelić, Dragan Rakić and Bojana Petrić). Since 1995 the works have been signed APSOLUTNO, without any reference to personal names.
The production of APSOLUTNO started in the field of fine arts. Gradually, it has developed to include not only aesthetic, but also cultural, social and political aspects. The work of APSOLUTNO is based on an interdisciplinary research into reality, with the aim to make it open to new readings.
The choice of medium is a very important part of the creative process, as APSOLUTNO regards the medium as an equally relevant element of the work.
APSOLUTNO is a collective of three members, dealing with interdisciplinary art work and media pluralism.
Zoran Pantelic
Zoran Pantelic is an artist, producer, educator and researcher. He is currently director of the New Media Center_kuda.org, Novi Sad (Serbia and Montenegro). He holds a BA from the Academy of Fine Arts Novi Sad and MA from the same institution, as well as a certificate from the School of Media Education 2001 Faculty of Social Sciences, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
He founded the association APSOLUTNO in 1993 in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia. APSOLUTNO is a collective of three members, dealing with interdisciplinary art work and media pluralism . His work has been shown internationally in festivals and galleries in places such as Berlin, Paris, Budapest, Vienna, Frankfurt, Wroclaw, Hiroshima, San Francisco, ect.
In 2000 Zoran Pantelic founded kuda.org – new media center, in Novi Sad, which is the first of its kind in Serbia and Montenegro . The Centre_kuda.org is a content providing platform for new cultural practices, media art production and social layout. Center_kuda.org explores critical approaches towards [mis]using ICT and emphasizes creative rethinking in network society.
He curated (2001) the new media section of Belgrade October Exhibition, and most recently he co-curated New Media Festival in Belgrade. In 2003 he co-produced the World-Information.Org exhibition HYPERLINK "http://www.world-information.org" www.world-information.org, an international project by Public Netbase, Vienna, in Novi Sad and Belgrade. In 2004 was organized Trans European Picnic in Novi Sad, www.transeuropicnic.org , it was co-produced with V2 Institute from Rotterdam. Since 2005 he is teaching Media communication on Academy of Fine Arts in Novi Sad.
Shu Lea Cheang
Cheang, recognized internationally as one of the leading artists creating works that link physical and online spaces, has previously exhibited at two Whitney Biennials, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Taipei Biennale 2000, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; ICC Biennale 1997, InterCommunication Center [ICC], Tokyo, and created the Guggenheim Museum's first web based art project, entitled"Brandon." Her new project "BABY LOVE", the second part of The Locker Baby project following the installation "BABY PLAY" at ICC, will be shown at Taiwan National Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei from May 2006 after the exhibition at Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
Dietmar Dath
Dietmar Dath, geboren 1970, veröffentlicht seit 1990 journalistische und literarische, satirische und essayistische Texte in in- und ausländischen Zeitungen und Zeitschriften. Das Themenspektrum seiner Arbeiten in u.a. KONKRET, SPEX, TESTCARD, JUNGLE WORLD, DE:BUG, TEXT UND KUNST, MEDIAMATIC (Niederlande), GDI-IMPULS (Schweiz) und FRIEZE (Großbritannien) reicht von politischen Aspekten der Jugend- und Popkultur (Heavy Metal, Drogenpolitik, Techno, phantastisches Kino) über Wissenschaftskritik (Nanotechnik, Computerwissenschaften, Bio- und Reproduktionstechnologien) bis zu einer Reihe von Texten über bedeutende, aber weithin zu wenig bekannte Gestalten der Geistes- und Kulturgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts (wie der Architekt R. Buckminster Fuller, der Logiker und Metamathematiker Gotthard Günther, der Komponist George Antheil, die Romanautorin Ayn Rand...). Dath übersetzt regelmäßig Artikel, Romane, Abhandlungen und theoretische Werke aus dem Englischen ins Deutsche (darunter Bücher des britischen Musiktheoretikers und Journalisten Kodwo Eshun, des New Yorker Filmemachers Buddy Giovinazzo und des texanischen Horrorschriftstellers Joe R. Lansdale). Auch hier interessieren ihn vor allem Texte, die an der Schnittstelle zwischen den »zwei Kulturen«, d.h. der wissenschaftlich-technischen und der künstlerisch-literarischen Welt angesiedelt sind. Zahlreiche Vorträge im In- und Ausland (vom Antwerpener Filmzentrum »El Dorado« über die Berliner Volksbühne bis zur evangelischen Akademie Iserlohn) über Themen zwischen Spekulation und (gesellschaftlicher) Wirklichkeit. Experimentelle und phantastische (Horror, Science-Fiction) Texte in literarischen Anthologien, von Undergroundverlagen bis zur Heyne-SF-Anthologienreihe. Von 1998 bis 2000 war er Chefredakteur der traditionsreichen Zeitschrift für Popkultur SPEX. Dath hat die Romane Cordula killt Dich (1995), Die Ehre des Rudels (1996), Am blinden Ufer (2000), Skye Boat Song (2000), Phonon oder Staat ohne Namen (2001) und Schwester Mitternacht (mit Barbara Kirchner, 2002) veröffentlicht. Seit 2001 ist Dietmar Dath Redakteur der FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG.
Azza El-Hassan
Azza el Hassan is an award winner independent Documentary Producer/ Director. Azza holds an MA in Television Documentary, GoldSmith College, University of London (1995) and a BA in Film and Television studies and Sociology from Glasgow University, Scotland (1994). Her films have been produced and shown by various national and international TV networks like BBC (Britain) , ARTE (France & Germany) , YLE (Finland), ARD (Germany) and many others. In addition, her films have been exhibited world wide in documentary film festivals such as Yamagata (Japan), IDFA (Holland), Marsellia (France) and many others. She is the winner of the Grierson Award Best Newcomer (The British Documentaries Awards, BBC) 2002. Other awards include winner of the Jury Especial Award, Arab Screen Independent Film Festival/ Documentary and Short Films. Al-Jazera Channel, Qatar 2001. She has also written a collection of articles in art magazines like Arc electronica and Fram work. Her films include: Kings & Extras / British title Exposed & Lost (2004), 62 minutes, Documentary, Digital Beta. 3 cm Less (2003), 6o minutes, Documentary, Digital Beta. News Time (2002), 50 minutes, Documentary, Digital Beta. Sinbad is She (1999), 30 minutes, documentary, DVcam. A Title Deed from Moses (1998), 30 minutes, documentary, DVcam. Arab Women Speak Out(1996), 30 minutes, documentary DVcam. Video art: In Search of a Death Fortold (2004), 15 minutes, Digital Beta. The Place (2000), 6 minutes, SP Betacam.
Angela Melitopoulos
Angela Melitopoulos, artist/researcher in the time based arts, realized experimental single-channel-tapes, video installations, videoessays, documentaries and sound pieces. Her work focuses on migration/mobilty, memory and narration. She conceives media art pieces in that video technology as a time based medium revealing mnemonic and micro-political processes in documentation. She studied fine arts at the Art Academy Düsseldorf with Nam June Paik. Angela Melitopoulos is collaborating in political networks in Paris, Italy, Turkey and Germany and teaches in academic institutions such as the Media Art Academy in Cologne, in the University of Potsdam or the Middle East Technology University in Ankara. She has published theoretical texts and articles in Europe, especially in collaboration with the sociologist and philosopher Maurizio Lazzarato. From 1985 her work has bee awarded and shown in international video and film festival (such as Berlinale, Film and Videofestival of Locarno, Filmfestival Rotterdam, EMAF Osnabrück, WWV Amsterdam) and in exhibitions and museums (Centre Georges Pompidou Paris, Whitney Museum NY, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Musee d’art Moderne Montreal among others.) She cofounded the label APRIL, curating exhibitions and producing publications on CD and DVD. Her last research project Timecapes /B-Zone was shown in winter 2006/2006 at the KW Institut for Contemporary Art in Berlin, accompagnied by the book publication “B-Zone” (Edition Actar)
Simon Naveh
Dr. Naveh is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and the Security Studies Program, and the director of the Cummings Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies. He is also the head of Operational Theory Research Institute of the National Defense College, IDF.
Battery Operated
Battery Operated is a collaboration of artists that have been producing sound, video and Internet projects since 2000. Their first project Chases Through Non-Place used music in public places as its source and since then they have researched and developed projects around the social uses of functional sound and video, from ‘Muzak’ to surveillance cameras. The latest Battery Operated project - S.P.I.R.A.W.L. (Sound Proofed Institute Researching Acoustic Weapons Logistics) is a documentary about the sonic landscape and the pioneering use of sound weapons within it. It can be found at – www.batteryoperated.net/spirawl
Dan Perjovschi
Dan Perjovschi born 1961 in Sibiu Romania lives and works in Bucharest. He uses drawings as a material to create temporary monumental installations. Drawing is for Perjovschi a primary and decisive medium for political and social expression. Acting also as a journalism he is deeply involved in the social tissue of the society. His recent solo exhibition include The Room Drawinf at Tate Modern, On the Other Hand at Portikus Frankfurt and May First at Moderna Museet Stockholm(2006) or Naked Drawings at Ludwig Museum Koln (2005). He participate at group shows like Sao Paolo Biennial, The Vincent at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Normalization at Rooseum Malmo in 2006 or Istanbul Biennial, New Europe. The Culture of Mixing and Politics of Representation at Generali Foundation and I Still Believe in Miracles at ARC Musee dArt Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Perjovschi received George Maciunas Prize in 2004.
Irit Rogoff
Irit Rogoff is Professor of Art History/Visual Culture, Historical and Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College, London University. Her research interests include: Visual Culture; contemporary art and critical theory; post-colonialism and gender.
Willem de Rooij
De Rooij's recent exhibitions with Jeroen de Rijke include: Van Abbe Museum in Eindhoven, Artists Space in New York, Badischer Kunstverein in Karlsruhe, Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt am Main, Moscow Bienale (2005), BAK in Utrecht, Museum Ludwig in Budapest, Tate Modern in London, "Busan Biennale" (2004), Kunsthalle Zürich (solo), Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven (solo), Kiasma in Helsinki, Frankfurter Kunstverein in Frankfurt am Main (2003). He lives and works in Amsterdam and Berlin.
Susan Schuppli
Susan Schuppli is an artist and cultural theorist whose work explores the latent potential of machines to short-circuit normative understandings of media and its received social, cultural, and biological encodings. Working within the domains of video, sound, and interactive media several recent projects have examined the anxieties that arise when commonplace technologies are rendered strange again. Her artwork has been exhibited throughout Canada as well as in Australia, the UK, and USA. Another strand of her research has focused upon the articulation of Canadian "identities" within film and architecture. In 2005 she guest-edited a special edition of BlackFlash journal which brought together cultural practionners from across Canada to reflect upon the legacy of Expo 67 in Montreal. This project continues with a co-curatorial initiative (Christopher Lefler) exploring the contingency of this moment in Canadian architecture and its impact upon emergent notions of "national" identity. Her doctoral research is titled "Unnatural Selections: evolving media ontologies".
Nicolas Siepen
Nicolas Siepen, geboren 1966, ist Filmemacher, Theoretiker und Mitbegründer des Projekts b_books, das einen Buchladen, Verlag und eine Filmproduktion umfasst. Als Journalist hat er für Zeitungen wie Springerin, Texte zur Kunst, Maska, Frakcija, Phase Zwei, Jungle World, FAZ (Berliner Seiten), Autonomie artistique, Starship und Artfan gearbeitet und ist Mitherausgeber der Zeitschriften A.N.Y.P. und ASSEMBLY INTERNATIONAL. In den 90er Jahren war er Teil der Künstlergruppe KlasseZwei und der Band ZigarettenRauchen und an der Entwicklung von politisch-künstlerischen Projekten wie A-Clip, INNENSTADTaktionen und microStudio-surplus beteiligt. Seit sieben Jahren arbeitet er zusammen mit Tara Herbst an Filmprojekten und ist gerade, neben der verlegerischen Tätigkeit für b_books, mit der Fertigstellung der »Nouvelle Vague Soap« Le PingPong d’amour beschäftigt.
Eyal Weizman
Eyal Weizman is an architect, writer and curator. Prior to being the founding director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, he was Professor of Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He studied architecture at the Architectural Association in London and completed his PhD at the London Consortium, Birkbeck College. His architectural projects include the rebuilding of the Ashdod Museum of Art, stage sets for the theatre, and several prizes in architectural competitions. Eyal has worked with a variety of NGOs and Human right groups in Israel/Palestine. The exhibition and the publication A Civilian Occupation, The Politics of Israeli Architecture he co-edited/curated was based on his human-rights research. These projects were banned by the Israeli Association of Architects, but later shown in New York, Berlin, Rotterdam, San Francisco, Malmoe, Tel Aviv and Ramallah. Eyal has taught, lectured and organised conferences in many institutions worldwide. His books include The Politics of Verticality [forthcoming with Verso Press], A Civilian Occupation, Territories 1,2 and 3, Yellow Rhythms and many articles in journals, magazines and books. Eyal is now a Contributing Editor for Domus Magazine (Milan) and for Cabinet Magazine (New York).
Ines Weizman
Ines Weizman is an architect and critic based in London. She taught design and architectural history and theory at the Architectural Association in London and at the Berlage Institute of Architecture in Rotterdam. She also taught politics at Goldsmiths College, London University. Her doctoral research, conducted at the Architectural Association, analysed the political and cultural transformations that have occurred in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) from the post-WWII period to the present. Ines published articles on the political and ideological spectacles enacted by Soviet-era architecture, on the ‘rewriting’ of urban historiography of former cities, on western planning attitudes in the process of reunification as well as on the lost archives in former East Germany.
The association APSOLUTNO
Shu Lea Cheang
Cheang, recognized internationally as one of the leading artists creating works that link physical and online spaces, has previously exhibited at two Whitney Biennials, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Taipei Biennale 2000, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; ICC Biennale 1997, InterCommunication Center [ICC], Tokyo, and created the Guggenheim Museum's first web based art project, entitled"Brandon." Her new project "BABY LOVE", the second part of The Locker Baby project following the installation "BABY PLAY" at ICC, will be shown at Taiwan National Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei from May 2006 after the exhibition at Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
Dietmar Dath
Dietmar Dath, geboren 1970, veröffentlicht seit 1990 journalistische und literarische, satirische und essayistische Texte in in- und ausländischen Zeitungen und Zeitschriften. Das Themenspektrum seiner Arbeiten in u.a. KONKRET, SPEX, TESTCARD, JUNGLE WORLD, DE:BUG, TEXT UND KUNST, MEDIAMATIC (Niederlande), GDI-IMPULS (Schweiz) und FRIEZE (Großbritannien) reicht von politischen Aspekten der Jugend- und Popkultur (Heavy Metal, Drogenpolitik, Techno, phantastisches Kino) über Wissenschaftskritik (Nanotechnik, Computerwissenschaften, Bio- und Reproduktionstechnologien) bis zu einer Reihe von Texten über bedeutende, aber weithin zu wenig bekannte Gestalten der Geistes- und Kulturgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts (wie der Architekt R. Buckminster Fuller, der Logiker und Metamathematiker Gotthard Günther, der Komponist George Antheil, die Romanautorin Ayn Rand...). Dath übersetzt regelmäßig Artikel, Romane, Abhandlungen und theoretische Werke aus dem Englischen ins Deutsche (darunter Bücher des britischen Musiktheoretikers und Journalisten Kodwo Eshun, des New Yorker Filmemachers Buddy Giovinazzo und des texanischen Horrorschriftstellers Joe R. Lansdale). Auch hier interessieren ihn vor allem Texte, die an der Schnittstelle zwischen den »zwei Kulturen«, d.h. der wissenschaftlich-technischen und der künstlerisch-literarischen Welt angesiedelt sind. Zahlreiche Vorträge im In- und Ausland (vom Antwerpener Filmzentrum »El Dorado« über die Berliner Volksbühne bis zur evangelischen Akademie Iserlohn) über Themen zwischen Spekulation und (gesellschaftlicher) Wirklichkeit. Experimentelle und phantastische (Horror, Science-Fiction) Texte in literarischen Anthologien, von Undergroundverlagen bis zur Heyne-SF-Anthologienreihe. Von 1998 bis 2000 war er Chefredakteur der traditionsreichen Zeitschrift für Popkultur SPEX. Dath hat die Romane Cordula killt Dich (1995), Die Ehre des Rudels (1996), Am blinden Ufer (2000), Skye Boat Song (2000), Phonon oder Staat ohne Namen (2001) und Schwester Mitternacht (mit Barbara Kirchner, 2002) veröffentlicht. Seit 2001 ist Dietmar Dath Redakteur der FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG.
Azza El-Hassan
Azza el Hassan is an award winner independent Documentary Producer/ Director. Azza holds an MA in Television Documentary, GoldSmith College, University of London (1995) and a BA in Film and Television studies and Sociology from Glasgow University, Scotland (1994). Her films have been produced and shown by various national and international TV networks like BBC (Britain) , ARTE (France & Germany) , YLE (Finland), ARD (Germany) and many others. In addition, her films have been exhibited world wide in documentary film festivals such as Yamagata (Japan), IDFA (Holland), Marsellia (France) and many others. She is the winner of the Grierson Award Best Newcomer (The British Documentaries Awards, BBC) 2002. Other awards include winner of the Jury Especial Award, Arab Screen Independent Film Festival/ Documentary and Short Films. Al-Jazera Channel, Qatar 2001. She has also written a collection of articles in art magazines like Arc electronica and Fram work. Her films include: Kings & Extras / British title Exposed & Lost (2004), 62 minutes, Documentary, Digital Beta. 3 cm Less (2003), 6o minutes, Documentary, Digital Beta. News Time (2002), 50 minutes, Documentary, Digital Beta. Sinbad is She (1999), 30 minutes, documentary, DVcam. A Title Deed from Moses (1998), 30 minutes, documentary, DVcam. Arab Women Speak Out(1996), 30 minutes, documentary DVcam. Video art: In Search of a Death Fortold (2004), 15 minutes, Digital Beta. The Place (2000), 6 minutes, SP Betacam.
Angela Melitopoulos
Angela Melitopoulos, artist/researcher in the time based arts, realized experimental single-channel-tapes, video installations, videoessays, documentaries and sound pieces. Her work focuses on migration/mobilty, memory and narration. She conceives media art pieces in that video technology as a time based medium revealing mnemonic and micro-political processes in documentation. She studied fine arts at the Art Academy Düsseldorf with Nam June Paik. Angela Melitopoulos is collaborating in political networks in Paris, Italy, Turkey and Germany and teaches in academic institutions such as the Media Art Academy in Cologne, in the University of Potsdam or the Middle East Technology University in Ankara. She has published theoretical texts and articles in Europe, especially in collaboration with the sociologist and philosopher Maurizio Lazzarato. From 1985 her work has bee awarded and shown in international video and film festival (such as Berlinale, Film and Videofestival of Locarno, Filmfestival Rotterdam, EMAF Osnabrück, WWV Amsterdam) and in exhibitions and museums (Centre Georges Pompidou Paris, Whitney Museum NY, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Musee d’art Moderne Montreal among others.) She cofounded the label APRIL, curating exhibitions and producing publications on CD and DVD. Her last research project Timecapes /B-Zone was shown in winter 2006/2006 at the KW Institut for Contemporary Art in Berlin, accompagnied by the book publication “B-Zone” (Edition Actar)
Simon Naveh
Dr. Naveh is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and the Security Studies Program, and the director of the Cummings Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies. He is also the head of Operational Theory Research Institute of the National Defense College, IDF.
Battery Operated
Battery Operated is a collaboration of artists that have been producing sound, video and Internet projects since 2000. Their first project Chases Through Non-Place used music in public places as its source and since then they have researched and developed projects around the social uses of functional sound and video, from ‘Muzak’ to surveillance cameras. The latest Battery Operated project - S.P.I.R.A.W.L. (Sound Proofed Institute Researching Acoustic Weapons Logistics) is a documentary about the sonic landscape and the pioneering use of sound weapons within it. It can be found at – www.batteryoperated.net/spirawl
Dan Perjovschi
Dan Perjovschi born 1961 in Sibiu Romania lives and works in Bucharest. He uses drawings as a material to create temporary monumental installations. Drawing is for Perjovschi a primary and decisive medium for political and social expression. Acting also as a journalism he is deeply involved in the social tissue of the society. His recent solo exhibition include The Room Drawinf at Tate Modern, On the Other Hand at Portikus Frankfurt and May First at Moderna Museet Stockholm(2006) or Naked Drawings at Ludwig Museum Koln (2005). He participate at group shows like Sao Paolo Biennial, The Vincent at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Normalization at Rooseum Malmo in 2006 or Istanbul Biennial, New Europe. The Culture of Mixing and Politics of Representation at Generali Foundation and I Still Believe in Miracles at ARC Musee dArt Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Perjovschi received George Maciunas Prize in 2004.
Irit Rogoff
Irit Rogoff is Professor of Art History/Visual Culture, Historical and Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College, London University. Her research interests include: Visual Culture; contemporary art and critical theory; post-colonialism and gender.
Willem de Rooij
De Rooij's recent exhibitions with Jeroen de Rijke include: Van Abbe Museum in Eindhoven, Artists Space in New York, Badischer Kunstverein in Karlsruhe, Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt am Main, Moscow Bienale (2005), BAK in Utrecht, Museum Ludwig in Budapest, Tate Modern in London, "Busan Biennale" (2004), Kunsthalle Zürich (solo), Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven (solo), Kiasma in Helsinki, Frankfurter Kunstverein in Frankfurt am Main (2003). He lives and works in Amsterdam and Berlin.
Susan Schuppli
Susan Schuppli is an artist and cultural theorist whose work explores the latent potential of machines to short-circuit normative understandings of media and its received social, cultural, and biological encodings. Working within the domains of video, sound, and interactive media several recent projects have examined the anxieties that arise when commonplace technologies are rendered strange again. Her artwork has been exhibited throughout Canada as well as in Australia, the UK, and USA. Another strand of her research has focused upon the articulation of Canadian "identities" within film and architecture. In 2005 she guest-edited a special edition of BlackFlash journal which brought together cultural practionners from across Canada to reflect upon the legacy of Expo 67 in Montreal. This project continues with a co-curatorial initiative (Christopher Lefler) exploring the contingency of this moment in Canadian architecture and its impact upon emergent notions of "national" identity. Her doctoral research is titled "Unnatural Selections: evolving media ontologies".
Nicolas Siepen
Nicolas Siepen, geboren 1966, ist Filmemacher, Theoretiker und Mitbegründer des Projekts b_books, das einen Buchladen, Verlag und eine Filmproduktion umfasst. Als Journalist hat er für Zeitungen wie Springerin, Texte zur Kunst, Maska, Frakcija, Phase Zwei, Jungle World, FAZ (Berliner Seiten), Autonomie artistique, Starship und Artfan gearbeitet und ist Mitherausgeber der Zeitschriften A.N.Y.P. und ASSEMBLY INTERNATIONAL. In den 90er Jahren war er Teil der Künstlergruppe KlasseZwei und der Band ZigarettenRauchen und an der Entwicklung von politisch-künstlerischen Projekten wie A-Clip, INNENSTADTaktionen und microStudio-surplus beteiligt. Seit sieben Jahren arbeitet er zusammen mit Tara Herbst an Filmprojekten und ist gerade, neben der verlegerischen Tätigkeit für b_books, mit der Fertigstellung der »Nouvelle Vague Soap« Le PingPong d’amour beschäftigt.
Eyal Weizman
Eyal Weizman is an architect, writer and curator. Prior to being the founding director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, he was Professor of Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He studied architecture at the Architectural Association in London and completed his PhD at the London Consortium, Birkbeck College. His architectural projects include the rebuilding of the Ashdod Museum of Art, stage sets for the theatre, and several prizes in architectural competitions. Eyal has worked with a variety of NGOs and Human right groups in Israel/Palestine. The exhibition and the publication A Civilian Occupation, The Politics of Israeli Architecture he co-edited/curated was based on his human-rights research. These projects were banned by the Israeli Association of Architects, but later shown in New York, Berlin, Rotterdam, San Francisco, Malmoe, Tel Aviv and Ramallah. Eyal has taught, lectured and organised conferences in many institutions worldwide. His books include The Politics of Verticality [forthcoming with Verso Press], A Civilian Occupation, Territories 1,2 and 3, Yellow Rhythms and many articles in journals, magazines and books. Eyal is now a Contributing Editor for Domus Magazine (Milan) and for Cabinet Magazine (New York).
Ines Weizman
Ines Weizman is an architect and critic based in London. She taught design and architectural history and theory at the Architectural Association in London and at the Berlage Institute of Architecture in Rotterdam. She also taught politics at Goldsmiths College, London University. Her doctoral research, conducted at the Architectural Association, analysed the political and cultural transformations that have occurred in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) from the post-WWII period to the present. Ines published articles on the political and ideological spectacles enacted by Soviet-era architecture, on the ‘rewriting’ of urban historiography of former cities, on western planning attitudes in the process of reunification as well as on the lost archives in former East Germany.