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Konstantin Akinsha
Born in Kiev in 1960. Studies in art history in Moscow (Ph.D., 1990). In the 1990s Moscow correspondent and contributing editor (since 1996) of ARTnews magazine, New York. He worked on the problem of confiscation of cultural property during World War Two, as research fellow of Kunstverein Bremen, Research Center for Easteuropean Studies, University of Bremen, and Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg. 1997–98 senior research fellow at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Washington, D.C. 1998–99 adjunct professor at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA. 1999–2000 deputy research director of Art and Cultural Property of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States. Since 2001 Senior Adviser for a Research Project for Art and Archives, New York. His publications include Beautiful Loot: Soviet Plunder of European Art Treasures (1995) and AAM Guide for Provenance Research (2001). He has curated exhibitions of modern and contemporary art and given numerous public lectures in Europe, Asia, and North America. He publishes in leading international newspapers and magazines and has received several awards for journalism.

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Branislava Andjelković
Born in Belgrade in 1966. She graduated in art history at the University of Belgrade and in the history of art and design at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, England. Since 2001 she has been director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade. 1999 to 2001 director of the Centre for Contemporary Art, Belgrade, where she worked from 1994 as program coordinator. Research interests include art under totalitarian regimes, as well as feminist visual theories. She has lectured in the women’s studies program at the University of Belgrade and at the School for History and Theory of Images in Belgrade, which she helped to found. With Branislav Dimitrijević she has curated numerous exhibitions and edited catalogues, most recently ”On Normality: Art in Serbia 1989–2001” (2005), as well as projects at biennials in Săo Paolo (2002), Venice (2003), and Tirana (2003). She publishes on contemporary Serbian artists, and her most recent project in this respect is Uvod u feminističke teorije slike (Introduction to Feminist Visual Theories, 2002), for which she received the Lazar Trifunović award for art writing. Member of CIMAM and AICA.

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Boris Bakal
Born in Zagreb in 1959. Stage director, performer, author, and media artist, and a founding member of the artists’ platform Shadow Casters, one of the contributors to the project Zagreb—Cultural Kapital of Europe 3000, in the framework of "relations." Following his studies at the Academy of Theater, Film, and Television in Zagreb, he founded various artistic initiatives with which he then staged and produced performances, such as the Theater of Obvious Phenomena (1986), the art project Flying University (1993), and the international artists’ group Orchestra Stolpnik® (Bologna, 1995). His most recent performances include Shadow Casters, a workshop as part of the UrbanFestival, Zagreb (2001–05). In 1991 Boris Bakal was a cofounder of the antiwar movement in Croatia and in 1995 worked together with the United Nations to resolve the question of war crimes in western Slavonia.

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Mehmet Behluli
Born in Gjilan, Kosova, in 1962. Since 1995 he has taught at the Academy of Fine Arts of the University of Prishtina. As an artist he has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions internationally, including most recently "I Need a Radical Change," curated by WHW (Zagreb, 2004); "Now: Berlin–Prishtina" (Berlin, 2001); "Turn: Postwar Art in Kosovo" (Istanbul, 2001); and "Devenirs (Becomings): Contemporary Art in Southeastern Europe" (Tirana, Belgrade, Prishtina, Ljubljana, Paris, 2001–03). He has curated, among other exhibitions, "Course 03" at the Museum of Kosova, Prishtina, in 2003, and "Projected Glances: Kosovo" (Strasbourg, 2005). As director of the education program of the Missing Identity project in the framework of "relations," he organized seminars on contemporary art (together with Shkëlzen Maliqi, 2002–03); seminars at the Summer University of Prishtina: "Shine and Elegance" (2002), and "Art Asks, Design Answers" (2003); and the international workshop "Speak Up: Balkan Nordic Countries" (2004).

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Edwin Bendyk
Born in 1965. During his student years at Warsaw University he was active in independent student movements, and later became a journalist for publications including Nowoczesność, Życie Warszawy, Wiedza i Życie, and the Polish Information Agency. Now in charge of the weekly newspaper Polityka’s internet section, he writes on cultural topics and the influence of technology on society. He also writes for Res Publica Nowa, and the weekly Computerworld. His first book, Zatrata Studnia (The Poisoned Well, 2002), was nominated for the Nike 2003 Literary Award, Poland’s most important literary prize. He also published Antymatrix (2004).

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Sokol Beqiri
Born in Peja, Kosova, in 1964. After graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts at Prishtina University, Department of Graphics, he specialized in graphic art at University of Ljubljana. Since 1987 he has participated in numerous international exhibitions, among them the International Biennial of Graphic Art (Ljubljana), Premio Internationale Biela (Italy), "Onufri’98" and "Onufri 2002" (Tirana), Cetinje Biennial (Serbia-Montenegro, 1997, 2002, 2004), "Devenirs (Becomings): Contemporary Art in South Eastern Europe" (Tirana, Belgrade, Prishtina, Ljubljana, Paris, 2001–03), "U-topos" (Tirana Biennial, 2003), "In the Gorges of the Balkans" (Kassel, 2003), "Bitter/Sweet Harmony" (Holon, Israel, 2003), the Locarno Filmfestival (2003), "Blood & Honey/Future’s in the Balkans" (Vienna 2003), "The Failure of the Beauty, Beauty of the Failure" (Barcelona, 2004), "The Joy of My Dreams" (Seville Biennial, 2004), and many more. Since 2003 he has been leading the Missing Identity project within the framework of "relations."

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Regina Bittner
Born in Freiberg, Saxony, Germany, in 1962. After studying cultural studies and art history at the University of Leipzig, she worked as a research associate at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation from 1992 onward. Since 2000 she has been a project coordinator and helped to establish the Bauhaus-Kolleg. The thematic focuses of her work include research on the transformation of eastern Germany, the history of workers’ culture, cultural theories of urban pleasure, the city, and the "society of experience." For the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation she curated the exhibitions "Paradiese der Moderne" (Paradises of Modernism, 2001) and "Bauhausstil: Between International Style and Lifestyle" (2003–04). She also collaborated on the exhibitions "Unter Strom" (Under Current, 1999), "Das Kollektiv bin ich: Utopie und Alltag in der DDR" (I Am the Collective: Utopia and Everyday Life in East Germany, 2000–01), and "Event City" (Frankfurt am Main, 2002). The most recent of her many publications include contributions to the catalogues for "Common Property" (6th Werkleitz Biennale, 2004), "Shrinking Cities" (Kunstwerke, Berlin, 2004), and the Beijing Architecture Biennial (2004).

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Dunja Blažević
After graduating in art history from the University of Belgrade in 1969, she conducted research and postgraduate studies on cultural policy in Washington D.C. and Los Angeles, as well as in Belgrade. From 1971 to 1981 she was first director of the Student Cultural Center Gallery in Belgrade (until 1975) and then of the whole SCC, which she had helped to found since 1968. In the 1980s she was editor-in-chief of the visual arts program at TV Belgrade called TV Gallery. She has made c. sixty documentaries on new developments in contemporary art and author’s videos in collaboration with video artists. In the 1990s she was a curator and critic in Paris. Since 1997 she has been director of Sarajevo Center for Contemporary Art, formerly Soros Center, as a contemporary art and new media curator and producer. Project leadership of De/construction of Monument, in the framework of "relations." She has published in local and international art magazines, catalogues and other publications. Her curatorial work includes "Face à l´histoire" (Paris, 1996), "Aspects/Positions: 50 Years of Art in Central Europe 1949–1999" (Vienna, 1999–2000), and "In the Gorges of the Balkans" (Kassel, 2003). Member of AICA.

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Latchezar Bogdanov
Born in Sofia in 1976. He studied finance and accounting at the University of National and World Economy, Sofia, and received his MA in 1999. In 1996 he started to work as researcher at the Institute for Market Economy in Sofia, a leading NGO and think-tank. Since 1999 he has been coordinating business environment and deregulation projects with the Institute. In 2003 he became founder and board member of the Bulgarian Society for Individual Liberty. In 2004 he co-founded Industry Watch, a private economic research and analysis company. He regularly contributes to major press in Bulgaria with weekly appearances and is co-author of Sledprivatizacionen Kontrol v Bulgaria (Privatization Control in Bulgaria, 2000), and Anatomia na prehoda: Stopanskata politika na Bulgaria ot 1989 do 2004 (Anatomy of Transition: Economic History of Bulgaria from 1989 to 2004, 2004). Editor of the Bulgarian edition of David Boaz’s Libertarianism: A Primer (Libertarianstvoto: Vavedenie, 2004).

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Iara Boubnova
Born in Moscow, where she graduated at the State University in 1983 and worked as a junior editor at the Soviet Artist Publishing House. Since 1984 she has been living in Sofia and working at the National Gallery for Foreign Art. Among her most important projects as independent curator are "Locally Interested" (Sofia, 1999), "Talk with the Man on the Street" (Cetinje Biennial, 2002), "Double-Bind" (Sofia, 2003), as well as Manifesta 4 (Frankfurt am Main, 2002), and 1st Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art (2005) – both in teams. She curated and organized the Bulgarian participation at biennials in São Paulo (1994), Istanbul (1995), St. Petersburg (1996), Cetinje (1997), and Venice (1999). Iara Boubnova is founding director of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Sofia. Since 2003 she has been the head of the Visual Seminar multidisciplinary project dedicated to the urban environment of neocapitalism in Sofia in the framework of "relations."

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Luchezar Boyadjiev
Born in 1957 in Sofia, where he graduated from the National Academy of Arts in 1980. Among his most recent exhibitions are "Hot City Visual" (solo), a project for Visual Seminar (Sofia, 2003), "In the Gorges of the Balkans" (Kassel, 2003), "Blood & Honey/Future’s in the Balkans" (Vienna, 2003), "Roma in Sofia" (solo) at "The Balkans – a Crossroad to the Future" (Bologna, 2004), "Love it or leave it" (Cetinje Biennial, 2004), "Privatizations: The Post-communist Condition" (Berlin, 2004), and "Urban Realities: Focus Istanbul" (Berlin, 2005). He was a resident artist in New York (1993), at The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia (1997), and at Couvent des Récollets, Paris (2004). In 1998 he was awarded the Grand Prix for his participation at "Onufri’ 98," Tirana. Luchezar Boyadjiev is a founding member of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Sofia. In 2003 he was a resident fellow and since 2004 has been a member of the expert board of the Visual Seminar multidisciplinary project investigating the urban environment of neocapitalism in Sofia within the framework of "relations."

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Sezgin Boynik
Born in Prizren, Kosova, in 1977. Studied sociology in Istanbul; thesis on "Aesthetic-Political Strategies of the Situationist International." He is a lecturer in the Philological Faculty of Orientalism and Turkish Studies in Prishtina. As an author for and editor of journals for art and cultural studies such as Arta he has written on such topics as the subversive resistance movements in Yugoslavia in the 1960s and 1970s, radical political ideas, and Neue Slowenische Kunst. In addition to these sociological and political themes, he also writes for music magazines and fanzines. In 1998 he founded the band Chapa Churek.

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Pavel Brăila
Born in Chişinău in 1971. From 1989 to 2001 he studied at the Technical University and the State University of Moldova, both in Chişinău, and at the Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht, The Netherlands. In 2005 he was a guest of the DAAD artist program in Berlin. His video works and performances have been presented at numerous important international art exhibitions and film festivals since the mid-1990s, most recently in the exhibitions "After the Wall" (Stockholm, 1999), "Collected Views: From East or West" (Vienna, 2004), and "Beauty So Difficult" (Milan, 2005). His film Shoes for Europe (2001) was shown at Documenta11 (Kassel, 2002), among other places. Project director of a television program on the arts, Alte Arte in the framework of "relations."

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Boris Buden
Born in Zagreb in 1958. He studied philosophy in Zagreb and received his doctorate from the Humboldt University in Berlin. From 1993 to 2000 he worked as editor and columnist for the political magazine Arkzin and founded the Arkzin publishing house in Zagreb. Since 1982 he has been a freelance writer for newspapers, magazines, and cultural journals in the former Yugoslavia, in western and eastern Europe, and in the United States. He has translated Sigmund Freud, Alexander Mitscherlich, Theodor W. Adorno, and Jürgen Habermas, among others, from German into Croatian, and contributes to the Viennese magazine springerin. He has participated in numerous international conferences, including "Documenta11: Platform 2" in New Delhi in 2001. He recently published Der Schacht von Babel: Ist Kultur übersetzbar? (The Shaft of Babel: Is Culture Translatable? 2004). He lives in Berlin.

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Vitalie Condraţchi
Born in Chişinău in 1979. After studying at the Philosophy Department at Babeş Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, he started work as a journalist in 2000 with the first private news agency in Moldova, Basa-press. Since 2001, he has worked for the Chişinău bureau of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, where he is specialized in economic policies, foreign trade, and European integration issues. He now studies global economy and international relations at the International Institute of Management Chişinău. He was a co-founder of the monthly magazine Philosophy & Stuff in Cluj-Napoca back in 1996.

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Cosmin Costinaş
Born in Satu Mare, Romania, in 1982. Author and freelance curator based in Bucharest and Vienna. After his studies in art history and history at the Babeş Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, he now is contributing editor of the magazines Idea Arts + Society (Cluj) and Version (Paris and Cluj), and visual arts consultant for the Romanian National Television. His latest curatorial projects include "Textground" (Prague, 2004), and "Laicitate dupa complicitate" (Secularity after Complicity, Bucharest, 2005), a project discussing the ideological basis of the postcommunist Romanian state. "After the Happy Nineties" (2005), a project of Goethe Institute Bucharest, will be followed by a book, both dealing with matters such as the new forms of artistic engagement after 9/11 and the collapse of "the end of history" neoliberal utopia. His upcoming writing projects include a comprehensive book on Romanian contemporary art after the year 2000 (together with Mihnea Mircan). From January 2006 on, he is a member of the editorial team of documenta 12 magazine project.

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Boris Cvjetanović
Born in Zagreb in 1953. Attended the High School of Applied Arts and graduated from the Fine Art Department of the Teacher Education Academy in Zagreb. He has been working as a professional photographer since 1984. Since 1981 he has had c. thirty solo exhibitions and he has participated in a number of group exhibitions in Croatia, Europe, Japan, the USA, and Australia. He has published photographs in numerous newspapers and magazines. His photos were published in Echoes – Contemporary Art at the Age of Endless Conclusions (1996), and in Prizori bez znacaja (Scenes Without Significance, 1996). Boris Cvjetanović was the Croatian representative at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003. His photographs are included in the collections of the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Croatian History Museum, both in Zagreb, Gallery Marino Cettina, Umag (Croatia), the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka (Croatia), the Gallery of Fine Arts, Split (Croatia), and private collections.

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Ana Dević
Born in Sisak, Croatia, in 1969. She holds a BA in history of art and comparative literature from the University of Zagreb. She has contributed to many cultural magazines and numerous exhibition catalogues and is one of the founding members of the curators’ collective What, How & for Whom (WHW), established in Zagreb in 1999. Ana Dević has co-curated a number of international exhibitions in Zagreb and abroad, including ”What, How & for Whom, on the occasion of the 152nd anniversary of the Communist Manifesto" (Zagreb and Vienna, 2000–01), "Broadcasting Project, dedicated to Nikola Tesla" (Zagreb, 2001–02), "Repetition: Pride & Prejudice" at Gallery Nova (Zagreb, 2003), "Looking Awry" at apexart (New York, 2003), and "Collective Creativity" at the Kunsthalle Fridericianum (Kassel, 2005).

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Branislav Dimitrijević
Born in Belgrade in 1967. He lectures at the School of Art and Design (VSLPUb) in Belgrade and is Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade. In 1999 he co-founded the independent School for History and Theory of Images in Belgrade. Most recent publications include International Exhibition of Modern art feat. Alfred Barr’s Museum of Modern Art, New York (2003), and On Normality: Art in Serbia 1989–2001 (2005). Among recent curatorial projects are "Situated Self: Confused Compassionate, Conflictual" (with Mika Hannula), and the Yugoslavia Pavilion at the 50th Venice Biennale (2003, with Branislava Andjelković and Dejan Sretenović). He has been working on a Ph.D. thesis on consumer culture in socialist Yugoslavia with professor Milena Dragićević-Šešić at the University of Fine Arts in Belgrade, and collaborated on the research project on the postcommunist condition with Boris Groys.

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Ivaylo Ditchev
Born in Sofia in 1955. He received Ph.D. degrees in philosophy (University of Sofia) and the history of ideas (Université de Paris VII), and did a habilitation thesis in sociology. He worked as editor and writer in the 1980s, publishing several books of fiction. His university career started in the field of aesthetics, focusing on the relations between power and art. In the 1990s he lived for several years in Paris, carrying out seminars at the Maison de Sciences de l’Homme, the Collège international de philosophie, and Université de Paris X on topics linked to the imaginary of communism and the Balkans. He developed a gradual interest in field work and urban anthropology and for the last ten years has participated in or directed various national and international research projects. Ditchev is a member of the International Association for Southeast Anthropology, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Sofia, and is the president of the Red House Center for Culture and Debate in Sofia. He also writes for the national press and the German edition of Lettre International. He has been awarded two prizes for journalism in Bulgaria. His latest book is Prostranstva na jelanieto, jelanie za prostranstva. Studii po gradska antropologia (Spaces of Desire, Desire for Spaces. Studies in Urban Anthropology, 2005).

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Lilia Dragneva
Born in Chişinău in 1975. She studied art and fashion design at the University of Fine Arts, Chişinău. Since 1995 she has worked as an independent artist and curator. In 1999 she worked on her master’s studies at the Department of Art History at the Academy of Science of Moldova, on contemporary art in the Republic of Moldova. Director of the Center for Contemporary Art [ksa:k] in Chişinău (since 1999), as well as curator of the Alte Arte television program in the framework of "relations" (since 2004). Her curatorial work includes exhibitions and symposia, including: ”BANII,” action/manifesto; ”Video Marathon Night ’99,” 3rd edition of video night; and the international exhibitions ”Kinovari (imatazia),” and ”Identity Signs,” CarbonART, 2000–04 (all in Chişinău). She also curated the Moldovan video block of ”Regards projetés – Video Program from Balkans” (Strasbourg, Thessalonica, Belgrade, Sofia, Chişinău), and participated in Donumenta 2004, Regensburg, Germany.

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Andreas Ernst
Born in Zurich in 1960. After studying social and economic history, media sociology, and constitutional law in Zurich and Berlin, he received his doctorate in comparative European social history and worked as an assistant lecturer and part-time lecturer in the Institute of Sociology of the University of Zurich and as lecturer at MAZ, the Swiss School of Journalism, in Lucerne. Until 1999 he was deputy director of the Research Unit for Public Affairs and Society (FÖG) at the University of Zurich. In 1999 he went to Skopje, Macedonia, first as a freelance contributor and then from 2001 onward as a correspondent for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Since 2002 he has been reporting from Belgrade. He has published on comparative social history, the history of the public sphere, and nationalism. The focuses of his interest are the formation of a state and the social transformation in Kosovo.

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Nicoleta Esinencu
Born in Chişinău in 1978. She studied theater arts and stage design at the University of Fine Arts in Chişinău. In 2001 she wrote the play A saptea kafana (The Seventh Café) with Mihaï Fusu and Dumitru Crudu, and it was performed in Moldova, Romania, and at the Biennale Bonn. Since 2002 she has been dramaturge at the Eugčne Ionesco Theater in Chişinău. In 2003 and 2005 she received a scholarship at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany, where she wrote the plays FUCK YOU, Eu.ro.Pa! and Zuckerfrei. FUCK YOU, Eu.ro.Pa! was performed in Chişinău, Galaţi, Braşov, Bucharest, Moscow, and Nancy, among other places, and received the Romanian drama prize Dramacum2. The publication of the play in the reader of the Romanian Pavilion of the 51st Venice Biennale (2005) caused political controversy in Moldova and Romania. She has also published Le septième kafana (The Seventh Café, 2004).

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Ziyah Gafić
Born in Sarajevo in 1980. He studied world literature at the University of Sarajevo. For his photo reportage on Bosnia during the civil war and its aftermath, he received numerous prizes and scholarships, including repeated prizes in the World Press Photo Competition. In 2001 he participated in the Joop Swart Masterclass of World Press Photo; in 2002 he received the Kodak Young Photographer of the Year Award; in 2003 he received awards from the magazine Photo District News and the Rencontres internationales de la photographie, Arles, France, as well as the special prize of the Fondation CCF pour la photographie. Since 2001 he has worked with the agency Grazia Neri. His works can be seen in London, Prague, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Milan, Geneva, Zurich, Bruges, Moscow, and other cities. His photographs have been published in international newspapers and journals in Europe and the United States. Works on Bosnia were published in Tales from a Globalizing World (2003). At present he is involved on a long-term project titled "Aftereffects: Short Stories from Tempestuous Societies."

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Javor Gardev
Born in Sofia in 1972. He studied at the National Lyceum for Ancient Languages and Cultures in Sofia, then studied philosophy at the University of Sofia and drama directing at the National Academy for Theater and Film Arts, also in Sofia. He was granted several fellowships and worked at the European Directors School, Leeds, England, at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany, and at the Academy for Educational Development, Washington D.C. He has staged numerous performances of theater plays, made the experimental films Raskolnikowbesessenheit, Bedspotting, and Oh sweet home of mine and directed the experimental radioplays Atolat (The Atoll), Citadelata (The Citadel), The Gate of Europe, and D.J. He has written articles and essays in the field of contemporary aesthetics. He has won several awards, including the important Bulgarian theatrical awards Askeer and Icarus, and Grand Prix Europe, Best European Radiodrama of the year 1999 for Atolat. At the moment he is developing the project Visual Police for the Visual Seminar in the framework of "relations."

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Maciej Gdula
Born in Żywiec, Poland, in 1977. He studied sociology at the University of Warsaw. His main fields of interest are the sociology of culture and social theory. Presently he is preparing to defend his Ph.D. thesis devoted to discourses of love in contemporary culture. A member of the team of Krytyka Polityczna, a magazine that combines social theory with political commitment. His recent publications in Krytyka Polityczna are ”Czekając na maj” (Waiting for May, 2004), ”Miłość i emancypacja” (Love and Emancipation, 2005), and ”Polityka niemożliwego” (The Politics of the Impossible, 2005, with Julian Kutyła).

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Maurycy Gomulicki
Born in Warsaw in 1969. From 1987 to 1992 studies at Faculty of Graphic Arts, Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw. His attention focuses on fantasy, pleasure, and idealizations. His work explores a broad range of pop culture, using installation, photography, digital graphics, and animation. His work has been shown in several countries, among others in Poland, Mexico, Belgium, the USA, and Russia. Recent important projects are InSite – Art Practices in the Public Domain (San Diego, USA, and Tijuana, Mexico, 2003–05), and the creation of the visual and architectonical image of a sex shop chain named Erotika (Mexico, 2005). He is currently working as an author, artist, and curator for the project Pink not dead! (2006). He lives and works in Mexico City and Warsaw.

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Mathias Greffrath
Born in Bad Harzburg in 1945. After studying sociology, history, and psychology at the Free University Berlin, he taught there as a part-time lecturer, and since 1973 he has worked for various media, including the ARD radio and television network and the arts section of Die Zeit. From 1991 to 1994 he was editor-in-chief of Die Wochenpost. Since 1995 he has been a freelance writer for Die Zeit, Süddeutsche Zeitung, and die tageszeitung, primarily on the future of labor and the effects of globalization on culture and society. In 1988 he received the Jean Améry Prize for essay writing. He lives in Berlin and Franche-Comté, France. His most recent publications include Montaigne heute: Leben in Zwischenzeiten (Montaigne Today: Living in Intermediate Times, 1998), attac: Was wollen die Globalisierungskritiker? (attac: What Do the Critics of Globalization Want? 2002), and a dramatic monologue for the Schauspiel Hannover: Windows oder: Müssen wir uns Bill Gates als einen glücklichen Menschen vorstellen? (Windows; or, Should We Consider Bill Gates a Happy Man?, 2005).

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Marina Gržinić
Born in Rijeka, Croatia, in 1958. She received her doctorate in philosophy in 1996 at the University of Ljubljana. She received a postdoctoral research fellowship from the Japan Agency for Promotion of Science in 1997 and spent a year at the Tokyo University for Technology and Photography (Kougedai). Since 1991 she has been working as a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy at the Scientific and Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Science and Arts. Since 2003 professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. She also works as a freelance media theorist, art critic, and curator, publishing extensively. Her last book in English is Situated Contemporary Art Practices, Art, Theory and Activism from (the East of) Europe (2004). She has been involved in video art since 1982. In collaboration with Aina Smid, she has produced more than forty video art projects. Marina Gržinić is the co-director of the project Symposium and University Network Mind the Map! – History Is Not Given, a project in the framework of ”relations."

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Özlem Günyol
Born in Ankara in 1977. From 1997 to 2001 he studied art at Hacettepe University in Ankara and since 2001 at the Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, with the Turkish artist Ayşe Erkmen. In 2005 he participated in the project and exhibition ”Academy Remix: Städelschule, Frankfurt meets Missing Identity, Pristina” (Museum of Kosovo, Pristina; Portikus, Frankfurt am Main) in the framework of "relations." His works have been shown in numerous group exhibitions, primarily in Germany and Turkey, most recently in the exhibition "Free Kick" in the program "Hospitality Zone" in the Istanbul Biennale (2005). In 2003 he had a solo exhibition titled "Clothes" at the Städelschule. Together with Mustafa Kunt he presented the performance/installation 354512 cm2 (Frankfurt am Main, 2003).

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Jerzy Gumowski
Born in 1956. In the 1980s he was an underground activist in the Solidarność movement. Since 1973 he has worked as a photographer, and since 1989 as a photo journalist for Gazeta Wyborcza. He has photographed political and social events in Lithuania, Latvia, the Balkans, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Mali, and Mexico, among other places, and documented the upheavals in Poland after 1989. His works have received numerous prizes in Polish and international competitions and been shown in solo and group exhibitions in Poland and Europe. Aerial photographs, taken from a motor-powered paraglider, have been his passion for the past nine years. They have been published in the weekly magazine of Gazeta Wyborcza, in the monthly Viva, in the weekly newspaper Przegląd, and in other Polish publications. They have also won prizes in Polish press photography competitions and been exhibited in solo exhibitions. Jerzy Gumowski is a member of the Union of Polish Art Photographers.

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Enver Hasani
Born in Mitrovica, Kosova, in 1962. He studied law and international relations at the University of Prishtina and at Bilkent University, Ankara, completing his Ph.D. studies in the field of international law and relations (2001). He has been working at the University of Prishtina since 1987, currently as a professor of International Law and International Relations, in addition to being a visiting professor within some of the regional academic programs run by the local universities in the Balkans. From 1992 to 1997 legal adviser for the Albanian Foreign Ministry in Tirana, accredited by the Kosovar Government in exile, for which he served as a legal adviser until 1999. He has participated in many international conferences held under the auspices of the UN, EU, the Council of Europe and OSCE, being part of the Kosovar Albanian Delegation at the Rambouillet Peace Conference on Kosova (1999). 2000 to 2002 director of the Human Rights Center of the University of Prishtina, founded by World University Service (WUS Austria). Author of scores of academic articles and essays, he has been a participant at various academic training activities in the field of Human Rights and the Rule of Law held outside Kosova. His latest book is Self-Determination, Territorial Integrity and International Stability: The Case of Yugoslavia (2003).

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Vadim Hîncu
Born in Chişinǎu in 1972. After studying architecture at the Technical University Chişinǎu (1995–98), he graduated from the Academy of Theater and Film, Bucharest, as director of photography in 1999. Since 2003 he has been director of photography for Alte Arte television project in the framework of "relations" as well as collaborating with Parc-Film Production Studio, Bucharest, on commercials, short films, and documentaries. Camera assistant for the feature film Rikoshette, directed by I. Talpa (Moldova, 1998). Editor and second director of photography for Shoes for Europe, directed by Pavel Brăila (Moldova, 2001), and the short film Voilà (diploma thesis, 1999). Director of photography for the documentary film Staroveri, directed by Dumitru Crudu (Romania, 2001), Barons’ Hills, directed by Pavel Brăila (Moldova, 2003), and Tulnicaresele, directed by Marian Crişan (Romania, 2003).

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Emil Hrvatin
Born in Rijeka, Croatia, in 1964. He studied sociology and theater directing at the University of Ljubljana and performance theory at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He is author and director of several theater performances shown throughout Europe and the USA. His piece Drive in Camillo opened Manifesta 3 (Ljubljana, 2000). His latest piece is We are all Marlene Dietrich FOR, a performance for soldiers in peace-keeping missions (together with Erna Ómarsdóttir). Hrvatin’s work includes also visual, multimedia, and performance art. Among the most recent are The Cabinet of Memories, the CD-ROM Ferdo Delak, Avantgarde Artist, the interdisciplinary artistic and research project Refugee Camp for the First World Citizens, and interactive performance Miss Mobile. He has curated several interdisciplinary workshops in Europe and the USA and published numerous essays on contemporary theater and art. He is editor-in-chief of the performing arts journal Maska as well as director of Maska, a nonprofit organization in publishing, production, and education, based in Ljubljana.

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Jasmina Husanović
Born in Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in 1973. She studied political theory and international relations at the University of Warwick, England. In 2003 she received her Ph.D. degree from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, for a doctoral thesis entitled "Recasting Political Community and Emancipatory Politics: Reflections on Bosnia." Since 2004 she has been working as a lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Tuzla. Since 1992 she has been either professionally or voluntarily active in various civil society initiatives both locally and internationally, and is currently engaged in numerous collaborative research, publishing, and translation projects in the field of cultural, social, and political theory. Her recent publications include "‘In Search of Agency’: Beyond the ‘Old/New’ Biopolitics of Sovereignty in Bosnia," in Sovereign Lives. Power in Global Politics (2004).

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Astrit Ibrahimi
Born in Prishtina in 1982. He studied at the Institute of Photography and Film Gjon Mili in Prishtina. His photographs have been exhibited in "Crossing Bridges" (Peja, Kosova, 2002), Gjon Mili annual international exhibition (National Gallery of Arts, Prishtina, 2003 and 2005), "Road of Peace" (REX, Belgrade), 2nd edition of Dokufoto (Prizren). He is now working as a photographer for Assembly Support Initiative (ASI), a monthly magazine of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), and for Express, a daily newspaper in Kosova.

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Emir Imamović
Born in Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in 1973. A journalist since 1992, he has worked for both television and the print media. Since 1996 he has written for the most influential news magazine in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Dani, and has been its culture editor, deputy editor-in-chief, and editor-in-chief. He was also a war reporter in Kosovo, Macedonia, and Afghanistan. He currently publishes in Dani and the Sarajevo magazine Gracija, is preparing his first novel, and also writes screenplays for documentary films. He lives in Sarajevo.

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Nebojša Jovanović
Born in Zemun, Serbia-Montenegro, in 1973. He studied psychology at the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo. Currently he is completing his MA at the Central European University, Budapest. His contributions as a theorist and translator were published in a number of journals for theory and arts: Arkzin, Život umjetnosti (Zagreb), Prelom (Belgrade), Platforma, Časopis za kritiko znanosti (Ljubljana), Sarajevske sveske (Sarajevo), springerin (Vienna), Umělec (Prague), and others. His text "From a Trauma to the Trauma" is included in The Real, the Desperate, the Absolute (2001). In 2005 he participated at the panel discussion "Art as Social Corrective," within the De/construction of Monument project, the partnership project by Sarajevo Center for Contemporary Art in the framework of "relations."

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Migjen Kelmendi
Born in 1959. He completed his studies in 1983 at the University of Prishtina with a degree in law. Since 1988 he has been working for several television programs as producer and television director. He founded and edited the cross-genre theoretical-literary magazine MM (Second Millennium, 1996), and the weekly magazine Epoca (1991). Currently he is founder and editor of the weekly newspaper Java (since 2001). Among his publications are the multimedia project Gjurmët LP (To Change The World: A Short History of The Traces, 2003), a collection of essays on Albania, Mungesa e Atdheut (Carere Patria. Longing for Homeland, 1997), and on America, Amerika – P’ej shpije (Toward Home, 1998), as well as a novel, Gryka e Kohës (The Gate of Time, 1994). He has also translated works by Danilo Kiš from Serbian and Jorge Luis Borges from English. Member of the international advisory board of "relations."

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Vesna Kesić
A peace and feminist activist since the beginning of disintegration and wars in former Yugoslavia. Before that, she was a professional journalist and editor in various newspapers and magazines. She is currently working as a media adviser in the Croatian Office for Gender Equality, and as a researcher at the Center for Women War Victims – Rosa on a research project on the gender perspective in political transformation processes. She has held lectures and workshops at the Center for Peace Studies and the Center for Women’s Studies in Zagreb. Founder of several major Croatian NGOs, including the Center for Women War Victims, Women’s Human Rights Group B.a.B.e. (Be active, Be emancipated), Women’s Network of Croatia, Alternative Information Network, and others. Member of the Board of Directors of Network of East-West Women (1998–2003), Media Council of the Croatian Helsinki Committee, appointed (external) member of the Croatian Parliamentary Committee for Human Rights.

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Alexander Kiossev
Born in Sofia in 1953. He studied literature and philosophy at the University of Sofia and has worked in Prague, Cardiff (Wales), Paris, and Budapest. From 1990 to 1994 he taught Bulgarian language and cultural history at the University of Göttingen, Germany. Back at the University of Sofia, he teaches the cultural history of modernity at the Department of Cultural studies (DCS). At present he is chair of DCS, permanent fellow of the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia (CAS), and member of International Comparative Literature Association. His main publications deal with literary criticism, cultural history, and cultural models. He has published two books and c. eighty articles, translated into many languages. From 2002 to 2005 he was one of the leaders of the Visual Seminar project, initiated jointly by the CAS and Institute for Contemporary Art, Sofia, in the framework of "relations." Among his recent publications are "The Dark Intimacy: Maps. Identities and Acts of Identification", in Balkan as a Metaphor (2003), and a collection of essays, Lelyata ot Gyotingen (The Aunt from Göttingen, 2005).

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Marek Krajewski
Born in Iława, Poland, in 1969. He studied sociology at Adam Mickiewicz-University in Poznań, obtained a Ph.D. degree in sociology in 1998 and defended his second doctoral thesis in 2003. He is now assistant professor. From 1998 to 2002 he was director of AMS Outdoor Gallery, the first and biggest billboard art project in Poland. Since 2003 he has been co-founder and co-leader of the Visual Sociology Workshop at the Institute of Sociology in Poznań. Author of two books dealing with popular culture, Kultury kultury popularnej (Cultures of Popular Culture, 2003) and POPamiętane (Remembering Pop Culture, 2006), as well as editor of Co widać? (What Do you See?, 2005), a book on visual sociology, and of W stronę socjologii przedmiotów (Toward a Sociology of Things, 2005) on the sociology of material objects. He has written c. fifty articles, published in popular and scholarly journals, and has curated several exhibitions. Member of the "relations" international advisory board.

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Dejan Kršić
Born in Sarajevo in 1961. He graduated in art history and ethnology at the University of Zagreb. He had several single and group shows and participated in many collective exhibitions and video festivals. His design works are published in international magazines, including Eye (Great Britain), Kak (Russia), Print, and AIGA journal of design (USA), and in books. Since high-school days he has been working for various magazines and newspapers as journalist, editor, and/or graphic designer. In the 1990s he was one of the founders and later editor-in-chief of Arkzin magazine and its book publishing projects. He has also translated into Croatian essays by Slavoj Žižek, Renata Salecl, and others. As a member of the NGO for visual culture What, How & for Whom, he collaborates on exhibitions and media projects such as "What, How & for Whom, on the occasion of the 152nd anniversary of the Communist Manifesto" (Zagreb and Vienna 2000–01), "Broadcasting Project, dedicated to Nikola Tesla" (Zagreb 2001–02), "Collective Creativity" (Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, 2005), and the program of Gallery Nova, Zagreb. He is member of Croatian Designers Society (HDD).

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Mustafa Kunt
Born in Ankara in 1978. From 1996 to 2001 he studied sculpture at Hacettepe University in Ankara and in 2002 with Ansgar Nierhoff at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. Since 2003 he has been studying with Wolfgang Tillmans at the Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main. Together with Özlem Günyol he presented the performance/installation 354512 cm2 (Frankfurt am Main, 2003). He has taken part in numerous group exhibitions, most recently "Free Kick" in the program "Hospitality Zone" in the Istanbul Biennale (2005), and the project and exhibition "Academy Remix: Städelschule, Frankfurt meets Missing Identity, Pristina" (Museum of Kosovo, Pristina; Portikus, Frankfurt am Main) in the framework of "relations." His works have been awarded the Prize of the Istanbul Painting and Sculpture Museum in Ankara in 2001, the sponsorship award of the bank Delbrück Bethmann Maffei ABN AMRO, and the Prize of the Städelschule.

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Kurt and Plasto
Almir Kurt
, born in Sarajevo in 1971. He completed studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo, Department of Graphic Design. Samir Plasto, born in Sarajevo in 1970. Completed studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo, Department of Product Design. They have been working and exhibiting together since 1996, participating in many solo and group exhibitions throughout Europe. Their most recent projects include "By the Commission’s Decision: Everyone to One’s Own" (solo exhibition, Sarajevo, 2001), "What, How & for Whom" (Vienna, 2001), "In Search of Balcania" (Graz, Austria, 2002), "Balkan project – Boundless Borders – Art in the public space" (Belgrade, Cetinje, Skopje, Sarajevo, Graz, 2002–03), "Central: New Art from New Europe" (Vienna, 2005), "Noch einen Wunsch?" (Leipzig, 2004), "Hot testing" (Gallery Exit, Peja, Kosovo, 2005), and "Cosmopolis 1" (Thessalonica, Greece, 2005), and many more. In 2004, they participated in the project De/construction of Monument in the framework of "relations" with "Heroes."

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Pero Kvesić
Born in Zagreb in 1950. He studied sociology and philosophy at University of Zagreb and Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville, Illinois, SAD, USA. He has worked as journalist and editor for many newspapers, magazines, and publishing houses. In the early 1980s he was secretary of Croatian writer’s organization. In this period he was actively involved in politics. As a writer he had a strong influence on younger writers. His book Uvod u Peru K. (Introduction to Pero K., first edition 1975) was a contemporary hit and is still considered one of the most important books in Croatian contemporary literature. He has also worked for film and television. Unable to find employment or publish in his own country in the 1990s, he has publishing regularly again since 2000, including works written at least ten years ago. In 2004 he wrote a daily column in the newspaper Dnevnik. His fields of interest are human interactions and new technologies.

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Sławomir Magala
Born in Kielce, Poland, in 1950. He studied English language and literature (MA, 1973) and philosophy of science and sociology (Ph.D., 1976) at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, then conducted postdoctoral research with an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main (1981 and 1984). He has published books on the philosophy of culture, focusing on Georg Simmel, on critical theory, as well as on postcommunist society (under the pen name of Stanislaw Starski, Class Struggle in Classless Poland, 1982), and on crosscultural management of organizations (Cross-Cultural Competence, 2005). He has studied student experimental theater as an element of countercultural generational experience in the 1970s and 1980s, written critical essays on visual and multimedia arts, especially on photography, and translated Susan Sontag’s On Photography into Polish.

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Nenad Malešević
Born in Sarajevo in 1981. In 2004, he graduated at the Academy of Arts, Department of Graphics in Banja Luka. He is enrolled in an interdisciplinary master’s degree program at the University of Fine Arts in Belgrade. As an art theorist, custodian, photographer, and designer he cooperates with the artists’ organization Protok, from Banja Luka. Assistant at the Faculty of Design and Graphics at Slobomir P. University of Bijeljina, Bosnia-Herzegovina. His fields of interest include identity paradigms, the construction of differences and biopolitical relations of power in Bosnia-Herzegovina. As an author and collaborator he has taken part in several projects including De/construction of Monument within the framework of "relations" (2005). He has contributed to several international collective exhibitions in Litohoro, Greece (2002), Banja Luka (2003–04), and Belgrade (2004–05), and has won awards for his art work (2002 and 2004). At present he is working on a custodian project Bounds of Biopolitical Body and on his master’s degree thesis on dominant aesthetic paradigms in contemporary art in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

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Shkëlzen Maliqi
Born in 1947. From 1986 on he worked as editor-in-chief at several periodicals in the field of arts, politics, and culture. Director of the Centre for Humanistic Studies Gani Bobi at Prishtina, which he helped to found in 1988. As a political analyst, he has contributed to various print media in Kosova, former Yugoslavia, Albania, and Macedonia. In the 1990s he worked as a correspondent for Radio France International and Radio Free Europe. His recent publications include Civil Society in Kosova (2001), and a monography on the Dodona Theater and Cultural Center (2002). He has curated international exhibitions, including "Now: Berlin – Prishtina" (Berlin and Prishtina, 2001), and "Course 03" at the Museum of Kosova (Prishtina, 2003). He was also a founder and the first president of the Social Democratic Party of Kosova, founder and member of the presidency of the Kosova Helsinki Committee, head of Kosova Branch of Open Society Fund, and a founder and head of the Board of Kosovo Civil Society Foundation.

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Tomislav Medak
Born in Zagreb in 1973. He studied philosophy and German language and literature in Zagreb. His work focuses on social and media theory, in particular socio-theoretical implications of new technologies and new media. He coordinates theory and research program and publishing activities at the Multimedia Institute in Zagreb. Recently he has coorganized "Freedom to Creativity" and "Touch Me" festivals, co-edited a publication on General Public Licence politics, GNU Pauk (GNU Spectre, 2004), and published a number of Croatian translations of works by authors such as Jean-Luc Nancy, Antonio Negri, McKenzie Wark, Marina Gržinić, and Critical Art Ensemble. In his spare time he is a performer and choreographer with the Zagreb based theater company BADco. He is program coordinator of the activities of Multimedia Institute within the platform Zagreb – Cultural Kapital of Europe 3000 in the framework of "relations."

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Christiane Mennicke
Born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1969. She studied art history, history, and philosophy in Berlin and at Goldsmiths College, London. In 1997 she gave guided tours of Documenta X. In 1997–98 she helped to establish the Büro Friedrich in Berlin and worked as assistant to Waling Boers. Since April 2003 she has been director of the Kunsthaus Dresden, and of the project Wild Capital/Wildes Kapital in the framework of "relations." Exhibitions: "Nur Wasser lässt sich leichter schneiden" (Only Water Can Be Cut More Easily, Hamburg, 1999), "real[work]," 4th Werkleitz Biennale (Tornitz, Germany, 2000), "City-Info-Boogie-Woogie" (Info Offspring Kiosk, Dresden, 2002). In 2003 she took part in the Dresden Postplatz project.

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Svebor Midžić
Born in 1974. Director of the Centre for Contemporary Art, Belgrade (CCAb) and editor of its publishing program. He also is editor of the Prelom magazine and artistic director of the Yugoslav Biennial of Young Artists 2004 in Vršac, Serbia-Montenegro. He has collaborated with various magazines in former Yugoslavia like Vreme, NIN or the weekly Reporter, and abroad.

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Aldo Milohnić
Born on the island of Krk, Croatia, in 1966. He graduated in sociology at the Faculty of Social Sciences and obtained his MA in sociology of culture at the Faculty of Arts, both University of Ljubljana. He is researcher in cultural policies at the Peace Institute Ljubljana, cultural theory being his main field of interest. He has published numerous articles in various cultural journals; he has edited special issues on Heiner Müller (Rival, Rijeka), Gestus (Maska, Ljubljana), Speech Act Theory (Frakcija, Zagreb), and Body/Differences (Fama, Ljubljana, Zagreb and Munich). On performing arts theory he mainly publishes in Maska, Frakcija, and TkH (Belgrade). Editor of the book series Politike and member of the editorial boards of the magazines Maska and Frakcija. As editor and co-author he published Along the Margins of Humanities (1996), Evropski vratarji (European Doorkeepers, 2001), and Knjižna kultura (The Book Culture, 2005). He lives in Ljubljana.

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Milla Mineva
Born in 1975. Studies in social and cultural anthropology, and sociology at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridsky, where she now is assistant professor in the sociology of culture. Her research includes projects on the "Genealogy of Vision of Modernity" (1997–99), "Comparative Political Culture Research on National Identities and European Identity" (2000–02), "City in Transition" (2003–04), and "Cultural Patterns of European Enlargement" (2003–05), the latter sponsored by a program of the European Union. In 2004 she conducted her project and publication Sofia as a Tourist Sight with a research grant of the Visual Seminar in Sofia in the framework of "relations." Among her publications are: "Razkazi za i obrazi na socialisticheskoto potrebleni" (Narratives about and Images of Socialist Consumption) in Sociologicheski problemi (Sociological Problems, 2003), and "To Conceive Sofia as a Sight" in Sofia as a Sight (2004).

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Rastko Močnik
He holds a doctorate in linguistics and literary semiotics from the Université de Paris X, in sociology from the University of Ljubljana, and was awarded a Doctor Honoris Causa at the Paisii Hilendarski-University, Plovdiv, Bulgaria. He has conducted research as a postdoctoral Fulbright fellow at the Department of Philosophy, University of California at Berkeley, USA. From 1987 to 1989, he was vice-rector of the University of Ljubljana. In 1988 he was one of the founders of a Committee for the Defence of Human Rights. As a professor of sociology, he currently teaches theory of discourse and the epistemology of the humanities and social sciences at the University of Ljubljana. He writes theory, essays, pamphlets, and translates. Recent publications include Zasreštanija: istorija, prechodi, vjarvanija (Encounters: Histories, Transitions, Beliefs, 2001), 3 teorije: ideologija, nacija, institucija (3 Theories: Ideology, Nation, Institution, 2003), and Theory for Politics (2003).

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Miran Mohar
Born in Novo Mesto, Slovenia, in 1958. He is a member of the Irwin artists group and co-founder of the art organization Neue Slowenische Kunst, the graphic design studio New Collectivism, and the Scipion Nasice Sisters Theater. Together with four other members of Irwin (Dušan Mandiè, Andrej Savski, Roman Uranjek, and Borut Vogelnik) he has participated in all Irwin projects and exhibitions since 1984, among them "Personal Systems" (Venice Biennial, 2003), "Retroprincip, 1983–2003" (Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 2003), "Berlin–Moscow/Moscow–Berlin, 1950–2000" (Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, 2003), "Museotopia" (Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Germany, 2002), "Le Tribù dell’arte" (Galeria Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, 2002), and many more. He lives in Ljubljana.

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Joanna Mytkowska
Born in 1970. Art historian, curator, and art critic. In 1995 she joined the Foksal Gallery in Warsaw and was co-founder (with Andrzej Przywara and Adam Szymczyk) of the Foksal Gallery Foundation in 1997. Curator of various exhibitions in Poland and abroad, including the Polish pavilion at 51st Venice Biennale (2005). She is one of the leaders of the Re:form project within the framework of "relations."

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Bojana Pejić
Born in Belgrade in 1948. From 1968 to 1974 she studied art history at the University of Belgrade. Since 1972 she has been publishing on contemporary art. From 1977 to 1991 she was curator at the Student Cultural Center of Belgrade University. She has lived in Berlin since 1991. The exhibitions and symposia she has curated include "The Body in Communism” (Berlin, 1995), ”Focus Belgrade” (Berlin, 1998), ”After the Wall” (Stockholm, 1999; Berlin, 2000–01), a Marina Abramović retrospective (Kumamoto, 2001). From 2002 to 2004 she was adviser to the Museum for Contemporary Art in Kumamoto, Japan. She has received numerous scholarships and fellowships in Germany, Austria, France, and Australia. In 2003 she was visiting professor at the Humboldt University Berlin. She participated in the De/construction of Monument project in Sarajevo in the framework of "relations." In 2005 she completed her dissertation: "The Communist Body: Towards an Archeology of Images; Politics of Representation and Spatialization of Power in the SFR Yugoslavia (1945–1991)."

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Nataša Petrešin
Born in Ljubljana in 1976. She holds degrees in comparative literature and the history of art from the University of Ljubljana, and is currently pursuing her master’s studies in Paris. Among her recent exhibitions as an independent art curator are "Participation: Nuisance or Necessity" (Stockholm, 2005), and "Our House Is A House That Moves" (Laafeld, Austria, 2003). In 2003 she was assistant curator of "In the Gorges of the Balkans" at Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, curated by René Block, and at the Slovene Pavilion at the 49th Venice Biennale in 2001, curated by Aurora Fonda. She has co-curated exhibitions and events, among others "Location Zero=Infinite: Creative Communities and Locative Media" (Nova Gorica, 2004) and "Territories. Identities. Nets. Slovene Art 1995–2005" (Ljubljana, 2005). She is currently working with the curatorial assistance team for the 4th berlin biennale. She lectures internationally and publishes articles on contemporary and new media art in catalogues and in art revues. In 2004 she co-organized with Gregor Podnar a conference about cultural policies and the art market in central and southeastern Europe.

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Piotr Piotrowski
Born in 1952. Professor Ordinarius and Chair of the Department of Art History at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, as well as the editor of the annual journal Artium Quaestiones. 1992 to 1997 Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Museum in Poznań. He has been a visiting professor at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA (2001), and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (2003). Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Washington, D.C. (1989–90), Columbia University, New York (1994), Humboldt University, Berlin (1997), at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ (2000), and at Collegium Budapest (2005). He has written extensively on central European art and culture and also advised and co-organized a number of major exhibitions and projects including "2000+: The Art from Eastern Europe in Dialogue with the West" (2000), "The Central European Avantgardes: Exchange and Transformation, 1910–1930" (2001). His latest book is Awangarda w cieniu Jalty. Sztuka Europy Srodkowo-wschodniej w latach 1945–1989 (Avantgarde in the Shadow of Yalta: Art and Politics in Central-Eastern Europe, 1945–1989, 2005).

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Platforma 9,81
Founded in Zagreb in 1999 by a group of architecture students, Platforma 9,81 explores spatial and urban phenomena in the context of shifting political, economic, and cultural identities. Developing new methods in architectural practice, using cross-disciplinary educational networks, they promote activism and new urban techniques through public events and mass media. From 2004 to 2006, Platforma 9,81 has participated in the project Zagreb – Cultural Kapital of Europe 3000 within the framework of "relations," especially Invisible Zagreb, 3D Journal, and Swarm Intelligences. Among their latest exhibitions are "Nature and Society" (Peja, 2004), "Normalization" (Zagreb, 2004), "Onufri" (Tirana, 2005), the International Architecture Biennial Rotterdam (2005), "Collective Creativity" (Kassel, 2005), Episode 3: Democracies at Tirana Biennial 3 (2005). They are presently working on "Making Territories," research on territorial changes in Cyprus, and "Croatian Archipelago New Lighthouses," a research and design project on the Adriatic coast. Marko Sančanin is member of the group.

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Marjetica Potrč
Born in Ljubljana in 1953. There she studied architecture (BA) and at the Academy of Fine Arts (MA). 1993 to 2004 assistant professor at the Department of Design of the Academy of Fine Arts, Ljubljana. In 2005 she was visiting scholar at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA. Her work focuses on the contemporary city. It has been featured in exhibitions throughout Europe and the Americas, including the São Paulo Biennial (1996), Manifesta 3 (Ljubljana, 2000), and "The Structure of Survival" (Venice Biennale, 2003), as well as in solo shows, among others at the Guggenheim Museum (New York, 2001), Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin, 2001), and the MIT List Visual Arts Center (2004). In addition, she has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants. Her publications include the catalogues Urgent Architecture, Urban Negotiation, and Next Stop, Kiosk (all 2003).

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Andrzej Przywara
Born in 1968. Curator and art critic. He has worked at the Foksal Gallery in Warsaw since 1989 and in 1997 he co-founded, together with Joanna Mytkowska and Adam Szymczyk, the Foksal Gallery Foundation. He has curated various exhibitions and art projects in public spaces and written many reviews. Together with Joanna Mytkowska he is responsible for directing the project Re:form in the framework of "relations."

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Marija Mojca Pungerčar
Born in Novo Mesto, Slovenia, in 1964. A former fashion designer (1983–87), she holds a BFA in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana (1989) and an MFA in new genres from the San Francisco Art Institute (2001). In 2004, she co-founded Trivia Art Association. She works as a freelance artist (video, photography, performance, installation), edits the web-based resource Artservis, and designs theater costumes. Her work is marked by a strong social engagement, critically rethinking consumerist culture and underscoring issues of locality and community. Recent projects have involved exchanging used clothes (Dresscode, 2002), examining the fate of the Slovene textile industry (Singer, 2003), and documenting her local neighborhood (Outside my Door, 2004). In 2005, she created the online project Safe House, and the project Special Offer in an abandoned photo store in Ljubljana. Her awards include an Austrian Academic Exchange Scholarship, an ArtsLink Grant and a Fulbright Scholarship.

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Tilman Rammstedt
Born in Bielefeld, Germany, in 1975. He studied philosophy and literature in Edinburgh, Tübingen, and Berlin, where he now lives. For his fiction debut Erledigungen vor der Feier (Matters to Be Dealt with Before the Party, 2003) he received the Rhineland Prize for Young Culture, the New York scholarship of the Kulturstiftung der Länder, and the Kassel Young Literature Prize for Grotesque Humor, among other prizes. In 2005 he published his first novel, Wir bleiben in der Nähe (We Will Remain in the Vicinity). He writes the lyrics and performs with the group Fön, whose collaborative book K. L. McCoy: Mein Leben als Fön (K.L. McCoy: My Life as a Hairdryer), was published together with the CD Wir haben Zeit (We Have Time) in 2004.

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Nino Raspudić
Born in Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in 1975. High school in Treviso, Italy. In 1999, he graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb, having majored in philosophy and Italian language and literature. MA in 2004 on postmodern poetics in contemporary Italian prose. He has been a junior researcher and assistant at the Department of Italian Literature since 2000. He translates literature and theory from Italian (Umberto Eco, Niccolò Ammaniti, Gianni Vattimo, Luigi Pareyson) and publishes literary critisism and essays. Book in progress: "Weak Thought" and Strong Writers: Postmodern Italian Literature. He is co-founder of the Urban Movement, Mostar, and one of the initiators of the Bruce Lee monument project.

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Klaus Ronneberger
Born in Würzburg, Germany, in 1950. He studied cultural anthropology and European ethnology, sociology, and political science. He was on the staff at the Institute of Social Research, Frankfurt am Main, for many years. He is currently a freelance writer and member of the group Nitribitt: Frankfurter Ökonomien. He took part in the project "Lokale Modernen: Architektur an den Rändern der Sowjetunion" (Local Modernisms: Architecture on the Margins of the Soviet Union). He is coeditor of Stadt-Welt (City-World, 1994), Die neue Dienstleistungsstadt (The New Services City, 1995), Capitales Fatales (1995), Die Stadt als Beute (The City as the Booty, 1999), and Fragmente städtischen Alltags (Fragments of Everyday Life in the City, 2000).

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Ştefan Rusu
Born in Caietu, Moldova, in 1964. From 1986 to 1989 he studied visual arts at the Academy of Arts, St. Petersburg. With the fall of Ceauşescu regime in 1989 he moved to Romania to continue his studies in Bucharest. Since 1997 he has been collaborating with the Center for Contemporary Art, Chişinău. Since 2000 he has participated in numerous events and projects in central Asia, Siberia and Mongolia. In 2004 he completed an MA in cultural policy and management at the University of Fine Arts in Belgrade. He has been involved in the Alte Arte television program project, launched in 2004 in the framework of "relations." He is currently participating in the curatorial training program at DeAppel Foundation for Contemporary Art, Amsterdam.

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Piotr Rypson
Born in Warsaw in 1956. Since 1987 numerous lectures at colleges and universities in Poland, the USA, and Germany. Participation in a number of conferences. Curator of numerous exhibitions in Poland and abroad, including "Collection II" and "III" (Warsaw, 1996), "New I’s for New Years: Polish Art of the 90s" (Berlin, 1995), and "Text & Art" for the Polish Pavilion at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2000. Author of many articles and essays. Publications include sound cassette editions of Polish Futurist poetry and film scenarios on the history of human signs and visual language (ViewFinder Films, Amsterdam). Host of a television program on visual arts (TVP Kultura). He is completing two books – one on permutation in poetry and another on Polish print design. Among his recent publications are Piramidy, Slonca, Labirynty (Pyramids, Suns, Labyrinths, 2000), and Books and Pages: Polish Avant-garde and Artists’ Books in the 20th Century (2000). Since 2001 he has been the President of the Foksal Gallery Foundation Program Board and has led the project Basa Sztuki – Art Base On the Net in the context of Re:form in the framework of "relations."

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Petrit Selimi
Born in Prishtina in 1979. He studied social anthropology at the University of Oslo. In 1994, he co-founded the first youth NGO in Kosova, Postpessimists, which soon became a focal point for youth networking and cultural activities in former Yugoslavia. He founded and was first editor-in-chief of Hapi Alternativ, the first magazine that published comics in Albanian. From 1999 to 2002 he worked as public relations director at Ipko, a technology institute in Prishtina. He served as member of the board of directors of the Soros Foundation in Kosova and was one of the founding members of the board of the Balkan Children and Youth Foundation. Since 2004, he has been leading the publishing house MediaWorks, the publisher of daily newspaper Express in Kosova. In addition, he has published articles and held lectures on themes in urban anthropology at the University of Tirana, the Architects’ Society of Croatia and Exit, the independent institution for contemporary art, in Peja, Kosova.

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Christian Semler
Born in Berlin in 1938. He studied law in Freiburg and Munich. After completing his state examinations in law in 1961 he completed a second degree in history and politics and began to work as a journalist. From 1965 to 1970 he was an activist in the Socialist German Students Association (SDS) and a member of its Berlin leadership. He participated in the campaigns of the extraparliamentary opposition movement and from 1970 to 1980 was a functionary of the Maoist Communist party (KPD). From 1980 to 1989 he was active politically and as a writer for the democracy movement in eastern Europe. He has contributed to several books on the theme (Solidarność, 1983; Gesellschaftliche Selbstverteidigung, Social Self-Defense, 1983; Dazwischen, Inbetween, 1989), and written numerous newspaper essays. Since 1989 he has been responsible for the politics of history and basic and human rights for the newspaper die tageszeitung.

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Shirana Shahbazi
Born in Teheran in 1974; she moved to Germany in 1985. From 1995 to 1997 she studied photography and design at the University of Applied Sciences Dortmund and from 1997 to 2000 photography at the School of Art and Design in Zurich. Her works have been seen in numerous exhibitions in Europe, the USA, and the Middle East. She has participated in "Rundlederwelten" (Round Leather Worlds, Berlin, 2005), the Sharjah Biennial (United Arab Emirates, 2005), 4th berlin biennale (2006), and "Broken Borders" (New York, 2006), among others. She has had solo exhibitions recently in Geneva, Zurich, and Teheran (2005), in Milton Keynes, England, and at the Sprengel Museum, Hanover (2006). Shirana Shahbazi has received numerous scholarships and awards. She lives in Zurich.

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Erzen Shkololli
Born in Peja, Kosova, in 1976. In 1998 he completed his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prishtina. As one of the most well-known Albanian contemporary artists from Kosova, he works with local rituals and folklore focusing on the sociopolitical situation. He has recently been involved in successful curatorial practice, and is running an independent institution for contemporary art, Exit, in Peja, where he has organized a number of exhibitions with international and Albanian contemporary artists. He has had solo exhibitions in Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic (2005), and in Lucca, Italy (2001). He has taken part in numerous group shows, including "In the Gorges of the Balkans" (Kassel, 2003), and "Blood & Honey/Future’s in the Balkans" (Vienna 2003), and he has participated in several biennials, in Manifesta 4 (Frankfurt am Main, 2002), Tirana (2003 and 2005), Seville (2004), and Cetinje (2004). His work has been on display in significant European museums of contemporary art including Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and Tate Modern, London. In 2001 he was awarded the Premio Michetti of the Fondazion Michetti di Francavilla al Mare, Italy. Member of European Culture Parliament (since 2003).

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Sławomir Sierakowski
Born in Warsaw in 1979. He studied sociology, philosophy, and economics at Warsaw University. In 2000 he established and became editor-in-chief of the leftist magazine Krytyka Polityczna (Political Critique), which from the beginning started to be one of the biggest intellectual periodicals in Poland. In 2002 he was invited by Ulrich Beck to write a dissertation in the field of collective remembrance in Europe in the age of globalization at Ludwig Maximilian University Munich. In 2004 he returned to Poland to organize a leftist movement around Krytyka Polityczna. He publishes essays about politics and culture in the two main Polish dailies, Gazeta Wyborcza and Rzeczpospolita, the weekly Polityka, and in the German daily die tageszeitung. He also has a literary program in the thematic channel TVP Kultura on Polish public television.

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Sean Snyder
Born in Virginia Beach, USA, in 1972. He studied architecture, art, and art history at the Rhode Island School of Design and Boston University, before attending the Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, until 1999. His work includes photography, video, and text projects. He has participated in exhibitions including Manifesta 2 (Luxembourg, 1998), and biennals in Berlin (1998), Gwangju (2002), Venice, and Istanbul (2005). In the framework of "relations" his participation includes a residency at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Sofia, as fellow of Visual Seminar in 2004. He has had solo exhibitions at Galerie Neu (Berlin, 1998) and Galerie Chantal Crousel (Paris, 2005). Recent solo exhibitions at DeAppel Foundation for Contemporary Art (Amsterdam, 2004), Neue Kunsthalle (St. Gallen, Switzerland, 2005), Secession (Vienna, 2005), and Portikus (Frankfurt am Main, 2005) are accompanied by a publication, Sean Snyder (2005). He lives in Berlin and Tokyo.

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Hito Steyerl
Born in Munich, Germany, in 1966. She studied cinematography and documentary filmmaking at Academy of Visual Arts, Tokyo, and Munich Academy of Television and Film, and holds a Ph.D. in philosophy. At present she teaches cultural and postcolonial studies at Goldsmiths College, London. She is author of several experimental documentary films, including Euroscapes (work in progress), Normality 110 (2001), The Empty Center (1998). Her films are internationally exhibited and presented, for example at Manifesta 5 (San Sebastian, 2004), 3rd berlin biennale (2004), international documentary filmfestival Amsterdam, Festival International du Documentaire de Marseille, Duisburger Filmwoche, Viennale, Cinéma du réel, and in numerous museums for contemporary art. She co-edited Spricht die Subalterne deutsch? (Can the Subaltern Speak German, 2003) and is author of Die Farbe der Wahrheit (The Color of Truth, 2006). She lives in London and Berlin.

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Marlene Streeruwitz
Born in Baden, near Vienna, in 1950. After studying Slavic literature and art history she worked as a journalist. Since the early 1990s she has been writing radio plays, plays for theater, prose, and working as a stage director. In 1996 she published her debut novel: Verführungen (Seductions). In her theoretical work (Tübingen Lectures on Poetics, 1996; Frankfurt Lectures on Poetics, 1998) she has been concerned with the gender dimension of writing. In 2001–02 she was visiting professor at the Free University Berlin. Marlene Streeruwitz’s works have received numerous prizes. Recently she published the novel Jessica, 30, the novella Morire in Levitate, and the lectures Gegen die tägliche Beleidigung (Against Everyday Insults, all 2004). She lives in Vienna and Berlin.

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Adam Szymczyk
Born in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland, in 1970. MA in art history at the University of Warsaw. Curatorial assistant at the film and video program and at the international exhibitions program at the Center for Contemporary Art (CCA) in Warsaw (1994–95). Curatorial training program DeAppel, Amsterdam (1995–96). He worked as curator with the Foksal Gallery Foundation in Warsaw since its inception in 1997 until 2003. Currently he is director of the Kunsthalle Basel. Over the past ten years he has worked on exhibitions and publications with contemporary artists including Paweł Althamer, Douglas Gordon, Susan Hiller, Job Koelewijn, Edward Krasiński, Claudia and Julia Müller, Gregor Schneider, Piotr Uklański, Krzysztof Wodiczko, and Christoph Büchel. Curated group exhibitions include ”Roundabout” (Warsaw, 1998), ”Amateur” (Göteborg, Sweden, 2000), ”Painters’ Competition” (Bielsko-Biała, 2001), "Hidden in a Daylight" (co-curated with Joanna Mytkowska and Andrzej Przywara, Cieszyn, 2003).

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Šefik Šeki Tatlić
Born in Bihać, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1976. He has been a promoter of contemporary music within concert and party bookings and radio show activities since 1998. From 2002 to 2004 he edited the New Media Culture program hosting theory lectures in Media Center Sarajevo, 2004–05 the website of the Center for Communication and Culture, Košnica. In 2003 he graduated at the Bosnian-French School of Journalism, Media Plan (Sarajevo and Lille), in 2005 at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Sarajevo. His thesis dealt with "Inclusion as paradigm of the apolitical within capital machine". Recently published texts include Privatnost ne postoji (Privacy Does not Exist, 2005). His general fields of interest are culture and media in transition and global neoliberal capitalism.

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Sofie Thorsen
Born in Århus, Denmark, in 1971. She studied Art at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, and at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, where she currently teaches at the Department of Performative Art – Sculpture. Founding member of "a room of ones own," a feminist artist network (aroomofonesown.at). Her photographic and installation work explores the relationship between architecture and space and their users and producers, with a particular focus over recent years on smaller urban structures such as villages, gated communities, and suburban residential areas. Selected recent exhibitions: "Shrinking Cities" (Berlin, 2004), "Opacity" (Oslo, 2005), "162 von 172 Häusern stehen an der Hauptstraße . . ." (Leipzig, Germany, 2005), "The Golden Castle That Hung In The Air" (Raster Gallery, Warsaw), "GU Graz Umgebung, Greater Graz – Production of a rurban landscape" (Graz, Austria, 2005).

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Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu
Born in Cimpulung Moldovenesc, Romania, in 1976. He studied philosophy at the Babeş Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, at Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg, France, and currently at State University of New York, Binghamton. Since 2003 he has been associate editor of the journal Idea Arts + Society, and he is also co-founder and editor of Indymedia Romania (since 2004). He is currently taking part in the working group for the integration of central and eastern European Countries in the European Social Forum. He has translated works by Gilles Deleuze, Peter Sloterdijk, and Siegfried Kracauer into Romanian. His fields of interest are poststructuralism and discourse analysis, the philosophy and cultural history of acoustic media and technology, and the cultural history of postcommunism. His recent publications include "Myth and Complicity: The Mysticism of Post-Communist Freedom And Its Denials," in Idea Arts + Society (2005). Book in progress: Romania in negatie. Introducere in istoria culturala a Romaniei postcomuniste (Romania in Denial: Introduction to the Cultural History of Postcommunist Romania, 2006).

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Alexandru Vakulovski
Born in Antonesti/Suvorov (now Ştefan Vodă) in present-day Moldova in 1978. Studied literature from 1995 at the State University of Moldova in Chişinău, taking his examinations in 2005 at Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He has worked as a dramaturge and news editor for television and published prose and poetry in Romanian cultural magazines. He founded the Web magazine TIUK! (tiuk.reea.net) and the artists’ association cenaKLU-lui KLU. He has published the novels Pizdet and Letopizdet: Cactusi albi pentru iubita mea (White Cacti for My Lover, 2004), the poetry collections Oedip regele mamei lui Freud (Oedipus, King of Freud’s Mother) and Ecstasy (2005), and the play Ruperea (The Rupture, 2002). Translations of his texts have appeared in Literatur und Kritik (Vienna) and Singular Destinies: Contemporary Poets of Bessarabia (2003).

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Nataša Velikonja
Born in Nova Gorica, Slovenia, in 1967. Since 1986 she has been living in Ljubljana. From 1986 to 1992 she studied sociology at the Faculty of Social Sciences there. Since 1993 she has been involved in various political and cultural projects within the gay and lesbian movement in Slovenia. She is also editor of Lesbo magazine (since 1997). Since 2001 she has been a coordinator of the lesbian library and archive in Ljubljana. She has published three books of poetry, Abonma (Subscription, 1994), Zeja (Thirst, 1999), and Plevel (Weed, 2004). She works as a freelance essayist and columnist and also translates queer theory, including authors such as Monique Wittig, Teresa de Lauretis, Lillian Faderman, Laura Cottingham, and Richard Goldstein.

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Oliver Vodeb
Born in Munich, Germany, in 1974. He studied economics at University of Maribor and sociology at the University of Ljubljana where he is currently completing his Ph.D. in the sociology of everyday life, developing a communications concept. His theoretical research and practical projects over the last seven years have focused mainly on socially responsible communications, critical (media) literacy, tactical education, (new media) networking environments, media activism, advertising, and design. Lecturer in the Design Department at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Ljubljana. Founder and president of Memefest, the international festival of radical communication (since 2002), and member of Memeworks, a social communications collective (since 2005). His latest article, "Oblikovanje je javni govor. Naproti kritični teoriji oblikovanja” (Design is Public Speech: Toward a Critical Theory of Design), will be published by Časopis za kritiko znanosti (Journal for the Critique of Science, 2006).

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Borut Vogelnik
Born in Kranj, Slovenia, in 1958. He is co-founder of artists group Irwin and of the art organization Neue Slowenische Kunst, as well as assistant professor at Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. Together with four other members of Irwin (Dušan Mandiè, Miran Mohar, Andrej Savski, Roman Uranjek) he has participated in all Irwin projects and exhibitions since 1984, among them "Personal Systems" (Venice Biennale, 2003), "Retroprincip, 1983–2003" (Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 2003), "Berlin–Moscow/Moscow–Berlin, 1950–2000" (Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, 2003), "Museotopia" (Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum Hagen, Germany, 2002), "Le Tribù dell’arte" (Galeria Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, 2002), and many more.

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Hortensia Völckers
Born in Buenos Aires in 1957. Moved to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1975. Since studying art history and political science in Munich and New York and training in dance, she has worked in a variety of contexts in the areas of art and dance/performance. From 1995 to 1997 she was personal adviser to Catherine David, the artistic director of Documenta X, Kassel, and member of the artistic directorship. From 1997 to 2001 she was director of the Wiener Festwochen. In 2001 she was adviser to Minister Julian Nida-Rümelin, the delegate of the federal government for cultural and media affairs. Since 2002 she has been chair and artistic director of the German Federal Cultural Foundation. She is on the international advisory board for "relations."

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What, How & for Whom (WHW)
What, How & for Whom is a nonprofit organization for visual culture and an independent curators’ collective formed in 1999, based in Zagreb. Its members are the curators Ivet Curlin, Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić, Sabina Sabolović, and designer and publicist Dejan Kršić. WHW organizes production, exhibition, and publishing projects, and also directs Gallery Nova in Zagreb. Among their recent projects are "What, How & for Whom, on the occasion of the 152nd anniversary of the Communist Manifesto" (Zagreb and Vienna), "Broadcasting Project, dedicated to Nikola Tesla" (Zagreb), "Looking Awry" (apexart, New York,), "Side-effects" (Salon of Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade), "On Nature and Society" (Exit, Peja, Kosovo), "Normalization" (Gallery Nova, Zagreb), and "Collective Creativity" (Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel).

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Dominik Zaum
Born in Wuppertal, Germany, in 1976. He studied philosophy, political science, and economics at Balliol College, Oxford University. He received his doctorate in international relations with his dissertation: "The Sovereignty Paradox: Norms and the Politics of Statebuilding by the International Community." In 2000 he was on the staff of the Office of the High Representative in Banja Luka, Bosnia-Herzegovina. In 2003 he was an analyst for the Lessons Learned and Analysis Unit of the UNMIK in Kosovo. He is currently Rose Research Fellow at Oxford University and is working on two books, one on conceptions of sovereignty and postconflict state building, and one on the United Nations Security Council and war, which he is co-editing.

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Jasmila Žbanić
Born in Sarajevo in 1974. She studied film and stage direction at the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo and has worked as a puppeteer and clown in numerous performances in Sarajevo and abroad. She has written texts for the theater and short stories and has made her first films. She is founder and producer of the artists’ association Deblokada and the Theater of Good Nourishment. Her first documentary film, After, After (1997), was followed by, among others, the short film Love is . . . (1998); the documentary We Light the Night (1998), which received a number of prizes; Red Rubber Boots (2000); Images from a Corner (2003); and most recently the feature film Grbavica (2006). Her short film The Birthday is one episode of the feature film Lost and Found, a production of Icon Film and "relations." In 2004 the Kunsthalle Fridericianum in Kassel presented a comprehensive exhibition of her work titled We Light the Night.

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Maria Ziegelböck
Born in Haag am Hausruck, Austria, in 1972. After studying photography at the School for Artistic Photography in Vienna, she has been working freelance since 1996, with a focus on portraits and fashion photography. Her works have been published in international journals such as springerin, copy, the fashion magazines Blast, L’officiel, Glamour Italy, WAD, and the Austrian daily newspaper Der Standard and have been shown in a variety of exhibitions in Austria. Since 1999 she has documented the collections of the Austrian art and fashion label
fabrics interseason.® Poster campaign for the Museumsquartier Wien since 2002. In 2002 she received the Diesel Editorial Award. She lives in Paris.

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Andrea Zlatar
Born in Zagreb in 1961. She studied philosophy and comparative literature at Zagreb University, completing her Ph.D. in 1992 in literature. Since 1985 she has been working at Zagreb University in the Department of Comparative Literature, now as professor, teaching literature and cultural studies. From 1995 to 1999, she was editor of cultural biweekly Vijenac, then founded Zarez, where she worked to 2001. From 2001 to 2004 she was a member of the municipal government of Zagreb responsible for culture. She has participated in several international workshops on literature, philosophy, and cultural policy. From 2003 to 2005 she co-organized interdisciplinary workshops at Zagreb and Dubrovnik University (with Université Lille III, France). She has published several books on literary history and theory, most recently Tekst, tijelo, trauma (Text, Body, Trauma, 2004). She has also written essays concerning issues of cultural policy in contemporary Croatia and a collection of poetry: Veliko spremanje: Dnevnik ucene domacice (Great Cleaning. Diary of an Educated Housewife, 1994), Svakodnevne razglednice (Everyday Postcards, 2002), Neparne ljubavi (Love Out of Step, 2002). In 2004, she was awarded the Chevalier de l’art et des lettres by the French government.

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