Diana Arce
Diana Arce is an artist, researcher, and activist living in Berlin, Germany. She founded Politaoke, a karaoke-style participatory performance in which audience members are invited to step into the shoes of politicians from their region by delivering portions of political speeches. Arce also founded Artists Without a Cause, an organization that assists in the collaboration […]
Gaby Steiner
Gaby Steiner was born in Switzerland, where she received her Bachelor of Arts in Applied Linguistics and Film. She worked as video editor for documentary film and television before moving to New York to attend art school in 2004. In 2006, she obtained the “Special Award for Avantgarde Composition” at the New School, where she […]
Janet Echelman
Janet Echelman is an artist who defies categorization. Her work intersects across the boundaries of Sculpture, Architecture, Urban Design and Planning, Material Science, Structural and Aeronautical Engineering, and Computer Science. She creates experiential sculpture at the scale of buildings that transform with wind and light. The art shifts from being an object to look at, […]
Robert Atkins
Robert Atkins is an art historian, educator, curator and writer. He grew up in Los Angeles and attended, as an undergraduate, the University of California Riverside and London School of Economics. He completed his doctoral coursework in art history at UC Berkeley and cut his professional teeth in San Francisco. He moved to New York […]
Assunta Sera
Assunta Sera was born in Ceprano, Italy and came to America when she was eight. She received a BFA at Center for Creative Studies in downtown Detroit in 1980. In 1986, Sera enrolled in the Masters in Fine Arts program at Brooklyn College with a concentration in painting; she was awarded a Graduate Fellowship and completed her studies in […]
Eva Davidova
Eva Davidova is a Bulgarian/ Spanish new media artist working in New York. Her work has been exhibited at the Bronx Museum in New York City; Everson Museum, Syracuse; Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo; Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, CAAC Sevilla; Instituto Cervantes, Sofia; and many others. She received the 2008 M-tel Award for Contemporary Bulgarian […]
Bernd Upmeyer
Bernd Upmeyer is a Germany-born and Rotterdam-based architect and urbanist. He is the founder of the Bureau of Architecture, Research, and Design (BOARD) and the editor-in-chief and founder of MONU Magazine on Urbanism. BOARD was founded in Rotterdam in 2005 and is active in many fields: as an architecture, urban design, and design practice and […]
Sidney Perkowitz
Sidney Perkowitz was born in New York City, attended college at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute (now the NYU Tandon School of Engineering), and earned his doctorate in physics at the University of Pennsylvania. As Charles Howard Candler Professor of Physics at Emory University, he produced over 100 research papers and books. Now as Professor Emeritus, he […]
Danielle Adair
Danielle Adair (b. 1981, Traverse City, MI) is an artist and writer living in Los Angeles. Adair uses performance as her methodology. She produces work via inhabiting particular roles and/or institutions. She is the author of From JBAD: Lessons Learned (Les Figues Press) based on her time as “embedded media” with US Forces in Afghanistan and for which she has […]
Anke Kempkes
After her studies at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London in 1991/2, Anke Kempkes has worked as an independent curator, scholar and critic in Berlin from 1993-2002. In 2003 she directed The Martin Kippenberger Estate in Cologne, Germany. In 2004 she held the position of Curator at Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland, where she curated the […]