FACES Community

Donna Metzlar (1969) has a varied background. The one aspect which remains constant is her commitment to social change. Over the past 7 years she has actively been involved in the Genderchangers, a group of women enamoured with technology, especially free software, open source hardware and the universal interoperability of systems. She takes a lead role in the annual event the Eclectic Tech Carnival (/ETC) and the Systerserver. This server is run by women only, hosts feminist websites and offers women interested in gaining system administration skills a work experience space. Together with Melanie Rieback she initiated the Girl Geek Dinner social network in Amsterdam and is board member of the WAITS Foundation.

Elisabeth Zimmermann is a cultural manager living in Vienna. She studied at the International Centre for Culture and Management (ICCM) in Salzburg and has been involved in organizing, coordinating and curating radio art projects, symposia, CDs, publications, and international telematic art projects. She has held various presentations and lectures on radio art projects at national and international festivals. Since 1998, she has been the producer of the weekly radio art program Kunstradio - Radiokunst (http://kunstradio.at) on the cultural channel of ORF (Austrian National Radio). In 1999, she founded "werks" - an art association dedicated to the realization of artistic projects in the telecommunications media.

Based in New York City and Delmar, NY, Elise continues her work in sound design and experimental theater. Her films combine dance, music, and video performances into a form she calls "Sonic Performance".

www.elisekermani.com

Born in Paris, I'm a VJ now based in Lille, North of France, with eclectic musical tastes that reflect in the diversity of live video acts I bring to gigs, parties and festivals across France and Europe.

My main project right now is Strap-on dildoS, with the UrbanPorn crew : an activist collective made of visual artists, musicians, performers, dancers and "sex workers for free" ! Sharing the same critical views on culturally-established habits, the "Strapettes" aim at deconstructing normative discourses about gender, sexual practices and identities, by means of porn workshops and performances in the public space.

free lancing artist and curator
art in the electronic, social and public spaces
video, soundworks, photography, installations, performance
electronics and saxophone in various bands: wavegroom, notorious noise brigade, ursprung/rottleuthner ...
founder and president of schaumbad - freies atelierhaus graz

Evelin Stermitz M.A., M.Phil.
1972 / Austria
Working on media and new media art projects by using different media like photography, video and net, including installations and conceptual works.
The focus of art work is on gender based female and socio-cultural topics. The issues of projects are about gender, role models and the gap between man and woman referring to the theory of Jacques Lacan in terms of "the Other" and the performativity of the body by Judith Butler. An important task is the female body and the outgoing connection to created symbolic meanings of gender in history and nowadays. A main emphasis is on performative works.

My name is Fanny Guillaut, I'm currently Engagement Manager for moves, a festival of experimental short films and screen-based art with a special focus on movement (www.movementonscreen.org.uk), based in Manchester (UK) and steadily expaning to national and international scale.

My previous experience is in education and music festivals, so I would like to join faces to learn about new media and network with professionals.

Fiona Barnett is a Ph.D. candidate in the Literature Program and Women's Studies at Duke University. She is currently at work on her dissertation, entitled Turning the Body Inside Out, which is a genealogy of the fantasy that the body requires investigation, and traces the attachment to the kind of knowledges that can be produced by examining the body (both inside and out).

I am a visual artist and curator. I grew up in Germany, where I studied art at various art schools and art history at the University of Heidelberg. After I moved to NYC in 2003 I have curated several exhibitions in Germany, Spain and the USA (notably 'Skin' at the Goethe Institut in New York, the Heidelberger Kunstverein and Galeria Tribeca in Madrid, Spain; 'Out of the Box' at Elga Wimmer PCC in NYC, 'Carolee Schneemann, Early and Recent Work, A Survey' at Pierre Menard Gallery in Cambridge, MA and 'Meat After Meat Joy' at Daneyal Mahmood Gallery, NYC). I have shown my work at museums and galleries in those countries as well and edited more than a dozen books and art catalogues. Kehrer Verlag published my book 'Skin' in 2005.

i am a video, photography, and installation artist.
my interdisciplinary activities have included professional work as a documentary photographer, dp, visual + verbal editor, critical + creative writer, journalist, and instructor.