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Marie Sivak is an interdisciplinary artist working in sculpture,installation, video, performance and drawing. Her critically acclaimed work combines traditional stone carving techniques with embedded and projected video. Her work investigates the psychology of memory and the nature of human relationships in contemporary terms. She is represented by AIR gallery in Brooklyn, New York.

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.

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.

My videos and films often interrogate the viewer's desire to ascribe Japanese femininity to my work, an imperative of Western culture wherein the "artist-as-other" must reference identity politics as a primary footnote to their work.

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Marina Zurkow makes psychological, animated narratives about humans and their relationship to animals, plants and the weather. These have taken the form of multi-channel videos, customized multi-screen computer pieces, cartoons, and interactive mobile works.

Andrea Polli www.andreapolli.com is a digital media artist living in New Mexico. She is currently an Associate Professor at The University of New Mexico and Director of the Interdisciplinary Film and Digital Media Program. Polli's projects often bring together artists and scientists from various disciplines. She is interested in global systems, the real time interconnectivity of these systems, and the effect of these systems on individuals. She has exhibited, performed, and lectured nationally and internationally. She currently works in collaboration with atmospheric scientists to develop systems for understanding storm and climate information through sound (a process called sonification).

Pip Stafford is a new media artist whose practice includes video installation, performance, web projects, printed media and illustration. She is primarily interested in personal rituals, private lives and exploring notions of isolation and group communication.

A graduate of the University of Tasmania, School of Art (BFA), she is currently a resident of the Rat Palace, an artist run studio space in Hobart.

In 2007 Pip was awarded the Next Wave Festival’s Kickstart grant and has since been working on a web project for the Festival entitled iwishicouldshowyou.com.
I Wish I Could Show You is a data base of user-generated creativity comprised of videos from mobile phones. I Wish I Could Show You showed as part of the 2008 Next Wave Festival at Horse Bazaar, Melbourne.

I am a multimedia artist exploring the integration and interaction of dance and moving image through performance, screen, installation and online work. I am also photographer, documenter and director. I am currently an Australia Council for the Arts Fellow
http://suzonfuks.net

Born in Brussels, I trained in dance, theatre & music (69-76), completed a Masters in Visual Arts at La Cambre, Brussels (79-84), and moved to Australia in 1996. Co-artistic director of Igneous http://www.igneous.org.au, I created the multimedia projections for, and directed, most of its productions. I give lectures and workshops in Australia & Europe integrating video with performing arts & fostering multimedia artistic collaboration.

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.

My main work is about the human body. I ask myself: what about the corporal punishment. This is the reason I made movies about toughening and performances of myself.
I was near 50 aged when I started with the studies of fine arts at Hbk Saar. The reason for the late beginning is that after a first profession as a geriatric nurse I have had a mighty acccident. Since this accident I am not able to work in thsi first profession.
And so i start with the studies of fine arts very late...