Digital, Life, Design 2010: Maps

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Julieta Aranda

Born in Mexico City, currently lives and works between New York and Berlin. Central to Aranda's multidimensional practice are her involvement with circulation mechanisms and the idea of a "poetics of circulation", of a politicized subjectivity / politicized subject, the perception and use of time, and the power over the imaginary.

Julieta Aranda's work has been exhibited internationally in venues such as Solomon Guggenheim Museum (2009), Kunstverein Arnsberg (2010), New Museum (2010), MOCA Miami (2009), Witte de With, (2010), Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago (2007), 2nd Moscow Biennial (2007) MUSAC, Spain (2006), and VII Havanna Biennial; amongst others.

As a co-director of e-flux together with Anton Vidokle, Julieta Aranda put together Pawnshop (currently presented in Beijing, at Vitamin shop); and e-flux video rental, which started in the e-flux storefront in new York, and has traveled to more than 15 venues worldwide.

Rosa Barba

Rosa Barba is a Italian-born artist, currently living in Berlin. She studied Film and Visual Arts at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne followed by a residency at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. Her works deals with the aleatory and psychic dimensions of the image, the speculative narration that conjures invisible landscapes, landscapes with unseen histories, and the characteristic evocation of cinematic narrative through the use of moving and projected text and sometimes an off-site reference to a historic event in Modernist discourse.

Barba explores the artisanal and the industrial processes fused together in cinema with the waywardness of her machines, while the "cinematic mode of production" that brings these to bear on the attention and temporality of the viewer, is evoked on the small, diachronic and fictive scale of her archives and enigmas. These film-concrete practices are always somehow about jumping the species-barrier between that which transmits and that which perceives. In Rosa Barba's case, the mechanism dwells on itself to mimic a reader, trying to keep track of the wandering words and so becoming a projector of the sometimes invisible images they carry.

Solo exhibitions include: Centre International D'Art et du Paysage de l'ile de Vassiviere, France (2010) Center of Contemporary Arts, Tel Aviv, Israel (2010), Gallery Gió Marconi, Milan (2009) Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden (2008), as well as Vertiginous Mapping (2008), a web project commissioned by the Dia Art Foundation, New York (www.diaart.org/barba). Recent group exhibitions include: H-Box (touring), New Museum, New York (2010) Film as a subversive Art, Lux, London (2009) New Acquisitions, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (2009) Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2009) Gothenborg Biennale (2009) Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm (2009/10) Rooms look Back, Kunsthalle Basel (2008); Italics, Italian Art between Tradition and Revolution, 1968-2008, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy; 50 Moons of Saturn, Torino Triennale, Turin, Italy (2008). She was also included in the exhibition Fare Mondi / Making Worlds, curated by Daniel Birnbaum for the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009).

Peter Hirshberg

Peter Hirshberg is at the epicenter of the connected world of online conversation. His interests include about marketing, branding and customer relationships. A Silicon Valley executive with several high-profile marketing and branding related ventures, Hirshberg has led emerging media and technology companies at the center of disruptive change for more than 20 years. He is Chairman and co-founder of The Conversation Group, a fast-growing agency helping brands and enterprises with strategy and marketing in a world of empowered and connected audiences and customers. He is also chairman of the board of advisors of Technorati, the leading aggregator of user-generated content in the world, tracking over 100 million Weblogs and 70,000 posts per hour.

Previously Hirshberg served as president and CEO of Gloss.com, the online prestige beauty business co-owned by Estee Lauder Companies, Chanel and Clarins; he was Chairman of Interpacket Networks, the global leader in Internet-by-satellite (sold to American Tower in 2000), and was founder and CEO of Elemental Software (sold to Macromedia in 1999).

During a nine-year tenure at Apple Computer, Hirshberg headed Enterprise Marketing, where he grew Apple's large business and government revenue to $1 billion annually and helped lead the company's entry into the online service arena. After leaving Apple, Hirshberg's new-media strategy firm served clients including America Online, Microsoft, NBC Television Network, Estee Lauder, Pacific Bell and Silicon Graphics.

Hirshberg is a co-founder of start-ups Ideeli and Goodmail Systems, and serves on the board of Active Video Networks, and Aniboom. He is a Trustee of The Computer History Museum and a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute. Hirshberg earned his bachelor's degree at Dartmouth College and his MBA at Wharton.

Alexander Kluge

Alexander Kluge, born 1932 in Halberstadt, is a filmmaker, TV producer and author. He was legal advisor at the Frankfurter Institute f�r Sozialforschung and close trustee of Theodor W. Adorno. Siding 25 other filmmakers he published the Oberhausener Manifest in 1962; Movies like "Abschied von Gestern" and "Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: ratlos" are considered to be decisive milestones for the new German film and the German author's cinema of the 80s.

With the establishment of "dtcp" 1987 Kluge created a platform for independent programs in private German television. His latest project is www.dctp.tv, the Web-TV network from dctp. His most recent publication is Das Labyrinth der z�rtlichen Kraft, Suhrkamp 2009.

Aaron Koblin

Aaron Koblin is an artist specializing in data visualization. His work takes social and infrastructural data and uses it to depict cultural trends and emergent patterns. Koblin's work has been shown at international festivals including Ars Electronica, SIGGRAPH, OFFF, the Japan Media Arts Festival, and TED. He received the National Science foundation's first place award for science visualization and is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.

Currently, Koblin is Technology Lead of Google's Creative Lab where he helped to launch Chrome Experiments, a website showcasing JavaScript work by designers from around the world.

Hans Ulrich Obrist

Hans Ulrich Obrist was born in Zurich in May 1968. He became Co-director of Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects at the Serpentine Gallery in April 2006, joining Julia Peyton-Jones, the Serpentine Gallery Director. Prior to this he was Curator of the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris since 2000, as well as curator of museum in progress, Vienna, from 1993 to 2000. In addition to his contribution to the Serpentine Gallery's exhibitions, programmes and international projects since 2006, Obrist has curated and co-curated over 200 solo and group exhibitions and biennales internationally since 1991, including: World Soup, 1991; do it, 1994; Take Me, I'm Yours, 1995; Manifesta 1, 1996; Laboratorium, 1999; Cities on the Move, 1997; Live/Life, 1996; Nuit Blanche, 1998; 1st Berlin Biennale, 1998; Utopia Station, 2003; 2nd Guangzhou Triennale, 2005; Dakar Biennale, 2004; 1st & 2nd Moscow Biennale, 2005 and 2007; Lyon Biennale, 2007; and Yokohama Triennale, 2008.

In 2007, Hans Ulrich co-curated Il Tempo del Postino with Philippe Parreno for the Manchester International Festival, also presented at Art Basel, 2009, organised by Fondation Beyeler and Theater Basel. In the same year, the Van Alen Institute awarded him the New York Prize Senior Fellowship for 2007-2008. In 2008 he curated Everstill at the Lorca House in Granada, and was the curator for Artpace artist residencies in Texas.

The Serpentine Gallery Marathon series of public events was conceived by Hans Ulrich Obrist in 2006. The first in the series, the Interview Marathon in 2006, involved interviews with leading figures in contemporary culture over 24 hours, conducted by Obrist and architect Rem Koolhaas. This was followed by the Experiment Marathon, conceived by Obrist and artist Olafur Eliasson in 2007, which included 50 experiments by speakers across both arts and science, and the Manifesto Marathon in 2008.

In 2009 he was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).

Recent publications include A Brief History of Curating, JPP Ringier; The Conversation Series, volumes 1-20, Koenig; and Gerhard Richter Text, Koenig/Thames & Hudson.

Philippe Parreno

Born in Oran, Algeria in 1964, Philippe Parreno creates works that question the boundaries between reality and fiction, exploring the nebulous realm in which the real and the imagined blur and combine. Working in a diverse range of media including sculpture, drawing, film, and performance Parreno seeks to expand our understanding of duration, inviting us to radically re-evaluate the nature of reality, memory, and the passage of time.

Recent solo exhibitions include Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2009); Musée national d'Art moderne - Centre Georges Pompidou (2009) and Kunsthalle Zürich (2009). Parreno's work is represented in collections including: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Kanazawa Museum of the 21st Century, Japan; Musée D'Art Moderne de le Ville de Paris; Musée du Luxembourg, MOMA, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Tate Modern, London, and the Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis. Parreno lives and works in Paris.

Josef Penninger

Josef Penninger studied Medicine in Innsbruck, Austria and then moved to Toronto where he worked for 13 years, at the end as Full Professor of Immunology and Medical Biophysics at the University of Toronto. In 2003 he moved to Vienna to become the founding Director of the newly established Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMBA). Within a few years, IMBA has now become the largest and most successful "Max Plank/Howard Hughes-like" Institute in Austria.

Penninger has published more than 350 scientific papers and has been twice among the top 10 hottest researchers (most cited scientists) in all fields of science in the world. He received multiple awards, holds Professorships in Canada, Vienna, and China, is the youngest elected member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and also a member of the Young Global leaders of the World Economic Forum.

His discoveries range from the first genetic description of the key regulator of bone loss that affect millions of people to finding key genes that control pain, inflammation, of autoimmune disease and heart diseases, or the first report of a gene that controls electricity regulated wound healing. Recently his group has found an entirely new regulator of fever and - using whole genome system genetics - established the first global map of obesity.

Eric Rodenbeck

Eric Rodenbeck is Stamen Design's founder and creative director. He is a 14-year veteran of the interactive design field, and has spent this time working to extend the boundaries of online media and live information visualization.

Rodenbeck led the interactive storytelling and data-driven narrative effort at Quokka Sports, illustrated and designed at Wired and Wired Books, and was a co-founder of the design collective Umwow. He has lectured and spoken at Yale University, the University of Southern California, numerous O'Reilly technology conferences, Esther Dyson's PC Forum, and South by Southwest, among others. Rodenbeck studied architecture at Cooper Union in New York City and received a B.A. in the History and Philosophy of Technology from The New School for Social Research.

Anri Sala

Anri Sala was born in 1974 in Tirana, Albania. He studied art at the Albanian Academy of Arts from 1992 to 1996. He attended the Ecole Nationale des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in from 1996 to 1998 and studied film direction in Le Fresnoy-Studio National des Arts Contemporains in Tourcoing from 1998 to 2000. He lives and works in Berlin.

Using a range of media including video, photography and installation his work has been featured at venues and exhibitions all over the world. Recent works among other are "Answer Me," shown at Johnen Galerie in Berlin in 2009, and "Why The Lion Roars," shown at 104 in Paris in 2008. With "Purchase Not By Moonlight," a choreographed group of installations, Anri Sala had his first major solo exhibitions in the USA at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami in 2008, the Marian Goodman Gallery, New York and the CAC Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati in 2009.

Dimitar D. Sasselov

In 1988 Dimitar Sasselov acquired his PhD in Physics, in Sofia, being followed 1990 by his PhD in Astronomy from the University of Toronto. In 1999 Sasselov became an Alfred P Sloan Fellow. Currently he is also a Senior Advisor for the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in Harvard.

His research explores modes of interaction between light and matter. Recently he and his team discovered several planets orbiting other stars with novel techniques he hopes to use to find planets like Earth.

Qiu Zhijie

Qiu Zhijie was born in Zhangzhou, Fujian Province. P.R.CHINA in 1969 and graduated from China Academy of Art, Printmaking department, Hangzhou, China in 1992. He currently lives and works in Beijing and Hangzhou as an educator and artist.

As an artist, Zhijie is known for his calligraphy, photography and video-installation works. He has shown his works all over the world, including in New York, San Francisco, London, Berlin and Brazil. He is a professor of China Academy of Art in the Mixed Medial Art Department, a Mentor of MA, and Co-Director of the Visual Culture Center in China Academy of Art in Hangzhou.