VIVID [RADICAL] MEMORY

BIOGRAPHIES

 

Gabor Altorjay
1946, Budapest, Hungary
He studied Theology from 1966-1967. He was granted political asylum in Germany in 1967 and then wrote many radio plays for WDR and HR. His feature film debut "Tscherwonez" was made in 1981 and was succeeded two years later by "Pankow 95". These were followed by the shorts "Ben's Bridge" (1989, also script and production) and "Polsprung" (1990), which was part of the international film project "City Life". "Ben's Bridge" won the Directors Choice Award at the 13th Black Maria Film Festival in 1993 while his latest project, "Punta Grande", was given the jury's special prize at the Hungary Film Days in 1996.

 

Joaquin Barriendos
Crítico cultural y profesor de la Universitat de Barcelona.
Coordinador de Tristestópicos (www.tristestopicos.org/)

 

Laszlo Beke
Szombathely (Hungary), 23.05.1944
Email : lbeke@arthist.mta.hu
Director of the Research Institute ofr art History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Budapest), Professor at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts and teaches in several Hungarian institutions. He had been taching at the University of Lyon 2 – Louis Lumiere (1988-89) and was Chief Curator of the 19th and 20th Centuries collections at the Hungarian National Gallery (from 1988 to1995) and General Director of Mucsarnok/Kunsthalle in Budapest. He was curator of numerous exhibitions, has written texts and published books on art, 20th century theory and contemporary times. Ordinary member of the Hungarian National Committee of CIHA.

 

Graciela Carnevale
Place and year:  Marcos Juárez, Argentina 1942
Main occupation: artist, Professor: Workshop on painting (in a contemporary sense)
Spatio-temporal references: Member of the "Rosario Group of  Avant Gard Artists" Tucumán Arde 1966-1968
Live and work in Rosario, Argentina
Position: Professor at the UNR (Rosario National University) Project El Levante (independant artists iniciative)
Lines of work: Art as a critical practice
e-mail:  gracarnevale@arnet.com.ar
www.ellevante.org

 

Jesús Carrillo
(1966) Doctor en historia por la universidad de Cambridge y profesor de historia del arte en la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). Me interesan las relaciones entre arte, poder y tecnología en la temprana edad moderna y en la actualidad("Naturaleza e imperio", 2004 y "Arte en la Red", 2004) A partir del proyecto
colectivo "Desacuerdos" estoy investigando acercamientos metodológicos
alternativos para el estudio de las prácticas artísticas en el Estado español.

 

Fernando Davis
Place and year: La Plata (Argentina), 1974
Main occupation: Profesor e investigador en arte de la Facultad de Bellas Artes de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Argentina)
Spatio-temporal references: Vive en Buenos Aires. Trabaja en La Plata y Buenos Aires
Position: Investigador del Instituto de Historia del Arte Argentino y Americano (FBA–UNLP)
Lines of work: Poéticas críticas en el conceptualismo argentino y latinoamericano
e-mail: ferdavis@gmail.com

 

Cristina Freire

Born in Rio de Janeiro 1961.Holds an MA in Museum and Galleries Management at the City University, London, and a PhD in Social Psychology (University of São Paulo), studying the role of the monuments in contemporary cities, thesis published in the book: Beyond the maps. Monuments in the urban contemporary imaginary, 1995.  Works as a curator at the Museum for Contemporary Art in São Paulo since 1990 and also is a lecturer in contemporary art at the University of São Paulo.
Among other exhibitions was the curator of Conceptual Art and Conceptualisms. The 1970’s in the Museum of Contemporary Art Collection, São Paulo (2000), Almost ephemeral art: records of performances, actions, situations (2001) and Experimental place for freedom: the Museum of Contemporary Art in the 1970’s (2002). Between 2000 and 2002 worked together with a team of curators on the research project Rumos - Itaú Cultural Artes Visuais. The aim of the project was a nationwide survey of young artists. During the years  2005-2006 was co-curator of the 27th Bienal de São Paulo (2006).
As a result of a long-term research project on conceptual art, published the following books: Poéticas do Processo. Arte Conceitual no Museu. [Poetics of the Process. Conceptual art in the Museum. S.Paulo, Ed. Iluminuras, 1999], Arte Conceitual [Conceptual Art, Rio de Janeiro, Jorge Zahar Editor, 2006] and Paulo Bruscky. Arte, Arquivo e Utopia, 2007.
Lives in São Paulo.
For complete curriculum vitae, please access
http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/controladorbuscacv (Maria Cristina Machado Freire)

 

Marta Gracia
Place and year:  Barcelona (Spain), 1979
Main occupation: Art Historian,
Spatio-temporal references: Live and work in BCN.  1-60insurgent space (www.1-60insurgentspace.org art collaborative practice project, Tirana,Albània, 2005-2006)
Position (if it interests): Coordinator CIDEA (Center for Innovationa and Development in Arts)
Lines of work: Innovation and development in arts,art collaborative practices             
e-mail:martagv@aavc.net

 

Klaus Groh
Klaus Groh, born in 1936 in Neisse (today Nysa, Poland)
studies: history of arts and pedagogy of arts
promotion over Dada to Dr.phil. ; doctor of honor (Dr.lit.h.c.) at the university of Aeterna Lucina, Manly/Australia;
member of various international juries of arts;
works and lives in Edewecht, Heidedamm 6
since 1960 expositions, public readings, performances, installations und visual und concrete poetry
e-mail:  klaus-groh@nwn.de
Pubications:  http://www.isbn.pl/A-Groh-Klaus
Exhibitions since 1968:
1969  „Liberté de Parole“, Galerie Denise Davy, Paris (F)
1981  „6. Biennale Sao Paulo“ Sao Paulo (Brasilien)
1986  Goethe Institut, Marseille (F)
1993  „IV. biennal poesia visual/experimental,“ Mexico City,(Mexico)
1997  “Eye Rhymes, international visual poetry“, Calgary und Edmonton (Canada)
1999  „1st international communication art biennale“COMM.ART. Sabac  (Yugoslavia)
2002  „Galeria XX1, in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Goethe Institut,               Warschau (Pl)
2002  „Mini print international“ Cadaques ( E)
2003  „Europa-konkret-reduktiv“,ArchitekturmueseumWroclaw/Breslau (Pl)
2003  „extra50“ c/o 50. Biennale di Venecia, Venedig (I)
2004  “1st international collage exhibition” in Vilnius (Lituania)
2004  “London Art Biennal 2004”, London (GB)
2005  “peotical pages”, Moon-Gallery, Mount Berry/GO (USA)
2006 “Kunst ohne Gewalt” Israel Museum, Jerusalem, (Isreal)
2007  „Internacional,constructico,concreto,reductivo,inteligible“CC         Aranjuez (E)

 

Miguel López López
Place and year: Lima (Perú), 1983
Main occupation:Investigador, artista visual curador y profesor
Spatio-temporal references: Vive y trabaja en Lima
Position (if it interests):  Profesor y miembro del Comité Cultural         del Centro de la Imagen / Centro de la Fotografía (Lima)
Lines of work:    Arte conceptual y fotografía                         
e-mail:     miguel.lopezl@gmail.com

 

Cordelia Marten
Place and year:, born in Bremen/Germany, 1978                        
Main occupation: studied German, Art History and Cultural Studies, M.A.                                             
Live and work in Berlin/Germany
General Position: Gallery Assistant to Johann Koenig, Berlin
For this project I work as Research Assistant (German Democratic
Republic) to Anne Thurmann-Jajes
focal points in work: artists' books
e-mail cordelia.marten@gmail.com

 

Antoni Mercader
Place and year:  Banyoles (Spain), 1941
Main occupation: Art Historian, curator
Professor: Art/Communication/Educacion
Spatio-temporal references:  Member of the “Grup de Treball” (1972-1976)
Live and work in BCN.
Position: Director of Visual Education Dept. - University of Barcelona
Lines of work:  Conceptual and Media Art
e-mail   amercader@ub.edu
www.lmi.ub.es/
www.ub.es/devp/Vall/logo.htm
www.ub.es/devp/

 

Yolanda Nicolás
Programes Públics MACBA

 

Ricardo Nicolau
Crítico de arte y comisario de exposicisiones
Fundação de Serralves

 

Carmen Ortiz
Directora de la revista Papers d´Art Girona

 

Pilar Parcerisas
Manresa, Barcelona, Spain, 1957
Main occupation: Art Critic in the newspaper AVUI, Art Historian and Independent Curator of Exhibitions
Live and Work in Barcelona

• Autor of the exhibition “Idees i Actituds. Entorn de l’art conceptual a Catalunya, 1964-1980” (Santa Monica Center for the Arts, Barcelona, 1992). It was also exhibited in  the Cornerhouse of Manchester and in the University of Southampton (1994).
• Editor of the Grup de Treball texts,Macba, Barcelona, (1999)
• Author of the book: “Conceptualismo(s). Poéticos, políticos, periféricos. En torno al arte conceptual en España, 1964-1980” (Ed. Akal, Madrid, 2007) (Now in print).

Lines of work: Conceptual Art, Media Art, Modern and Contemporary Art.
e-mail: pparcerisas@telefonica.net , pilarparcerisas@hotmail.com

 

Daria Pyrkina
Comisaria del Nacional Centre for Contemporary Arts. Moscú · RUSIA

 

Jorge Ribalta
Barcelona, 1963
Artista y crítico. Ha comisariado, entre otras, las exposiciones La calle. Joan Colom en la Sala Aixelà, 1961 (MNAC, Barcelona, 1999) y Procesos documentales. Imagen testimonial, subalteridad y esfera pública (La Capella, Barcelona, 2001). Ha sido colaborador habitual del periódico La Vanguardia y en la actualidad dirige el Departamento de actividades Culturales del Macba.

 

Valentín Roma
Historiador de arte y comisario

 

Zoltán Szegedy-Maszák
Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts Intermedia Department
C 3 - Center for Culture & Communication
szmz@c3.hu , http://www.c3.hu/~szmz

1969 born in Budapest
1988-92 Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Painting Department, Budapest (teachers: Gábor Nagy, later Dóra Maurer)
1992 Graduated at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Painting Department, Budapest
1992- Lecturer of computer studies at the Intermedia Department
1992-94 postgraduate studies, Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest
1994 Graduated at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts Intermedia Department, Budapest
Lecturer of computer-animation at the Hungarian Academy of Applied Arts
1994-96 Lecturer of computer studies at the postgraduate video&telecommunicationscourse of the ELTE University Budapest
1996-2002 program coordinator of C 3 (Center for Culture and Communication Budapest)
1997 assistant professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Intermedia Dept.
1999-2002 DLA studies, Academy of Fine Arts Budapest, Intermedia Dept.
2003 Doctor of Liberal Arts degree at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts
2005- Vice Rector, Academy of Fine Arts Budapest

 

Annamária Sz?ke
She is art historian at the Budapest ELTE University, published books on conceptual artists like Gyula Pauer, Miklós Erdély, specialist of diagrams (published a book about) etc. list of publications
http://arthist.elte.hu/Tanarok/SzoekeA/PUBL.htm

 

Emilio Tarazona
Place and year:  Lima (Peru), 1975
Main occupation:   Crítico de arte, curador independiente.  Profesor de arte/Investigador/Periodista
Spatio-temporal references:    Vive y trabaja en Lima.
Lines of work: Arte contemporáneo peruano 
e-mail:  emilio.tarazona@gmail.com

 

Anne Thurmann-Jajes
Place and year:  Hagen  (Germany)  1962
Main occupation:  Art Historian, curator, custos assistant professor Institute for art history and science of art at University Bremen, speaker research association artists' publications
Spatio-temporal references:  research residence Florence, Rom (Italie 1989) 
Live and work in Bremen.
Position (if it interests): Director of Research Centre for Artists' Publications  
at Weserburg - Museum for Modern Art
Lines of work: Conceptual Art and Media Art, Artists Publications, Art Theory
e-mail anne.thurmann-jajes@weserburg.de

 

Rachel Weiss
Professor, Department of Arts Administration and Policy
School of the Art Institute of Chicago