Christine Van Assche is a contemporary art historian, curator, and critic specializing in audiovisual art. As the Chief Curator at Centre Pompidou between 1982 and 2013, she built up the institution’s first video and new media art collection, featuring 1,600 works including those by David Claerbout, James Coleman, Stan Douglas, Valie Export, Esther Ferrer, Jean-Luc Godard, Douglas Gordon, Mona Hatoum, Pierre Huyghe, Isaac Julien, Mike Kelley, Chris Marker, Tony Oursler, Nam June Paik, Pipilotti Rist, etc. She curated a number of thematic exhibitions such as Passages des l’image in 1990, Sonic Process in 2000, Vidéo, un art, une histoir that toured internationally between 2005 and 2012, Une vision du monde. La collection des Lemaître in 2006, Video Vintage in 2012 and 2013, as well as numerous solo exhibitions accompanied by catalogs devoted to artists such as Nam June Paik, Tony Oursler, Mona Hatoum, Johan Grimonprez, Douglas Gordon, James Coleman, Chris Marker, Bruce Nauman, Pierre Huyghe, Ugo Rondinone, Isaac Julien, among others.

Last update: November 11th, 2019

Myriam Rubio studied Visual Arts at the University of Barcelona and the Winchester School of Arts, Southampton University, as well as the Theory of Art at the Institute of Aesthetics in Madrid. Since 2000, she has worked at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA) in the Department of Public Programs in the programming, production, and dissemination of projects related to public programs, exhibitions, cinema, and education. From 2011/2018 she has been the Academic Coordinator of four editions of the Independent Studies Program (PEI), under the direction of Xavier Antich, Paul B. Preciado and Marcelo Expósito, and Pablo Martínez. And since 2019, she is the curatorial coordinator of the Department Exhibitions and Collection, researching about the politics of Performance in the museum. She is also interested in the research in collaborative artistic processes in the underground Spanish art from 1988 to the early 90s.

Last update: November 11th, 2019

Lluís Nacenta is a curator, writer, musician and researcher in the space of confluence of music, art, technology and science. He holds a degree in mathematics, a degree in piano, a master’s degree in comparative studies of literature, art and thought and a doctorate in humanities, with a thesis on musical repetition. He has been Head of Postgraduate Studies at Eina, University Center of Design and Art of Barcelona, from 2015 to 2017, Director of Hangar, Center for Production and Research of Visual Arts, from 2018 to 2021, and is Director of Quo Artis since September 2022.

Last updated, November 13th, 2022

Rose Cupit, Manager of the Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN). Through FLAMIN, and with funding from Arts Council England, Film London supports London-based artists working with moving image, offering production funding and training, as well as showcasing this work to grow audiences worldwide. FLAMIN has commissioned over 150 productions, and supported the careers of countless artists with programmes of one-to-one sessions, residencies and workshops. Flagship projects from FLAMIN include the commissioning fund FLAMIN Productions and the annual Film London Jarman Award.

May 26th, 2016

Ana Ara, PhD, is an art historian and curator based in Madrid. She has completed studies in various international institutions including the École du Louvre (Paris), the Università della Sapienza (Rome) and the Städelschule and the Goethe Universität (Frankfurt am Main). Her professional trajectory includes positions at Portikus in Frankfurt am Main, the Curatorial Department of dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel and the Exhibitions Department of the Museo Nacional Reina Sofía in Madrid. Her curatorial work includes the conceptual and organizational design of exhibitions such as Vergüenza [Shame] (La Casa Encendida, Madrid, 2013), Los cuerpos dóciles [Docile bodies] (La Conservera, Murcia, 2015) and Pessoa. Todo arte es una forma de literatura [Pessoa. All Art is a Form of Literature] (Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2017). In 2019 she will co-curate an exhibition showcasing
the work of Miriam Cahn at the Museo Reina Sofia. At present, Ana Ara is a curator at Matadero Madrid, where she develops, among other projects, “Profundidad de Campo” [Depth of Field], a programme that focuses on the production, screening and study of contemporary audiovisual practices.

Yunnia Yang is a curator, art historian and art critic based in Taipei, Taiwan. In 1997 she received a MA in Art History from the St. Petersburg State University in Russia, and in 2009 she completed her PhD in Arts from National Taiwan Normal University with a thesis on the paranoic criticism of Salvador Dalì, with which she was awarded a S-An Aesthetics Award in 2010. Since 2011, she runs the long-term curatorial research on ‘ The Postmodern Condition in the contemporary art of Russia and Eastern Europe’. Among her most representative curatorial projects are: “ The Apocalyptic Sensibility: The New Media Art from Taiwan” (WRO Media Art Biennale 2013, Taipei Fine Art Museum in 2015), “Imagining Crisis” (MOCA Taipei in 2014, the contemporary art centers in Poland, Serbia, Bulgaria, Colombia and 34th Asolo Art Film Festival during 2014-2015) and “ TAIWAN VIDEA: the Taiwanese Avant-garde Video Exhibition” ( 2015 Asolo Art Film Festival). In 2016, she was invited by Asolo Art Film Festival Committee to present “Eco as a verb” and another video project, “TAIWAN VIDEA2.0:Cultural Encounter”. In May 2017, Yunnia was incited to present these two projects in the official program of the St. Petersburg Museum Night 2017. In 2017, her curatorial project “TAIWAN VIDEA 2017 Selection” has been touring internationally in Macedonia ( The Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje), Croatia (Galerija AŽ in Zagreb), Slovenia ( SCCA-Ljubljana), Germany (Rosalux in Berlin), and Italy (36th Asolo Art Film Festival). In 2017, Yunnia was also guest curator at the Yo-Chang Art Museum in National Taiwan University of Arts. Her latest curatorial project is The Eastern Europe/Russia Video Research “The In-Between State of Mind” commissed by 36th Asolo Art Film Festival in 2018 for the special program of BRICS ART. Dr. Yunnia Yang is currently Adjunct Associate Professor of the Department of Sculpture at the National Taiwan University of Arts.

Paula Nishijima is a visual artist and researcher from São Paulo/Brazil. Her research-led practice often unfolds through long periods of time and on the crossroads of academia, institutional critic and a participatory social practice. She studies the duality between producer and consumer and its ramifications in nature and health. Her narratives question personal and collective motivations with a psychoanalytic tone through happenings, video and photography.
Paula combines her artistic practice with her editorial work through independent editorial projects. She is part of the  translocalia.com —a network of artists, designers, curators, audiences and professionals from different domains to discuss, share and plan for the future through art. She holds an MA in Arts and culture from the Leiden University, Netherlands and a BA in Visual Arts from the Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho, São Paulo,
Brazil.

Irit Batsry is an artist working mainly in video and installations probing perception, image-making and collective and personal
memory and identity.

Her work has been shown extensively in 35 different countries. She was awarded the prestigious Whitney Biennial Bucksbaum
Award(2002) given to ”an artist whose work demonstrates a singular combination of talent and imagination – a person who
promises to make a significant contribution to the visual arts”. She received the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 1992 and
the Grand Prix Video de Création of the Société Civile des Auteurs Multimedia, Paris (1996 and 2001) as well as many festival awards.

Selected shows include the National Gallery in Washington, theNational Film Theater and the ICA (London), Reina Sofia Museum (Madrid), Museu d’Arte Moderna (Rio), Ludwig Museum (Koln), Tel Aviv Museum, Artists Space, the Whitney and the MOMA in NYC. In 2006 the Jeu de Paume in Paris organized a retrospective of her videotapes (1981- 2006).

Last update: 11th November, 2019

Maggie Ellis is Head of Film London’s Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN), a department that commissions artists’ films (shorts and features), runs the prestigious annual Jarman Award, tours work nationally and internationally, and has a development programme for emerging artist filmmakers. Since being established in 2005, we have delivered a slate of 150 films. Maggie has been in the film and television industries for almost 30 years and has benefitted from the experience of working in a variety of technical roles, with broadcasters, distributors and associated companies. She has worked as a freelance sound recordist, stills photographer and producer. Throughout her career, she has had the pleasure of working with many talented filmmakers across documentary, fiction and animation productions. Maggie is a film advisor to a number of companies and cultural organisations, is on the Board of Sheffield Media and Exhibition Centre and a member of Cine-Regio, a European network of film funders.

Last update 12nd November 2018

Sharon Toval is a French-Israeli art scholar and curator located in Tel Aviv. He holds a Master’s degree in art theory and policy and has curated numerous group and solo exhibitions in prestigious Israeli and international galleries and museums. He is the owner of The Lab, an avant-garde and emerging artists’ experimental art venue. Sharon is also the head curator and collection manager for the Isrotel hotel chain, where he acquires art collections, curates temporary shows, and runs the well-known A.F.A.R. residency program in northern Israel.

Last updated: November 11th , 2022