From 2004 to 2013, Antoni Abad devoted his activity to undertaking the megafone.net online communication projects based on publications from smartphones done by various groups at risk of exclusion in Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Spain, Switzerland, United States, and the Algerian Sahara.

In October 2014 he began developing the BlindWiki project in Rome, an online citizen network conceived for people with visual impairments. Participants use smartphones to make geo-located audio recordings of their everyday experiences in the city. Through the mobile BlindWiki application, the previously posted recordings are always accessible on the streets, reflecting the urban landscape as experienced by people with vision loss. The project promotes the collaborative creation of a sensorial public map that has been deployed in Sydney 2015, Berlin and Wroclaw 2016 and Venice 2017.

His work has been presented in Europe, Australia and the Americas, including the following art biennials: Venice, Italy 1999 and 2017; Lima, Peru 1999; Seville, Spain 2004 and 2008; Mercosul Porto Alegre, Brazil 2009; Curitiba, Brazil 2013 and Berlin, Germany 2016.

In 2006 he was awarded the Visual Arts National Prize of Catalonia and the Golden Nica Digital Communities of the Prix Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria.

Last update: May 24th, 2017

Esteban Andueza is Cultural Manager of Instituto Cervantes in China. He has curated numerous art exhibitions in several countries and has organised countless cultural activities, events and festivals linked to the cultural exchange between Spain and Asia. He collaborates with institutions like Casa Asia and works with internationally renowned artists such as Antoni Muntadas curating, producing and promoting his work and artistic projects.

Last update: November 11th, 2022

David Claerbout  is one of the most innovative and acclaimed artists working in the realm of moving images today, his oeuvre exists at the intersection of photography, film and digital technology.Trained as a painter, he became more and more interested in time through investigations in the nature of photography and film. His works present profound and moving philosophical contemplations on our perception of time and reality, memory and experience, truth and fiction.Using pixel constellations, image sequences, light, speed, speech, music and ambient sound, installation environment and the technologies used to convey these, his strikingly sensual compositions elicit new modes of perceptual absorption, expectations, comprehension and memory. He has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions internationally, most recently including: MNAC, Barcelona, and Schaulager, Basel (2017); Städel Museum, Frankfurt (2016); KINDL, Berlin (2016);  Marabouparken Konsthall, Sundbybert, Sweden (2015); Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam (2014); Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz, Germany (2013).

Last update: May 19th, 2017

Claudia Giannetti is a researcher specialized in contemporary art, aesthetics, media art and the relation between art, science and technology. She is also a theoretician, writer and exhibitions curator. She has an interdisciplinary educational background, with a Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Barcelona. Over the past 18 years she has directed institutions and art centres in Spain, Portugal and Germany, including MECAD\Media Centre of Art & Design (Barcelona) and the Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art (Oldenburg, Germany). She has curated more than a hundred exhibitions and cultural events in national and international museums and centres. She curated the exhibition The Discreet Charm of Technology: Arts in Spain, MEIAC, Badajoz (2008), which travelled to ZKM | Centre for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany, and the Neue Galerie Graz, Austria. Giannetti has published more than 150 articles and fourteen books in various languages, including: Aesthetics of the Digital – Syntopy of Art, Science and Technology (Barcelona, 2002; New York/Vienna, 2004); The Capricious Reason in the 21st Century: The avatars of the post-industrial information society (Las Palmas, 2006); and AnArchive(s) – A Minimal Encyclopedia on Archaeology and Variantology of the Arts and Media (Oldenburg, 2014). She has worked as an academic, teaching in Spanish and Portuguese universities for the past two decades, and has done numerous lectures as a visiting professor in universities in Germany, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Spain and Mexico.

Last update: May 22th, 2017

Last update: 16th November, 2020

Laurent Fiévet was born in 1969 in Boulogne-Billancourt (France). He lives and works in Paris. He got a PhD in Film studies at Sorbonne nouvelle in 2001.

Visual artist since 2003, Laurent Fiévet creates found-footage video intallations. Using films excerpts and reproductions of well-known paintings, he reworks them through video editing and reorganizes them in exhibition space.

Organized into thematic series, his works question our mechanisms of perception and critically examine our contemporary societies through different type of perspectives. Ambivalent and subject to varying interpretations, they point out the dysfunctions of our individual and collective memory.

Laurent Fiévet’s work has been shown in many solo and group exhibitions. The artist collaborates regularly to the creation of theatrical plays and video concerts. Since 2010, Laurent Fiévet is also Director of Lab’Bel, the Bel Group art Laboratory ; he curated many art shows in this context.

Last update: 15th May, 2017

Ph.D., Associate Professor (critical intermedia arts) at the School of Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong, Historian and Interdisciplinary Artist. Her critical scholarship and research creation include narrativity, visual/auto-ethnography and media archaeology, experimental historiography and videography.

Her works have appeared in the Oberhausen Short Film Festival, experimental film/video circuits in Asia and the Shanghai Art Biennnale, among others. Her video works (2001-2016) are archived at the Video Bureau (Beijing and Guangzhou, China).

Last update: May 15th, 2017

Sooyoung Lee is currently Curator of Nam June Paik Art Centre. She curated a number of exhibitions and performances including Utopian Laser TV Station(2016), Haroon Mirza (2015), Intermedia Theater(2015), Good Morning Mr. Orwell 2014(2014), Video Concert (2012) and X Sound (co-curating, 2012). She also worked on major collection displays at Nam June Paik Art Center as a key member of its curatorial team. Before joining Nam June Paik Art Center, she was curator of ilmin museum of Art in Seoul and curated a number of exhibitions including Endlessly Forking Pathes. Born in South Korea, Lee was also a part-time Lecturer at Seoul National University in Seoul.

Sooyoung Lee has a long-standing interest in contemporary art conservation with specific expertise on new forms of artistic practice, including the new media art, time-based works of art and performance art and the changing relationship between the art and technology.

Last update: May 18th, 2017

Isaac Leung is a practicing artist, curator, and scholar in art and culture.

In 2003, Leung received an Honorary Fellowship of a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the New Media Art Department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Since then, his works have been exhibited in over 30 venues across the globe, including Zolla/Lieberman Gallery (USA), Para Site (Hong Kong), Videotage (Hong Kong), Connecting Space (Hong Kong), MOCA (Shanghai), and Venice Biennale of Architecture (Italy). Leung’s works are centered on critical issues concerning technology and social media, and they have been featured on National Public Radio (USA), and in Agence France-Presse (France), Chicago Tribune (USA), NY Arts Magazine (USA), Chicago Readers (USA) and the South China Morning Post (Hong Kong).

In 2013, Leung was appointed as the Chairman of Videotage. During his tenure, he initiated and participated in projects that included exhibitions, workshops, lectures, publications, online projects, and symposia. Some of these include 40 Years of Video Art in Germany and Hong Kong (Hong Kong and Germany), The 12th Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition (Italy and Hong Kong), Perpetual Art Machine (USA), Time Test – International Video Art Research Exhibition (China), ISEA Festival (Hong Kong, China), Both Sides Now (Hong Kong, UK, and various countries), Loop Barcelona (Spain), One World Exposition (Hong Kong), China Remixed (USA), Clockenflap (Hong Kong), and Art Basel Crowdfunding Initiative (Hong Kong). In recent years, Leung has been active in promoting international exchanges of video and media arts. He is also a staunch supporter of exploring new models for interdisciplinary collaboration and creative entrepreneurship. In addition to his contributions to Videotage, Leung has also served as advisor and assessor for diverse international institutions, previous services include projects presented by Home Affairs Bureau (Hong Kong), Hong Kong Arts Development Council (Hong Kong), and Prix Ars Electronica (Austria).

In the same year of 2013, Leung received his PhD degree, specializing in the contemporary Chinese art market. Leung has given lectures at several prominent conferences, including Transmediale (Germany), International Arts Leadership Roundtable 2016 (Hong Kong), Art Basel Salon (Hong Kong), and ARCO Contemporary Art Fair (Spain). Leung has taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Baptist University, the City University of Hong Kong, and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He will serve as Assistant Professor in the Department of Cultural and Creative Arts of the Hong Kong Education University in July, 2017.

Last update: May 23th, 2017

Graduated in 2016 at School of Creative Media in City University of Hong Kong, Yan is currently a research assistant in the university. Together with other emerging artists, she is also an artist/writer in a local collective Floating Projects located in Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong.

Last update: May 16th, 2017

Originally from Germany, Anne Scheffler is studying Work and Organizational Psychology at Maastricht University. Before specializing in this field, she studied Psychology at the University of Würzburg, Germany.

Since January 2017, she is working in a project team together with three other master students and in collaboration with Video Power in Maastricht. The project’s objective is to investigate the video art market and specifically understand amongst other questions the motives behind collecting video art and innovative possibilities of distribution to meet the needs of future developments in the market.

Always being an art enthusiast, Anne uses her interest as well as past experiences in various fields to work in this research project.

Last update: May 23th, 2017