Anne-Laure Chamboissier holds a BA and MA in Contemporary Art from La Sorbonne Paris IV. After being in charge of Contemporary Art and Cultural Heritage in the historical region of Touraine, she specialised in interdisciplinary practices and co-curated the Belgian sound art festival “City Sonic” for four years (2009-2012). From 2007 to 2009, she was appointed curator by the French Embassy in Brussels, during the French Presidency of the European Union. Meanwhile, she curated exhibitions for institutions, such as the school ENSA Bourges. In 2014, she co-curated Tentative(s) d’épuisement for ARCO Madrid with Christophe Daviet-Thery, and in October of that same year, she presented Sounds by the river in collaboration with the program Hors les murs at FIAC, Paris. In April, she was also invited at the MUNTREF University in Buenos Aires as a visiting lecturer. In January 2015, the film that she co-directed on sound poet Bernard Heidsieck was released on DVD. She is the curator of Beyond the Sound, an exhibition that inaugurated this past May at Le French May in Hong Kong.

April 26th, 2016

Arnau Horta is an independent curator, art critic and researcher. In Spain, he curated projects for the MACBA, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the CCCB, Sónar, Caixafòrum, the Filmoteca de Catalunya, the philosophy festival Barcelona Pensa and La Casa Encendida, among others. He is Professor at the European Institute for Design (IED), and a usual contributor to the supplements ‘Cultura/s’ (La Vanguardia) and ‘Babelia’ (El País).

22 March 2017

Flutist and Composer, focused on the performative Aspect of Spatial Sound Work, activating Space with live acoustic musical Instruments or with sensitive Atmospheres of electronic Processes and evolving Sound Compositions. Known for her subtle exploration of the minutae of sonic material, Held creates sensitive, focused sound work that draws the listener in. Held’s work exposes the detail of the physical space of listening in equal part to a keen attention to how we listen as bodies moving through the world. She created and produced the series “Música a Metrònom”, a festival of experimental music that supported collaborations between musicians and visual artists. She was curator of “Possibility of Action: the life of the score” for the CEDOC / MACBA, and “Lines of Sight”, a series of seven programs of experimental music and radio art for radio web MACBA.

May 5th, 2015

Artist.
He is represented by the Jérôme Poggi Gallery, Paris. Graduated from La villa Arson Nice, his works were shown in several exhibitions including La Galerie (Noisy le Sec), Le Confort Moderne (Poitiers), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Nuit Blanche at the Foundation Pierre Bergé – Yves Saint Laurent (FR), Thread Waxing Space (NY), the Anthology Film Archives (NY), the Biennale de Montreal (CA), museum of Fine art Nantes, Nancy, the modern and contemporary art museum Les Abattoirs (Toulouse), Center for contemporary Création (CCC Tours), FRAC Centre (Orléans), International Center of Art and Landscape in Vassivière…
His works are part of several public collections in France and part of some private collection. In 2012, he was nominated for the Marcel Duchamp Prize, and two majors exhibitions at the FRAC Centre (Orléans) and at the CCC (Tours) were dedicated to his work.

May 5th, 2015

Artist, Composer.
Emiliano Zelada overrides the barriers between disciplines, linking the sculpture to acoustic factors and the result to the surrounding space, making installations, exhibitions, events and concerts in places like Tate Modern, London; 13th Istanbul Biennial – official parallel event; the Casa da Musica do Porto, in the Auditorium Parco della Musica and CIAC – Centro Internazionale Arte Contemporanea in Rome. As in the Sonar Day 2007 – Barcelona, CONA – Institute for Contemporary Arts Processing and 27th Biennial of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana. Also in the Uqbar and NK Berlin and Frankfurter Kunstverein, also in Germany, among others.

May 5th, 2015

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

Artist, Cultural Manager and Freelance Curator.
Her professional life has been linked to  Espacio Menosuno – center for artistic experimentation since 2005 – and to all the related projects. She is also co-founder of IN-SONORA, platform for supporting and disseminating sound and interactive art, which also has a annual shows that in 2014 celebrated its 8th edition.
 Parallel Maite has coordinated other related art projects, as the international exhibition of video art DVD Project and CBA.Net for Círculo de Bellas Artes, and has continued as an artist presenting her work in national and international exhibitions.

May 5th, 2015

Musician and Composer.
In 1997 he received a piano degree at the conservatory of Ferrara, Italy. He then moved to the USA, where he studied composition and music theory, eventually obtaining a Ph.D in music theory. He moved to Berlin in 2009 and with his brother founded Galerie Mario Mazzoli, specialized in sound-related works.

May 5th, 2015

Michele Spanghero’s artistic activity focuses on the relationship between space and perception investigated through sonic arts, video and photography.

He has exhibited his works in various international venues such as Darb 1718 Center (Cairo), Museum of Modern Art (Istanbul), MAGASIN Centre National d’Art Contemporain (Grenoble), Stroom Foundation (The Hague), Festival Tina-B (Prague), Vžigalica Galerija (Ljubljana), Mestna Galerija (Nova Gorica), Academy of Fine Arts (Cincinnati), Navy Pier (Chicago), Italian Embassy (Brussels), Mart Museum (Rovereto), National Gallery of Umbria (Perugia), Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation (Venice), Tempio di Adriano (Rome), Galleria Civica (Modena) and 16th Art Quadriennale (Rome).

Spanghero was awarded the Premio Icona at ArtVerona (2012), Blumm Prize in Brussels (2013), Premio In Sesto international public art award (2015) and received the mention as “Best Young Italian Artist for 2016” according to Artribune magazine.

His works are part of both private and public collections, such as La Gaia Collection, Finstral Collection, Mart – Museo d’Arte Trento e Rovereto, Ettore Fico museum in Turin and Parc01 in Siracusa.

Last update 25th April, 2017.

Pascale Cassagnau holds a PhD in Art History and Criticism and is responsible for the audiovisual and new media collection at the CNAP (Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris). She writes extensively for Art Press and is the author of texts on artists such as Chris Burden, James Coleman, John Baldessari, Pierre Huyghe, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Matthieu Laurette, among others. She is mainly interested in the study of new film practices and their cross-over with contemporary art. Her essay “Future Amnesia, Enquêtes sur un troisième cinéma” (Ed. Isthmus, 2006) investigates new filmic forms, existing between fiction and documentary. “Un pays supplémentaire” (Ed. Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, 2010) focuses on contemporary creation in the media architecture. Her book, “‘Apichatpong Weerasethakul,’ Une théorie des objets personnels” was released as an e-book in 2016. Her essay “Diagramme Monteiro, on Joao Cesar Monterio, was written in collaboration with Hughes Decointet and published in Editions de L’Oeil in 2017. Her essays “La répétition générale,” — a work on the processes of creation and research in the fields of cinema, contemporary art — and “Dispositifs-jeux” — on Jean Frapat, inventor of television devices — are currently in progress.

Last update 9th March 2017