Jonathan Monaghan (1986, New York, USA) crafts psychologically driven works mining subconscious fears and desires associated with technology, consumerism and wealth. His interdisciplinary practice pulls from wide-ranging sources, such as historic architecture, religious iconography, design, science fiction, and advertising. Past exhibitions and screenings of his work include The Sundance Film Festival, The Minneapolis Institute of Art, The Hirshhorn Museum, and The British Film Institute. His work has been featured in several media outlets including The Washington Post, VICE, The Wall Street Journal and The Village Voice. Monaghan is represented by bitforms gallery in New York and Galerie 22,48m2 in Paris.

Last update 25th April, 2017.

Co-founder and co-CEO of DAD, the Digital Art Device, and is the co-author of the forthcoming “Collect Digital Video Art, 2015/16 edition”, distributed by Les Presses du Réel.
He received his MFA from Cal Arts, and has over 15 years experience in the art-world as a dealer, curator, and collector. His most recent position was as the director of the Almine Rech Gallery in Paris. He has previously worked with emerging artists such as Darren Bader and Henry Taylor; mid-career artists such as Rashid Johnson and Aaron Curry; and historical figures such as James Turrell and Joseph Kosuth. He lives between Paris, France and Austin, Texas.

May 5th, 2015

Vanina Saracino (she/they) is an independent curator, film programmer, writer, and lecturer.

Her work focuses on theories and art practices that explicitly question anthropocentric and binary worldviews from an intersectional perspective, with an emphasis on lens-based and time-based art. Her latest project, Other Minds, is the fourth edition of the Screen City Biennial (curated with Daniela Arriado), which took place at the astronomical observatory Archenhold Sternwarte and other venues in Berlin in 2022.

Since 2021, Saracino has been teaching at the Institute of Time-based Art – IZM, Universität der Künste (UdK) in Berlin, with Prof. Nina Fischer. She has collaborated with Kumu Art Museum and EKKM (Tallinn), Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi (Venice), TBA21 – Academy, Cinemateca Brasileira (São Paulo), Cinemateca do MAM (Rio de Janeiro), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Salzburger Kunstverein (Salzburg), The EYE Film Institute (Amsterdam), and Centro Párraga (Murcia), among others. Saracino has realized residencies at ISCP (New York, 2023), Q21 – MuseumsQuartier (Vienna, 2021), Fire Station Artists’ Studios (Dublin, 2019), CPR – Curatorial Program for Research (Reykjavik, Tórshavn, Tromsø, Boden, Luleå, Hyrynsalmi, Helsinki, 2018), and GENERATOR – 40mcube/EESAB (Rennes, 2018). Graduated in Communication Sciences, Saracino holds an MA in Arts Management (GIOCA, Università di Bologna) and in Philosophy and Art Theory (UAB, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona). She has been a member of IKT since 2015.

Last update: 17th November , 2023

Researcher, Thinker and Entrepreneur. He has a Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from KU Leuven, where he explored the relationship between machine learning and creativity. He holds Bachelor’s Degrees in EE and Computer Science from the University of Saskatchewan. Dr. McConaghy has authored two books, 3 papers and 20 patents and has given invited talks at MIT, Columbia, Berkeley, Jet Propulsion Lab, and more. Dr. McConaghy began his career doing machine learning research for the Canadian Department of Defence. Since 1999, Dr. McConaghy has built three venture backed companies in Canada, the USA and Germany.

May 5th, 2016

Co-founder and Director of Carroll / Fletcher – a London-based commercial contemporary art gallery. Established in 2012 by Jonathon Carroll and Steve Fletcher, the gallery has quickly emerged as a leading platform for contemporary art with an emphasis on multimedia, film/video and new technologies. The gallery also hosts an online cinema, Carroll / Fletcher Onscreen, showing curated weekly screenings of experimental and artists’ film.

May 5th, 2016

Cultural manager, Art Lawyer and Freelance Curator based in Tallinn. She is currently working as a project manager at the Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center which is focused on fostering international exposure for Estonian artists as well as developing the gallery scene in Estonia. Among other tasks Kadri consults Estonian galleries, schools, art dealers and organizes art events.

May 5th, 2015

Founder fof MOMENTUM, graduated at Harvard University with a degree in Literature and holds an M.Phil and PhD from the University of Cambridge in Film Studies. She wrote her dissertation on visceral spectatorship in contemporary cinema, focusing on the biological basis of embodiment. Having lectured in film studies and visual culture, her focus then shifted to contemporary art. Rachel Rits-Volloch founded MOMENTUM in 2010 in Sydney, Australia, as a parallel event to the 17th Biennale of Sydney. Since that time, MOMENTUM has evolved into a non-profit global platform for time-based art, with headquarters in Berlin at the Kunstquartier Bethanien.

May 5th, 2015