BIOBIBLIOGRAPHY ........................... Berlin/ *Germany 1968 Independent media art curator and a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Slavistics at the Humboldt University, Berlin/D. The working title of her Ph.D. thesis is “Objects in the Mirror may be Closer Than They Appear: The Avant-Garde in the Rear-View Mirror. A Comparative Analysis of the Artistic Re-Reading of the Historical Avant-Garde in Eastern Europe in the 1980s and 1990s in Retroavant-garde and Post-Utopianism”. After spending four years (1982-86) in Paris, she studied Eastern European cultural studies, political science, archaeology of the Middle-East and art history in Berlin and Amsterdam, 1988-1996. Inke Arns is graduate of the Free University of Berlin in 1996 with her M.A. thesis on the Yugoslavian/Slovenian artists’ collective ‘Neue Slowenische Kunst’ (NSK). From 2000-2001 she was a lecturer at the Institute of Slavistics at the Humboldt University, Berlin. Her curatorial work includes exhibitions, festivals and conferences on international media art and culture, like ‘OSTranenie 93’ at the Bauhaus Dessau; ‘Minima Media’: Medienbiennale Leipzig 1994, former VEB Buntgarnwerke Leipzig; ‘discord. sabotage of realities’, Kunstverein Hamburg 1996/97; ‘body of the message’, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin 1998; and ‘update 2.0’, ZKM Karlsruhe for the Goethe-Institute, in 2000. Currently, together with Dieter Daniels and Joachim Blank, she is working on the development of an audio visual “Introduction to Media Art” for the Art Academy (HGB), Leipzig. She is a founding member of the translocal Syndicate network (*1996-2001); of the Berlin-based mikro association for the advancement of media cultures (*1998); and of ‘SPECTRE’, a mailing list for media culture in Deep Europe (*2001). Inke Arns has published extensively on issues of media and net culture and art in international magazines and books: among others in ‘Leonardo Electronic Almanach’ (USA), ‘Kunstforum International’ (D), ‘ArtIndia’ (IND) and ‘Convergence: Journal of Research into New Technologies’ (GB). Her book ‘Net Cultures’ will be published by Rotbuch in Spring 2002. For further information see http://www.v2.nl/~arns |
