Persijn, Jurgen
°1966 - Waregem (Belgium)During a short period of three years, immediately after graduating from Sint-Lukas University College of Art and Design, Jurgen Persijn (°1966, Waregem) directed three commissioned videotapes in collaboration with Ana Torfs, amongst which, Akarova &. Baugniet/L’entre-deux-guerres (1991) and Mozartmaterial (1993) ...
Degueldre, Claude
°1950 - Liège (Belgium). Lives and works in Brugg, Argovia.Claude Degueldre performs late 1970 in Walonia his first research-drawings, early 1972 his first oil paintings, mid-1973 his first videos and in April 1974 his first films/movies. 1980-1985 in Algeria, he starts working on 'Water samples' ...
Shaham, Avi
°1953 - Tel Aviv (Israel).Avi Shaham, initially trained as a sculptor, works in installation, photography and video. His work dwells on man’s subservience to technology and machines. For the installations You are most welcome, Master Lucas (both 2002) and Ancient Machine (2003) he collaborated with Israeli artist Uri Tzaig. ...
López-Menchero, Emilio
°1960 - Mol (Belgium).Emilio López-Menchero (1960, Mol, Belgium) lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. He studied architecture at ISAE-La Cambre, Brussels, and Visual Arts at ENSAV-La Cambre, Brussels. With his videos, performances and installations he questions the identity of the ‘artist’ in society ...
Vandeweerd, Pierre-Yves
°1969 - Rocourt (Belgium).Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd was trained as an anthropologist and journalist specializing in African civilizations. His work is deeply rooted in the tradition of Cinema réel. Most of it has been filmed in Africa, especially in Mauritania and the Sudan, countries throughout which he undertook long travels, accumulating footage of political conflict and the human suffering caused by it. ...
Geyer, Andrea
°1971 - Freiburg (Germany). Lives and works in New York.After she studied Photography and Film Design at the Fachhochschule in Bielefeld, Andrea Geyer went to the Academy of Fine Arts in Braunschweig and the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York. Geyer uses both fiction and documentary strategies in her image and text based installations that are intended to intervene in diverse mechanisms of verbal and visual control and regulation ...
Gigounon, Bernard
°1972 - Mouscron (Belgium). Lives and works in Brussels.The perceptual ambiguity of cinema, and multiple layers of reality involved in the moving, time-based image, are at the base of Bernard Gigounon’s video work. Our outlook on the world is constantly mediated and determined by all kinds of special effects, but Gigounon carries us back to a proto-cinema ...
Jonas, Joan
°1936 - New York (United States).Joan Jonas is a pioneer of video and performance art and one of the most important female artists to emerge in the late 1960s and early 1970s. She began her career in New York City as a sculptor ...
Marriott, John
°1964 - Vancouver (Canada). Lives and works in Toronto.John Marriott is a multidisciplinary artist and writer based in Toronto, Canada ...
Ho, Tzu Nyen
°1976 - Singapore. Lives and works in Singapore.Ho Tzu Nyen earned a BA in Creative Arts from Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne (Australie), and a MA of Art in Southeast Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore. Ranging across painting, video, performance, lecturing and writing, Ho Tzu Nyen's work blurs the boundaries between these genres, creating a complex interdisciplinary practice ...
Oki, Dan
°1965 - Zadar (Croatia).Slobodan Jokić, artist name Dan Oki. Filmmaker and visual artist, professor of film and electronic arts at the University of Split and Zagreb. Belonging to the generation of artists who in 1990s in Amsterdam worked with film and photography, made cinematographic databases and interactive video. Made four independent feature films: Oxygen4, The Performance, The Dark and The Farewell ...
Shin, Jung-Kyun
°1986 - Seoul (Korea).Shin Jung-Kyun is an emerging artist who often works with video. He has participated in diverse screening events, festivals and projects, and has received several Awards. He has technique, ability of constructing narratives as well as his conceptual attitude as a video artist. He conveys a very personal memory of military service in his work, Universal Story. ...
Derlon Cordina, Amélie
°1985 - Marseille (France). Lives and works in Brussels.Amélie Derlon Cordina studied at the fine arts school in Marseille (France), in a video-cinema-literature studio, from which she graduated with honors in 2009. She then joined the post-academic program of the National School of Fine Arts in Lyon, promotion 2009-2010, headed by Jean-Pierre Rehm (director of the festival FIDMarseille) ...
Villevoye, Roy
°1960 - Maastricht (The Netherlands). Lives and works in Amsterdam.In his work Roy Villevoye explores issues around anthropological representation, the conventions of documentary filmmaking and the legacy of colonialism. Even though his videos, often realized in collaboration with Jan Dietvorst, are frequently considered documentaries, he distances himself explicitly from the genre, by freeing himself from a number of characteristic conventions. ...
Marchetti, Walter
°1931 - Canosa di Puglia (Italy).Walter Marchetti was an Italian composer who adopted John Cage's dadaist aesthetic and pioneered interactive and concrete music. In 1964 he formed the ZAJ group (a sort of European version of Fluxus) with Juan Hidalgo in Madrid. ...
Eisenhoet, Bedrich
°1963 - Brussels (Belgium).Writer and video artist. Co-director of De Ezel van Buridan (Buridan's Donkey), created together with Frank Theys in 1990 as a message for the Belgian king Baudouin on his birthday, concerning a subject very dear to the king: youth and the search for identity in a multicultural society. ...
Kötter, Daniel
°1975 - Bergisch Gladbach (Germany). Lives and works in Berlin.Daniel Kötter is a director and video artist whose work oscillates deliberately between different media and institutional contexts, combining techniques of structuralist film with documentary elements and experimental music theater. His work has been shown in numerous galleries, video festivals, concert halls and theatres all over the world. ...
