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 ...
Decostere, Stefaan
°1955 - Kortrijk (Belgium). Lives and works in Ostend.Stefaan Decostere studied film direction at the National Film School RITS in Brussels. He is among the handful of truly innovative directors working within television, creating new forms to more complex ideas. In his works he tries to problematize the relation between documentary and fiction by dissolving the boundaries between them. ...
Courtois, Pierre
°1950 - La Roche en Ardenne (Belgium).Pierre Courtois is a multifaceted Belgian artist, whose areas of expertise include painting, sculpture, video art, and installations known as ‘Land Art’, where his creations are put in a landscape, indoors or outdoors, in an attempt to create a dialogue. His workshop is in the old Ferme de Cochaute, where he also offers lodgings and organises concerts. ...
Martirosyan, Nora
°1973 - Yerevan (Armenia). Lives and works in Montpellier.Nora Martirosyan (1973, Armenia) lives and works in France, Italy, and Armenia. After her studies in Amsterdam at the Gerriet Rietveld Academy in the Netherlands she continued with the residency programs in Le Fresnoy (France) and Rijksakademie (Amsterdam) ...
Meessen, Vincent
°1971 - Baltimore (United States). Lives and woks in Brussels.Vincent Meessen's artistic work is woven from a constellation of agents, gestures, and signs that maintain a polemical and sensible relation to the writing of history and the westernization of imaginaries. He decenters and multiplies gazes and perspectives to explore the variety of ways in which colonial modernity has impacted the fabric of contemporary subjectivities ...
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. ...
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) ...
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 ...
Baes, Pascal
°1959 - Nice (France). Lives and works in Brussels.Pascal Baes experiments with the use of the stop-motion technique and specializes in image-by-image animation. He has also produced a range of "dance films". where dancing itself is released from its limitations, which are inherent to the stage, and recorded as a paradoxical experience. Thematically, as well as philosophically, he refers to the cinematic avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s. ...
Rombout, Rob
°1953 - Amsterdam (The Netherlands).Rob Rombout is an independent documentary film-maker, teacher and lecturer. He co-founded the International DocNomads Master Program and is now course director for DN at LUCA, Brussels.Most of his films were co-produced and / or shown on international television channels and awarded in several festivals ...
Debackere, Brecht
°1979 - BelgiumBrecht Debackere studied at the Fine Arts academy in Bruges, Audiovisual art at the RITCS (Brussels) and image & media technology at HKU in Hilversum, and he is a Master of Arts Image synthesis and Computer Animation ...
General Idea
°1968 - Toronto (Canada).In 1968, AA Bronson, Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal founded the Toronto based artists’ group General Idea. Their subjects came from mass culture’s consumerism, celebrity, glamour, and from the art world. Their artworks participated in mass culture, rather than oppose or work outside it ...
The Otolith Group
°2002 - London (United Kingdom).The Otolith Group (Kodwo Eshun & Anjalika Sagar) was founded in 2002. Based in London, their work engages with archival materials, with futurity and with the history of diverse provenances ...
Trouvé, Rudy
Rudy has a love for cinema. In art collegue he studied animation, which is obviously a form of cinema, but he has been seen dozens of times with a video or super8 camera around Antwerp, just shooting footage. He likes to to keep an 'archive' of filmed material, but so far, only one 'finished' product has emerged from his urge to film ...
De Volder, Geoffroy
°1964 - Brussels (Belgium).De Volder started his studies in painting at La Cambre in 1985. The teachers who influenced his style most were Pasternak, Guy Bauclair and Jacques Sojcher. Initially he wanted to become a graphic designer, and create sleeves for music records, but due to bad grades and after visiting an exhibition of Giacometti he switched to painting instead ...
Mbakam, Rosine
°1980 - Tonga (CM). Lives and works in Brussels (BE)Rosine Mfetgo Mbakam grew up in Cameroon in a traditional family. She chose cinema at a very early age and trained in Yaoundé thanks to the team of the Italian NGO COE where she was introduced to image, editing and directing in 2000. She collaborated and directed several films for this structure before joining in 2003 Spectrum television where she directed and edited several audiovisual programs ...
Acconci, Vito
°1940 - Bronx, New York (United States). Lives and works in Brooklyn.Vito Acconci's early work focussed on fiction and poetry, but by the late 1960s and early 1970s he had started to engage in performances, take photographs, and make films and videos, becoming one of the major performance artists of his generation ...
Murcof
°1970 - Tijuana (Mexico). Lives and works in Spain.Murcof is the performing and recording name of Mexican electronica artist Fernando Corona. Corona was born in 1970 in Tijuana, Mexico and raised in Ensenada. He was for a time a member of the Tijuana-based Nortec Collective of electronic musicians under the Terrestre project name. In 2000 he returned to Tijuana. Since 2006 Corona lives in Barcelona, Spain. ...
Patterson, Ben
°1934 - Pittsburgh (United States).According to an old biography, Benjamin Patterson was ‘proficient on the double-bass, knowledgeable in music theory and history and acquainted with the crafts of composition and conducting.’ Following a career in symphony orchestras in Canada, he moved to Germany in 1960 ...
