Dr. Inke Arns

Artistic director of Hartware MedienKunstVerein Dortmund, Germany

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Inke Arns 2008

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* 1968 in Duisdorf/Bonn, lives in Dortmund and Berlin (Germany). Having worked since 1993 as an independent curator and author focussing on media art, net cultures and Eastern Europe, Inke Arns (Dr. phil./ PhD) since 2005 is artistic director of Hartware MedienKunstVerein in Dortmund, Germany (www.hmkv.de).

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Institution

Biography

*1968 Duisdorf/Bonn, Germany; since 2005 artistic director of Hartware MedienKunstVerein Dortmund; 1988-1996 studied Slavistics, Eastern European studies, Political science and Art history in Berlin and Amsterdam; 2004 PhD (Dr. phil.) at Humboldt University Berlin with a thesis that researches a paradigmatic shift in the way artists reflect the historical avant-garde and the notion of utopia in visual and media art projects of the 1980s and 1990s in (ex-) Yugoslavia and Russia (published in Slovenian translation by Maska, Ljubljana, in 2006).

Works / Projects

She has taught in 2000-2001 at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany; 2002-2004 guest-lecturer at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (HGB) Leipzig; 2005 external diploma advisor, Studienbereich Neue Medien, Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst (HGK) Zürich; 2007 External Examiner at Piet Zwart Institut (Media Design), Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam; 2008 External Examiner Diploma Mediale Künste, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK); 2008 Seminar Studiengang MA Fine Arts, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK).

Exhibitions / Presentations

Since 1993 independent curator and author focussing on media art, net cultures and Eastern Europe. Her curatorial work includes international exhibitions, festivals and conferences – a.o. »OSTranenie 93«, Bauhaus Dessau 1993, »Minima Media: Medienbiennale«, former VEB Buntgarnwerke Leipzig 1994, »discord. sabotage of realities«, Kunstverein Hamburg 1996-1997; »Body and the East«, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana 1998; »IRWIN: Retroprincip 1983-2003«, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, Hagen and Museum for Contemporary Art, Belgrade 2003-2004; »Dispersed Moments of Concentration. Urban and Digital Spaces«, »On Disappearance. Loss of World and Escaping from the World«, HMKV Dortmund 2005; »Glamour and Globalisation«, »mit allem rechnen. Media art from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania« (HMKV in cooperation with Museum am Ostwall), »The Wonderful World of irational.org«, HMKV Dortmund 2006, CCA Glasgow 2007, Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad 2008; »What is Modern Art? (Group Show)«, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin 2006; »History Will Repeat Itself. Strategies of Reenactment in Contemporary (Media) Art and Performance«, HMKV Dortmund 2007, KW Berlin 2007-2008, Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warschau 2008; Goethe-Institut, Hong Kong Film Archive, Videotage, Hongkong 2008; »Waves - The Art of the Electromagnetic Society«, HMKV Dortmund 2008; »Anna Kournikova ... Art in the Age of Intellectual Property«, HMKV Dortmund 2008; »Awake Are Only the Spirits«, HMKV Dortmund 2009.

Publications

Books include Netzkulturen (2002), Neue Slowenische Kunst (2002) and Avantgarda v vzvratnem ogledalu (The Avant-garde in the Rear-View Mirror, Ljubljana 2006; German version will be published in 2007). She published numerous articles on media art and net culture, most recently she contributed to Media Art Net 1: Survey of Media Art (Vienna/New York 2004); Media Art Net 2: Key Topics (Vienna/New York 2005); aRt&D. Research and Development in Art (Rotterdam 2005); East Art Map. Art and Eastern Europe (London 2006); Re-Inventing Radio. Aspects of Radio as Art (Vienna/Frankfurt 2008); Holy Fire (Brüssel 2008), Artists as Inventors / Inventors as Artists (Wien/New York 2008); Interface Aesthetics (Arhus 2009); Throughout: Art and Culture Emerging with Ubiquitous Computing (MIT Press, 2009).

She is also the editor of many exhibition catalogues, e.g. Irwin: Retroprincip 1983-2003 (2003); On Disappearance (2005); mit allem rechnen (2006); What is Modern Art? (Group Show) (2006); The Hartware Guide to irational (2006), History Will Repeat Itself (2007), HMKV – Hartware MedienKunstVerein 1996 - 2008 (2008), Waves - The Art of the Electromagnetic Society (2008), Anna Kournikova ... Art in the Age of Intellectual Property (2008), "Awake Are Only the Spirits" (2009).

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