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Born
1968
in
Duisdorf/Bonn
. Lives
in Dortmund
and [[Berlin]]
.
After having
worked
since 1993
as an independent curator and
author focussing on
media art, net cultures and Eastern Europe,
Inke Arns
(
Dr. / PhD
)
since January [[2005]] is
the
artistic director
of
[[Hartware MedienKunstVerein]]
in
[[Dortmund]]
.
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'''Inke Arns''' (
1968
,
Duisdorf/Bonn
) is a curator and artistic director of Hartware MedienKunstVerein
in Dortmund
since 2005
.
She has
worked
internationally
as an independent curator
, writer
and
theorist specializing in
media art, net cultures
,
and Eastern Europe
since 1993. She lived in Paris (1982–86)
,
graduated from highschool in West-Berlin in 1988, studied Russian literature, Eastern European studies, political science, and art history in Berlin and Amsterdam
(
1988–96
)
and in 2004 obtained her PhD from
the
Humboldt University in Berlin, with a thesis focusing on a paradigmatic shift in the way artists reflected 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
.
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She was a member
of Fischbüro, Berlin (1987-88), founding member of the [[Syndicate]] network (1996-2001), founding member of the ''Who by Fire?'' network initiated by the ICA-Dunaujvaros (12/
1997
), co-founder of the Berlin-based [[mikro]], association for the advancement of new media cultures (
3
/
1998
) as well as a co-founder of
''
[[Spectre]]
''
, a mailing list for media culture in Deep Europe (08/
2001
).
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Member
of Fischbüro, Berlin (1987-88), founding member of the
translocal
[[Syndicate]] network (1996-2001), founding member of the
'
''Who by Fire?
'
'' network initiated by the ICA-Dunaujvaros (12/
97
), co-founder of the Berlin-based [[mikro]], association for the advancement of new media cultures (
03
/
98
) as well as a co-founder of [[Spectre]], a mailing list for media culture in Deep Europe (08/
01
).
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She curated
exhibitions
at Bauhaus (Dessau)
,
n.b.k. (Berlin)
,
Moderna galerija (Ljubljana), Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin), Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum (Hagen), Museum
of
Contemporary
Art
(Belgrade)
,
Hartware MedienKunstVerein (Dortmund)
,
Centre for Contemporary Arts – CCA
(
Glasgow
),
KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin), Videotage (Hong Kong), Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina (Novi Sad), Centre for Contemporary Art Zamek Ujazdowski (Warsaw), Centre for Contemporary Art “Znaki Czasu” (Toruń), Contemporary Art Centre CAC (Vilnius), Muzeum Sztuki (Łodz), La Panacée (Montpellier), Jeu de Paume (Paris), Autocenter (Berlin)
.
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Her curatorial work includes media art
exhibitions
and conferences like [[Ostranenie]] 1993
,
[[Medienbiennale Leipzig]] 1994
,
[[V2 East Meeting on Documentation and Archives
of
Media
Art
in Central
,
Eastern and South Eastern Europe]] 1996
,
[[Update 2.0]]
(
2000
),
[[Readme]] 2005 and many others
.
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International exhibitions include ''IRWIN: Retroprinciple 1983-2003''
(
Berlin 2003, Hagen 2003
-
2004, Belgrade 2004
),
''What is Modern
Art
?''
(
Group Show
)
(Berlin 2006), ''The Wonderful World of irational
.
org''
(
Dortmund 2006, Glasgow 2007, Novi Sad 2008, Leuven 2012
)
, ''History Will Repeat Itself'' (Dortmund 2007, Berlin 2007
-
2008, Warsaw 2008, Hong Kong 2008), ''Anna Kournikova ... Art
in the
Age
of
Intellectual Property''
(
Dortmund 2008
)
, ''“Awake are only
the
Spirits” – On Ghosts and their Media''
(
Dortmund 2009, Toruń 2010
),
''Building Memory'' (Vilnius
,
Lodz, Tel Aviv, Dortmund 2010), ''Arctic Perspective''
(
Dortmund 2010
),
''Laure Prouvost: Monolog'' (Bielefeld 2011)
,
''Barbara Breitenfellner
:
Traum einer Ausstellung'' (Dortmund 2011), ''
The
Oil Show'' (Dortmund 2011
-
2012)
,
''Artur Zmijewski: Democracies'' (2012), ''Suzanne Treister: HEXEN 2.0'' (2012), ''Francis Hunger: History has left
the
Building''
(
2012), ''Sounds Like Silence (John Cage – 4’33” – Silence today / 1912 – 1952 – 2012)'' (2012
-
13
)
, ''His Master’s Voice: On Voice
and
Language''
(
Dortmund 2013
,
Montpellier 2015)
,
''INDUSTRIAL (Research)'' (2013-14), ''Evil Clowns'' (Dortmund 2014, Erlangen 2015
).
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After spending four years in Paris
(
1982
-
86
)
she studied Eastern European cultural studies
,
Slavistics, Political Science, and
Art
History at the Free University Berlin and the University of Amsterdam
(
Erasmus scholarship 1992
)
; 1996 M
.
A. thesis Neue Slowenische Kunst
(
NSK
) -
analysis of their artistic strategies
in the
context
of
Yugoslavia in the 1980s
(
published 2002
)
. 1998-2000 PhD grant of
the
Berlin Senate
(
NaFöG
)
. 2000-2001 lecturer at the Institute of Slavistics at the Humboldt University
,
Berlin
,
Germany. 2002-2004 guest-lecturer at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst
(
HGB
)
Leipzig. In 2004 she completed her PhD degree at the Institute of Slavistics of the Humboldt University
,
Berlin
,
Germany. Her dissertation, entitled Objects in the Mirror may be Closer Than They Appear
: The
Avant
-
garde in the Rear View Mirror
,
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
(
forthcoming in Slovenian translation by Maska
,
Ljubljana
,
in 2006
).
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She also co
-
organised media art exhibitions and conferences like ''[[Ostranenie]]'' (1993)
,
''[[Medienbiennale Leipzig]]''
(
1994
),
''[[V2 East Meeting on Documentation and Archives of Media Art in Central
,
Eastern and South Eastern Europe]]''
(
1996
),
''[[Update 2
.
0]]''
(
2000)
, and
''[[Readme]]'' (2005
).
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2000
-
2001 lecturer at the Institute of Slavistics at the 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
.
From 2008 professorship MA Contemporary Art Studies
(
Maska
,
Ljubljana; University of Nova Gorica; Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences
and
Arts, Ljubljana
).
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Inke Arns has been teaching at universities
and
art academies in Berlin
,
Leipzig
,
Zurich
, and
Rotterdam (2000-2011)
,
and has lectured and published internationally
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* [http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/themes/overview_of_media_art/communication/scroll/ "Interaction, Participation, Networking. Art
and
telecommunication"]
,
2002.
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* [http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/themes/overview_of_media_art/society/scroll/ "Social Technologies. Deconstruction
,
subversion
, and
the utopia of democratic communication"]
,
2003.
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* [http://en.inkearns
.
de/home/publications/ More]
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==Publications==
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* http://www.inkearns.de/
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Books
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* ''Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK) – eine Analyse ihrer künstlerischen Strategien im Kontext der 1980er Jahre in Jugoslawien'', Regensburg: Museum Ostdeutsche Galerie, 2002. {{de}}
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* ''Netzkulturen'', Hamburg: Europäische Verlagsanstalt, 2002. {{de}}
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* ''[http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/docviews/abstract.php?id=20894 Objects in the Mirror May Be Closer Than They Appear! Die Avantgarde im Rückspiegel. Zum Paradigmenwechsel der künstlerischen Avantgarderezeption in (Ex-) Jugoslawien und Russland von den 1980er Jahren bis in die Gegenwart]'', Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2004. PhD Dissertation. {{de}}
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** ''Avantgarda v vzvratnem ogledalu'', trans. Mojca Dobnikar, Ljubljana: Maska, 2006, 320 pp. {{sl}}
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20151210011030/http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/themes/overview_of_media_art/communication/scroll/ "Interaction, Participation, Networking: Art and Telecommunication"], trans. Tom Morrison, ''Media Art Net'', 2002. {{en}}
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20151210011030/http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/themes/overview_of_media_art/society/scroll/ "Social Technologies. Deconstruction, subversion, and the utopia of democratic communication"], trans. Michael Robinson, ''Media Art Net'', 2003. {{en}}
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==
Links
==
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*
[
http://www.inkearns.de/
Home page]
* http://www.projects.v2.nl/~arns/
* http://www.projects.v2.nl/~arns/
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