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Francisca Caporali, Diretora de Programação Francisca graduou-se em Comunicação Social pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), tendo concluído Máster em Arte, pelo MECAD / ESDi, em Barcelona e em Fine Arts, pelo Hunter College de Nova Iorque. Exibiu suas obras em diversos festivais como (Break 2.4 Festival in Slovenia; VideoBrasil, Wide World Film festival em Toronto e o Flaherty Seminar em Hamilton); galerias e instituições internacionais (Goethe Institute, SCOPE and Orchard47 em NYC; UnionDoc em Brooklyn; Jeu de Paume em Paris; Gandy Gallery em Eslovakia). Participou de residências como artista (LMCC, Tiltfactor em NY e OpenArt na Grécia), além de ter organizado e curado exposições em NY  (UHP, Electronic Social Club; the IMAterial Show).

Xandro Gontijo, Diretor Executivo Xandro graduou-se em Comunicação Tecnológica e em Administração de Empresas, pela Universidade de Nova Iorque. De 2003 a 2007, foi Gerente de Logística do Grupo Gontijo de Transportes. Desde 2008 trabalha com consultoria em fusões e aquisições de empresas e captação e gerenciamento de projetos culturais.

Pedro Mendes, Diretor de Exposições Pedro Mendes Siruffo é curador indepente e sócio fundador da Rhys Mendes, galeria sediada entre LA, BH  e SP. Pedro Mendes é formado em Filosofia da Arte e Políticas Internacionais pela Universidade Americana de Paris e pós-graduado em história da arte pela Christie’s education.

Matthew Wood, Coordenador de Residência Matthew Wood é um jovem curador com vastos projetos entre França, Los Angeles e Brasil. Sócio fundador da RHYS MENDES Gallery, Matthew é formado em Filosofia pela Universidade Americana de Paris. Ele participou de diversas publicações e curadorias, dentre elas o catálogo da exposição de Marina Perez Simão no Museu Saint Etienne Paris e a exposição Passage em homenagem a Walter Benjamin que ocorreu simultaneamente em Bratislava (Galeria Gandy), em NYC (Goethe Institute) e em Paris (Museu Jeu de Paume). Matt é também, reponsável pela edição atual de uma série de monografias de artistas brasileiros pela editora  mendesWood/ add2 Edições de Arte.

BOARD OF ADVISORS

Nathalie Anglès Nathalie Anglès is the founder of Residency Unlimited (www.residencyunlimited.org), a newly created  New York-based not-for-profit organization whose mission is to foster artist residency opportunities in  New York and beyond  through the principle of collaboration. Prior to this, Nathalie was Director of Location One’s International Residency Program (www.location1.org) which she built and managed from its inception in 2001 until  March 2009. From 1994-1997 she worked at the American Center in Paris as Director of  the Residency Program ,  followed by a tenure at the Ecole des Beaux Arts (ENSBA). Over the years, Nathalie has carried through various independent curatorial projects. Recently in 2009, as co-curator of  ‘Exhibition” (http://www.exhibition211.net/) ,  a 6 months project set  in a vacant storefront in t NYC. In 2000, she was a co-founder with Warren Neidich of “artbrain.org” (http://www.artbrain.org). In 2008, the French government honored Nathalie for her groundbreaking work in the arts in by bestowing her with the rank of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters.

Anita Beckers Anita Beckers opened her own gallery in Darmstadt in 1984, after 30 years of collecting art. Later, in 1998, Mrs. Beckers moved to Frankfurt, where she established a strong reputation – being now considered an international reference not only in Video Art but in Contemporary Art. In 2006 she opened a secondary exhibition space („Satellit“) for interdisciplinary projects. She is an organizer and jury for the LOOP Video Art Fair since 2003, has collaborated with Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and ASA European Mathildenhöhe. She has also been part of the managing committee at the Institute for New Media in Frankfurt for 4 years.

Andrés Burbano Burbano explores the interactions of science, art and technology in various capacities: as a researcher, as an individual artist and in collaborations with other artists and designers. Burbano’s work ranges from documentary video (in both science and art), sound and telecommunication art to the exploration of algorithmic cinematic narratives. The broad spectrum of his work illustrates the importance- indeed, the prevalence- of interdisciplinary collaborative work in the field of digital art. Andres Burbano is currently a PhD student in the Media Arts and Technology program in University of California Santa Barbara.

Margery Arent Safir Director of the Arts Arena and Professor of Comparative Literature at The American University of Paris; member of Latin America research group CRICCAL, Sorbonne and of the Advisory Council of the Aspen Institute Global Initiative on Art, Culture and Society..  She is the author and editor of works on Latin American fiction and on science and literature, including Earth Tones:The Poetry of Pablo Neruda (with Manuel Durán), Melancholies of Knowledge: Literature in the Age of Science (with Stephen Jay Gould et.al.), Connecting Creations: Science-Technology Literature-Arts; translator of texts by Julio Cortázar and Michel Rio; and organizer of multi-disciplinary international colloquia, She is a recent Meymandi Distinguished Visitor at the National Humanities Center  in the United States (2007).

Chus Martinez Chus Martinez, critic, curator and writer was born in 1972 in Spain. After studying philosophy and history of art in Barcelona, she did a master degree in curatorial studies at Bard College in New York. From 2002–2005 she worked as curator at the Sala Rekalde in Bilbao, Spain, and have from January 1, 2006 been appointed Director of the Frankfurter Kunstverein, where she also coordinates an Artist-in-residency program.

Isaura Pena