Archive Cinema City 2009.
Conference participants:
Brian Holmes (TBC)
Darko Pantelic
Felix Stalder
Brian Holmes is an american born art and cultural critic, activist and translator, living in Paris, interested primarily in the intersections of artistic and political practice. He holds a doctorate in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of California at Berkeley. He was the English editor of publications for Documenta X, Kassel, Germany, 1997, was a member of the graphic arts group Ne pas plier from 1999 to 2001, and has recently worked with the French conceptual art group Bureau d'études. He is a frequent contributor to the international mailinglist Nettime, a member of the editorial committee of the art magazine "Springerin" and the political-economy journal "Multitudes", a regular contributor to the magazine Parachute, and a founder of the new journal "Autonomie Artistique". He is currently preparing a book in French, entitled "La personnalité flexible: Pour une nouvelle critique de la culture."
Darko Pantelic (Serbia) is a PhD undergraduate at Faculty of Economics in Subotica and University of Novi Sad. He also specialised in business psychology. He took expert specialisation trainings at various places in Slovenia, Germany and in the USA. When he was at Portland State University (Oregon), he lectured an elective subject Managing in Emerging Markets. His main interest domains are marketing, marketing and society relation, marketing application in domains such as pharmacy, medicine, education, culture. His second specialisation field is connecting psychology with marketing, in other words, applying psychology in understanding consumers and behavioural manifestations of their decisions when they play the role of a consumer in modern society.
Felix Stadler is lecturer in the theory of the media society at the Zurich University of the Arts where he also co-directs the media arts program. A sociologist by training, he has been doing research on the intersection of social, political and technological dynamics, particularly in the context of new modes of cultural production. Over the last decade, he has written several books, including “Open Cultures and the Nature of Networks”, published by kuda.org, and organized international conferences, most recently "Deep Search" (Vienna, 2008) and "World Information City" (Paris, 2009). He is also a moderator of the nettime mailing list. Most of his digital output can be accessed at felix.openflows.com. He lives in Vienna.
