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Eugene Tan is a Singapore-based critic and curator. His previous appointments include Director of Exhibitions, Osage Gallery (Hong Kong, Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai), Programme Director for Contemporary Art at Sotheby's Institute of Art – Singapore and Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore. He holds a PhD in Art History from the University of Manchester. He was also co-curator of the inaugural Singapore Biennale in 2006 and curator for the Singapore Pavilion at the 2005 Venice Biennale. Recent thematic exhibitions he has curated include “The Burden of Representation: Abstraction in Asia Today” (2010), “Coffee, Cigarettes and Pad Thai: Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia” (2008) and “Always Here but Never Present: Art in a Senseless World” (2008), as well as solo exhibitions by Lee Mingwei (2010), Jompet (2010), Charwei Tsai (2009), Nipan Oranniwesna (2009) and Wilson Shieh (2009). He is co-author of the publication “Contemporary Art in Singapore” (2007) and has written for exhibition catalogues and publications, including art journals such as Art Asia Pacific, Art Review, Broadsheet, C-Arts, Contemporary, Flash Art, Metropolis M and Modern Painters.

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Sara Reisman is Director of New York City’s Percent for Art program which commissions permanent artworks for City-owned public spaces. Reisman has organized exhibitions and written about public engagement and public art, social practice, the aesthetics of globalization, and site-specificity for the Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art, Queens Museum of Art, The Cooper Union School of Art, Smack Mellon, Socrates Sculpture Park, Momenta Art, and Aljira, among others. Reisman is the 2011 Critic in Residence at Art Omi.

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Joseph Gaylard is the director of the Visual Arts Network of South Africa. He also works as a freelance researcher, curator and writer and recently completed a major study on the visual arts industry in South Africa for the Human Sciences Research Council. He has an independent creative practice largely revolving around experimental work in public space in a contemporary African context. He is a board member of the Arts and Culture Trust and the Joubert Park Project. He has a Fine Arts Degree from the University of Cape Town and an Honours degreee in History of Art from the same institution.

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Mami Kataoka is chief curator at Mori Art Museum in Tokyo where she curated “Roppongi Crossing” (2004), “Ozawa Tsuyoshi” (2004), “All about Laughtert” (2006), “Ai Weiwei” (2009) amongst others. Meanwhile she was a first international curator at the Hayward Gallery in London from 2007 to 2009 where she curated “Laughing in a Foreign Language” (2008), “Ujino and the Rotators” (2009) and co-curated “Walking in My Mind” (2009). Prior to these positions, she was chief curator at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery from 1998 to 2002. She also worked on diverse cultural policy studies, cultural facility planning and public art projects at NLI Research Institute from 1992 till 98. In 2012 she is curating “Lee Bul”, guest cuarting “Phantoms of Asia” for Asian Art Museum in San Francisco and co-directing the 9th Gwangju Biennale in South Korea.

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Bibi Katholm is a curator and artist, currently based in Copenhagen and Berlin. She is curating 'In Case We Don’t Die' a group exhibition between Berlin, London and Copenhagen. She has a postgraduate diploma in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins (2006), and a Master of Painting degree from Royal College of Art (2008) in London. Bibi exhibits internationally, and she has had two major solo shows in Copenhagen since her graduation from the RCA. Prior to her artistic education in London Bibi completed a BA in comparative literature, and a cand. Mag. in Visual Culture at the University of Southern Denmark, while she was working as a curatorial assistant at the exhibition space Kunsthallen Brandts in Odense, Denmark.

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Davide Quadrio aka Dadou is a sinologist, curator and art historian. He founded BizArt, Shanghai's first non-profit art centre, in 1998. Stemming from this experience and a decade working in cross cultural matters (Davide was awarded 2004 the title of young leader for culture in Asia by IIAS and ASEF in Den Hague, The Netherlands) in 2007, Quadrio together with Defne Ayas started Arthub Asia, a cultural and artistic constellation of independent thinkers devoted to contemporary art creation in China and across Asia. Since 2009, Davide has been founding director of FarEastFarWest an art production company that supports new and challenging cultural projects based in Asia. From September 2010 he is lecturing at Fudan University, Institute of Visual Arts, Shanghai.

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Erin Sickler is the Director of Curatorial Programs at 601Artspace, New York, NY. Previously, she was Assistant Curator at the Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY. Prior to that she was an itinerant producer of memoirs, installations, and organizing systems for artists; puppet shows; plays; protests; conferences; strawbale and Cobb constructions; and consciousness-raising experiments. She received her BA in Visual Art and Environmental Studies from Oberlin College (2001) and an interdisciplinary MA from NYU (2007). Her interests are chiefly divided into two main categories 1) working with artists who engage complexity in all mediums and 2) exploring intersections between the economy and art, especially the way that organizational funding structures affect artists’ work. To that end, she partners with the barter site Ourgoods.org by hosting Idea Parties to encourage collaboration and sustainability in support of ideas. She has organized numerous exhibitions, among these: the Queen’s Museum’s biennial Queens International 4 (2009) and Hanging Out at No Rio (2009), a project with nine artists in New York's Lower East Side. In 2010, she was awarded the Lori Ledis Emerging Curator Fellowship and was a Fellow at the Smithsonian Latino Center, Washington, D.C. She is the US Listings Editor for the Swiss art magazine Kunst Bulletin.

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I am an artist-painter-professor. I teach at the Korea National University of Arts and show work mostly in Korea and Japan. I lived in New York City and the USA for 30 years before settling in Korea in 1993.

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Philip Tinari is founding editor and acting publisher of LEAP, a bilingual, bimonthly magazine of contemporary art and culture based in Beijing and launched by the Modern Media Group in February 2010. A critic and curator, he also teaches at the Central Academy of Fine Arts.

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Nicola Trezzi (Magenta, 1982) lives in New York and Milan. He received a Diploma Accademico in 2006 from Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan, department of Stage Design. Since 2006, Nicola has worked as an editor at Giancarlo Politi Editore in Milan and Nadace Prague Biennale Foundation, Prague, where he also serves as curator and exhibition coordinator for the Prague Biennale and editor for Flash Art CZ & SK (Czech and Slovak edition). In May 2008, he was appointed Flash Art International U.S. Editor and his articles have appeared in Flash Art Italia (Milan), Il Sole 24 Ore (Milan), Monopol (Berlin) and he has lectured at Yale University (New Haven), MODEM (Debrecen), NABA (Milan), iCI (New York), HVCCA, (Peekskill), Columbia University (New York) and Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design (Tel Aviv). In 2007, he became an employee of Colmar-based art employer Lucie Fontaine, the owner of a Milan-based, an artist run space conceived as a rendezvous for the city’s artistic community.

Committee Live Media & Performance Prize
Eric Dunlap is co-director of Forward Motion Theater founded in 1995 with media artist Holly Daggers. The company's is to explore the combination of movement and technology through live performance and digital media. FMT has created choreoworks that incorporate lasers, fiber optic costumes, electroluminescent lighting and live-mix video, incorporating themes of cloning, cyborgs, the mating rituals of Martian plant life, a futuristic human garden, and a bondage fairy tale. Using structured improvisation and formalized composition for each work to generate a specialized vocabulary of movement to relay these ideas. Eric spent his formative years touring nationally and internationally as a principle dancer with the Alwin Nikolais / Murray Louis Dance Company. Currently dancing with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, he has worked with various companies in New York. Eric is also curator of multi-disciplinary performance through FMT's EyeWash, an exhibition series featuring VJs and video artists working in collaboration with audio and movement artists. Through Eyewash, FMT has presented over 150 artists in the past six years.

Committee Live Media & Performance Prize
Marco Mancuso graduated in Letters/Contemporary Art at Università Statale in Milan. Founder and Director of Digicult and the monthly magazine Digimag, projects about digital technologies crossing art, design, science, culture & society, he works as critic, curator & teacher skilled on networking activities and web 2.0 editing & communication strategies. With the art-agency Digimade is working for art festivals & events as guest curator and media partner, organizing exhibitions and cross media events, workshops, meetings and screenings, and is also working as promoter for some Italian and international artists. Marco Mancuso teaches "Multimedia Art Languages" at the NABA-New Academy of Arts in Milan and "New Media Art" & "Audiovisual Art & Design" at the IED-European Institute of Design in Milan, and he's invited as guest lecturer in many Italian Universities presenting theories concerning connections between history of experimental cinema, expanded cinema, live cinema, electronic music and contemporary digital audiovisual art, including the relationship to space, the sciences, the open source technologies and generative, interactive or architectural design installations.

Committee Live Media & Performance Prize
In 2001 I've co-founded the electronic art collective otolab. Since then I've performed all around Italy and Europe. A short list includes: Netmage 04 (Bologna), Live! Ixem (Mestre), Dissonanze 08 (Rome), Mixedmedia (Milano), REC (Reggio Emilia), Cimatics (Bruxelles), Italian Renaissance (Reggio Emilia), Sonica 2007 (La Spezia), Panorama Festival (Napoli), Sonic Acts XII (Amsterdam), Share Festival (Torino), Sincronie 04/05/06 (Milano), Dissonanze 08 (Rome). With LCM, together with Fabio Volpi (Dies_), I've won the fist prize in Celeste Prize Live Media Section, 2009 (Berlin). Even if otolab tent to conceive its performances as a whole audiovisual project and to develop its contents on its own, sometimes it happens to work with other musicians, authors or performers. This is the reason why I've made specific visuals for experimental music (Staubgold, Staalplat, Icarus Ensemble and Pansonic and composers such as Nova, Taglietti, Agostini, Prati, Viel, Aralla, Malavasi, Trevisi, Otto Von Scirach, Errorsmith, etc) and for more dance oriented performances (Franko B, Tigerskin, The Bug and many others). My videos have been screened in video, cinema and art festivals all around the world. I teach "Theory and Practice of Audiovisual Performance" in NABA and in the Otolab Winter School and Summer School.

Committee Live Media & Performance Prize
Curator of FONLAD’s Festival and UAVM Virtual Museum. Artist with exhibitions since 1982 in Portugal, Brazil, Spain, France, Italy, UK, Romenia, Mexico, Argentina, United States, etc and curator of several exhibitions and festival’s in Portugal.

Committee Live Media & Performance Prize
Claudio Sinatti (Milan 1972) is an italian director and multimedia artist. He focuses on spatial video systems and human interaction, creating livemedia performances, large scale videoprojections, video set designs and interactive installations. Claudio works for both personal and commercial projects, moving between art festivals, brand events, pop concerts, television, fashion, cinema, theatre... His passion for music has led him to collaborate on live performances with artists such as Christian Fennesz, Stephan Mathieu, Scanner, Negramaro, Ligabue, Zucchero, AGF, Vladislav Delay, Byetone, Renato Zero and many more. He has created projects for brands such as Nike, MTV, Pirelli, BMW, Heineken, Rolex, Breil, Kenzo, Vodafone, Strenesse... Claudio holds frequent lectures and workshops internationally and teaches experimental multimedia in different schools in Milan.

Committee Live Media & Performance Prize
Marius Watz (NO) is an artist working with visual abstraction through generative systems. He is known for his bold use of colors and hard-edged geometric compositions. In 2005 Watz founded Generator.x, a curatorial platform that has resulted in a series of events related to generative art and design. Generator.x 1.0 was a conference at Atelier Nord in Oslo, accompanied by a travelling exhibition organized by the Norwegian National Museum that lasted until the end of 2007. A Generator.x concert tour of audiovisual performances was initiated in March 2006 and continues to this day. Generator.x 2.0 was a workshop and exhibition produced in collaboration with the Club Transmediale 2008 festival in Berlin, focusing on digital fabrication and computational architecture. Watz is a lecturer in Interaction Design at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. He gives workshops and lectures on topics like generative art and computational design, information visualization, live cinema and digital fabrication. Marius Watz is represented by [DAM]Berlin.