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Marinella Paderni graduated in Contemporay Art at the University of Bologna (DAMS), Italy. She is a contemporary art critic and independent curator. She teaches Contemporary Art at the IULM University in Milan and ISIA in Faenza and Phenomenology of Contemporary Arts at the Fine Arts Academy in Bergamo. She was a correspondent for the international contemporary art magazine “Tema Celeste”, and is currently contribuing to contemporary art magazines "Frieze", “Flash Art” and "Exibart". She has curated various exhibitions on the portrayal of contemporary landscapes, such as “Alto Impatto Ambientale”, 2003; “Suburbia”, 2004 (in collaboration with Marco Senaldi); “Ground Zero. Lo spazio di nulla”, 2005; and the site-specific exhibitions at the Botanical Gardens in Parma (Open Air from 2005 to 2008, in collaboration with Isotta Saccani).
Her activity as a curator also involves video art and photography. She has written a book dedicated to photography as part of the “Laboratorio Italia” series published by Johan & Levi (Laboratorio Italia. The photography in contemporary art, 2010). In 2008 she curated the “Same Democracy” project (in collaboration with Elvira Vannini), the first Italian exhibition on the theme of artistic and curatorial practices, inspired by the open source model, and a public project on the theme of visionary realism in art, architecture and cultural economics, entitled “We have a dream” (Spazio Gerra, Reggio Emilia, in collaboration with Luca Molinari and Pier Luigi Sacco). In 2012 she was the curator of Celeste Network Prize "Beyondmemory" focused on the archive fever in contemporary art. She has held various thematic conferences on contemporary art, with a particular focus on the phenomenology between different cultural sectors. From 1988 to 1994 she worked in fashion, collaborating with the designer Jean-Paul Gaultier as director of the “Junior Gaultier” product line.

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Martin Breindl, born 1963 in Vienna, Austria, is media artist, theoretician and curator.
He studied at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna (M.A. 2001) and at the University of Vienna. He is founder of alien productions (in collaboration with Andrea Sodomka, Norbert Math and August Black), an artists' network for works in new technology and media. He works in the fields of media-performance, installation, net.art, radio art, sound art, video art and visual arts. Since 2001 he is one of the curators of FLUSS – society for the promotion of photo- and media art, based in Wolkersdorf, Austria; since 2005 co-curator of the International Photographic Triennial Backlight. Martin Breindl was member of the jury of the International Computermusic Conference 2004, New Orleans, USA, of the Grand Prix Fotofestiwal 2009, Lodz, PL and the Cultural Awards for Media Arts 2009 of the province of Lower Austria. He has held lectures, workshops and portfolio readings at the University von Princeton USA, the UMBC University of Maryland Baltimore USA, the University of Luxembourg, the Mussorgsky Conservatory Jekaterinburg RUS, the ICC InterCommunicationsCenter Tokyo JP, the SAGA Universität Kyoto JP, the Fondazione Studio Marangoni Florence I, and on the occasion of festivals and symposions like the Mission Jeunes Artistes/Printemps en Septembre Toulose F, the Transmediale Berlin D, the Fotofestiwal Lodz PL, Backlight Tampere FIN, Tranzistor Zagreb HR and City of Women Ljubljana SLO, among others.

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Elena Ceratti lives and works in Milano as photography editor and editorial consultant for the agencies BlobUp and Emblema. She started at Agenzia Grazia Neri as photoresearcher for both Italian and foreign press, in particular with French publications (L’Express, Paris Match,Le Point, Le Nouvel Observateur) and cooperated with De Agostini and Rusconi publishers as photoeditor of Libro dell’Anno (Year Books) and Dizionario Enciclopedico. She is international news editor, and since 1992 she is also in charge of exhibitions as curator and/or press agent (among the authors: Phil Stern, Donna Ferrato, David and Peter Turnley, Robert Doisneau, Paolo Pellegrin,Isabel Munoz, Douglas Kirkland, Mary Ellen Mark, Michael Ackerman, Fernando Moleres, Willy Ronis, Georg Gerster, Lauren Greenfield, Christopher Morris, Zijah Gafic and others). She was in the jury of several photographic awards such as World Press Photo. She's member of Grin, the Italian photoeditors association.

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Born in Milan, Silvio Wolf received a Higher Diploma in Advanced Photography at the London College of Printing. Over time, he has moved away from the pure two-dimensional format of photography, creating multimedia projects and sound installations. His works appear in galleries, museums, and public spaces in Belgium, Canada, England, France, Germany, Italy, Korea, Luxembourg, Spain, Switzerland and the United States. He teaches Photography at the European Institute of Design in Milan, and at the School of Visual Arts in New York.