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Curator
Anne Barlow
Anne Barlow (born in Glasgow, Scotland) is
Executive Director of Art in General, New
York, a non-profit organization that supports
artists through the commissioning of new
work and an international residency exchange
program. From 1999-2006, Barlow was
Curator of Education and Media Programs
at the New Museum, New York, where she
oversaw its educational and public programs,
conceived of and developed
Museum as Hub (a global network initiative
that connected the museum with art partners
in Cairo, Eindhoven, Mexico City and
Seoul), organized inter-disciplinary roundtables
with leaders in the fields of the visual
arts, architecture, and design, developed the
museum’s Digital Culture Programs, and
curated numerous exhibitions and performances.
Barlow received her M.A. in the History of
Art from the University of Glasgow,
Scotland. Prior to moving to New York,
Barlow was Curator of Contemporary Art
and Design at Glasgow Museums, where
she managed its contemporary art collection,
exhibitions, residencies and commissions
programs. Independently, she collaborated
on the exhibition Copy It, Steal It,
Share It at Borusan Art Gallery, Istanbul, and
guest-curated film and media projects for the
International Film Festival Rotterdam, the
Netherlands, and Threshold Artspace,
Scotland. Barlow has published for organizations
including: Liverpool University
Press/Tate Gallery Liverpool; the Henry
Moore Institute, Leeds, United Kingdom; the
Edith Russ House for Media Art, Oldenburg;
the New Museum; and Art in General. She
recently co-organized Art in General’s international
residency/exchange symposium
What Now?, and has participated in lectures
and discussions at organizations including:
the Royal College of Art, London; Centre for
Contemporary Art, Warsaw; MUMOK,
Vienna; The Cooper Union for the
Advancement of Science and Art, New York;
New York University; ARCOmadrid, for
Latitudes’ Professional Encounters; Tate
Modern, London; and the Sharjah Art
Foundation.
Writers / Scriitori
Sotirios Bahtsetzis
Sotirios Bahtsetzis is an adjunct professor in
art history and an independent curator based
in Athens and Berlin. His research interests
include image theory, political theory and
contemporary cultural analysis. Recent
publications: The Time That Remains (e-flux
Journal v. 28 & v. 30), Image Wars
(Afterimage v. 38); Recent exhibitions:
Roaming Images (3. Thessaloniki Biennale).
Stephen Duncombe
Stephen Duncombe is an Associate
Professor at the Gallatin School and the
Department of Media, Culture and Communications
of New York University where he
teaches the history and politics of media. He
is the author of Dream: Re-Imagining
Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy
and Notes From Underground: Zines and the
Politics of Underground Culture, and co-author
of The Bobbed Haired Bandit: Crime and
Celebrity in 1920s New York; the editor of the
Cultural Resistance Reader and co-editor of
White Riot: Punk Rock and the Politics of
Race. He is the creator of the Open Utopia,
an open-access, open-source, web-based
edition of Thomas More’sUtopia, and writes
on the intersection of culture and politics for
a range of scholarly and popular publications,
from the cerebral, The Nation, to the
prurient, Playboy. Duncombe is a life-long
political activist, co-founding a community
based advocacy group in the Lower East
Side of Manhattan and working as an organizer
for the NYC chapter of the international
direct action group, Reclaim the Streets. In
2009 he was a Research Associate at the
Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology in
New York City where he helped organize The
College of Tactical Culture. With funding from
the Open Societies Foundations he co-created
the School for Creative Activism in 2011,
and is presently co-director of the Center for
Artistic Activism. Duncombe is currently working
on a book on the art of propaganda
during the New Deal.
Tom Holert
Tom Holert is an art historian and cultural critic.
A former editor of Texte zur Kunst and copublisher
of Spex magazine, Holert currently
lives in Berlin and teaches and conducts
research in the Institute of Art Theory and
Cultural Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts
Vienna. He contributes to journals and newspapers
such as Artforum, Texte zur Kunst,
Camera Austria, Jungle World, and Der
Standard. Among his recent publications are
a book on migration and tourism (Fliehkraft:
Gesellschaft in Bewegung—von Migranten
und Touristen, with Mark Terkessidis), a
monograph on Marc Camille Chaimowicz'
1972 installation "Celebration? Realife"
(2007) and a collection of chapters on visual
culture and politics (Regieren im Bildraum,
2008).
Răzvan Ion
Răzvan Ion is a theoretician, curator, cultural
manager and political activist. He is the cofounder
and co-director (with Eugen
Rădescu) of Pavilion - journal for politics and
culture, Bucharest Biennale and Pavilion -
center for contemporary art & culture. He
teached and lectured at venues including
University of California, Berkeley; University
of Oxford; University of London; Headlands
Center for the Arts, San Francisco,
California; Political Science Faculty, Cluj; Art
Academy, Timisoara; La Casa Encedida,
Madrid; and the Calouste Gulbenkian
Foundation, Lisbon. Ion writes for different
magazines and newspapers, and recently
curated "Exploring the Return of Repression"
at rum46, Aarhus, Denmark and "From
Contemplating to Contructing Situations" at
PAVILION, Bucharest, Romania. He is now
working on the two book projects "Exploring
the Return of Repression" and "Rhizomic
Structures Of Art Institutions. Neo-Politics Of
Culture", to be published in 2012/2013. His
new curatorial and research project is
“Smash the Church! Smash the State!”
dealing with anarchist and collective activism
and social-political movements in art and will
be exhibited late 2013. He is professor at
University of Bucharest, Romania. Ion lives
and works in Bucharest.
Olive McKeon
Olive McKeon is a doctoral candidate at
UCLA in Culture and Performance. Her
research focuses on the relation between
dance and Marxism, moving between the
political economy of dance and the choreography
of labor struggles. She makes dances
as a part of the Welcoming Committee.
She is involved in university organizing and
feminist groups. She lives in Los Angeles,
California.
Suzana Milevska
Dr. Suzana Milevska is a theorist of visual art
and culture based in Skopje, Macedonia.
Currently she teaches art history and theory
of visual art at the Faculty of Fine Arts –
University Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje.
From 2008 – 2010 she taught fine arts and
digital arts at the New-York University in
Skopje and she taught art history and analysis
of styles at the Accademia Italiana Skopje
and she was its Dean. From 2006 to 2008,
she was the Director of the Center for Visual
and Cultural Research at the Social
Sciences and Humanities Research Institute
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