spatial experience narrative and architecture - Architecture Insights

SPATIAL EXPERIENCE, NARRATIVE & ARCHITECTURE - BYERA HADLEY REPORT 297.0 APPENDIXNina Fischer / Maroan el Sani:BerlinWith their work Fischer & el Sani focus ontransitory spaces and vacuum situations in urbanenvironments, collective memory and vision invarious media such as film, video, installation andphotography. They critically reflect the rise and fallof modernity, the intense and uncanny relationshipbetween our contemporary society and utopianprojects that have driven the evolution of our history,from the past to the future, or the anachronisticmerging of both ends. Their work is a permanentpursuit of and negotiation with the transition of time.Nina Fischer / Maroan el Sani have been workingtogether in Berlin since 1993. From 2007 until 2010they have been working as Associate Professorsfor Film and Media Art at Sapporo City University,Japan. They have been the recipient of the Karl-Hofer-Prize of the University of the Arts, Berlin andwere awarded several artist in residence stipends e.g.at German Academy Villa Massimo, Rome, DAAD inTokyo, Cité des Arts in Paris and at Stedelijk Museumin Amsterdam.Robert Beson:SydneyRobert Beson is the principal of AR-MA, anarchitectural design and consulting firm focusedon conceptual design, fabrication and assembly.A graduate of the Master of Architecture at theUniversity of Technology Sydney, Robert wasawarded the Byera Hadley Traveling scholarship forresearch on fabrication and production of complexstructures, conducted at the Zurich office of Designto Production, Switzerland. Robert has taughtarchitectural design as well as advanced modelingat UTS, the University of Sydney, and the Universityof Newcastle. Robert has acted as art directorand curator for academic institutions (University ofTechnology and University of Sydney).Website: AR-MAhttp://www.ar-ma.netWebsite:Gallery contact:www.fischerelsani.nethttp://www.eigen-art.com/