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Julian Stallabrass
Julian Stallabrass is Reader in art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art. He is the author
of Art Incorporated, Oxford University Press 2004, Internet Art: The Online Clash Between
Culture and Commerce, Tate Publishing, London 2003; Paris Pictured, Royal Academy
of Arts, London 2002; High Art Lite: British Art in the 1990s, Verso, London 1999 and
Gargantua: Manufactured Mass Culture, Verso, London 1996; he is the co-editor of
Ground Control: Technology and Utopia, Black Dog Publishing, London 1997, Occupational
Hazard: Critical Writing on Recent British Art, Black Dog Publishing, London 1998, and
Locus Solus: Technology, Identity and Site in Contemporary Art, Black Dog Publishing,
London 1999. He also writes regularly for publications including Tate, Art Monthly and the
New Statesman. In 2001 he curated an exhibition at Tate Britain entitled Art and Money
Online. He is an editorial board member of New Left Review and Third Text.
Martin Ferro-Thomsen
Born 1976. M.A., cultural theorist, editor, and writer, based in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Was behind the research project ‘Organisational Art’ at the research centre Learning
Lab Denmark, Copenhagen. He took part in organising ‘The Organisational Art Thin Book
Summit’ 2004, where twenty artists, researchers and practitioners met to discuss and
describe interdisciplinary projects with art and organisations. Together with David Barry
and Kent Hansen he is editing the spin-off book, The Thin Book of Art and Organisation
(working title, MayflyBooks, due 2006-2007). Author of Organisational Art – A Study of
Art at Work in Organisations (2005).
Julie Vandenbroucke
Born 1949 in Izegem, Belgium. She is the founder and president of Arteconomy. She
started her professional career as a social worker and gradually developed a passion
for contemporary art. She organized several successful exhibitions and events, some of
them together with her husband Michel Espeel who has been working together with artists
in his company since 1989. In March 2002, her passion for contemporary art and her
experience in the field resulted in the foundation of Arteconomy, a non-profit organization
that aims at establishing win-win relationships between art and economy, between artists
and entrepreneurs. Arteconomy believes that both art and the economy have something
to offer to each other and that both can benefit from this relationship. Julie is the driving
force who stimulates research and sets up innovative collaboration projects. She is also a
member of the board of different cultural organizations and is a respected guest speaker
at round tables and conventions on the subject of arts in business.
Michel Espeel
Born 1949 in Roeselare, Belgium After graduating in Applied Economic Sciences from
Antwerp University, he became managing director of Constructies Espeel, an industrial SME
in metal construction, founded by his father in 1954 and specialized in the automation of
material handling and systems delivery. He has been working with artists in his company
since 1989. It all started when artist Paul Gees came up with a technical problem that was
solved at Constructies Espeel. More and more artists found their way to the company and
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