Inke Arns Berlin/Dortmund

Born in 1968 in Duisdorf/Bonn, Germany, lives in Berlin since 1986, freelance curator and author since 1993 focussing on media art, net cultures and Eastern Europe. Doctorate of Philosophy at the Humboldt University of Berlin in 2004. Beginning January 2005 Artistic Director of the "hartware medien kunst verein" in Dortmund. Her dissertation researches a paradigmatic shift in the way artists reflect the historical avant-garde and the notion of utopia in visual and media art projects of the 1980s and 1990s in (ex-)Yugoslavia and Russia. Along with her publications "Netzkulturen" and "Neue Slowenische Kunst" (both 2002) she has also written numerous works on media art and net cultures.

Selected Projects

"Minima Media. Medienbiennale", with Dieter Daniels, formerly Buntgarnwerke, Leipzig, 1994 "un-frieden. sabotage von wirklichkeiten", with Ute Vorkoeper, Kunstverein und Kunsthaus Hamburg, 1996-1997
"Irwin. Retroprincip 1983-2003", Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum, Hagen; Museum for Modern Art, Belgrade, 2003-2004
"Public Library", with Florian Cramer, Wizards of OS 3, Berlin, 2004

Selected Publications

"Netzkulturen", Hamburg 2002
"Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK) - eine Analyse ihrer künstlerischen Strategien im Kontext der 1980er Jahre in Jugoslawien", Regensburg 2002
"Objects in the mirror may be closer than they appear! Die Avantgarde im Rückspiegel. Zum Paradigmenwechsel der künstlerischen Avantgarderezeption in (Ex-)Jugoslawien und Russland von den 1980er Jahren bis in die Gegenwart", Phil.-Diss. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2004

Links

edoc.hu-berlin.de/dissertationen/arns-inke-2004-02-20/PDF/Arns.pdf
www.mikro.org
colossus.v2.nl/syndicate/index_frames.html
www.irwin-retroprincip.de
www.v2.nl/~arns