KIBLIX 2011 - Organisational Team

Dejan Pestotnik (SI) - KIBLA

Producer and managing director

Dejan Pestotnik is Multimedia producer, Vice president of Multimedia Center KIBLA (Maribor, Slovenia). As a manager he is working on EU projects (IST, FP6, FP7, EU Culture, EU Structural Founds,…). With his work, he is managing promotion of contemporary art production, focused on multimedia and intermedia art on international level (contemporary art exhibitions, presentations, strategic communications, found raising, sponsorships) and connecting culture with business sector. He is author of Marketing, strategic communication and promotion document for Maribor candidacy for European Capital of Culture 2012 under KIBLA production. Maribor was selected for this title in a competition of 4 Slovenian cities. Also author of several articles about cultural management and new media art production in national and international media.

Marc Dusseiller (CH) - SGMK / Hackteria

Festival coordinator and curator for educational program

Marc R. Dusseiller is a transdisciplinary scholar, lecturer for micro- and nanotechnology, cultural facilitator and artist. He works in an integral way to combine science, art and education. He performs DIY-workshops in lo-fi electronics, music and robotics, has made various short movies and is currently developing means to perform biological science (Hackteria | Open Source Biological Art) in a DIY fashion in your kitchen or your atelier. He is also co-organizing Dock18, Room for Mediacultures, and various other engagments like the diy* festival, national and international workshops for both artists and schools and children as the president of the Swiss Mechatronic Art Society, SGMK.

links:

dusjagr labs

Swiss Mechatronic Art Society

Hackteria | Open Source Biological Art

Miha Horvat (SI) - son:DA

Festival coordinator - adviser for exhibition and education

Miha Horvat holds BA from ethnology and cultural anthropology at Faculty of arts Ljubljana. He studied film-directing at AGRFT in Ljubljana and at film school in UAD Helsinki. He finished his MA at University of applied arts Vienna and is currently a pDH-candidate at University in Koper at department of Philosophy and theory of visual culture. Since 2000 he's part of artistic alliance son:DA and of the off space garage projects. In 2009 son:DA became a foundation for theory and practice of audio-visual art.

More on http://sonda.kibla.org

Pei-Wen Liu (TW/CH) - SGMK / playaround.cc

International coordinator and curator for sound & performances

Pei has dabbled in a variety of digital domains, but has concentrated on sound design, composition and streaming video art since 1999. Her work has been influenced by neo-dada, freeform jazz as well as avant-garde electronic musicians and minimalist painter/composers. She made music pieces for radio, animation, dance,theatre projects and installations as well organising and performing at experimental electronic music events. One of her radio piece > un canny < received Honorary Mention of Digital Music in Ars Electronic 2007.

little object

playaround.cc

Monika Pocrnjić (SI) - ?

Local coordinator and co-curator for educational program