Professor in the Field of Film and Video. Artist and Media Activist.
Diana McCarty European Summer University, Ecole supérieure de l’image Poitiers, doctoral programme, 2002
Master of Media Arts Program, Media Studies, The New School, New York City 2001
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Photography, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque 1993
Program for Foreign Students, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City 1989
reboot.fm, co-founder and editor of the award winning Berlin based artists radio that broadcasts art, discourse and electronic music from Berlin. Established 2004.
Faces-l.net, co-founder and moderator of an ongoing mailing list for women in media. The project aims to develop and maintain networks for women artists, designers, and programmers. A website and database makes the extensive work of women visible to an international public. Established in 1997.
Luta ca caba inda, collaborates with this loose-knit collective initiative has produced digital archives, short and feature films, publications, radio broadcasts and public events that address African liberation movements, experimental film and memory. The international group (Filipa Cesar and Sana N’Hada, ao.) has been working together since 2011.
Radia.fm, co-founder of the award winning International radio art exchange network; Produces and syndicates radio art programs via more than 27 art radios around the world. Established in 2005.
elsehere e.V., co-founder of a transnational feminist art collective armed with an inbuilt grain of indestructibility. We are committed to a policy of empowerment and an economy of care that shares approaches to knowledge.
Radio Netzwerk Berlin e.V., co-founder of the non-profit that successfully lobbied the MABB for the first non-profit broadcasting licenses available in Berlin. The network includes reboot.fm & Cashmere radio, wearebornfree! Empowerment Radio, radiomobil and SAVVY funk.
Red Forest Assembly, a collective that grounds together research, art, political imagination and social actions striving for transformative justice and ecological reparations. With David Muñoz Alcántara, Mijke van der Drift and Oleksiy Radynski.
KONE Foundation, Research Fellowship 2021, Finland
NRW “Medienkunstfonds” und „Medienkunstfellows,“ Funding Program, Jury, 2021-2022
Female Artist Award NRW 2022 in the category Digital Art, Jury, October, 2021
BAK Fellow 2019/2020, post-academic program, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
First Prize, Creative Radio Contest, reboot.fm (Media Board Berlin Brandenburg) 2011
Vienna Media Culture Fund, Digital Communities appointee, City of Vienna, Cultural Senate 2010-11
Honorary Mention, Digital Communities, radia.fm, Ars Electronica Festival, 2007
Transnational Communities Award, US- Mexico Foundation for Culture, Mexico City 2007
Multimedia IBM Woman’s Special Award, Virtual International Woman’s University 2003
Media Art Fellow, Academy of Media Arts, Köln, Germany, 1998
Sambatas Stagings, A Red Forest project with symposia, performance, film and audio, supported by the Goethe Institut and Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. Kiew, August 2021
Latitude on Air: Unsettling Power Relations, four-day experimental transversal radio, that transcended and explored locality and healthy new forms of sociality. Co-curator and initiator with reboot.fm and Goethe Institute, 2020
CineMigrante, international film festival, Selection and jury of films, hosting discussions, screenings and radio broadcasts. Buenos Aires, Argentina & Barcelona, Spain, 2017
Savvy Funk Berlin, One month Documenta Radio.Technical production and broadcast (with reboot.fm) and organization of frequency for temporary artists radio. Berlin, Germany, 2017
From C to X, A feminist alphabet of media, A discussion of feminist media practices from Cyberfeminism to Xenofeminism over the past 20 years. Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, 2017
Kotti.fm, Temporary experimental radio in Berlin with workshops, discussions, public events and broadcasts. Berlin, Germany, 2016
Nervous Systems – Quantified Life and Social Question, Exhibition, workshops and events about digital life. Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany, 2016
Destination Berlin, Commemoration of the changes of 1989 with video screenings from the Transitland video art archive, discussions on video, art, aesthetics and politics of East/West Europe post 1989. CHB, Berlin, Germany, 2009
Prologue EST: New Feminism New Europe A three day internal workshop including local and international artists, activists and theoreticians to discuss emergent political situations. Topics: labor, gender and economy. Tallin, Estonia. 2009
Imagine Radio 2.0, Seminar, workshops and performances about the future of radio with international participants. Various Locations, Berlin, Germany, 2007
The Language of Resistance /Prologue BLN, Seminar, Screenings, Performances and lectures on the topics of emerging
social, political and geographic European maps. The international interdisciplinary event included artists, activists, economists, computer programmers and theorists. Berlin, Germany, 2006
HTMlles, Co-curator, exhibition, concerts, panel discussions with women from Montreal and Berlin. The program focus was on women and technology. In collaboration with the CTM Festival. Berlin, Germany, 2004
Beauty and the East: the Nettime Spring Meeting, Co-organizer with Vuk Cosic, Geert Lovink, Marko Peljhan and Pit Schultz. This seminal event in East and West European media culture fostered a critical approach to new media. Ljudmila, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1997
MetaForum Conference Series Organized with Geert Lovink and Janos Sugar. The three-year conference series proved seminal to international new media culture, introducing netzkritik and net.art among other things. Academy of Fine Arts/Media Research Foundation, Budapest, Hungary 1994-96
Audre Lourde: The Berlin Years, Discussion with Dagmar Schultz, NGBK, Berlin 2018
Spell Reel, feature experimental documentary, screenplay and adviser with Filipa Cesar, 2017
Kosmos Labor, Discussion with Grada Kilomba, Gorki Theatre, Berlin, 2017
Born in Flames, Discussion with Lizzie Borden, NGBK, Berlin, 2017
Kosmos Labor, Discussion with Grada Kilomba, Gorki Theatre, Berlin, 2016
Burning Red, Screenplay with Franziska Kleiner, in process, 2015
Breaking the Waves, MuseRuole, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Bolzano. Italy, 2013
The Otolith Group, Seminar with Kodwo Eshun & Anjalika Sagar, Düsseldorf 2013
Conakry, Filipa Cesar film in cooperation with Diana McCarty & Grada Kilomba, Berlin, 2012
Finding Africa, Manthia Diawara & Oliver Hardt discuss African roots in culture and politics. Berlin, 2012
Art & Revolution, Lynn Hershman interview on feminist politics and art in the USA. 2011
Economy & Reconciliation, Neville Alexander, discussion, House of World Cultures, Berlin 2010 African Film, Jahman
Anikalupo & Newton Aduaka, interview House of World Cultures, Berlin 2009
If I Can’t Dance, Hito Steyerl, discussion, Debalie, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2007
Rendering Time, Linda Wallace, discussion Tesla, Berlin, Germany, 2006
Winter Sonne, Audio production Imran Ayata, Seda Gürses and Filiz Aknar, 2006
Apocolypto: Broadcast Darius James, Karl-Heinz Jeron, & Peter Dennet. Featuring Sun Ra, 2005
Ein Leben in Vier Stunden, Jimmie Durham, discussion Kunstwerk, Berlin, Germany, 2005
The Wishing Hour, Kodwo Eshun and Erik Davis, discussion, 2003
Timescapes, Corridor X, experimental video production with Angela Melitopoulos, 2002
Day of the Manifesto, Opening Event Documenta X, Hybrid Workspace Kassel, Germany, 1997
Transperiphery Movement: Global Eastern Europe and Global South, OFF-Biennale Budapest, May 2021.
SPARKS, DIGITAL ARTS COMMUNITY (DAC), ACM SIGGRAPH, January 2021
Exchange #1: The Wheres and Whens of Networks, Transmediale, Volksbühne, Berlin, 2020
Deserting from the Culture Wars, BAK, Utrecht, 2019
The Many Faces of Fascism, Transmediale-Face Value, HKW, Berlin, Germany, 2018
Post-Cyber Feminist International, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK, 2017
Archiving Africa, Irep International Film Festival, Lagos, Nigeria, 2017
Post-X Politics,Leuphana University, Lueneburg, Germany 2017
Feminist Training Camp, NGBK Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 2016
Post-Digital Anxiety, Transmediale Festival, Berlin, Germany 2016
Sofia Queer Forum, New left conference, Sofia, Bulgaria 2012
Cyberfeminists & Girls on the Web Re:publica Bloggers Conference, Berlin Germany 2011 Transitland, Goethe Institute, Sofia, Bulgaria 2010
International Symposia of Electronic Arts Prologue: New Feminism, New Europe, Belfast, Ireland 2009
Foreign Experience post -89 Art, Ludwig Museum Budapest, 2009
Stadion, Art in Public Space, Warsaw Poland, 2008
Cyberfeminism, Past Forward VBOE, Vienna, Austria 2007
In/Security: New Conditions of Work City of Women Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2005
Hacking the Body, Kunsterlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany 2005
Radia.fm Freize Art Fair, London, United Kingdom, 2005
Code Conference Millennium Park, Budapest, Hungary 2004
Transit Wellen Art in Public Space, Munich, Germany 2004
Next Five Minutes Debalie, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2004
Netuser National Academy of Fine Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria 2003
Digitales Taverne des Beaux-Arts and Filmmuseum Brussels, Belgium 2003
The Genome and Society Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia 2001
Zac, Palais du Tokyo Paris, France 2001
Faces in Paris Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France 1998
Next Five Minutes, Debalie, Amsterdam, NL 1996
Pyramedia, Museum of Modern Art, Tirana, Albania, 1998
International Symposia of Electronic Arts Chicago Institute of the Arts, 1997
Videomedja, Novi Sad, Serbia; Lecture; Cyberconf5, Madrid, Spain 1996
Venice Biennale, Net.Time, Italy: Lecture 1995
(be)coming Media – Technofeminist Pasts, Presents & Potentials, “Deserting from the Culture Wars”, eds. Maria Hlavajova,
Sven Lütticken, MIT Press: Boston, 2020
Meteorisations Reading Amílcar Cabral’s Agronomy of Liberation Filipa César (edited with Diana McCarty), “The Wretched Earth: Botanical Conflicts and Artistic Interventions”, eds. Ros Gray and Shela Sheikh, Third Text, vol 32, Issue 2-3, : London, 2018
Vote Auction 3.0 – digital deja vu, rewind, news fake, fast forward, Net Art Anthology, ed. Michael Conner, Rhizome: New York, 2018
Epilogue, Luta ca caba inda. Time Place Matter Voice. 1967–2017, ed. Filipa César, Archive Books: Berlin, 2017
From B to X—An Alphabet of Radical Feminist Media Practices, No play – Feminist Training Camp, eds. Annika Högner, Clara López Menéndez,
Enna Gerin, Freja Bäckman, Merja Hannikainen, Vappu Jalonen, NGBK: Berlin, 2016
Unpolished Diamonds – Nollywood, Bytes of Treasures: Rhythms of a Cultural Troubadour, ed. Jahman Anikulapo, Clear Coast Communication: Lagos, 2012
Gravic and Linear Acceleration: Otolith II and Performativity, A Long Time Between Suns, eds. Kodwo Eshun, Anjalika Sagar, Sternberg Press: New York, 2009
Which Women, Which Art, Which Technology?, (& Valentina Djordjevic) ed. Pauline van Mourik Broekman, Mute: London, 2003
Resonant Culture, “Technology and Difference”, ed. Irina Aristarhkova, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, MIT Press: Boston, 2003
Revolutionary Fruit, ed. Ariane Mueller, Starship Magazine: Berlin, 2002.
What do Cyberfeminists Eat?, Genome and Society Reader, ed. Melentie Pandilovski, SCCA: Skopje, 2001
README! ascii culture and the revenge of knowledge, co-editor, Autonomedia: New York, 2000
What is Sadie Planting?, Cyberfeminist International Reader, Old Boys Network: Hamburg, 1998
Buldozer. Media Theory Anthology, co-editor, Media Research Foundation: Budapest,1998
Nyet.Art, Springerin, ed. Christian Höller: Vienna, 1997
ZKP4 Medien Zentral Kommittee Reader, co-editor. Nettime, Ljudmila: Ljubljana, 1997
The Train Rolls On,Chris Marker & Alexander Medvedkin, Festival Catalog, co-editor, Media Research Foundation: Budapest,1997
ZKP3 Medien Zentral Kommittee Reader, co-editor. Nettime, Media Research Foundation: Budapest, 1996
ZKP2 Medien Zentral Kommittee Reader, co-editor. Nettime, Cyberconf 5: Madrid, 1996
ZKP1 Medien Zentral Kommittee Reader, co-editor. Nettime, Next Five Minutes: Amsterdam, 1996
Hacked Heart, Very Cyber Indeed, eds. Vuk Cosic & Luka Frelih, Ljudmila: Ljubljana, 1996
Cyberscope, Gondalat-jel, guest editor, Chrion: Budapest, 1995
Merz Akademie, Professor of Film and Video (with Filipa César), Stuttgart, 2021
University of the Underground, ‘Magic Communism: energetic materialism and mediatic futures, Amsterdam, June 2021
PRATT INSTITUTE, Department of Humanities & Media Studies, Visiting Lecturer, New York, October 2020
Long Beach City College, Department of Media Studies, Guest Lecture, Long Beach, May, 2020,
TELEPORT 2120 – MERZ AKADEMIE, (workshop with Filipa César, invited by Katja Diefenbach), Stuttgart, June 2020
HKU University of the Arts, MA Student Mentor, Utrecht, 2019/2020.
Munich Kammerspiele, Friendly Confrontations Campus, Lecturer, Munich, January 2020
Sabbar Artistiques, Master Class, Goethe Institute, Lecturer, facilitator, Dakar, 2019
Kunsthochschule für Medien, Guest Lecturer, Cologne, 2019
Akademie der Künste der Welt, Guest Lecturer, Cologne, 2018
Potsdam University, Guest Lecturer, Potsdam, 2018
Academy of Fine Arts, Antoni Muntadas Media Course, Guest Lecturer, Venice, 2015
Academy of Fine Arts, Expanded Media Seminar, Guest Lecturer, Leipzig, 2015
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Media Arts, Guest Lecturer, Copenhagen, 2015
University of Fine Arts, Media in Public Space Program, Guest Lecturer, Berlin, 2014
University of Fine Arts, Intermedia Department, Guest Lecture, Budapest, 2009/11
Academy of Fine Arts, Guest Lecturer, Mexico City, 2007
University of the Arts, Experimental Film and Video program, Guest Lecturer, Berlin 2007
Cornerhouse, Youth Education Programme, Guest Lecturer, Manchester, 2007
Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Guest Lecturer, Oslo, 2006
Academy of Fine Arts, Intermedia Department, Guest Lecturer, Budapest 2005
Academy of Fine Arts, Intermedia Department, Guest Lecturer, Budapest 1995-1998
