Netherlands
Annet Dekker is an independent curator and researcher. Currently, she is Associate Professor Comparative Cultural Analysis & coordinator of the Dual Master Archival and Information Studies (Media Studies) at the University of Amsterdam. She is also Visiting Professor and co-director of the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image at London South Bank University. She gives presentations and lectures at various national and international conferences, member of juries and advisory boards, and regularly contributes to peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes. Previously she worked as Researcher Digital Preservation at Tate, London (2014–16), and Fellow at The New Institute, Rotterdam (2014–16), a Core Tutor at Piet Zwart Institute (2011–16), Web curator for SKOR (Foundation for Art and Public Domain, 2010–12), was programme manager at Virtueel Platform (2008–10), and curator of exhibitions and artists-in-residence at the Netherlands Media Art Institute (1999–08). From 2008–14 she wrote her Ph.D. at the Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths University, London, under the supervision of Matthew Fuller. The thesis turned into the book Collecting and Conserving Net Art. Moving Beyond Conventional Methods, published by Routledge. http://aaaan.net
V2_Lab is an instigator of artistic projects which interrogate and illuminate contemporary issues in art, science, technology, and society. Its mission is to produce works of art with conceptual clarity and high production values, provide frameworks for presenting these artworks, and create meaningful exchanges on artistic research and production methods. V2_Lab is an autonomous zone where experiments and collaborations can take place outside of the constraints of innovation agendas or economic and political imperatives.
The Centre for the Study for the Networked Image: http://www.centreforthestudyof.net/
MU is an explorative presentation platform that operates in a rich international network of creatives who define the liminal space between ‘what art is and what art can be’. MU initiates, produces and presents rather new works, and surrounds it with an extensive and interdisciplinary secondary program targeted to a broad and rather young audience. http://www.mu.nl MU prioritises introduction to, understanding of, elaboration on, and experiencing hands-on creation, of art. MU is curious for talent, and challenges talents to be curious. MU provides a platform for artistic research, and development of artists and designers, and helps them to profile themselves internationally.