freelance translator. freelance project manager, organisator. likes to build bridges.

Projects

2010 Representative of Ars Electronica in Shanghai.

2010 Project management of the scientific-cultural framework program accompanying the exhibition “Albert Einstein” (Historical Museum Bern, Switzerland)  in Beijing, Guangzhou, Hongkong, Shanghai. A project of swissnex China. www.swissnexchina.org.

2009 / 2010 Project management for the cooperation between the artists databases basis wien andARTLINKART, Shanghai.

2009 Member of curatorial staff of  the Ars Electronica project “80+1 – A Journey around the World” for Linz 09, concept for the expert discussions (focus: China).
http://www.80plus1.org/

since 2008  Consultant for basis wien: establishing the China network
Localization of the artists database for China
http://www.basis-wien.at

since 2007  China network of Prix Ars Electronica

2006 / 07  Consultant to Ars Electronica for the cooperation with Shanghai Cultural Development Foundation, development of the Ars Electronica presence at eArts Festival Shanghai 2007.
http://shcdf.eastday.com
http://www.shearts.or

10/2005–4/2008 Coordinator of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institut Media.Art. Research (part time)
The objective of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research. in Linz is to do innovative research leading to the development of strategies to document, describe and conserve digital artworks and works of media art. The Institute’s most immediate task is to apply rigorous scholarly methods to the artworks and documentation thereof collected in the Ars Electronica Archive.
http://media.lbg.ac.at

2004  Concept (together with Andreas Hirsch and Margit Niederhuber) of the Symposium of the World Culture Forum Alliance (WCFA) at the Word Culture Forum / Forum Cultural Mundial Convention in Sao Paulo on the topics ” Culture=Action, Culture=Survival, Culture=Memory”.

since 2004 project management for the category “Digital Communities” of Prix Ars Electronica (selection of jury members,  scouting, communication with submitters, pre-jury, organisation of jury sessions)

2003  Concept of the category “Digital Communities” of Prix Ars Electronica (together with Andreas Hirsch): http://www.aec.at/prix_categories_de.php

2003  Concept for the expert forum on the topic of “Creativity, Arts and Culture in the Information Society”, a contribution of Ars Electronica  for World Summit of the Information Society (WSIS First Phase) in Geneva.

2000–2003  Content management of the web site of Festival Ars Electronica / Prix Ars Electronica

since 2002 Co-curator and organizator of the symposium of the Festival Ars Electronica
http://www.aec.at/festival_about_en.php

2002  Concept for the online archive of Ars Electronica (together with Andreas Hirsch)
Ars Electronica possesses one of the world’s most extensive archives of digital media art from throughout the last 25 years. It consists of the Catalog Archive and material documenting the Ars Electronica Festival (from 1979), the Archive of the Prix Ars Electronica (from 1987), material on Ars Electronica projects as well as biographies of the artists and theoreticians who took part in them.
http://www.aec.at/festival_history_de.php

1999  Project lead for the digitization of the catalogs of the Ars Electronica festival and the Prix Ars Electronica
The catalogs of Ars Electronica from the beginnings in 1979 on have been digitized and treated for an online publication. Technical know-how: Ars Electronica Futurelab.