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Primarily working as an artist, Izet Sheshivari founded Boabooks in 2008 to develop a practice of critical engagement with bookworks for the digital age. In his presentation, the publisher will address the problems of translating a process (artistic practice, research project) into a print-publication using his own work.

Ilana Salama Ortar (born in Alexandria, Egypt) is an Israeli civic artist who creates performative installations on uprooting, refugeeness, migration and memory in zones of conflict (war, occupation, or ghettoisation of segments of populations living in suburbs) and their consequences for individuals and groups, cities, and landscapes. Since July 2015, Research Fellow at LAMES (Laboratoire méditerranéen de sociologie associé à l’université d’Aix-Marseille, AMU), MMSH (Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l’homme). Lives in Frankfurt am Main, Tel Aviv and Marseille.

Anne-Julie Raccoursier is an artist whose projects involve conceptual and discursive interventions using installations and videos. Her academic inquiry particularly in alternative pedagogy, feminist studies, media and youth culture informs her ongoing artistic explorations. She was awarded a MA degree in critical studies from the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles (CalArts) and a diploma (in curatorial and gender studies) from Ecole supérieure des beaux-arts Geneva. Since 2011, Associate Professor at CCC Master, HEAD Geneva.

Farid Rakun is trained as an architect at the University of Indonesia and Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan, and currently serves as a researcher and education coordinator for the artists’ initiative ruangrupa, a nonprofit organization founded in 2000 that examines contemporary Indonesian urban and cultural issues. Through interdisciplinary collaboration among the arts, social sciences, politics, technology, and media, ruangrupa produces a diverse array of exhibitions, festivals, art labs, workshops, research projects, and publications.

Marion von Osten is an artist, researcher and exhibition maker. She is a founding member of the Center for Post-colonial Knowledge and Culture (CPKC) and kleines postfordistisches Drama (kpD) in Berlin as well as of the media collective Labor k3000 Zürich. Since 2012, she is Visiting Professor at CCC Master, HEAD Geneva and the Master for Arts in Public Spheres (MAPS), HSLU Lucerne. She is currently doing a PhD in Fine Arts candidate at Malmö Art Academy, Lund University.

Doreen Mende is a curator and theorist. Recent research projects include KP Brehmer Real Capital – Production (2014, Raven Row, London); Travelling Communiqué (2014/13, Museum of Yugoslav History in Belgrade, Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin), Double Bound Economies (2013/12, Halle 14 in Leipzig, centre de la photographie in Geneva, ETH in Zurich, Thomas Fischer Galerie in Berlin), KP Brehmer: A Test Extending Beyond the Action (2011, CAAC, Sevilla), Candida Höfer: Projects Done (2009/10, CAAC in Sevilla, MARCO in Vigo), Not Right But Wrong (2007, JET, Berlin), Ear Appeal (2006, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna). Project-based collaborations in Ramallah, Beirut, Addis Ababa and Tehran. Mende is co-editor of e-flux journal 59 Harun Farocki (2014), resident of the blog for Manifesta Journal (2013/14) and editor-in-chief of the publication series Displayer at University of Arts and Design/ ZKM Karlsruhe (2006–09). PhD in Curatorial/Knowledge, Goldsmiths, University of London. Associate faculty member of the Dutch Art Institute. Mende is Head and Professor of the CCC Research Master Programme and the CCC PhD-Forum at HEAD–Genève. In 2015, she became part of the founding-group of the Harun Farocki Institut in Berlin. Mende lives in Berlin and Geneva.

Pierre Hazan (born in Alexandria, Egypt, lives in Geneva) teaches at the Geneva School for Art and Design (HEAD) and the University of Neuchatel. He is a special advisor on Transitional Justice issues for the Centre of Humanitarian Dialogue (Geneva).

Kodwo Eshun is an artist and theorist based in London. He is co-founder of The Otolith Group whose recent works have been presented in solo exhibitions at Serralves, Porto and Bergen Kunsthall and group exhibitions such as The Anthropocene Project. A Report, Haus der Kulturen der Welt and Cut to Swipe, Museum of Modern Art, New York. In 2010, The Otolith Group was nominated for The Turner Prize. Eshun is the author of Dan Graham: Rock My Religion (2012) and More Brilliant than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction (1998). He is coeditor of World 3 (2014), The Militant Image: A Cine-Geography: Third Text 108 (2011), Harun Farocki: Against What? Against Whom? (2009), A Long Time Between Suns (2009) and The Ghosts of Songs: The Film Art of the Black Audio Film Collective (2007). Eshun is a Lecturer in Aural and Visual Cultures at the Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London, and Visiting Professor for Theory Fiction at HEAD Geneva.

Yann Chateigné Tytelman studied literature, history of art, archaeology, has been mentored by a famous museum director, learned by collaborating with artists, collectively curated in Barcelona, Eindhoven and London, solitarily wrote for local and international publications, obliquely lectured in Brussels, Vilnjus, Zürich, researched psychedelia, the occult, technologies, taught curating, history, cultural theory, lead a museum program in Bordeaux, founded a publishing house in Paris and serves as Dean of Visual Arts Department at HEAD – Genève.

Isabelle Benoît is Director for International Development of Tempora/Museum of Europe in Brussel; further professional experience includes university teaching, research work and collaborations with the National Swiss Museum; International Red Cross/Red Crescent Museum, Geneva; the Polish National Museum of The Second World War in Gdansk.