Eleonore de Lavandeyra-Schöffer abandoned her own career as an ethnomusicologist and Indian music teacher to take care of her husband and his work when he became partly paralysed in the last years of his life. After his death she has continued to preserve and promote his work.
Marius Watz (NO) is an artist working with visual abstraction through generative systems. An autodidact, he dropped out of Computer Science studies to pursue visual work based on parametric processes. He is known for his bold use of colors and hard-edged geometric compositions.
In 2005 Watz founded Generator.x, a curatorial platform that has resulted in a series of events related to generative art and design. Generator.x 1.0 was a conference at Atelier Nord in Oslo, accompanied by a travelling exhibition organized by the Norwegian National Museum that lasted until the end of 2007. A Generator.x concert tour of audiovisual performances was initiated in March 2006 and continues to this day. Generator.x 2.0 was a workshop and exhibition produced in collaboration with the Club Transmediale 2008 festival in Berlin, focusing on digital fabrication and computational architecture.
Watz is a lecturer at the Oslo School of Architecture and at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Department of design. He has given many workshops and lectures on topics like as computational aesthetics, live cinema and digital fabrication.
go to: Marius Watz website
Dr.phil. Annette Doms
Annette Doms is curator and art historian.
Having completed her degree in art history, psychology, classical archaeology and Italian philology in Munich, she obtained her doctorate with a dissertation on the subject "Modern Art after 1945 - perception and cognition of modern art after World War II".
She began working as art consultant for Achenbach Art Consulting GmbH Munich/ Düsseldorf, which offered consulting, planning and developmental art solutions to national and international companies. From 2005 to 2007 she worked as an independent curator, initiating and organizing numerous exhibition projects, mainly involving young artists. In addition to her curatorial work, she worked as personal teaching assistant for Prof. Joseph Kosuth at Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich, where she also held seminars on art theory and conceptual art.
Since 2007 she is working as associated director at Galerie Nusser & Baumgart Munich, where she also manages the careers of gallery artists, as well as oversees the development of collector and museum relationships. 2009 Annette Doms, together with Johannes Vogt and Karsten Löckemann, founded "futura_art.com", an association to promote art based on new technology.
Besides writing essays regularly for artist catalogues, she is personal adviser of various private art collections.
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