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JOANNE RICHARDSON |
Joanne Richardson is a media theorist, video artist and the director of D Media, a media art organization in Romania. She completed an M.A. in Philosophy at NYU, and postgraduate studies in Literature (theory), and in Film & Video at Duke University. She is the editor of Subsol, a webzine on media art and activism, and of two books on digital culture. She has written essays on the history of the avant-gardes, activist art, experimental film and video, net.radio, tactical media, free software, the myth of authorship and copyleft. Her videos reflect an ongoing interest in globalization, nationalism and post-communism, and manifest a critical perspective toward the status of documents, history, and memory.
GRANTS & RESIDENCIES:
Residency at InterSpace, Bulgaria (2007)
Residency at International Writer’s Center, Greece (2005)
Residency at Bauhaus Kolleg, Germany (2004)
Residency at NIFCA, Finland (2003)
Residency at Multimedia Institute, Croatia (2002)
Artslink grant (2001)
Residency at C3: Center for Communication & Culture, Hungary (2001)
Fulbright Fellowship (2000)
VIDEOGRAPHY:
Red Tours
(with David Rych, planning stages) - a study of the statue parks and museums of communism and the links between tourism and colonialism.
Letter from Moldova (postproduction, 2009) - a travel diary of a trip to Moldova that reflects on tourism and stereotypes of the other.
Reconstruction: Anti-NATO Days 2008 (50 min, 2009) - reconstructions from different perspectives of the repression of antiNATO events in Romania.
Two or Three things about Activism (73min, 2008) - a counterdocumentary about activism in Romania that questions what it means to make video politically.
In Transit (30min, 2008) - a diary of a journey in Romania that reflects on the meaning of transition and the relation between images and memory.
Precarious Lives (43min, 2008) - a documentary about women's work and precarity that mixes contemporary portraits with historical documents.
Made in Italy (with Candida TV, 26min, 2006) - a documentary about delocalization and migration between Romania and Italy.
Folklore (with teenagers in Cluj, 32min, 2005) - a documentary about nationalism in Romania.
Paint Romanian (with teenagers in Cluj, 11min, 2004) - experimental, rhythmic montage that reflects on nationalism in the tricolor city of Cluj.
Faces (3min, 2003) - experimental study of the expressions of urban dwellers.
VIDEOS IN EXHIBITIONS & FESTIVALS:
Where to Go: Notes on transformations after 1989, exhibition, Rotor (Graz, 2009)
Tampere International Short Film Festival (Finland, 2009)
Transmediale 09, film & video program, HKW (Berlin, 2009)
CanariasMediaFest 08 (Las Palmas, 2008)
Salon of Revolution, exhibition, HDLU (Zagreb, 2008)
Globale08 Festival (Berlin, 2008)
Hack.Fem.East, exhibition, Kunstraum Kreuzberg Bethanien (Berlin, 2008)
Social Cooking Romania, exhibition, NGBK (Berlin, 2007)
Public Art Bucharest, curated screening/presentation (Bucharest, 2007)
10th Istanbul Biennale, exhibition in public space (Istanbul, 2007)
U-Turn Quadrennial of Contemporary Art, curated screening (Copenhagen, 2007)
International Women’s Film Festival (Barcelona, 2006)
Tek Festival (Rome, 2005)
SELECTED LIST OF PUBLICATIONS:
“Video as Intervention,” in Die Tageszeitung, Berlin & IDEA arts + society nr. 29, Cluj (2008, in English, German & Romanian)
“Copyright, Copyleft and the Creative Anti-Commons,” with Dmytri Kleiner, in Subsol (2006, republished in more than 15 sources, including translations)
“Memoirs of a Video Activist,” in Subsol (2006, republished in 9 sources, including translations in Romanian, Bosnian, German & Spanish)
“Beyond the Spectrum: Net Radio in Eastern Europe,” in Relating Radio, Leipzig: Spector (2006, English & German)
“Society of the Rhizome,” in Re:activism Conference Reader, Budapest: MOKK (2005)
Editor of the book: Geert Lovink: Cultura Digitala, Cluj: Idea Press (2004, in Romanian)
“The Avant-Garde of Terror,” in Art-Ist Contemporary Art Magazine, nr. 1, Istanbul (2004, English & Turkish)
Editor of the book: Anarchitexts: Voices from the Global Digital Resistance, New York: Autonomedia Press (2003)
“Enduring Post-Communism,” in Next 5 Minutes 4 Festival Reader, Amsterdam: De Balie (2003)
“The Language of Tactical Media,” in Subsol (2002, republished in 12 sources, including translations in Latvian, Italian, Romanian & Hungarian)
“Reclaim the Media,” in Mute Magazine nr. 25, London (2002)
“Free Software & GPL Society,” interview with Stefan Merten, in Subsol (2001, republished in more than 12 sources, including translations)
“Notes on Sovereign Media,” with Geert Lovink, in Subsol (2001)
“Art of Subtraction,” with Miklos Erhardt, in Subsol (2001)
Interviews with: Multimedia Institute (Croatia), InterSpace (Bulgaria), Kuda.org (Serbia), K@2 (Latvia), WRO Center (Poland) in Subsol (2001)
“NSK 2000,” interview with Eda Cufer & Irwin, in ARTMargins (2000)
“Est-ethics of Counter Documentary,” in Oberhausen Festival Catalogue. Berlin: Karl Maria Laufen (2000, English & German)
UNPUBLISHED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS, ROUNDTABLES & WORKSHOPS:
Roundtable, Rebuilding the Commons, MACBA (Barcelona, 2009).
Workshop on Tactical Media (with Candida TV), Cleotronica Festival, ACAF (Alexandria, 2008)
“Migrant Epistemologies,” Summit: Non-aligned Initiatives in Education Culture, HAU (Berlin, 2007)
“Whatever happened to Tactical Media,” Transmediale 07, Art Academy (Berlin, 2007)
Roundtable, Domains of Action in Media Art, Hartware MedienKunst (Dortmund, 2006)
“Participative Media,” Reapproaching New Media 6, Center for Contemporary Art (Vilnius, 2004)
“Civil Society goes Empire,” Neuro Festival, Muffethalle (Munich, 2004)
“Empire and Exodus,” Transmediale 04, HKW (Berlin, 2004)
“The Myth of the Multitude,” Next 5 Minutes 4 Festival, De Balie (Amsterdam, 2003)
"Tactical Media Wars," Version 03 Digital Arts Convergence, Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, 2003)
“Free Software and Informal Economies,” Reapproacing New Media 4, NIFCA (Helsinki, 2003)
“Genealogy of Tactical Media,” Reapproaching New Media 2, Atelier Nord (Oslo, 2002)
“Hacking the Streets and Reclaiming Cyberspace,” DigitalBiedermeier Festival, WUK (Vienna, 2002)
“Sovereignty, Terror and Territory,” City_topias, Art Academy (Tallinn, 2002)
Roundtable, Post-Media Publishing, University of Andalucia (Seville, 2002)
“The Death of the Avant-Garde,” Maryland Institute College of Art (Baltimore, 2002)
“Artists, Nomads and Roaming Producers,” Make World, Muffethalle (Munich, 2001)
Open Source CMS Workshop, Wizards of OS 2, HKW (Berlin, 2001)
“Tactical Internet,” Pro/Contra Symposium, Media Art Lab (Moscow, 2000)