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01

* ENTER THE BIONET - my body in revolt.
* Epiphanies, review by Douglas Kahn, WIRED, Jan/2014 issue, on 'composting the city|composting the net' performance in Rixc, Riga 2013.
* FLUIDØ , casting as performance, open casting call at Mindpirates , part of Vorspiel, transmediale2014, Berlin. [preview at sugarhigh] , [review at vocativ]
* CycleX residency at Andes, New York with Misty Sol family 2014 extended.

02

* FLUIDØ the movie, preproduction with Jürgen Brüning filmproduktion berlin.
* BioCell - counting leucocytes.

03

* Aglio currency at Curreny as Space exhibition, HDLU Treasury and Mint, Zagreb, Croatia.
* UKI - enter the BioNet [distribution proposal], working with Isabelle Arvers to pursue further development at Imaginarium with Tourcoing game industry community.
* L'intervention - time off.

04

* Exhibition of video and net projects at National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) in Seoul, Korea.

05

* Special pioneer filmmaker screening of Finers and Kisses at LA Asian Pacific Film Festival
* Exhibiting Composting the net at 11eme Biennale de l'Art Africain Contemporain de Dakar. [invitation]
* Exhibiting seeds underground at FIELDS exhibition, Rixc, Riga. [exhibition-screen version]
* Performing UKI - LIVE CODE LIVE SPAM at Sight&Sound festival, Eastern Bloc, Montreal.

06

* residency at imaginarium, Tourcoing for UKI-enter the Bionet with a public presentation on June 7.
* residency curator for "The soft, the hard and the wet" at Eleonore hosted by Stadwerkstatt, , Linz, Austria.
* pre-production and casting sessions for FLUID0, scheduled for production in september at Berlin.
* part of "net.art Painters and Poets" exhibition at Mestna Galerija Ljubljana.
* Informed of an article 'On the origins of the term Hacktivism in which hacktivism is credited as coined by techno-culture writer Jason Sack in a piece about my work Bowling Alley (Walker Art Center, 1995) published in InfoNation in 1995.

07

* Home. Paris. re-scripting, storyboarding FLUID0 the movie.
* Publishing of "UKI-ENTER THE BIONET" distribution brief [in French] [in English] accompanied by video documentation from the biogame test run during June residency at Imaginarium, Tourcoing.

08

* Holiday, almost.

09

* FLUIDØ scheduled production postponed. Making a FLUID0 trailer in Berlin.
* Staging "The Soft, the Hard and the Wet" , a three part three artist joint performance hosted by Stadtwerkstatt at Linz, Austria. Publication at STWST Versorgerin, the print version.
* Presenting CrisisRus at Network Music Festival, Birmingham, UK.

10

* Launching Typing(2014) & Reading(2014) , DATA HACK collection as part of WOMEN IN DIGITAL presented by Sedition
* Showing 3 video (Sex Fish, Sex Bowl and Fingers&Kisses) and serving as jury for documentary film compitition at Porn Film festival, Berlin. [festival programs]
* Presenting CrisisRus at Alpha nova-kulturwerkstatt & Galerie futura in Berlin.

11

* Showing Fingers & Kisses and participate in a panel "There's a Dyke in the Pit: A Day of Queer Grrrl Power" at Fringe! Queer Art & Film Festival in London.
* UKI performance documentation (5:00) showing as part of It's Time / Carte Blanche Quimera Rosa at Rencontres Bandits-images at Bourges, France.
* Launching UKI-enter the Bionet at Piksel, Bergen, Norway. [video documentation]
* a PHD thesis by Maya Zalbidea who writes about BRANDON (page 212, 221).

12

* Part of Porn That Way exhibition at Schwules museum, Berlin.
* As chief guest editor for MCD issue #76 - Changer L'argent, WE GROW MONEY. WE EAT MONEY. WE SHIT MONEY.

SELECTED WORKS

FLUID the movie (2014) feature film in development
CRISISRUS by LAPTOPSRUS (2013) collective networked performance
SEEDS UNDERGROUND (2013) underground party for seed exchange
ACCIDENTAL LANDING (2013) accidentally the wind blows
COMPOSTING THE CITY (2012) adopt a composter
COMPOSTING THE NET (2012) biodegradable data trash
BABY WORK (2012) third part of Locker Baby Project (2001-2012)
CYCLEX (2012) make art make farm, Andes, New York
UKI (2009-2012) a viral performance & a viral game
MOVINGFOREST (2008-2012) 12 hour distributed performance
LAPTOPSRUS (2009-2011) a woman live performers' network platform
AGLIOMANIA (2008-2010) garlic as post-crash currency
MOBIOPERA (2007) collective cinema with mobilephones
BABY LOVE (2005) 2nd part of locker baby project
MILK (2004) 56K-bastard TV, Switzerland
TRAMJAM RUSH HOUR (2004 - 2007) by Mumbai Streaming Attack
TAKE2030 (2003-2006) hypermedia collective based in london
BURN (2003) burning pirated music CD
GARLIC=RICH AIR 2030 (2003) Limbo Zone, Venice Biennale 2003.
GARLIC=RICH AIR (2002) Challenge to the Fields, Creative Time, New York
KINGDOM OF PIRACY (2002-2006) curated netspace
I.K.U. (2000) Sundance Film Festival
BRANDON (1998-1999) Guggenheim Museum commission and collection
BUY ONE GET ONE (1997) NTT[ICC] Biennale exhibition and collection

WORK SAMPLE

works 2000s - 2000 to 2014
works 1990s - 1990 to 1999
dated 2030 - published at a minima in 2005