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Alexei Dmtriev

Alexey Dmtriev (Russia)

Born in 1986 in Leningrad, USSR. After studying physics and advanced mathematics in high school, he continued his studies at the university and graduated as an English teacher. Now lives in-between Saint Petersburg and Berlin doing films, live visuals or curating programmes for different film festivals. A cat lover. A karaoke singer. A heavy drinker.
Pavel Braila

Pavel Brăila (Republic of Moldova)

Pavel Brăila is a visual artist and filmmaker, born in 1971 in Chişinău (Republic of Moldova). His best known work includes: “Shoes for Europe” (2002, short film), “AlteArte” (2004, a TV program on Contemporary Art), “Barons’ Hill” (2007, a monumental six screen video presented at the Berlin Film Festival) and “Definitively Unfinished” (2010, awarded at the Oberhausen International Film Festival). In 2010, Brăila started working on another ambitious project, “Odyssey MD-2010”, that aimes to document a year of living in Moldova, as a visual memory in progress. Pavel Brăila’s work was also included in many art exhibitions all around the world. He is currently a teacher at the Academy of Arts in Moldova, a visiting lecturer at the Higher Institute of Fine Arts (HISK) in Gent and a passionate filmmaker, living and working in Kiev, Chişinău and Berlin.
Agricola

Agricola de Cologne (Germany)

Agricola de Cologne is a multidisciplinary media artist, director of experimental shortfilms, new media curator, cultural designer and director of the Cologne International Videoart Festival. Launched on the 1st of January 2000 as a brand, Agricola de Cologne is since then acting as the only true virtual artist, curator and festival director who is manifesting himself in physical space only for a few times during a year. The combination of words – Agricola de Cologne – stands for the artistic concept behind which it is manifesting itself in the development of a gigantic global network, named:  [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne – experimental platform for art and new media. This encompasses simply the entire extensive artistic production, a media art context which is currently in a transformation phase towards new structures of organisation: Le Musee di-visioniste – the new museum of networked art.