Any film can be perceived as an Imaginary Museum as defined by André Malraux. Film footage photographically preserves the moment in an image. It is put into context through montage; the moments are lined up like images in an imaginary museum. >> Read more.
Klaus vom Bruch (de) was born in 1952 in Cologne, Germany, where he still lives and works. He studied at the California Institute of the Arts in 1975-1976 under John Baldessari, and then spent a period studying philosophy at the University of Cologne.
Luis Valdovino (us) is Professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Exhibitions: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, Centro Nacional de Las Artes, Mexico City, Mexico; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile, Toronto Film Festival, The Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England, Toronto, Canada, Robert Flaherty Film Seminar and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland.
Alain Resnais (fr) (1922-2012) was a French film director whose career has extended over more than six decades. After training as a film editor in the mid-1940s, he went on to direct a number of short films which included Nuit et Brouillard (Night and Fog) (1955), an influential documentary about the Nazi concentration camps. He began making feature films in the late 1950s and consolidated his early reputation with Hiroshima mon amour (1959), Last Year at Marienbad (1961), and Muriel (1963), all of which adopted unconventional narrative techniques to deal with themes of troubled memory and the imagined past.
Elizabeth Price was born in Bradford, Yorkshire in 1966 and grew up in Luton Bedfordshire, attending Putteridge Comprehensive High School. She received a Bachelors Degree in Fine Art at the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University in 1988, and then an MA in Fine Art from the Royal College of Art in 1991.
Jacques Louis Nyst (be) was born in Liège, Belgium in 1942 and died in 1995. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid and in Liège. In addition to his work in video, he was also a filmmaker, writer and visual artist. He was Professor of Drawing and Video at the Academy of Fine Arts, Liège. Along with wife Danièle Nyst, the artist collaborated on a body of video works that were at once philosophical, theoretical, and whimsical.
Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas (lt) (born 1968 Kaunas / 1966 Vilnius) have established an international reputation for socially interactive and interdisciplinary practice exploring the conflicts and contradictions posed by the economic, social, and political conditions in the former Soviet countries.
Mochu (in) studied film making at the National Institute of Design in India and worked there as Research Associate/Faculty for the last one year. Mochu’s art practice includes video, drawing and digital collages.
