Art historian, author, independent international curator, certified expert for electronic and digital art
Dr. Bernhard SEREXHE consulted on ongoing international exhibitions GLOBAL CONTROL AND CENSORSHIP (2016-2019) and expertise on the preservation of digital media art, since 2016 independent curator and certified expert for electronic and digital art; lecturer for the conservation and curation of media art at the University of Berne, Switzerland; 2006-16 chief curator of ZKM | Media Museum Karlsruhe, Ph. D. on the Cathedral Saint-Lazare in Autun, Burgundy (France), consultant for the Council of Europe, 1994-1997 curator of ZKM | Media Museum, 1998-05 head of ZKM | Museum Communications, since 1998 lecturer media art and museology at the State Academy of Fine Arts St. Petersburg and the Universities of Berne, Basel and Karlsruhe, 2008-12 professor for aesthetics and media theory at Istanbul BILGI-University, since 2010 director of the EU Research Project www.digitalartconservation.org.
CHOI DOOEUN
Independent Curator
CHOI DooEun served as co-curator of Aurora 2018, the light, video, and sound festival in Dallas, Texas. Choi’s recent projects include Uncanny Valley?, Da Vinci Creative 2017 at the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture; Han Youngsoo: Photographs of Seoul 1956–63 at the International Center of Photography at MANA, New York (2017); Why Future Still Needs Us: AI and Humanity at Art Center Nabi and QUT Art Museum in Brisbane (2016–17); Automata, The International Digital Arts Biennial, at Arsenal Montreal (2016); Sense Of Wonder, Da Vinci Creative 2015, at the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture; Boundless Fantasy: Media Art from East Asia at the Charles Wang Center, New York (2014); Anima, on the work of Choe U-ram, at Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul (2013); Spell On You, Mediacity Seoul 2012 Biennale, at the Seoul Museum of Art; and Seeking Silicon Valley, ZERO1 Biennial 2012, at Zero1 Garage in San Jose, California.
MARTIN HONZIK
CCO, Ars Electronica Linz (Chief Curatorial Officer), Managing Director of Ars Electronica Festival, Prix, and Exhibitions, Linz, Austria
Martin HONZIK is an artist, CCO of Ars Electronica Linz, and Managing Director of the Ars Electronica’s Festival, Prix and Export. He studied visual experimental design at Linz Art University (graduated in 2001) and completed the master’s program in culture & media management at the University of Linz and ICCM Salzburg (graduated in 2003). Besides being an independent Artist in several art projects, he joined the staff of the Ars Electronica Future Lab as a researcher, in 2001, where, until 2005, his responsibilities included exhibition design, art in architecture, interface design, event design and project management. Since 2006, Martin Honzik has been Managing Director of the Ars Electronica Festival, the Prix Ars Electronica, the Exhibitions in the Ars Electronica Center and Ars Electronica Export. He has been curating a considerable amount of international exhibitions in the context of Art, Science and Technology. In 2021 he became CCO (Chief-Curatorial-Officer) of Ars Electronica Linz
