Hot Spots

Karin Bergdolt, Munich
Program / Artist
Karin Bergdolt finished her studies with a master diploma at the Academy of Arts in Munich in the class of Nikolaus Gerhart. Since presenting her three-week performance and installation, "I CHOOSE THE PLACE OF WORK MYSELF" at the former frontier building Germany-Austria 1998, her work has addressed the use and organization of (public) space. In 2002, she established the initiative P.L.A.N. – a concept that is intended to work for the intellectual and sensorial reorganization of places and space, and which functions in an interdisciplinary and participatory way. Karin resided in Pittsburgh with her family for six months supported by an artists' grant through the Barvarian government. Prior to her visit and while she was in Pittsburgh, she formulated the HOT SPOTS PROJECT and began working with Ann Rosenthal and Elizabeth Monoian. She recently received a one-year-stipend for the promotion of equal opportunity of women's rights in university and career.

Elizabeth Monoian, Dubai
Program / Artist
Elizabeth Monoian is the founder and director of Society for Cultural Exchange (SCE). As the director of SCE she is committed to nurturing global intellectual and creative dialogue. She is currently working on large-scale international public art projects that both address and expose models of environmental sustainability.

Under SCE she co-founded the Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI), an international initiative activating interdisciplinary teams to conceive of large-scale public artworks for specific sites that artfully provide utility-scale clean energy to the city grid. The project combines renewable infrastructure design with international cultural exchange and community educational outreach. The project has received featured articles in numerous international press outlets, including The New York Times and Dwell Magazine.

Elizabeth is an interdisciplinary artist and designer and her work has been screened and exhibited in venues throughout Europe, the Middle East, and the United States. She received an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University and is currently an Assistant Professor at Zayed University in Dubai.
www.landartgenerator.org
www.societyforculturalexchange.org

Ann Rosenthal, Pittsburgh
Program / Artist
Ann Rosenthal brings to communities 30 years experience as an artist, educator, and writer. Her art installations address the local manifestation of global concerns, including climate change, food safety, and nuclear waste. Over the last few years, her work has been shown at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh; Exit Art and the Hudson River Museum in New York; the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education in Philadelphia; and Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren in Germany. In 2011, her work was shown in Pittsburgh at the Mattress Factory in March and the American Jewish Museum of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh in May.

Ms. Rosenthal’s essays and work on eco/community art have been published in several journals and anthologies, most recently in the online, peer-reviewed Ecopsychology Journal (forthcoming in 2012) and Arts for Change: Teaching Outside the Frame by Beverly Naidus (New Village Press, CA 2009). She teaches foundations and environmental design courses at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and was recently promoted to the position of Lead Faculty in the Foundations program. Additionally, she manages the AiP Gallery. She has developed and teaches an online graduate course, Introduction to Eco/Community Art, for Plymouth State University in New Hampshire. She received her MFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 1999. Ms. Rosenthal owns an industrial building in Pittsburgh where she is developing LOCUS – a creative commons where art, community and ecology meet.
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Linn Quante
Munich, Germany
Arts Management and Cultural Work
Project Assistant

Dr. Serafine Lindemann
Cooperation with www.artcircolo.de
Munich, Germany

Prof. Florian Matzner
Academy of Fine Arts
Munich, Germany
Student Project / Program
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Amara Geffen, Professor of Art
Director, Center for Economic & Environmental Development
Allegheny College
Meadville, PA USA
Student Project / Program
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Society for Cultural Exchange
Pittsburgh, PA USA
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Marlene Rigler
Platform3
Munich, Germany
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Dina Faour, Assistant Professor
American University in Dubai
Dubai, UAE
Student Project / Program

Yunsun Chung-Sin, Assistant Professor
Tina Sleiman, Assistant Professor
Zayed University
Dubai, UAE
Student Project / Program

Wolfgang Gebhard
University of Applied Sciences
Munich, Germany
Student Project / Program

hofHaus
Satellite
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The Art Institute of Pittsburgh
Shawn O'Mara, Instructor
Andres Tapia-Urzua, Department Chair, Digital Filmmaking & Video Production/Visual Effects & Motion Graphics
Pittsburgh, PA
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DUOC Institute in Santiago (Chile)
David Perera
Santiago, Chile
website

University of New Mexico
Interdisciplinary Film and Digital Media (IFDM) and ARTS Lab
Andrea Polli, Director of IFDM and Mesa Del Sol Chair of Digital Media
Albuquerque, NM
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