AUTHORS
WARS, WAVES, RULERS / Wladimir VELMINSKY / Russia/Germany
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WLADIMIR VELMINSKY – born in 1976 in Dushanbe (USSR). He studied mathematics, physics, culturology in Moscow and Berlin. Doctor of philosophy, research fellow of the Institute of Slavic Studies of Zurich university. He is involved in the research of cultural-and-technological components of culture (media, literature, arts, philosophy, cinema). |
HARMONY (WAR SONG) / Yuki HIGASHINO / Japan/Frankfurt
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YUKI HIGASHINO – born in Shizuoka, Japan 1984. He is based in Frankfurt am Main. He has been studying Fine Art under professor Simon Starling at HfBK Staedelschule in Frankfurt since 2005. His practice centers on inquiry into the ways in which various cultural production such as literature, music or architecture are implicated to the wider socio-political context, with particular focus on people involved in the meaning making in culture; both historical and contemporary. |
CIVIL WAR / Valery PODOROGA / Russia
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VALERY PODOROGA – born in 1946. A leading Russian philosopher. Head of the Sector of analytical anthropology of the Institute of Philosophy in Moscow. A professor in Russian State Humanitarian University. Worked as visiting professor in the Research center in North Carolina (USA). Read lectures and seminars on analytical anthropology in Cornell university (USA), Duke university (USA), Strasbourg university (France) and Leipzig university (Germany). Introduced a term “analytical philosophy” to designate the variedness of the conditions of analyses. |
ZONE INERDITE / Christoph WACHTER, Mathias JUD / Germany, Switzerland/Berlin
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CHRISTOPH WACHTER - born in 1966 in Zurich, lives in Berlin. Wachters’ art seems to reveal a certain experience by approaching the issues of death, violence, sex and patriotism. Wachter contemplates us as viewers, our voyeurism and lust which drives us beyond convention. Thus enabling us to define our own moral and ethical limitations. By experiencing inconsistency we are motivated to choose a different perspective to look at ourselves releasing a mature self-determination.
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MATHIAS JUD - born in 1974 in Zurich where he lives. He develops multimedia projects and graphical user interfaces for scientific data bases. He does research and development in organic chemistry and molecular biology on the ETH and university of Zurich. Since 2000, he works together with Christoph Wachter, such as on the project on ZONE* INTERDITE (which caused a sensation as a result of its revelations: The children's prison camp in Guantanamo, the secret military prison in Bagram Afghanistan and Camp Bucca in Iraq). Their work was presented at many international exhibitions and received recognition. |
INTERPRETATIONS / Oleg NIKISHIN / Russia
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OLEG NIKISHIN – born in 1965 in Kazan. He is a photographer and a stringer. A founder of the Epsilon agency. Since 1999 he worked as a free-lancer mainly in Georgia with TIME and LIFE magazines. During those years he worked in Azerbaijan, Georgia, Nagorny Karabakh, Transnistria, Abkhazia, Ossetia, Yugoslavia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Chechnya. After the war in Yugoslavia he leaves for New-York. In the winter 1999 he was suggested to return to Moscow to work as an employee in the newly organized agency Getty Images. |
INFORMATION / Dmitry ROGOZIN / Russia
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DMITRY ROGOZIN - born.1963. Permanent representative of Russia in NATO. Head of the “Rodina. Congress of Russian community”, head of the Voronezh department of an unregistered party “Great Russia”. Was elected a deputy of the State Duma in three callings. As a representative of Russia in NATO he informed the alliance on Georgian-Ossetia conflict and on moratorium on collaboration between Russia and NATO when NATO interpreted Russian actions in the region as an act of aggression. In 2004 he publishes “War and Peace in terms and definitions”. The aim of the edition was... |
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