Nat Muller
Nat Muller (NL) is an independent curator and critic at the intersections of aesthetics, media and politics, as on (new) media and art in the Middle East.
Nat Muller [mediamatic.nl]
She has held positions as staff curator at V2_, Institute for Unstable Media (Rotterdam) and De Balie, Centre for Culture and Politics (Amsterdam), and she has free-lanced for Axis, Bureau for Gender and the Arts in Amsterdam for which she has edited the reader Ctrl+Shift Art - Ctrl+Shift Gender: Convergences of New Media, Art and Gender (with Deanna Herst, 2000). Nat has published articles in off- and online media, she is a regular contributor for Springerin and Bidoun, and has given presentations on the subject of (new) media technology, art, and gender (inter)nationally.
She was a researcher at the Theory Department of the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, and founding member of Stichting FoAM in Amsterdam, sister organization of Foam > VZW. Recent projects include The Trans_European Picnic - The Art and Media of Accession (Novi Sad, 2004), DEAF_04: Affective Turbulence: The Art of Open Systems (Rotterdam, 2004); INFRA_ctures (Rotterdam, 2005), Xeno_Sonic: a series of experimental sound performances from the Middle East (Amsterdam, 2005), DEAF07 (Rotterdam, 2007), the workshop 'Between a Rock and a Hard Place? Negotiating Artistic Practice, Audiences, Representation and Collaboration within Local and International Frameworks' (Amman, 2007).
She has curated video screenings for projects and festivals in a.o. Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Berlin, New York, Istanbul, Copenhagen, Grimstad, Lugano, Dubai and Beirut. She co-edited the Mag.net Reader2: Between Paper and Pixel with Alessandro Ludovico (2007), and the Mag.net Reader3: Processual Publishing, Actual Gestures (2008), based on a series of debates organized at Documenta XII.
She is co-initiator of Upgrade! Amsterdam, and has taught at the Willem de Kooning Academy (NL), ALBA (Beirut), the Lebanese American University (Beirut), and A.U.D. in Dubai (UAE). She serves as an advisor on Euro-Med collaborations for the European Cultural Foundation (ECF), and was a jury member for Transmediale. She is curator-in-residence at the Townhouse Gallery in Cairo from April 2008 to April 2009.
Passing in Proximity is her blog at ECF: http://www.labforculture.org/en/members/nat-muller/passing-in-proximity/55273
