florian schneider

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Florian Schneider is a filmmaker, writer, and curator. In his work he
focusses on bordercrossings between mainstream and independent media,
art and activism, theory and open source technology.

As a filmmaker he directed several award-winning documentaries and
designed and realized two theme-evenings for the german-french tv
station arte on the topics of migration and activism.

He is one of the initiators of the KEIN MENSCH IST ILLEGAL (no one is
illegal) campaign at documentaX and subsequent projects such as the
"noborder network" and the internet platform KEIN.ORG.

He initiated and co-organized the new media festivals MAKEWORLD (2001),
NEURO-networking europe (2004), "Borderline Academy" (2005), "SUMMIT -
nona-ligned initiatives in education culture" and the multimedia
performance project "DICTIONARY OF WAR" (2006-now). He has lectured at
universities, museums, and conferences worldwide.

Since 2006 he teaches theory at the art academy Trondheim. Since autumn
2008 he is advising researcher at Jan van Eyck Academie Maastricht. At
the moment he is working on his PHD-project on "Imaginary property" at
the Institute for Research Architecture in Goldsmiths College, London.

In 2008 he has acted as co-chair of ISEA 2008 in Singapore and
participated with performances and video installations at the biennales
in Gwangju, Taipei and Brussels, as well as manifesta 7 (Trento and
Bolzano). He is co-editor of "Wörterbuch des Krieges", Merve-Verlag,
Berlin 2008.

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