Present Continuous Past(s)

URSULA ANNA FROHNE, studied history of art. 1995-2002 curator at the ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany. Numerous professorships; currently professor for art history at the International University Bremen, Germany.

MONA SCHIEREN, studied history of art. Lecturer at the department of cultural history, University of Hamburg, as well as research associate and project manager of the iMediathek, University of the Arts, Bremen.

JEAN-FRANÇOIS GUITON, studied at the Academy of Art in Düsseldorf. Numerous professorships; since 1998 teaching assignement at the Hochschule für Künste, Bremen.

Ursula Anna Frohne is an art historian and cultural theorist. She has been curator at the ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe (Germany) from 1995-2002 and has taught art history, visual studies, cultural studies, and media theory at the Academy for Design in Karlsruhe since 1997. She was Visiting Professor at the Department of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University in 2001/2002 and is currently Professor for Art History at the International University Bremen (Germany). After studying art history she received her PhD with a thesis on the social history of the American artist at the Freie Universität Berlin, where she taught at the Department for Art History from 1988-1995. Her research has been funded with grants from the J. Paul Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, Santa Monica (1990/91), the American Council for the Learned Societies (1994/95) and the Pembroke Center, Brown University, Providence, R.I. (2001/02). The focus of her work is in contemporary art, photography, film, video and installation, theory of image media and new media. She has been curator for numerous exhibitions on contemporary art and architecture.

Mona Schieren was awarded her first degree at the University of Economy and Politics, Hamburg, from where she graduated with the equivalent of an MSc in Business Administration (Diplom-Betriebswirtin). Afterwards she studied History of Art at the University of Hamburg and the École Nationale Supérieure d´Art de Nice. She held a research stipend of the University Hamburg for her MA-research project in Paris. She worked and participated in various galleries and projects. She is a lecturer at the Department of Cultural History, University of Hamburg and currently holds a post as a research associate at the University of the Arts Bremen where she is also the project-manager of the iMediathek. In May 2004 she organized the international symposium "Present Continuous Past(s). Videoart. Strategies of Presentation and Mediation".

Jean-François Guiton. Studied at the Academy of Art in Düsseldorf under Prof. F. Schwegler and U. Wevers. 1985 scholarship student under Prof. F. Schwegler. 1987-94 teaching assignement at the Bergische Universität-Gesamthochschule in Wuppertal. 1994 teaching assignement at the École des Arts Décoratifs, Strasbourg. 1998 teaching assignement at the Hochschule für Künste, Bremen.