EXERO LUX 2010

Grégory Lasserre (Scenocosme) - Scenocosme is the French artist couple Grégory Lasserre and Anaïs met den Ancxt. Their work uses music and architecture to create interactive artworks in which the spectator is invited to be at the centre of a musical or choreographed collective performance. A hybrid of plants and technology, Akousmaflore is an enchanting hanging garden that expresses its sensitivity to gentle human touch or close proximity by singing in response. Embracing the notion that inanimate objects can react when given human attention, and testing the boundaries by which the everyday world is experienced, Akousmaflore reaches out and communicates through a ream, a chorus or an acoustic vibration.

David Kousemaker (Blendid Interaction Design) – Blendid is a collaborative team of two interaction designers: David Kousemaker and Tim Olden. They are interested in designing digital technology that breaks away from traditional frameworks in order to have a more natural interaction between people and computing technology. Kousemaker and Olden studied at Utrecht School of Art and Technology and have received Master’s degrees in Interactive Design. TouchMe is an interactive installation that encourages the audience to leave a personal mark in public space. The user presses a button and then holds his or her body against the smooth interface of a sheet of frosted glass. TouchMe scans the glass screen and the resulting full–colour image of the viewer is retained and displayed until the next person approaches.Its interface invites direct interaction from the user, at once creating a sense of ease and playfulness while bridging people with creative technologies

Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau – Based at the University of Art and Design in Linz, Austria, Laurent Mignonneau and Christa Sommerer are internationally renowned artists who have been collaborating since 1992. Their intuitive interface designs apply scientific principles to explore themes of artificial life through interactive computer installations. Through and innovative and intuitive interface design, Sommerer and Mignonneau’s Life Writer engages participants in the very act of creation and destruction. An apparently analogue typewriter sits upon an old writer’s desk holding a single sheet of paper onto which a projection is thrown from above. As the user begins to type, the text evolves into artificial life forms that appear to emerge directly from the machine

Momoyo Torimitsu – Momoyo Torimitsu, based in New York since 1996, playfully critiques contemporary Japanese culture through works in sculpture, installation and video. She has performed and exhibited widely, including performances on Wall Street in New York and exhibitions in ISEA 2008, National Museum of Singapore, Momenta Art, New York, Museum of Cotemporary Art, Sydney, Tate Gallery, London and City Museum of Modern Art Rome. Fighting the never–ending corporate battle, Miyata Jiro is a realistic, life–size robotic ‘salaryman’ (the Japanese expression for a white–collar worker), complete with suit, polished shoes, unwavering smile and spectacles. Rather than bow or shake hands in a traditional businessman’s greeting, he lies flat on his stomach and crawls, focused and commando–style, up the footpath of a metropolitan business district.

Chloé Lefebvre & Jean Dubois – Jean DuBois and Chloé Lefebvre are Canadian–based artists who have worked in close collaboration since 2001. Their work involves interactive installations that explore the relation between the spectator and the screen. The observer can obtain a level of intimacy with the fictional characters the artists have created through lyrical encounters facilitated by touch-screens and other technology. Bringing attention back to the globally uniting matter of air as the elixir of all life, Jean Dubois & Chloé Lefebvre’s By Means of a Sigh is an interactive screenbased video installation, designed for exhibition within a public arena, that invites empathy for oneness in humanity and the destruction of the other. Two faces in profile look at each other from two sides of a large screen. Each blows a gum bubble of ever–changing size and fragility. Viewers are prompted to call a number on their phones, which links them to one of the faces onscreen; blowing gently into the receiver directly affects the life of one bubble.

Christopher Fulham Born 1973, Perth Western Australia Lives and works in Canberra Practicing across a range of time-based media including digital video and photography Christopher Fulham's work has been exhibited both in Australia and internationally. He divides his time between art-making and his work as a lecturer in Video and Internet Art at the ANU. Among the many shows he has appeared in are Gradations of Light, CarriageWorks, Sydney (2009), Urban Screens 08, Federation Square, Melbourne (2008), BOOM Taiwan-Australia New Media Arts Exhibition, Taiwan (2007), Forecast, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (2006), and Mobile Journeys, Opera House, Sydney (2005). Recently his work has been shortlisted for the John Fries Memorial Prize, Churchie Emerging Art Prize and the Phoenix Prize for Spiritual Art. He is currently developing the pre-show program for the ARC cinema at the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) and his work is touring nationally as part of Experimenta's 2010 International Biennial of Art. His work is an exploration of the environment around him; transforming everyday moments into sublime and engaging works that promote a sense of reflection and invite the viewer to reconsider the ordinary with fresh perspective. The images presented such as Australian beach goers, views from a train, or shoppers descending an escalator, are commonplace, yet Christopher's engagement with his subject matter creates a space of intimate observation, and a sense of wonder and playfulness. His aim is to create an experience that is not about narrative, place or subject but rather it's an attempt to give rise to a sense of the ebb and flow of time and life. In the strange quasi public/private space that his work creates, the confluence of time and space creates a theatre of the everyday.

Isobel Knowles, Born Ballarat 1980 Lives and work Melbourne Van Sowerwine Born Melbourne 1975 Lives and work Melbourne Isobel Knowles and Van Sowerwine have collaborated together for many years on stopmotion animation films and interactive installations, Their work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. In 2010 their installation You Were In My Dream was short-listed for the 2010 Premier of Queensland's National New Media Art Award, Australia's most significant prize for new media art. In 2008 their animated film Doll Stories: Mary was shown as part of the International Digital Art exhibition in Beijing. In 2006 they exhibited their installation Expecting at the Institute for Contemporary Art, London and FACT, Liverpool. Their previous work Play With Me was exhibited at the Art Gallery of NSW as part of the Anne Landa Award, the first award-exhibition for the moving image and new media in Australia. Two of their works were shown at Media City Seoul 2004, the Korean Biennale of New Media Art. In 2004 Van and Isobel made the film Clara, a 7 minute stop-motion animation. It premiered at the Cannes Film Festival as one of nine short films in the Official Selection, where it won a Special Mention. Clara went on to win a Golden Hugo for Best Animation at the 2005 Chicago Film Festival. In January 2006 Clara screened at the Sundance Film Festival.

ANGELICA MESITI Born Sydney 1976 Lives & works Sydney Angelica Mesiti is a video, performance and installation artist based in Sydney. Her works take everyday environments and attempts to discover their unseen potential through displaced activities like performance, dance, costume and music. She was a founding member of the Sydney artists run Gallery Imperial Slacks during which time she curated the two part video publication Serial 7's. She has held solo shows at Mori Gallery (2003) and Rubyare Gallery (2004) and her work has been shown in Australia and overseas including; O.K Video Festival (2005), National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, Game On (2006) for the Next Wave festival, Gertrude St Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne and the touring show PLAY: Portraiture and Performance in Recent Video Art from Australia and New Zealand, (2006) shown at The Performance Space Sydney, Adam Art Gallery New Zealand and Perth Institute of Contemporary Art. She has been employed by the College of Fine Arts as a casual lecturer in the Time Based Art department since 2001. Mesiti is also a member of the collaborative group The Kingpins, who have exhibited and performed in museums nationally and overseas including the Liverpool Biennial 2006 - UK, The Palais de Tokyo and Nuit Blanche-Paris 2006, Contemporary Art Centre - Vilnius, Lithuania and Zacheta National Gallery of Art - Warsaw 2006, Transmodern Age Festival, Maryland, Baltimore USA 2006, South Korea, 2004 Taipei Biennale, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Super Delux Tokyo 2004.

David Elliott (1949-) is a British-born art gallery and museum curator. After studying history at the University of Durham, and History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art Elliott worked as an exhibitions officer at the Arts Council of Great Britain, after which he served as director of the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford from 1976 to 1996. Elliott's programme at Oxford included exhibitions of art from Latin America, Asia, South Africa, Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Elliott was then Director of the Moderna Museet (Museum of Modern Art) in Stockholm from 1996 to 2001. From 1998 to 2004 he was President of CIMAM [the International Committee of ICOM for Museums of Modern and Contemporary Art]. In the 90's he curated a big exhibition 'Art and Power" exploring the relationship of Art with the totalitarian regimes in Europe in the first half of the 20th century. The exhibition was shown in various museums across the world. Between 2001 and 2006 Elliott was the director of Tokyo's Mori Art Museum, a large privately-endowed museum devoted to contemporary - particularly Asian - art, architecture and design. He was recently appointed Director of Istanbul Modern starting January 2007, a post which he resigned from on October 16th, 2007. Elliott is Artistic Director for the 17th Biennale of Sydney, 'THE BEAUTY OF DISTANCE: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age' which will take place 12 May - 1 August 2010. 2.

Amy Barclay

Administration & Communications Coordinator at Experimenta Media Arts Melbourne Area, Australia | Fine Art Sunday Lights presents a conversation with the curator of Experimenta Media Arts, Amy Barclay. Experimenta is a Melbourne based arts festival focussing on new or innovative forms. Barclay was previously a curator of International Art Exhibitions at the National Gallery of Victoria.

Eduardo Kac

Eduardo Kac (born Brazil 1962) is an American contemporary artist internationally recognized for his interactive net installations and his bio-art. Kac considers himself a "transgenic artist," or "bio artist", using biotechnology and genetics to create provocative works that concomitantly explore scientific techniques and critique them. In 1997 Kac was the first person to have a microchip implanted in his body. He did this in the context of his work "Time Capsule", as a form of social commentary, in that it causes us to think deeply about the relationship we hold with technology

Shen Shaomin

Shen Shaomin (born China 1956) has connected art and life, craft and the mechanical, in major sculptural installations covering themes of war, futuristic crisis, scientific abomination and the manipulation of nature. One of the most critically and socially aware of contemporary Chinese artists, his works use ancient Chinese culture to comment on contemporary ecological issues, politics and technology. In the early 2000s, Shen created a series of imaginary, 'extinct', monstrous creatures made from bone. In 2010 Shen has presented a hypothetical meeting of the most significant communist leaders in history whose life-sized bodies rest in crystal coffins.

Bill Fontana

Bill Fontana (born USA 1947) is an American composer and artist who developed an international reputation for his pioneering experiments in sound. Since the early 70's Fontana has used sound as a sculptural medium to interact with and transform our perceptions of visual and architectural spaces. He has realized 'sound sculptures' and radio projects for museums and broadcast organizations around the world. His methodology has been to create networks of simultaneous listening points that relay real time acoustic data to a common listening zone (sculpture site).

David Haines and Joyce Hinterding

David Haines (born Australia 1966) and Joyce Hinterding (born Australia 1958) their collaborative work has produced large- scale immersive video and sound works that explore the tension between the fictive and the phenomenal. These works incorporate Joyce's investigations into energetic forces and David's concern with the intersection of hallucination and landscape. "Electromagnetique Composition for Building, Plants and Stars" (2007) is a digital video which offers us new felt experiences within which we can truly contemplate the often beautiful, but also threatening, new ecologies within which we now have to find new ways of living.

Angelica Mesiti

Angelica Mesiti (born Australia 1976) artist working within the traditions of video, performance and installation and generates material through a range of approaches including staged situations, site-specific performance, re-enactment and documentation to explore themes of cultural translations and time/space crossings. Her works have featured in projects at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, Reina Sofia National Museum, Madrid and Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. In 2009 she won the 58th Blake Prize for religious and spiritual art for her video "Rapture (silent anthem)."

Hiroshi Ishiguro

Hiroshi Ishiguro is a director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory at Osaka University, Japan. A notable development of the laboratory is the actroid, a humanoid robot with lifelike appearance and visible behaviour such as facial movements. Ishiguro has made an android that resembles himself. Ishiguro's recent creations look like normal people. Robots, according to Ishiguro are poised to move from factories into daily life. The hope is that robots will one day help people with a multitude of tasks.

Momoyo Torimitsu

Momoyo Torimitsu (born Tokyo 1967), based in New York's, playfully critiques contemporary Japanese culture through works in sculpture, installation and video. "Miyata Jiro" is a reflection of Torimitsu's sharp and critical understanding of the culture created by Japan's rapid economic rise as a superpower. Simultaneously embodying and subverting the roles of worker and robot, she taps into society's corporate fears and anxieties about work-life balance and the respect accorded to each. Torimitsu has performed and exhibited widely.

Chris Henschke

Chris Henschke is a Melbourne-based artist who has been working with digital media for the past fifteen years. His main areas of research are in art / science relationships, interactive and hybrid media and experimental audio. Henschke is in a creative partnership 'Topologies' with Donna Kendrigan. His works have been shown in Australia and internationally. "Fissure" is a work inspired by geological illustrations and cross sections digitally recombined to create an enormous vinyl collage across the walls of the Federation Square Gallery, Melbourne. Henschke also has created a mural commission for Synchrotron, which stretched 20 m long.

AES + F

Russian based photo-conceptualist group AES (made up of artists Tatyana Arzamasova, Lev Evzovitch, and Evgeny Svyatsky). The artist collective combines conceptual architecture, graphic arts, animation and photography to create fantasy worlds combining classical western mythology with contemporary global consumerism. Their acclaimed work "The Feast of Trimalchio" retells Petronius's epic poem from the "Satyricon" for a twenty-first century audience. Using the imagery of high-fashion, cinema, lifestyle magazines, and luxury design, "The Feast of Trimalchio" is an Olympic-sized orgy of wealth and pleasure.

Serge Spitzer

Serge Spitzer (born Romania 1951) is an American artist who uses sculpture, site-specific installations, works on paper, photography and video to question, explore and reflect on the shared reality everywhere. What ties his works together since the 1970s has been the challenging of assumptions. He gives a clue to this by calling his works 'reality models', alerting the viewer to the possibility that what we are looking at is perhaps an altered or amplified aspect of the world around us. Whether transforming architectural spaces by flooding them with hordes of unexpected, incongruous objects, or arranging a seemingly endless piece of thread into a tangle of lines as a 'drawing', Spitzer manages to gift his audience with a sense of wonder.

David Eliott

David Eliott (born UK 1949) was an artistic director of the 17th Biennale of Sydney. He is a cultural historian whose main interests concern contemporary art, Russian avant-garde and the visual cultures of central and Eastern Europe, Asia and the non-western world from the late nineteenth century. Beginning in the early 1980s, he formulated a series of pioneering exhibitions in one of the first programs to integrate non-western culture with contemporary art. He has published a large number of books, articles and catalogues on these subjects and has curated many exhibitions. He has also written extensively about the present-day role and function of museums and contemporary art.

Isobel Knowles and Van Sowerwine

Isobel Knowles (born Australia 1980) and Van Sowerwine (born Australia 1975) is a Melbourne-based collaborative. Artist Isobel Knowles's multidisciplinary practice encompasses animation, music video, installation, visual art, film soundtrack and music. Van Sowerwine works across the areas of stop-motion animation, interactive art, sculpture and photography. Her work explores ideas of childhood and its darker underpinnings. Both artists have screened, exhibited and performed nationally and internationally.

Jemima Wyman

Jemima Wyman (born Australia 1977 ) lives and works in Brisbane, Australia and Los Angeles, USA. Jemima Wyman works with performance, video and photography to produce works that engage themes of identity, disguise, resistance, fear and liberation. In live performances and video, customised masks and photocollages, Wyman explores the idea of 'combat drag' - the use of camouflage (often the iconic Australian plaid of flannelette shirts), masks and multiple layers of cloth - to give such homogenous identities to collective bodies.

David Kousemaker

David Kousemaker works as part of art collective 'Blandid' with Tim Olden. Both are interaction designers with overlapping interests when it comes to interface design. Experienced in realizing projects in different areas of the creative digital field, 'Blendid' is most interested in designs that allow for digital technology to escape the more traditional interfaces and bridge the gap between the physical and the virtual. "Touch Me" (2004) is an interactive installation which generates images that are created by interacting with a plate of frosted glass.

Laurent Mignonneau and Christa Sommerer

Laurent Mignonneau (born France 1967) and Christa Sommerer (born Austria 1964) are internationally renowned artists who have been collaborating since 1992. Their intuitive interface designs apply scientific principles to explore themes of artificial life through interactive computer installations. They work as researchers and professors and are currently heading the department of Interface Cultures at the University of Art and Design in Linz. Their work has been called "epoch-making" for developing natural and intuitive interfaces and for applying scientific principles such as artificial life, complexity, generative systems and nanotechnologies to their innovative interface design.

Grégory Lasserre and Anaïs met den Ancxt

'Scenocosme' is the French artist couple Grégory Lasserre (born France 1976) and Anaïs met den Ancxt (born France 1981). Their work uses music and architecture to create interactive artworks in which the spectator is invited to be at the centre of a musical or choreographed collective performance. A hybrid of plants and technology, "Akousmaflore" is an enchanting hanging garden that expresses its sensitivity to gentle human touch or close proximity by singing in response.


1. Lawrence Malstaff[Amsterdam]		Amy Barclay [Melbourne]
2. David Elliott[Sydney Biennale]	Hiroshi Ishiguru [Tokyo]	Michael Burton [London]	http://vimeo.com/26252087
3. Bill Fontana[San Francisco]	Tim Coldwell Circus Oz[Melbourne]
4. Momoyo Torimitsu[Tokyo]	Angelica Mesiti [Sydney]	Serge Spitzer [New York]	http://vimeo.com/26250809
5. A E S + F[Moscow]	Eduardo Kac [Rio de Janeiro]	David Kousemaker[Amsterdam]
6. Dubois Lefevre[Montreal]	Greg Lasserre [Paris]	Chris Fulham[ACT]	http://vimeo.com/30784885
7. Shen Shaomin[Beijing]	Laurent Mignonneau [Vienna]	Haines-Hinterding [Sydney]	http://vimeo.com/30783018
8. Chris Henschke[Melbourne]	Knowles Sowerwine [Melbourne]		http://vimeo.com/30782215
9. Gerfried Stocker [Linz]			http://vimeo.com/26254624
10. Jemima Wyman [Los Angeles]	Oksana Mas[Moscow]	S H Rasa[Paris]
11. The Tape Project			http://vimeo.com/33313821
12. The Guggenheims of Venice			http://vimeo.com/32163992
13. Mike Stubbs [UK]		Peter Callas [Sydney]
14. Garry Stewart [Sydney]Louis-Philippe Demers [Canada], Gina Czarnecki [UK]
15. Julien Maire [Berlin]		Drew Berry [AUS]
16. Stanley Kubrick Exhibition	Jan Harlan , Christiane Kubrick, Malcolm McDowell
17. MEART [Aus]
18. Werner Nekkes [Germany]		Goyi Tangale [FRA]
19. Philip Norton [Aus]		Bernie Searle [Jo'Burg]
20. Jeffrey Shaw [Aus]		Keiko Kimoto [Tokyo]
21. Peter Bosch [Spain]		Rafael Lozano-Hemmer [Can]
22. Shilpa Gupta [India]		Stelarc [Aus]
23. Anouk van Dijk [NY]		Dennis Del Favero [Aus]
24. Mari Velonaki [Sydney]		Isaac Julien [UK]
25. Justine Cooper [US]		Alex Davies [Aus]
26. Brian Gothong Tan [Sing]		Ian Haig [Aus]
27. Minim ++ [Tokyo]		Ulf Langheinrich [Germany]
28. Experimenta [Aus]		Martina Mngrovius [Aus]
29. Sue Broadway [Aus]		Adam Elliott [Aus]
30. Gina Carnecki [UK]		Simon Barley [Aus]
31. Brett Graham [NZ]		Meschac Gaba [Africa]
32. Studio Festi [Italy]		Des Quidams [Fra]
33. Gideon Obarzanek [Aus]
34. Bruce Gladwin [Aus]		Grouppe F [Fra]
35. Glissendo [Ger]		Propeller [UK]
36. Lucy Guerin [Aus]		Gerard Vaughan NGV [Aus]
37. Lloyd Kaufmann [US]		Craig Walsh [Aus]
38. Scott Redford [Aus]		Nimrod Weiss [Aus]






	Gerfried Stocker Artistic Co-Director of the Ars Electronica Festival Gerfried Stocker was born on January 26, 1964 in Judenburg / Austria. In 1991, he set up the x-space team to carry out interdisciplinary projects. Out of this came numerous installations and performance projects at the nexus of interaction, robotics and telecommunications. Stocker was also responsible for the conception of radio network projects and the organization of worldwide “Horizontal Radio.” Since 1995, he has been CEO of the Ars Electronica Center and, since 1996, jointly with Christine Schöpf, artistic director of Ars Electronica.
	Eduardo Kac Natural History of the Enigma Eduardo Kac (US) with his scientific partners Neil Olszewski, Department of Plant Biology and Neil Anderson, Department of Horticultural Science, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN “Natural History of Enigma” is Eduardo Kac’s account of the common origin of species. He extracted a gene from his own DNA and then used it to replace its counterpart in the DNA of a petunia. The result of this gene transplantation is a new form of life: “Edunia,” a cross between a human being and a petunia. To perform this engineering feat, Eduardo Kac didn’t choose just any old gene; he selected the one responsible for identifying foreign bodies. The fact that, following this gene transplantation, the new element was then “recognized” as the organism’s own also underscores the fact that a new form of life had been created thereby. “Natural History of Enigma” is the recipient of the Golden Nica in the HYBRID ART category.
	Laurence Malstaff Nemo Observatorium Lawrence Malstaf (BE), Courtesy Galerie Fortlaan 17 - Gent (BE) http://www.fortlaan17.com/eng/artists/malstaf The “Nemo Observatory” is captivating in a way that is simultaneously disconcerting and hypnotic. Lawrence Malstaf (Belgium) utilizes five fans and a walk-though PVC cylinder to create a localized cyclone. Thousands of bits of polystyrene fly about through the air, with the observer situated right in the middle of it all—literally in the eye of the storm. Regardless of whether he/she focuses on particles whirling all about or looks past the flurry of material off into the distance, the tempestuous circumstances seem to exert an extraordinarily calming effect. This high-energy spectacle suddenly becomes a uniform, almost spellbinding sensory impression. With his “Nemo Observatory,” Lawrence Malstaf has succeeded in producing a high-impact allegory—an apt symbolic representation of our ever-more-rapidly changing world and our attempt to maintain our composure amidst the storm. The Golden Nica in INTERACTIVE ART goes to “Nemo Observatory.”
	Michael Badics
	Hiroshi Ishiguro Hiroshi Ishiguro, professor at the University of Osaka and guest group leader at ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories, served as the model for HI-1, the very first geminoid. Since 2006, HI-1 and other geminoids have been used for purposes of research, which has essentially been following two approaches. Some projects concentrate on the development of a functional remote-control mechanism and the programming of movements that most closely resemble that way a human being naturally moves; others focus on cognitive modeling to investigate typical characteristics of humans—for instance, “human presence.” The combination of the two approaches leads ultimately to the development of robots that strongly resemble a human being and open up novel insights into human nature.
	Andreas Muxel
	HYBRID ART EarthStar David Hines (UK), Joyce Hinterding (AU) “EarthStar” examines the elementary, mystical qualities of the sun. Installation visitors are treated to an up-close-and-personal encounter—seeing, hearing and smelling the heavenly body that dominates our solar system. A hydrogen-alpha telescope captures fantastic images of the sun’s chromosphere; VLF antennas pick up the star’s radiation, which is converted by an amplifier into a soundtrack. And while all that’s going on, the installation space is being suffused with synthetic aromas meant to suggest ozone.
	Bill Fontana Bill Fontana (born USA 1947) is an American composer and artist who developed an international reputation for his pioneering experiments in sound. SInce the early 70’s Fontana has used sound as a sculptural medium to interact with and transform our perceptions of visual and architectural spaces. He has realized sound sculptures and radio projects for museums and broadcast organizations around the world. His work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, the Post Museum in Frankfurt, the Art History and Natural History Museums in Vienna, both Tate Modern and Tate Britain in London, the 48th Venice Biennale, the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, the Art Gallery of NSE in Sydney and the new Kolumba Museum in Cologne. He has done major radio sound art projects for the BBC, the European Broadcast Union, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, National Public Radio, West German Radio (WDR), Swedish Radio, Radio France and the Austrian State Radio.
	Michael Burton Michael Burton (born UK 1977) works on the edge of speculative design and art. He creates objects, images and films as insights into richly imagined scenarios of the future. His work explores health and climate, challenges and the choices we face in evolving as a species. Burton exhibits internationally, most notably at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. He leads a collaborative practice, working with organisations and individuals including scientists, performers, choreographers, designers and architects.

	Peter Wehinger

	S.H. Rasa [Paris] The "Picasso" of Contemporary Indian Art S.H. Raza or Syed Haider Raza (born 22 February 1922) is an eminent Indian artist who has lived and worked in France since 1950, but maintains strong ties with India. His works are mainly abstracts in oil or acrylic, with a very rich use of color, replete with icons from Indian cosmology as well as its philosophy [1][2]. He was awarded the Padma Shri and Fellowship of the Lalit Kala Akademi [3] in 1981 and Padma Bhushan in 2007 [4].

HYBRID ART