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Visual arts from
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Pat Binder

Pat Binder

 

 

Editor of Universes in Universe - Worlds of Art, together with Gerhard Haupt.

Artist, mediator and net-worker.

Parallel to her own artistic work, explores issues and develops strategies of art mediation and cultural exchange.

Since 1997 realization of art and cultural projects on the Internet.

 

 

Internet projects

Exhibitions,
art projects

Grants, prizes

Conferences, juries

 

Biographical data, studies

 

1960

 

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

 

1979 - 1983

 

Artistic and pedagogic studies at the National Art Academy in Buenos Aires.

 

1989 - 1991

 

Further education in fine arts and art education at the University of British Columbia, and the University of Victoria, Canada.

 

1992 - 1995

 

Independent artist in Düsseldorf / Neuss, London and Zürich.

 

1996

 

Moved to Berlin. Contact address: see Impressum

 
 

 

Internet projects and websites

Together with Gerhard Haupt, both content and design-related concepts as well as technical realization of art websites and cultural projects in the Internet, including:

 

 

since 1997

 

Universes in Universe - Worlds of Art

Published by Gerhard Haupt and Pat Binder since February 1997. See Impressum.

 

 

since 2002

 

CulturE-ASEF

Extensive information system for the cultural exchange among the 16 Asian and the 27 European ASEM member countries, published since March 2002. In collaboration with the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF).

 

CulturE-ASEF

since 2003

 

Nafas Art Magazine

Online magazine published by Universes in Universe in collaboration with the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa, Germany), supported by the Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany. Published since March 2003 in English, Arabic, German.

 

Nafas Art Magazine

2000

 

Zwischenland / Zwischenzeit

Berlin - Prenzlauer Berg 1990. Photos by Ulrich Wüst from the last months of the GDR, which he had compiled as an artist book. 10 years after, first publication of the photo essay in an online version with 117 photos.

 

Zwischenland / Zwischenzeit

1999

 

Berlin Mitte. Explorations of an Urban Conversion

Photo essay on the radical changes in the city over the 1990s. Photos: Ulrich Wüst. Curatorial concept, realization: Binder, Haupt. 260 photos, text by Matthias Flügge, maps with the location of the photographed places.

 

Berlin Mitte. Explorations of an Urban Conversion

1998 - 2000

 

Cultural Exchange via Internet -
Opportunities and Strategies

Collaborator of the online discussion forum about the use of the Internet for the cultural exchange with and between Africa, Asia/Pacific and Latin America. Hosted by the House of World Cultures, Berlin. Conceived, organized, moderated by Gerhard Haupt.

 

 
 

 

Exhibitions, art projects

Shows, art projects on the Internet, art in the public space (selection):

 

 

seit 1997

Foto/Graphik Galerie Käthe Kollwitz

With this public art project, Pat Binder won a competition to design a memorial mark in front of the place where Käthe Kollwitz's house was in Berlin/Prenzlauer Berg. In an illuminated billboard, she presents works of other artists in a 3 months rotation, as an homage to Käthe Kollwitz.

Foto/Graphik Galerie Käthe Kollwitz

1999 - 2003

 

Denkzeichen 4. November 1989

Together with Gerhard Haupt. Art project on Alexanderplatz / Berlin, in memory of the largest rally of the democratic movement in the GDR. In an illuminated billboard were shown works by 13 international artists in a three moth rotation.

 

Denkzeichen 4. November 1989

2000

 

Stimmen aus Ravensbrück

Internet art project by Pat Binder on the poems and drawings made by women at the concentration camp Ravensbrück. In May 2002, it was awarded the Marianne von Willemer Prize of the city of Linz/Austria.

Presented at international festivals since 2000, including:

InteractivA'03, Mérida, Mexico

Les HTMlles, Studio XX, Montréal, Canada

The Lite Show, Boston Cyberarts Festival, USA

World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Medi@terra, Athens, Greece

Net_Working, Digital Media Research Centre, Bristol, GB

 

Stimmen aus Ravensbrück

2000

 

Threads of the Woven Maze

Web exhibition with works by 12 artists. Curated and produced by Pat Binder for the International Women University, Hannover 2000.

 

Threads of the Woven Maze

Since 1985

 

Numerous individual and group exhibitions, including:

 

 
 

 

Zapping

Solo show, ifa-Galerie Berlin and Galerie Basta, Hamburg, 1996.

Havana Biennial:
5th Biennial, 1994 and 6th Biennial, 1997

Further exhibitions, as well as photos, texts and information on artworks - see the personal Website
>> pat-binder.de

 

Zapping
 

 

Grants, prizes

 

 

2002

 

Marianne-von-Willemer-Price
Awarded by the city of Linz, Austria

 

 

2000 - 2001

 

Together with Gerhard Haupt grant from the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology (Canada) for the relaunch of Universes in Universe.

 

 

1999/2000

 

Grant from the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology (Canada) for the creation of the art project on the Internet Voices from Ravensbrück

 

 

1998

 

Fellowship from the Berlin Senate's Women's Research Program for research on the poetry and drawings of women in the Ravensbrück concentration camp.

 

 

1997

 

Winner of a public art competition in Berlin to create a memorial mark on the site of the former house of Käthe Kollwitz. Start of the project: Foto/Graphik Galerie Käthe Kollwitz

 

 
 

 

Presentations, papers, juries

 

 

2003

 

6th Sharjah Biennial

Together with Gerhard Haupt, lecture at the symposium, April 2003, United Arab Emirates

 

 

2002

 

Jury member of the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology, Montréal

Selection of international projects to receive grants

 

 

2000

 

7th Havana Biennial

Together with Gerhard Haupt, lecture at the Academic and Critical Meeting, November 2000, Cuba

 

 

2000

 

International Women University (ifu)

Presentation of the online-exhiibition Threads of the Woven Maze at the meeting of the International Women University, Hannover 2000

 

 

 

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