LENS BASED GUESTS 2020

COLLECTIVE WISH LIST

Please write below: student's name: name of guest you'd like to invite, link to their website

FELIX
Mareike Foecking
Photographer and Professor for Photography. Among her fields of research are the image in the digital transformation, photography in its diverse applications and languages, photography in the digital age.
https://www.foecking.net

Elke Kania
After studying art history, philosophy, sociology and film studies in Aachen, Berlin and Rome, Kania earned her Master’s degree with a thesis on Jarman’s film "Caravaggio". She has worked as an art and film critic for the FAZ newspaper, among others. She taught film and television analysis at RWTH Aachen University from 2007 to 2009. She has been doing freelance work for the Julia Stoschek Collection since 2008 and has been a research assistant at the Institute for Art and Art Theory at the University in Cologne since 2009. Kania has curated numerous film series to accompany various art exhibitions and writes and lectures on time-based art and film. She lives and works in Cologne.

SUSANNA
Laura Huertas Millan > https://www.laurahuertasmillan.com/bio

JACOB
Chloe Dewe Mathews http://www.chloedewemathews.com/home/

FILEONA

Lena Dobrowolska Lena Dobrowolska is an artist working with a combination of photography, artist’s film installation, virtual reality simulation and research. Since 2012, Dobrowolska has been working in collaboration with Teo Ormond-Skeaping on projects concerned with Climate Change and the Anthropocene that are global in focus. Her artistic practice is research-led and involves fieldwork in remote locations where she investigates links between climate change, development, environmental degradation and displacement. She focuses on the ethics and methodologies of documentary representation and the representation of slow violence (Nixon), environmental catastrophe, migration and extractive practices. She is a lecturer at Royal College of Art's Digital Direction MA. https://www.lenadobrowolska.com/

Miguel Peres Dos Santos filmmaker/media artist based in Den Haag. Most of his work uses archives as contemplations on colonial and contemporary racial relations in the Netherlands and its former Caribbean colonies. He also calls himself an "artist-researcher." https://www.haagsekunstenaars.nl/cv/77339

Lea

Anaïs López http://www.anaislopez.nl Anaïs López (1981) is a visual artist based in Amsterdam, who works with still and moving images. She graduated from the Royal Art Academy in The Hague in 2006 and did a two year Masters at the Art Academy St.Joost in Breda researching narrative structures and documentary strategies. She give workshops on documentary strategies and portfolio reviews.

Rob Hornstra Rob Hornstra, born in 1975 in the Netherlands, is a Dutch photographer of predominantly long-term documentary projects, both at home and around the world. https://robhornstra.com/workshops/diy-storytelling He gives DIY Storytelling Workshops

Andreas

Anthony Scott Burns https://vimeo.com/pilotpriest Anthony Scott Burns (born May 9, 1977) is a Canadian filmmaker, visual effects artist and musician. After starting his film career as a visual effects artist he directed three feature films. He also releases music under the moniker Pilotpriest.

RubenFro https://rubenfro.com/work RubenFro is creating immersive VFX experiences for movies, music videos and concept art using Unity, 360 Photography and Photogrammetry. https://vimeo.com/393634761

Thy
Laia Abrilhttps://www.laiaabril.com/ Laia Abril (1986) is a research-based artist working with photography, text, video and sound. After graduating from college with a degree in Journalism she moved to New York to focus on photography where she decided to start telling intimate stories that raise uneasy and hidden realities related with sexuality, eating disorders and gender equality. In 2009, she enrolled the artist residency at FABRICA, the Benetton Research Centre in Treviso, where she worked as a researcher, photo editor and staff photographer at Colors Magazine for 5 years.

This artist has several workshops on art direction and visual storytelling before: https://www.laiaabril.com/workshop/