Since January 2005 artistic director of Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV), Dortmund, Germany (www.hmkv.de). Lives in Dortmund and Berlin. After spending four years in Paris (1982-86) she studied Eastern European cultural studies, Slavistics, Political Science, and Art History at the Free University Berlin and the University of Amsterdam (Erasmus scholarship 1992); 1996 M.A. thesis Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK) - analysis of their artistic strategies in the context of Yugoslavia in the 1980s (published 2002). 1998-2000 PhD grant of the Berlin Senate (NaFöG). 2000-2001 lecturer at the Institute of Slavistics at the Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. 2002-2004 guest-lecturer at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (HGB) Leipzig. In 2004 she completed her PhD degree at the Institute of Slavistics of the Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. Her dissertation, entitled Objects in the Mirror may be Closer Than They Appear: The Avant-garde in the Rear View Mirror, researches a paradigmatic shift in the way artists reflect the historical avant-garde and the notion of utopia in visual and media art projects of the 1980s and 1990s in (ex-)Yugoslavia and Russia. Her curatorial work includes media art exhibitions and conferences like OSTranenie 93 (Bauhaus Dessau 1993); Minima Media. Medienbiennale Leipzig 94 (Buntgarnwerke Leipzig-Plagwitz 1994); V2_East Meeting on Documentation and Archives of Media Art in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe (V2_Organisation, Rotterdam 1996); discord. sabotage of realities (Kunstverein & Kunsthaus, Hamburg 1996/97); body of the message (Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin 1998); Body and the East: Performance and Body Art in Eastern Europe 1960 - today (Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana 1998); Social Technologies (Kokerei Zollverein, Essen, 2003); IRWIN: Retroprincip 1983-2003 (Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin 2003; Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum, Hagen 2003-2004; Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade 2004); Where am I (and who are all these people)? (EXIT Contemporary Art Institute, Peja, Kosovo 2004); Dispersed Moments of Concentration. Urban an Digital Spaces (HMKV at PHOENIX Halle Dortmund, 2005); On Disappearance. Loss of World and Escaping from the World (HMKV at PHOENIX Halle Dortmund, 2005). She has published and lectured extensively on media cultures and software art. See http://www.projects.v2.nl/~arns/