From January 2005 artistic director of Hartware MedienKunstVerein in Dortmund, Germany.

Born 1968 in Duisdorf, Bonn; since 1993 freelance curator and author focussing on media art, net cultures and Eastern Europe. After spending four years in Paris (1982-86) she studied Eastern European cultural studies, Slavistics, Political Science, and Art History in Berlin and in Amsterdam (M.A. in 1996). In 2004 she completed her PhD degree at the Humboldt University, Berlin.

Her curatorial work includes "OSTranenie 93," Dessau 1993; "Minima Media: Medienbiennale," Leipzig 1994; "discord. sabotage of realities," Hamburg 1996-1997; "body of the message," Berlin 1998; "Body and the East," Ljubljana 1998; "Social Technologies," Essen 2003; "Irwin: Retroprincip 1983-2003," Berlin, Hagen and Belgrade 2003-2004; "Public Library," Berlin 2004.

Founding member of various media cultural initiatives, e.g. the translocal Syndicate network (1996-2001), mikro (Berlin 1998) as well as the mailing list Spectre (2001). 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.

Her dissertation, entitled "Objects in the Mirror may be Closer Than They Appear: The Avant-garde in the Rear View Mirror" (2004), 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.

Besides her publications "Netzkulturen" and "Neue Slowenische Kunst" (both 2002) she has published widely on issues of net culture and media art.