Mikkel Maltha

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Mikkel Maltha was born in 1973. He has been working for the Zentropa Group since 1998. From 1998 to 2003 he worked as in-house production lawyer and from 2003 he became music supervisor. He has been responsible for the legal production of films like “Dancer in the Dark” (Lars von Trier) and “Dogville” (Lars von Trier) and he supervised the film soundtrack productions of more than 30 films including “After the Wedding” (Susanne Bier) and “Island of Lost Souls” (Nikolaj Arcel). Besides his work as music supervisor, Mikkel Maltha worked as composer on various film and TV projects. He composed the music for the 2008 Oscar Academy Awards nominated short drama “At Night” and he was nominated for the best original song at the 2007 Robert Film Award (Danish Academy Awards) for the feature film “Råzone”.

Prati Kulshreshtha

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Graduated in Botanical Sciences in India at the University of Delhi. She studied Italian language and literature, working simultaneously for “The Times of India”, India’s largest selling English Daily. Wrote articles on education and the challenges faced by India’s education system. After the first year of Italian studies, she got a scholarship by the Government of Italy to study Italian culture in Perugia. The first contact with Italy was so fascinating that she decided to continue the Italian studies in India. Successfully she completed Masters and M.Phil in Italian History and Literature at the University of Delhi. She is now about to begin her Doctoral thesis on a comparative study between Machiavelli’s “Il Principe“ and the most important work of a second-century Indian political thinker, Chanakya. Currently she’s working as a Research Intern at the Indian Parliament in Delhi that will soon publish her research on parliamentary immunity.

Jui-Jen Shih 石瑞仁

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Born in 1954 in Nanto, Taiwan J.J. SHIH holds Bachelor Degree (Fine Arts), National Taiwan University and Master Degree, Graduate School of Art History, Temple University (USA). Prior to taking up the directorship of Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, J.J. Shih was Chief Curator, Exhibitions and Deputy Researcher, Taipei Fine Arts Museum. He also serves as a Trustee, Dimension Endowment of Art and Contemporary Art Foundation; committee member, Public Art Program, Taipei Council of Cultural Affairs; consultant, National Culture and Arts Foundation, and Artistic Director, Taishin Bank Foundation for Arts and Culture. J.J. Shih has written over 300 art reviews, winning the 1997 DEOA Art Criticism Award. Amongst his many exhibitions are: Mediaholic, The Art of Ni Tsai Chin (2009), MOCA Taipei; Environment-Human as Art, ArtTaipei 2009; 6th Taishin Arts Award Exhibition 2008; Taipei Zhongshan Metro Linear Park Public Art 2005, MOCA Taipei, and Pseudo Hackers’ Art in Parallels Zones 2005, MOCA Taipei.

Simona Caraceni

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Simona Caraceni works on the fields of new media communication and multimediality, and since ‘94 has been involved in new media and new technology applications in communications and art. She taught at the Universities of Bozen, Milan, Florence, Macerata and Bologna DAMS-Cinema. At present she teaches Museum Informatics at the University of Bologna, and History of New media at NABA: Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. Her museological activity is about the relationship between museum and technology, she started with her PhD research on “museum and technology” at the University of Plymouth, dept. of Aestethics and Technology. ICOM member, she’s in the executive board of AVICOM. In the field of applied research, she is involved in didactic with new technology, virtual museums and interaction design.