Founders:
Ruti Sela and Maayan Amir
Team:
Tal Yahas
Renard Gluzman
Anat Ben-David
Nir Baram
Maya Feldman
Shony Rivnay
Special Outreach Projects:
Natalie shazar
Communications Coordinator:
Roy Yellin
Lawyer:
Adi Shafrir
Ruti Sela, artist that studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, and at the Film Department of the Tel Aviv University and teaches at the Haifa University , Avni Institute of Art and Design and at the Midrasha Art School. Throughout 2011, she has been a guest resident at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam. She has received a number of prizes and scholarships, among them the Anselm Kiefer prize. Her work has been shown internationally at various exhibitions and venues, including the Biennale of Sidney (2006) Istanbul Biennial (2009), Berlin Biennial (2010); Manifesta 8 (2010), Israel Museum, Centre Pompidou, Paris; Art in General, New York; Tel-Aviv Museum, Tate Modern, Jeu de Paume. In 2009 she initiated together with Maayan Amir “The Exterritory Project” on which they have won an award (2011) for young artist from the The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
Maayan Amir, artist and independent curator. She holds and MFA in cinema and She is currently studying towards PhD at the Research Architecture Program at Goldsmiths University. She is teaching curatorial studies at Sapir Academic College and Technion and in other academic institute. Throughout 2011, she has been a guest resident at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam. She edited a book about Israeli documentary cinema which was published on 2008. She had curated many exhibitions in different venues. Her works are shown internationally in exhibitions such as the Sidney Biennale (2006) Istanbul Biennale (2009), Berlin Biennale (2010) and venues such as Centre Pompidou (Paris), Art in General (NY), Tate Modern, Jeu de Paume, among many others places. In 2009 she initiated together with Ruti Sela “The Exterritory Project” on which they have won an award (2011) for young artist from the The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
Renrad Gluzman has completed his MA dissertation on the subjects of Sea Routes in the Mediterranean, at the Early Modern Department in Tel Aviv University, and is now working on his PHD on the subject of Renaissance ships and sailors in Venice. Other than that, he owns a small ketch boat named “Halcyon” and cruising Mediterranean waters in his spare time.
Anat Ben-David is affiliated with the Digital Methods Initative (University of Amsterdam), and with the Amsterdam-based research foundation Govcom.org, which develop software and tools for mapping and studying social and political issues on the Web. In the past five years she contributed to a research project called “Mapping the Ideational Space of the Palestinian Israeli Conflict”, collaboration between Govcom.org and the Advanced Network Research Group, Cambridge Security Programme. Anat’s current research focuses on the role the Internet plays in the process of Palestinian state-formation.
