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Alain Kessi – Zurich / Sofia

Born 1969. MA, Federal Institute of Technology, 1993. Programmer, journalist, media activist and theorist.

Has published numerous articles on globalization and its discontents, on the new roles of cities and their public space in a decentralized “headquarter” economy, on civil society and non-government organizations as a new paradigm of control, on migration and migrant politics of West European countries, on political, cultural and social phenomena in South-Eastern European societies.

In 2002, founded with Dimitrina Sevova the critical media art and theory collective code flow (http://www.code-flow.net). Since 1997 he has participated in a number of projects of arts and politics, among which the Inner City Action Weeks in Switzerland and Germany, 1997, “The Future State of Balkania” at temp.media.lab, Kiasma, Helsinki, 1999, make-world festival in Munich, Germany, 2001. In 2001 he curated, with Dimitrina Sevova, the third edition of Communication Front in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, and the conference “All Museums Are Virtual” in Sofia. He co-curated the project and exhibition “Polyphony – Collaborative Practices, Part 2” at Shedhalle, Zurich, 2005. Lecture of the code flow research collective at the symposium “Art – Place – Technology,” Liverpool School of Art and Design / FACT, Liverpool, 2006.

In 2002 he edited and published with Dimitrina Sevova the “CFront – Crossing Points East-West” book, a collection of texts on new technologies and media art. In 2004, after a workshop in Shedhalle, Zurich, published a book with theoretical texts and interviews, “KonsequenZ,” as an author and editor collective with Dimitrina Sevova and Frederikke Hansen.