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Dimitrina Sevova – Zurich / Sofia

Born 1971, MA, National Academy of Arts, Sofia, 1998. Freelance curator, theorist, writer and media artist working in contemporary art and media culture.

In 2002, founded with Alain Kessi the critical media art and theory collective code flow (http://www.code-flow.net). She has been instrumental in fostering the practices and debates around digital culture, gender and politics in Bulgaria as founder 1996 and curator until 1999 of the TED Gallery when she was still a student at the Art Academy in Sofia. The TED Gallery was the first independent, off space for contemporary and media art in Varna. It is the TED Gallery that organized the first presentation to the Bulgarian public in Sofia and Varna of such names as Apsolutno (Novi Sad), Kathy Rae-Huffman (Austria/USA, now UK), Lisa Haskell (UK) and others.

In 1998, Dimitrina Sevova joined the team of the Art Today Association in Plovdiv, Bulgaria as a curator, and initiated and curated the international project Communication Front /project of electronic and media art and theory/ 1999-2001 (http://www.cfront.org). In 2000 she co-curated with Iliyana Nedkova the exhibition of Susan Bleakley, UK-based contemporary sculptor, in the City Gallery in Varna and organized lectures of the artist in Sofia and Varna, and in 2001 curated and organized, with Alain Kessi and for the Art Today Association as a partner of the medi@terra 2001 festival, the theoretical conference “All Museums Are Virtual” in Sofia as an accompanying event to the traveling micromuseum of medi@terra 2001 in Lavrion, Greece.

Her latest curatorial project is the discursive thematic project with over 30 participants from all over the world, “Critique of Pure Image – Between Fake and Quotation,” comprising an international exhibition and theoretical symposium, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 2005. She co-curated the project and exhibition “Polyphony – Collaborative Practices, Part 2” at Shedhalle, Zurich , 2005. She has lectured at numerous international events, among them the conference “Never Look Back” in Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland, 2001, the conference “Understanding the Balkans” in Skopje, Macedonia, 2001, “Konsequenz East-West” in Shedhalle, Zurich, 2002, and with the code flow research collective at the symposium “Art – Place – Technology,” Liverpool School of Art and Design / FACT, Liverpool, 2006.

In 2002 she edited and published with Alain Kessi the “CFront – Crossing Points East-West” book, a collection of texts developing a critical view on globalization, new technologies and media art in the context of East-West discussions within the art world. In 2004, after a workshop in Shedhalle, Zurich, published a book with theoretical texts and interviews, “KonsequenZ,” as an author and editor collective with Alain Kessi and Frederikke Hansen, exploring how different people in a critical discursive and political art context struggle to bring their ideals for society and art and their personal everyday behavior to match.