Verena Kuni
Curatorial Advisor, Partner
Verena Kuni is a scholar in art, media and cultural studies and professor for Visual Culture at Goethe-University Frankfurt a. M.
In her research, teaching, projects and publications she is, a. o., exploring transfers between material and media cultures; media of imagination and technologies of transformation; DIY & critical making; toys and/as tools,; visual epistemology; information design and (con)figurations of knowledge; biotopias and technonaturecultures. She has a special crush on interdisciplinary projects and programs at the intersections of theory and practice.
She has been lecturing at universities and art academies in Europe and beyond. Her curatorial work is dedicated to interdisciplinary projects and programs at the intersections of theory and practice. From 1995 – 1999 she has been co-curator (video) for the Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival; since 1999 she is director of the interdisciplinary conference for art, media and network cultures, interfiction. She has published widely (print & online) on contemporary arts, culture & media.
Verena has been actively contributing to NODE Forum 2008, 2010 and 2015; in 2016 she joined the NODE exhibition research and art mediation team.
Find out more at www.kuniver.se – www.under-construction.cc – www.visuelle-kultur.info
Verena was part of…
Hope Lab
Art Project, Commission, Laboratory
by Jeremy Bailey, Lauren McCarthy, Kathia von Roth, Florian Egermann, Dr. Felix Kosok
NODE17 commissioned a team of five artists to turn the festival into a more hopeful place.