Nat Muller
Nat Muller is an independent curator and critic based in Rotterdam. She also serves as new media curator at De Balie, Amsterdam. Nat is primarily interested in viewing social and political processes through a cultural/artistic lens. She has published articles in off- and online media, and has given presentations on the subject of media technology and art (inter)nationally. She has curated video selections for international platforms, such as the Transmediale (Berlin), NBK (Berlin), FIFVC (Beirut), Transito (Amsterdam), Coding:Decoding (Copenhagen). Her main interests include: the intersections of aesthetics, technology and politics; (new) media and art in Middle East. Her latest projects in 2004 include The Trans_European Picnic – The Art and Media of Accession in collaboration with Kuda (Novi Sad) and V2_ (Rotterdam), co-curating the electronic art biennial DEAF_04: Affective Turbulence: The Art of Open Systems; the curatorial research project “Xeno_Tech” which researches situated practices of media (art) in the Middle East. Projects in 2005 include the exhibition INFRA_ctures involving sound artists and architects, and Xeno_Sonic: a series of experimental sound performances from the Middle East. She is co-initiator of the Upgrade! Amsterdam, a series of gatherings for and by new media aficionados, artists, geeks, media makers and breakers. She has been appointed co-curator for Re: visie 2007; the exhibition accompanying the Dutch Film Festival. Nat has taught media theory and electronic art at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam (NL) and at the Lebanese American University in Beirut (LB).