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Note: Detailed information, especially about the artistic work, can be found on Anne Quirynen's website. (link opens in new window)

Anne Quirynen's films and video installations have been shown at international festivals such as the International Festival of New Film Split, Rotterdam Film Festival, European Media Art Festival Osnabrück, World Wide Video Festival Den Haag or Art & Video in Europe Copenhagen as well as in art centers such as Centre Pompidou Paris, MoMA New York, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam or Nippon Cultural Centre Tokyo.

Teaching and lecturing activities

Since 2007 Professor for Moving Image in the study program "European Media Studies", a cooperation project of the University of Potsdam (Institut für Künste und Medien) and the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam (Department of Design)
2006-2008 Assistant Professor at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Department Film, Video and New Media
2004-2006 Visiting Lecturer, European Media Studies, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam / University of Potsdam
2004 Visiting Artist at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Department Film, Video and New Media (Spring Semester)
2003 Teaching position, Berlin University of the Arts, Performing Arts, Video Production: Lost lots of... (Summer Semester)

Professional activity

Freelance artist since 1989
1998-2001 Co-founder of Dziga vzw, an association for the promotion of experimental film and new media
1994-2002 Co-founder and managing director of De Filmfabriek, production house for digital films and interdisciplinary experimental media productions, Bierbeek, Belgium. 2002-2012 Continued as co-owner and consultant for various projects
1990-1997 Regular collaboration with William Forsythe, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Wim Vandekeybus and Walter Verdin as freelance director and producer
1989-1992 Director at the Vlaams Theater Instituut, Brussels and at the Audiovisuele Dienst, University of Leuven, Belgium
1980-1985 Co-founder of the women's film distribution company Metisfilms vzw

Awards and scholarships

2012 Residency PACT Zollverein with the choreographer An Kaler
2008 Siemens Music Foundation, Grant for Interzone, collaboration with Enno Poppe and Marcel Beyer, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, UK
2002 Female Artists Program, Senate of Berlin
The Lady is Hungry, research documentary film
2000 Scholarship, European Digital Arts, Training New Technologies, Babelsberg fx.center
2000 Golden CCB-Award in the category Best Interactive Media (with Peter Missotten and Wies Hermans)
Dziga'rom, CD-ROM
1999 Nipkow Scholarship, Berlin
1997 The New Visions Award from Film+arc.Graz, Austria
The Way of the Weed (directed with Peter Missotten and An-Marie Lambrechts), digital experimental film, 90 min.
1993 Prix Europe du documentaire - Festival Vidéo D'Estavar, Spain
Opera, om te kijken moet je luisteren, documentary film

		Portrait - Prof. Anne Quirynen

		Note: Detailed information, especially about the artistic work, can be found on Anne Quirynen's website. (link opens in new window) Anne Quirynen's films and video installations have been shown at international festivals such as the International Festival of New Film Split, Rotterdam Film Festival, European Media Art Festival Osnabrück, World Wide Video Festival Den Haag or Art & Video in Europe Copenhagen as well as in art centers such as Centre Pompidou Paris, MoMA New York, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam or Nippon Cultural Centre Tokyo. Teaching and lecturing activities Since 2007 Professor for Moving Image in the study program "European Media Studies", a cooperation project of the University of Potsdam (Institut für Künste und Medien) and the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam (Department of Design) 2006-2008 Assistant Professor at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Department Film, Video and New Media 2004-2006 Visiting Lecturer, European Media Studies, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam / University of Potsdam 2004 Visiting Artist at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Department Film, Video and New Media (Spring Semester) 2003 Teaching position, Berlin University of the Arts, Performing Arts, Video Production: Lost lots of... (Summer Semester) Professional activity Freelance artist since 1989 1998-2001 Co-founder of Dziga vzw, an association for the promotion of experimental film and new media 1994-2002 Co-founder and managing director of De Filmfabriek, production house for digital films and interdisciplinary experimental media productions, Bierbeek, Belgium. 2002-2012 Continued as co-owner and consultant for various projects 1990-1997 Regular collaboration with William Forsythe, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Wim Vandekeybus and Walter Verdin as freelance director and producer 1989-1992 Director at the Vlaams Theater Instituut, Brussels and at the Audiovisuele Dienst, University of Leuven, Belgium 1980-1985 Co-founder of the women's film distribution company Metisfilms vzw Awards and scholarships 2012 Residency PACT Zollverein with the choreographer An Kaler 2008 Siemens Music Foundation, Grant for Interzone, collaboration with Enno Poppe and Marcel Beyer, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, UK 2002 Female Artists Program, Senate of Berlin The Lady is Hungry, research documentary film 2000 Scholarship, European Digital Arts, Training New Technologies, Babelsberg fx.center 2000 Golden CCB-Award in the category Best Interactive Media (with Peter Missotten and Wies Hermans) Dziga'rom, CD-ROM 1999 Nipkow Scholarship, Berlin 1997 The New Visions Award from Film+arc.Graz, Austria The Way of the Weed (directed with Peter Missotten and An-Marie Lambrechts), digital experimental film, 90 min. 1993 Prix Europe du documentaire - Festival Vidéo D'Estavar, Spain Opera, om te kijken moet je luisteren, documentary film