BIOGRAPHY
Annette Finnsdottir holds a M.A. in Visual Culture from Institute of Culture and Art Science, Universtity of Copenhagen with a BA in Film-and Media Science and Design. She is educated Screenwriter from the National Danish Filmschool and Multimedia Designer from MMI. She has a background as a performance artist and freelance screenwriter.
Annette explores and developes the aesthetic, interactive and performative possibilities with movement and moving images on the internet and on mobile and global platforms.
The relation between spaces, processes, bodies and everyday-life is always present in her work. An undercurrent is the tweening spaces, the morphing bodies in transit from one condition to another - between and in realities.
Annette is the founder and creative director of Netfilmmakers – a non commercial netgallery for netvideo and netart (http://www.netfilmmakers.dk)
Since its opening in October 2004 she has produced, curated and co-curated several editions, organized talks and presentations for Netfilmmakers in Denmark and abroad - latest "Private Bits - Personal Data Exposed" curated by Carl Emil Carlsen with focus on Data Visualisation.
Currently she is assistant professor at the International MultimediaDesign Department of Media and BusinessAcademy in Køge since February 2008.
Extern lecturer at Visual Culture from Institute of Culture and Art Science, Universtity of Copenhagen in "Kurator på Nettet" 2008 and "Digital Praksis og Teori", 2009.
Latest Workshops: "Collaborative Curating" at Hyper Island in Karslkrona, Sweden, "Emotional Digitality" at KREA09, Copenhagen, "Instant Curating" at AltCph09 and "Territorific" in Hong Kong, March 2010.