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Minna Tarkka (1961-2023) was a critic, educator, producer and curator of media art and culture. In 2000 she co-founded m-cult in Helsinki, Finland and remained as its director until 2023.

Life and Work
Tarkka was active in establishing the first Finnish university curricula relating to media art including the Faculty of Time and Space (Academy of Fine Arts) and the MA in New Media (University of Art and Design, Media Lab). As organiser, she was founding member and first director of MUU (1989-91), and a founding member of AV-arkki, distribution centre for media art as well as the Finnish Media Art Network.

ISEA, the International Symposium on Electronic Art was held in Helsinki under Tarkka's direction in 1994 in partnership with the University of Art and Design, and again in 2004.

In 2017, Minna Tarkka was awarded with the State Prize for Media Art acknowledging her pioneering work and recent successful commissions in collaborative media art.

Life and Work
Jolliffe had a masters degree in fine arts from Ohio State University. Jolliffe worked closely with Eastern Bloc artist-run centre in Quebec. . His interactive sculpture, 'One Free Minute', was performed across America and included in the 2006 National Design Triennial curated by Ellen Lupton and exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Jolliffe exhibited with artists including Jocelyn Robert, Thecla Schiphorst, Ken Gregory and others. Jolliffe was connected to the new media art scene internationally, attending festivals and conferences such as ISEA, WRO in Poland, and FILE in Brazil.

Life and Work
Clenuik had undergraduate degrees in literature, psychology, Fine Art (art history) and had formal training in performing arts disciplines. Clenuik worked with Neutral Ground for 20 years, from 1991-2017 - Neutral Ground was founded in 1982 and has hosted over 600 exhibitions of established and emerging artists. In 1996 she co-founded Soil - a Digital Media Suite to provide technological resources and other services for digital media artists. Cleniuk championed emerging artists working in performance and in interactive and experimental media, including Robin Poitras, Julie Andreyev, Ken Gregory, Adam Hyde and others. Clenuik was connected to the new media art scene internationally, attending festivals and conferences such as ISEA, PixelAche in Helsinki, the Performance Network symposium. Her interests in new media art was focused on the interrelationship between technology and the body; the nature of the World Wide Web, and how cyberspace could be used, for the betterment of the imagination and its use in concept formation, identity, revelation, and interrelationship between culturally disparate groups.

Biography
Townsend was born and raised in Windsor, Ontario. She attended Kennedy Collegiate Secondary School and earned an Honours Bachelor degree from Western University in 1991. She received a Master’s degree in history from the University of Windsor in 1994. During her undergraduate studies she worked as a collections assistant with Windsor’s Community Museum, later working at the Art Gallery of Windsor as its Curatorial Assistant/Coordinator.

From 1998 to 2004, Townsend worked as Curator of the Walter Phillips Gallery at The Banff Centre and helped establish the Banff International Curatorial Institute. She was instrumental in partnering with Plugin Gallery in 2001 for the 49th Venice Biennale, which featured the work of Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller. She was on the board of the Calgary artist-run centre TRUCK, and served as its President. Townsend was Secretary, Vice President, and President of the Ontario Association of Art Galleries, between 2010 and 2016. In 2004 she was appointed Curator of Contemporary Art, at Museum London and in 2005 its Head of Exhibitions and Collections.

Exhibition history
At the Walter Phillips Gallery: Sentient Circuitry (2002) featuring the work of Norman White Ken Rinaldo and Reva Stone ; Roy Kiyooka: Accidental Tourist (2004) and Campsites (2005). At Museum London: Garry Neill Kennedy: Superstar Shadow (2006); Wyn Geleynse: A Man Trying to Explain Pictures (2006); Gardens of a Colonial Present: Ron Benner (2008); Jamelie Hassan: At the Far Edge of Words (2009); Kim Adams: One for the Road (2013); Kim Ondaatje (2013); and Colette Urban: Incognito (2014).

Writing
Townsend edited and wrote key works within the field of museology and curatorial studies including: The Paradise Institute (2001); The Edge of Everything: Reflection on Curatorial Practice (2002); Beyond the Box: Diverging Curatorial Practices (2003).

Biography
Quintinilla studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee, Scotland in the Television Imaging Course. She was a regular participant in the Interactive Screen programme of the Banff New Media Institute and The Banff Centre in Canada. Quintanilla was director of Centro de Cultura Digital from 2012 until her death in 2019.

Biography
Portis received his MA from Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies (2001) having undertaken his summer internship with the Bronx Museum of Art. He wrote extensively on art for publications including Parachute, Canadian Art and Momus. From 2010-2013 he was curator of the MacLaren Art Centre in Barrie, Ontario, curating exhibitions of the work of Denyse Thomasos, Gordon Monahan, David Bolduc, and others. From 2002 to 2009 Portis was assistant curator of contemporary art at the Art Gallery of Ontario, where he worked on numerous exhibitions including those by Harun Farocki, Eddo Stern, and Christo and Jeanne-Claude. In 2008 he collaborated with the Images Festival to bring the work of Charles Atlas to Toronto. After completing his MA in New York he worked with Lynne Cooke at the Dia Art Center. Before undertaking his MA, with the artist-run Forest City Gallery in London, Ontario, Portis co-founded the annual No Music Festival which featured the work of the Nihilist Spasm Band and released CD box sets of recordings. Portis had an MFA from The University of Chicago (1989), and a BFA from Queen’s University, Canada (1984).

Recent Exhibitions
Baleful at Pari Nadimi Gallery, February 4 - April 2, 2016

Urban Jewels: Denyse Thomasos' Big Canvases, 1993 – 1999, at MacLaren Art Centre, September 12 - November 3, 2013

Matt Bahen: Gravity's Faith, at MacLaren Art Centre, June 8 - September 1, 2013

Kristan Horton: A Haptic Portrait of Groping Imaginations, at MacLaren Art Centre, February 28 - May 26, 2013

Kent Monkman: The Triumph of Mischief, at the Glenbow Museum, February 13 to April 25, 2010

Scottish women artists

 * Cathy Wilkes
 * Christine Berrie
 * Norah Neilson Gray
 * Alison Watt (Scottish painter)
 * Jessie Newbery
 * Sheila Mullen (artist)
 * Karla Black
 * Lucy McKenzie
 * Anna King (artist)
 * Cornelia Sollfrank
 * Marine Joatton
 * Katherine Cameron
 * Miss le Bomb
 * Ann Macbeth
 * Sarah Lowndes
 * Maud Sulter
 * Jean Sutherland
 * Mary Cameron (painter)
 * Frances MacDonald
 * Emily Murray Paterson
 * Claire Harrigan
 * Abigail McLellan
 * Isobel Hogg Kerr Beattie
 * Rosalind Nashashibi
 * Mabel Pryde
 * Louise Ritchie
 * Katie Paterson
 * Mary Ann Baxter
 * Annie French
 * Eleanor Allen Moore
 * Stansmore Dean
 * De Courcy Lewthwaite Dewar
 * Bessie MacNicol
 * Chris J Fergusson
 * Nina Pope
 * Karen Guthrie
 * Jacqueline Donachie
 * Claire Barclay
 * Dorothy Johnstone
 * Joan Hills

biographies to improve

 * Thomson & Craighead
 * Cornelia Sollfrank
 * Amy Alexander
 * Kate Rich
 * Sara Diamond doesn't mention her art career / needs cleanup
 * Minerva Cuevas
 * Candice Breitz
 * Brooke Singer
 * Catherine Richards
 * Marina Zurkow
 * Magda Sawon gallerist
 * Gina Czarnecki
 * Heather Phillipson
 * Lindsay Seers
 * Eva Grubinger
 * Fiona Crisp
 * Barbara London (curator) - many women curators need pages

articles to improve

 * Internet art to add more women

articles to create

 * Sherrie Rabinovitz !
 * Rachel Baker
 * irational.org
 * Melanie Townsend
 * Monika Fleischmann

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Quintanilla

working area
Armin Medosch (1962, Graz - 2017, Vienna) was a curator, artist and critic working in the field of new media art.

Biography
Medosch received his PhD from the Goldsmiths working on the New Tendencies movement. He wrote extensively on new media arts on lists such as Nettime and lectured internationally on art and technology. From 1996-2002 he was co-editor of Telepolis: The Magazine of Netculture. For many years he worked with media art organisation RIXC editing issues of their journal Acoustic Space and curating exhibitions. Medosch previously taught on the MA course on Interactive Digital Media at Ravensbourne College, London (2002-07).

Publications

 * "Shockwaves in the New World Order of Information and Communication", in A Companion to Digital Art, ed. Christiane Paul, Wiley-Blackwell, 2014, pp 355-383.
 * New Tendencies: Art at the Threshold of The Information Revolution 1961-1978, MIT Press, 2016.