#SOPHYGRAY (Installation)_Kunstverein Ruhr 2021
220115_Nadja_Marcin_Kunstverein_Ruhr_0411
#SOPHYGRAY (Performance) 3
#SOPHYGRAY (Installation) 4
#SOPHYGRAY Workshop Ntzizeza_2022
Tentoonstelling 'In Touch" ; https://impakt.nl/
#SOPHYGRAY Installation WRO_2023
#SOPHYGRAY Performance WRO_2023
#SOPHYGRAY Performance WRO_2023_2
#SOPHYGRAY Edition 1_Rahmen
EMAP_Nadja Verena Marcin_Interview + Performance_2023
#SOPHYGRAY is a feminist audio bot app that answers questions in surprising, philosophical, and humorous ways informed by intersectional feminist perspectives. Presented as an immersive installation and performance in the exhibition context - here at WRO Biennale Fungible Content in Wroclaw - or an app for mobile devices, she/he/it questions assumptions about virtual assistants (Alexa, Siri) and their typically feminine-sounding submissive voices, which often reinforce stereotypes, gender roles, and power hierarchies and reflect the culture that developed them, as well as the impact in everyday life: the distorted representation of women in the media and the objectification that comes with the use of gendered technologies.
Conceived during the EMAP residency at Onassis Stegi in Athens 2022-2023, the app is now available for mobile devices in the iOS App Store and Google Play Store and can be found online as demo at www.sophygray.com. It can be shown in an immersive installation – along with a performance event featuring two dancers and the artist – or independently, as well as be accompanied by a workshop with local participants who become feminist bot developers themselves by writing entries and contributing to the bot’s library, which is constantly growing. Its prototype app was developed for and premiered in 2021, the performance in 2022, the app in 2023.
Read more and find the list of all project collaborators here: https://ars.electronica.art/citizenscience/en/sophygray
#SOPHYGRAY_Performance_WRO
#SOPHYGRAY is a feminist audio bot app that answers questions in surprising, philosophical, and humorous ways informed by intersectional feminist perspectives. Presented as an immersive installation and performance in the exhibition context - here at WRO Biennale Fungible Content in Wroclaw - or an app for mobile devices, she/he/it questions assumptions about virtual assistants (Alexa, Siri) and their typically feminine-sounding submissive voices, which often reinforce stereotypes, gender roles, and power hierarchies and reflect the culture that developed them, as well as the impact in everyday life: the distorted representation of women in the media and the objectification that comes with the use of gendered technologies.
Conceived during the EMAP residency at Onassis Stegi in Athens 2022-2023, the app is now available for mobile devices in the iOS App Store and Google Play Store and can be found online as demo at www.sophygray.com. It can be shown in an immersive installation – along with a performance event featuring two dancers and the artist – or independently, as well as be accompanied by a workshop with local participants who become feminist bot developers themselves by writing entries and contributing to the bot’s library, which is constantly growing. Its prototype app was developed for and premiered in 2021, the performance in 2022, the app in 2023.
Read more and find the list of all project collaborators here: https://ars.electronica.art/citizenscience/en/sophygray
#SOPHYGRAY Exhibition
“#SOPHYGRAY” is a spatial installation with an audio bot and performance which subverts stereotypes embedded in humanized AI technologies such as chatbots and robots, revealing, and making their limitations accessible.
Inspired by Fritz Lang’s "Metropolis", reenactment videos of the fembot, Machineman, and dancer, Whore of Babylon, are projected vertically, greeting the audience when entering a gray space equipped with a tablet, wall speakers, and mini-libraries.
Via the tablet’s pink dot visitors are invited to converse with #SOPHYGRAY 9000 which answers in a stereotypically feminine manner enriched with philosophical comments from intersectional-feminist literature. By speaking intelligent, thought-provoking content, it breaks with the consumer expectation towards feminine audio-bots pleasing, submissive manner.
The audio bot is built via Google’s Dialogflow. During all exhibitions, the present content is enriched with the local histories in a progressive flux. For it, Marcin works together with an art historian with a feminist focus. To diversify the bot, crowdsourcing with worldwide participants is used for test sessions. Technical support is provided by Novatec and Jason Basset of the Max Planck Berlin.
As a special event, during each exhibition, Marcin presents a performance in which she holds a conversational lecture with two female dancers as fembot and dancer embodiments – confronting the audience with the juxtaposition of intellectual feminist values and female bodies in full dance flow, both expansive in space – a tribute to Audre Lordes’ “Uses of the Erotic”.
"#SOPHYGRAY" is a thought-provoking involvement of the viewer - visitors find themselves inside a think tank in which their dialogs create resonance and reality. In a combination of philosophical, humorous, and absurdist language, the work draws attention to clichés and patterns of consumer applications and stereotyping of language, gender, habitus, and culture.
Type of the project
Installation
Year the project was created
2022
Credits
Concept & Realization: Nadja Verena Marcin
Audio-Bot: Novatec
Audio-Bot Writers: Sonja Borstner, Leon Meschede, Nadja Verena Marcin
Costume: le costume - Uljana Richter
Choreography: Lena Strützke
Videography: Adèle Perrin
Sculpture Production: BetonIDEE - Rainer Mucha
Exhibition Photography: Sebastian Drüen Art Fotografie
Exhibition Videography: Klaus Schwichtenberg
Consultancy: Jason Basset of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
Exhibition: Kunstverein Ruhr, November 21 - February 13, 2022, curated by Peter Friese
(c) Nadja Verena Marcin
Support received from
The artwork is supported by the Ministry of Culture North Rhine-Westphalia and NEUSTART KULTUR by the German Federal Culture Commissioner, created in cooperation with postdoc Jason Basset of the Max Plank Institute Berlin and sponsored by Novatec (main sponsor), EPSON, Allbau, and Sparkasse Essen. Most recently, #SOPHYGRAY was awarded the Individual Artist Grant of Film, Media & New Technology by the New York Council on the Arts.
Keywords
#sophygray #audiobot #ai #artinstallation #interactive #audiobot #videoart #contemporaryart #aiart #artificialintelligence #fembot #alexa #gynoid #digitalrealm #pitfalls #digitalsphere #digitallandscape #critic #feminism #smartbot #philosophy #nadjaverenamarcin #kunstvereinruhr #essen #artassociation #performance #liveperformance
Software
Google's Dialogflow
"Sophygray 9000" app custom-designed by Novatec
Hardware
Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Lite
EPSON EB-L610U
Gerriets OPTIBLACK 2.2
#SOPHYGRAY Performance
Kunstverein Ruhr, Essen - 01/15/2022
In the #SOPHYGRAY performance, the artist Nadja Verena Marcin takes up feminist conversations between the audio-bot Sophy and the exhibition visitors and brings them back into the space in condensed form. Alternating with the discursive speech, two female dancers, accompanied by selected music from Metropolis, traverse the exhibition space as concrete embodiments of the two video figures from the projections of the installation. The audience is confronted with the juxtaposition of intellectual feminist values and physically armored female bodies in full dance flow, both expansive in space. In the words of Audre Lorde, “So when I speak of the erotic, I speak of it as an assertion of women’s vitality; of that empowered creative energy whose knowledge and use we now reclaim in our language, our history, our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives.”
#SOPHYGRAY
2021 – 2024
Installation, 300 x 400 x 230 cm (118.1 x 157.5 x 90.6 in) (variable), mixed media
Performance, 25 min, mixed media
Essen, Athen, Wroclaw, Berlin, New York, Utrecht, Fortezza
#SOPHYGRAY is a feminist audio bot that engages exhibition visitors in conversation within an immersive installation featuring dual projections of the artist as both a Gynoid and a cabaret dancer, referencing the film Metropolis (1927). With philosophical and humorous responses that lead to unexpected conversations, the audio bot refutes the gendered, submissive behavior of ubiquitous female virtual assistants like Alexa or Siri—products of a male-dominated technological landscape.
The bot’s perspectives draw from the writings of influential feminist theorists, including Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing (*1952), Audre Lorde (1934-1992), bell hooks (1952-2021), Bonnie Honig (*1959), Donna Haraway (*1944), Françoise Vergès (*1952), and Silvia Federici (*1942). Its conversational abilities are developed by Marcin and a rotating team of contributors, including Sonja Borstner (Gropiusbau), Leo Menschede (Burg Giebichenstein), Anthony Huffman (Brooklyn Rail), Shuang Cai (NYU), and Monique Machicao (Kleine Humboldtgalerie).
To facilitate conversations beyond the confines of the White Cube, Marcin created a standalone app during her EMAP residency at Onassis Stegi, available online and for download from the iOS App Store since February 2023. #SOPHYGRAY’s language is continually diversified and evolving. Workshops titled #SOPHYGRAY’s Feminist Write-A-Thon have been held in Athens, New York, Potsdam, Berlin, and Meran, inviting local participants to contribute their own text and philosophical quotes.
On selected occasions, #SOPHYGRAY returns to the exhibition space as a performance reincarnation, with the artist drawing from the bot’s conversations while two dancers embody the Metropolis characters. The audience is immersed in a thought-provoking feminist dialog and a dynamic dance flow – an homage to Audre Lorde’s Uses of the Erotic. This interplay challenges the traditional separation of feminine grace and intellect and goes under the skin, transforming the digital-imaginary space into a tangible AFK (away-from-keyboard) reality.
#SOPHYGRAY is a multimedia project that brings together installation, performance, mobile app technology, and research to examine feminist and intersectional AI narratives. It has been exhibited internationally with recent showings at the FORT Biennale_01 in Franzensfeste, IMPAKT Media Art Center in Utrecht, La MaMa Galleria in New York and alpha nova galerie futura during the transmediale & ctm festival in Berlin in 2024, the project reimagines collective feminist intelligence through participatory experiences.
The three-year tour has included workshops and talks, such as the Feminist Write-A-Thon at Frauenmuseum Meran, Onassis Stegi and Digitalvilla of University of Potsdam. With reviews in Hyperallergic, art-in-berlin and Corriere dell’Alto Adige, #SOPHYGRAY has not only garnered significant media attention—but also fostered in-depth discussions on intersectional AI, with critical analysis in publications such as In the Body of Language (Bruno Books), State of Interim (HfBK) and GLITCH PHENOMENA 3.0 (EMBLEMATIC PI*$©H).
The project continues to expand its reach through lectures at international institutions such as the School of the Visual Arts in New York and the Warzsawa Biennale, alongside workshops that explore themes in GLITCH FEMINISM by Legacy Russell. Through exhibitions, performances, workshops, and public dialogs, #SOPHYGRAY acts as a compelling blend of art, technology, and feminism, reshaping how audiences interact with digital and feminist narratives in contemporary art.
#SOPHYGRAY (Installation)_Kunstverein Ruhr 2021
220115_Nadja_Marcin_Kunstverein_Ruhr_0411
#SOPHYGRAY (Performance) 3
#SOPHYGRAY (Installation) 4
#SOPHYGRAY Workshop Ntzizeza_2022
Tentoonstelling 'In Touch" ; https://impakt.nl/
#SOPHYGRAY Installation WRO_2023
#SOPHYGRAY Performance WRO_2023
#SOPHYGRAY Performance WRO_2023_2
#SOPHYGRAY Edition 1_Rahmen
EMAP_Nadja Verena Marcin_Interview + Performance_2023
#SOPHYGRAY is a feminist audio bot app that answers questions in surprising, philosophical, and humorous ways informed by intersectional feminist perspectives. Presented as an immersive installation and performance in the exhibition context - here at WRO Biennale Fungible Content in Wroclaw - or an app for mobile devices, she/he/it questions assumptions about virtual assistants (Alexa, Siri) and their typically feminine-sounding submissive voices, which often reinforce stereotypes, gender roles, and power hierarchies and reflect the culture that developed them, as well as the impact in everyday life: the distorted representation of women in the media and the objectification that comes with the use of gendered technologies.
Conceived during the EMAP residency at Onassis Stegi in Athens 2022-2023, the app is now available for mobile devices in the iOS App Store and Google Play Store and can be found online as demo at www.sophygray.com. It can be shown in an immersive installation – along with a performance event featuring two dancers and the artist – or independently, as well as be accompanied by a workshop with local participants who become feminist bot developers themselves by writing entries and contributing to the bot’s library, which is constantly growing. Its prototype app was developed for and premiered in 2021, the performance in 2022, the app in 2023.
Read more and find the list of all project collaborators here: https://ars.electronica.art/citizenscience/en/sophygray
#SOPHYGRAY_Performance_WRO
#SOPHYGRAY is a feminist audio bot app that answers questions in surprising, philosophical, and humorous ways informed by intersectional feminist perspectives. Presented as an immersive installation and performance in the exhibition context - here at WRO Biennale Fungible Content in Wroclaw - or an app for mobile devices, she/he/it questions assumptions about virtual assistants (Alexa, Siri) and their typically feminine-sounding submissive voices, which often reinforce stereotypes, gender roles, and power hierarchies and reflect the culture that developed them, as well as the impact in everyday life: the distorted representation of women in the media and the objectification that comes with the use of gendered technologies.
Conceived during the EMAP residency at Onassis Stegi in Athens 2022-2023, the app is now available for mobile devices in the iOS App Store and Google Play Store and can be found online as demo at www.sophygray.com. It can be shown in an immersive installation – along with a performance event featuring two dancers and the artist – or independently, as well as be accompanied by a workshop with local participants who become feminist bot developers themselves by writing entries and contributing to the bot’s library, which is constantly growing. Its prototype app was developed for and premiered in 2021, the performance in 2022, the app in 2023.
Read more and find the list of all project collaborators here: https://ars.electronica.art/citizenscience/en/sophygray
#SOPHYGRAY Exhibition
“#SOPHYGRAY” is a spatial installation with an audio bot and performance which subverts stereotypes embedded in humanized AI technologies such as chatbots and robots, revealing, and making their limitations accessible.
Inspired by Fritz Lang’s "Metropolis", reenactment videos of the fembot, Machineman, and dancer, Whore of Babylon, are projected vertically, greeting the audience when entering a gray space equipped with a tablet, wall speakers, and mini-libraries.
Via the tablet’s pink dot visitors are invited to converse with #SOPHYGRAY 9000 which answers in a stereotypically feminine manner enriched with philosophical comments from intersectional-feminist literature. By speaking intelligent, thought-provoking content, it breaks with the consumer expectation towards feminine audio-bots pleasing, submissive manner.
The audio bot is built via Google’s Dialogflow. During all exhibitions, the present content is enriched with the local histories in a progressive flux. For it, Marcin works together with an art historian with a feminist focus. To diversify the bot, crowdsourcing with worldwide participants is used for test sessions. Technical support is provided by Novatec and Jason Basset of the Max Planck Berlin.
As a special event, during each exhibition, Marcin presents a performance in which she holds a conversational lecture with two female dancers as fembot and dancer embodiments – confronting the audience with the juxtaposition of intellectual feminist values and female bodies in full dance flow, both expansive in space – a tribute to Audre Lordes’ “Uses of the Erotic”.
"#SOPHYGRAY" is a thought-provoking involvement of the viewer - visitors find themselves inside a think tank in which their dialogs create resonance and reality. In a combination of philosophical, humorous, and absurdist language, the work draws attention to clichés and patterns of consumer applications and stereotyping of language, gender, habitus, and culture.
Type of the project
Installation
Year the project was created
2022
Credits
Concept & Realization: Nadja Verena Marcin
Audio-Bot: Novatec
Audio-Bot Writers: Sonja Borstner, Leon Meschede, Nadja Verena Marcin
Costume: le costume - Uljana Richter
Choreography: Lena Strützke
Videography: Adèle Perrin
Sculpture Production: BetonIDEE - Rainer Mucha
Exhibition Photography: Sebastian Drüen Art Fotografie
Exhibition Videography: Klaus Schwichtenberg
Consultancy: Jason Basset of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
Exhibition: Kunstverein Ruhr, November 21 - February 13, 2022, curated by Peter Friese
(c) Nadja Verena Marcin
Support received from
The artwork is supported by the Ministry of Culture North Rhine-Westphalia and NEUSTART KULTUR by the German Federal Culture Commissioner, created in cooperation with postdoc Jason Basset of the Max Plank Institute Berlin and sponsored by Novatec (main sponsor), EPSON, Allbau, and Sparkasse Essen. Most recently, #SOPHYGRAY was awarded the Individual Artist Grant of Film, Media & New Technology by the New York Council on the Arts.
Keywords
#sophygray #audiobot #ai #artinstallation #interactive #audiobot #videoart #contemporaryart #aiart #artificialintelligence #fembot #alexa #gynoid #digitalrealm #pitfalls #digitalsphere #digitallandscape #critic #feminism #smartbot #philosophy #nadjaverenamarcin #kunstvereinruhr #essen #artassociation #performance #liveperformance
Software
Google's Dialogflow
"Sophygray 9000" app custom-designed by Novatec
Hardware
Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Lite
EPSON EB-L610U
Gerriets OPTIBLACK 2.2
#SOPHYGRAY Performance
Kunstverein Ruhr, Essen - 01/15/2022
In the #SOPHYGRAY performance, the artist Nadja Verena Marcin takes up feminist conversations between the audio-bot Sophy and the exhibition visitors and brings them back into the space in condensed form. Alternating with the discursive speech, two female dancers, accompanied by selected music from Metropolis, traverse the exhibition space as concrete embodiments of the two video figures from the projections of the installation. The audience is confronted with the juxtaposition of intellectual feminist values and physically armored female bodies in full dance flow, both expansive in space. In the words of Audre Lorde, “So when I speak of the erotic, I speak of it as an assertion of women’s vitality; of that empowered creative energy whose knowledge and use we now reclaim in our language, our history, our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives.”
Technical Details:
Installation – iPad, audio bot app, WI-FI connection, tablet stand, 2 HD projectors with ceiling mount, 2 video players, 2 plexiglass screens, 2 pedestals with 29 feminist books, 4 panel wall speakers, amp, gray backdrop
Performance – artist, 2 dancers, sound person, 3 costumes, text, wireless mic, mixer, 2 speakers
Exhibitions:
FORT Bienniale_01, Festung Franzensfeste, Franzensfeste, 2024
In Touch, IMPAKT Media Art Center, Utrecht, 2024
You Know What You Know, Space776/ KUNSTRAUM, New York, 2024
Every Women Biennial – I Will Always Love You, La MaMa Galleria, New York, 2024
#SOPHYGRAY – A Feminist Voice Bot, alpha nova galerie futura, Vorspiel/ transmediale & ctm festival, Berlin, 2024 (solo)
Who Owns the Truth? – Ars Electronica, Linz, 2023
WRO-Biennale 2023: Fungible Content, WRO Art Center, Wroclaw, 2023
Platform Glitch Asthetics, Digitalvilla of Potsdam University, Potsdam, 2023
#SOPHYGRAY – A Feminist Audio Bot, Onassis Stegi, Athens, 2023 (solo)
#SOPHYGRAY, Kunstverein Ruhr, Essen, 2021/2022 (solo)
Workshops:
#SOPHYGRAY’S Feminist Write-A-Thon, Frauenmuseum Meran, Meran, 2024
#SOPHYGRAY’S Feminist Write-A-Thon, alpha nova & galerie futura, Vorspiel at transmediale & ctm festival, Berlin, 2024
Digital Writing Workshop: Legacy Russell’s Manifesto GLITCH FEMINISM in conversation with #SOPHYGRAY, Digitalvilla, University of Potsdam, 2023
#SOPHYGRAY – A Feminist Audio Bot,
KUNSTRAUM LLC, New York, 2022
#SOPHYGRAY – A Feminist Audio Bot, Ntizeza, Athens, 2022
#SOPHYGRAY – A Feminist Audio Bot, Onassis Stegi, EMAP Artist Residency, Athens, 2022
Lectures:
MA for Curatorial Studies, School of the Visual Arts, The Algorithmic State: Adversarial Aesthetics, New York, 2024
alpha nova & galerie futura, Vorspiel at transmediale & ctm festival, Artist Talk #SOPHYGRAY, Berlin, 2024
Digitalvilla, University of Potsdam, Artist Talk #SOPHYGRAY – Character analysis of a feminist audio bot, 2023
Lectures:
Room to Bloom at Warzsawa Biennale, Artist Lecture II, Warsaw, Poland, 2022
Editions:
#SOPHYGRAY (Edition 1), 2023
C-Print, 90 x 90 cm, Fuji Crystal Archive, Dibond, white shadow frame
Collection:
Digitalvilla, University of Potsdam, Potsdam
Catalogs:
Nadja Verena Marcin – #SOPHYGRAY, by Peter Friese, Ariana Dongus and Anthony Huffman. Kunstverein Ruhr, Essen, 2023 (monograph).
In the Body of Language – Im Körper der Sprache – Nel Corpo del Linguaggio, by Ulrike Buck, Margareth Kaserer, Festung Franzensfeste. Bruno Books, Venedig, 2024, p.48–51, 159, 252–255.
GLITCH PHENOMENA 3.0, by Verena Voigt. EMBLEMATIC PI*$©H, Potsdam, 2023, p. 19-26.
State of Interim – Wartenau Art Education, by Julian Asbäck, Matthis Frickhoeffer, Dalia Moniat, Sarah Steffens. Paraeducational papers, Kunstpädagogik/ Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg, 2023, p.3.3.
Interviews:
Verena Voigt, Nadja Verena Marcin: #SOPHYGRAY Kollektive Feministische Intelligenz (KFI) und ihre Alter Egos, Berlin: art-in-berlin, 2024
Chris Styles, IMPETUS Interview – SOPHYGRAY, the feminist chatbot, Impetus for Citizen Science, Navarra, 2024
Ilyn Wong, Intersectional Fembots: An Interview with Nadja Verena Marcin, Berlin: Berlin Art Link, 2024
Eliane Eisenring, Von Audiobots, Servicemitarbeiterinnen und Teufelskreisen, Wien: Binary Dreams/Trivadis, 2022
Frank Talks, Nadja Verena Marcin – Visual Artist and Director of Kunstraum LLC, New York: Art Frankly, 2021
Press:
Ariana Dongus, Can we create an intersectional AI?, New York: Hyperallergic, 2024
Silvia M.C. Senette, L’assistente virtuale feminista, Bolzano: Corriere dell’Alto Adige, 9 Oct 2024
Feministischer Schreibworkshop, Bozen: Die Neue Südtiroler Tageszeitung, 4 Oct 2024, p.21
Tag der zeitgenössischen Kunst in der Festung, Bozen: Die Neue Südtiroler Tageszeitung, 4 Oct 2024, p.27
Lena Schneider, Kunst gewordene Verweigerung – Glitch Art am Griebnitzsee, Potsdam: Tagesspiegel, 2023
Press:
Martina Schürmann, Essener Kunstverein: Künstliche Intelligenz lädt zum Dialog, WAZ, Essen, 2021
Credits:
#SOPHYGRAY is an installation, performance, mobile app, and research project by Nadja Verena Marcin. During each part, a growing pool of creators contributed:
Android App: Developer: Novatec; Consultant & Adviser: Jason Basset; Videographer & Editor: Adèle Perrin; Choreography: Lena Strützke; Sculpture Production: BetonIdee; Research: Elisa Tinterri, Mengxi Lyu; Concept, Art Director & Video-Performance: Nadja Verena Marcin
Web-based App: Developer: Alex Stachowiak; Audio-Bot Writers: Sonja Borstner, Leon Meschede, Anthony Huffman, Monique Machicao, Shuang Cai, Anastasia Diavasti, Naomi Frisso, Andromache Kokkinou, Elektra Tsakalia, Vivi Papanikola, Olga Vereli, Irene Stenioti, Shiromi Naskrent, Eléonore Dées de Sterio, Andrea Berke and others; Support & Feedback: Novatec, Daphne Dragona, Katerina Varda, Heracles Papatheodorou; Translation: Nari Kutlubasis & Maryna Didenko of WRO Biennale; Concept, Art Director & Performance: Nadja Verena Marcin
Performance: Dancers: Lucilla Patrizi, Anastasia Kostner (Franzensfeste); Lena Strützke & Yumi Kubawara (Berlin); Maja Kowalik & Viola Cantù (Essen); Penny Eleftheriadou & Anna Apergi (Athens), Dasha Bogdan & Sofiia Onishchenko (Wroclaw); Costumes: Le Costume/ Uljana Richter; Music: “Metropolis” by Gottfried Huppertz, performed by Frank Strobel & Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, courtesy of NAXOS Deutschland; Concept, Art Director & Lecture-Performance: Nadja Verena Marcin
Sponsors:
The project is made possible by the EMAP/ EMARE Residency at Onassis Stegi, co-funded by Creative Europe program of the European Union, the Stiftung Kunstfonds in Bonn, the Ministry of Culture of North Rhine-Westphalia, NEUSTART KULTUR of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and Legislature of the State of New York, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion and sponsored by Novatec.
