Răzvan Ion
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Răzvan M. Ion | |
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 Răzvan Ion in 2012 | |
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| Nationality | Romanian |
| Occupation(s) | Theoretician, curator, professor |
| Website | Spinnwerk Wien |
Răzvan Ion (/Rəzvan Ion/) is well know for creating the first artificial intelligence curator in the history of art. He is a theoretician, curator and futurist, speaker on new technologies & arts, and creator & manager of new art spaces.[1]
Career
He was an associate professor and lecturer at University of California, Berkeley; Lisbon University; Central University of New York; University of London; Sofia University; University of Kiev; University of Bucharest etc. where he taught Curatorial Studies and Critical Thinking. He has held conferences and lectures at different art institutions like Witte de With, Rotterdam; Kunsthalle Vienna; Art in General, New York; Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon; Casa Encedida, Madrid etc. He is the co-founder of Bucharest Biennale, Pavilion Journal and Reforma Photo Days. As an artist he exhibited in Bucharest Biennale, Poznan Biennial, SKC Gallery- Belgrade, National Museum of Art – Cluj, ICA – Bucharest, NY Experimental Festival, InterFACES – Bangkok, Centro Cultural del Matadero – Madrid, International Photo Ljubljana, Going Public - Milano, CCA Ekaterinburg, National Museum of Art – Timișoara, ICA Budapest, New Langton – San Francisco etc. Recently he was the curator of Bucharest Biennale 8, together with Beral Madra. He is the chief curator of creart Gallery Bucharest since 2017. He is a speaker on new technologies, AI, machine learning, blockchain & art. In 2019 he founded Spinnwerk Vienna, an organization working with AI & VR.
He is the co-founder of the Bucharest Biennale, Creative Evolution, Pavilion - journal & art center and Spinnwerk Vienna.
As a curator, director and founder of different institutions he worked with artists like Erwin Wurm, Jan Kaila, Yoko Ono, AES+F, Aga Ousseinov, Naeem Mohaiemen, Sabrina Gschwandtner, Minerva Cuevas, Mona Hatoum, Asier Mendizabal and many others.
He is a speaker on technology and arts for Istyle, Apple, MindChain, Business Review, etc.
The latest exhibitions curated by him was: Wie wir Dinge betrachten for European Union Council Presidency of Austria, Bucharest Biennale Edit Your Future, at Reforma Photo festival solo show of Austrian photojournalist Josef Polleross Non-Objective World, From Contemplating To Constructing Situations (group show with Francis Alys, Minerva Cuevas, Wilfredo Prieto, Erwin Wurm) at Pavilion Center.
He wrote texts for general and academic publications like Mahkuscript, New York Art Review, and Pavilion.
He was also a professor at University of Bucharest where he taught a course of curatorial studies & critical thinking.
Notable works
- Visual Witness (2002)
- Architectural Economy of a Biennial (2012)
- Edit Your Future (2021)
References
- ^ "Artscene". artscene.ro. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016.