Experience

W139

• Netherlands
• Artists and Writers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Managing Director

  • Jan 2023 - Present

• Interim Managing Director

  • Jan 2022 - Dec 2022



Paradiso

• Netherlands
• Music
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Project Coordinator Re-Imagine Europe

  • Oct 2017 - Present

  New Perspectives for Action is a four-year transnational co-creation and circulation project by Re-Imagine Europe, a collaboration of fourteen interdisciplinary art organisations across Europe, and builds on the results of the previous Re-Imagine Europe project (2017–2021). New Perspectives for Action aims to equip and empower young Europeans through artistic practices to better withstand societal challenges triggered by rapid climate change. To achieve this aim, the project responds to the needs of artists, cultural organisations and audiences. Re-Imagine Europe is a collaboration of Paradiso and Sonic Acts (The Netherlands), Elevate Festival (Austria), INA GRM (France), A4 (Slovakia), Borealis (Norway), KONTEJNER (Croatia), BEK (Norway), RUPERT (Lithuania), Disruption Network Lab (Germany), Semibreve (Portugal), Parco d’Arte Vivente (Italy), Kontrapunkt (North Macedonia) and Radio Web MACBA (Spain). The previous Re-Imagine Europe project (2017-2021) was initiated by Sonic Acts (NL) and coordinated by Paradiso (NL) in collaboration with Elevate Festival (AT), Lighthouse (UK), Ina GRM (FR), KONTEJNER (HR), Bergen Kunsthall (NO), A4 (SK), Disruption Network Lab (DE) and Ràdio Web MACBA (ES).



annettewerkt & aaaan

• Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

• Producer, Fundraiser & Researcher

  • Feb 2008 - Present

  Producing, co-initiating, facilitating, and fundraising for collaborative arts projects that relate to technology, society and the environment. Part of the fundraising and development team of Sonic Acts. Most recently also producer of The Kelp Congress at Lofoten International Arts Festival - LIAF in Norway (2019), and editorial board member of The Mountain Body in Norway (2020-2022). Producing, co-initiating, facilitating, and fundraising for collaborative arts projects that relate to technology, society and the environment. Part of the fundraising and development team of Sonic Acts. Most recently also producer of The Kelp Congress at Lofoten International Arts Festival - LIAF in Norway (2019), and editorial board member of The Mountain Body in Norway (2020-2022).



Sonic Acts

• Netherlands
• Performing Arts
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Producer

  • Oct 2007 - Oct 2017

  Producer of the Sonic Acts Festivals from 2008-2017. The Cinematic Experience (2008), The Poetics of Space (2010), Travelling Time (2012), The Dark Universe (2013), The Geologic Imagination (2015), Sonic Acts Academy (2016). From 2012-2016 producer of Dark Ecology, a three-year art, research and commissioning project, initiated by Sonic Acts and Kirkenes-based curator Hilde Methi taking place in Northern Norway and North West Russia, and realised in collaboration with Norwegian, Russian and other European partners. (www.darkecology.net) From 2010-2013 part of the Sonic Acts team curating Kontraste Festival Krems (AT), an annual festival for cutting-edge sonic experiments, contemporary music and related art forms in a thematic, historical and interdisciplinary context.



Melkweg

• Netherlands
• Musicians
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Programme Manager Culture Professionals Mobility Programme of Engine Room Europe

  • Jul 2011 - May 2014

  Part of the Project Management Team of Engine Room Europe (a multi-partner collaboration project funded via the EC Culture Programme) on behalf of Melkweg Amsterdam & Programme Manager of the transnational culture professionals’ mobility programme for Trans Europe Halles www.teh.net Conference Producer of The Future Is Not What It Used To Be, a three-day, interdisciplinary working conference on new culture strategies. The programme offered thought-provoking keynotes, hands-on workshops, in depth masterclasses and think tanks, all with an international character. It is organised by Trans Europe Halles in collaboration with Melkweg Amsterdam & P60 Amstelveen.



Trans Europe Halles

• Sweden
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Programme Manager Cultural Workers Exchange - Changing Room

  • Jun 2011 - Apr 2014

  Project Management of the European cultural operators’ mobility project the EU-funded Pilot Mobility Project Changing Room of Trans Europe Halles (TEH) Project Management of the European cultural operators’ mobility project the EU-funded Pilot Mobility Project Changing Room of Trans Europe Halles (TEH)



Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst

• Co-ordinator AiR Programme

  • Apr 2010 - Jun 2012

  Initiated & delivered international collaborative residency projects together with Annet Dekker (aaaan.net). Collaborations included Watershed (Bristol/UK), Kitchen Budapest (HU), Baltan Laboratories (NL).http://nimk.nl/nl/artist-in-residence

• Temporary Curator

  • Jan 2011 - May 2011

  Temporary position due to pregnancy leave.



Trans Europe Halles

• Sweden
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Project Manager Changing Room Staff Exchange

  • Jan 2009 - Dec 2010

  Changing Room is a two-year project that aims to test, study and evaluate a cultural professionals exchange and training programme within Trans Europe Halles, with the aim of it expanding into a EU wide initiative. The Staff Exchange within Changing Room aims to provide increased knowledge and experience of the benefits of mobility for both workers and cultural employers. Changing Room is a two-year project that aims to test, study and evaluate a cultural professionals exchange and training programme within Trans Europe Halles, with the aim of it expanding into a EU wide initiative. The Staff Exchange within Changing Room aims to provide increased knowledge and experience of the benefits of mobility for both workers and cultural employers.



Virtueel Platform

• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos

• Programme Manager

  • Mar 2008 - Sep 2010

  Developed, curated & produced activities and events relating to emerging & current trends and developments within (inter)national e-culture. Including: e-art (showcase of Dutch media arts at Picnic08 in Amsterdam), Walled Garden conference (on communities & networks post Web 2.0 in Amsterdam), Paralelo - Art Technology & Environment, Sao Paolo/Brazil). Developed, curated & produced activities and events relating to emerging & current trends and developments within (inter)national e-culture. Including: e-art (showcase of Dutch media arts at Picnic08 in Amsterdam), Walled Garden conference (on communities & networks post Web 2.0 in Amsterdam), Paralelo - Art Technology & Environment, Sao Paolo/Brazil).



LabforCulture

• Research

  • Aug 2008 - Jan 2010

  A Research in Focus to look into individual European blogs which are reviewing contemporary and popular culture as their main focus. This ‘viral exploration’ includes a series of in-depth interviews with bloggers and an attempt to map culture blogs more widely across Europe. A Research in Focus to look into individual European blogs which are reviewing contemporary and popular culture as their main focus. This ‘viral exploration’ includes a series of in-depth interviews with bloggers and an attempt to map culture blogs more widely across Europe.



Amsterdam Comedy Festival

• Producer

  • Mar 2008 - May 2008



Enter_

• Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

• Festival Director

  • 2005 - 2007



Melkweg

• Netherlands
• Musicians
• 1 - 100 Employee

• PA & Production Manager

  • 1999 - 2005



szene bunte waehne

• Location Manager

  • 1997 - 2000



Kunsthalle Krems

• Production Assistant

  • 1992 - 2000

  Production assistant for contemporary music festivals such as Music for Sound Joined Rooms (Maryanne Amacher),Tuned (minimal music composition festival), Cathedral of Dreams Festival (La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela), and Glatt & Verkehrt (Festival for contemporary European folk music). Production assistant for contemporary music festivals such as Music for Sound Joined Rooms (Maryanne Amacher),Tuned (minimal music composition festival), Cathedral of Dreams Festival (La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela), and Glatt & Verkehrt (Festival for contemporary European folk music).