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School of Missing Studies - SMS / http://www.schoolofmissingstudies.net/
Is an experimental and fluid collective scouting for knowledge about cities that are marked or are undergoing abrupt transitions. Cities are in constant dispersion and growth from social, migratory and immaterial factors; they are places where reality reflects uncertainties. Research produced by SMS is generated from the speculation that crisis can only grow. A proportional amount of knowledge acts as a balance to this process. Education has fallen behind other forces like politics and economy that more forcefully generate our perception of culture. SMS approaches this crisis not as something negative, but as a situation from which to extract opportunities. Since 2003 - when SMS was initiated – projects and initiatives have been presented at the Kunstverein Munich, Van Alen Institute New York, SKC Belgrade, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Performers Guest House 2005, Trans:IT Olivetti Foundation Venice Biennial 2005, Whitney Museum IPO Lecture Series, Conference Free-Cooperation Department of Media Studies Buffalo NY and published in books: [No]Where Europe [Olivetti Foundation, Venice 2005], 3D Zurnal [Platforma 9.81, Zagreb 2003], Metropolis Magazine [New York 2005] Urban Ecology [MAP Publishers, 2005] and Did Someone Say Participate [Revolver&MIT Press, upcoming 2005]. SMS are: Liesbeth Bik, Katherine Carl, Ana Dzokic, Ivan Kucina, Marc Neelen, Milica Topalovic, Stevan Vukovic, Jos Van Der Pol and Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss. It is in the nature of SMS to collaborate and share networks across cultural spectrum of cities involved in research.

Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss / http://www.thenao.net/
Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss is the founder of the Normal Arhitecture Office as well as a founding member of the School of Missing Studies; he lives and works in New York. Currently he is conducting architectural research on geo-politics and fragmented space entitled: “Balkanisation as Architectural Strategy” towards his PhD disertation at the Goldsmiths Centre for Architecture Research. He is an Akademie Schloss Solitude fellow in architecture for 2004-2005. In the past his work has been presented at the Royal Institute of British Architects, London (1994), Dokumenta of Architecture Denmark (Copenhagen, 1996), the Columbia School of Architecture (New York, 1999), the Whitney Museum in New York (Bit Streams, 2000, and IPO lectures, 2004), Mutations at Arc en Rêve (Bordeaux, France, 2001), the Gallery of Science and Technology at the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences (Belgrade, 2001), Cities on the Move at Secession (Vienna, 1997), Urban Drift (Berlin, 2002), Max Protetch Gallery (New York, 2002), the Stroom (The Hague, 2003), Manifesta 4 (Frankfurt, 2003), 2nd Tirana Biennial (2003), Transformers Gallery (Berlin, 2003), the Werkleitz Biennial (Halle/Leipzig, 2004), and Open Source Architecture (Graz, 2004). He has designed Stadium Culture for kuda.org center for recreation and new media in Novi Sad and asylum for dogs and cats in the former US base in Brcko, Bosnia. A book of essays and projects: “Almost Architecture” is to be published by Editions Solitude in 2006.

Marjetica Potrc / http://www.potrc.org/
Marjetica Potrc is a Ljubljana-based artist and architect. Her work has been featured in exhibitions throughout Europe and the Americas, including the São Paulo Biennial in Brazil (1996); Skulptur. Projekte in Muenster, Germany (1997); Manifesta 3 in Ljubljana, Slovenia (2000); and The Structure of Survival at the Venice Biennial (2003); as well as in solo shows at the Guggenheim Museum in New York (2001); Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin (2001); the Max Protetch Gallery, New York (2002); the Nordenhake Gallery in Berlin (2003); the PBICA in Lake Worth, Florida (2003); and the MIT List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts (2004). In addition, Potrc has been the recipient of numerous awards, including grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (1993 and 1999), a Philip Morris Kunstförderung grant to participate in the International Studio Program of Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin (2000), the Hugo Boss Prize 2000, Guggenheim Museum (2000), and a Caracas Case Project Fellowship from the Federal Cultural Foundation, Germany, and the Caracas Urban Think Tank, Venezuela (2002).

Ana Dzokic and Marc Neelen (STEALTH.unlimited) / http://www.stealth.ultd.net/
STEALTH.unlimited is a Rotterdam based collaborative focusing on time and information based strategies in architecture, urban design and culture-based projects. STEALTH uses a cross-disciplinary approach and experiments on the borderlines of cultural and technological issues to conceive tools to deal with the spatial implications of changing societies. They recently (co-)developed a series of open-source applications: ProcessMatter - an urban simulation software that translates the mechanisms and effects of the recent uncontrolled urban transformations in the city of Belgrade; DataCloud - a tool to spatially visualize and search complex sets of information; Recyclicity - a software that enables creating designs based on innovative application of locally available waste resources.
Projects that STEALTH initiated or participated in (like Wild City, Uncertain States of Europe (USE ), Urban Catalyst, Pulse - dynamic mapping in architecture, Teasing Minds) have been exhibited and published since the year 2000 a/o at the Mutations (Bordeaux, Brussels, Tokyo), Urban Drift (Berlin), ApexArt (New York), Fridricianum (Kassel), ArchiLab 04 (Orleans), Kunstverein Munich, CUPUM - Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management (London) and others. STEALTH.unlimited comprises Ana Dzokic (architect, Serbia), Marc Neelen (architect, the Netherlands) and Mario Campanella (aeronautic engineer, Brazil).

Ivan Kucina
Ivan Kucina is an architect, lecturer, and one of the initiators of much of the current research into uncontrolled processes within the Belgrade city structure. He was born in Belgrade in 1961. In 1988, he graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Belgrade. In 1992, he attended a master’s degree course in the morphology of organized space and time at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Belgrade. In 1998, he completed his master’s thesis on “The Phenomena of Transition in Modern Architecture with the Example of Belgrade Modern Architecture between the Two World Wars.” Since 1997, he has been working as a lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade. Currently, he is building a family house for an acupuncture paramedic on Avala Mountain near Belgrade and is leading an effort to create a software called Personal Housing Generator, which is based on the Belgrade urban experience during the last decade.

Kyong Park
Kyong Park is the founder of the International Center for Urban Ecology (iCUE), a nomadic laboratory for future cities. Recently, he was a co-curator and an artist for the Detroit section of the project/exhibition Shrinking Cities in Berlin (2002–2004), a recipient of the McMartha Award (2002), a visiting chair in urbanism at the University of Detroit Mercy, School of Architecture (2000–2001), the curator of Images of the Future: The Architecture of A New Geography at the Kwangju Biennial in Korea (1997), a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University (1996–1997), and the founder/director of StoreFront for Art and Architecture (1982–1998). He is the author of Urban Ecology: Detroit and Beyond, a book on eight recent projects by iCUE and himself, together with essays from twenty-five architects, artists and critics (2005).

Katherine Carl
Katherine Carl is writing her doctoral dissertation on conceptual art of the 1960s and 1970s of the former Yugoslavia in the department of Art History and Criticism at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. She holds a BA in Art History from Oberlin College. Currently Curator of Contemporary Art at The Drawing Center and a founder of School of Missing Studies, she worked previously at Dia Art Foundation (1999-2003), taught at New York University (2002-3), managed the ArtsLink international exchange program (1996-1997), was a museum specialist at the National Endowment for the Arts (1991-1995) and was a founder and editor of Link Critical Journal on the Arts (1994-1997) and managing editor of Art Criticism (1998-2001). Her recent independent curatorial projects include: Flipside, ArtsLink at Artists Space (2004), an exhibition and publication on contemporary art from Eastern Europe and the US; go_HOME residency and online project (New York, 2001) with artists Danica Dakic and Sandra Sterle; Tandem Project (Washington, DC, 2000) residency and exhibition with artists from ex-Yugoslavia. Her writing has been published in journals and exhibition catalogues internationally.

Azra Aksamija / http://www.mit.edu/~azra/
Azra Aksamija is an artist and architect based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since the fall of 2004, she has been affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a doctoral candidate in the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at the Department for History Theory and Criticism of Art and Architecture. Born in Sarajevo in 1976, she graduated from the Faulty of Architecture at the Technical University in Graz, Austria in 2001 and from Princeton University in 2004. Her work has been widely published and exhibited in such venues as the Generali Foundation Vienna (2002), the Valencia Biennial (2003), the Berlin Art Fair (2003), the Graz Biennial of Media and Architecture (2003), the Gallery for Contemporary Art Leipzig (2003), and the Liverpool Biennial (2004). She is currently working on her dissertation research about the contemporary Islamic architecture of post-war Bosnia–Herzegovina and the communication of Islam in Western Europe and the United States.