Susanne Jaschko

Susanne Jaschko is a veteran media art curator and theorist. Based in Berlin, she was the deputy director and curator at the Transmediale festival 2000-2004, having worked with the festival as a programme assistant since 1997.

Jaschko currently works as an independent media art curator and theorist, focusing on interactive art and the digital moving image. She is researcher in residence 2005 at the Fondation Daniel Langlois in Montreal, where she has conducted a “research project on the temporal and spatial design of new media-based installation art, its perception and influence on the visitor’s behavior”.

One of her most recent projects is co-curating the exhibition “OPEN HOUSE: Intelligent Living by Design” for the Vitra Design Museum and the Art Center College of Design. To open in August 2006, the exhibition aims to “bring a fresh perspective to the topic of the future house, moving away from an isolated, technologically oriented viewpoint, towards a comprehensive approach to the domestic future that puts a central focus on the human being”.

Through her work with the Transmediale, Jaschko has become an expert not just on the current tendencies in generative art and design, but she is also able to put it in a historical perspective. Her lecture at the Generator.x conference will aim to do just that.