Ana Otero at Rhizome

Hi all:

I'm pleased to announce that Ana Otero has joined Rhizome as
Curatorial Intern – her bio is below. Ana's background demonstrates
an incredible committment to new media with a focus on education and
exhibition. She also has experience in creating and sustaining
community around digital art, through her founding of Jesus13 in
Barcelona, and later, no_a, a more multidisciplinary group, cutting
across new media, architecture and anthropology.

With Rhizome, Ana will be working on curatorial projects, the rhizome
website and will be the point person for our new education program,
GROK, so please forward any distribution related inquiries to her:
[email protected]

She will be with us through spring 07.

Best, Lauren

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Ana Otero is a Spanish graduate student of the Museum Studies Program
at the New York University (NYU). She has a B.A. in Audiovisual
Communication by the Universistat Autonoma of Barcelona (UAB) and a
Postgraduate Degree in Curatorial and Cultural Practices in Art and
New Media by MECAD/ESDi. Between 1998 and 2005 she was multimedia art
director in the audiovisual company based in Barcelona Media Park (now
Teuve). She also was involved in educational projects related to new
media developing the program and the academic coordination of the
course "New Digital Media: Management, Design and Development of
Interactive Projects" certificated by the Universitat Politecnica de
Catalunya (UPC) and offered by the center 9zeros. Simultaneously to
her professional career, she co-founded the artistic collective
Jesus13 focus on the experimentation of art and new technologies whose
works were exhibited in several collective exhibitions in Spain
between 1998 and 2000. Later on, Ana co-founded no_a, a more
multidisciplinary group who curated Eme3 Density at the Center of
Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB) in 2001 and designed the set
up and projections for Divinas Palabras collection at the Circuit V.
Since she moved to NYC last year, and before getting involved with
Rhizome, she was in the New Media Educational Department at the
Salomon R. Guggenheim Museum.