Valie Djordjevic

Valie Djordjevic lives and works in Berlin.

She studied Comparative Literature, Slavic Languages and Film Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin and finished her BA (Hons) Humanities with English Language at the Open University, Milton Keynes (UK).

1996 she started to work with Internationale Stadt Berlin, one of the first net culture projects in Germany. Since then she worked in different art and cultural projects including Old Boys Network and the Media Arts Lab at Künstlerhaus Bethanien. She is a member of mikro e.V. , a Berlin based association examining the different facets of media culture and list coordinator for the FACES mailing list, a women only list, dealing with topics around notions of gender, technology and art.

She works in different contexts: writing, giving lectures on media culture, organizing events on the topics of gender, networking, information and art. She is an editor of iRights.info, an award-winning website about copyright in the digital age. She writes fiction and essays on art and culture and sometimes even makes art herself.