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Florian Schneider is a filmmaker, based in Munich.

Over the past ten years he has been involved in a wide range of projects that deal with the implications of postmodern border regimes on both, theoretical and practical level.

He is one of the initiators of the campaign KEIN MENSCH IST ILLEGAL (no one is illegal) at documenta X in 1997 and subsequent projects such as the "noborder network" and the online-platform KEIN.ORG.

He has freelanced for various german newspapers and magazines, contributed to several books and published widely at the bordercrossings between mainstream and independent media, art and activism, theory and technology.

As a filmmaker he directed award-winning documentaries as well as two theme-evenings for the german-french tv station "arte" on the topics of migration and activism. He initiated projects like the p2p-syndication network V2V or the virtual tv-platform KEIN.TV.

He developed and co-organized events such as MAKEWORLD (Munich 2001), NEURO--networking europe (Munich 2004), BORDERLINE ACADEMY (Tarifa 2005) and various smaller conferences, workshops, gatherings.

Most recently he curated the multimedia performance project "DICTIONARY OF WAR" and "SUMMIT - non-aligned initiatives in education culture" (with Irit Rogoff). Currently he is working on IMAGINARY PROPERTY, a series of texts, films and video installations researching the question: "What does it mean to own an image?"

He has lectured at museums, galleries, art academies, conferences worldwide. Since 2006 he teaches art theory at the art academy KIT of NTNU Trondheim (Norway). At the moment he acts as co-chair of the "border transmission" section of ISEA 2008 in Singapore.

Since 2006 he is a member of the PHD programme "research architecture" at Goldsmiths College, London.

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