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Charles Stankievech is a Canadian artist who has lectured, performed and exhibited at dOCUMENTA13 (Kassel), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), the Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Copenhagen), International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA2010, Germany), Xth Biennale of Architecture (Venice), ISSUE Project Room (New York), Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Canadian Centre for Architecture ( Montréal) and MASSMoCA. He has curated such unorthodox exhibitions as Magnetic Norths, A Wake For St. Kippenberger’s MetroNet, and the series OVER THE WIRE with Lawrence Weiner, Gary Hill, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Shary Boyle, and others. His writings range from academic journals for MIT Press to experimental texts for art publications. His images have been published in a range of fields from the specialised NASA to the popular WIRED. Stankievech holds an MFA in Open Media and a previous critical theory thesis on Slavoj Žižek and Franz Kafka. He has participated in residencies with the Department of National Defense, Banff Centre for the Arts, and Fieldwork in Marfa, Texas. He was a founding faculty member of the Yukon School of Visual Arts in Dawson City, Canada. Since 2011, he is co-director of the art and theory press K. Verlag located in Berlin.