Ilze Black from London (LV/UK) is the fourth resident of Pixelache Micro-Residencies during 20.9-26.9.2012. /////////// BIO Ilze Black is a media artist and producer. She has curated numerous media productions, art events and happenings in and around London during last 15 years. She is one of the co-founders of the innovative new media arts collectives AmbientTV.net and Take2030. In 1990s post-Soviet Latvia, Ilze cofounded the seminal art initiative art bureau OPEN. Her projects focus on network populism, free wireless, open communities and transnational society. For five years, Ilze led Waterman’s new media art programme and is also an associate of NodeL and HiveNetworks. She was the director of the Class Wargames film about Debord’s The Game of War. Ilze is at present studying for a doctorate in the Media and Art Technology at Queen Mary University London. Some links to her most recent activities and contexts: http://www.classwargames.net/ http://www.take2030.net http://ghack.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/ http://www.mztek.org/ //////////////////////