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Internationally famous experimental performance artist and musician from New York. From 1970s she collaborated with David Bowie (her hit Superman , 1982), Philip Glass, William S. Burroughs, Peter Gabriel, David Sylvian, Jean Michel Jarre, Brian Eno, her long-term partner Lou Reed, and others. Her well-known albums are Big Science , Mister Heartbreak, Home of the Brave, Strange Angels etc.
photo: Mare Milin
World famous performance artist of Serbian origin, called "grandmother of performance art", is without question one of the seminal artists of our time. Since the beginning of her career in Belgrade during the early 1970s, Abramovic has pioneered the use of performance as a visual art form.
She was awarded with Golden Lion Award at Venice biennale in 1997 for her video installation and performance Balkan Baroque.
photo: Mare Milin
Terry Gilliam, ex member of Monty Python Flying Circus and famous film director ("Brazil", "Twelve Monkeys", "Fisher King", "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"...) has the idea to direct a biopic about Nikola Tesla since 1990s. Almost all of the inventive and visually impressive Gilliam's films deal with the idea of future, so we were intrigued to learn more about what Terry Gilliam thinks about Tesla and what attracted him to his unique personality. So we learned that his, as he said, "obsession with Tesla" started by accident when he was directing "Fisher King"...
photo: Mare Milin
Andy Serkis became famous when he enacted Gollum (voice, motion capture) in The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, and also with providing the movement for the King Kong remake, also directed by Peter Jackson. In the newest Christopher Nolan's film "The Prestige" (2006) Serkis plays Tesla's assistant. Executive Vice President for Research and Finance at the famous Kyoto University, PhD in physics, expert in the field of electronics and communication, prof. Matsumoto is so far the only scientist interviewed for the project. He is one of the world leading authorities in the field of wireless transfer of energy, and also a great connoisseur and admirer of Nikola Tesla.
photo: Edgar Beals
Christopher Priest is the author of the novel "The Prestige" (1995), whose film adaptation directed by Christopher Nolan was released in October 2006. In this fantastic novel set in the Victorian time, about the fight of two magicians for the "prestige", Nikola Tesla is a key episode character (played by David Bowie in the film) that helps one of the magicians to create a futuristic machine which helps him to touch the borders of real magic. Priest is a notable British writer of SF, awarded with the BSFA award (three times), the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and World Fantasy Award.
photo: Mare Milin
Internationally successful businessman and inventor from New Zealand, well-known art patron. Gibbs commissioned the world biggest Tesla coil for his private sculpture park in Kaukapakapa, outside Auckland. He studied engineering, and as an inventor, of course he is fascinated with Tesla. He started his entrepreneurship career in manufacturing, and later expanded it to telecommunications, finances, freight, media and other industries, becoming one of the wealthiest New Zealanders. He was also a New Zealand diplomat in London.
photo: Al Keddie
One of the most famous graffiti artists from New York City, who collaborated with Keith Harring on a series of drawings in NYC Subway in 1980s. Writer, columnist, documentarian and teacher on technology, media and popular culture, cult author of the Internet generation. Writer and artist from New York.
Her newest novel "The Invention of Everything Else" (2008) is about last days of Nikola Tesla.
photo: Mare Milin
The director of Violet Fire, a contemporary multimedia opera inspired by the life of Nikola Tesla. The opera was composed by the minimalist composer Jon Gibson, a member of the Philip Glass Ensemble. The librettist is Miriam Seidel, American dramatist. The opera premiered in 2004 in Philadelphia. It was performed on July 9, 2006 at the National Theater in Belgrade, as a part of the celebration of 150th anniversary of Tesla's birth. Sculptor, conceptual artist and performer from New Zealand, well known for his site specific sculptures and installations in New Zealand and other places. His sculpture / light installation Coral (2000) in downtown Auckland became a city icon. For the Auckland city harbor he is developing a spectacular sculpture Twister.
photo: Al Keddie
American symbolist artist and architect.
He is mixing the visual systems of science and alchemy, combining mysticism and symbolism with the simple technical diagrams. Many of his works and ideas were inspired by Tesla's person and inventions. Croatian actor of ethnic Serbian descent. He was one of the most famous actors in former Yugoslavia, and had various notable film, TV and theater roles, in 1970s and 1980s. He played Nikola Tesla in TV series produced by Croatian Television in 1977. Neon artist, founder of one of the most renowned neon studios in New York City, Lite Brite Neon. Time Out New York magazine said Dilling is "arguably the neon king of New York". The studio pays tribute to Nikola Tesla as the actual inventor of neon light.
photo: Mare Milin
New York based puppeteers, founders of the famous studio Flexitoon. Founder of Collective:Unconscious, a New York non-profit theater group and performance space, and the builder of the biggest Tesla coil on Manhattan. He is best known for his sound design and special sound effects for various off-Broadway theater productions, based on the use of technology. Chief engineer at the New Yorker Hotel, New York, where Tesla lived his last years and died in 1943. He is also an unofficial historian of the hotel, the expert for the hotel heritage, including Nikola Tesla. Film critic from New York, member of the famous New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC). We interviewed Stephen Whitty at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, because of the Nicolas Roeg's science fiction film "The Man Who Fell to Earth" (1976), where the leading character, extraterrestrial played by David Bowie, is thought to be inspired by Tesla. Leading Croatian illusionist, with notable international success. Inspired by Tesla, uses many of Tesla's technology and inventions in his shows. photo: Mare Milin
Croatian filmmaker.
Her documentary "Everything's Fine!" (2003) about a Croatian porn actress in Amsterdam, was awarded and presented on many festivals.
She was also the founder of the first Croatian student film festival FRKA, key member of the crew of Motovun Film Festival, the biggest film event in Croatia, and the executive director of ZagrebDox, festival of the documentary film. She is now member of team that organizes Animafest, well known animation festival in Zagreb.
Dana is also Tesla's grandniece.
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