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Mirjam Struppek is based in Berlin and works internationally as urbanist, researcher and consultant. She is President of the newly formed International Urban Screens Association (IUSA) and a member of Public Art Lab, Berlin. With a background in Urban- and Environmental Planning she has internationally lectured and published essays with a special focus on the livability of urban space, public sphere and its transformation and acquisition through new media. Mirjam has been instrumental in building the Urban Screens community and in collaboration with the Institute of Network Cultures, and Department of Art in Public Space, Amsterdam she developed as curator and co-organiser the concept for the first international Urban Screens conference in 2005. Since 2002 she has developing the online-information-platform interactionfield about the relation of interaction, new media and public space. In this context she organizes since 2005 the monthly discussion evening "Urban Media Salon". In 2003 she worked as Gallery Assistant in a gallery for still and motion pictures in Berlin. Mirjam Struppek was specially selected member of the ISEA 2006 - Interactive City Jury.

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