Golden Cube

Dr. Inke Arns is director of the HMKV Hartware MedienKunstVerein in Dortmund (www.hmkv.de). She has been a freelance curator and author in the fields of media art and theory, net cultures and Eastern Europe since 1993. Most recently she curated Artists & Agents. Performance Art and Secret Services (2019), Technoschamanismus (2021), House of Mirrors: AI as Phantasm (2022), Genossin Sonne (2024). Latest publication: Tutorials (Wagenbach 2024) www.inkearns.de

Juejun Chen is a multimedia artist born in Chongqing, China. She has lived in Kassel since 2019. Her work includes auteur films, research, performances, and paintings. She uses different media and combines personal stories with fictional elements to explore the everyday dilemmas people face in reality. Her installation “Mechanical Resonance” was awarded an honorable mention by the jury of the Golden Cube 2023.

Fanny Hauser is an art historian and curator and has been working as deputy director at Ludwig Forum Aachen since May 2022. She previously worked for documenta 14 in Kassel and Athens, the TBA21 in Vienna as well as the Gebert Stiftung für Kultur in Rapperswil, Switzerland. She is the co-director of Kunstverein Kevin Space, a Vienna-based exhibition space she co-founded in 2016. She has been a guest mentor, lecturer, and curator at the Academy of Fine Arts and the University of Applied Arts in Vienna as well as the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste and the F+F Schule für Kunst und Design in Zurich.

Alfred Rotert, born in 1957, studied sociology in Frankfurt and media and art science in Osnabrück. Co-founder of the Experimental Film Workshop in Osnabrück, the predecessor of the “European Media Art Festival”, and its co-director until the 37th EMAF in April 2024. Numerous lectures and presentations, also in cooperation with the Goethe-Institutes, including Kyoto, Hong Kong, Beijing, Beirut. Numerous EU and network projects with festival and art organisations in Europe and Germany. Jury activities at festivals and most recently in September for the new edition “Emerging Artists – Contemporary Experimental Films and Video Art from Germany”, a film-video-compilation by AG Kurzfilm and German Films.

Jule Witte works at Micromata. Her heart beats for the social commitment and corporate communications of the software company. In this context she has been involved with the Kasseler Dokfest for many years and is delighted to follow the footsteps of her colleague Wolfgang Jung in the Golden Cube Award jury. She also personally values independent art – as a contemporary witness, source of inspiration and eye-opener. Her respect therefore goes to all those who use their creativity to provide new perspectives and food for thought. And she is proud that Micromata has been able to donate the prize money for the Golden Cube Award for so many years.